I did what I knew how to do then. Now that I know better, I can do better ~ Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author There is no success without a struggle ~ Blind man on the Oprah Winfrey show You can take the boy out of the hood, but not the hood out of the boy - Unknown You give a man a fish and feed him for a day, but teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime - Bible A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step ~ Lau-Tzu You can't handle the truth! ~ From the movie "A Few Good Men" In a relationship, you must decide if you want to be right or if you want peace ~ Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author Do onto others as they have done on to you ~ Golden Rule from the Bible Deny Everything ~ From the Fox Television show, "The X-Files" Trust No One ~ From the Fox Television show "The X-Files" Evil is Everywhere ~ From the Fox Television show "The X-Files" Apology is Policy ~ From the Fox Television show "The X-Files" Believe the Lie ~ From the Fox Television show "The X-Files" The truth is out there ~ From the Fox Television show "The X-Files" Image is nothing, thirst is everything ~ Sprite commercial Adults are just taller children with more life experience ~ Thirteen year old child prodigy on the Oprah Winfrey show If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time ~ Oprah Winfrey show Solutions for a small planet ~ IBM Computers Where do you want to go today? ~ Microsoft Corporation I can prove that the words "NIKE AIR" is actually one word ~ Mr. Thomas Riley, MKHS geometry teacher Have you seen it? ~ Nissan Automobile Corporation If you stand straight, your shadow will not be crooked ~ Unknown Gangsters don't dance, they boogie ~ Ice Cube, from "Backyard Boogie" song by Mack 10 You got an F on the test? Heck if I care! ~ Mr. Chavez, US History AP teacher …But only if you can walk the thin gray line between the light and dark, as I do ~ Baron, Lord of the Asylum from the ARCANUM comic series by Top Cow Studios I yam what I yam ~ Popeye I am Tiger Woods ~ Tiger Woods Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice (?) ~ Harrison Ford as President of the USA in the movie "Air Force One" Justice is the never-ending pursuit of what is right ~ A Roman Juror Your rules do not apply here ~ From the game Obsidian by SegaSoft To infinity and beyond ~ Buzz Lightyear from the movie "Toy Story" That's recockulous! ~ Adam Carola from KROQ's Loveline show May the force be with you ~ Obi Wan to Luke Skywalker in the movie "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" Show me a child who has not learned about sex, and I'll show you my next victim ~ Expert quoting many child molesters he's worked with Where flounders rule and fishermen drool ~ Christine Chow Woohoo, all this computer hacking is making me thirsty ~ Homer Simpson More power ~ Tim Allen Warez bearz from Russia and beyond ~ DOD (Drink or Die) releasing group Releasing without permission ~ Rebels97 releasing group Overspecialize and you breed in weakness. It's slow death. ~ RiSE releasing group Do or do not, there is no 'try' ~ Yoda to Luke Skywalker in the "Empire Strikes Back" Got Milk? ~ National Association of Dairy Products I make this look good ~ Will Smith (Men in Black) Wookies hate to lose ~ Han Solo from Star Wars We have people to do and things to see ~ Amanda LaPointe Tennis...Smash it! ~ Cartoon Network Resistance is futile ~ Borg from Star Trek Tell me I am too old. Tell me I am too slow. Tell me I can't do it anymore ~ Michael Jordon for Nike commercial Don't you know who I am? I am the president of the United States ~ Harrison Ford in "Air Force One" Please don't shoot at the thermal nuclear weapons ~ John Travolta in "Broken Arrow" On your way out, if you kill somebody it would really help me out ~ Scorpio from the Fox cartoon "The Simpsons" Life of plastic, it's fantastic ~ Aqua (Barbie Girl) I don't want to miss school ~ Cathy Ta Get into the game! ~ USTA Do not assume because it makes an ASS out of U and ME ~ Unknown I take you as a person ~ Gwan The needs of many outweighs the needs of one ~ Unknown What is right may not be popular, but what is popular may not be right ~ Unknown All around the world, statues crumble for me ~ Sugar Ray from "I just wanna fly" I never made a mistake in my life. Once I thought I did, but it was a mistake ~ Mrs. Josephson, 3rd grade teacher You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. But if you raise them well, they will grow up to become heroes. Even if it's only through your eyes ~ Wilson on Home Improvement Show quoting Unknown Let tennis be tennis ~ Nike Incorporated Without struggle there is no progression ~ Unknown Tennis doesn't have to reinvent itself to be great. It is great. We do not need to stage friends-box-clearing brawls to be cool ~ Nike Incorporated Pete's no Tiger in the interview room, but Woods is no Sampras between the lines ~ Bill Gray, Senior Editor of Tennis Magazine When I finish off three sets of singles on a 90-degree day and run into the golf hacks lounging at the pool, I love hearing, "How the hell can you run around like that in this heat?" Now that's cool ~ Bill Gray, Senior Editor of Tennis Magazine We don't claim to be elite … we leave that to the egomaniacs! ~ Stealth releasing group Legends never die, they come back more evil and aggressive than ever ~ 2000AD releasing group By doubting we come to inquiry, and by inquiring we perceive the truth ~ Peter Abelard Innovate don't imitate ~ Innovate releasing group If you're going to do it … do it with an ATTITUDE ~ PWA releasing group The past we inherit, the present we hold, the future we create! ~ Skeleton Army releasing group When a man digs a hole, he has to be careful not to fall in it ~ Cigarette Smoking Man It would be a great day when people are no longer driven by the accumulation of profit ~ Ted Wang I want to be Barbie, that bitch has everything ~ Spotted on bumper in teacher's parking lot. Do the dew ~ Mountain Dew Generation Next ~ Pepsi It's just a game and you're just a kid that wants to play ~ Pete Sampras Math is hard ~ Ms. Leon, MKHS math teacher I don't want to hear myself talk ~ Mr. Chavez Don't underestimate the power of the darkside ~ Darth Vadar from Star Wars All for one and one for all ~ The Three Musketeers He who conquers the past, commands the future. He who commands the future, conquers the past ~ Kane from the game Command & Conquer See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil ~ Unknown There is a disturbance in the force ~ Obi Wan What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger ~ Unknown Good men are like Martians, you hear a lot about them but you've really never see one ~ Joann Fang Look towards the future, but not so far as to miss today ~ Unknown I'll tell you what real love is: It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the one you love ~ Charles Dickens from Great Expectations I am not confused, I am just well mixed ~ Robert Frost The greatest sin of our time is not the few who have destroyed, but the vast majority whom have sat idly by ~ Unknown The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself ~ Unknown Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe he has descended from man ~ Unknown Self Respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious ~ Unknown I promised you eternal life, I never said where ~ Unknown Live for today, as tomorrow may never come ~ Unknown A good woman is one that is seen but not heard ~ Peter Negro Man is always trying to achieve the impossible, but never the improbable ~ Unknown This is no money business - this is no business at all ~ Blue Killa Life is something that happens while you're making other plans ~ Unknown Information is the greatest weapon of power to the modern wizard ~ GodNet Raider You gotta learn to listen before you learn to play ~ GodNet Raider I fought the law… and the law won ~ The Clash Be yourself, no matter what they say ~ Sting That's because I'm broken-minded ~ Stiltskin Open up your eyes, ball up your knucklebone, and start taking care of your own ~ X-Force releasing group If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut ~ Albert Einstein in the Observer January 15 Just when you thought you had all the answers, we changed the questions ~ Paradigm Release Group Sex is evil. Evil is sin. Sin is forgiven so stick it in! ~ Lizzy_ on #heritage The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933 Love is magic, but magic is an illusion ~ Lizzy_ on #heritage More men fail through ignorance of strength than through knowledge of their weakness ~ James Russell Lowell A great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success ~ Otto Von Bismarck The heart is happiest when it is beating for others ~ Unknown He who desires peace should prepare for war ~ Unknown If the shortest distance between two points isn't a line, we wouldn't build bridges like this, would we? - Euclidius, 4th Century There is no greater serenity than that which follows the sound cudgeling of an enemy - General Ebens Rilfenstor With a hundred of these, you can fuel the future - Berlis Smirtenk, inventor of the generator Those who advance blindly find trouble. Victory lurks in the corners - Gen. Dalik Merridelt Two things in life cannot be ignored: one is a cannon, the other is a cannon ball - Commander Petrik "Bombard" Lombard Often a drowning man pulls down his would-be saviors ~ Unknown Men do not make laws. They do but discover them ~ Calvin Coolidge Please remember that law and sense are not always the same ~ Nehro Justice discards party, friendship, and kindred, and is therefore represented as blind ~ Joseph Addison Justice is the first virtue of those who command and stops the complaints of those who obey ~ Denis Diderot He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live where all were judged justly? ~ Lord Byron There is no honor among pirates, understand this and succeed ~ David & Goliath, Siege Release Group There are two ways to skim through life: either agree with everything or refute everything. Either way you never have to think ~ Unknown If anyone says they hate violence more than I do, they better have a knife … that's all I have to say ~ Jack Handy, SNL Communication is the currency of all human relationships ~ L. Maryott Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it ~ J. Robert Oppenheimber, Address at Columbia University I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times the conclusion is false, the hundredth time I am right ~ Albert Einstein, recalled on his death April 18, 1955 What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on ~ Jacques Cousteau When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so when you die, the world cries and you rejoice ~ Unknown Assassination is the extreme form of censorship ~ George Bernard Shaw He's a gross ignoramus ~ 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus ~ Billy Bunch She's sexy but not very bright ~ a real foxymoron ~ Ellis Stewert He's an inept crook. He always robs people the wrong way ~ Frank Tyger in Quote She's so dumb, she thinks Nassau is where they launch the space shuttle ~ Shelby Friedman His attempts at wit are full of single entendres ~ Mortimer B. Zuckerman in U.S. News & World Report Definition of a true music lover: "A man who, if he hears a woman singing in the shower, puts his ear to the keyhole." ~ General Features Man is the only animal that goes to sleep when he's not sleepy and gets up when he is ~ Dave Gneiser A good answer is what you think of later ~ Sam Ewing The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application ~ Ken Kraft No one appreciates the value of constructive criticism more thoroughly than the one who's giving it ~ Hal Chadwick A lot of people have asked me who AOL's biggest competitors are; our biggest is nice weather ~ Ted Leonsis, president and CEO of AOL Studios Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum ~ Charles Spencer We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance ~ Harrison Ford Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say ~ Matthew Trump There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw; the other is the seed catalogues ~ Hal Borland Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else ~ Judy Garland History never looks like history when you are living through it ~ John Gardner Everyone likes a good loser, especially when he's on the opposing team ~ Pat Conroy Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it ~ Colin Powell In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary ~ Aaron Rose The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum ~ Frances Willard Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either ~ Golda Meir Dreams are simply answers to questions you have not yet thought to ask ~ Fox Mulder of the X-Files You get treated in life the way you train people to treat you ~ Albert Einstein Anyone with money to burn will find himself surrounded by people with matches ~ Albert Einstein I never think of the future. It comes soon enough ~ Albert Einstein When I was a child, I spake[DV1] as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things ~ New Testament; I Corinthians, XIII, II The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention ~ Unknown While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior ~ Unknown If you can't find it within yourself, where will you find it? ~ Unknown The heart has its own reasons, which reason knows nothing of ~ Blaise Pascal You never really lived until you almost died ~ Zippo Lighter referring to the Vietnam War Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for I am the evilest son of a bitch in the valley ~ A psychiatrist referring to the feelings of GIs during war You never as bad as people say and you're never as good as you believe ~ George Clooney on ER If quitters never win, and winners never cheat, then who is the fool who said, "Quit while you're ahead"? ~ Razor 1911 Release Group ... pirated software is going to flow freely, unfettered over the Internet, available to anyone who wants it. For those involved in warez, it's about things other than money: speed; conquest; the high of defeating rival couriers. Mostly, it's about having your 15 seconds of fame ~ Forbes Magazine We provide everything … except tech support ~ CLASS Release Group Theft and cheating are very RISCy business ~ Quoted by Corps from the Devotion Release Group Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. ~ Voltaire The tree of liberty grows only when watered with the blood of tyrants ~ Bertrand Barère I prefer the most unjust peace to the justest war ~ Cicero, Letters to Atticus All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written but by the spoken word ~ Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism ~ Dean W.R. Inge, Wit and Wisdom, Preface The penguin flies backwards because he doesn't care to see where he's going, but wants to see where he's been ~ Fred Allen, The Backward View Carpe Diem: Seize the day ~ Unknown No one is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow ~ Alice Walker A man dies when he does not stand up for what is true. Stand up for what is right even if you're standing alone ~ Unknown Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud ~ 1 Corinthians 13:4 Don't be so humble ~ you're not that great - Golda Meir to a visiting diplomat Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted ~ Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity … and I'm not sure about the former ~ Albert Einstein The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work ~ Emile Zola Wit is educated insolence ~ Aristotle My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher ~ Socrates Wise men make proverbs, fools repeat them ~Samuel Palmer When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite ~ Sir Winston Churchill If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore ~ Unknown Curiosity is the motivation of great discoveries ~ Unknown The shorter path is not always as rewarding ~ Unknown Nothing worth learning can ever be taught ~ Oscar Wild The only crime worse than burning a book is not reading it ~ Unknown The more a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is ~ Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it ~ Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman The golden rule is that there is no golden rule ~ Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it ~ Bernard Shaw, Candida When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport, when a tiger wants to murder a man he calls it ferocity ~ Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists Common people do not pray; they only beg ~ Bernard Shaw, Misalliance Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupies the cells - Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists Self-sacrifice allows us to sacrifice other people without blushing - Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ~ Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world ~ Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island Success is not a destination, it's a journey. You have to flow through it ~ LL Cool J The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior, is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary takes everything either as a blessing or a curse ~ Don Juan Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him ~ Aldous Huxley This life is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual life you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do ~ Unknown If you kill a man you are a murderer, if you kill a million you are a conqueror ~ Unknown Necessity never made a good bargain ~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack Experience is what happens to guys after they don't need it ~ Jimmy Waldon's Father There often live where mortals trod men of greatness, unclaimed; by who's choice and silence dwell, unknown…but to God ~ Unknown You are the only person you're never going to leave ~ Go Get Em Tiger by Jimmy Waldon Every man dies, but not every man truly lives ~ Movie "Braveheart" To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart ~ Unknown If someone betrays you once, it's his fault; if someone betrays you twice, it's your fault ~ Unknown Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people ~ Unknown God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into its nest ~ Unknown He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; he who loses faith, loses all ~ Unknown The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it ~ Unknown Once the package of friendship has been opened, it can never be closed...it is a constant book always written...waiting to be read...and enjoyed ~ Unknown If we put all the crazies into institutions there'd hardly be anyone left on the outside ~ Dean R. Koontz The beast of hell walks among us in the clothes of the common man ~ Dean R. Koontz People who achieve true success rarely worry about being successful ~ Unknown The mind is like a parachute, it functions best when open ~ Unknown Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold ~ Zelda Fitzgerald Losers mistake activity for accomplishments; winners know that accomplishment is the result of activity ~ Unknown Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person ~ Unknown Inquietudes and trust shall be your strength ~ Unknown Getting rid of bad habits is like peeling an onion, it must be done one layer at a time ~ Unknown A winner says, "Let's find out". A loser says "Nobody knows" ~ Unknown Nothing in life "Costs too much". The truth is you can either afford it or you can't ~ Unknown There is no joy like the joy of sharing ~ Unknown If you can't find the time to do it right the first time, when are you going to find the time to do it over? ~ Unknown They who think too little talk too much ~ Unknown Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully ~ Unknown Everytime we encourage someone we give them a transfusion of courage ~ Unknown Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning ~ Unknown Beauty is the radiance of truth, the fragrance of goodness ~ Unknown You can't give a hug without getting one in return ~ Unknown Speak kind words and you will hear kind echoes ~ Unknown You will always miss 100% of the shots that you don't take ~ Wayne Gretzky God doesn't make junk - you can be awesome ~ Unknown A positive attitude brings smiles to your face ~ Unknown You find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others ~ Unknown Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. First Lady Live it, love it, do it ~ Unknown It pays to be ready when your opportunity comes ~ Unknown Cakes are done when people are finished ~ Unknown To travel is to experience culture ~ Unknown Behind every great man there is a greater woman ~ Unknown Preparation is the key to tomorrows success ~ Unknown Don't fail before you start ~ Unknown To study literature is to study humanity ~ Unknown When you believe in yourself anything is possible ~ Unknown Reputation is valuable, but character is priceless ~ Unknown It is better to be a character than to have none ~ Unknown A person is rich according to how he feels ... not according to what he has ~ Unknown To be the best you must work harder than the rest ~ Unknown Nothing ventured, nothing gained ~ Unknown Life is a persistent teacher, it will keep repeating lessons until we learn ~ Unknown You can't tell the depth of the well by the length of the handle on the pump ~ Unknown Miracles do happen if one pursues his dreams and follows his heart ~ Unknown If you're not gonna play it, then don't say it ~ Unknown All ships rise on an incoming tide ~ Unknown The path to salvation is narrow, and as difficult to walk on as a razor's edge ~ Unknown Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it ~ Unknown You may look up for inspiration or down in desperation - but not to the side for information ~ Unknown Things done well and with care, exempt themselves from fear ~ Unknown There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it ~ Unknown Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind ~ Unknown Enjoy today as tomorrow is filled with uncertainty ~ Unknown Marriage is like an endless visit in your worse clothes ~ Priestly A kind and steady heart can mend a sorry world ~ Movie poster for "Babe: Pig in the City" Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow ~ Unknown Guilt is resentment directed towards ourselves. Resentment is anger directed towards others ~ Unknown A winner believes we make our own "luck" by what we do or fail to do. A loser believes in "good luck" and "bad luck" ~ Unknown Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light ~ Unknown Reach for the stars knowing that even if you don't touch them, you'll still end up farther than where you began ~ Unknown Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names ~ John F. Kennedy In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the absurd ~ Unknown It is not enough to see the possibility, you must become the possibility ~ Unknown The value of knowledge lies in it's utilization, not in its accumulation ~ Unknown Fight the future ~ Promo for X-Files Movie (June 1998) En Taro Adun ~ Protoss greeting from StarCraft game The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved ~ Unknown Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others, without getting a few on yourself ~ Unknown I am 51% sweetheart and 49% bitch ~ Don't push it! ~ From a bumper sticker Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are ~ Unknown Journalism is no longer a profession, but rather an industry ~ Author of The Minutemen Love is not the saying of the words but the giving of the self ~ Unknown Risky love seizes the moment ~ Unknown Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming ~ John Wooden Don't count off your days … make your days count ~ Unknown (from Golden State Exam) Friendships will last if they are put first ~ Unknown The man who fears nothing loves nothing … and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life? ~ Sean Connery in "First Knight" And will you succeed? You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed) ~ Dr. Seuss When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme - Jiminy Crickett, Pinocchio Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want ~ Margaret Young In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity ~ Albert Einstein Look up at the sunshine, and you'll never see the shadows ~ Helen Keller People who feel good about themselves produce good results - Ken Blanchard Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable - Helen Keller I ever will in you remain, so let your heart return again ~ Eleanor Roosevelt If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary ~ Jim Rohn Time will make you money, but money won't buy time ~ James Taylor Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune ~ Jim Rohn Everything happens for a reason; If you can't find a reason for something, there's a reason for that - Chris Levi, Caribbean poet I came, I saw, I shopped a little bit ~ Bumper sticker When the world says, "Give up", Hope whispers, "Try it one more time" ~ Unknown The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the others find an excuse. ~ Unknown When it is dark enough you can see the stars - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it ~ Epicurus When all men think alike no one thinks very much - Walter Lippmann Never begin the day until it's finished on paper ~ Jim Rohn Our life is like a land journey: too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view - and feel exalted - and your eyes are full of happy tears - and you want to sing - and you wish you had wings! And