"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it." - Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
"Ninety percent of the game is half mental." - Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Famer
"Think much, speak little and write less." - Italian proverb
"If you're gonna be a rebel, go all the way." - Alice Speers
"What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion." - Lester Markel, American editor (1894-1977)
"People love to talk but hate to listen." - Alice Duer Miller, American author (1874-1942)
"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance." - Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974)
"Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them." - Alfred North Whitehead, English philosopher (1861-1947)
"Like other spurious things, fastidiousness is often inconsistent with itself, the coarsest things are done, and the cruelest things said by the most fastidious people." - Caroline Matilda Stansbury Kirkland, American author (1801-1864)
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, until it does that, it hardly is experience." - Elizabeth Bowen, author (1899-1973)
"It's easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor." - Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (1902-1983)
"Neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a servant." - Anonymous
"He who will not reason is a bigot, he who cannot is a fool, and he who dares not is a slave." - William Drummond, Scottish writer (1585-1649)
"The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all." - John Cage, American composer (1912-1992)
"One today is worth two tomorrows." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"To change and to change for the better are two different things." - German proverb
"Here I stand, I can do no other." - Martin Luther, 1521 speech
"When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools." - Shakespeare, King Lear
"Faith and doubt both are needed - working side by side - to take us around the unknown curve." - Lillian Smith, American author (1897-1966)
"Two dangers constantly threaten the world - order and disorder." - Paul Valery, French poet (1871-1945)
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." - Bertrand Russell, English philosopher (1872-1970)
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told." - Victor Hugo, French writer (1802-1885)
"History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past." - Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author (1879-1958)
"Be the inferior of no man, nor of any be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart." - William Saroyan, American playwright (1908-1981)
"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning." - George Eliot, English novelist (1819-1880)
"Some seek bread, some seek wealth and ease, and some seek fame. But all are seeking rest." - Frederick Langbridge, author (1849-1922)
"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions." - Carolyn Heilbrun, American educator and writer
"There are two statements about human beings that are true: That all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded." - Mark Van Doren, American poet (1894-1972)
"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike." - Thomas Browne, Religio Medict
"Life is never so bad at its worst that it's impossible to live. It's never so good at its best that it's easy to live." - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (1890-1972)
"Freedom is the right to do what you ought to do." - Bishop Fulton Sheen, American religious leader (1895-1979)
"When you shut one eye, you don't hear everything." - proverb
"What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others." - Anonymous
"The family you come from isn't as important as the one you're going to have." - Ring Lardner, humorist (1885-1933)
"Life is a joke that has only just begun." - W.S. Gilbert, English librettist (1836-1911)
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors." - William Ralph Inge, author (1860-1954)
"Love is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much." - Zora Neale Hurston, anthropologist (1903-1960)
"It seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor." - Margaret Fuller, Summer on the Lakes
"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." - Sir James Barrie, dramatist (1860-1937)
"Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want." - Irving Kristol, American editor
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard.
some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!" - Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
"Every man loves what he is good at" - Thomas Shadwell, A True Widow
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." - Nelson Algren, in Newsweek
"Advice is something we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't" - Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life
"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors." - Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
"Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech is cantankerous." - Chuang-Tzu, Chinese essayist (369-286 B.C.)
"Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth....But we seem to have no other." - Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant
"Architecture is the art of how to waste space." - Philip Johnson, in New York Times
"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat." - James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." - Confucius
"Genius is eternal patience." - Michelangelo, artist (1475-1564)
"The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested." - William Dean Howells, American author (1837-1920)
"Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent." - B.C. Forbes, Scottish journalist (1880-1954)
"It's not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence." - Agnes Repplier, American writer and social critic (1858-1950)
"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft." - James Russell Lowell, American essayist (1819-1891)
"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past." - George Orwell
"There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up." - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
"The soul has more diseases than the body." - Henry Wheeler Shaw, American author (1818-1885)
"No man is happy without delusion. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." - Christian Nestell Bovee, American author (1820-1904)
"There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth: Those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it." - Germaine de Stael, French author (1766-1817)
"There are two kinds of people in one's life: People whom one keeps waiting, and the people for whom one waits." - S.N. Behrman, American author and dramatist (1893-1973)
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible." - Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (1813-1855)
"A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose." - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
"Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we've read, but what we've done." - Thomas Kempis, theologian (1380-1471)
"Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are." - Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian
"History, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." - From The Cynic's Word Book
"I think, therefore I am" - Rene Descarte
"When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going. When he got there he didn't know where he was and when he got back he didn't know where he had been." - Anonymous
"We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out." - Henry Watson Fowler, author (1858-1933)
"The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line." - O.A. Battista, Canadian-born author-scientist
"There is more room in your head for thoughts than thoughts in your head for room." - Anonymous
"Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine." - Sticker
"Regrets are as personal as fingerprints." - Margaret Culkin Banning, writer (1891-1982)
"If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up." - Anonymous
"Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us." - Van Wyck Brooks, author (1886-1963)
"You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations." - Baltasar Gracian, philosopher (1601-1658)
"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it." - Elizabeth Bowen, author (1899-1973)
"The final lesson of history: Let's never go back there again!" - Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
"With history being made all the time, each day seems to be the first anniversary of something awful." - Anonymous
"Laziness is often mistaken for patience." - French proverb
"An educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done...You can be sincere and still be stupid." - Charles Kettering, inventor (1876-1958)
"Integrity needs no rules." - Albert Camus, author (1913-1960)
"We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing." - Honore de Balzac, French dramatist (1799-1850)
"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road." - Isak Dinesen (1885-1962)
"There are no shortcuts to any place that is worth going." - Anonymous
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses." - George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher (1863-1952)
"Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as occasionally receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful - just as one is more angry for being told one is angry." - Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879-1944)
"Don't drink fruit juice while riding a roller coaster." - Coach Funk
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell, author (1903-1950)
"He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid, ungenerous spirit." - Demosthenes, Greek statesman (384 BC-322 BC)
"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up." - Rex Stout, writer (1886-1975)
"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real." - Jules Verne, French author (1828-1905)
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it's what the man or woman is able to do." - Booker T. Washington, author (1856-1915)
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." - Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." - James Michener, novelist (1907-1997)
"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity." - Vera Brittain, author (1893-1970)
"All men are created equal, but some men are more equal than others." - Anonymous
"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost." - Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
"To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people." - Elizabeth Bowen, author (1899-1973)
"The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where." - Dorothy Thompson, journalist (1894-1961)
"Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in awhile you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude." - Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman (1813-1887)
"Happiness is not a horse; you cannot harness it." - Russian proverb
"It's an undoubted truth that the less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in." - Lord Chesterfield, English author and statesman (1694-1773)
"Each child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged with man." - Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize-winning poet (1861-1941)
"I'm an idealist...I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way." - Carl Sandburg, poet and author (1878-1967)
"Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable." - Kathleen Norris, author (1880-1960)
"Deer hunting is hours and hours of sweet anticipation graced with moments of incredible excitement." - Steve Chapman, A Look at Life From a Deer Stand
"You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough, to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are." - Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner, author and educator (1908-1984)
"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." - Anonymous
"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life." - Boris Pasternak, author (1890-1960)
"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?" - Fanny Brice, actress and singer (1891-1951)
"The facts are always less than what really happened." - Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-winning author
"A concept is stronger than a fact." - Charlotte Gilman, lecturer and author (1860-1935)
"Time is the fire in which we burn." "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991)
"Our life is frittered away by detail...simplify, simplify." - Henry David Thoreau, author (1817-1862)
"My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it." - Charles Lamb, essayist (1775-1834)
"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories." - Stanislaw Lec, author (1909-1966)
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." - Anonymous
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
"When you are right, no one remembers; when you are wrong, no one forgets." - Irish proverb
: "The past at least is secure." - Daniel Webster, American statesman (1782-1862)
"Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it." - Anonymous
