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- Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemkers.
--- Mignon McLaughlin
- Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody’s listening.
--- Franklin P. Jones
- Good communications is as stiumulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
--- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
--- George Bernard Shaw
- One of my chief regrets during my years is that I couldn’t sit in the audience and watch me.
--- John barrymore
- The only thing neccessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
--- Edmund Burke
- Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
--- Simonides (already in Art)
- The computer is a moron.
--- Peter Drucker
- Lo! Men have become tools of their tools.
--- Henry David Thoreau
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
--- Saint Augustine
- Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin.
--- Pope Pius XI
- It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
--- Eric Hoffer
- Thse who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
--- Abraham Lincoln
- There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
--- Robert Half
- My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.
--- H. Fred Ale
- My greatest strenght as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questiongs.
--- Peter Drucker
- Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.
--- Aristippus
- Absence extinghishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in a fire.
---Duc De La Rochefoucauld
- Absence makes the heart grow founder.
--- Thomas Haynes Bayly
- O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel’s as others see us.
--- Robert Burns
- None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do toher things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you have lost your true self forever.
--- Eugene O’Neill
- I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
--- Michael De Montaigne
- At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction ... and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.
--- Henri Frederic Amiel
- And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope.
--- Robert Frost
- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!
Henry David Thoreau
- How many ink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
--- Joseph Joubert
- Only the shallow know themselves.
-- Oscar Wilde
- leadership is action, not position.
--- Donald H. McGannon
- Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
--- Henri Bergson
- The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
--- Thomas Henry Huxley
- to do nothing is in every man’s power.
--- Samuel Johnson
- The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.
--- Ring Lardner
- There were human beings aboard the Mayflower, not merely ancestors.
--- Stephen Vincent Benet
- If the modern civilized man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
--- Christian Morgenster
- I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is a solitary as a dervish in the desert.
--- Henry David Thoreau
- 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 vauge dream, of that Inow feel certain.
--- George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin)
- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
--- Confucius
- Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. Imay not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
--- Louisa May Alcott
- It is the enjoyment and not the mere possession that makes for happiness.
--- Michel De Montaigne
- Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everyting. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
--- William Cowper
--- Bertrand Russell
- Throw your heart out in front of you. And run ahead and catch it.
Arab Proverb
- If your nose is close to the grindstone
And you hold it there long enough
In time you’ll say there’s no such thing
As brooks that babble and birds that sing
These three will all your world compose
Just you, the stone and your poor old nose
On a two hundred-year-old stone in a country cemetery
- The sense of existence is the greatest happiness
--- Benjamin Disraeli
- And only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous; to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.
--- Dorothy Thompson
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Earth’s crammed with heaven.
--- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it...
--- Anne De Lenclos
- The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love’. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
--- Lydia Maria Child
- Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
--- Marion Howard
- Hidden talent counts for nothing.
--- Nero
- Language is a virus from outer-space.
--- William S. Burroughs
- Today is too find a day to do anything.
- Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!
--- Maltbie D. Babcock
- Anyone who thinks he know all the answers isn't up to date on the questions.
- Don't kiss behind the garden gate, 'cause love is blind but neighbor's ain't.
- The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
--- Martina Navratilan
- Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
- Adolescence is the age at which children stop asking questions because they know all the answers.
- He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
- People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
- Ideas are funny little things. They won’t work unless you do.
- The only ideas that will work for you are the ones you put to work.
- Overweight is often just desserts.
- Do you act or react?
- Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination
of nonessentials.
- Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
- The driver is safer when the roads are dry;
the roads are safer when the driver is dry.
- It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
- If you want to put the world right, start with yourself.
- Time cannot be expanded, accumulated, mortgaged, hastened, or retarded.
- Nothing gives a man more leisure time than being punctual.
- It makes a man sort of humble to have been a kid when everything was the kid’s fault and a parent at a time when everything is the parent’s fault.
- There is only one person with whom you can profitably compare yourself, and this person is your yesterday self:You.
- Discussion is an exchange of knowledge:
argument is an exchange of ignorance.
- Don’t drive as if you own the road; Drive as if you own the car.
- There is nothing permanent but change.
- The best way to succeed ion life is to act on the advice you give to others.
- It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles - the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the Light.
- He didn’t know it couldn’t be done
but went ahead and did it.
- We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
- A skeptic is one who won’t take know for an answer.
- If you blame others for your failures, do you credit others with your successes?
- There isn’t any map on the roadof success; you have to find your own way.
- Are you trying to make something for yourself or something of yourself?
- Ihave resolved never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
- What you are in the sight of God, that you truly are.
- Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
- Good depends not on things but on the use we make of things.
- The only way to settle a disagreement is on the basis of what’s right - not who’s right.
- No difficulties, no discovery,
No pains, no gains
- Just about the time you think you can make both ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- You’ve reached middle age when all you exercise is caution.
- The hardest thing of all in life -
The conquest not of time and space,
But of ourselves, of our stupidity and inertia,
of our greediness and touchiness,
Of our fear and intolerant dogmatism.
- If you never stick your neck out, you’ll never get your head above the crowd.
- It is not the ship in the water but the water in the ship that sinks is.
- If you have learned to walk
A little more sure-footedly than I,
Be patient with my stumbling then
And know that only as Ido my best and try
May Iattain the goal
For which we both are striving.
If through experience, your soul
Has gained heights which I
As yet in dim-lit vision see,
Hold out your hand and point the way,
Lest from its straightness Ishould stray,
And walk a mile with me.
- God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.
- There is no conflict between the old and the new; the conflict is between the falseand the true.
last updated: June 5
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