then - you can't stay there, but you must continue your journey - you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten - Lloyd Douglas "The Robe" The meaning of life is to give life meaning - Ken Hudgins Failure is success if we learn from it - Malcolm S. Forbes Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become - Jim Rohn Even if you are on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there! ~ Unknown Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are ~ Jim Rohn There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives ~ Jim Rohn A tree that does not bend with the wind breaks ~ Unknown Learn from the mistakes made by others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself ~ Unknown A bend in the road is not the end of the road … unless you fail to make the turn ~ Unknown Life is not what it makes of you; but what you make of it ~ Unknown Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit ~ Napoleon Hill It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees - Emiliano Zapata, Revolutionary Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well ~ Josh Billings The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it ~ Alan Saporta All beginnings are hard - Chaim Potok, American novelist No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings ~ Unknown If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them ~ Unknown No goal is too high if you climb with care and confidence - Kristine Elises Don't wait for your ship to come in ... swim out to meet it ~ Unknown I'm gonna love you, like nobody's loved you come rain or come shine - Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen, Come Rain or Come Shine A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out ~ Walter Winchell Friendship is a sheltering tree - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness - Lois L. Kaufman Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend - Albert Camus, French Novelist True friends, like ivy and the wall both stand together, and together fall - Thomas Carlyle The only rose without thorns is friendship ~ Unknown I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left. I lived a few weeks while you loved me - Humphrey Bogart to Gloria Grahame, In a Lonely Place But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love forever - Robert Burns, A Fond Kiss Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation - Kahlil Gibrani, The Prophet Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are - John Dryden, English poet Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars - Christopher Marlowei, Dr. Faustus Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score then to that twenty, add a hundred more - Robert Herrick, To Anthea Love isn't love until you give it away ~ Unknown Absence makes the heart grow fonder ~ Unknown The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one; yet the light of a whole life dies, when love is done - F. W. Bourdillon, Light Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days, and the secret to its meaning is found in simple ways - Kay Knudsen Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart - Kay Knudsen Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile ~ Unknown Love is the beauty of the soul - St. Augustine Nothing is impossible to a willing heart - John Heywood, English author (18th century) Life is the flower for which love is the honey - Victor Hugo, French novelist Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one ~ Japanese proverb In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes - Elizabeth Ashley, American film actor There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved - George Sand, English author Love is the bridge between two hearts ~ Unknown The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart ~ Unknown Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired ~ Robert Frost Love is not in our choice but in our fate - John Dryden, English poet The heart has its reasons that reason does not know ~ Pascal Real love stories never have endings ~ Richard Bach Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love makes the ride worthwhile - Franklin P. Jones 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all - Alfred, Lord Tennyson To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition - Alexander Smith Love is not a matter of counting the years - it's making the years count - Wolfman Jack Smith A smile is the sign of a heart that's at home. Thank you for your smile ~ Unknown Love is just friendship set to music - E. Joseph Crossman If the purpose of life is to fall in love with someone, then loving you is the purpose of my life ~ Unknown The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships ~ Unknown Love is when a person knows who you are and loves you anyway ~ Unknown To love someone is to place their happiness as yours ~ Unknown Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists ~ Anita Brookner One person caring about another represents life's greatest value ~ Jim Rohn Happiness is like a kiss, it must be shared to be enjoyed ~ Unknown The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy ~ Jim Rohn To have a good friend, you must first be one ~ Unknown The roots of friendship are tested with the strongest wind. Welcome the wind ~ Unknown It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter - Marlene Dietrich, German film star The road to a friend's house is never long ~ Danish proverb A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself ~ Frank Crane What is friendship? Two bodies and one soul ~ Unknown Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow ~ Unknown Whoever is happy will make others happy too ~ Unknown Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes ~ Unknown You complete me ~ Jerry McGuire Love can never be tamed. It can only be felt with a true heart ~ Unknown Love is not losing freedom, it is sharing freedom with another ~ Unknown Many things in life will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart ~ Unknown You've got to dance like nobody's looking, and love like it's never going to hurt ~ Ann Wells Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, yet enkindles the great ~ Unknown The times we spend together are the best times that I know, I am a better person, because you've made me so ~ Unknown To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world ~ Unknown There is no greater pain than not being with the one you love ~ Unknown The dearest things I know are what you are - Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern, All The Things You Are I am a Jedi like my father before me ~ Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars" If we do not deliver ourselves in the present life, no hope is there that we shall be free from suffering and sorrow in the Ocean of Birth and Death ~ Buddhist proverb "The Three Treasures" I think, therefore I am ~ Rene Descartes Six times you fall down, seven times you get up ~ Japanese proverb Know your enemy and know yourself, victory will always be yours ~ Sun Tse I'll be back ~ Arnold Schwarzeneger, "Terminator 1" Just as war is too serious a matter to be left to generals, so I think the teaching of reading is too important to be left to the educators ~ Dr. Rudolf Flesh, "Why Johnny Can't Read" © 1955 We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk less - Unknown Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler ~ Unknown Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter ~ Gelett Burgess, Willy and the Lady He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere ~ Emerson, Conduct of Life Against a foe I can myself defend, - but Heaven protect me from a blundering friend! ~ D'Arcy W. Thompson As old wood is best to burn, old horse to ride, old books to read, and old wine to drink, so are old friends always most trusty to use ~ Leonard Wright, Display of Dutie [DV2](1599) Everyone has the right to an opinion, but no one has a right to be wrong about the facts ~ Unknown Only stupid people are breeding ~ Harvey Danger Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it ~ Robert Frost Ideas without labor are stillborn ~ Unknown It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness ~ Unknown Life in great abundance comes only through great love - Elbert Hubbard A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men ~ Unknown What fools these mortals be ~ Seneca Enjoy the little things because one day you may look back and realize they were big things - Robert Brault Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), U.S. general, Republican politician, and president. Nothing is ever so bad that it couldn't be worse; nothing is ever so good that it couldn't be better ~ Unknown Time is too slow for those who wait; too swift for those who fear; too long for those who grieve; too short for those who rejoice; but for those who love time is eternity ~ Unknown Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses, and disappointments. But let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures ~ Unknown To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life - Sarah Ellis (1812-72), English missionary, writer. Pictures of Private Life, ch. 4 (1834) Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves - Rebecca West (1892-1983), British author. If you are 15, quit laughing at the nerds in your class, you are going to be working for them someday - Tom Peters It is never too soon to quit ~ Unknown Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation ~ Henry Fielding (1707-1754), English Novelist As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man - Ernst Fischer (1899-1972), Austrian editor, poet, critic It's impossible to know where you are unless you fully understand where you've been ~ Unknown The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one ~ Unknown The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days ~ Unknown That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria! ~ Unknown Know thine enemy and know thyself and you shall never know defeat ~ Unknown Say what you mean and mean what you say ~ Unknown Because I see myself as a winner … I will be ~ Unknown We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do ~ Unknown The champion's true edge exists solely in the mind ~ Unknown No one can made your dreams come true but you ~ Unknown Goodwill, like a good name, is achieved by many actions and lost by one ~ Unknown Whoever said money couldn't buy happiness didn't know where to shop ~ Unknown Today's bright moments are tomorrow's fond memories ~ Unknown Life is the childhood of immortality ~ Unknown It is good to let a little sunshine out as well as in ~ Unknown You know you are old when the candles cost more than the cake ~ Unknown Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find it out - Unknown Wishing is a goal without energy behind it - Unknown The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but writes kindness in marble and writes injuries in the dust - Unknown Everything you do is a portrait of yourself - Unknown Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit - Unknown Thank you for believing in me before I believed in myself - Unknown The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight but they are always looking down upon us - Unknown It is love that gives things their value - Unknown Love loves to be told what it knows already. It wants to be asked for what it longs to give ~ Unknown Health is not a way of life but a way for life ~ Unknown Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad ~ Unknown Your true friend is the one who is a friend without expecting anything in return ~ Unknown We may give without loving but we cannot love without giving ~ Unknown Though we travel the world over to find what is beautiful we must carry it with in us or we find it not ~ Unknown The highest love of all finds fulfillment not in what it keeps but what it gives ~ Unknown Think about the postage stamp, it sticks to one thing 'til it gets there ~ Unknown If you stay ready you don't have to get ready ~ Unknown Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away ~ Unknown One can never consent to create when one feels an impulse to soar ~ Unknown Nothing recedes like success ~ Bryan Forbes, British author, actor, and filmmaker Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy - E. M. Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist Your wisdom has kept you far away from danger ~ Unknown If you play with fear, fear plays with you ~ No Fear ™ T-shirt Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two ~ Octavio Paz (b. 1914), Mexican poet It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice ~ Unknown I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career - Gloria Steinem Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry- Gloria I think - therefore I'm single - Lizz Winstead When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country - Elayne Boosler I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes, because I know I'm not dumb ... and I also know that I'm not blonde - Dolly Parton You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy - Erica Jong Behind every successful man is a surprised woman ~ Maryoni Pearson Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism - Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher Watch the watchers ~ 2600.com Behind every great venture are the countless others whose faith and support make everything possible ~ Unknown, From Idea Magazine © 1998 MKHS Home is the place where, if you have to go there, they have to take you in ~ Robert Frost, The Death of a Hired Man Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve - Erich Fromm (1900-1980), U.S. psychologist There are some truths so plain and evident, and open, that need not any process of ratiocination to evidence or evince them - Sir Matthew Hale, British legal scholar In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects - J. William Fulbright (1905-95), U.S. Democratic politician I didn't serve time, I made time serve me ~ Don King, referring to his prison term Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof - Thomas Fuller (1608-61), English cleric Clear your head and fill your mind ~ Unknown When all young people would start listening to their own voices instead of saying what adults say or whatever MTV dictates, this would be a whole different planet ~ Unknown Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things ~ Unknown One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor ~ Unknown Atheism is a non-prophet organization ~ Unknown If man evolved from apes why do we still have apes? ~ Unknown The reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live ~ Unknown I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was, she said if she told me it would defeat the purpose ~ Unknown Should crematoriums give discounts for burn victims? ~ Unknown If a mute swears does his mother wash his hands with soap? ~ Unknown Whose cruel idea was it to put an S in the word "lisp"? ~ Unknown If a man stands in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him ... is he still wrong? ~ Unknown Is there another word for synonym? ~ Unknown Isn't it scary that doctors call what they do "practice"? ~ Unknown When you open a bag of cotton balls...are you supposed to remove the one on top? ~ Unknown Where do forest rangers go to get away from it all? ~ Unknown What should you do if you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? ~ Unknown If a parsley farmer is sued do they garnish his wages? ~ Unknown Would a wingless fly be called a walk? ~ Unknown Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they worried someone will clean them? ~ Unknown Is a shelless turtle homeless or just naked? ~ Unknown Can vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~ Unknown If a mime is arrested do they tell him he has the right to talk? ~ Unknown Why do they put Braille on the drive through bank machines? ~ Unknown Do they use sterilized needles for lethal injections? ~ Unknown Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets? ~ Unknown Is it true that cannibals won't eat clowns because they taste funny? ~ Unknown What was the best thing before sliced bread? ~ Unknown How is it possible to have a civil war? ~ Unknown How do I set my laser printer on stun? ~ Unknown Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? ~ Unknown If the all world is a stage, where is the audience sitting? ~ Unknown If God dropped acid, would he see people? ~ Unknown If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~ Unknown If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too? ~ Unknown If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2? ~ Unknown If you ate pasta and antipasti, would you still be hungry? ~ Unknown Is a castrated pig disgruntled? ~ Unknown Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "asteroids"? ~ Unknown If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of the stuff? ~ Unknown One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star ~ Friedrich Neitzsche If you love it, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, it was never meant to be ~ Unknown When life hands you lemons, throw them back and say, "I wanted LIMES dammit!!!" ~ Unknown Love, consolation and peace bloom only in the garden of sweet contentment ~ Unknown In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability - John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908), U.S. economist He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own ~ Confucius Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly ~ GK Chesterton A great man is always willing to be little ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Nonsense, now and then, is pleasant ~ Horace It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe it. It isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Great thoughts always come from the heart ~ Marquis De Vauvenirgues A man's true wealth is the good that he does in this world ~ Bendexline Nothing … is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the strains of life ~ JK Jerome So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be ~ Tennyson The secret of success in life, is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes ~ Disraeli To know how to wait is the great secret of success ~ De Miastre Patience is not passive; it is active … concentrated strength ~ Buluver Man has his will, but women has her way ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes A wise man knows his ignorance; a fool thinks he knows everything ~ C. Simmons The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize ~ Milres Genius is one-percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration ~ Thomas Edison He who is not ready today, will be less so tomorrow ~ Ouid We have, I fear, confused power with greatness ~ Stewart Udall Hope is a waking dream ~ Aristotle Being entirely honest with one self is a good exercise ~ Freud Several excuses are always less convincing than one ~ Aldous Huxley Wisdom outweighs any wealth ~ Sophocles When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice ~ Marquis De Lagrange We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it - José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Spanish essayist, philosopher In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History[DV3]? - Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), French general, president I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law - David Dinkins, New York City Mayor Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity - Jean Genet (1910-86), French playwright, novelist You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry someone that you can't live without ~ Unknown Time is relative its only value to us depends upon what we do while it is passing ~ Unknown Most smiles are started by another smile - Unknown There is nothing more magnetic or attractive than your smile ~ Unknown Keep your ideas high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you ~ Unknown One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, it is usually returned ~ Unknown Competition doesn't create character, it exposes it ~ Unknown If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else - Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists - E. H. Gombrich (b. 1909), Austrian-born British art critic, historian Things do not change; we change ~ Henry Thoreau, Walden Any fool can make a rule. And every fool will mind it ~ Henry Thoreau, Journal I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion ~ Henry Thoreau, Walden To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge ~ Henry Thoreau, Walden (quoting Confucius) If misery loves company, misery has company enough ~ Henry Thoreau, Journal It is never too late to give up your prejudices ~ Henry Thoreau, Walden Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God ~ Henry Thoreau, Essays and Other Writings A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone - Henry Thoreau, Where I Lived … Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul - Henry Thoreau, Walden: Conclusion No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times - Martha Graham (1894-1991), U.S. dancer We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail - Greil Marcus (b. 1945), U.S. rock journalist To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time - Katharine Hepburn (b. 1909), U.S. actor One changes from day to day...every few years one becomes a new being - George Sand When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves - Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), New Zealand-born British author After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? - Russell Hoban (b. 1925), U.S. author Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves - Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), English philosopher It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it - W. H. Auden (1907-73), Anglo-American poet The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic Do what you can, with what you have, where you are - Unknown Cool isn't you following the crowd; it's when the crowd's following you ~ Unknown I don't love you because I think your cute; I think your cute because I love you ~ Unknown We don't make mistakes … we make happy little accidents! ~ Bob Ross A light heart lives long ~ Irish proverb Have you fifty friends? That is not enough. Have you one enemy? That is too many ~ Italian proverb Live happily in your reality and accept everyone else's unconditionally ~ Unknown When you cease to dream you cease to live - Malcolm S. Forbes The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper ~ Eden It is better to be hated for who you are, then loved for who you are not ~ Andre Gide Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks ~ Samuel Johnson Laws are useless when people are pure, unenforceable when people are corrupt ~ Unknown How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these ~ George Washington Carver No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and it is not the same man ~ Heraclitus There are those that laugh to show their sharp teeth, and there are those that cry to show their good hearts ~ Swahili proverb Don't marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper ~ Scottish proverb Wherever one finds comfort can be called home ~ Chinese proverb When you stop trying to understand the puzzle, you will know the puzzle … without understanding ~ Chinese proverb Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid of standing still - Chinese proverb If you were happy everyday of your life, you wouldn't be human. You'd be a game show host ~ Winona Ryder When the game is done the king and pawn both go into the same box ~ Italian proverb It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for awhile. It is never a mistake to search for what one requires. Never - Clarissa Pinkola Estes Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it - Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979), U.S. clergyman, author Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics - Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), Anglo-Irish dramatist The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred - Solchiro Honda When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity - Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-American theoretical physicist The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly - Aldousi Huxley (1894-1963), British author I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally ~ Unknown Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle, and old age is a regret ~ Unknown Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn ~ George Bernard Shaw All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening - Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943), U.S. columnist, critic ....seemingly petty events are not without meaning, that all things of one's life - the raged, the jagged and the lilting and the soaring - all can be used as life's energy... - Clarissa Pinkola Estes Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself - Hermann Hesse What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others! - Eileen Caddy Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars - Fred Allen (1894-1957), U.S. radio comic The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret - Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821-81), Swiss philosopher, poet Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal - Martin Amis (b. 1949), British novelist The wicked flees when no one pursues ~ Unknown The future is like heaven ~ everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now ~ Unknown Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them - Amy Vanderbilt (1908-74), U.S. hostess, author It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities - Eric Hoffer (1902-83), U.S. philosopher I know that there is a God, and I see a storm coming. If he has a place for me, I am ready ~ John F. Kennedy, after unsuccessful meeting with Soviet premiere Nikita Khruschev The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets or steal bread - Anatole France (1844-1924), French author The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it - Andréi Maurois (1885-1967), French author, critic Power tires only those who do not have it - Giulio Andreotti (b. 1919), Italian Christian Democrat politician, prime minister He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than illumination - Andrew Lang (1844-1912), Scottish author We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over - Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960), British Labour politician I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed - Samuel Johnson (1709-84), English author, lexicographer Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable - Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author Wit lies in recognising[DV4] the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike - Madame de Staël (1766-1817), Swiss-French writer, wit The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less - Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), U.S. suffragette Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something moulded[DV5] - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), French aviator, author Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us - Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes Curiosity doesn't matter any more. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react - Hector Babenco (b. 1946), Argentinian film director In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects - J. William Fulbright (1905-95), U.S. Democratic politician God giveth, and the government taketh away ~ Unknown Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the whole chicken ~ Unknown There are no ugly loves, nor handsome prisons ~ Poor Richard's Almanack If Passion drives, let Reason hold the reigns ~ Poor Richard's Almanack To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish ~ Poor Richard's Almanack The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money ~ Poor Richard's Almanack Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other ~ Poor Richard's Almanack Wish not so much to live long, as to live well ~ Poor Richard's Almanack Clean your finger before you point at my spots ~ Poor Richard's Almanack What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the Nature of things? Time was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on ~ Poor Richard's Almanack Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful ~ Poor Richard's Almanack Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy ~ Poor Richard's Almanack If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend ~ Poor Richard's Almanack Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead ~ Poor Richard's Almanack He's a fool that makes his doctor heir ~ Poor Richard's Almanack Eat to live, and not live to eat ~ Poor Richard's Almanack He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas ~ Poor Richard's Almanack An egg today is better than a hen tomorrow ~ Poor Richard's Almanack If man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles ~ Poor Richard's Almanack Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed ~ Poor Richard's Almanack There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion - Lord Acton (1834-1902), English historian We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself - Samuel Butler (1835-1902), English author The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another . . . is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals - Adam Smith (1723-90), Scottish economist Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems - Henry B. Adams (1838-1918), U.S. historian Models are not necessarily airhead. It's just that they would be, and for professional purposes they should because nothing is required of them ~ Jay McInerney, author of "Bright Lights, Big City" Life's a bitch and she's got a sister named Reality ~ Unknown He who serves his country violates no law ~ Unknown Knowledge is power ~ Francis Bacon You have not converted a man because you have silenced him - John Morley, Lord (1838-1923), English writer, Liberal politician What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul - Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist True creativity often starts where language ends - Arthur Koestler (1905-83), Hungarian-born British novelist, essayist I'm not in denial … I'm just selective about the reality I accept ~ Unknown I'll walk right out into a brand new day, insane and rising in my own weird way ~ Everclear To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illuminated mind, the whole world burns and sparkles ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is a stream that will find its own course, making due is a thing I won't do anymore ~ 311 Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), U.S. Democratic politician You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war ~ Albert Einstein She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again - Charles Talleyrand, Count (1754-1838), French statesman How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person? - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80), French writer, moralist You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements - Norman Douglas (1868-1952), British author He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue - Molièrei (1622-73), French dramatist Life is not one damn thing after another, it is one damn thing over and over ~ Edna St. Vincent Melay A race is won not with the feet, but with the heart ~ Unknown Everyone wants to be on a championship team, but no one wants to practice ~ Unknown True happiness comes when you can look at yourself and like what you see ~ Unknown The quality of your life depends on the quality of your listening ~ Mrs. Kimura Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results ~ Unknown Self-defeat implies a victor, who do you think the victor is? ~ John Barton If you live life like it doesn't matter, and it doesn't matter … it doesn't matter. If you live life like it doesn't matter, and it does matter … it does matter ~ Unknown If you don't change direction you are likely to end up where you are going ~ Unknown More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly ~ Woody Allen Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live ~ Norman Cousins Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events - Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath - Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek dramatist When one is on an adventure he dreams of home, when one is at home he dreams of adventure ~ Unknown It doesn't matter what you can do, it matters what you will do ~ Unknown Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please - Mark Twain (1835-1910), U.S. author You cannot get a job without the experience, but you cannot get the experience without the job ~ Unknown Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding - Agnes Repplier (1858-1950), U.S. author, social critic If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them - Christopher Morle Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have - Alan Bennett (b. 1934), British playwright One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter - James Earl Jones Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true ~ Demosthenes No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), U.S. educator A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used - Oliver Wendell Holmes Things do not happen. Things are made to happen - John F. Kennedy Now is not the time to cling to what was, but to amend what is - Helen Hayes Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago … such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self - Carl Jung Writers do tend to devour people, themselves included - Erica Jong Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - Thomas Carlyle A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success - Sigmund Freud I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet - Jack London Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle - Feodor Dostoevski A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea - Honoré de Balzac The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away - William Butler Yeats I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship - Louisa May Alcott God give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other - Reinhold Niebuhr Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves - Rainer Maria Rilke An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them - Werner Heisenberg In every sort of danger, there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever ~ Socrates Recession is when your neighbor loses his job; depression is when you lose yours ~ Unknown I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation - Tyra Banks Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty - Madame de Maintenon Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong - Vita Sackville-West The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them - P. G. Wodehouse A true friend stabs you in the front - Oscar Wilde We are not born all at once but bit by bit, the body first and the spirit later - Mary Antin I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like - Coco Chanel A bad book is as much a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul - A. Huxley There is no way to stand firm on both feet and escape trouble - The Odyssey Almost everything I have now has already been cast out at least once, proving that what I own is valueless to someone - Lars Eighner Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four c's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably - Walt Disney We live in a world so far more slavish in its obedience to ancient custom than we like to admit - Russell Baker Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built - James Allen Those whom you let approach the pit of blood will speak the truth to you - The Odyssey He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god ~ Aristotle Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service, when it is violating all His laws - John Adams What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self - Nathaniel Hawthorn Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's no one to live in it - Arthur Miller While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die - Leonardo da Vinci Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them - T. S. Eliot There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method - Herman Melville When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose - Goran Ivanisevic Reflect on your present blessings - of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some - Charles Dickens The present is more derived from the future than from the past - Robert Frost Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning - Maya Angelou If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it - Michael Jordan We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by - Will Rogers Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent - Ernest Hemingway If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat - Mark Twain Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects - Will Rogers He who praises everybody, praises nobody - John Boswell It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it - Upton Sinclair The malicious have a dark happiness - Victor Hugo ...man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on - Winston S. Churchill The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it - Arthur Miller No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience - John Locke There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance ~ Socrates An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats - George Orwell It is hard to be simple enough to be good - Ralph Waldo Emerson Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one - Barbara Streisand When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way - Walt Disney I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody - Bill Cosby The greatest charity is to give way to an occasional inconsistency - Robert Frost A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them - Carl Jung Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness - Oliver Wendel Holmes High aims form high characters and great objects bring out great minds - Tryon Edward Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible - St. Francis of Assisi Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee - Muhammad Ali Patience and delay achieve more than force and rage - La Fontaine Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle - Lewis Carroll Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless - Mother Teresa Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts - Margaret Lee Runbeck Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, and attempts no excuse of impossibility - Tomas A. Kempis May God send his love like sunshine in his warm and gentle way to fill each corner of your heart each moment of today - Unknown There is no joy like the joy of sharing ~ Unknown A friend is a gift you give yourself ~ Robert Louis Stevenson When just being together is more important than what you do, you are with a friend ~ Unknown An optimist is someone who is after Moby Dick in a little rowboat and brings the tarter sauce with him ~ Mr. Tom Riley, MKHS math teacher Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift so we call it the present ~ Unknown I've never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude ~ Thoreau You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do ~ Unknown Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened ~ Unknown The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one ~ Unknown The ones who complain about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it ~ Unknown Insanity: think of it as a survival kit ~ Unknown Game?? This ain't no game … it's combat in short pants ~ Unknown The human heart feels things the eye cannot see and knows what the mind can't understand ~ Unknown If you want to appear smarter, hang around someone stupider ~ Unknown A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions ~ Unknown Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion, but it will killed … every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle … when the sun comes up, you better start running ~ Unknown Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph yours with excellence ~ Unknown A friend is one who believes in you before you believe in yourself ~ Unknown Two are better than one … for if they fall, one will lift up the other ~ Ecclesiastes 4: 9, 10 Believe nothing against another but on good authority, nor report what may hurt another, unless it can be a greater hurt to conceal it - William Lenn Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination - Joseph Campbell How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? - Woody Allen If the only thing a masochist loves most is taking a cold shower in the morning, does he take a hot one? ~ Sol Cervesa commercial Is hor d'oeurves French for sandwiches cut into twenty pieces? ~ Sol Cervesa commercial You don't get a second chance to make a first impression ~ Unknown Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed ~ Unknown When old age overtakes you, as it inevitably will, I'm sorry to have to say, having a few children will provide you with people who will feel guilty when being accused of being ungrateful for all you've done for them - Russell Baker There is a blessing in my life that keeps repeating ... you, you, you, you, you! - Roy Lessin It is a great deal better to do all the things you should do than to spend the rest of your life wishing you had ~ Unknown Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out - Arthur Schopenhauer Love, we search for it and it does not appear. It comes when we least expect it ~ Unknown Life is a series of hellos and good byes, I am afraid its time to say goodbye ~ Unknown Players only play because they are scared to give their hearts away ~ Unknown I always knew that I'd look back at the tears and laugh, but I never thought that I'd look back at the laughs and cry ~ Unknown The worst way to miss someone is when they are right next to you ~ Unknown If I were, I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing [my wife asking], "How do I reload this thing?" ~ Representative Dick Armey, explaining what would happen if he were in the President's position Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back, and then you are destroying yourself ~ Nixon When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies - William Shakespeare Guidance often comes when the horizon is the blackest ~ Gandhi It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike ~ SoftIce Users Manual Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald A smile costs nothing but gives much. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes, lasts forever ~ Unknown Everyday in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory ~ C.S. Lewis I can't change the direction of the wind but I can adjust my sail to always reach my destination - Jimmy Dean Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those which there is much agreement, much dispution, and yet more personal liking ~ Unknown It isn't great big pleasures that count the most; its the making a great deal out of the little ones - Jean Webster We all mold one another's dreams. We all hold each other's fragile hopes in our hands. We all touch others hearts ~ Unknown One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few and they are the more beautiful if they are few - Anne Morrow Lindbergh Love to some extent protects you from age - Jeanne Morrow Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be ~ Unknown In every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism ~ Bertrand Russel, Sceptical essays There is less in this than meets the eye - Tallulah Bankhead Be awful nice to 'em goin' up because you're gonna meet 'em coming down - Jimmy Durante Between tomorrow's dream and yesterday's regret is today's opportunity ~ Unknown A friend is one whom may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it. Keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away - George Eliot He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer - William Blake First keep peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others - Thomas A. Kempis It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature - Laura Ingalls Wilder A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed - Henrik Ibsen Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance - Samuel Johnson Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much - Daphne Rose Kingma "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning," the King said, gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop" - Lewis Carroll Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured - Ambrose Bierce The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong - Georges Bidault Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen ~ Bible The President betrayed his wife. He did not betray the country. God help this nation if we fail to recognize the difference - Rep. Robert Wexler (Democrat of Florida, opposing the inquiry) Anarchy is better that no government at all ~ Unknown Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined ~ Samuel Goldwyn As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error ~ Unknown Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered and no one was there ~ Unknown Just saying 'no' prevents pregnancy the way "Have a nice day" cures chronic depression ~ Unknown War doesn't determine who's right but who's left ~ Unknown A city is a large community where people are lonesome together ~ Herbert Prochnow A word to the wise is unnecessary ~ La Rouchchefoucauld It doesn't matter what temperature the room is; it's always room-temperature - Unknown All power corrupts, but we need the electricity - Unknown Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks ~ Unknown A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school uniforms ~ Unknown Sacred cows make the best burgers ~ Unknown "No comment" is a comment ~ Unknown Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill ~ Unknown Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else ~ Unknown Marriage is Grand, Divorce is twenty Grand ~ Unknown If you ain't makin' waves, you ain't kickin' hard enough! ~ Unknown When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane ~ Unknown Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home ~ Unknown Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway ~ Unknown One good turn gets most of the blankets ~ Unknown Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any ~ Unknown Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die ~ Unknown The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth ~ Unknown Fortune tellers are for the poor; psychics are for the rich ~ Unknown Do not meddle in the place of dragons . . . you are crunchy and taste good with catsup ~ Unknown He who laughs last thinks slowest ~ Unknown Rehab is for quitters ~ Unknown We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse ~ Unknown Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies ~ Unknown No one is listening until you make a mistake ~ Unknown Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate ~ Unknown For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism ~ Unknown Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view ~ Unknown The trouble with life is, you're half way through it before you realize it's a "do it yourself" thing ~ Unknown The problem with the rat race is even if you win you're still a rat - Lily Tomlin They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist - General John Sedgwick, Union commander in the Civil War, speaking his last words as he was watching enemy troops during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise - Some dead guy Take a breath, Al ... Inhale - Vice President Dan Quayle politely cutting off Senator Al Gore during the VP Debate in Atlanta, 10/13/92 Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer? Hmm. Successful. Isn't it? - Max Headroom I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could - Orson Welles Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind - Seneca New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move - David Letterman Winston, you are drunk - Lady Astor; Yes my dear, but you are ugly, and in the morning I shall be sober - Winston Churchill Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons - Woody Allen If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it - W.C. Fields Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people - Giordano Bruno Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there - Will Rogers (1879-1935) Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with - Stevie Wonder Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence - Napoleon Bonaparte There is a very fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line - Oscar Levant Sincerity is the key. If you can fake that, you've got it made - George Burns Communications without intelligence is noise … Intelligence without communications is irrelevant - Gen. Grey, USMC Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, ... it doesn't matter - Mark Twain In a mad world only the mad are sane - Akira Kurosawa Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas - Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery Live simply so that others may simply live ... - Gandhi I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain - Carol Leifer Every time I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down until it goes away - Mark Twain If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory - Benjamin Disraeli Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly - Arnold Edinborough On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does - Will Rogers I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets - Dave Edison Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents - William Coronel I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants - A. Whitney Brown If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base - Dave Barry Reader, suppose you were an idiot ... And suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself - Mark Twain Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then - Katharine Hepburn I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house - Zsa Zsa Gabor A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished - Zsa Zsa Gabor Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny - Frank Zappa $100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000 - by which time it will be worth nothing - Robert A. Heinlein Being right too soon is socially unacceptable - Robert A. Heinlein Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for - Ogden Nash 640K of computer memory ought to be enough for anybody - Bill Gates, 1981 Let's face the obvious. Yesterday