"Our civilization is still in a middle stage, no longer wholly guided by instinct, not yet wholly guided by reason." - Theodore Dreiser, author (1871-1945)
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide." - Charles Horton Cooley, author (1864-1929)
"Those who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing." - Hindu proverb
"In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." - Ecclesiastes 1:18
"I am a believer in punctuality, though it makes me very lonely." - E.V. Lucas, writer and publisher (1868-1938)
"There's only one success - to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley, jounalist (1890-1957)
"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair." - George Burns, comedian (1896-1996)
"Few, save the poor, feel for the poor." - Letitia Landon, poet (1802-1838)
"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor." - Clare Boothe Luce, author, politician and diplomat (1903-1987)
"There's no fun in medicine, but there's a lot of medicine in fun." - Anonymous
"Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man." - Richard Whately (1787-1863)
"What we really are matters more than what other's think of us." - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman (1889-1964)
"Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted." - Hesketh Pearson, biographer (1887-1964)
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18." - Albert Einstein, physicist (1879-1955)
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is more people worry than work." - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." - From "Poor Richard's Almanack," by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time." - Charlie Brown
"True friends stab you in the front." - Oscar Wilde, poet (1854-1900)
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Helen Keller, author and educator (1880-1968)
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat, humanitarian and American first lady (1884-1962)
"A shephard must tend his flock, and at times...fight off the wolves" - the Reverend in The Patriot
"The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline." - Bum Phillips, football coach
"If we knew where opinion ended and fact began, we have discovered the absolute." - Alec Waugh, author (1898-1981)
"We better live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived." - Paul Bourget, author (1852-1935)
"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason." - C.S. Lewis, author (1898-1963)
"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth." - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher (1905-1980)
"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information." - John Erskine, author and educator (1879-1951)
"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have." - Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist
"Nothing is more difficult for Americans to understand than the possibility of tragedy." - Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." - Voltaire, French author-philosopher (1694-1778)
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures." - Oscar Wilde, poet and playwright (1854-1900)
"The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences." - D.H. Lawrence, author (1885-1930)
"If you don't have enemies, you don't have character." - Paul Newman, actor
"Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare, playwright (1564-1616)
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." - Elbert Hubbard, author (1856-1915)
"Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone." - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, dramatist and poet (1547-1616)
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertholt Brecht, poet (1898-1956)
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." - Buddha
"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up." - Anonymous
"Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do." - Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player
"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
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." - G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"Sing as though no one can hear you. Dance as if no one were watching. Love as if you've never been hurt. Live as though heaven is on earth." - Anonymous
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." - Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
"I still find each day too short for all of the thoughts I want to think, all of the walks I want to take, all of the books I want to read, and all of the friends I want to see." - John Burroughs (1837-1921)
"Nothing happens by itself...it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions." - Ben Stein, entertainment personality
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." - Anonymous
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua Marine
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." - Colin Wilson
"I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do." - Helen Keller (1880-1968)
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs; not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." - William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)
"Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes." - Victor Hugo, novelist (1802-1885)
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world; someone to love, something to do and something to hope for." - Tom Bodett, author
"I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done." - Mike Ditka, former football coach
"It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are." - James Mackintosh, writer (1765-1832)
"Do not be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James, author (1842-1910)
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it." - Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
"I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came." - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter - to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." - Leo Rosten, author (1908-1997)
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales." - Leo Rosten, author (1908-1997)
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The only person who never makes a mistake is the person who never does anything." - Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948)
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington, activist (1856-1915)
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." - Henry David Thoreau, author (1817-1862)
"A man travels the world in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it." - George Moore, author (1852-1933)
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else." - Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman (1813-1887)
"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind." - Robert Louis Stevenson, author (1850-1894)
"Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." - Theodore N. Vail, businessman (1845-1920)
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." - Helen Keller (1880-1968)
"Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength." - Anonymous
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, author (1803-1882)
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." - Eleanor Roosevelt, (1884-1962)
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination." - Roy M. Goodman, U.S senator
"Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours." - Swedish proverb
"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." - Rene Descartes, mathematician (1596-1650)
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them." - Socrates, philosopher (469 B.C.-399 B.C.)
"It is not every question that deserves an answer." - Publilius Syrus, philosopher (~100 B.C.)
"There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others." - Jean de LaBruyere, philosopher (1645-1696)
"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all." - Arthur Balfour, British prime minister (1848-1930)
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." - Geoffrey Chaucer, author (1854-1900)
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be." - Socrates, philosopher (470-399 B.C.)