we were nerds. Today we're the cognitive elite. Let's conquer - Chester G. Edwards I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce - J. Edgar Hoover I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart - Anne Frank A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines - Frank Lloyd Wright Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! - Nietzsche A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject - Winston Churchill A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer - Robert Frost A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it - Oscar Wilde Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States - J. Bartlett Brebner An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered - G. K. Chesterton Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it - Andre Gide Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self - Cyril Connolly Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same - Oscar Wilde Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving words in evidence of the fact - George Elliot Brevity is the soul of lingerie - Dorothy Parker Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving - Penn Jillette Children should neither be seen nor heard from -- ever again - W. C. Fields Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society - Mark Twain Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen - Albert Einstein Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy - Peter De Vries Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking - H. L. Mencken Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training - Anna Freud And if you give us any more trouble, I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your nightdress - Basil Fawlty Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination - Oscar Wilde Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones - Charles Caleb Colton Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work - Gustave Flaubert Dare to be naïve - Richard Buckminster Fuller Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life - Bertolt Brecht Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will - Aleister Crowley Don't try to out-weird me, three eyes. I get weirder things than you in my breakfast cereal - Zaphod Beeblebrox I wonder what those flashing red lights mean? Well, red usually means 'caution'... or 'beef', if it's a boullioun cube - Robin Williams and Joan Cusack, The movie "Toys" If you don't like it, go to Russia - Homer Simpson Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans - John Lennon See you next week a little further up the creek - Early Alaskan goldminers parting words after meeting Some men see things and ask why? I dream things that never were and ask why not? - Robert Kennedy Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing - Mark Twain For those who understand no explanation is needed ... For those who don't none will do - Jerry Lewis Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again - Marin County newspaper's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz" Become who you are - Nietzshe "That's right," he said. "We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am" - Terry Pratchett, 'Small Gods' A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by - Christopher Morley A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines - Frank Lloyd Wright Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it - Stephen Butler Leacock To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research ~ Unknown A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students - John Ciardi Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back - Unknown Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it - Unknown Don't play leap-frog with a unicorn - Unknown Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese - Unknown In the winds of change, keep the fire within - Unknown Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion - Unknown Excuses are the easiest things to manufacture, and the hardest things to sell - Unknown It is better to keep your mouth shut, and look like a fool, than to open your mouth, and remove all doubt - Unknown Today is tomorrow's yesterday. So if you are longing for the 'good ole days', you are there - Unknown Water which is too pure has no fish - Unknown I think therefore I am ... I think - Unknown Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity - Unknown A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory - Unknown A drunk man's words are a sober mans' thoughts - Unknown Forgiveness is like the fragrance a flower gives after it's been stepped on - Unknown A man who throws dirt loses ground - Unknown A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure - Unknown A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience - Unknown A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one - Unknown A ton of regret never made an ounce of difference - Unknown A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune - Unknown A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top - Unknown A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends - Unknown Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue - Unknown Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it - Unknown Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm - Unknown Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts - Unknown Be bold in what you stand for; and careful what you fall for - Unknown You cannot tell which way the train went by looking at the track - Unknown Nostalgia isn't what it used to be - Unknown The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant - Unknown Suicide is the most sincere form of self criticism - Unknown No matter where you are, that's where your at - Unknown Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience - Unknown It's only premarital sex if you're going to get married - Unknown Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense - Unknown A halo has to fall only a few inches to become a noose ~ Farmer's Almanac Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life ~ Unknown The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure - Henry David Thoreau Proofread carefully to see if you any words out - Unknown By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me - Ashleigh Brilliant A good sermon should have a good beginning and a good ending, and they should be as close together as possible - Unknown Definition of Atheism: a non-prophet organization - Unknown Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? - Jules Feiffer As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools - Unknown In the beginning, God created the Baptists. And the Baptists looked at their ownselves and said, "We good." And God saw it was too late - Unknown Televangelists: The Pro Wrestlers of religion - Unknown On an atheist's tombstone: Here lies an atheist; all dressed up and no place to go - Unknown I'm convinced God put me here to accomplish a certain number of things; right now, I'm so far behind I'll never die! - Unknown He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at - Terry Pratchett, Small Gods And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords - Alan Wilson Watts I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people - Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand? - Rep. Pat Schroeder (D) Colorado I don't have to live like them to represent them - Congressman Norm Dicks about the necessity of a $30,000 midnight pay raise which was more than many of his constituents' salaries Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President - Duncan Long Marge, the reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think! - Homer Simpson I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said - William Buckley, Jr. By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more - Albert Camus Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry - Winston Churchill The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out - George Carlin If the enemy is in range, so are you - Unknown Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo - Unknown Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at - Unknown If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush - Unknown When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend - Unknown Mines are equal opportunity weapons - Unknown A Purple Heart just proves that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive - Unknown Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last and don't ever volunteer to do anything - Unknown Five second fuses only last three seconds - Unknown Always remember your weapon was made by the lowest contract - Unknown Friendly fire - isn't - Unknown There are no atheists in the foxholes ~ William Thomas Cummings, field sermon If I had more time I would've written a shorter letter ~ Unknown Three rings of marriage: The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering - Unknown A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one - Unknown Needing a man is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time you need him, chances are you won't be needing him again - Unknown Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the 'Y' becomes silent - Unknown America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote - Unknown I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country of being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am - Unknown It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a new bomber - Unknown If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom - go from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams Perception, not possession is nine-tenths of the law - Unknown In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock - Orson Wells as Harry Lime in The Third Man Just say NO to police searches and seizures. Make them use force - Unknown It's not Area 51 I'm worried about - it's Areas 1 through 50 - Unknown Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet - Frank Zappa Question authority and the authorities will question you - Unknown During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ballpoint pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about $241 million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on Earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil - Unknown The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words - Unknown Everybody wants to be a victim. And the paradox is that victim status accrues precisely to those who can acquire enough clout to make others afraid of them. Victimhood has become one of the fruits of power. Anyone can be an underdog; the trick is to be a registered, pedigreed underdog - Joseph Belloc Sobran When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him to bed an hour early. When he tearfully accuses you of breaking the rules, explain that you made the rules and you can interpret them in any way that seems appropriate to you, according to changing conditions. This will prepare him for the Supreme Court's concept of the US Constitution as a 'living document' - Joseph Sobran They pretend to tell us the truth, and we pretend to believe them - Duncan Long, about the "mainstream press" A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits - Woodrow Wilson All great truths begin as blasphemies - George Bernard Shaw America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between - Oscar Wilde Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities - Mark Twain Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta - Brian Aldiss The sum of society's intelligence is less than the average of it's individual parts - Unknown Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift? - Unknown Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? - Unknown Can atheists get insurance for acts of God? - Unknown Can you be a closet claustrophobic? - Unknown Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together? - Unknown How is it that a building burns up as it burns down? - Unknown If "con" is the opposite of "pro," then what is the opposite of progress? - Unknown If a train station is where the train stops, what is a workstation? - Unknown If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working? - Unknown If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan? - Unknown What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men? - Unknown What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free? - Unknown When it rains, why don't sheep shrink? - Unknown Why are there 5 syllables in the word 'monosyllabic'? - Unknown Why do banks charge you a 'non-sufficient funds fee' on money they already know you don't have? - Unknown Why doesn't DOS ever say EXCELLENT command or filename? - Unknown If atheists say there is no God, who do they think pops up the next Kleenex in the box? - Unknown If it's 0 degrees today, and it's going to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be? - Unknown If the Better Business Bureau cheats you, who do you complain to? - Unknown What if there were no hypothetical questions? - Unknown Did Washington flash a quarter when asked for ID? - Unknown Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word? - Unknown If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? - Unknown Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? - Unknown Why is it that when we ship something by truck, it's called a shipment but if we send something by ship, it's called cargo? - Unknown Why is Greenland icy, and Iceland green? - Unknown Try not to let your mind wander. It is too small to be out by itself - L. Atkinson Oh Dear! Looks like you fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down! - Unknown Support Search & Rescue - GET LOST! ~ Bumper sticker I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather ... not screaming in terror like his passengers ~ Bumper sticker If you don't like the way I'm driving, YOU come get these handcuffs off! ~ Bumper sticker You're driving a car; it isn't a telephone booth, a beauty parlor or a restaurant ~ Bumper sticker I'm out of estrogen and I have a gun ~ Bumper sticker Kneel down and obey, ordinary boy ~ Bumper sticker Guns don't kill people, Postal workers do ~ Bumper sticker If you are close enough to read this, I am close enough to slam on my brakes and sue you ~ Bumper sticker You're just jealous cause the voices only talk to me ~ Bumper sticker Vote Republican - it's easier than thinking ~ Bumper sticker i souport publik edekasion ~ Bumper Sticker Don't piss me off - I'm running out of places to hide the bodies ~ Bumper sticker Two wrongs don't make a right but three rights make a left ~ Bumper Sticker Horn broken, watch for finger ~ Bumper sticker Prevent inbreeding - ban country music ~ Bumper sticker Your father should have pulled out early! ~ Bumper sticker If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone ~ Jack Handy, SNL To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, "Hey, can you give me a hand?" You can say, "Sorry, got these sacks" ~ Jack Handy, SNL If you lived in the Dark Ages and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask is, "Can't you make it shoot farther?" "No, I'm sorry. That's as far as it shoots" ~ Jack Handy, SNL I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex ~ Jack Handy, SNL If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did" ~ Jack Handy, SNL Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, "what if I was an ant and she fell on me?" Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny ~ Jack Handy, SNL I hope if dogs ever take over the world and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas ~ Jack Handy, SNL It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money ~ Jack Handy, SNL To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad ~ Jack Handy, SNL As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way ~ Jack Handy, SNL I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it ~ Jack Handy, SNL Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window ~ Jack Handy, SNL If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now ~ Jack Handy, SNL Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, "why did they believe me?" ~ Jack Handy, SNL Most of the time it was probably real bad being stuck down in a dungeon. But some days, when there was a bad storm outside, you'd look out your little window and think, "Boy, I'm glad I'm not out in that ~ Jack Handy, SNL I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary ~ Jack Handy, SNL I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, Yahoo!, I'd have all my money back ~ Jack Handy, SNL I think a good product would be "Baby Duck Hat." It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then all of the sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man those ducks really take off! Also Baby Duck Hat is good for parties ~ Jack Handy, SNL If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen" ~ Jack Handy, SNL That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder - Calvin & Hobbes The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity - Harlan Ellison Black holes are where God divided by zero ~ Unknown Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone - Anthony Burgess 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name ~ Unknown Deja moo ~ the feeling that you've heard this bull before ~ Unknown Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them to where you can't find them ~ Unknown The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was - Unknown It may be that your sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others ~ Unknown Ray's Law ~ you can't fall off the floor ~ Unknown Eagles may soar but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines ~ Unknown A conclusion is where you got tired of thinking ~ Unknown Two wrongs are only the beginning ~ Unknown You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive ~ Unknown The sooner you fall behind the more time you have to catch up ~ Unknown If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before ~ Unknown Change is inevitable except from vending machines ~ Unknown Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow ~ Unknown Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now ~ Unknown Have you ever noticed anyone going slower than you is an idiot and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? ~ George Carlin I would love to speak a foreign language, but I can't so I grew hair under my arms instead ~ Sue Kolinsky I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you have to eat it with naked fat people ~ Ed Bluestone I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" ~ Jay Leno The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they wouldn't be caught dead in otherwise ~ Roger Simon If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight ~ George Gobell Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student, at least it can find Kuwait ~ A. Whitney Brown Maybe there's no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they are eating sandwiches ~ Jim Carey I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be, but I think there is one other thing that separates us from animals ~ we aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners ~ Jeff Stilson Now they show you how detergent take out bloodstains. A pretty violent image there. I think if you got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash ~ Jerry Seinfeld Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize "Oh my God! I could be eating a slow learner!" ~ Lynda Montgomery What do people mean when they say, "The computer went down on me"? ~ Maryland Pittman When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal Family knew someone in the Royal Family ~ Robin Williams Freedom lies in being bold ~ Robert Frost Roses are red, violets are black, why are your breasts flat as your back ~ Unknown I like your ass, I like your style, but most of all I like your ass ~ Unknown That lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge - Geoffrey Chaucer Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Noam Chomsky You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first steps into a thousand years of darkness ~ Ronald Regan If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done ~ Ronald Regan I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man ~ Zhuangzi When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self ~ Confucius Energy is Eternal Delight - William Blake It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help - Miss Manners When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life - Gabriela Sabatini Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness! - Georgesi Jacques Danton There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others - Martha Graham Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted - Sammy Davis, Jr. Until we learn the use of living words we shall continue to be waxworks inhabited by gramophones - Walter De La Mare Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing - Phyllis Diller I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal - Martin Luther King, Jr. My center is giving way, my right is retreating; situation excellent. I shall attack - Marshal Ferdinand Foch The only failure I know is never making the attempt - George Clooney Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference - Robert Frost You can kill a man, but you can't kill what he stands for ~ unless you first break his spirit ~ The Cancer Man, 1998 Season Premiere of the X-Files What we want is a story that starts with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax - Samuel Goldwyn The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination ~ Unknown Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own - Adam Lindsay Gordon It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self - Hugo Black Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature, it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves - Werner Karl Heisenberg The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time - A. P. Herbert Goodness is the only investment that never fails ~ Henry Thoreau Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea ~ Edward de Bono Putting an emotion into words gives it a life and reality that other wise it doesn't have … similarly, expressing confidence in a person's ability to accomplish something actually strengthens that ability ~ Arthur Gordon Few things are impossible to diligence and skill … great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance ~ Samuel Johnson Goal setting is the strongest force for self-motivation ~ Paul Myer A liar should have a good memory ~ Unknown Those who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend ~ Cicero He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow that is out of reach ~ Unknown No one knows what he can do till he tries ~ Unknown First keep peace within yourself then you can also bring peace to others ~ Unknown When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence - John Fitzgerald Kennedy An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less ~ Nicholas Murray Butler In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed - Ralph Waldo Emerson Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses; we read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author - John Keats A person without an opinion is like a friend without friendship ~ Unknown If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools ~ Unknown Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes - Nikita Khrushchev I have but ninepence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds - Joseph Addison To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables - Charles, Prince of Wales Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away - Dorothy Parker Nothing is softer than water yet who can withstand the raging flood ~ Unknown Faithless to none, yet fateful to one ~ Unknown The longer the palette dries, the more it tingles when it touches wine ~ Unknown Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men - Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous - George Bernard Shaw Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them - Adlai Stevenson There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted - Albert Camus By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day - Robert Frost Good words are worth much, and cost little ~ George Herbert Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity - Martin Luther King, Jr. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others ~ Confucius I believe in computer dating, but only if the computers are truly in love - Groucho Marx If you're in a stance, you've got a chance ~ Steve Lavin Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, When they think that their children are naïve - Ogden Nash Development requires democracy, the genuine empowerment of the people - Aung San Suu Kyi The most participatory form of mass speech yet developed ... a never-ending worldwide conversation ~ Unknown Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles ~ Unknown Never let school get in the way of your education ~ Unknown I saw a sign that said 'Smile, life will get worse'. I read the sign, smiled, and sure enough, life got worse ~ Unknown Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish ~ Unknown The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause ~ Unknown The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them ~ Robert Frost Age is a very high price to pay for maturity ~ Unknown For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life - Alfred D'Souza Those who have imagination without learning have wings but no feet ~ Unknown Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another ~ Unknown A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever ~ Unknown Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely ~ Unknown We don't know a millionth of one percent of anything ~ Unknown Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon ~ Unknown The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits ~ Unknown I am not anti-social. Society is anti-me! ~ Unknown There are so many tears of the heart that never reaches the eyes ~ Unknown Everyone is entitled to be stupid but you're abusing the privilege ~ Unknown I wish to be a tear born in your eye, live on your cheek, and die on your lips ~ Unknown I have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them ~ Unknown Superstition is the religion of feeble minds ~ Unknown May all your rules and wisdom choke you ~ Unknown If you don't like the effects, don't produce the cause ~ Unknown I'm not conceited, I just know what I'm capable of ~ Unknown I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is another way of saying I cannot forgive ~ Unknown My ideal guy is a total geek who reads daily sci-fi and plays with himself a lot - Gillian Anderson Curiosity is one of temperament and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind ~ Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1751 I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made 'em to match the men ~ George Elliot, Adame Bede, 1859 The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man - Marshall McLuhan A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself - Arthur Miller Technology … the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it ~ Max Frisch, Homo Faber, 1957 What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations? - Lewis Carroll Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind - William Shakespeare Tempt not the stars, young man, thou canst not play with the severity of fate - John Ford Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them - George Orwell For mere vengeance, I would do nothing … but for the security of the future I would do everything ~ James Abram Garfield Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn - Charlie Parker Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends ~ Jacques Delille, Malheur et Pitié, 1803 Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon - E.M. Forster Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive ~ Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, 1808 At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment - Benjamin Franklin Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved ~ Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532 Life's too short for worrying. Yes, that's what worries me ~ Anonymous Tis with our judgments as our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own - Alexander Pope Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite - Karl Popper Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall ~ Frances Bacon, Essays, 1625 If I see far, it is only because I have stood on the shoulders of giants ~ Unknown Literature is news that STAYS news - Ezra Pound There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in mind - Marcel Proust You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly - Ronald Reagan The secret of being a bore is to tell everything ~ Voltaire, Sept Discours en Vers sur l' Homme, 1738 The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing - Sir Ralph Richardson In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach - Bertrand Russell Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or end a knotted oak ~ William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697 I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me - Simone de Beauvoir You're either part of the solution or part of the problem ~ [Leroy] Eldridge Cleaver, 1968 Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it - George Santayana There is less in this than meets the eye ~ Tallulah Brockman Bankhead Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown - Claude Bernard You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows - Bob Dylan An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind ~ Saint Bonaventure Variety's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavour - William Cowper An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind ~ Saint Bonaventure, Conferences on the Gospel of John The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed ~ Sebastien Roch Nicholas Chamfort, Maxims and Thoughts As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it? ~ William Marcy Tweed, Statement by the "Boss" of Tammany Hall, 1871 Since when was genius found respectable? ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, 1857 It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years ~ Thomas Andrew Lehrer, That Was the Year That Was, 1965 The past is a foreign country, they do things different here ~ Lesley Poles Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953 Not snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed ~ Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus I love to lose myself in other men's minds ~ Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833 We are a nation of communities … a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky ~ George Herbert Walker Bush, Acceptance speech, Republican National Convention, 1988 Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all ~ George Christoph Lightenberg, Aphorisms Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity ~ George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903 Oh, it's nice to get up in the mornin', But it's nicer to lie in bed ~ Sir Harry Lauder Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally ~ Abraham Lincoln, Address to an Indiana Regiment, 1865 Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you ~ Satchel [Leroy] Paige, How to Stay Young, 1953 Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny ~ Frankin Delano Roosevelt, Speech accepting renomination, 1936 Iron rusts from disuse … even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind ~ Lenoardo Da Vinci, The Notebooks, 1508-1518 If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else ~ Laurence Johnston Peter, The Peter Principle, 1969 I will concentrate on the beauty of one blue hill in the distance, and for me, that moment will be eternity - Alice Walker If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances - Julia Sorel If you want to find the girl-next-door go next door! ~ Joan Crawford Pain is just there to remind you that you're still alive ~ Unknown To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides ~ David Viscott We ignore the ones that adore us, we adore the ones that ignore us ~ Unknown I wish I were a teddy bear. Everyone loves them, no one cares how fat they are, and the older they get, the more they are worth ~ Unknown Remember just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, it doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they've got ~ Unknown If you truly love someone, draw a circle around their name, and not a heart, because a heart can be broken, but a circle goes on forever ~ Unknown My parents keep asking how school was. That's like asking, "How was that drive-by shooting?" You don't care how it was, you're lucky to get out alive ~ Unknown Use the talents you possess; for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best ~ Unknown Everything ends up ok in the end, if it's not ok its not the end yet ~ Unknown Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations? You know how most packages say "Open here"... What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"? - Unknown Don't step on a daisy while looking for a rose ~ Unknown Don't cry because it's over, but smile because it happened ~ Unknown Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from ~ Jodie Foster Sometimes it's like we're living in a prison and the crime is how much we hate ourselves. It's good to get dressed up once in a while, and admit the truth; when you really look closely, people are so strange and complicated that they're actually beautiful … possibly even me ~ Kalliope Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall ~ Confucius It is a good thing to follow the first law of holes; if you are in one stop digging - Denis Healey As to diseases make a habit of two things ~ to help, or at least, to do no harm ~ Hippocrates, Epidemics It's so important to hold on to the memories, and yet sometimes you just have to step back and wonder whether the memories are the things that are holding you back ~ Unknown Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out ~ Micheal Burke I knew who I was this morning but I think I've changed several times since then ~ Alice (in Wonderland) Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun ~ Mao Tse-Tung, Selected Works for Mao Tse-tung, 1965 Washington is full of famous men and the women they married when they were young ~ Fanny Dixwell Holmes I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that ~ Lauren Bacall When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is pretty certain that she has his ~ Unknown May the outward and inward man be as one ~ Socrates Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done ~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1606 Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese? - Edith Sitwell The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness ~ John Muir, John of the Mountain, 1938 Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus - David Hockney The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922 It indicates the deadly weight of the terrible tradition of a dialogue between master and servant which we have to overcome - Nelson Mandela Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth ~ Peter Ustinov, 1977 In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer - Albert Camus At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love - Martin Luther King, Jr. When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end; when we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out - Vickie Karp To be black and female, in a society which is both racist and sexist, is to be in a unique position of having nowhere to go but up - Rosemary Brown It is never too late to be what you might have been ~ George Eliot Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought - Henri Bergson Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass - Emma Goldman, Anarchism, 1910 You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do - Henry Ford Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding - Oscar Wilde What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork - Pearl Bailey Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence - Erich Fromm A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us - Franz Kafka We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or national origin - Margaret Mead To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks ~ Eeyore Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem - John Braine In the end, antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing --- antihumanism - Shirley Chisholm It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism - Adrienne Rich We read to know we're not alone - C. S. Lewis When the student is ready, the teacher will appear - Chinese Proverb You can only be as good as you dare to be bad - John Barrymore The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years ~ Oscar Wilde A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought - Dorothy L. Sayers The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence - Joyce Carol Oates, speech for the National Book Awards, 1969 In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost ~ Dante Alighieri In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman ~ Margaret Thatcher They have honor that hold themselves to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so ~ Walter Lippmann I am not belittling the brave pioneer men, but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours - Edna Ferber Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other - Mary Ashton Livermore Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma ~ Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow ~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757 To completely understand a man's mind, listen to his words ~ Unknown For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros - Ethel Barrymore The future ain't what it used to be - Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream - Edgar Allen Poe, A Dream Within a Dream Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, someday we will become what we see ~ Jewel Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last ~ Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847 If there were in the world today a large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years - Bertrand Russell Literature is my utopia ~ Helen Keller And that's the way it is ~ Walter Cronkite, Sign-off sentence, CBS Evening News It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women - Louisa May Alcott That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way - Doris Lessing Dwell not on the past which cannot be changed ... but on the future which is still in your power ~ Unknown Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal ~ Unknown Sometimes you have to get to know somebody really well, to realize you are really strangers ~ Unknown Conventionality has indeed curtailed feminine force by hindering healthful and varied activity - Antoinette Louisa Blackwell Eighty percent of success is showing up ~ Woody Allen Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody - Agatha Christie The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism - Lydia Maria Child Dancing's just a conversation between two people. Talk to me - Justin Metisse in "Hope Floats" It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important - A. Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity Time is of no importance. Only life is important - From "The Fifth Element" One man with courage makes a majority - Andrew Jackson Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation ~ Charles Dickens Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands - Anne Frank Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences - Isadora Duncan The only limits are, as always, those of vision - James Broughton Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art - Susan Sontag The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success - Elliott Carver The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived ~ Bernard De Voto, The Hour, 1951 And while I at length debate and beat the bush, there shall step in other men and catch the birds ~ John Heywood To own anything is to be owned by it. I never wanted to own you, it's impossible. And I never wanted to be owned. But I guess I always wanted you to pretend you thought I was worth owning - Portia Nelson We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another ~ Peter De Vries From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs ~ Karl Marx If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others ~ François Duc De La Rochefoucauld To change your life: start immediately; do it flamboyantly; no exceptions - William James I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be a housewife - Marilyn Monroe The destination of all journeys is their beginning - Angela Olive Carter For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great ~ José Ortega Y Gasset It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer - E. B. White It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose - Steffi Graf Movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion - Jennifer Stone Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment - Ellis Peters Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art ~ Susan Sontag If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark - St. John of the Cross All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages - William Shakespeare There is only one success ~ to be able to spend your life in your own way ~ Christopher Morley Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way ~ Isaac Goldberg It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are ~ O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), The Gentle Grafter, 1908 No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever ~ Menachem begin, On signing the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, March 26, 1979 Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh - Lord Chesterfield For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn ~ Jane Austen It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men - Mae West, in "Diamond Lil" (1932) That's what fame is: solitude - Coco Chanel We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading - B. F. Skinner Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten - B. F. Skinner I find a world of iron and leave it a world of gold ~ Don Quixote Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything is different - Calvin & Hobbes A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child ~ Unknown Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor ~ Elizabeth I People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them - George Bernard Shaw Success is getting what you want; Happiness is wanting what you get ~ Unknown Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed - Emily Dickinson Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new - Henry David Thoreau We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there ~ Dana Gould Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe ~ Nicholas Copernicus No man is a hero to his valet ~ Anne Bigot Cornuel If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me ~ Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc-wreaking ~ Gustave Flaubert Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it ~ Josh Billings Life is a copycat and can be bullied into following the master artist who bids it come to heel ~ Heywood Broun A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives - Jackie Robinson The new wears out and the old shines through eventually ~ Unknown It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious - Edsel Murphy Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give - which is everything - Katharine Hepburn You were the best platform from which to jump beyond myself - Alanis Morissette The way to a man's heart is through his stomach ~ Fanny Fern Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism ~ Hubert Horatio Humphrey Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton It's not what they call you, it's what you answer to ~ Unknown When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it ~ Unknown I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and often times disagreeable. I suppose I'm larger than life ... that's my problem - Bette Davis Who knows where thoughts come from, they just appear! ~ Empire Records I'd explain it to you, but I'm afraid your head might explode - Calvin & Hobbes Violence is as American as cherry pie ~ Rap Brown Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend ~ Agatha Christie Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones ~ John Burroughs One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives ~ Mark Twain The cautious seldom err ~ Confucius The displacement of a little sand can change occasionally the course of deep rivers ~ Manuel González Prada Money is flat and is meant to be piled up ~ Scottish maxim The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you ~ Elmer Davis Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts ~ Richard Buckminister Fuller Sometimes the people that you think shouldn't care about you, care about you more than the people that you think should ~ Unknown Taxes are what we pay for civilized society ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live when there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die? - Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian - Shari R. Barr A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money ~ Everett McKinley Dirksen This is who I am, what I do, and what I say. If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same. - Ani DiFranco In the end, we remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends ~ Martine Luther King Jr. Wit is educated insolence ~ Aristotole The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows - Aristotle Onassis Behind every great fortune there is a crime - Honore de Balzac The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his - General George Patton Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest - Mark Twain Denial ain't just a river in Egypt - Mark Twain The truth is more important than the facts - Frank Lloyd Wright Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers - Voltaire A man who possesses keen intelligence, is little moved to wonder. And the same is true of him who lacks it. Wonder marks the limit of our knowledge and is often evidence of the imperfection of our minds, rather than of the perfection of exterior objects - Vauvenargues203 Wonder is born of Ignorance, and is mother of Knowledge - Metastasio Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at - Goethe The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth - Gerald Burrill The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips ~ Old Testament, Proverbs, XVI, 23 All men, by nature, desire knowledge - Aristotle 384-322BC, Metaphysics Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life: the evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray - Byron One joy dispels a hundred cares - Confucious When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge - Albert Einstein Even the blind squirrel gets a nut once in awhile - Unknown If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing - Benjamin Franklin  Success is measured not necessarily by what others see, but what they don't see - personal self-worth. Success is accomplishing what you most wish for yourself - Lillion Vernon Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what makes you go beyond the norm- Cicely Tyson The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy - Martin Luther King Jr. One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth - Abraham Maslow If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing - Will Rogers Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action - Benjamin Disraeli Dare to risk public criticism - Mary Kay Ash The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn - Gloria Steinem The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come - Sandra Day O'Connor Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also - Marcus Aurelius Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential - Liane Cardes The important thing is not to stop questioning - Albert Einstein God can put you in hell, but I can put you in jail (you have to say it like a redneck) - Jessie McLeod  In today's world we must learn to stand together to fight against injustice. We must recognize that Crime and Criminals are a threat to us all. Only then can we join together and stand united against the threat and only then will we notice change! - Captain John Cobbs, Metro Nashville Police  A good cop stays a rookie at heart, excited by every shift - David Hunter Loyalty above all else, except honor - Unknown  You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus - John F. Kennedy When an organization wants you to do right, it asks for your integrity; when it wants you to do wrong, it demands your loyalty - Unknown  We only live a lifetime. Regretfully, some are shorter than others - Darren K. Stocker  No ones idea is a good idea, until it becomes someone else's idea - John A. Stine  Yes sir, this is nothing more than mind over matter. If my dog don't mind, your ass don't matter! ~ The movie "Cool Hand Luke"  Weapons of choice: a sharp wit, a sweet smile, and an HK P7M8 - Deb Shinder  Never enter a battle of wits unarmed ~ Sgt. Marty Imwalle & Officer Mike Walker  Let everyone drink from the well of justice and no one will be thirsty for it - Dave Keel  SWAT is not something you do...it's what you are... - Frank Rau  In SWAT, valor is an everyday occurrence - Frank Rau  The main goal of SWAT is to save lives...and that's what we do... - Frank Rau  Let's be careful out there - Sgt. Phil Esterhouse, Hill St. Blues  Pride in self begins with pride in appearance - General George Patton  A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood - General George Patton  If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George Patton  Failure to prepare is preparing to fail - John Wooden  The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything - Teddy Roosevelt  A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances - General George Patton  Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he WANTS to do it - Dwight David Eisenhower  STRESS - The confusion created when one's mind overrides one's body's desire to choke the living s*** out of some a**h*** who desperately deserves it! - Unknown  Cops are very powerful, some cops will use power wisely, others will abuse it - Jim Brown  If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there - Texas Bix Binder  When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learned their lesson - Texas Bix Binder  Don't let so much reality into your life that there's no room left for dreamin' - Texas Bix Binder  When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth - Sherlock Holmes  Police work gives you the test first, then the lesson - Robert Dent  We all live in glass houses, it is just some are tinted darker than others ~ Detective Paul The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances - Martha Washington  It takes time to do it right, but it takes longer to do it twice - Matthew Ayers  There is more to being a professional than just looking like one - Rob Edwards  Brutality is when we hit back ~ Police officer Living in our society is like living in a very tall building.  