"Between yesterday's regrets and tomorrow's dreams is today's opportunity." - Anonymous
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford, inventor (1863-1947)
"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." - Joseph Joubert, author (1754-1824)
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."- Harvey Fierstein
"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams." -E. V. Lucas
"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn." -David Russell
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." -Johann von Goethe
"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research." -Annon
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." -Henry Van Dyke
"Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers." -Leonard Brandwein
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." -Robert Anthony
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven." -John Milton
"The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick." -Madame Swetchine
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish." -Anne Bradstreet, poet
"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
"Silence is the true friend that never betrays." -Confucius (c. 551-479? BC)
"I fear that all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant, and filled it with a desire for vengeance." -Adm. Yamamoto, after the attack on Pearl Harbor
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." -Marcus Aurelius
"All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day." -Franklin P. Jones
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." -Buddha
"Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes... they're just friends waiting to be made." -Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein
"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." -Michael Levine
"The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave." -James A. LaFond-Lewis
"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults." -Peter De Vries
"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose." -Darrin Weinberg
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box."-Italian Proverb
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."-Mark Twain
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."-Sir Winston Churchill
"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn."-David Russell
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."-Vince Lombardi
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." -George Washington
"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."-Stephen R. Covey
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."-Benjamin Franklin
"Never interrupt an enemy when he is making a mistake."-Napoleon
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."-Oscar Wilde
"The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says, 'Let's go!'"-E. M. Kelly
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."-Naguib, Mahfouz
"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."-Margaret Mead, American anthropologist
"The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me."-Sloan Wilson
"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?''-Gilbert Highet
"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."-Michael Konda
"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.''-Lillian Smith, American writer
"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."-Fats Domino
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."-Elbert Hubbard
"The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it."-Anon
"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."-Josh Billings, His Works Complete
"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."-Anon
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."-Douglas Adams
"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished."-Og Mandino
"Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."-Feodor Dostoyevsky
"Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar."-Ellen Glasgow
"Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier."-Albert Schweitzer
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."-Gertrude Stein
"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."-Ursula K. Le Guin
"We are always getting ready to live but never living."-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."-Jean Paul
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."-Henry David Thoreau
"Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but wants only to be provoked."-Katherine Anne Porter
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."-Josh Billings
"There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit."-Emerson
"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
"On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars."-Jeff Green
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."-Henry Ford
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."-Sigmund Freud
"There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."-Archibald McLeish
"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."-Dale Carnegie
"I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it."-Laurence Olivier
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."-Will Rogers
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."-Andre Gide
"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."-Mark Twain
"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."-Melia Edith Barr
"We are all designed for a specific purpose; we all have something for which each of us, and each of us alone, is responsible."-Naomi Stephan
"Just because your voice reaches halfway aroung the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."-Edward R. Murrow
"The only thing I regret about my past life is the length of it. If I had my past life over again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner."-Tallulah Bankhead
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true"-James Branch Cabell
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." -Norman Vincent Peale
"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
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."-Dennis Wholey
"No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility."-Gerald W. Johnson
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away."-Sir Arthur Helps
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."-H. L. Mencken
"You cannot procrastinate - in two days, tomorrow will be yesterday."-Kemmons Wilson
"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."-Napoleon Hill
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."-Henry David Thoreau
"When an old man dies, a library burns down."-African proverb
"It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything."-Rene Coty
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."-Danny Kaye
"Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost."-M. Scott Peck
"No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy."-George Orwell
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."-Earl Wilson
"A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one at all would find fault with what he has done."-Cardinal Newman
"Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it, until it has passed over us and taken with it a part of ourselves."-John Burroughs
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."-Walter Kerr
"A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."-Kenneth A. Wells
"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark."-Ancient Zen saying
"Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are."-Kurt Cobain
"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people."-David Sarnoff
"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion." -Carrie Chapman Catt
"Charity looks at the need and not at the cause." -German proverb
"Bigotry has no head, and cannot think; no heart, and cannot feel."-Daniel O'Connell
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."-Immanuel Kant
"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man."-Leon Trotsky
"Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible."-Author Unknown
"I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go."-Frank Bettger
"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."-Cornelia Otis Skinner
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact."-George Eliot
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."-Winston Churchill
"It is easier to admire hard work if you don't do it."-Anonymous
"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."-Thornton Wilder
"Two weeks before Christmas, I always think of a good present for someone but it has to be ordered three weeks in advance."-Andy Rooney
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."-Mencius
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."-Robert Frost
"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."-Paul Valery
"When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere."-Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
"Why do bills travel through the mail at two-and-a-half times the speed of checks?"-Author Unknown
"Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence."-Kathleen Norris
"The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small."-Mary Webb
"The people who think they are happy should rummage through their dreams."-Edward Dahlberg