The rich live on the top floors.  The poor live on the lowest floors.  And only the cops travel to all the floors. Only the cops see it all - Det. Ted O'Conner, Chicago P.D.  Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success doesn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never - yes, never - sell yourself short - David J. Schwartz  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them - Galileo Galilei  Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six - Unknown  It takes less time to do a job right than it does to explain why you did it wrong - Unknown  I've learned that you can't go though life with catcher's mitts on both hands ... you have to be able to throw something back - Unknown  Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm - Winston Churchill  No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it - Theodore Roosevelt  The law - it has honored us, let us honor it - Daniel Webster  All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us ... they can't get away this time - Chesty Puller, USMC, when surrounded by eight enemy divisions at Chosin Reservoir, Korea  If there is a bad law on the books ... you go ahead and enforce that law. If it is a bad law, we will take care of the law; but if you enforce any of your personal prejudices, we will take care of you - Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall, speech to police officers at Michigan State University  Good cops always seem to be able to identify causes of problems and to come up with the least troublesome ways of solving them. Good cops always think ahead and always leave a way out of a tough situation. Good cops rarely have to resort to the law to resolve minor order maintenance problems like drunks or noisy kids on the street. Good cops spend their time finding out about the people and places on their beats instead of lurking at speed traps or near badly marked stop signs. Good cops know the people on their beats well enough to put an  end to problems like double parking merely by telling store owners to warn customers against illegal parking. Local criminals know the good cops and stay away from their beats when they are working - Jerome Skolnick & James Fyfe, "Above The Law" The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke  Justice is incidental to law and order - J. Edgar Hoover  The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins - Oliver Wendell Holmes  You gotta love it. Just liking it won't get you through the day - Col. Richard D. Stearns, USMC I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her - New York City detective  The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government - Inscription above the entrance to the New York State Supreme Court  The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand - Vince Lombardi  Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.  What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on - Robert Kennedy  The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug - Mark Twain  As for the future, your task is not to foresee but to enable it ~ Saint Exupery  Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction - Anne Frank  We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit - Aristotle  Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy - Charlie McCarthy  All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts - James Allen  Without facts, the decision cannot be made logically.  You must rely on your human intuition - Spock, "Assignment: Earth"  The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own - Benjamin Disraeli  One defends when his strength is inadequate; he attacks when it is abundant - Sun Tzu  Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy - Sun Tzu  All warfare is based on deception - Sun Tzu  The simplest questions are the hardest to answer - Unknown  If you want to do something you will find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse - Unknown  A weak person has doubts before making a decision; a strong person has them afterwards - Unknown  When you cease to make contribution you begin to die - Eleanor Roosevelt  Time is money, especially when you're talking to a lawyer - Unknown  Speaking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim - Unknown  Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy - Unknown  If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself - Unknown  Children are said to be delinquent when they reach the stage where they want to do what their parents are doing - Unknown  Some people are like popcorn. You don't learn what they're really made of until you put heat under them -Unknown Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits - Thomas A. Edison  A person who lies for you will lie against you - Unknown  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves - Carl C. Jung  Lawyers and painters can change white to black - Unknown  If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well - Catfish Moore  Somedays even wearing my lucky rocketship underwear doesn't help - Calvin and Hobbes  Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character - Vince Gill  Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends, tell me where to get more wax - Unknown  To do nothing is the way to be nothing - Nathaniel Howe  Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability - John Wooden  There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees - Michel de Montaigne  Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps  I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem - Ashleigh Brilliant  He who hunts man long enough and enjoys it, will lose the taste to hunt anything else - Hemmingway  Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball - Billie Jean King  We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit - Aristotle, philosopher  To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can - Og Mandino  The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur - Vince Lombardi  The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them - Lao-Tzu  Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude - Thomas Jefferson  Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it! - Edwin C. Bliss  It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees - Delores Ibarruri  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall - Confucius  I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge - Greg Norman  One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared - Merlin Olsen  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing - Elbert Hubbard  The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence - Eddie Robinson  Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it - Irving Berlin  There are no facts, but only interpretations - Chris Rioux  I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do I should do and, with the help of God, I will do - Everett Hale  He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it - Seneca  Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into - Brian Tracy  If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place - Gita Bellin  We will either find a way, or make one - Hannibal  The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses - Napoleon Hill  The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts - Booker T. Washington  Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified - Samuel Johnson  Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice - Stephen R. Covey  No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things - Unknown  I know it's hot with the vest on, but it's a lot hotter in hell - Houston P.D. Sgt. Blackburn's reply when one of his officers complained about the heat from his vest and asked if he could patrol without wearing it. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life - Sophia Loren  It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away - Terry Pratchett, 'Feet of Clay' Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture - Charles Caleb Colton  If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges - Pat Riley  Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it - Lou Holtz  The harder I work the luckier I get - Samuel Goldwyn  Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God - Matthew 5:9  It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn - John Bradshaw  I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him - Eleanor Roosevelt  If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work - Thomas J. Watson  First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do - Epictetus  Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs - Pearl Strachan Hurd  There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come - Victor Hugo  When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through - F. W. Nichol  You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut - Maxwell Maltz  Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature - Bishop Robert South  One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness - simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain. By the proper use of experience and thought one can draw much from oneself, by determination and patience once can even restore one's health... so let us live life as it is, and not be ungrateful - George Sand  He conquers who endures - Persius  There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work - Charles Haddon Spurgeon  All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners ... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence - Denis Waitley  When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure - Roger Crawford  Sir, you have obviously mistaken my kindness for weakness, and you are sadly mistaken - Unknown  The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried - Ralph Waldo Emerson  Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts - Unknown  Our patience will achieve more than our force - Edmund Burke  Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings -Andre Maurois  The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life - Sigmund Freud  Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things - Peter F. Drucker  If you live, you learn - Airborne Drill Staff Sargent Isiah Clark, US Army Rookie, we're going home to our families after our tour is over. That's my only rule ~ R. Webb, Senior Los Angeles Country Sheriff We are the good guys, we are professionals we are paid to win, we're not getting paid to lose - Training officer, Butte Co. Calif  Carry the biggest gun you can shoot accurately - Jeff Copper  The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones - Chinese Proverb  Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement - Charles F. Kettering  If lying under oath is tolerated and, when exposed, is not visited with immediate and substantial consequences, the integrity of this country's judicial process is fatally compromised and that process will eventually collapse. The subject matter of the underlying case, whether civil or criminal and the circumstances under which the testimony is given are of no significance what ever - David Schippers, Democrat Lawyer Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence - Colin Powell God is dead, but 50,000 social workers have risen to take his place - J.D. McCoughy The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people - Benito Mussolini ((1883-1945)  If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts, if neither is on your side, pound on the table - Unknown The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs, a million times a million to one.  Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb - Benny Hill Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair - George Burns Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber ~ Plato Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does - William James Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be - Abraham Lincoln  Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible - Cherie Carter-Scott Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision without action can change the world. A true leader must first see an idea as opportunity, then choose to act upon it - Joel Barker  Adversity is the foundation of virtue - Japanese Proverb People do not lack strength; they lack will - Victor Hugo Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company - George Washington Enthusiasm, like measles, mumps and the common cold, is highly contagious - Emory Ward Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world - Albert Einstein Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body - Arnold Schwarzenegger Always know who you are, where you are, and why you are there - O.W. Wilson You can fool some of the police some of the time but you can't fool all the police all the time - Jim Cole I'm a good cop, I go where they kick me - Unknown The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy - Malcomb S. Forbes Every strike brings me closer to the next home run - Babe Ruth  Give a man a fire and he is warm for the day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life - James Yeager The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice - Bruce Lee You're never a loser until you quit trying - Mike Ditka If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it - Malcolm S. Forbes If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today - Lou Holtz The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it - Wayne Gretzky You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things, to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals - Sir Edmund Hillary It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous ~ Robert Charles Benchley My country is the world and my religion is to do good ~ Thomas Paine A man's life is like a diary in which he plans to write one story and ends up writing another ~ Unknown The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them, because you're thinking about them for the same amount of time - Marilyn Manson Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way ~ Leo Nikolevich Tolstoi Sometimes you know that later on in your life, a memory will not justify what you're feeling, and you don't want the moment to end ~ Unknown Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it ~ Unknown I didn't jump to conclusions. I took a small step, and conclusions there were ~ Buffy, the Vampire Slayer We live in a world filled with deceit; where what isn't said, is often far more important than what is ~ Unknown People who make money off creative products who don't want to pay for it always tell the creators how much money they are making by the theft that's taking place ~ Charles Sauder, conference on downloadable music Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed ~ Mahatma Gandhi Any man who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one ~ John Pierpont Morgan The victims elect to become witnesses ~ Elie Wiesel Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind ~ Wolcott Gibbs People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them ~ Anatole France The great question … is 'What does a woman want?' ~ Sigmund Freud Justice delayed is justice denied ~ William Ewart Gladstone I fell in love with the world hoping the world would fall in love with me ~ Unknown I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it ~ Alice Walker Not many sounds in life … exceed in interest a knock at the door ~ Charles Lamb It's difficult to believe that people are starving in this country because food isn't available ~ Ronald Regan Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall ~ The Old Testament, The Proverbs, 16:18 First ponder, than dare ~ Helmuth Moltke Satire should, like a polished razor keen., wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well? My mother ~ Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way ~ Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can ~ Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible words; and the pessimist fears this is true ~ James Branch Cabell The only indecent people are the chaste ~ J.K. Huysmans People say that when you die your life flashes before your eyes … make it worth watching ~ Unknown Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous amounts of energy to be normal ~ Albert Camus I make a good statistic. Somebody should study me now ~ Ani Defranco The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals ~ Sir William Osler Just because it happened, must you call the damned thing fate? ~ Unknown I either get what I want or I change my mind ~ Frankie, Dream for an Insomniac When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose ~ Goran Ivanisevic In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip ~ Daniel L. Reardon The army is the true nobility of our country ~ Napolean III The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr ~ Muhammad Anyhoo, that about wraps it up for me. Farewell, take care of each other, and I'll see you all when you get to wherever it is I am now - Phil Hartman In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out - Lauryn Hill The only sure thing about luck is that it will change ~ Wilson Mizner They were going to look at war, the red animal ~ war, the blood-swollen god ~ Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage Works expands so as to fill the time available for its completion ~ Cyril Northcote Parkinson Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong - Winston Churchill No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now - Dr. Leo Buscaglia An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself - Albert Camus Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth ~ Benjamin Disraeli As for me, I would rather be able to love things I cannot have, than to have things I cannot love ~ Hollyann2 Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball … - Jacques Barzun A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one ~ Sam Rayburn Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils - John Milton The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth ~ Unknown Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad - Christina Rossetti Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness ~ Athenaeus As long as you know that most men are like children you know everything ~ Coco Chanel If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away ~ Henry Thoreau Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly ~ Unknown I can only please one person a day. Today isn't your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either ~ Unknown The words 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,' which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies ~ Pauline Kael I have measured out my life with coffee spoons ~ Thomas Stearns Eliot I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more ~ Paddy Chayevsky It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions ~ Thomas Henry Huxley People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more - Graham There's gonna be 2 dates on your tombstone, all your friends will read 'em, but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em - Kevin Welch Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go - The Wonder Years The first thing is to live your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours - Peggy Fleming Today, if something is not worth saying, people sing it ~ Beaumarchais Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much ~ John Wayne, advice on acting Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion ~ Thorton Niven Wilder … any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee ~ John Donne Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely ~ Unknown Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans ~ Unknown One swallow does not make a summer ~ Aristotle Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer ~ Reinhold Niebuhr The great masses of the people … will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one ~ Adolf Hitler Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant ~ Cary Grant The medium is the message ~ Marshall Herbert McLuhan Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all ~Aristotle People are lonely because they build walls, not bridges ~ Unknown In the midst of winter, I found within me, an incredible summer ~ Albert Camus People living deeply have no fear of death ~ Anais Nin I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general ~ Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of ~ Ogden Nash Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you have endured, From evils which never arrived! ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying - Woody Allen Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia - Charles Schultz There are people who need people to need them. The reason why you don't understand is because you're not one of those people - Stephen King We all want things to change, but once they do, we wonder why things can't go back to the way they were - Unknown Great men can't be ruled ~ Ayn Rand I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse ~ Bert Kalmar I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking - Christopher Isherwood I have had people walk out on me before, but not when I was being so charming - Deckard To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and whatever you hit, call it the target - Ashleigh Brilliant If you think back, and replay your year, if it doesn't bring you tears of either joy or sadness, consider it wasted - John Cage, "Ally McBeal" Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left - Hubert Humphrey Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them ~ Margaret Mitchell Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough ~ George Bernard Shaw The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man - William Henry Beveridge If I were asked …. To what the singular prosperity and growing strength of … [the Americans] ought to mainly be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women ~ Alexis de Tocqueville Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round ~ Muhammad Ali Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers - Lewis Mumford I filled out an application that said, "In Case Of Emergency Notify". I wrote "Doctor"... What's my mother going to do? - Steven Wright The basis of optimism is sheer terror - Oscar Wilde Four years ago... no, it was yesterday. Today I... No, that wasn't me. Sometimes I... No, I don't - Steven Wright It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead - William Markiewicz Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it - Anthony J. D'Angelo A man with wings large enough and duly attached might learn to overcome the resistance of the air, and conquering it succeed in subjugating it and raise himself upon it - Leonardo da Vinci Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us ~ The Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus, 44:1 Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race ~ Henry Miller This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot ~ Monty Python's Flying Circus Life's a pretty precious and wonderful thing.  You can't sit down and let it lap around you ... you have to plunge into it; you have to dive through it!  And you can't save it, you can't store it up; you can't hoard it in a vault. You've got to taste it; you've got to use it.  The more you use the more you have ... that's the miracle of it! - Kyle Samuel Crichton I believe in the sun even when it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I'm not feeling it. I believe in God, even when God is silent - Warsaw Ghetto, 1942 There comes a time in every friendship when you have to say, I never liked you, get lost ~ Newsradio Have you learned only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?  Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed the passage with you? - Walt Whitman Be loved or love somebody: be loved. Although I think a mutual feeling would be great, I cant say I've ever felt it before, "Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God - Martin Luther I do not think I will ever reach I stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive and open to growth ~ Madeline L'Engle I regret: "I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do ~ Lucas, Empire Records At some point we have to face the certain reality: despite all the good the world seems to offer, true happiness can only be found in one thing ~ shopping - Ling We have learned the answers, all the answers: It is the question that we do not know - Archibald MacLeish What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors - Henry Becque What's the good of being forgiven, if I have to promise not to do it again? - Ashleigh Brilliant Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows - Michael Landon To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle - Walt Whitman If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison ~ Malcolm X Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure ~ Victor Hugo The best way to kill an idea is to take it to a meeting ~ Unknown Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes ~ Unknown Sometimes being an adult is exactly what you imagined it would be when you were five: staying up late and eating Lucky Charms for dinner - Ryan Rollinson I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate - George Burns Prefer geniality to grammer ~ Henry Watson Fowler & Francis George Fowler You and I were long friends: you are not my enemy, and I am Yours, B. Franklin ~ Benjamin Franklin, letter to William Strahan One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs ~ Colette The more marble wastes, the more the statue grows ~ Michelangelo Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions - James Mackintosh The discovery of a new dish does more for the human happiness than the discovery of a star ~ Anthelme Brillat-Savarin We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to a liberty in a featherbed ~ Thomas Jefferson I'll not listen to reason … Reason always means what someone else has got to say ~ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort - Herm Albright And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved ~ Unknown We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines.  They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can.  All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, "You see the enemy over there?  They say you look fat in those uniforms." - Elayne Boosler When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself - Peter O`Toole The delights of self-discovery are always available - Gail Sheehy I am happy and content with what I have inside of me and what I am made of without someone else's love. I barely have enough love to love myself, why would I want to give what little I have to someone else? ~ Unknown The key is to trust people to be who they are. Instead we trust people to be who we want them to be, and when they aren't, we cry - David Duchovny Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce - Friedrich Nietzsche Forgive your enemies - if you can't get back at them any other way - Franklin P. Jones I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them - Ed Koch Remember that people come and go, and of all the people in your life, you are the one who is there to stay. You are the one who can choose to love yourself, choose to respect yourself, and promise with all your heart and soul that you will never leave you ~ Unknown The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for - Joseph Addison The starting point of all achievement is desire.  Keep this constantly in mind.  Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat - Napoleon Hill Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand - Aphra Behn One seldom hears the true story of what happened at the place where the world changed. How it began. What were the reasons? What were the costs? - John Parker Hammond When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things - Joe Namath Sometimes I wonder if women and men suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then - Katherine Hepburn Flirtation: Attention without intention - Max O'Reill You Say, "God" Only Exists Because We Believe In Him, But What If We Only Exist Because He Believes In Us? - Unknown Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us whether we find it or not ~ Emerson Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come - Chinese Proverb Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests - Sir Max Beerbohm Everyone complains about their memory, but no one complains about their judgements ~ Francois la Rochefoucauld So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past - F. Scott Fitzgerald The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man - José Ortega y Gasset Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every minute of it - Unknown There are some who speak one moment before they think ~ Jean de La Bruyère The harder you work, the luckier you get ~ Gary Player Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says: "I'll try again tomorrow." - Anne Hunninghake There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy of quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.  The world will not have it.  It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares to other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open - Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer. And always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said "A truck!" ~ Emo Phillips Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography ~ Paul Rodriguez I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific ~ Lily Tomlin A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.' - Jake Johansen I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her - Ellen DeGeneres The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you - Rita Mae Brown When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and one represents opportunity - John F. Kennedy They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud - Robert Burton I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing you do if you find yourself up there ~ Fred Allen You are a lost generation ~ Gertrude Stein Familiar acts are beautiful through love ~ Percy Bysshe Shelly The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age ~ Lewis Mumford Without hope we live in desire ~ Dante Alighieri Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation ~ Anwar Al-Sadat Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else ~ Will Rogers Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese ~ Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? ~ Betty Naomi Friedan Astrology is a disease, not a science ~ Maimonides Kissing your hand may make you feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever ~ Anita Loos Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion - Scott Adams With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere - Robert Peter Fleming In giving rights to others that belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and our country ~ John F. Kennedy The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes - Jonathan Swift The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation - John Fitzgerald Kennedy There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science - Louis Pasteur Love is like the stars ... it cannot breach a maddening storm but it will still be there after the clouds are gone ~ Unknown To err is human, not to, is animal ~ Robert Frost Too often, we lose sight of life's simple pleasures. Remember, when someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and smack them upside the head ~ Unknown When you come to the edge of all of the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen:  either there will be something solid for you to stand on, or, you will be taught how to fly ~ Unknown I quote others only in order to better express myself ~ Michel de Montaigne, Essays A budget is a method of worrying before you spend instead of afterwards ~ Unknown True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort - Walter Anderson A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds - Francis Bacon Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes - William Shakespeare Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly - Arnold Edinborough I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck ~ Annie Dillard Don't get mad, get even - Joseph Patrick Kennedy He can run, but he can't hide ~ Joe Louis We work in the dark ~ we do what we can ~ we give what we have … The rest is the madness of the art ~ Henry James I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance ~ Samuel Johnson You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner ~ Aristophanes No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck ~ Fredrick Douglass You shall have joy; or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson When you come to a fork in the road, take it ~ Yogi Berra Music creates order out of chaos; for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous - Sir Yehudi Menuhin Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all - Arthur Balfour People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates - Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that -Martin Luther King, Jr. Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder - Carl Sandburg People who need people are the luckiest people in the world - Bob Merrill ... anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison; there is no life in it, it cannot be true. Truth is strengthening. Truth is purity, truth is all knowledge. Truth must be strengthening, must be enlightening, must be invigorating - Swami Vivekananda This world is but a canvas to our imaginations - Henry David Thoreau Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can. All of them make me laugh - W.H. Auden Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things - Ben Jonson Variety is the soul of pleasure - Aphra Behn Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity - R.I. Fitzhenry Loving yourself unconditionally is a revolutionary act - Shari Hubert For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do; Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you - Madeline Bridges I don't exercise. If God wanted me to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor - Joan Rivers It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning - Albert Camus Sometimes life is so hard and then bingo, it's like happiness is pushing at your back, waiting to come out your front - Elizabeth Berg, Durable Goods Art is too much fun to be restricted to those who are good at it - Elaine Normandy All Nature wears one universal grin - Henry Fielding Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful ~ Emerson All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes - Henry David Thoreau Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All of life is an experiment - Ralph Waldo Emerson Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing - Helen Keller I like long walks especially when they are taken by people who annoy me - Fred Allen Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest ~ Wilson Mizner All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others ~ George Orwell Love means never having to say you're sorry ~ Erich Segal Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good ~ Sir Thomas Browne The man who dies rich dies disgraced ~ Andrew Carnegie Summer afternoon ~ summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language ~ Henry James People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook ~ Richard M. Nixon If this is dying, then I don't think much of it ~ Lytton Strachey, Last words When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary ~ Thomas Paine You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much ~ James Barnes I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words ~ Edward Roscoe Murrow, Broadcast report from London on Buchenwald concentration camp, April 15, 1945 There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them … - Casey Stengel The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants ~ Omar Bradley Nothing is worth more than this day ~ Goethe Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day - Benjamin Franklin There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place - Washington Irving Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill ~ Lao-Tzu Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt ~ Lao-Tzu Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench ~ Lao-Tzu Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner ~ Lao-Tzu As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again - John Keats The heart of the fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart ~ Benjamin Franklin Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt - Dorothy Parker Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth ~ Archimedes There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapped in perfect unconsciousness. At such times, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate - Charles Dickens Everyone needs recognition for his accomplishments, but few people make the need known quite as clearly as the little boy who said to his father: 'Let's play darts. I'll throw and you say 'Wonderful!' - The Best of Bits and Pieces Desperation is like stealing from the mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention - Doug Horton True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort - Walter Anderson Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anaïs Nin Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night - Irving Berlin I get by with a little help from my friends - John Lennon Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian ~ Herman Melville Property is theft! ~ Pierre Joseph Proudhoun Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's ~ O. Henry Oats ~ A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people ~ Samuel Johnson Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter ~ John Keats There's a sucker born every minute ~ Phileas Taylor Barnum I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals ... the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists - Roland Barthes Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George W. Ball If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow - William McFee The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear - Herbert Sebastian Agar The end must justify the means - Matthew Prior A liar should have a good memory ~ Quintilian Only those who risk going too far will ever know how far they can go ~ Unknown We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars ~ Unknown The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod ~ Unknown Deal with other's faults as gently as if they were your own ~ Unknown You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults ~ Unknown You are a child of the universe, No less than the trees and the stars; You have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, No doubt the universe is unfolding as it should - Max Ehrmann I am the most anti-social person I know. But of course, I don't know anyone because I'm so anti-social - Derek Neitzel A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic ~ Joseph Stalin There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail ~ Logan Perasall Smith Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ~ Robert Browning I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat ~ Sir Winston Spencer Churchill A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation ~ Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper ~ Thomas Sterns Eliot The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one great thing ~ Archilochus Love now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today ~ Pierre de Ronsard My dear, I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses ~ Mrs. Patrick Campbell Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die ~ Joe Hill Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate - John Fitzgerald Kennedy Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute - Flexible people don't get bent out of shape - My brain wishes my ego had call-waiting ~ Calvin Taste does not come by chance: It is a long and laborious task to acquire it - Sir Joshua Reynolds New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed - P. G. Wodehouse The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning ~ Unknown You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans - Ronald Reagan Whereof one cannot speak, thereon one must remain silent - Ludwig Wittgenstein That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great ~ Willa Sibert Cather The more things change, the more they remain the same ~ Alphonse Karr I am mighty, world-destroying Time ~ Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11, verse 32 No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad ~ Thomas Carlyle We don't know who we are until we see what we can do ~ Unknown It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women - Louisa May Alcott Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty - Ashleigh Brilliant All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy - Ashleigh Brilliant I can live for two months on one good compliment - Mark Twain The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression - Samuel Johnson What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? - Henry James My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate—that's my philosophy - Thornton Wilder Too many bricklayers make a lopsided house - Chinese Proverb I'm alive. Are you? Sixty days into my sentence, just a message to let you know that I still breathe, think, and have not lost the freedom to write. What can I say about jail? It is one of the travesties of mankind to lose ones freedom, to be locked and bound behind bars of steel, but if the wheels of a mans mind are free to turn and the wings of his spirit cannot be clipped, than is a man truly in chains? And is any man truly free? Are you free? Free to shop at the 7-11 I suppose, or free to fill your car with gasoline, ever a slave to the Oil Company's that dangle inflation and deflation in front of your nose like a carrot. What control do we really have? What choices can we truly make to shape our own destiny. Choices and decisions of the mind and spirit, I am coming to find is where my power lies. My power lies in having no power at all. A bewildering paradox but one I'm learning to be true. True passion. Do you live to breathe or breathe to live? Are you just a feather blowing on the wind? This is not a life sentence ~ Scott Weiland (of the music group The Stone Temple Pilots), message delivered from jail sixty days into his yearlong sentence for violating parole. This is the full statement with spelling and punctuation left in tact. In home-sickness you must keep moving—it is the only disease that does not require rest - Henry de Vere Stacpoole We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go! - Marlon Brando, The Wild One Friendship is like money, easier made than kept - Samuel Butler If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing - Margaret Thatcher It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded - Anne Morrow Lindbergh A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down ~ Unknown Study the past, if you would divine the future - Confucius A heart of stone is still a heart ~ Unknown Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane - Red, "Shawshank Redemption" If you have common sense, you have all the sense there is - Unknown What you pursue, you don't get. But what you allow to grow slowly in its own way, comes to you - Rabbi Pinhas I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it - Henry Emerson Fosdick Accomplishing the impossible only means that the boss will add it to your regular duties - Unknown Information is pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience - Unknown Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed ~ Unknown A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a person can be possessed of ~ Joseph Addison Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: For thereby some have entertained angels unawares - Bible, Hebrews 13:1-2 Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently ~ Rosa Luxemburg There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail ~ Eric Hoffer The universe ~ sheer beauty and elegance ~ Albert Einstein I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying - Charles C. Finn There are victories of the soul and spirit. Because of these, sometimes even when you lose, you win - Elie Wiesel Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent free in your head ~ Unknown There are two kinds of people in this world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world, and those who know better - Tom Robbins To be nobody but myself - in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make me somebody else - means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight, and never stop fighting - E.E. Cummings You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity - Unknown Gettin' married is like getting into a tub of hot water.  After you get used to it, it ain't so hot - Unknown Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do - Unknown The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women, and so little time ~ Unknown Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. Knowledge itself is power - Francis Bacon CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that - Samuel Beckett The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue ~ Unknown Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful, friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away - George Elliot Where there is reverence, there is also fear ~ Unknown The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense ~ Unknown It is respectable to have no illusions … and safe … and profitable … and dull - Joseph Conrad Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company ~ Dilbert The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings - Dave Weinbaum Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales ~ Unknown Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless ~ Unknown I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception ~ Groucho Marx If I am not for myself, who is for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? ~ Hillel When I make a mistake it's a beaut! ~ Fiorello Henry La Guardia, on an indefensible appointment Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead ~ Sinclair Lewis, on receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1930 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do ~ Burrhus Frederic Skinner There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it ~ Edith Wharton We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ~ Benito Mussolini Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad ~ William Claude Fields I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country ~ Nathan Hale, last words before being hanged by the British as a spy No spring; nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face ~ John Donne The happiest women, like the happiest nation, have no history ~ George Eliot I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall ~ Pierre Auguste Renoir Money and goods are certainly the best of references ~ Charles Dickens The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line ~ W.E.B. Du Bois Lawsuit, n. a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage ~ Ambrose Bierce I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too … - Elizabeth I The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes ~ Albert Einstein Corporations have no souls, but they can love each other ~ Henry Demarest Lloyd Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech - Bible, Genesis 11:1 I have never been brave enough to believe in nothing - Don Cervantes If we knew we were on the right road, having to leave it would mean endless despair. But we are on a road that only leads to a second one and then to a third one and so forth. And the real highway will not be sighted for a long, long time, perhaps never. So we drift in doubt. But also in an unbelievable beautiful diversity. Thus the accomplishment of hope remains an always unexpected miracle. But in the compensation, the miracle remains forever possible - Franz Kafka, Diaries The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant - Salvador Dali I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone - Tallulah Bankhead I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions ~ Lillian Hellman Kindness begets kindness ~ Unknown Sometimes the simpliest questions have the hardest answers ~ Unknown Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in - Leonardo Da Vinci I want to live - I get great happiness out of life. I enjoy the company of my friends. I enjoy seeing the faces of the ones I love. I enjoy art and music. I love Shakespeare and Burns; love to hear the music of Wagner; love to see a good play. I take pleasure in eating and sleeping. The fact is, I like to breathe. I want to get all the happiness out of life that I can. I want to suck the orange dry, so that when death comes, nothing but the peelings will be left - Robert Ingersoll Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured - Ambrose Bierce The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended ~ Aristotle The chief knowledge that man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading ~ Unknown If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end ~ Unknown Some people will never learn anything … because they understand everything too soon ~ Alexander Pope The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands ~ Unknown The law is fair to all. In its fairness for equality it forbids the rich as well as the poor to beg in the streets and to steal bread ~ Unknown Puritanism ~ The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy ~ Henry Louis Mencken Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen ~ Michel Eyquen de Montaigne It is impossible to please all the world and one's father ~ Jean de la Fontaine Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length ~ Robert Frost The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply ~ Charles Robert Darwin To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools ~ Jean de la Bruyere Power is the great aphrodisiac ~ Henry Kissinger Let is all be happy and leave within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with ~ Charles Farrar Browne A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities ~ Henry Melville A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company ~ Charles Evans Hughes As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss - Noam Chomsky Mistakes are their own teachers ~ Unknown Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them ~ Unknown The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands ~ Unknown Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out ~ Unknown Recall it as often as you wish, but a happy memory never wears out ~ Unknown All men are homeless, but some are home less than others - Unknown To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia ~ Unknown Love is said to be blind but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do ~ Unknown When we are in love, we often doubt that which we most believe ~ Unknown The most obvious and simple things are usually the hardest to prove ~ Unknown This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate ~ Simone de Beauvoire The Democratic party is like a mule ~ without pride of ancestry or hope of prosterity ~ Ignatius Donnelly Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger ~ Abbie Hoffman I have come too late into a world too old ~ Alfred de Musset The sole substitute for an experience which we have no ourselves lived through is art and literature ~ Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn I'll die young, but it's like kissing God ~ Lenny Bruce, on his drug addiction Politics is the art of the possible ~ Otto Van Bismarck A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world ~ John Locke Wit is the only wall between us and the dark ~ Mark Van Doren Nothing succeeds like success- Alexander Dumas the Elder A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Art upsets, science reassures ~ Georges Braque We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change ~ Unknown Subdue your passion or it will subdue you ~ Unknown One must judge persons not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them - Unknown The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells ~ Unknown The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible ~ Albert Einstein Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old ~ Robert Herrick Those not present are always wrong ~ Destouches All the news that's fit to print ~ Adolph Simon Ochs, Motto of The New York Times The engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit ~ John Maynard Keynes Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size ~ Virginia Wolfe Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it ~ Homer Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance ~ John Ruskin Can we ever have too much of a good thing? ~ Muguel de Cervantes This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel ~ Horace Walpole Uncommon valor was a common virtue ~ Chester William Nimitz War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future - John Paul II Always forgive your enemies ~ nothing annoys them so much ~ Oscar Wilde If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself ~ Eubie Blake I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone - Tallulah Bankhead I have never been brave enough to believe in nothing - Don Cervantes If we knew we were on the right road, having to leave it would mean endless despair. But we are on a road that only leads to a second one and then to a third one and so forth. And the real highway will not be sighted for a long, long time, perhaps never. So we drift in doubt. But also in an unbelievable beautiful diversity. Thus the accomplishment of hope remains an always unexpected miracle. But in the compensation, the miracle remains forever possible - Franz Kafka, Diaries All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about - Charles Kingsley The best way to know life is to love many things - Vincent Van Gogh Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible - Norman Vincent Peale If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand ~ Unknown Wisdom has its root in goodness, and not goodness its root in wisdom ~ Unknown Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational ~ Unknown Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh ~ Unknown It is easier to appear worthy of positions we have not got, than of those that we have ~ Unknown You can observe a lot by watching ~ Yogi Berra I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so ~ Rosa Parks I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory ~ Francis Ford Coppola He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire ~ Lao-Tzu I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me ~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset The chief business of the American people is business ~ Calvin Coolidge Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well ~ John Sheffield As if you could kill time without injury eternity ~ Henry Thoreau Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans … - John F. Kennedy Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others ~ Sir Winston Churchill Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne They are sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing ~ William Shakespeare The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool ~ George Santayana It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens ~ Woody Allen A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure ~ The Apocrypha: Ecclesiaticus 6:14 Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional ~ Unknown Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection ~ Unknown People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within - Elizabeth Kübler-Ross When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter - Albert Camus If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it ~ Andy Rooney I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day - Elwyn Brooks White Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment ~ Unknown It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself - Unknown Noble and common blood is of the same color ~ Unknown We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, rather than to love one another for points on which we agree ~ Unknown In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise learn to hear it ~ Unknown Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad - Norm Papernick We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance ~ Japanese proverb Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower - Hans Christian Anderson I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out - Elizabeth Barret Browning Friends ... people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely ... they're always worth being scared for and hoping for and living for … worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart - Stephen King A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas ~ G.H. Hardy Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen ~ Bible, Hebrews 11:1 If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you - Winnie the Pooh True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until t be lost - Charles Caleb Colton Strangers are just friends waiting to happen ~ Unknown Friendship is one mind in two bodies ~ Mencius Friends are God's way of taking care of us ~ Unknown If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend ~ Stone Temple Pilots I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay - Dave Matthews Band If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them ~ Unknown Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say ~ Unknown We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a title of each other everywhere - Tim McGraw A friend is a person on channel 4 Thursday night at 8 ~ Mishkin Don't find yourself looking for a friend when you need one, a friend will find you - Scott Yath When I was a little boy they called me a liar but now that I am a grown up they call me a writer - Isaac Bashevis Singer The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions ~ Adlai Stevenson Development requires democracy, the genuine empowerment of the people - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love, and to put its trust in life - Joseph Conrad The mind covers more ground than the heart but goes less far ~ Unknown Time may be a great healer, but it's also a lousy beautician ~ Unknown We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future - Unknown Sometimes the sun and the rain can be together ~ Unknown If you want to be happy, be ~ Leo Tolstoy Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening.  What you are thinking is your own business ~ Unknown Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday ~ Unknown Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood ~ Epictetus You can not teach an old dogma new tricks ~ Dorothy Parker Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him ~ Unknown One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk about other people - Unknown To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it - Unknown The older you get, the better you realize you were - Unknown I doubt, therefore I might be - Unknown Age is a very high price to pay for maturity - Unknown Women like silent men, they think they're listening - Unknown Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society ~ Unknown Don't fall before you're pushed ~ Unknown You are a part of all you have read ~ Unknown I do believe I know most of the best people in the world and you've all made my life livable - Jon P. Shanks Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote ~ George Jean Nathan Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week ~ William Dean Howells I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 6 against ~ Damon Runyon In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer ~ Albert Camus If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry ~ Emily Dickenson Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle ~ Thomas Hardy Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so ~ John Stuart Mill Age does not make us childish, as they say. It only finds us true children skills ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life ~ Walter Pater When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne There are people who have money and people who are rich ~ Coco Chanel Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it ~ David Herbert Lawrenece Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one ~ Abbot Joseph Liebling The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe ~ Alfonso X Christmas is over and Business is Business ~ Franklin Pierce Adams Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together ~ Petrarch Man proposes, but God disposes ~ Thomas A Kepmis It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end ~ Leonardo da Vinci Time has no divisions to mark its passage … Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols ~ Thomas Mann Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the new ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in mind ~ Marcel Proust An American, a Negro … two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder - W. E. B. Du Bois The old believe everything, the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything ~ Unknown It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions ~ Unknown The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away ~ Unknown When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction ~ Unknown Bad is never good until worse happens ~ Unknown The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment ~ Unknown What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone ~ Unknown Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison ~ Unknown Our memories are card-indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control ~ Unknown You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster ~ Unknown Make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes ~ Unknown If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles ~ Unknown A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror ~ Unknown If life is a great surprise, then why is not death an even greater one ~ Unknown All glory comes from daring to begin ~ Unknown Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed ~ Unknown A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you to wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error ~ Unknown Ability will never catch up for the demand for it ~ Unknown Madness is part of all of us, all the time, and it comes and goes, waxes and wanes ~ Unknown The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education ~ Unknown Usually, the hardest part in anything is the beginning ~ Unknown Nothing is harder to bear than a succession of fair days ~ Unknown Good is not good, when better is expected ~ Unknown Greatness is a zig-zag streak of lightning in the brain ~ Unknown From the discontent of man, the world's best progress springs ~ Unknown The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any ~ Unknown Every story is told at the expense of another ~ Unknown The final states does not mean the terminal state ~ Unknown Bluffing is the last desperate act of the weak ~ Unknown Success is a science. If you have the conditions, you get the results ~ Unknown If you can remain calm, you just don't have all the facts ~ Unknown Love just makes you so damn optimistic ~ Unknown Love and laughter is, I'm convinced, what we live for. To love. And a day without laughter is a tough day - Drew Barrymore You love me you just don't know it yet ~ Hemingway Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands. Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands ~ Unknown Wherever you are, be there. Whatever you're doing, do it. Your attention is valuable, and it is powerful. Don't miss out on the abundance of life that's right in front of your nose. Pay attention - Ralph Marston There's a satisfying fullness to the spoken word that the printed page just can't convey ~ Unknown Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others are ready to save us the trouble? ~ Unknown The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more ~ Woody Allen Your desires are not fulfilled by the things you desire, but rather by the person you become in the process of following those desires - Ralph Marston The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend." - Shusha Guppy The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment ~ Unknown Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness - happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love. - Adela Rogers St. Johns When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change - Thich Nhat Hahn Surely it's better to sleep late in the morning only when it's a rare privilege, not an everyday occurrence ~ Unknown The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one - Joan Baez My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me - Henry Ford Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it ~ Unknown Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other - Mary Ashton Livermore The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is ~ C.S. Lewis The ornament of a house is the friend who frequents it - Unknown Look for the bright spot and move yourself toward it. There always is a bright spot. Learn to see it. Learn to value it, and you will learn to succeed - Ralph Marston There are no rules. Just follow your heart ~ Robin Williams We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried to do his job - Unknown Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you - Herbert Gasser It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business - Mohandas Gandhi A long habit of not thinking a thing is wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right ~ Thomas Paine Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid - Lady Bird Johnson Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river - Unknown You are the child who danced in the sunshine, the young person who dreamed of changing the world, the admirer of all the beauty around you, a spirit who cannot be tied down - Ralph Marston The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't - know what to do - John Holt The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free - Leo Buscaglia If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down - Ray Bradbury Sometimes I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright, and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice, but still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone ... I guess I just miss my friend - Ellis Redding The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own - Alfred de Musset A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights ~ Napolean Bonaparte All fear is the fear of loss and only through that fear can we love ~ Xena, Warrior Princess Fail often, succeed sooner ~ David Kelly, IDEO Nobody has a better vision of who you are than yourself ~ Unknown Humility is a good quality, but it can be overdone ~ Unknown The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. - Richard M. Nixon Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day - Pooh's Little Instruction Book If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling No matter how disappointed you've been in the past, with yourself or with someone else, the way to start getting positive results is with positive expectations. Expect the best - Ralph Marston Fashion can be bought, style one must possess ~ Unknown Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves - Ralph Waldo Emerson Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever ~ Chinua Achebe One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria - Unknown Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear - Ambrose Redmoon The difference between being a neurotic and a no-limit person isn't whether someone has problems. Everyone has problems. It's attitude. Do you look for solutions or for more problems? - Dr. Wayne Dyer It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor - Unknown Develop an attitude that lets your setbacks move you forward, an attitude that turns your weaknesses into strengths and your mistakes into wisdom - Ralph Marston Friendship can take different forms. It can run like a river, quietly and sustainingly through life; it can be an intermittent sometime thing; or it can explode like a meteor, altering the atmosphere so that nothing ever feels or looks the same again - Molly Haskell Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you - Nicholai Velimirovic Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers - Unknown Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is out light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually who are you NOT to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others won't feel insecure around you. We are born to manifest the glory that is within us. It is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others - Marianna Williamson  "Return to Love" Failure is the opportunity to being again, more intelligently - Unknown When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight - Kahlil Gibran Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? ~ Jean Anouilh The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr ~ Muhammad Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal ~ Henry Ford Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true ~ Robert Brault Too many of us stay walled because we are afraid of being hurt. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Peace is made with yesterday's enemies. What is the alternative? ~ Shimon Peres It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? - Henry James Children have never been really good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them ~ James Baldwin The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires ~ William Authur Ward Keep violence in the mind where it belongs ~ Brian Aldiss Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something I don't want to imitate art. I want life to be art ~ Carrie Fisher There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science ~ Louis Pasteur Every soul is a mystery, faces change ~ what you knew grows strange; and we all have so many faces, the real one often erases ~ The Scarlet Pimpernel Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love - Mariah Burton Nelson There's a reason why you love the things you love. That passion can bring incredible power to your efforts. Use it - Ralph Marston The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change - Carl Rogers A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Nations touch at their summits ~ Walter Begehot The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives to keep on looking ~ Brooks Atkinson Every revolution needs a leader ~ Unknown Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All Nature wears one universal grin ~ Henry Fielding The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person ~ P.J. O' Rourke Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. - A.E. Hotchner The question is not who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me - Ayn Rand That you are able to recognize problems as such, means you have already in some ways transcended them. Take heart. You are better than anything which could bring you down - Ralph Marston Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it? - Robert D. Ballard Dreams are for you who can follow them. Success is for you who can achieve it. Desire is for you who can be moved by it. Life is for you who can live it - Ralph Marston Rock solid confidence and lasting self esteem cannot be handed to you, no matter how well intentioned your benefactor may be. The way to find confidence is to look for challenge - Ralph Marston Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release ~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance - Bruce Barton It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say 'How To Build A Boat.' - Steven Wright A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones! - Cher Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand ~ Chinese proverb If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore ~ Unknown If you don't risk anything, you risk even more ~ Unknown The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed ~ Unknown There's a big difference between good sound reasons, and reasons that sound good ~ Unknown A critic is a man that knows the way but can't drive the car ~ Unknown Happiness comes uninvited; at the moment that you are conscious you are happy, you are no longer happy ~ Unknown The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well Make fear's energy work for and not against you ~ Unknown Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all the good things are yours ~ Unknown This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of life ~ Tony Blair, British Prime Minister in response to the World Trade Center & Pentagon Attacks September 9, 2001. I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve ~ Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (after attack on Pearl Harbor) Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty - John F. Kennedy Improvisation is the touchstone of wit - MoliFre Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better ~ Tom Peters. Read in order to live ~ Gustave Flaubert The future, gentlemen, is the faith of our age: it is the torch of the past, the guiding star of the present ~ Jean-Jacques AmpFre Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having an opinion ~ George Christoph Lichtenberg Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure ~ Nelson Mandela Be the change you wish to see in this world ~ Ghandi The race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity ~ Carl Van Doren Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is master of simplicity ~ E.C. Zeeman Do you want to destroy the man for finding the truth or destroy the truth so there is nothing for the man to find? ~ The X-Files, final episode Conscience and self-love, if we understand our true happiness, always leads us the same way ~ Joseph Butler Nothing causes self-delusion quite so readily as power ~ Liu Binyan The most effective leader is the one who satisfies the psychological needs of his followers ~ David Ogilvy I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. 'Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance!' just doesn't cut it…. - R.A.W. DragonCon, 2000 You cannot be fuelled by bitterness. It can eat you up but it cannot drive you ~ Benazir Bhutto A common core of personal and social abilities has proven to be they key ingredient in people's success: emotional intelligence ~ Daniel Goleman Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends ~ Shirley MacLaine One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints ~ Italian Proverb Dimidium facti qui coepit habet ~ Horace I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds ~ Louis Nizer I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures - Earl Warren We see things not as they are but as we are - John Milton It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - Henry David Thoreau The United States does not go abroad to slay dragons. She may become the empress of the world but lose her own values - John Adams [DV1]This is the way to spelled "spoke" in the bible. Not an error. [DV2]This is spelled correctly. 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