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quotes (25973) My centre is giving way my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. Marechal Ferdinand Foch Category: Unsorted All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers. Francois Fenelon Category: War What a waste it is to lose ones mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is. Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while speaking to the United Negro College Fund 5/9/89 This gem has been added toBartletts Familiar Quotations. Dan Quayle Category: President All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck Category: Death I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. Dame Edith Sitwell Category: Bore Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth honesty and generosity. Chief Luther Standing Bear Category: Civilization I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be sure he is not a knave. William Hazlitt Category: Fool The power of mans virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doings. Blaise Pascal Category: Virtue When God is no longer cruel many questions will be answered. Patrick Victor Martindale White Category: Unsorted All sins tend to be addictive and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. Wystan Hugh Auden Category: Sin In Aristotelian terms the good leader must have ethos pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action to move people intellectually. Mortimer Jerome Adler Category: Leadership I have lived to see it as almost impossible to believe people worse than they are; and so will you. Sir Peter Osborne Category: Unsorted The future will be better tomorrow. Dan Quayle Category: Tomorrow REACH n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Hand The world is a spiritual kindergarten where thousands of bewildered infants are trying to spell GOD with the wrong blocks. Edward Arlington Robinson Category: Unsorted Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them. Jawaharlal Nehru Category: Logic If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. General George Catlett Marshall Category: Unsorted The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel At the creation of light and of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Creation Every good act is charity. A mans true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. Mohammed Category: Charity A garden without cats it will be generally agreed can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all. Beverly Nichols Category: Garden The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing. Daniel Webster Category: Debt Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible and now I must hold out for what I thought we had. I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. That or nothing. I realized that what Im looking for is not what youre looking for. You don't want what I want. What do you think I want? I asked. Exactly what you have. Many women you know a little and don't care very much about. Superficial flirtations mutual use no chance of love. Thats my idea of hell. Hell is a place a time a consciousness Richard in which there is no love. Horrible! Leave me out of it. Richard David Bach Category: Endure If you love the law and you love good sausage don't watch either of them being made. Betty Talmadge Category: Unsorted If I had no sense of humor I would long ago have committed suicide. Mahatma Gandhi Category: Humor Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. Edgar A. Suter MD Category: Unsorted In judging of others a man laboreth in vain often erreth And easily sinneth; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth fruitfully. Thomas à Kempis Category: Judge The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. Category: Love One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by visiting other peoples gardens. We all have a lot to learn and in every new garden there is a chance of finding inspiration - new flowers different arrangement or fresh treatment for old subjects. Even if it is a garden you know by heart there are twelve months in the year and every month means a different garden and the discovery of things unexpected all the rest of the year. Margery Fish Category: Garden The best of us being unfit to die what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. Nathaniel Hawthorne Category: Punish He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin Category: Hope The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying. Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Saint The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. Samuel Johnson Category: Memory The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me and my life is done. William Shakespeare Category: Reputation I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. John Davison Rockefeller Category: Pleasure Retreat Hell! We're just advancing in another direction. General O.P. Smith Category: Unsorted We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen. Christopher Pearse Cranch Category: Spirit NOISE n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Authentic People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln Category: Mind Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. Margot Fonteyn Category: Art A good heart will help you to a bonny face my lad... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. Emily Brontë Category: Unsorted Patience and time do more than strength or passion. Jean de La Fontaine Category: Patience Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment. Sir Robert Falconer Category: Unsorted But we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord. The Bible Category: Mirror Most of the natives i.e. native born Australian whites have a sort of slow sleepy way of talking. Rolf Boldrewood Category: Unsorted Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense Lucille Clifton Category: Unsorted When men yield up the privilege of thinking the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. Thomas Paine Category: Shadow Crikey means gee whiz wow! Steve Irwin Category: Word You cant hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life. Leaf falling on leaf on mounds of leaves rain splashing in pools of rain.... Gyodai Category: Unsorted How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Secret What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case I definitely overpaid for my carpet. Woody Allen Category: Illusions Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. Category: Reactionaries The measure of a man is not the number of his servants but in the number of people whom he serves. Dr. Paul D. Moody Category: Unsorted Time is given us to use in view of eternity. Henry (Harry) Allan Ironside Category: Unsorted We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. Groucho Marx Category: Movies You sons of bitches. Give my love to Mother. [Executed in electric chair.] Francis Two Gun Crowley Category: Last The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of bad men. Plato Category: Government A man on a date wonders if hell get lucky. The woman already knows. Monica Piper Category: Man Love of country is like love of woman he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. Felix Adler Category: Patriotism Isnt it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? Kelvin Throop III Category: Unsorted Mondays are the potholes in the road of life. Tom Wilson Category: Unsorted Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. Nathaniel Hawthorne Category: Importance People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of whats bitter and move on. William Henry Bill Cosby Jr. Ed.D. Category: Yourself It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. Daniel DeFoe Category: Army A rising tide lifts all boats. Proverb Category: Progress If there were no tribulation there would be no rest; if there were no winter there would be no summer. Saint John Chrysostom Category: False Going to church doesnt make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car. Dr. Laurence J. Peter Category: Church There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Category: Agreement There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach that it is often a comfort to shift ones position and be bruised in a new place. Washington Irving Category: Change Data on [assault weapon] risks are not needed because they have no redeeming social value. Jerome Kassirer M.D. Category: Unsorted Brevity is the best recommendation of speech whether in a senator or an orator. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Breeding It is man who has fallen not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them. Roy Broadbent Fuller Category: Unsorted Oh I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library. Louis Nizer Category: Unsorted A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. James Feibleman Category: Myth They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers ... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Government Theres the Kings Messenger. Hes in prison now being punished: and the trial doesnt begin until next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all. Suppose he never commits the crime? said Alice. That would be all the better wouldnt it? the Queen said. Lewis Carroll Category: Justice When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us we often find that it is those who instead of giving advice solutions or cures have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement who can tolerate now knowing not curing not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen Category: Friendship Take from all things their number and all shall perish. Isidore of Seville Category: Vigilant Live fast die young make a pretty corpse. Richard Wright Category: Unsorted We cannot advance without new experiments in living but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. James Truslow Adams Category: Unsorted Obedience ... allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life using our agency to do the will of the Lord. Athos M. Amorim Category: Unsorted All the world over I will back the masses against the classes. William Ewart Gladstone Category: Classes Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert Category: Deserve Stolen kisses are always sweetest. James Henry Leigh Hunt Category: Kissing Come to the edge he said. They said we are afraid. Come to the edge he said. They came he pushed them and they flew. Guillaume Apollinaire Category: Risk Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Dictionary The man is indecisively unable to deal with adversity and is oppressed by something which should not oppress him. He leans on things like thorns and thistles which are hazardous yet cannot support him. I Ching Category: Adversity To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. e.e. cummings Category: Fight You are not wood you are not stones but men. William Shakespeare Category: Out Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. Sir Thomas Browne Category: Charity Liberty is always dangerous but it is the safest thing we have. Harry Emerson Fosdick Category: Danger I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. Wilson Mizner Category: Laugh This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Elmer Holmes Davis Category: Brave The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual when it begins to ignore the passions the motions it becomes sterile silly and actually without substance. Isaac Bashevis Singer Category: Literature All things bright and beautiful All creatures great and small All things wise and wonderful The Lord God made them all. Cecil Frances Alexander Category: Creation If life were measured by accomplishments most of us would die in infancy. A. P. Gouthey Category: Accomplishment Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard. Aristotle Category: Praise White teeth white hands and neck as ivory white Black eyes black brows black hairs that hide delight: Red lips red cheeks and tops of nipples red Long legs long fingers long locks of her head Short feet short ears and teeth in measure short Broad front broad breast broad hips in seemly sort Straight legs straight nose and straight her pleasures place Full thighs full buttocks full her bellys space Thin lips thin eyelids and hair thin and fine Small mouth small waist small pupils of her eyes. John Florio Category: Unsorted Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. Foster C. McClellan Category: Self I hear a voice you cannot hear Which says I must not stay; I see a hand you cannot see Which beckons me away. Thomas Tickell Category: Ghost Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil. Sydney J. Harris Category: Conscience To spell out the obvious is often to call it into question. Eric Hoffer Category: Obvious By whatever basis human desires are classified the promise of an abundant life covers virtually all. To the spiritual it suggests escape from futility; to the sensuous it calls up visions of luxury; to the defeated it is a dream of success. To the idle it pledges ease; to the weary rest; to the frightened it means safety; to the anxious security; and to the improvident it conjures inexhaustible resources. Persuade a man that you can give him the thing he most desires and you will be his hero; offer him justification for his failures and he will be your disciple; assure him a boundless supply of loaves and fishes and he will seek to make you king. Samuel Parkes Cadman Category: Unsorted When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one. Helen Rowland Category: Girl A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. James Reston Category: Government I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. Saint Teresa of Avila Category: Devil Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis Category: Procrastination Adam was but human this explains it all. He did not want the apples for the apple's sake he wanted it only because it was forbidden. Mark Twain Category: Adam Why be a man when you can be a success? Bertolt Brecht Category: Success A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards Category: Danger He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. Benjamin Franklin Category: Rest Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph. Haile Selassie Category: History No one on earth can hurt you unless you accept the hurt in your own mind.... The problem is not other people; it is your reaction. Vernon Howard Category: Hurt Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother. Anne Taylor Category: Kissing In matters of style swim with the current; In matters of principle stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson. Category: Principle My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure. Abraham Lincoln Category: Content So little done so much to do. Cecil Rhodes Category: Do The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye: The more light you pour upon it the more it will contract. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Prejudice He serves his party best who serves the country best. Rutherford B. Hayes Category: Politeness There cherries grow that none can buy till cherry-ripe themselves do cry. Richard Alison Category: Unsorted We are as much informed of a writers genius by what he selects as by what he originates. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Quotations The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen. Roy E. Moody Category: Motivation The universe is a big place perhaps the biggest. Kilgore Trout Category: Universe If you tell the truth you have infinite power supporting you; but if not you have infinite power against you. Charles Gordon Category: Power Beauty is excrescence superabundance random ebullience and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right. Donald Culross Peattie Category: Beauty Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. Wilma Rudolph Category: Unsorted REAR n. In American military matters that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Army Neither fear your death's day nor long for it. Marcus Valerius Martialis Category: Unsorted Yield not to temptation for yielding is sin: Each victory will help you some other to win. H. R. Palmer Category: Unsorted Sleep to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend. Ebenezer Elliott Category: Sleep First and foremost be faithful to your superiors keep all promises refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways. Kung Fu-tzu Confucius Category: First He that gives all though but little gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift but to the quality of the givers. Francis Quarles Category: Unsorted In loving memory from the Family Benjamin Bugsy Siegel Category: Unsorted TELESCOPE n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Telephone I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense once hate is gone they will be forced to deal with pain. James Baldwin Category: Hate No one is so rich that he can do without a neighbor. Proverb Category: Neighbor We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers as sympathetic threads our actions run as causes and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville Category: Cause After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley Category: Music When two people are under the influence of the most violent most insane most delusive and most transient of passions they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. George Bernard Shaw Category: Influence Whatever it is I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts. Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil Category: Places Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. George Ade Category: Win All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams Category: Housework The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does no remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. Edmund Burke Category: Vigilant If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small. The Bible Category: Happiness You may be sorry that you spoke sorry you stayed or went sorry you won or lost sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life you'll find you're never sorry you were kind. Herbert V. Prochnow Category: Unsorted Miss Hepburns voice was lilting along as before: She is oblivious of her impact. Or inured to it. Or stuck with it. Cecelia Ager Category: Voice God gave us a world unfinished so that we might share in the joys and satisfaction of creation. Allen stockdale Category: God I intend to die in a tavern; let the wine be placed near my dying mouth so that when the choirs of angels come they may say God be merciful to this drinker! Walter Map or Mapes Category: Unsorted Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women. Phyllis Schlafly Category: Sex A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob filling the kitchen with soft aromas ... and filling your heart and later your tummy with joy. Keith Floyd Category: Unsorted The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him. Rachel Louise Carson Category: Discipline Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love. John Milton Category: Government The last straw. Proverb Category: Last The discontented man finds no easy chair. Benjamin Franklin Category: Discontent The piece of equipment Im most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon. Arthur C. Clarke Category: Unsorted The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Category: Attitude I always turn to the sports pages first which record peoples accomplishments. The front page has nothing but mans failures. Earl Warren Category: Accomplishment Without the body the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known. John Conger Category: Unsorted Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacities. Walter Dill Scott Category: Business When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counterthinks I that man has an axe to grind. Charles Miner Category: Unsorted The young man who has not wept is a savage and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana Category: Age I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is in my opinion a form of optimism. Roberto Rossellini Category: Unsorted Whatever the struggle continue the climb. It may be only one step to the summit. Diane Westlake Category: Unsorted You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. Scott Raymond Adams Category: Stupidity The past is a guidepost not a hitching post. Thomas Holcroft Category: Experience Be patient with everyone but above all with yourself. St. François de Sales Category: Unsorted The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. Scott Raymond Adams Category: Universe He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. Thomas Fuller Category: Danger The only medicine for suffering crime and all the other woes of mankind is wisdom. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Wisdom Money will not make you happy and happy will not make you money. Groucho Marx Category: Reason Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. William Hazlitt Category: Promise Poetry can communicate before it is understood. Thomas Stearns Eliot Category: Poetry About 95% of whats told you in confidence you couldnt get anybody to listen to anyway. Mack McGinnis Category: Unsorted Government of man by man in every form is oppression. Pierre Joseph Category: Government Mystery and innocence are not akin. Hosea Ballou Category: Mystery A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. Earl Nightingale Category: Attitude Even God cannot change the past. Agathon Category: Cannot The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. Emile Zola Category: Nothing Good people are good because theyve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success you know.... One who doesnt try cannot fail and become wise. William Saroyan Category: Factory All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. Albert Einstein Category: Influence He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea that is of one great overmastering purpose overshadowing all his aims and guiding and controlling his entire life. Herbert Ernest Bates Category: Unsorted Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. General George Smith Patton Jr. Category: Unsorted Growing olds like being increasingly penalized for a crime you havent committed. Anthony Dymoke Powell Category: Age Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad. P. D. East Category: Endure Hell is oneself; Hell is alone the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. George Eliot Category: Hell What experience and history teach is thisthat people and governments never have learnt anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it. George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Category: Unsorted Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Category: Pain Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy. Felicia Hemans Category: Diet The sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one. Rudyard Kipling Category: Sin We dance round in a ring and suppose But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. Robert Frost Category: Cynic In everything the middle course is best: All things in excess bring trouble to men. Titus Maccius Plautus Category: Extravagance But the sunshine aye shall light the sky As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost And justice shall be done. Charles Mackay Category: Unsorted Suicide note. I must end it. Theres no hope left. Ill be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally. Freddie Prinze Category: Unsorted Rotten wood cannot be carved. Proverb Category: Bad Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other. Edgar Watson Ed Howe Category: Family Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. Pietro Metastasio Category: Risk I don't read books I write them. Henry Kissinger Category: Unsorted Truth is the cry of all but the game of the few. Bishop George Berkeley Category: Truth Among the many things he has requested of me to-night this is the principalthat on his gravestone shall be this inscription. Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) Category: Epitaphs You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks the rocks and the reefs He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel and you will be safe. Peter Marshall Category: Unsorted I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Category: Quotations Love is an egotism of two. Henri La Salle Category: Unsorted We do not see the lens through which we look. Ruth Fulton Benedict Category: Perception If the beard were all goats could preach. Proverb Category: Appearance I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me Confused at the grace that so fully he proffers me. I tremble to know that for me he was crucified That for me a sinner he suffered he bled and died. Refrain: Oh it is wonderful that he should care for me enough to die for me! Oh it is wonderful wonderful to me! I marvel that he would descend from his throne divine To rescue a soul so rebellious and proud as mine That he should extend his great love unto such as I Sufficient to own to redeem and to justify. I think of his hands pierced and bleeding to pay the debt! Such mercy such love and devotion can I forget? No no I will praise and adore at the mercy seat Until at the glorified throne I kneel at his feet. Charles H. Gabriel Category: Unsorted The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement. Stella Adler Category: Actors Death: A punishment to some to some a gift and to many a favor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Death The smaller the head the bigger the dream. Category: Dream I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching. Sir James Matthew Barrie Category: Wise Theres a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this dizzying diagonal perfectly straight so after all it wasnt a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature unless you count human nature. Barbara Kingsolver Category: Grave If your ship doesn't come in swim out to it. Jonathan Winters Category: Action Were electrical beings living in a magnetic environment. ... Because were finely tuned to subtle energy fields when they vary as they would on top of a mountain we change biologically and psychologically too. Louis Slesin Category: Unsorted They said Id never be any flaming good if I didnt learn to speak proper. Rolf Harris Category: Unsorted Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck. Donald Horne Category: Unsorted An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin Land Category: Creative If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. John R. Miller Category: Adversity My life is light waiting for the death wind Like a feather on the back of my hand. Thomas Stearns Eliot Category: Light There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton Category: Life By the time you swear youre his Shivering and sighing And he vows his passion is Infinite undying Lady make note of this: One of you is lying. Dorothy Parker Category: Lever Whoever fights whoever falls Justice conquers evermore. Douglas Jerrold Category: Justice Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us. The Bible Category: False We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free we write basis-free but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury. Irving Kaplansky Category: Unsorted Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. Christian Dior Category: Zest I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars my feet no longer touch the earth but side by side with Zeus himself I take my fill of ambrosia the food of the gods. Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) Category: Unsorted A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Environment Why grab possessions like thieves or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? Natalie Clifford Barney Category: Possessions You know youre getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. Harrison Ford Category: Age Sir Francis Drake entered the harbour of Cadiz April 19 1587 and destroyed shipping to the amount of ten thousand tons lading. To use his own expressive phrase he had singed the Spanish kings beard. Knight Category: Unsorted So lonely t was that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Category: Lonely Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Anita Loos Category: Blonde Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after theyre dead. Leo Calvin Rosten Category: Conservative Life must be lived as play. Plato Category: Life Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone and if they are dim the whole world is clouded. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Body In real life unlike in Shakespeare the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are in very important respects what they seem to be. Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. Category: Name It is with disease of the mind as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder And half cured when we do. Charles Caleb Colton Category: Disease Amateurs hope. Professionals work. Garson Kanin Category: Amateur Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. Robert Charles Benchley Category: Afraid Teach to the problem not to the text. E. Kim Nebeuts Category: Problem In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me. Garcia Lorca Category: Unsorted Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. Arnold H. Glasow Category: Praise Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Category: Thief It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. Martin Van Buren Category: Explain If youve seen one Redwood tree youve seen them all. Ronald Wilson Reagan Category: Tree True fortitude of understanding consists in not suffering what we do know to be disturbed by what we do not know. Rev. William Paley Category: Action Though the world is becoming more wicked the youth of Christ's Church can become more righteous if they understand who they are understand the blessings available and understand the promises God has made to those who are righteous who believe who endure. David B. Haight Category: Unsorted That was my gift ... having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew and above it. Miles Davis Category: Jazz The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal social and economic problems. It sets forth spiritual attitudes moral principles of universal validity such as Love your enemies Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them and it leaves to Christians the taskthe admittedly difficult taskof applying them in any given situation. Robert James McCracken D.D. Category: Unsorted The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time. Willen De Kooning Category: Potential The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Gravity The true art of memory is the art of attention. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Memory Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. Yassir Arafat Category: Endure The Constitution of the United States of America We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union establish justice insure domestic tranquility provide for the common defense promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. U.S. Constitution Category: Constitution Vocations which we wanted to pursue but didnt bleed like colors on the whole of our existence. Honore de Balzac Category: Unsorted The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences. Eugene Kennedy Category: Friendship Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. Mark Twain Category: Today Sometimes I think war is Gods way of teaching us geography. Paul Rodriguez Category: War The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number the cry becomes a song noise acquires rhythm the spring is transformed into a dance force becomes dynamic and outlines figures. Joseph Marie de Maistre Category: Unsorted Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rocks vast weight to throw The line too labours and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain Flies oer th unbending corn and skims along the main. Alexander Pope Category: Poetry Credulity is the mans weakness but the childs strength. Charles Lamb Category: Belief Sir Saint-Savin replied the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us which is life. We should rather aspire to a heaven where only the planets live in eternal bliss receiving neither rewards nor condemnations but enjoying merely their own eternal motion in the arms of the void. Umberto Eco Category: Religion Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras Category: Word Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. Michael J. Gelb Category: Confuse Its the things in common that make relationships enjoyable but its the little differences that make them interesting. Todd Ruthman Category: Unsorted If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Category: Endure NOSE n. The extreme outpost of the face. It has been observed that ones nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Nose Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Boy I detest ... anything over-cooked over-herbed over-sauced over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest bread butter olive oil a generous spirit lively appetites and attention to what we are eating. Sybille Bedford Category: Unsorted Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. General George Smith Patton Jr. Category: Ambition In friendships fragrant garden There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. Unknown Category: Garden I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes or of appearing naive. Abraham H. Maslow Category: Expert I have an axe to grind. Proverb Category: Anger I just invent then wait until man comes around to needing what Ive invented. R. Buckminster Fuller Category: Invention It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. Its one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay Category: Life The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Saint Augustine Category: Travel The Sheep Herd I am a shepherdI have hated The smell of damp sheep in the rain The pain Of clouted shoes on weary feet The silly barking of watchdogs in the night The blinding light Of summer suns on hillsides without shade. Nor anything I did not wis SISTER MARIELLA Category: Unsorted I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. William Garrison Category: Justice His brow is wet with honest sweat he earns whatever he can And looks the whole world in the face For he owes not any man. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Category: Debt People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection which they cannot have and looking for it where they will never find it. Unknown Category: Perfection No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed. Sara Teasdale Category: Possessions That from the heart come good thoughts and bad thoughts is the message of the Savior. By the right choice and through application of thought man ascends to divine perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought he descends below the level of the beasts. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character and man in their maker and master. Jesus taught that from within the heart of man come evil thoughts sexual vice acts of theft murder adultery greed. When men commit these crimes individually or collectively they trespass upon human rights and of course bring misery into the world. A noble and godlike character is no thing of favor or chance but is a natural result of continued effort and right thinking the effect of long cherished associations with godlike thoughts. David Oman McKay Category: Heart Is there not some chosen curse some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven red with uncommon wrath to blast the man Who owes his greatness to his countrys ruin? Joseph Addison Category: Treason Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it and followest that of another thou shalt the more profit thereby. Thomas à Kempis Category: Unsorted It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt Category: Self There is no right way to evolve or pursue your souls path. It is up to you to choose whatever is best for you. Sanaya Roman Category: Unsorted The organization man is dead. He thrived when smokestack America thrived. When airlines banks and telephones were highly regulated. When Japan built shoddy cars. When computers were huge and an apple was something you ate. Bruce Nussbaum Category: Unsorted The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. Edward VIII Duke of Windsor Category: Ambition Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past. Proverb Category: Anxiety He thats secure is not safe. Benjamin Franklin Category: Safety Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. Isocrates Category: Unsorted It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in either fire or ice. There are two other possibilities. One is paperwork the other is nostalgia. Francis Vincent Frank Zappa Jr. Category: End In all thy humors whether grave or mellow Thou art such a touchy testy pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee That theres no living with thee or without thee. Martial Category: Character Good better best. Never let me rest Until my good is better And my better best. Carel Wagner Category: Unsorted I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire a little surplus to give you confidence a little too much work each day enthusiasm for your work a substantial share of good health a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share lifes beauty with you. J. Kenfield Morley Category: Unsorted You can drag a person to a clue but you cant make him think. Sarah Trombley Category: Prostitution Every educated person is a future enemy. Martin Ludwig Bormann Category: Education Loud roared the dreadful thunder The rain a deluge showr'd. Andrew Cherry Category: Unsorted Teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France Category: Curiosity Consideration is not merely a matter of emotional goodwill but of intellectual vigor and moral self sacrifice. Wisdom must combine with sympathy. That is why consideration underlies the phrase a scholar and a gentleman which really sums up the ideal of the output of a college education. Charles Seymour Category: Unsorted One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Russell Lowell Category: Experience Philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz speculated on the possibility of intermediate species over a century before the publication of Darwins theory: All advances by degrees in Nature and nothing by leaps and this law as applied to each is part of my doctrine of Continuity. Although there may exist in some other world species intermediate between Man and the Apes Nature has thought it best to remove them from us in order to establish our superiority beyond question. I speak of intermediate species and by no means limit myself to those leading to Man. I strongly approve of the research for analogies; plants insects and Comparative Anatomy will increase these analogies especially when we are able to take advantage of the microscope more than at present. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Category: Unsorted Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderful responsive sports car gunning the motor taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order. Maggie Scarf Category: Unsorted Trust not yourself but your defects to know make use of every friend and every foe. Alexander Pope Category: Self All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without. Ned Rorem Category: Unsorted Sir I think all Christians whether Papists or Protestants agree in the essential articles and that their differences are trivial and rather political than religious. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Politics When will they realize that there are too many drugs? No fewer than 150000 preparations are now in use. About 15000 new mixtures and dosages hit the market each year while about 12000 die off...We simply don't have enough diseases to go around. At the moment the most helpful contribution is the new drug to counteract the untoward effect of other new drugs. Dr. Walter Modell Category: Unsorted Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. Edward Hyde Clarendon Category: Anger Conceal a flaw and the world will imagine the worst Marcus Valerius Martialis Category: Illusions Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple! Robert J Ringer Category: Unsorted It is evident that most attorneys and legal scholars feel that their ethical obligation to put forth their best defense of a client is the highest principle in law. Agreed it is a high principle. However should it be a higher principle than what the system is supposed to achieve namely justice? Of course not. If the ethic of a good defense insists on obscuring or hiding truth it needs to be re-evaluated because it is then immoral. Ross Baker Category: Unsorted All human history attests That happiness for man the hungry sinner! – Since Eve ate apples much depends on dinner. Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Easy We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries across the oceans across the mountains across the prairies because we are made of sugar candy. Sir Winston Churchill Category: Housework We were made to be human beings here and when people try to be anything else they generally get into some sort of scrapes. Hannah Whitall Smith Category: Unsorted Industry economy honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon. James Oliver Category: Unsorted Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Bierce Category: Anger All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Intellect To feel valued to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling. Barbara Walters Category: Valor I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. Al McGuire Category: Unsorted Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. Honore de Balzac Category: Solitude The common cold if left untreated lasts about two weeks. If treated with medication and rest it lasts about fourteen days. Unknown Category: Illness If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. Henry Miller Category: Ambition Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage And half shut afterward. Madeleine Scuderi Category: Eyes O suffering sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones who lie Steeped to the lips in misery Longing yet afraid to die Patient though sorely tried! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Category: Suffer DRY LAND All around me your death like some great ocean rages wave after crashing wave till the cliffs of my arms give way to defenseless shore and I lie blackened against the sand. My hair streams like weeds about my head and pulls me as surely as the moon pulls her tides to the depths of earth. In darkness I am swallowed. In darkness I remember Jonah... that God prepared for him a black fish and after three days and three nights dear God dry land appeared. Elaine Christensen Category: Unsorted If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Slavery Pseudonym of Marie Henri Beyle Henri B. Stendhal Category: Unsorted To compare is not to prove. Proverb Category: Comparison Mens minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate. Alexandre Dumas Category: Man That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others ... Phædrus Category: Advice What maintains one vice would bring up two children. Benjamin Franklin Category: Vice We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. Theodore Roosevelt Category: President A garden is the best alternative therapy. Germaine Greer Category: Unsorted Be nice to people on your way up because youll need them on your way down. W. Migner Category: Behavior The best way to convince a fool he is wrong is to let him have his way. Josh Billings Category: Fool MENDACIOUS adj. Addicted to rhetoric. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Speak Genius does what it must talent does what it can. Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton Category: Cynic You will now have a starting place and a destination and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there.... You will be going someplace. H. Stanley Judd Category: Unsorted Truly fertile Music the only kind that will move us that we shall truly appreciate will be a Music conducive to Dream which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. Albert Camus Category: Music God does not begin by asking us about our ability but only about our availability and if we then prove our dependability he will increase our capability! Neal A. Maxwell Category: God How many of us are waiting for the opportunity to do some great thing for the betterment of our community forgetting that the solution of the problem requires only the active intelligent fulfillment of individual civic duty. The only things which are wrong about our Government are the things which are wrong with you and me. Democracy is never a thing done; it is and always will be a goal to be achieved. It means action not passive acquiescence in things as they are; it requires alertness to duty a dynamic faith a willingness to give for the good of all. It can live only as a result of loyalty and devotion to its principles expressed by daily deeds. Douglas L. Edmonds Category: Government Good art is not what it looks like but what it does to us. Roy Adzak Category: Art The master-secret in fighting is to strike once But in the right place. John Snaith Category: Unsorted Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus Category: Acceptance Such ever was love's way: to rise it stoops. Robert Browning Category: Love Women dissemble their passions better than men but men subdue their passions better than women. Sir Richard Steele Category: Woe The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Sir William Bragg Category: Science MAGIC n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose but the discreet lexicographer does not name them. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Magic Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind? ... Is it? Or is it so possible that your head is spinning like a top? ... Can it? Or is your entire world crumbling down all around you? Seinfeld Category: Unsorted It is not at all likely that anyone ever had a totally original idea. He may put together old ideas into a new combination but the elements which made up the new combination were mostly acquired from other people. Without many borrowed ideas there would be no inventions new movements or anything else that is classed as new. Dr. George Grier Category: Unsorted I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish Ill know how it turned out. Nora Ephron Category: Unsorted The only reward for love is the experience of loving. John LeCarre Category: Unsorted Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Albert Einstein Category: Growth If you have to forecast forecast often. Edgar R. Fiedler Category: Future What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. Charles-Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu Category: Speak Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. Aristotle Category: Quick Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first a right to life; secondly to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. Those are evident branches of rather than deductions from the duty of self-preservation commonly called the first law of nature. Samuel Adams Category: Civil You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretzky Category: Unsorted It represents such fine ideals like non-violent resolution of conflict where possible. After a successful 12-year campaign for the US Postal service to issue Star Trek stamps 1998 Bill Kraft Category: Unsorted Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other peoples business. Bennett Cerf Category: Censorship My own mind is my own church. Thomas Paine Category: Action RICH adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent the incompetent the unthrifty the envious and the luckless. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Rich They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. Arthur Schopenhauer Category: Suicide Varied are the ideas of what constitutes success e.g. money position power achievement honours and the like. But these are not open to every mannor do they bring what is real success namely happiness. Sir Robert Baden-Powell Category: Success Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen. George Savile Category: Hanging Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself. Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Category: Change People say I want peace. If you remove I (ego) and your want (desire) you are left with peace. Satya Sai Baba Category: Unsorted Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. Samuel Johnson Category: Pain Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject. David Hume Category: Unsorted Most of us have collections of sayings we live by.... Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read I intercept them instantly knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard. Ray Stannard Baker Category: Unsorted If there were wild strawberries in Eden and there must have been Adam was a fool as well as a sinner to taste any other fruit. Hal Borland Category: Adam Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Extravagance Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow hard and cold. Thomas Hood Category: Gold My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think thats what she said. Unknown Category: Never Ireland as distinct from her people is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for Ireland and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering shame and degradation wrought upon the people of Irelandyea wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women without burning to end it is in my opinion a fraud and a liar in his heart no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland. James Connolly Category: Irish No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must either openly or under cover follow up every order he gives and see that it is donenor will he ever develop a capable assistant. John Lee Mahin Category: Unsorted I count religion but a childish toy And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Christopher Marlowe Category: If Shallow men believe in luck believe in circumstances: it was somebodys name or he happened to be there at right time or it was so then and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Luck Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. Al Boliska Category: Airplanes When a man hasnt a good reason for doing a thing he has a good reason for letting it alone. Sir Walter Scott Category: Indecision To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. Love is the sweetest thing in the world but to be trusted throws upon him who receives that trust an obligation that he must not fail to discharge. David Oman McKay Category: Trust Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what youre gonna get. Number Six in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. The Guinness Book of Film Tom Hanks Category: Unsorted No matter how much spin effort lunch or dinner you give the media they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost. Robin Renwick Category: Factory A man with a surplus can control circumstances but a man without a surplus is controlled by them and often he has no opportunity to exercise judgment. Harvey S. Firestone Category: Money If you reject the food ignore the customs fear the religion and avoid the people you might better stay home. You are like a pebble thrown into water; you become wet on the surface but are never part of the water. James Albert Michener Category: Journey He resumed: In order to ascertain the height of the tree I must be in such a position that the top of the tree is exactly in a line with the top of a measuring stick or any straight object would do such as an umbrella which I shall secure in an upright position between my feet. Knowing then that the ratio that the height of the tree bears to the length of the measuring stick must equal the ratio that the distance from my eye to the base of the tree bears to my height and knowing (or being able to find out) my height the length of the measuring stick and the distance from my eye to the base of the tree I can therefore calculate the height of the tree. What is an umbrella? Sylvia Townsend Warner Category: Unsorted It has been too much the custom to regard the earliest Christian books as written in a specially Christian form of speech standing apart and distinguishable from the common language of the eastern Roman provinces. Had that been the case it is not too bold to say that the new religion could not have conquered the Empire. It was because Christianity appealed direct to the people addressed them in their own language and made itself comprehensible to them on their own plane of thought that it met the needs and filled the heart of the Roman world. W. M. Ramsa Category: Unsorted Perhaps myself the first at some expense of popularity to unfold the true character of Jefferson it is too late for me to become his apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism that he is too much in earnest in his democracy that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration that he is crafty & persevering in his objects that he is not scrupulous about the means of success nor very mindful of truth and that he is a contemptible hypocrite. Alexander Hamilton Category: Politics Listen with your heart you will understand. Pocahontas Category: Listen Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and it will turn true again for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost Category: Change Sorry about this. I know its a bit silly. HAL 9000 Category: Unsorted Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can. Dr. Paul Tournier Category: Win Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov Category: Vigilant Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposd as things forgot. Alexander Pope Category: Teach I see the world in very fluid contradictory emerging interconnected terms and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen. Jerry Brown Category: Unsorted The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom no design no purpose no evil no good nothing but blind pitiless indifference. Charles Robert Darwin Category: Intentions The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. Ken Olsen Category: Standards Ask a womans advice and whatever she advise do the the reverse and you are sure to be wise. Thomas Moore Category: Advice REVEILLE n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more but get up and have their blue noses counted. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Sleep Determine what you want then resolve to pay the price to get it Bunker Hunt Category: Unsorted Do not rely completely on any other human being; however dear. We meet lifes greatest tests alone. Agnes Machphail Category: Unsorted I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. William Lyon Phelps Category: Reactionaries Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. David S. Muzzey Category: Faith A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth. Thomas Mann Category: Lever There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander III the Great Category: Impossible You cant let praise or criticism get to you. Its a weakness to get caught up in either one. John Wooden Category: Unsorted Home is not where you live but where they understand you. Christian Morgenstern Category: Home Some folks rail against other folks because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. Henry Fielding Category: Others He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory ... it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions. Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko Category: Unsorted The other day I was walking my dog around my building ... on the ledge. Some people are afraid of heights. Not me Im afraid of widths. Steven Wright Category: Brotherhood Herein is not only a great vanity but a great contempt of God's good gifts that the sweetness of man's breath being a good gift of God should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke. James I of England Category: Unsorted Besides pride loyalty discipline heart and mind confidence is the key to all the locks. Joe Paterno Category: Football The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country. John Newton Mitchell Category: Conservation Where there is no vision there is no hope. Dr. George Washington Carver Category: Doctor All Englishmen are more or less idiots whom three years Colonial experience may possibly redeem. Edward H. Canney Category: Unsorted Children Learn What They Live If a child lives with criticism he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility he learns to fight. If a child lives with ridicule he learns to be shy. If a child lives with jealousy he learns to feel guilty. If a child lives with impropriety he learns to feel shame. If a child lives with tolerance he learns to be patient. If a child lives with encouragement he learns confidence If a child lives with praise he learns to appreciate. He a child lives with fairness he learns justice. If a child lives with security he learns to have faith. If a child lives with approval he learns to like himself. If a child lives with acceptance and friendship he learns to find love in the world. With what is your child living? Dorothy Law Neite Category: Approval One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. Oh no I said Disneyland burned down. He cried and cried but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland but it was getting pretty late. Jack Handey Category: Disney A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. William Bliss Carman Category: Compromise Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. Adlai Ewing Stevenson Category: Prejudice About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentlemans library Euclids Elements lay open and twas the 47 El. libri I [Pythagoras Theorem]. He read the proposition By God sayd he this is impossible: So he reads the demonstration of it which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another which he also read. Et sic deinceps that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry. John Aubrey Category: Mathematics The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice. Don Herold Category: Jazz Politics is the art of putting people under obligation to you. Jacob L. Arvey Category: Unsorted Pseudonym: Will Rogers William Penn Adair Category: Unsorted The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Mark Russell Category: Airplanes A person needs a little madness or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. Nikos Kazantzakis Category: Insanity One should eat to live not live to eat. Benjamin Franklin Category: Easy The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic. Henry Ward Beecher Category: Dog Only the winners decide what were war crimes. Gary Wills Category: Decency When a man seduces a woman it should I think be termed a left-handed marriage. Mary Wollstonecraft Category: Homosexuality Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving too but of puzzles created by nature not by the mind of man. Maria Goeppert Mayer Category: Unsorted I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. Harry S. Truman Category: Hell To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body the mind and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise study and love. Alan Bleasdale Category: Age Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Cowardice No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech. James Langston Hughes Category: Beauty In the process of working with others youll experience great growth in yourself both emotional and spiritual. Your bond with your Heavenly Father will strengthen unmeasurably. This is both a calling and a sacred trust. Betty Pettit Category: Unsorted The story was told that the young Dirichlet had as a constant companion all his travels like a devout man with his prayer book an old worn copy of the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of Gauss. Tietze Category: Unsorted Now I know I've got a heart because it's breaking. Tin Woodsman Category: Unsorted When you don't have any money the problem is food. When you have money its sex. When you have both its health. If everything is simply jake then youre frightened of death. J. P. Donleavy Category: Anxiety Great God! I d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn So might I standing on this pleasant lea Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. William Wordsworth Category: Pagan I claim to be no more than an average man with less than average abilities. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. Mahatma Gandhi Category: Blame One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline and that's the important half for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck. Carl Zuckmayer Category: Unsorted As pure as snow. Proverb Category: Pure For man autumn is a time of harvest of gathering together. For nature it is a time of sowing of scattering abroad. Edwin Way Teale Category: Nature To oppose something is to maintain it. Ursula K. LeGuin Category: Opposition Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once. Eva Gabor Category: Unsorted All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board whitewe call it black. Robert Browning Category: Life Do not hover always on the surface of things nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters as far as your time and circumstances allow especially in those things which relate to your profession. Isaac Watts Category: Deep Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Albert Einstein Category: Bargain Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Dr. Martin Henry Fischer Category: Fact Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than The Individual. Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Category: Indispensable For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. Emily Dickinson Category: Happiness He was dying and his wife had just said that she was afraid of what was about to happen. Theres no need to be. James S. Conner Category: Afraid As the soil however rich it may be cannot be productive without cultivation so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Culture Our aspirations are our possibilities. Robert Browning Category: Possibility In the cellars of the night when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times the pain of this and the shame of that the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. John Leonard Category: Memory The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness his deeds his love and his compassion. Alfred Armand Montapert Category: Gravity The Christian Sunday should be a festival gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship and then spending the day in a way which most truly promotes joy and happiness and refreshment for oneself and for other people. Olive Wyon Category: Unsorted The big things of life are never done by a fussy man. Poise is one of the earmarks of mental strength. Preston Nolan Category: Unsorted Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. John Homer Miller Category: Perception If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you. Thomas Fuller Category: Endure Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him and from this consequence another. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Category: Mathematics A grain of real knowledge of genuine controllable conviction will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the booksto understand what you are talking about. Sir John Robert Seeley Category: Unsorted We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. (The question of course is whether this is good or bad.) Jeff Marder Category: Police For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds And though late a sure reward succeeds. William Congreve Category: Reward A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. Herbert V. Prochnow Category: War Change is one thing progress is another. Change is scientific progress is ethical; change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy. Bertrand Russell Category: Change Play the game you know you can't quit until it's won. John Parr Category: Unsorted Thought is the labor of the intellect reverie is its pleasure. Victor Hugo Category: Reverie Except perhaps to our God we all have a facade even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves.... . It may not be good that we have it but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individuals consent. Melvin Belli Category: Unsorted The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government and a free expression ... by the public vote of all citizens without distinctions of race color occupation or sex is the only means by which that will can be ascertained. Victoria Claffin Woodhull Category: Unsorted The only practice thats now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change. William McGovern Category: Unsorted When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Calamities Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Lifes enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Time The little things are most worthwhile a quiet word a look a smile. Margaret Lindsey Category: Unsorted We cannot live by power and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. Max Lerner Category: Power Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief to be victor over anger to smile when tears are close to resist evil men and base instincts to hate hate and to love love to go on when it would seem good to die to seek ever after the glory and the dream to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be that is what any man can do and so be great. Zane Grey Category: Unsorted PREJUDICE n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Prejudice People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. Douglas Yates Category: Love To accept what you are is to be content and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power. Vimalia McClure Category: Unsorted That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; But that which is good is always beautiful. Category: Love I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. Joseph Addison Category: Garden No profit grows where is no pleasure taen: In brief sir study what you most affect. William Shakespeare Category: Pleasure Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. Dr. W. Edwards Deming Category: Learn We are reformers in the spring and summer but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning and conservers at night. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Age If elected I will win. Commenting on his fifth and final presidential campaign. Pat Paulsen Category: Unsorted Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success. Burt Lawlor Category: Unsorted Do unto others as though you were the others. Unknown Category: Gold The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Russell Baker Category: Defeat The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night but God knows the answer to that is don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it. Elaine Dundy Category: Unsorted Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment the other for all time. Eleanor Carroll Chilton Category: Unsorted The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people the result is confusion fear and retreat. Saul David Alinsky Category: Confuse The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. The Bible Category: Bet Home wasnt built in a day. Jane Sherwood Ace Category: Brotherhood Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted if they were there if they were hurt? I was under three months each time but a mother feels life before she feels movement. I wonder if they are lost and alone? I wonder if they will ever have a body? I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine? Alas brothers and sisters wickedness never was happiness (Alma 41:10). Neal A. Maxwell Category: Abortion The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Category: Trade Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck incapacitated or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way. David Whyte Category: Discovery Character is power. Booker T. Washington Category: Character I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Noel Adams Category: Procrastination I see the beginning of my end. Philip Massinger Category: Unsorted All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler the Younger Category: Progress Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead because above all things spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die. James L. Hayes Category: Leadership Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. Marsha Norman Category: Unsorted Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values. L. Tom Perry Category: Values Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent but it cannot make it praiseworthy. Joseph Joubert Category: Necessity Unless the man who works in an office is able to sell himself and his ideas unless he has the power to convince others of the soundness of his convictions he can never achieve his goal. He may have the best ideas in the world he may have plans which would revolutionize entire industries. But unless he can persuade others that his ideas are good he will never get the chance to put them into effect. Stripped of non-essentials all business activity is a sales battle. And everyone in business must be a salesman. Robert E. M. Cowie Category: Unsorted I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Rene Descartes Category: Dream Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Category: Nature When I hear anyone talk of culture I reach for my revolver. Hermann Wilhelm Goering Category: Culture Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. H. Jackson Browne Category: Character No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist. John Paul Getty Category: Conformity Its like most anything. If you want to be a loser theres always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win theres always a way to think positively. Tony La Russa Category: Unsorted The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Category: Death Your own happiness increases the more you give your happiness away. Bruce Bogaert Category: Unsorted Felix Plater notes of some young physicians that study to cure diseases catch them themselves will be sick and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons. Robert Burton Category: Unsorted I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses mettle and bottom. mettle: spirited bottom: capacity to endure strain Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Engineer The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. Douglas Engelbart Category: Computer The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless. Woodrow Wilson Category: Easy Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt the Younger Pitt Category: Slavery Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre. John Heywood Category: Danger S wonderful! S marvelous You should care for me! Ira Gershwin Category: Unsorted Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that ones efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you cant do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you or against you? Ralph Marston Category: Unsorted The only time a woman can really succeed in changing a man is when he is a baby. Natalie Wood Category: Marriage As a mother I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore they must recruit our children. Anita Bryant Category: Homosexuality The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. Wendell Phillips Category: Education Modern business requires that its salesmen be business men in the best sense of the wordmen who know the ins and outs of the product or service they are selling ... men who can make an intelligent and effective presentation ... and most of all men who have the modern concept of service to the customer. Hugh W. Coburn Category: Unsorted Sanity is a madness put to good use. George Santayana Category: Madness If you wished to be loved love. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Love Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. Spinoza Category: Astonish Negative information is that which immediately upon acquiring causes the recipient to know less than he did before. Stan Lee Category: Unsorted When something important is going on silence is a lie. A. M. Rosenthal Category: Importance To follow without halt one aim: Theres the secret of success. Anna Pavlova Category: Success Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away.... A man should wait and not take his own life until God summons hiom. Plato Category: Suicide Better to be without logic than without feeling. Charlotte Brontë Category: Unsorted Good order is the foundation of all things. Edmund Burke Category: Order We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us how we can take it what we do with it and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty that is the test of living. Joseph Fort Newton Category: Attitude Opportunities multiply as they are seized. Sun Tzu Category: Opportunity All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. Henry Havelock Ellis Category: Civilization The loss of wealth is loss of dirt As sages in all times assert; The happy man s without a shirt. John Heywood Category: Potential Wisdom is to finish the moment to find the journeys end in every step of the road to live the greatest number of good hours. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: End Anger is a short madness. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace Category: Anger To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. William Faulkner Category: Color Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles justice and freedom. James Shotwell Category: Unsorted I love little childrenand it is not a slight thing when they who are fresh from God love us. Charles Dickens Category: Children Two hands upon the breast And labour s done; Two pale feet crossed in rest The race is won. Dinah Mariah Mulock Category: Unsorted It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same since they originate from a common source. For example Islam the predominant religion in the Middle East accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the worlds major religions does not say something about the universality of religion it does say something about the universality of mankind.... King Hussein of Jordan Category: Unsorted Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes. Antisthenes Category: Endure Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes that he also believes to be true. Demosthenes Category: Self There is something that is much more scarce something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. Robert Half Category: Ability The wind of change is blowing through this content Africa. Harold MacMillan Category: Africa Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die. Deborah Martin Category: Unsorted Thought Control: thought detection and thought selection. Think about what you are thinking. Thoughts repeated turn into feelings Thoughts come in pairs positive and negative. Choose. Sterling G. Ellsworth Category: Unsorted Important principles may and must be inflexible. Abraham Lincoln Category: Principle Time for all its smuggling in of new problems conspicuously cancels others. Clara Winston Category: Problem ROPE n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place ones whole life long. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Hanging My mate is always a man. A female may be my Sheila my bird my charley my good sort my hot-drop my Judy or my wife but she is never my mate. Donald McLean Category: Unsorted If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. Frank McKinney Kin Hubbard Category: Politics We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Stephen William Hawking Category: Planet The most likely way for the world to be destroyed most experts agree is by accident. Thats where we come in; were computer professionals. We cause accidents. Nathaniel Borenstein Category: Accidents April Rain It is not raining rain to me It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day And overwhelm the town; It is not raining rain to me It's raining roses down. It is not raining rain to me But fields of clover bloom Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room. A health unto the happy! A fig for him who frets! It is not raining rain to me It's raining violets. Robert Loveman Category: Rain RIDICULE n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Ridicule Its the notion that there is no perfection that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances. Leonard Cohen Singer Category: Unsorted One does not make friends. One recognizes them. Garth Henrichs Category: Friendship Wherever they burn books they will also in the end burn human beings. Heinrich Heine Category: Book It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. Sir Winston Churchill Category: Slavery God will not suffer man to have knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless. Saint Augustine of Hippo Category: Future It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing. Duke Ellington Category: Music Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward. Achaan Chah Category: Unsorted Theres times when I just have to quit thinking ... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping. Tammy Faye Bakker Category: Unsorted Fans don't boo nobodies. Reggie Jackson Category: Baseball In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar a practice which is still continued. Helen Rowland Category: Marriage Everyone is trying to accomplish something big not realizing that life is made up of little things. Frank A. Clark Category: Small Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited. Robert Freeman Category: Character The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Pretend I start drawing and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments. Theodore Seuss Doctor Seuss Geisel Category: Unsorted Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. Alexander Hamilton Category: Firm He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. Harry Emerson Fosdick Category: Choice Crossing the uplands of time Skirting the borders of night Scaling the face of the peak of dreams We enter the region of light And hastening on with eager intent Arrive at the rainbows end And here uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend. Grace Goodhue Coolidge Category: Unsorted Sow Carrots in your Gardens and humbly praise God for them as for a singular and great blessing. Richard Gardiner Category: Garden You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. William J. H. Boetcker Category: Potential We do not judge men by what they are in themselves but By what they are relatively to us. Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine Category: Judge It is harder to be poor without murmuring than to be rich without arrogance. Kung Fu-tzu Confucius Category: Brag Popular opinions on subjects not palpable to sense are often true but seldom or never the whole truth. John Stuart Mill Category: Opinion Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald Category: Hero Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you havent learned the meaning of friendship you really havent learned anything. Muhammad Ali Category: Friendship Every civilization rests on a set of promises.... If the promises are broken too often the civilization dies no matter how rich it may be or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go everything goes. Herbert Sebastian Agar Category: Unsorted Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt ... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt except themselves. Robert Anton Wilson Category: Corrupt Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it under any circumstances lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Edmund Burke Category: Civil Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects. Will Rogers Category: If Success is good management in action. William E. Holler Category: Success It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not. Mignon McLaughlin Category: Friendship To go straight to the deepest depth I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer ... Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the readers leg or was even an imposter. Ludwig Boltzmann Category: Unsorted For most folks no news is good news; for the press good news is not news. Gloria Borger Category: Journalism He is a man of capacity who possesses considerable intellectual riches: while he is a man of genius who finds out a vein of new ore. Originality is the seeing nature differently from others and yet as it is in itself. It is not singularity or affectation but the discovery of new and valuable truth. All the world do not see the whole meaning of any object they have been looking at. Habit blinds them to some things: shortsightedness to others. Every mind is not a gauge and measure of truth. Nature has her surface and her dark recesses. She is deep obscure and infinite. It is only minds on whom she makes her fullest impressions that can penetrate her shrine or unveil her Holy of Holies. It is only those whom she has filled with her spirit that have the boldness or the power to reveal her mysteries to others. William Hazlitt Category: Creative For forms of government let fools contest; Whateer is best administerd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His cant be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree But all mankinds concern is charity. Alexander Pope Category: Government Dogs lives are too short. Their only fault really. Category: Dog Young fellows will be young fellows. Isaac Bickerstaff Category: Unsorted The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch Category: Mind Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them. Robert Fulghum Category: Everything Through perils both of wind and limb Through thick and thin she followd him. Samuel Butler Category: Fidelity The most common of all antagonisms arises from a mans taking a seat beside you on the train a seat to which he is completely entitled. Robert Charles Benchley Category: Man Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things derive their substance and draw their life. Dion Fortune Category: Unsorted He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our despair against our own will comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus Category: Government A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publishers circus. Category: Crisis You can observe a lot just by watching. Yogi Berra Category: Observe To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. Massillon Category: Pride Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. Andy Grove Category: Internet The human race afraid of nothing rushes on through every crime. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace Category: Afraid The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. Frank McKinney Kin Hubbard Category: Agreement Look theres no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. Fernando Pessoa Category: Unsorted We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be we shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Sir Winston Churchill Category: Defense There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points and is fatal. Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Category: Better April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. Christopher Darlington Morley Category: Spring CALLOUS adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Evil The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. Tryon Edwards Category: Education For centuries the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbours between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it. Ayn Rand Category: Unsorted We look out from the shadows on through future years For the soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears John Vance Cheney Category: Unsorted As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose. Bhagavad-Gita Category: Purpose No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Government A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog. E. N. Westcott Category: Dog No one ever lost his job by listening too much. John Calvin Coolidge Category: Listen Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. Ed Cunningham Category: Unsorted Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus Category: Normal Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verde ramas. Green I love you green. Green Wind. Green branches. Federico Garcia Lorca Category: Unsorted Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. Ben Jonson Category: Tyranny The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Money The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. Corra Harris Category: Courage I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing. Socrates Category: Expectation But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. Henry David Thoreau Category: Machinery If were gonna go we might as well go with our guts hanging out. Coach Perry Clark Category: Unsorted If you are tired or pained in any part of the body and you have not over-exercised it then you will know that some part of your thinking may not be balanced. Alice Steadman Category: Unsorted We cannot possess what we do not understand. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Miracle Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. Robert Ranke Graves Category: Unsorted No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. John Calvin Coolidge Category: Honor Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. Robert Chambers Category: Book If I have not seen as far as others it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. Hal Abelson Category: Others 'Twas a sheep not a lamb that strayed away In the parable Jesus told; A grown-up sheep that had gone astray From the ninety and none in the fold. Out on the hillside out in the cold Twas a sheep the good shepherd sought And back to the flock safe in the fold Twas a sheep the good shepherd brought. And why for the sheep should we earnestly long And a earnestly hope and pray Because there is danger if they go astray. For the lambs will follow the sheep you know Wherever the sheep may stray; When the sheep go wrong it will not be long Till the lambs are as wrong as they. And so with the sheep we earnestly plead For the sake of the lambs today; If the lambs are lost; what a terrible cost Some sheep will have to pay. C. D. Miller Category: Unsorted A mans own manner and character is what most becomes him. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Manners I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would in case of war be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion; besides that the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas. Thomas Jefferson Category: Administration We must repsect the other fellows religion but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Religion It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age. Joseph Addison Category: Rival Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. William Cowper Category: Glory When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Persecution You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And with due respect to these gentlemen I advise you as long as the capitalist system lasts to vote for gold. George Bernard Shaw Category: Capable Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners only survivors. Frank Gifford Category: Sports Women like princes find few real friends. Lord Lyttleton Category: Friendship One might have expected Christians to be less indifferent to the perils of casting the first stone. Here is a report from Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo the official chronicler of the Indies under Holy Roman Emperor Charles V: Upon arriving there since what they found to eat was so meager some of these Christians seeing themselves in extreme hunger killed an Indian they had captured and roasted the entrails and ate them; and they put a good part of the Indian to stew in a large pot in order to bring along something to eat in the ships boat in which those who did this were travelling. Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo Category: Unsorted Lecrivain original nest pas celui qui nimite personne mais celui que personne ne peut imiter. The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others but he who can be imitated by none. François-Rene de Chateaubriand Category: Unsorted The philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weeded a garden. Ray D. Everson Category: Unsorted The past the present and the future are really one they are today. Harriet Beecher Stowe Category: Future The god of victory is said to be one-handed but peace gives victory on both sides. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Peace Gambling eating meat wine-bibbing adultery hunting thieving debauchery these seven things in this world lead to the hells. Unknown Category: Sin When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as ones own satisfaction or security then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present regardless of the popular usage of the term. Harry Stack Sullivan Category: Love I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. Charles Michael Schwab Category: Enthusiasm Computers make it easier to do a lot of things but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. Andy Rooney Category: Easy There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay Some forms of life arise. Charles Mackay Category: Immorality There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Proverb To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Louis Bergson Category: Change Never open the door to a lesser evil for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. Baltasar Gracian Category: Door Style is knowing who you are what you want to say and not giving a damn. Gore Vidal Category: Know Tell me the tales that to me were so dear Long long ago long long ago. Thomas Haynes Bayly Category: Music Alls fair in love and war. Francis Edward Smedley Category: Love The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. General George S. Patton Category: War Thanks to the Interstate Highway System it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. Charles Kuralt Category: Highways Whatever our creed we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded no evil deed unpunished. Orison Swett Marden Category: Action Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. Robert Green Ingersoll Category: Colleges Success as I see it is a result not a goal. Gustave Flaubert Category: Success Be wise; soar not too high to fall But stoop to rise. Philip Massinger Category: Fall In building a firm foundation for Success here are a few stones to remember: 1. The wisdom of preparation. 2. The value of confidence. 3. The worth of honesty. 4. The privilege of working. 5. The discipline of struggle. 6. The magnetism of character. 7. The radiance of health. 8. The forcefulness of simplicity. 9. The winsomeness of courtesy. 10. The attractiveness of modesty. 11. The inspiration of cleanliness. 12. The satisfaction of serving. 13. The power of suggestion. 14. The buoyancy of enthusiasm. 15. The advantage of initiative. 16. The virtue of patience. 17. The rewards of co-operation. 18. The fruitfulness of perseverance. 19. The sportsmanship of losing. 20. The joy of winning. Rollo C. Hester Category: Success Come del morire [Sure as death]. See Ben Jonson As sure as death. Giovanni Boccaccio Category: Unsorted Courage without conscience is a wild beast. Robert Green Ingersoll Category: Conscience Horace appears in good humor while he censures and therefore his censure has the more weight as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion. Edward Young Category: Humor I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. John Glenn Category: Day Enthusiasm reflects confidence spreads good cheers raises morale inspires associates arouses loyalty and laughs at adversity ... it is beyond price. Allan Cox Category: Enthusiasm To make ones own estate concentric with the public estate is to realize the conception of the church the conception of the university the conception of an essential democracy and the conception of a business system that will really work. Ferguson Category: Unsorted Indecency vulgarity obscenity these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed. Mark Twain Category: Shame Faith is a giftbut you can ask for it. Fulton Oursler Category: Unsorted BEGGAR n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Beer Individuality has become the thing ... dressing to look like you belong to a company ... doesnt even enter the consciousness anymore. Clothes are more about having a life. Judy McGarth Category: Unsorted It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when your're elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about rather than when you're sunk in an armchair in the sitting room. Benoîte Groult Category: Unsorted Think all you speak but speak not all you think. Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more. Patrick Delany Category: Speak America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that very chancy. Samuel Eliot Morison Category: Accidents In the province of the mind what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. John Lilly Category: Belief It is well for the heart to be naive And for the mind not to be. Anatole France Category: Heart All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. Elias Canetti Category: Dream Golf is a good walk spoiled. Mark Twain Category: Golf Without education we are in the horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Category: Danger Education is a social process ... education is growth ... education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey Category: Education When an opinionated person starts to challenge something his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him however just it might be and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth. Marquise Magdeleine de Sable Category: Opinion Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes. Algernon Charles Swinburne Category: Garden I am thinking of the Danish sculptor of great fame Thorvaldsen who chose to be buried in the midst of his worknot in a cathedral or a cemetery but in a museum among the monuments of his own making in the midst of his statuary; and there what he made Richard L. Evans Category: Unsorted If you didnt know how old you were how old would you be? James Hubert Eubie Blake Category: Age It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. General George Catlett Marshall Category: Morale We have need of very little learning to have a good mind. Michel de Montaigne Category: Learn Never 'for the sake of peace and quiet' deny your own experience or convictions. Dag Hammarskjöld Category: Experience Government is not a substitute for people but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed. Bernard Mannes Baruch Category: Government When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man whenever you please; and if you are a poor man whenever you can. Diogenes the Cynic Category: Easy Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit. Harry S. Truman Category: Justice You only win if you arent afraid to lose. Rocky Aoki Category: Win For as he thinketh in his heart so is he. The Bible Category: Heart Africa help me to go home carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes.... Aime Cesaire Category: Africa I always think twice before I say something stupid. Loesje International Category: Unsorted Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. Dean Acheson Category: Future People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. Abraham Lincoln Category: Crisis God in his wisdom created these places And made them accessible to those of all races Rare visions of beauty and fragrant perfume Distributed freely for all to consume. While Enjoying Nature confessions and pardons Sincerely flow forth as love grows in Gods Gardens Catherine M. Prostak Category: Garden Penny wise pound foolish. Robert Burton Category: Money If it has tires or testicles youre going to have trouble with it. Linda Furney Category: Unsorted Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else. George David Stewart Category: Unsorted The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means. Oscar Wilde Category: Fiction Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy doesnt have money. David Geffen Category: Unsorted To establish oneself in the world one does all one can to seem established there already. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Self Hes a fruit. Proverb Category: Insanity What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings. Dr. William Ralph Inge Category: Communism Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Unsorted One may be humble out of pride. Michel de Montaigne Category: Humanitarian Usability is like oxygen you never notice it until it is missing. Unknown Category: Notice The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood Category: Love Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed its the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead Category: Never Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to educate for eternity Eugene England writes: Teaching or learning with the Spirit of God simply means (though it is not simple) that we are doing so with an eye single to eternal not worldly values with an eye single to lasting development of the mind and spirit and to useful service to others especially to aid in their lasting development of mind and spirit. Why the Church is as True as the Gospel Bookcraft 1986 p. 86. Dallin H. Oaks Category: Motives Look at us said the violets blooming at her feet all last winter we slept in the seeming death ... but at the right time God awakened us and here we are to comfort you. Edward Payson Rod Category: Unsorted Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. The Bible Category: Church A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. Robert Byrne Category: Unsorted And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky Whereunder crawling coopd we live and die Lift not your hands to It for help for It As impotently rolls as you or I. Edward Fitzgerald Category: Sky Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide Category: Art People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Category: Beauty Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Louis Berlioz Category: Time In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Ice A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments. Herodotus Category: Unsorted Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden Category: Do It is better to be envied than pitied. Herodotus Category: Better When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. Edmund Burke Category: Precedent Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way. Max Dehn Category: Unsorted He was not only I soon discovered a water drinker but a strict vegetarian to which perhaps he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness volubility and sensitiveness of mind. Charles Kingley Category: Unsorted Practical application is found by not looking for it and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle. Jacques Hadmard Category: Unsorted Even a thought even a possibility can shatter us and transform us. Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Possibility Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when were only talking about it. Charles F. Banning Category: Unsorted For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism. Steven Wright Category: Action Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Category: Thief Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes where we face it as free beings admiring asking and observing there we enter the realm of Art and Science. Albert Einstein Category: Art Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. Dr. William Mather Lewis Category: Propaganda Set your target and keep trying until you reach it. Napoleon Hill Category: Unsorted In two words: im–possible. Samuel Goldwyn Category: Unsorted Believe if thou wilt that mountains change their place But believe not that man changes his nature. Mohammed Category: Change If you can give your son or daughter only one gift let it be Enthusiasm. Bruce Barton Category: Enthusiasm Know the true value of time! Snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Dormer Shanhope Lord Chesterfield Category: Lazy You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent be assured they will augment your power and happiness. Cyrus the Great Category: Death To rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb. Andre Breton Category: Unsorted Its hard to be funny when you have to be clean. Mae West Category: Funerals Brave conquerors! for so you are That war against your own affections And the huge army of the worlds desires. William Shakespeare Category: Conquer Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Nicholas Negroponte Category: Computer Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack. Harry Emerson Fosdick Category: Cynic We are not put on earth for ourselves but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others then in time of need someone will be there for you. Jeff Warner Category: Unsorted Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly a butterfly flitting and fluttering around happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was solid and unmistakable Chuang Chou. But he didnt know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou. Chang Tao-ling Category: Unsorted Temptations unlike opportunities will always give you second chances. Orlando A. Battista Category: Unsorted The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. David Friedman Category: Force Where there is no vision people perish. But he that keepeth the law happy is he. The Bible Category: Vision The essence of lying is in deception not in words. John Ruskin Category: Lever The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. Joseph Sobran Category: Sick If you wait until you can do everything for everybody instead of something for somebody youll end up not doing anything for anybody. Malcolm Bane Category: Do When a man declares: I am sure of my wife it means he is sure of his wife. But when a woman declares: I am sure of my husband it means that she is sure of herself. Francis de Croisset Category: Unsorted He who plants a tree plants a hope. Lucy Larcom Category: Garden A new century dawns upon the world today. The hundred years just completed were the most momentous in the history of man upon this planet. It would be impossible in a hundred days to make even a brief summary of the notable events the marvelous developments the grand achievements and the beneficial inventions and discoveries which mark the progress of the ten decades now left behind in the ceaseless march of humanity. The very mention of the nineteenth century suggested advancement improvement liberty and light. Happy are we to have lived amidst its wonders and shared in the riches of its treasures of intelligence! Lorenzo Snow Category: Intelligent 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 Category: Unsorted A few minutes ago every tree was excited bowing to the roaring storm waving swirling tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life every fiber thrilling like harp strings while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were Gods first temples and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. John Muir Category: Tree He who gives money gives much. He who gives time gives more. He who gives himself gives all. Thomas S. Monson Category: Friendship Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Alexander Pope Category: Dog Will you wont you will you wont you will you join the dance? Lewis Carroll Category: Communism CONSOLATION n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Yourself Books give not wisdom where none was before But where some is there reading makes it more. John Harrington Category: Unsorted I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life. Theodore Roosevelt Category: Strength Throw your dreams into space like a kite and you do not know what it will bring back a new life a new friend a new love a new country. Anaïs Nin Category: Dream London that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Category: Engineer [Alan Bergs] memory haunts many people even those who never heard him on the radio because his death could be read as a message: Be cautious be prudent be bland never push anybody never say what you really think offer yourself as a hostage to the weirdos even before they make the first move. These days a lot of people are opposed to the newfound popularity of trash television and no doubt they are right and the hosts of these shows are shameless controversy-mongers. But at least they are not intimidated. Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend? Roger Ebert Category: Unsorted Describing Julia Mavimbela of So. Africa Her hair is graying her face etched with fine lines from her smile and from years of working outdoors. Her hands are creased with knowledge of the soil and the handles of tools.... Giles H. Florence Category: Age The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country. Fellow-citizens we cannot escape history. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We even we here hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Abraham Lincoln Category: Dogma The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. Rupert Murdoch Category: Money Not all those who wonder are lost. John Ronald Reuel J. R. R. Tolkien Category: Wonder Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. Robert Half Category: Idea Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do somebody always imputes meaning into your books. Theodore Seuss Doctor Seuss Geisel Category: Book On average 50%–70% of summer household water is used outdoors for watering lawns and gardens ... mow the lawn perfectly but neglect to make the bed? Its pure unadulterated logic. Everyone can see the yard – nobody can see the bed. The lawn is the canvas upon which guys judge each other. Its the great redeemer. If we arent great lawn men were nothing. Kevin Kerwin Category: Unsorted Cleopatras nose had it been shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed. Blaise Pascal Category: Beauty Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Unknown Category: Yourself Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. Liberty Hyde Bailey Category: Garden Hemingway was a jerk. Harold Robbins Category: Insults We adults forget what we do to childrens imaginations when we go through one of our national seizures on an issue. A dozen years ago Hollywood fell in love with the environmental issue and put enviro messages in all their shows. The messages made their way into the funnies and magazines and parents went to school officials and said Wed like our children to be better educated on environmental concerns. The schools came through with a vengeance. Now I have a little son who thinks hes going to die from pollution. We do not educate our children; we traumatize them. We are not giving them a vision of a better world; we are giving them nightmares. Peggy Noonan Category: Children Atheistic morality is not impossible but it will never answer our purpose. Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Category: Unsorted Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. Edmund Burke Category: Early Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. Zeuxis Category: Crisis How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff although I do not babble I think of green fields; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have know from my infancy their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with superhuman fancy. John Keats Category: Sense Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them. Hermann Hesse Category: Law No two men are alike and both of them are happy for it. Morris Mandel Category: Alike There are two primary forces in this world fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever. Norman Vincent Peale Category: Faith An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didnt happen today. Laurence J. Peter Category: Economy And thats the real incentive isnt it? Its not so much the fact that you get to bask in their Gods love thats the selling point its that you avoid damnation. Think of it like Coke putting out an ad that says Snapple causes muscle spasms Pepsi is infected with AIDS and tap-water gives you cancer. So drink Coke. Not only do we taste good were the only alternative to pain and suffering. Its actually a pretty good marketing tool. Humanity by nature is an ambivalent animal given to fits of inertia and were more than likely to sit on our noncommittal behinds unless theres a bogeyman to chase us out of our chairs. Greg Bulmash Category: Unsorted With lies you may go ahead in the world but you can never go back. Proverb Category: Honest He who can does. He who cannot teaches. George Bernard Shaw Category: Teach Zen Makes use to a great extent of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry. Daisetz Teitaro D.T. Suzuki Category: Unsorted Pleasures are like poppies spread You seize the flower its blossom is shed! Or like the snowfall in the river A moment white - then melts for ever. Robert Burns Category: Pleasure Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid. Henry David Thoreau Category: Thief The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever divine or human collective or individual. Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin Category: Law Our quaint metaphysical opinions in an hour of anguish are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Category: Death The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal Category: Perception Ulster will fight; Ulster will be right. Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill Category: Unsorted I will study and prepare and perhaps my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln Category: Prepare Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams Category: Democracy If you are a terror to many then beware of many. Ausonius Category: Unsorted No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie Category: Gravity You have to take chances for peace just as you take chances in war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it if you are scared to go to the brink you are lost. John Foster Dulles Category: Peace And what rough beast its hour come round at last Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? William Butler Yeats Category: Future If friendship is to transpire between two people it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship. Ignace Lepp Category: Friendship The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. William Faulkner Category: Dream Science can point out dangers but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers within and without our very beginnings-powers that are the mysteries of life itself. Oren Lyons Category: Unsorted If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. Les Brown Category: Responsibility We come finally however to the relation of the ideal theory to real world or real probability. If he is consistent a man of the mathematical school washes his hands of applications. To someone who wants them he would say that the ideal system runs parallel to the usual theory: If this is what you want try it: it is not my business to justify application of the system; that can only be done by philosophizing; I am a mathematician. In practice he is apt to say: try this; if it works that will justify it. But now he is not merely philosophizing; he is committing the characteristic fallacy. Inductive experience that the system works is not evidence. J. E. Littlewood Category: Mathematics The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little but he that wants too much. Francis Beaumont Category: Gains The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words you can control the people who must use the words. Philip K. Dick Category: Word You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond Category: Love Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Dogma Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. John Dryden Category: Better Before I met my husband Id never fallen in love. Id stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner Category: Love Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. Henry Graham Greene Category: Cruel Now and then its good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire Category: Happiness The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance. Miguel de Cervantes Category: Unsorted Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Trifles Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde Category: Friendship With Carthaginian faith i.e. Treachery. Sallust Category: Unsorted That man is idle who can do something better. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Idleness In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker. Plutarch Category: Word Work joyfully and peacefully knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. James Lane Allen Category: Unsorted When faced with a difficult decision or challenge ask What would the Lord have me do? Would I do it for the Lord? Bonnie Pinegar Category: Unsorted It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance and that in the end progress is accomplished by the man who does things. Theodore Roosevelt Category: Progress You must believe in free will; there is no choice. Isaac Bashevis Singer Category: Belief And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid. Thomas Hood Category: Happiness Anyone who thinks that God wins or loses games has to have an awfully weak mind. Harold Ballard Category: Unsorted There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence patience and tears. C. S. Robinson Category: Patience You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T. Washington Category: Ambition I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. Thomas Jefferson Category: Others Youll find as you grow older that you werent born such a very great while ago after all. The time shortens up. W. D. Howells Category: Unsorted The moment we indulge our affections the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies all ennuis vanish all duties even. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Affection Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Rabbi Abraham Heschel Category: Unsorted The cat would eate fish and would not wet her feete. John Heywood Category: Cat Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords--philosophy art poetry love scandal and the weather. Anna Brownell Jameson Category: Comparison The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism conscious of this and having tradesman-like habits supplies their demands. Oscar Wilde Category: Curiosity To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. Theodore Roosevelt Category: Morality Almost everyone can do or be something for someone else in need. Joy F. Evans Category: Unsorted Take most people they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them they are always talking about have many miles they get to a gallon and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that is even newer. I do not even like old cars.... Id rather have a horse. A horse is at least human for Gods sake. J.D. Salinger Category: Automobiles I love her and she loves me and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love. August Strindberg Category: Hate If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in 5 years thered be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman Category: Government Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice Doggie! till you can find a rock. Wynn Catlin Category: Diploma In his enthusiasm the evangelist often finds it difficult seriously to imagine that anyone could be called not to be an evangelist. The man of vision and imagination finds it difficult to see the value of those who do no more than plod on faithfully along a well-tried road. The man whose concern is in personal dealing with people and leading them to understand God better finds it difficult to be patient with the theologian or the Christian philosopher whose work is in the quiet of a book-lined study. Yet the truth is that the wholeness which God is working to achieve is never complete in an individual but through individuals living together as one body each supplying the deficiencies of the others. J. B. Phillips Category: Unsorted Vegetarianism is harmless enough although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. Robert M. Hutchins Category: Food Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me And I ll protect it now. George Pope Morris Category: Tree You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a mother who read to me. Strickland Gillian Category: Mother War would end if the dead could return. Stanley Baldwin Category: War Let your hearts rejoice in gladness! Mabel Jones Gabbott Category: Unsorted It is not a field of a few acres of ground but a cause that we are defending and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle or by degrees the consequences will be the same. Thomas Paine Category: Cause A great teacher never strives to explain his visionhe simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself. The Rev. R. Inman Category: Unsorted Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become relatively the cleanest thing? Katharine Whitehorn Category: Classic Men should think twice before making widowhood womens only path to power. Gloria Steinem Category: Power Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. Robert Burton Category: Endure We say and we say openly and while ye torture us mangled and gory we cry out We worship God through Christ! Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped. Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian (Tertullianus) Category: Unsorted Even if you are on the right track you will get run over if you just stand there. Arthur Godfrey Category: Decency An Charlie hes my darling my darling my darling Charlie hes my darling the young Chevalier. Robert Burns Category: Truth Once you accept your own death all of a sudden you are free to live. Saul David Alinsky Category: Death Good people let me pass I am the Protestant whore. Nell Gwyn Category: Unsorted The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King Category: Learn OPPOSITION n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Opposition $100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100000000 by which time it will be worth nothing. Lazurus Long Category: Interest Whoever bringeth the dead land to life; that is cultivateth waste land for him is reward therein. Prophet Muhammad Category: Agriculture Strength lies not in defense but in attack. Adolf Hitler Category: Strength Religion is love; in no case is it logic. Beatrice Potter Webb Category: Religion If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. Proverb Category: Money The world in all doth but two nations bear The good the bad; and these mixed everywhere. Andrew Marvell Category: Bad This was a good dinner enough to be sure but it was not a dinner to ask a man to. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Easy Love ... [is] a lack of personal selfishness. Theodore M. Burton Category: Unsorted What a man does tells us what he is. F. D. Huntington Category: Happiness The study of mathematics cannot be replaced by any other activity that will train and develop mans purely logical faculties to the same level of rationality. The American Mathematical Monthly 56 1949 p19. C.O. Oakley Category: Unsorted Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Category: God Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Ward Babson Category: Factory Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. George Washington Category: Crime No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself personally it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. Thomas Jefferson Category: Reputation Money is good love is wealth. Doug Horton Category: Unsorted Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each others cup but drink not of one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous but let each one of you be alone Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts but not into each others keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow. Kahlil Gibran Category: Love The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing Susan Howatch Category: Unsorted An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. Proverb Category: Error Sister youre trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity but Im done Im finished Im going to die. [Spoken to his nurse.] George Bernard Shaw Category: Last The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted.... Some have passed over from literature into speech. Carl Van Doren Category: Quotations Faith is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more like a kit of tools with which a man may build him a house. The tools will be worth just what he does with them. When he lays them down they will have no value until he takes them up again. Lloyd Cassel Douglas Category: Unsorted I wont grow up I don't want to go to school Just to learn to be a parrot and recite a silly rule. If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree Ill never grow up never grow up never grow uuuuuuup not me. I wont grow up I don't w Carolyn Leigh Category: Unsorted Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take and finally following appetite. Category: Advice CONTEMPT n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Contempt Countries are well cultivated not as they are fertile but as they are free. Charles-Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu Category: Love The essence of war is violence. Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay Category: War Remember always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard Milhouse Nixon Category: Best I sing the first green leaf upon the bough The tiny kindling flame of emerald fire The stir amid the roots of reeds and how The sap will flush the briar. Clinton Scollard Category: Unsorted The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. Gerard Didier Erasmus Category: War I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high oer vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils. William Wordsworth Category: Flower Confound those who have said our remarks before us. Aelius Donatus Category: Repeat The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne Category: Complacency There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. Henry Ford Category: More Puccinis personal life was an interesting one. He was exceedingly fond of hunting smoking attractive woman mechanical devices of any kind and acquiring houses. He died in 1924 from a heart attack while undergoing treatment for throat cancer. He was 6 Giacomo Puccini Category: Unsorted Teaching kids to count is fine but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talbert Category: Best An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again and thus is much wiser than most men. Charles Robert Darwin Category: Man To state a theorem and then to show examples of it is literally to teach backwards. E. Kim Nebeuts Category: Teach People buy products for what they can do not for what they are. F. G. Buck Rodgers Category: Animals Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising ones levels of aspiration . . and expectation. Jack Nicklaus Category: Achievement There's nought no doubt so much the spirit calms As rum and true religion. Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Calm I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. Dick Gregory Category: Neighbor Hasten slowly. Festina lente. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus Category: Cause There are two times in every mans life when he is thoroughly happy; just after he has met his first love and just after he has parted from his last one. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Happiness If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting Or being lied about don't deal in lies Or being hated don't give way to hating And yet don't look too good nor talk too wise. Rudyard Kipling Category: If Im tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. Thats deep enough. What do you want an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr Category: Beauty Upon marying actress Julia Roberts: Its true that I did get the girl but then my grandfather always said Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then. Lyle Lovett Category: Unsorted If we may believe our logicians man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth and naturally disposed to it. Joseph Addison Category: Laugh The real war will never get in the books. Walt Whitman Category: War The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. Proverb Category: Name Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character. Without character all effort to attain dignity is superficial and results are sure to be disappointing. R. C. Samsel Category: Unsorted If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Garden Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things more money in order to do more of what they want so that 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 Category: Life It is easy to learn something about everything but difficult to learn everything about anything. Nathaniel Emmons Category: Epitaphs I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. Robert Bosch Category: Money 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. Plato Category: Children The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: World The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. Dean Acheson Category: Endure It is fear that first brought gods into the world. Petronius Category: Fear Cage of freedom thats our prison; were the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition steals our reason; were soon behind those invisible bars On the inside looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard. Jon Anderson Category: Unsorted I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Oscar Wilde Category: Diary It is a peculiar sensation this double-consciousness this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes of others.... One ever feels his twoness 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. DuBois Category: Africa Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw Category: Liberty My work is a game a very serious game. Maurits Corneille Escher Category: Games If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Law People far prefer happiness to wisdom but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. Sydney J. Harris Category: Happiness Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do. Harvey B. Mackay Category: Diet Successful men are influenced by desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by desire for pleasing methods. Frank E. Brennan Category: Unsorted That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley Category: History In all change well looked into the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill. FRANCIS THOMPSON Category: Unsorted The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. Charles Waddell Chesnutt Category: Heart If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought; not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Category: Speak There lives more faith in honest doubt believe me than in half the creeds. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Creed Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Cost Last Words in a Suicide note: I feel certain that Im going mad again. I feel we cant go thru another of those terrible times. And I shant recover this time. I begin to hear voices. Virginia Woolf Category: Last Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build. Harry Allen Overstreet Category: Unsorted Thou wilt show my head to the people it is worth seeing. Georges Jacques Danton Category: Head Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Freedom Great men are those who have had noble purposes to achieve great tasks to perform or mighty causes to vindicate. A high expression of self-mastery is but the reflection of these great purposes upon personality and character. The demand upon character molds the essential self-mastery; the goal forges the strength needed to achieve it.... In your reading you have probably found the oft-repeated syllogism: 'Great minds have purposes others have wishes.' ... Great purposes demand and endow strong minds; wishes need only weak minds. The soundness of this principle is found in the fact that men are not great until they have achieved great things. The strength is the product of the struggle; the endowment follows the achievement. Nature never pays an unearned account; and she never fails to pay one that is earned. In fact earning is possessing; the two processes are simultaneous. Leo J. Muir Category: Greatness Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. The Bible Category: Engineer A fool and his money are soon partying. Steven Wright Category: Fool For fast acting relief try slowing down. Lily Tomlin Category: Health The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. John Locke Category: World Life is an illusion. Mata Hari Category: Unsorted Old age is an island surrounded by death. Juan Montalvo Category: Old At the beginning and at the end of love the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Jean de La Bruyere Category: Embarrass The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences. Jean Jacques Rousseau Category: Experience My object will be if possible to form Christian men for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. Thomas Arnold Category: Unsorted Talent is only a starting point in business. Youve got to keep working that talent. Someday Ill reach for it and it wont be there. Irving Berlin Category: Unsorted Its a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else and if you don't have it it doesnt much matter what else you have. Some women the few have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none. Sir James Matthew Barrie Category: Beauty The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. Abraham Lincoln Category: Temperance He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali Category: Accomplishment Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all mans destruction is finished. Category: Art A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright Category: Mistake When I am right I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Category: Anger Oh yes. Id do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. Its too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever. Susan Brownell Anthony Category: Censorship A friend is a priceless gem for the crown of life here and a cherished star in memory forever. Cyrus S. Nusbaum Category: Unsorted Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did. James Baldwin Category: Money Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one and where the man of talent sees two or three plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art. Ezra Pound Category: Genius It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and Afflictions that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. Category: Loquacity The mind I love must have wild places a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass an overgrown little wood the chance of a snake or two a pool that nobodys fathomed the depth of and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. Katherine Mansfield Category: Unsorted Winter air is one of the things that can be still without being stagnant. As a matter of fact the stiller it is the more it seems to tingle with life. Robert Lynd Category: Winter He who has an opinion of his own but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave. Klopstock Category: Opinion All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion. Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Category: Alike I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing I can do or any kindness that I can show any human being let me do it now and not defer it. For I shall not pass this way again. Stephen Grellet Category: Do When called to the Council of the Twelve October 4 1963 he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a little sister a French-Canadian sister whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched. As she said good-by to me and my wife in Quebec she said President Monson I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President far better now that I am a member of this Church I can obey the Prophet. Thomas S. Monson Category: Unsorted Recollect that the Almighty who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. Sir Walter Scott Category: Dog There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. James Branch Cabell Category: Temptation For the sensory thinker the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside. Robert Sommer Category: Unsorted The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. Salvador Dali Category: Madness Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which as mans enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe? Lewis L. Straus Category: Unsorted Gardeners like everyone else live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory not the eye of our anatomy calls up days and seasons past and years gone by. Category: Eyes Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just Stoopd down serene and wrote them in the dust Trod under foot the sport of every wind Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind. There secret in the grave he bade them lie And grieved they could not scape the Almighty eye. Samuel Madden Category: Unsorted A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show. Proverb Category: Enjoyment They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. Josiah W. Bailey Category: Forgive May the best from your past be the worst of your future. Unknown Category: Blessing An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. Robert A. Humphrey Category: Problem Experience is the name everyone gives his mistakes. Elbert Hubbard Category: Experience I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet I go. Pearl Mae Bailey Category: Unsorted Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller Category: Argument To ease anothers heartache is to forget ones own. Abraham Lincoln Category: Forget Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes the big ones don't really mean anything. Norman Lear Category: Pleasure Whatever limits us we call Fate. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Fate O what their joy and their glory must be Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant for weary ones rest: God shall be all and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore vision of peace that brings hope evermore; wish and fulfillment shall severed be neer nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer. There where no trouble distraction can bring we the sweet anthems of Zion shall sing while for thy grace Lord their voices of praise thy blessed people eternally raise. Now in the meantime with hearts raised on high we for that country must yearn and must sigh seeking Jerusalem dear native land through the long exile on Babylons strand. Low before him with our praises we fall of whom and in whom and through whom are all; of whom the Father; and in whom the Son; through whom the Spirit with both ever one. Peter Pierre Abelard Category: God Tobacco coffee alcohol hashish prussic acid strychnine are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Drugs Beauty is not caused. It is. Emily Dickinson Category: Beauty No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it. Aristotle Category: Injustice Do you not know my son with what little understanding the world is ruled? Pope Julius III Category: Wisdom Can we do too much for the Lord? Certainly we all love Him. Therefore I implore us keep His commandments and become more like Him. Come unto Christ eat the bread of life drink the living water and feast on His limitless love. He is our Savior our Master of whom I bear my humble witness. F. Melvin Hammond Category: Unsorted It is not the lie that passeth through the mind but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt. Francis Bacon Category: Lever Habit with him was all the test of truth ‘It must be right: I've done it from my youth.' George Crabbe Category: Habit In the bottom of an old pond lived some grubs who could not understand why none of their groups ever came back after crawling up the stem of the lilies to the top of the water. They promised each other that the next one who was called to make the upward climb would return and tell what happened to him. Soon one of them felt an urgent impulse to seek the surface; he rested himself on top of a lily pad and went through a glorious transformation which made him a dragonfly with beautiful wings. In vain he tried to keep him promise. Flying back and forth over the pond he peered down at his friends below. Then he realized that if they could ever see him they would not recognize such a radiant creature as one of their number. The fact that we cannot see our friends or communicate with them after the transformation which we call death. is no proof that they cease to exit. Walter Dudley Cavert Category: Unsorted There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause. Adam Clarke Category: Chance I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I work in the garden. John Erskine Category: Unsorted Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being. Donald Curtis Category: Relax In religion as in friendship they who profess most are ever the least sincere. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Category: Religion Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. Walter Sickert Category: Money Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. Fletcher Knebel Category: Tax We all have to learn in one way or another that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him. Thomas Hughes Category: Unsorted I respect everyone. I even respect journalists. Responding politely to inane comments by an NBC interviewer Atlanta Olympics. Alexander 'the Russian Rocket' Popov Category: Journalism True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Brave The survival of the fittest. Herbert Spencer Category: Evolution Our pleasance here is all vain glory This false world is but transitory. William Dunbar Category: Unsorted Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. Louis Pasteur Category: Garden Our chiefs are killed.... The little children are freezing to death.... My people have no blankets no food.... My heart is sick and sad.... I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph Category: War The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. François Auguste Rene Rodin Category: Art APHORISM n. Predigested wisdom. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Aphorism All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! Anatole France Category: Change You know I know you know I know you know. Thom Gunn Category: Happiness A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost Category: Decency My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me. John Barrymore Category: Unsorted No one can give you better advice than yourself. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Advice In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters as they are. Gamaliel Bradford Category: Gravity We are growing serious and let me tell you thats the next step to being dull. Joseph Addison Category: Serious There is an ancient legend which warns that should we ever learn our true origin our universe will instantly be destroyed. Len Wein Category: Unsorted Of all created things the source is one Simple single as love; remember The cell and seed of life the sphere That is of child white bird and small blue dragon-fly Green fern and the gold four-petalled tormentilla The ultimate memory. Each latent cell puts out a future Unfolds its differing complexity As a tree puts forth leaves and spins a fate Fern-traced bird feathered or fish-scaled. Kathleen Raine Category: Unsorted Labor MHR for Newcastle: Mr. Speaker what is unparliamentary about calling the Treasurer a dingo? C. K. Jones Category: Unsorted As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. Henry Beston Category: Nature Expect the worst and you wont be disappointed. Helen MacInnes Category: Unsorted Open your mouth and purse cautiously and your stock of wealth and reputation shall at least in repute be great. Zimmermann Category: Money Much of the present difficulty in industrial relations arises from the fact that too many employers as well as too many legislators take the Labor Leader more seriously than he deserves to be taken while taking the ordinary everyday middle-of-the-road wage-earner less seriously than he deserves to be taken. Whiting Williams Category: Unsorted A mans felicity consists not in the outward and visible Blessing of fortune but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. Anacharsis Category: Unsorted The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. Josh Billings Category: Machinery To reach the port of heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Heaven Go as far as you can see; when you get there youll be able to see farther. Thomas Carlyle Category: Get You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game is worthwhile. Christopher Reeve Category: Unsorted Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet Been invented. Heinrich Heine Category: Marriage Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly caught in the web of duty. Stephen King Category: Duty He wales a portion with judicious care; And Let us worship God he says with solemn air. Robert Burns Category: Unsorted Since trifles make the sum of human things And half our misery from our foibles springs. Hannah More Category: Unsorted Yes in the poor mans garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers Kind thoughts contentment peace of mind And Joy for weary hours. Mary Category: Unsorted The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner Category: Computer Hope I die before I get old. The Who Category: Unsorted He that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her. The Bible Category: Self Adios. [Executed by injection in Maryland.] John Thanos Category: Unsorted I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. Roy Lichtenstein Category: Art Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind from China to Peru. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Observe When the fight begins within himself A man s worth something. Robert Browning Category: Self Why kill time when one can employ it. Proverb Category: Time [His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates. Vincent Canby Category: Unsorted The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. Henry David Thoreau Category: Masses I like who I am now. Other people may not. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me. Meryl Streep Category: Accomplishment Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible Frank Moore Colby Category: Bore If thou suffer injustice console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. Democritus of Abdera Category: Injury It is not the place nor the condition but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. Category: Mind Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved of all the gifts which we might have wasted of all that we might have done which we did not do. Gian-Carlo Menotti Category: Hell A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke Category: Kissing T is chastity my brother chastity: She that has that is clad in complete steel. John Milton Category: Chastity Prejudice is an opinion without judgment. Francois Voltaire Category: Prejudice Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Philip Dormer Shanhope Lord Chesterfield Category: Job You can no more win a war that you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin Category: Earthquake Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal. Franz Liszt Category: Unsorted Hatred The anger of the weak. Alphonse Daulet Category: Unsorted If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now. Marie Osmond Category: Laugh Good fortune is a god among men and more than a god. Aeschylus Category: God Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. Unknown Category: Contrast The future is like heaven everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now. James Baldwin Category: Future 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 Category: Fair Love wasnt put in your heart to stay. Love isnt love until you give it away. Michael W. Smith Category: Love Without victory there is no survival! Sir Winston Churchill Category: Survival Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. Mark Twain Category: Advertising A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde Category: Choice The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man. David Hilbert Category: Infidelity I never make stupid mistakes. Only very very clever ones. John Peel Category: Mistake As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings Category: Excess OMEN n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Omen Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives a man a tree or a bird should be touched gently because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life. Elizabeth Goudge Category: Unsorted No man is free who is a slave to the flesh. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Sin Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones Category: Love First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then prepare to improve on the worst. Dale Carnegie Category: Worse Ability is a poor mans wealth. Sir Christopher Wren Category: Ability The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. Category: Neighbor What convinces is conviction. Lyndon Baines Johnson Category: Conviction The world in its best state is nothing more than a larger assembly of beings combining to counterfeit happiness which they do not feel. Samuel Johnson Category: Happiness If you can see in any given situation only what everybody else can see you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. S. I. Hayakawa Category: Culture Wars begin in the minds of man and in those minds love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. U Thant Category: Unsorted If a man is not good what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good what has he to do with music? Kung Fu-tzu Confucius Category: Bible The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race creed and color but also on ability. Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer Category: Army Sameness is the mother of disgust variety the cure. Francesco Petrarca Petrarch Category: Variety He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. Publilius Syrus Category: Honor There may be Peace without Joy and Joy without Peace but the two combined make Happiness. Sir John Buchan Category: Happiness Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. Saint Vincent de Paul Category: Unsorted The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. Robert Anson Heinlein Category: Irony Do the best you can in every task no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. Category: Problem Spend each moment perfecting the next not correcting the last. Scott Michael Durski Category: Unsorted God gives every bird a worm but he does not throw it into the nest. Proverb Category: Bird Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. Adlai Ewing Stevenson Category: Housework When the effective leader is finished with his work the people say it happened naturally. Lao Tzu Category: Effect Falsehoods not only disagree with truths But usually quarrel among themselves. Daniel Webster Category: Disagree An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense ... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. Alan Greenspan Category: Unsorted Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt. William Shakespeare Category: Hurt There is nothing so stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. Will Rogers Category: Education Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise he degrades and simplifies the client. William Seward Burroughs Category: Products The use of the sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession thereof. Queen Elizabeth I Category: Unsorted The man of genius does not steal he conquers. Alexandre Dumas Category: Unsorted None without hope eer lovd the brightest fair But love can hope where reason would despair. Lord Lyttleton Category: Hope All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air the comical articles in his program the sight of twenty-two young men rushing about in mysterious formations and whatever he brought in his flask. Robert Charles Benchley Category: Unsorted It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray. Aesop Category: Praise The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. Hosea Ballou Category: Worship There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anaïs Nin Category: Unsorted Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. Mahatma Gandhi Category: Evil Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning. Alexis Dupuy Category: Marriage Just as I support my life neither by robbery nor alms but by my own effort so I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favour others of but earn it by my own achievement. Just as I do not consider the pleasure of others as the goal of my life so I do not consider my pleasure as the goal of the lives of others. Just as there are no contradictions in my values and no conflicts among my desires so there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men men who do not desire the unearned and do not view one another with a cannibals lust men who neither make sacrifice nor accept them. Ayn Rand Category: Others If God had wanted us to vote he would have given us candidates. Jay Leno Category: Sports Show me somebody who doesn't have a dream about the future and I'll show you somebody who doesn't know where he is going. Unknown Category: Dream Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. Charles A. Cerami Category: Enthusiasm The minds first step to self–awareness must be through the body. George Sheehan Category: Unsorted The sense of humor is the oil of lifes engine. Without it the machinery creaks and groans. No lot is so hard no aspect of things is so grim but it relaxes before a hearty laugh. G. S. Merriam Category: Humor Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear sway the post of honoris a private station. Joseph Addison Category: Good Sins are like circles in the water when a stone is thrown into it; one produces another. When anger was in Cain's heart murder was not far off. Philip Henry Category: Murder Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Henry David Thoreau Category: Luxury Its them as take advantage that get advantage i this world. George Eliot Category: Competence To think is to live. Vivere est cogitare. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Thief Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues. Thomas Fuller Category: Moderation I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he is unable to have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. Henri IV Category: Potential Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. Satchel Paige Category: Gains To be surprised to wonder is to begin to understand. Jose Ortega y Gasset Category: Intellectual Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Category: Tact Life for life Eye for eye tooth for tooth hand for hand foot for foot Burning for burning wound for wound stripe for stripe. The Bible Category: Evil I cant understand why people are frightened of new ideas. Im frightened of the old ones. John Cage Category: Idea A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. William Wordsworth Category: Intuition Reasons For Low Activity & Service: 1. Lack of understanding. 2. Lack of acceptance. 3. Lack of obedience. 4. Lack of good works. Unknown Category: Service Television a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. Ernie Kovacs Category: Unsorted His tenderness in the springing grass His beauty in the flowers His living love in the sun above All here and near and ours! Samuel Gilman Category: Unsorted Mistakes are at the very base of human thought embedded there feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way. Lewis Thomas Category: Mistake England with all thy faults I love thee still My country! William Cowper Category: Engineer If there is anything that a man can do well I say let him do it. Give him a chance. Abraham Lincoln Category: Talent I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. Martin Luther King Jr. Category: Civil Where then does happiness lie? In forgetfulness not indulgence of the self. In escape from sensual appetites not in their satisfaction. We live in a dark self-enclosed prison which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward becoming aware of the wide luminous universe outside this alone is happiness. At its highest level such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described. At more humdrum levels it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything fitfully glimpsed inadequately expounded but ever present. Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge Category: Happiness Ambition is like love impatient both of delays and rivals. John Denham Category: Ambition Any great work of art ... revives and readapts time and space and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange special air. Leonard Bernstein Category: Art The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Category: Easy My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life? Michael Ventura Category: Unsorted There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Henry Alfred Kissinger Category: Cannot All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love And its familiar voice wearies not ever. ...... They who inspire it most are fortunate As I am now; but those who feel it most Are happier still. Percy Bysshe Shelley Category: Love Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking. Grenville Kleiser Category: Depend Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy and you will intensify its ecstasy. Unknown Category: Joy You nine daughters of Jupiter sisters of one heart. Novem Iovis concordes filiae sorores Gnaeus Naevius Category: Unsorted After all we could get on very happily if aviation wireless television and the like advanced no further than at present.... Dare I even suggest at the risk of being lynched by some of my hearers that the sum of human happiness would not necessarily be reduced if for ten years every physical and chemical laboratory were closed and the patient and resourceful energy in them transferred to the lost art of getting on together and finding the formula for making both ends meet in the scale of human life. Much of course we should lose by this universal scientific holiday ... but human happiness would not necessarily suffer. Edward Arthur Burroughs Category: Unsorted Even where Congress has the authority under the Constitution to pass laws requiring or prohibiting certain acts it lacks the power directly to compel the States to require or prohibit those acts. Supreme Court Category: Unsorted Whatever you do you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Wrong Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires. Lao Tzu Category: Happiness Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. John Ruskin Category: Possessions A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory. Category: Debt Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities like two sides of a dollar bill each different in design.... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other. Ivy Baker Priest Category: Woe It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them will come centuries of further greatness to our country. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Freedom With the first link a chain is forged. The first speech censured the first thought forbidden the first freedom denied chains us all irrevocably. Louis Benoît Picard Category: Unsorted And have they fixed the where and when? And shall Trelawney die? Heres twenty thousand Cornishmen Will know the reason why! Robert Stephen Hawker Category: Unsorted Time goes you say? Ah no! Alas Time stays we go. Austin Dobson Category: Time No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill belonging to it so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other. Frank Lloyd Wright Category: Arab The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. John Spencer Category: Research I love children especially when they cry for then someone takes them away. Nancy Mitford Category: Children There is no need for these hypotheses to be true or even to be at all like the truth; rather one thing is suffcient for them that they should yield calculations which agree with the observations. Osiander Category: Unsorted The true test of character is not how much we know how to do but how we behave when we don't know what to do. John Holt Category: Character When I am dead my dearest Sing no sad songs for me: Plant thou no roses at my head Nor shady cypress tree. Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt remember And if thou wilt forget. Christina Georgina Rossetti Category: Death There are no dumb questionsonly dumb answers. Marshall Loeb Category: Unsorted Don't LOOK at anything in a physics lab. Don't TASTE anything in a chemistry lab. Don't SMELL anything in a biology lab. Don't TOUCH anything in a medical lab. And most importantly don't LISTEN to anything in a philosophy department. Bill Lye Category: Unsorted Be yourself who else is better qualified? Frank J. Giblin II Category: Yourself Our favorite holding period is forever. Warren Buffett Category: Money A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets some gourmands and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole absent-mindedly and with little relish. Wystan Hugh Auden Category: Dream All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they all aim at the same end. Blaise Pascal Category: Happiness An artist wished to paint a face The symbol of innocence and joy; He sought a child for his ideal And drew the likeness of a boy. Long years passed on. The artist now A gray old man one picture more Designed to make and call it Guilt A contrast to the child of yore. He went into a dungeon dark Its cold walls damp with slime. And painted a wretched man chained there Condemned to death for crime. Beside the other he placed the last; And when he learned the prisoners name He found the innocent laughing child And the hardened man were but the same. Montagu Gere Montagu Gere Category: Unsorted Be at war with your vices; at peace with your neighbors and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin Category: War It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville Category: Imitation The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use? Dale Carnegie Category: Plagiarism Vari-colored leaves waft at winds gentle prodding-- Autumn rites recur Victor Gendrano Category: Unsorted Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny trivial incidents but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds. William McChesney Martin Jr. Category: Unsorted Only law can give us freedom. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Freedom Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steak to a tiger the tiger will become a vegetarian. Heywood Braun Category: Vatican Education: A debt due from present to future generations. George Peabody Category: Unsorted A good name like good will is got by many actions and lost by one. Lord Jeffery Category: Name We hope to grow old yet we fear old age; that is we are willing to live and afraid to die. Jean de la Bruyere Category: Afraid Love of animals is a universal impulse a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other. Dr Louis J. Camuti Category: Unsorted Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity. Don Marquis Category: Honest Those who do not love life do not deserve it. Giovanni Giacomo Casanova Category: Deserve Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. John Milton Category: Better Life is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us. Francois Voltaire Category: Life It did not last: the devil howling Ho! Let Einstein be! restored the status quo. J. C. Squire Category: Unsorted Mom and apple pie. Proverb Category: Mother Every man has a property in his own person; this nobody has a right to but himself. John Locke Category: Risk REPUBLIC n. A nation in which the thing governing and the thing governed being the same there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Republic Goals are dreams with deadlines. Diana Scharf Hunt Category: Goals When the passions become masters they are vices. Blaise Pascal Category: Passion The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be and one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that Gods purpose is something different from the purpose of either party and yet the human instrumentalities working just as they do are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose. Abraham Lincoln Category: God Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying If I should wake before I die.... Life can get away from you. Tony Campolo Category: Unsorted From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents from 18 to 35 she needs good looks from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality and from 55 on she needs cash. Sophie Tucker Category: Age It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done compared to what he might have done. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Comparison Calvin: Im not dumb I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. William B.'Bill' Watterson II Category: Unsorted Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way; But to act that each to-morrow Finds us further than to-day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Category: Tomorrow Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. Aesop Category: Misfortunes All anger is not sinful because some degree of it and on some occasions is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation and when it continues long. Rev. William Paley Category: Unsorted Of Commercial television: A license to print your own money. Lord Roy Thomson Category: Unsorted Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Robert Anson Heinlein Category: Cat Guess what ... I think Im parked in a red zone. Michael Madsen Category: Unsorted [Countering worldly wickedness] is achieved when the powers of righteousness are marshaled in the home under the worthy priesthood leadership of the father equally yoked with a good and righteous mother. D. Lee Tobler Category: Unsorted A law is valuable not because it is law but because there is right in it. Henry Ward Beecher Category: Law A human being is a part of the whole called by us Universe a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. Albert Einstein Category: Compassion Take it from us it is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman Category: Garden All over the world at the end of day Heavnly Fathers children kneel down and pray... Our Heavenly Father hears them; He understands each tongue. Our Heavnly Father knows them; He loves them loves them evry one. Peggy Hill Ryskamp Category: Unsorted All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell Category: Animals Things are only impossible until theyre not. Jean-Luc Picard Category: Unsorted Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. Albert Einstein Category: Freedom Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. Robert Silliman Hillyer Category: Perfection No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft Category: Behavior A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. Clifton Paul Fadiman Category: Humor This seems to be one of the many cases in which the admitted accuracy of mathematical processes is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness; but nevertheless what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Mathematics We do choose how we shall live Joseph Epstein Category: Drugs You don't have to go looking for love when its where you come from. Werner Erhard Category: Love MIND n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Futility My ladys sparrow is dead the sparrow which was my ladys delight. Caius Valerius Catullus Category: Unsorted Someones opinion of you does not have to become your reality. Les Brown Category: Opinion Serenity comes not alone by removing the outward causes and occasions of fear but by the discovery of inward reservoirs to draw upon. Rufus M. J ones Category: Unsorted Rough as a cob. Proverb Category: Culture Well do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes. Mickey Rivers Category: Unsorted Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire. General George Smith Patton Jr. Category: Decency I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein Category: Enjoyment She crept up to her father's knee to sit there quite contentedly. No word needing to be said Laying his hand upon her head and looking down he gently smiled upon his treasured trusting child. ‘tis thus with me approaching prayer feeling father's spirit there. In quiet peace all fears are fled heart so warmed so fully fed That oh it's just as though he'd smiled on me his blessed joyous child. Carol L. Banks Category: Unsorted I fear all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Category: Revenge Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain Category: Duty Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state servants of fame and servants of business. Francis Bacon Category: Servant There are two kinds of marriages where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. Clifford Odets Category: Quotations Governments like docks go from the motion men give them and as governments are made and moved by men so by them they are ruined also. Therefore governments depend upon men rather then men upon governments. William Penn Category: Unsorted If men and nations did reach up to God with all their hearts war would cease. If love of God were in the heart of man a man would have no desire to destroy his brother. There would be no dishonesty if the love of God were in the heart. If God came first in his life a man would love his neighbor as himself and instead of taking from him he would feel to give. Rex C. Reeve Sr. Category: Unsorted As I walk As I walk The Universe is walking with me. Proverb Category: Universe I do not believe in God for that implies an effort of the willI see God everywhere! Jean Hughes Category: Unsorted PRIVATE n. A military gentleman with a field-marshals baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Privacy Belief is in a sense passive an agreement or acceptance only; faith is active and positive embracing such reliance and confidence as will lead to works. Faith in Christ comprises belief in Him combined with trust in Him. One cannot have faith without belief; yet he may believe and still lack faith. Faith is vivified vitalized living belief. James E. Talmage Category: Belief Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality increases the wealth of the mind and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age against the growth of physical disability against the lack and loss of animal delights. How essential it is then in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes in order to furnish the mind to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls. William Lyon Phelps Category: Education Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the latter. Benjamin Franklin Category: Idleness Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself these responsibilities stem from no man-made law but from the very nature of man and society. The security progress and welfare of one group is measured finally in the security progress and welfare of all mankind. Lewis Schwellenbach Category: Responsibility How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Category: Anger We are always getting ready to live but never living. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Indecision Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there and I am prepared to expect wonders. Henry David Thoreau Category: Faith A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill. Jane Austen Category: Unsorted If ya ain't got it in ya ya can't blow it out. Louis ‘Satchmo' Armstrong Category: Music Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics they would purge their brains of this foolishness. Enoch Arnold Bennett Category: Unsorted I feel not unlike a small boy waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement John Byrne Category: Unsorted An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame. Sam Ewing Category: Unsorted A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. Bill of Rights Category: Gun ... every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things for earth and sky for roads and fields and woods for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals and all inarticulate creatures. Ellen Glasgow Category: Unsorted Being too good is apt to be uninterresting. Harry S. Truman Category: Good A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend. Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine Category: Endure When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too The memry of the past will stay And half our joys renew. Thomas Moore Category: Memory There are more fools than wise men; and even in wise men more folly than wisdom. Nicholas Chamfort Category: Learn INVENTOR n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels levers and springs and believes it civilization. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Invention Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: History Since a rational mans ambition is unlimited since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process and the higher the values the harder the struggle he needs a moment an hour or some period of time in which he can experience the sense of his completed task the sense of living in a universe where his values have been successfully achieved. It is like a moment of rest a moment to gain fuel to move farther. Ayn Rand Category: Man In Zen practitioners use kung-an (koans) as subjects for meditation until their mind comes to awakening. There is a big difference between a kung-an and a math problem the solution of the math problem is included in the problem itself while the response to the kung-an lies in the life of the practitioner. The kung-an is a useful instrument in the work of awakening just as a pick is a useful instrument in working on the ground. What is accomplished from working on the ground depends on the person doing the work and not just on the pick. The kung-an is not an enigma to resolve; this is why we cannot say that it is a theme or subject of meditation. Nhat Hanh Category: Meditation My father always told me Find a job you love and youll never have to work a day in your life. Jim Fox Category: Job Have known the evenings mornings afternoons I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T. S. Eliot Category: Life Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer. Thomas Carlyle Category: Duty First learn to love yourself and then you can love me. St. Bernard of Clarvaux Category: Unsorted Television is a corporate vulgarity. John Leonard Category: Television After three days fish and guests stink. John Lyly Category: Hospitality Some are born great some achieve greatness and others have it pinned on them George Ade Category: Gravity The great artists of the world are never Puritans and seldom even ordinarily respectable. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Art Any intelligent fool can make things bigger more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. E.F. Schumacher Category: Big Goodnight my darlings Ill see you tomorrow. Noel Coward Category: Last No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. Christopher Darlington Morley Category: Conversation When the going gets tough look for an easier way. Frank Jaster Category: Unsorted Blow hot and cold. Proverb Category: Indecision Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky. John Gould Fletcher Category: Unsorted And for mathematical science he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. Joseph Glanvill Category: Unsorted If the public perception is that banning these [assault-style] firearms will do anything except annoy their owners then there is something wrong with the public perception. John C. Brobston Category: Unsorted You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. Lydia Maria Child Category: Cheerful Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. Virginia Woolf Category: History There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. Ken Olson Category: Computer The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. Blaise Pascal Category: Discovery I am convinced that we have a degree of delight and that no small one in the real misfortunes and pains of others. Edmund Burke Category: Misfortunes O threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain - This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has bloomed for ever dies. Omar Khayyam Category: Life The foolish and dead never change their opinions. Unknown Category: Opinion Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. Tupac Shakur Category: Unsorted Facts are the enemy of truth. Don Quixote Category: Fact We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Gaius Petronius Arbiter Category: Progress He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. Raymond Chandler Category: Console RIMER n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Poetry Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan Category: Unsorted In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. Mark Twain Category: Profanity How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Lord Lyttleton Category: Unsorted Before you build a better mousetrap it helps to know if there are any mice out there. Mortimer B. Zuckerman Category: Unsorted The true and noble way to kill a foe is not to kill him you with kindness may so change him that he shall cease to be so and then he's slain. Émile Auguste Chartier Category: Unsorted March 20th. Marks the 1st day of true spring. The Goddess blankets the Earth with fertility bursting forth from Her sleep as the God stretches and grows to maturity. He walks the greening fields and delights in the abundance of Nature. This is a time of beginnings of action of planting spells for future gains and of tending ritual gardens. Unknown Category: Spring With just enough of learning to misquote. Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Quotations One day at a time this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future for it has not yet come. Live in the present and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. Ida Scott Taylor. Category: Present Whatever you do trample down abuses and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do crush the infamous thing [superstition] and love those who love you. Francois Voltaire Category: Abuse How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt Category: Fate The Naked Ape - i.e. Homo Sapiens. Desmond Morris Category: Unsorted You have to sniff out joy; keep your nose to the joy-trail. Buffy Sainte Marie Category: Unsorted When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. Paul Lewis Charles Claudel Category: Unsorted Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Money There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Beauty Not failure but low aim is a crime. Ernest Holmes Category: Aim Experience is a good school but the fees are high. Heinrich Heine Category: Experience Hanging one scoundrel it appears does not deter the next. Well what of it? The first one at least is disposed of. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Capable I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop then so were we. Jim Allchin Category: Computer I hate careless flattery the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. Wilson Mizner Category: Belief I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine ... Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned. That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters. Samuel Beckett Category: Idea Just why I suffer loss I cannot know I only know my Father wills it so. He leads in paths I cannot understand; But all the way I know is wisely planned. My life is only mine that I may use The gifts he length me as he may choose; And if in love some boon he does recall I know that unto him belongeth all. I am his child and I can safely trust; He loves me and I know that he is just. Within his love I can scarcely rest Assured that what he does for me is best. Edith Virginia Eradt Category: Unsorted Youd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. Dolly Parton Category: Clothes For truly in adverse fortune the worst sting of misery is to have been happy. Boethius Category: Unsorted Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. Gerald Brenan Category: Unsorted MAGNITUDE n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Universe Knowledge itself is power. Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. Francis Bacon Category: Knowledge Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn al-`Arabi Category: Name The public is a ferocious beast one must either chain it up or flee from it. Francois Voltaire Category: Public All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man to the woman; straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Housework We don't have to die to go to heaven. When we get to the point to love someone over ourselves we get to heaven. Hermana Salazar Category: Unsorted It is change continuing change inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is but the world as it will be.... This in turn means that our statesmen our businessmen our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking. Isaac Asimov Category: Change It doesnt work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. Proverb Category: Measure Luxury makes a man so soft that it is hard to please him and easy to trouble him; so that his pleasures at last become his burden. Luxury is a nice master hard to be pleased. Mackenzie Category: Unsorted Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. Sir Richard Livingstone Category: Education No misfortune or vexation befalleth a servant of God small or great but on account of his faults committed: and most of these God forgiveth. Prophet Muhammad Category: Misfortunes The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and stor Freeman Dyson Category: History Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde Category: Education The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man wholl get me a book I aint read. Abraham Lincoln Category: Book There is a devil in every berry of the grape. Prophet Muhammad Category: Alcohol Inside the Great Mystery that is we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then before we go one at a time through the same gate? Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi Category: Own Appreciation is the memory of the heart. Bill Beattie Category: Unsorted Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. William Shakespeare Category: Gift We will either find a way or make one. Hannibal Category: Persecution Beware of the man who works hard to learn something learns it and finds himself no wiser than before. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Category: Happiness Everything we call a trial a sorrow or a duty believe me that angels hand is there the gift is there and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys too be not content with them as joys. They too conceal diviner gifts. Fra Giovanni Giocondo Category: Unsorted If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness and therefore your excellence. Edge Keynote Category: Unsorted It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. Get a reputation and then go to bed is the absurdest of all maxims. Keep up a reputation or go to bed would be nearer the truth. Edwin Hubbel Chapin Category: Reputation Life is full of misery loneliness and suffering and its all over much too soon. Woody Allen Category: Life All is fish that comth to net. John Heywood Category: Fish I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today with all the progress we have made in liberal thought the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience. Frank Knox Category: Unsorted How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose But musical as is Apollos lute And a perpetual feast of nectard sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. John Milton Category: Philosophy I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Creation Who knows most doubts most. Robert Browning Category: Know Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. Henry James Jr. Category: Kindness Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldnt be done. Earl Wilson Category: Embarrass Joe: We cant just walk out on her without saying goodbye. Jerry: What? Since when? You usually walk out and leave em with nothing but a kick in the teeth. Joe: Thats when I was a saxophone player. Now Im a millionaire. Tony Curtis Category: Unsorted We ... anticipate whats to come then ignore whats actually here. Stephan Rechtschaffen MD Category: Unsorted It is not by muscle speed or physical dexterity that great things are achieved but by reflection force of character and judgment; in these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer but is even richer. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Gravity Freedom is the recognition of necessity. Friedrich Engels Category: Unsorted 'Tis a lesson you should heed Try try again. If at first you don't succeed Try try again. William Edward Hickson Category: Unsorted A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Category: Knowledge Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong Category: Life A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner Category: Popular War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. Georges Clemenceau Category: Military I don't know who my grandfather was; Im much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Abraham Lincoln Category: Ancestors Never answer a hypothetical question. Moshe Arens Category: Question Youth is fair a graceful stag Leaping playing in a park Age is gray a toothless hag Stumbling in the dark. Isaac L. Peretz Category: Unsorted If a word in the dictionary were misspelled how would we know? Steven Wright Category: Dictionary IMMODEST adj. Having a strong sense of ones own merit coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Modesty Most people would rather give than get affection. Aristotle Category: The parent can train the natures of children to remain fast while their habits change through the years. We must have a citizenry which will by long inner training be able to feel secure in a storm. No parent can raise that kind of child till he is himself that kind of person. H. Clay Mitchell D.D. Category: Unsorted Those needing proof refuse to see it. Walter Bartoo Category: Unsorted Learning to dislike children at an early age saves alot of expense and aggravation later in life. Robert Byrne Category: Children Lets just say I was testing the bounds of society. I was just curious. Jim Morrison Category: Unsorted Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. Gerald Brenan Category: Ghost He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green which otherwise would heal and do well. John Milton Category: Revenge O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife torture prison popular odium death face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God! Walt Whitman Category: Death I will age ungracefully until I become an old woman in a small garden doing whatever the hell I want. Robin Chotzinoff Category: Unsorted Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Category: Atheism We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death. Nathaniel Hawthorne Category: Death All this and heaven too. Matthew Henry Category: Heaven The most wonderful of all things in life I believe is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. Sir Hugh Walpole Category: Relationships I have often thought it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the Middle of Winter. Joseph Addison Category: Christmas It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Category: Jogging God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. Alfred Jarry Category: God A childs hand in yours what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. Marjorie Holmes Category: Children Those eyes the greenest of things blue The bluest of things grey. Algernon Charles Swinburne Category: Unsorted It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be. Brigitte Bardot Category: Unfaithful There never was a good war or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin Category: Peace The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Henry Havelock Ellis Category: Insanity The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Cousin Woodman Category: Know Now two punctilious envoys Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And dwelling much on right and much on wrong Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Category: Unsorted It is better to be safe than sorry. Proverb Category: Better If we want more brotherhood and goodwill more intelligence more clear thinking more honesty and sincerity more tolerance and human understanding we must concentrate upon cultivating these qualities within ourselves. There is a natural progression in social advancement from the individual spirit to the family to the community to the nation and to the world at large. The line of progress can move in no other direction. There is no substitute for personal integrity. Howard W. Hintz. DD Category: Unsorted Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. Sarah Orne Jewett Category: Manners To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. Blaise Pascal Category: Philosophy You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen simply wait. Do not even wait be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked it has no choice it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka Category: Unsorted Love all alike no season knows nor clime Nor hours days months which are the rags of time. John Donne Category: Alike CYNIC n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynics eyes to improve his vision. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Cynic How beautiful a day can be When kindness touches it! Elliston Category: Unsorted Society in every state is a blessing but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. Thomas Paine Category: Government Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. Charles Franklin Kettering Category: Factory Heavens no! It could get subpoenaed. I cant write anything. When asked if she had a diary. Hillary Clinton Category: Unsorted Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. Earl Wilson Category: Whisper Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions like as fire eateth up and burneth wood. Prophet Muhammad Category: Envy Not so in haste my heart! Have faith in God and wait; Although he linger long He never comes too late. He never comes too late He knoweth what is best: Vex not thyself in vain; Until he cometh rest. Until he cometh rest. Nor grudge the hours that roll: The feet that wait for God Are soonest at the goal. Are soonest at the goal. That is not gained by speed; Then hold thee still my heart For I shall wait his lead. Bradford Torrey Category: Unsorted But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battles van The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man! Michael J. Barry Category: Soldier If you believe that discrimination exists it will. Category: Belief Enemies promises were made to be broken. Aesop Category: Promise The act of smelling something anything is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception you can feel the mind going to work sending the odor around from place to place setting off complex repertories through the brain polling one center after another for signs of recognition for old memories and old connection. Lewis Thomas Category: Smell But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you to love the LORD your God and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. Thomas Morell Category: Unsorted The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. Hannah Whitall Smith Category: Advice To live from hand to mouth. Proverb Category: Potential Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. Arthur C. Clarke Category: Computer If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity of fear and of promiscuous misery. Albert Einstein Category: Instinct A thought is often original though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route by a new and express train of association. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Original I cant believe Im having this conversation ... With you! Youve probably never read a book in your life that wasnt written by John Grisham. You don't get it. People like you are so content to write-off English. English just isnt about analysing stories if it was I wouldnt be like this. Stories novels whatever ... reflect something about the writer ... and the culture ... and the society that it came from. Its a mirror a mirror to ourselves. And when we do it right when we just get it we know something about ourselves. English is an understanding of the self. If we can see ourselves clearly we know the right decision to make. And if you don't know who you are and make the wrong choices what good is it if you can make two-hundred and fifty thousand? Tyler Powell Category: Unsorted They are just jealous because they don't have three wise men and a virgin in the whole organization. Mayor Vincent J. Ciarci Category: Unsorted The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still Youre one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak A cloud comes over the sunlit arch A wind comes off a frozen peak And youre two months back in the middle of March. Robert Frost Category: Seasons And if you say a word about this over the radio the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse. John Malkovich Category: Unsorted Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat thats bad for you! Tommy Smothers Category: Food All national institutions of churches whether Jewish Christian or Turkish appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit. Thomas Paine Category: Church Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke. Claude McDonald Category: Worry The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It Separate It or include It. In spite of this every allusion alludes only to Him every designation designates Him and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested. Abd al-Kader Category: Unsorted A signature always reveals a mans character and sometimes even his name. Evan Esar Category: Name INJURY n. An offense next in degree of enormity to a slight. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Injury Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. Helen Rowland Category: Flirtation Industry pays debts despair increases them. Benjamin Franklin Category: Industry Not worth a hill of beans. Proverb Category: Worth The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it anarchy and tyranny commence. John Adams Category: Property I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. George Washington Category: Government Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau Category: Love Success Is Gauged By Self-Mastery I should like to say a few words about self-discipline self-control or self-mastery which is so important to all of us if we are to accomplish what we set out to do and enjoy the blessings which we desire so much. Fir N. Eldon Tanner Category: Success Im not sure I want popular opinion on my side Ive noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. Bethania McKenstry Category: Fact Its when you run away that youre most liable to stumble. Casey Robinson Category: Unsorted Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life. Micron Category: Hate I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. Theodore Roosevelt Category: Wealth The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster. Adam Smith Category: Defeat One of the advantages of being Captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it. James T. Kirk Category: Advice A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation. James Freeman Clarke Category: Politics I am afraid of death. You are young so presumably youre more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human death and life are the same thing. George Orwell Category: Death Saying nothing often shows a fine command of language. Unknown Category: Language The manner in which it is given is often worth more than the gift. Unknown Category: Gift My share of the work of the world may be limited but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green the historian tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. H. Kellogg Category: Unsorted The lunatic the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact. William Shakespeare Category: Illusions None shall rule but the humble And none but Toil shall have. Douglas Jerrold Category: Humanitarian Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocencea lot passes you bysimply because your attention is otherwise diverted. Anita Brookner Category: Unsorted A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. George Orwell Category: Noble A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. Henry David Thoreau Category: Rich You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people. Admiral Grace Hooper Category: Leadership Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre Category: Hell Regarding Winter: There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you ..... In spring summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter in the country can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. Ruth Stout Category: Garden Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. Mark Twain Category: Love The wisest of the wise may err. Aeschylus Category: Wise When ideas fail words come in very handy. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Idea The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound beneath the scar. Ernst Schroder Category: Optimism The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein Category: Mystics Take care of those who work for you and youll float to greatness on their achievements. H. S. M. Burns Category: Achievement Vote for the man who promises least. Hell be the least disappointing. Bernard Mannes Baruch Category: Vote A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus Category: Photography La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked or that is crooked from the beginning will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on or if you don't learn manners when you are young you will never learn them later. Bethania Maria Category: Unsorted Dialogue is the melody of a story. Milton Segal Category: Unsorted My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Category: Heart Drawing near her death she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body. Thomas Fuller Category: Heaven The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose decide on the steps needed to make it work and then proceed to do it as soon as possible. Duane Newcomb Category: Unsorted Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. George Burns Category: Cab The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself he becomes wise. Alden Nowlan Category: Adolescence If you arent playing well the game isnt as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. Thomas J. Watson Category: Play The perception of beauty is a moral test. Henry David Thoreau Category: Beauty Look Ma! Top of the world! James Cagney Category: Unsorted Jesus is the only one who can bring us to forgiveness. He waits for us to turn our hearts over to him; then he performs the healing changing finishing miracles. Holly Metcalf Category: Unsorted There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. Martin Fraquhar Tupper Category: Unsorted Tis not the season of the leaf whose fragile body's broken veins disintegrate in gusts of winds while winter blows a frosty coat that caps the barren land. Lucille Younger Category: Unsorted If you have time to lean you have time to clean. Ray Kroc Category: Distance I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark. Thomas Hobbes Category: Last Im tired of having sand in my shoes anyway. Evacuating from Hurricane Floyd 1999 Sheila Vann Category: Unsorted Scraping the bottom of the barrel. Proverb Category: Worse Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence. Henri Frederic Amiel Category: Lever How do you compare apples and oranges? By their nutritional value. Marshall Elizer Category: Unsorted I think a good life is a ratio of one good moment against a thousand boring ones one good picture out of a roll of film one good friend against a dozen let-downs. Ravi Veloo Category: Unsorted A woman can learn a lot from holding a new baby. It is life beginning againsweet possibilities! No problem in the world is big enough to be remembered. Susan McOmber Category: Unsorted Nowadays some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with a remote control. M. Charles Wheeler Category: Unsorted Freedom is the right to be wrong not the right to do wrong. John G. Riefenbaker Category: Honest He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God. Johann Kaspar Lavater Category: Cheating Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven. Robert Pollok Category: Unsorted Annabel Lee It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a chil Edgar Allan Poe Category: Love Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich of black and white of Jew and Gentile of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows once it is destroyed where or when man will find its protective warmth again. Wendell Lewis Willkie Category: Unsorted The Lord knows our bearing capacity both as to coping and to comprehending and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear we will not be given more trials than we can sustain. Neal A. Maxwell Category: Unsorted President N.S.W. Division of the United Nations Association: The best way to create a radical is to hit a conservative person over the head with a police truncheon. Dr. Keith Suter Category: President One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold H. Glasow Category: Leadership To reflect is to disturb ones thoughts. Jean Rostand Category: Unsorted Honesty is the best image. Tom Wilson Category: Honest You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before I see. Andrew Jackson Category: President Reference Omar Khayyám Category: Unsorted A good listener is usually thinking about something else. Frank McKinney Kin Hubbard Category: Listen Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied. Niccolo Machiavelli Category: Ambition 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 Category: Failure Decrying the mismanagement that led to the summers catastrophic wildfires: The Clinton administration didnt cause these fires but their policies have left the Forest Service under-funded and under-prepared for this crisis. I don't think its a conspiracy but its a philosophy they have that leads to explosive fires that destroy everything. Marc Racicot Category: Fire The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. Eugene Wigner Category: Unsorted That is the true season of love when we believe that we alone can love that no one could ever have loved so before us and that no one will love in the same way as us. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Love Never regard study as a duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. Albert Einstein Category: Duty Our wills are not ours to be crushed and broken; they are ours to be trained and strengthened. Our affections are not ours to be blighted and crucified; they are ours to be deepened and purified. The rich opportunities of life are not held out to us only Hamilton Wright Mabie Category: Will The modern and to my mind true theory is that mathematics is the abstract form of the natural sciences; and that it is valuable as a training of the reasoning powers not because it is abstract but because it is a representation of actual things. T. H. Sanford Category: Unsorted The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Lever We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way not by shouting each other down but by the unique capacity of unique individual human beings to comprehend each other. Lewis Thomas Category: Society Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Idleness If power corrupts weakness in the seat of power with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangementscorrupts even more. Barbara Tuchman Category: Bribery In the dark colony of night when I consider mans magnificent capacity for malice madness folly envy rage and destructiveness and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. Leo Calvin Rosten Category: Unsorted You can employ men and hire hands to work for you but you must win their hearts to have them work with you. Tiorio Category: Win Beauty more than bitterness Makes the heart break. Sara Teasdale Category: Beauty Old age was simply a delightful time when the old people sat on the sunny doorsteps playing in the sun with the children until they fell asleep. At last they failed to wake up. James Paytiamo Category: Age Even if you do learn to speak correct English whom are you going to speak it to? Clarence Seward Darrow Category: Engineer We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. Albert Einstein Category: Death Ah but a mans reach should exceed his grasp Or whats a heaven for? Robert Browning Category: Ambition I have not yet begun to fight! John Paul Jones Category: Determination Spanking Jack was so comely so pleasant so jolly Though winds blew great guns still hed whistle and sing; Jack loved his friend and was true to his Molly And if honour gives greatness was great as a king. Charles Dibdin Category: Unsorted I love you Sarah. For all eternity I love you. [Spoken to his wife.] James Knox Polk Category: Last I am a Queen but I have not the power to move my arms. Louise Category: Love Our lives are but our marches to the grave. Francis Beaumont Category: Life Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. O. Henry Category: Fortune The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance. Dr. Bryan Miller DC Category: Unsorted Boldness and more boldness and always boldness! Georges Jacques Danton Category: Book By jove no wonder women don't love war nor understand it nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.... Janet Flanner Category: Unsorted When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin Category: Love How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe a cockroach in the spaghetti a womans laugh. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Suffer William Symonds in his 1612 history of the Virginia colonies also omits the Pocahontas episode relating instead that Smith secured his release through his own clever connivance: A month those Barbarians kept him prisoner many strange triumphes and co William Symonds Category: Unsorted The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. Konrad Adenauer Category: Unsorted Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so. Marquise Magdeleine de Sable Category: Children Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one-mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas. Wilbur Wright Category: Unsorted Telling lies is a fault in a boy an art in a lover an accomplishment in a bachelor and second-nature in a married man. Helen Rowland Category: Lever Honor is like an island rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. Nicholas Boileau Category: Honor Too bad eternity has to last forever Jessica Conner Category: Unsorted Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure And the comforter of him whom time cannot console. Charles Caleb Colton Category: Death Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Noel Adams Category: Capable A believer is a bird in a cage a free-thinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. Robert Green Ingersoll Category: Think To do so no more is the truest repentance. Martin Luther Category: Proverb No matter what else they're doing women are also always nurturing. Mary Martha Corinne 'Cokie' Roberts Category: Unsorted We are the painters of own self-portraits. Who we become will be determined by our attitudes our actions and what we learn. Mary-Ellen Drummond Category: Self My friend has a baby. Im writing down all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. Steven Wright Category: Baby America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world and no one will keep that light from shining. George W. Bush Category: Unsorted Good government generally begins in the family and if the moral character of a people once degenerate their political character must soon follow. Elias Boudinot Category: Unsorted Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a mans fingers. Proverb Category: Temptation You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature. William Rotsler Category: Laugh I gave my life for freedom - This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so. William Norman Ewer Category: Soldier How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. Wystan Hugh Auden Category: Mathematics It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others we shall assuredly not learn it from books which are at best designed but to give names to our errors. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Book WEAKNESSES n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Weak Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain Category: Forgive On the stage ... masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough. Anthony Dymoke Powell Category: Actors Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Knowledge A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. Proverb Category: Health I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Category: Better Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend which neither heat nor cold nor misery nor place nor destiny can alter or diminish. John Lyly Category: Face The laws of probability so true in general so fallacious in particular. Edward Gibbon Category: Probability Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Orthodox Most people cant understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. Ivan Turgenev Category: Conformity I beheld the wretchthe miserable monster whom I had created. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Category: Miser If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. Francis Bacon Category: Certainty Thoughts are pleasant companions if we choose them as well as we should choose other company. Sir Frederick Pollock Category: Unsorted Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives which were devoted to the contemplation of the divine; but with a prophetic eye we may see that the garden will often be dedicated in a like manner: at a later time Greek philosophers and monks in early Christian days will retire into their gardens for united yet silent contemplation. Marie L. Gothein Category: Garden The pressure of the hands causes the springs of life to flow. Tokujiro Namikoshi Category: Unsorted Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and youll find the real tinsel underneath. Oscar Levant Category: Hollywood Make no judgments where you have no compassion. Unknown Category: Compassion Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. The Bible Category: Death Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. Alfred North Whitehead Category: Religion Sticks and stones may break your bones when theres anger to impart. Unknown Category: Anger An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout. Unknown Category: Irish Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. Francis Quarles Category: Action Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell Category: Fear Lets do it! [Executed by firing squad.] Gary Gilmore Category: Last We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not speak of ourselves at all. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Conceit Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation which groans in expectation of the Spirits final harvest may inherit Paradise. If we Christians truly treasure the hope that one day we like Adam and the penitent thief will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers then we must also imitate the Masters art and make the desolate earth grow green. Vigen Guroian Category: Christianity We live in a rainbow of chaos. Paul Cezanne Category: Unsorted The traditional mathematics professor of the popular legend is absentminded. He usually appears in public with a lost umbrella in each hand. He prefers to face the blackboard and to turn his back to the class. He writes a he says b he means c; but it should be d. Some of his sayings are handed down from generation to generation. In order to solve this differential equation you look at it till a solution occurs to you. This principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures. My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it. What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you used twice. George Polyá Category: Mathematics Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until theyve flung it away. Sophocles Category: If The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence. Ernst Mach Category: Unsorted Bell Labs Cafeteria New York 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: No Im not interested in developing a powerful brain. All Im after is just a mediocre brain something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Alan Mathison Turing Category: Unsorted The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself. Giovanni Ruffini Category: Teach Live dangerously and you live right. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Live Every job has drudgery whether it is in the home in the professional school or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact. M. C. McIntosh Category: Unsorted The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation. Henry Fielding Category: Affectation When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies then the division of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form. Simone de Beauvoir Category: Slavery I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs. David Ogilvy Category: Business Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. Gerald Brenan Category: Love The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. John Stuart Mill Category: Unsorted CLOCK n. A machine of great moral value to man allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Time Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. Francis Meehan Category: War Not only are you what you think you are more so; what you think you are. Category: Responsibility Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. Helen Rowland Category: Love There is a point at which even justice does injury. Sophocles Category: Justice To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. Kung Fu-tzu Confucius Category: Excess Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when its the only one we have. Émile Auguste Chartier Category: Danger Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world not of a block. Debbie Alle Category: Unsorted And so today the undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children. [Isaiah] describes the condition when [he] states As for my people children are their oppressors and women rule over them. and then these words followand consider these words seriously when you think of those political leaders who are promoting birth control and abortion: O my people they which lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths. Isaiah 3:12 Ezra Taft Benson Category: Abortion Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Unknown Category: Heart The bringers of grain to the city to sell at a cheap rate gain immense advantage by it and those who keepeth back grain in order to sell at a high rate is cursed. Prophet Muhammad Category: Monopoly Ez fer war I call it murder There you hev it plain an flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. .... . An you ve gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God. James Russell Lowell Category: War The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Aristocracy The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Age Almost all men are intelligent. It is method that they lack. F. W. Nichol Category: Unsorted Grief is a stone that bears one down But two bear it lightly. Wilhelm Hauff Category: Unsorted You can have brilliant ideas but if you cant get them across your ideas wont get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Category: Idea Be persistent in good actions. Prophet Muhammad Category: Good It doesnt happen all at once.... You become. It takes a long time. Margery Williams Category: Unsorted The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it as satisfactory or as thrilling as gathering the vegetables one has grown. Alice B. Toklas Category: Unsorted Radio wasnt outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity it also grew up and turned into television leaving behind like dead skin transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music.... Vincent Canby Category: Radio A kiss can be a comma a question mark or an exclamation point. Thats the basic spelling that every woman ought to know. Mistinguette Category: Kissing God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. See related quotation from Albert Einstein. Stephen William Hawking Category: Bet No sooner did I bend over and scratch the soil with the hoe that I began to unearth bits and pieces ... of my past. Memories forever rooted in time were clustered in my garden consciousness like potatoes waiting crying to be dug up. ... I plant flowers and vegetables. I harvest memories - and life. Nancy H. Jordan Category: Unsorted Days of my life Id like to forget: The day the doctors told me I was sick. The day I had to tell my friends I was ill. The day my hair fell out. The first day after my surgery. Theyre also the days Ill always remember Kate Sawford Category: Unsorted Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side the catastrophe is still there. Category: Feelings Errors like straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.... John Dryden Category: Error By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree and endless in duration. Benjamin Franklin Category: Heaven Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planets irreplaceable capital. Aldous Huxley Category: Prosperity Most women are not so young as they are painted. Sir Max Beerbohm Category: Woe One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already. Sylvia Porter Category: Easy The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. Eugene Delacroix Category: Perfection Of all the unhappy people in the world the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. Lin Yutang Category: Unhappiness Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Justice Happiness lies first of all in health. George William Curtis Category: Happiness Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good. John Dalberg Lord Acton Category: Idea If past history was all there was to the game the richest people would be librarians. Warren Buffett Category: History Its no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress not merely in production but also in knowledge. Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement. Unknown Category: Capable I am a romantic but I do put up a barrier around myself so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love. Freddie Mercury Category: Unsorted As in nature. and in the arts so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their lustre. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles and in what seems hard dealing God has no end in view but to perfect our graces. He sends tribulations but tells us their purpose that tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope. Thomas Guthrie Category: Unsorted A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition. Boutros Boutros-Ghali Category: Vision The dews of summer night did fall The moon sweet regent of the sky Silverd the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew nearby. William J. Mickle Category: Unsorted A compliment is verbal sunshine. Robert Orben Category: Compliment Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich Category: Unsorted Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. Rita Mae Brown Category: Find There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze seeing nothing and hearing nothing. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Alcohol As long as you live keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Learn We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents sickness and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments discouragements reverses failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character. Robert E. Wells Category: Character In the case of good books the point is not to see how many of them you can get through but how many can get through to you. Mortimer Jerome Adler Category: Unsorted If its natural to kill how come men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez Category: Kill If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky Category: Despise Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and always discontented with what he has loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. Joseph De Maistre Category: Give Go out on a limb. Proverb Category: Risk Never take life seriously no one ever comes out alive anyway. Allie Hemphill Category: Life The art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain. H. J. Phllips Category: Unsorted Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream. Oscar Wilde Category: Action Suicide note. To my friends: My work is done. Why wait? George Eastman Category: Unsorted Nothing is cheap which is superfluous for what one does not need is dear at a penny. Plutarch Category: Bargain Many have been ruined by their fortune and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little and the little great. Zimmermann Category: Buy A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own then be satisfied with small gains which will come by creative adaptations. I Ching Category: Danger I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men.... In receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. Martin Van Buren Category: Unsorted O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap! Thomas Hood Category: Food The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler Category: Cause A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. Category: Fashion Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. John Dryden Category: Gravity Crimes like virtues are their own rewards. George Farquhar Category: Crime No matter how humble a man's beginnings he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected. Nikita Khrushchev Category: Unsorted Eating words has never given me indigestion. Sir Winston Churchill Category: Word Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Theodore Parker Category: Self Life is like music it must be composed by ear feeling and instinct not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases though not often. Samuel Butler Category: Life When Thales was asked what was difficult he said To know ones self. And what was easy To advise another. Diogenes the Cynic Category: Advice The things we accept as normal and enjoy today were considered impossible twenty-five years ago and beyond the power of man to achieve. The early Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips were fantastic and considered outside the realm of mans attain Delbert L. Stapley Category: Unsorted QUOTIENT n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another usually about as many times as it can be got there. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Money Necessity mother of invention. William Wycherley Category: Invention I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power whether vested in many or a few is ever grasping and like the grave cries Give give! Abigail Smith Adams Category: Government Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring perseverance in exercise adaptation of dress to the variations of climate simple and nutritious aliment and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. Lydia Sigourney Category: Health Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than man. Sophocles Category: Housework What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. George Eliot Category: Despair I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau Category: Cat A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth at the same time both open and secret which we can understand only by love and touch only by virtue. Kahlil Gibran Category: Unsorted Please do not think me a pessimist. I love life. I think it is a joy to live in this age. Every morning as I greet the sun as he ushers in these unexcelled autumn days I feel the joy of living. I realize the accomplishments to a certain degree of this wonderful mechanistic age. Today time and distance are practically annihilated. David Oman McKay Category: Pessimist The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again Id make the same mistakes only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead Category: Regret My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread. Margaret Bourke-White Category: Unsorted For me happiness came from prayer to a kindly God faith in a kindly God love for my fellow man and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living but it was not there. I tried to find it in money but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be fundamental truths of life when I began to develop my limited ability to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts and fill it with zeal and courage and love when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly I began to feel the stimulating warm glow of happiness and life for me began to flow like a stream between smooth banks. Andrew Young Category: Happiness Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks Category: Comedy The greatest things are accomplished by individual people not by committees or companies. Alfred Armand Montapert Category: Committee Thought tends to collect in pools. Wallace Stevens Category: Proverb Love is an attempt at penetrating another being but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Otavio Paz Category: Love [Ending racial discrimination in jury selection] can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. Thurgood Marshall Category: Race Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously. Arland Ussher Category: Humor Change in all things is sweet. Aristotle Category: Change Most people say that as you get old you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things. Theodore Francis Green Category: Unsorted Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavor after a worthy manner of life. Bertrand Russell Category: Cruel Many are destined to reason wrongly; others not to reason At all; and others to persecute those who do reason. Francois Voltaire Category: Reason You neednt tell me that a man who doesnt love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul or a stomach either. Hes simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Saki Category: Unsorted If you have any trouble sounding condescending find a Unix user to show you how its done. Scott Adams Category: Computer Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy but it's very funny Have you ever tried to buy them without money? Ogden Nash Category: Money Fools may our scorn not envy raise for envy is a kind of praise. John Gay Category: Fool 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. Category: Dream I never practice; I always play. Wanda Landowska Category: Practice Dread is a remote infinity of possibility. Howard P. Kainz Jr. Category: Unsorted The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own Erich Fromm Category: Unsorted The Commons faithful to their system remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. James Mackintosh Category: Legislature O beautiful for spacious skies For amber waves of grain For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! Katharine Lee Bates Category: Unsorted Why is it when we talk to God were said to be prayingbut when God talks to us were schizophrenic? Lily Tomlin Category: God When players are used to winning they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1037 times in 20 years; Red Auerbach Category: Unsorted Letter to Horace Greeley. August 22 1862 My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. Abraham Lincoln Category: President I think the main culprit is modernity itself. Modernity and beauty simply don't mix. Pragmatism and an industrial-sized busyness denigrate everything that cant squeeze out of a calculator. And the first thing to die under such circumstances is a passion for beauty. For those trying desperately to jump over moving hurdles pursuing beauty is just foolishness.... We just don't have the time for poetry; beauty isnt useful we say until were in our eighties when many finally reflect and realize that beauty was truly essential to a good life that has now slipped by. Douglas Jones Category: Unsorted I don't think well ever know all there is to know about gardening and Im just as glad there will always be some magic about it! Barbara Damrosch Category: Unsorted Theyre like two peas in a pod. Proverb Category: Alike Advice is like castor oil easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. Josh Billings Category: Advice Bin home too and along France. It appears he had been to England as servant to some squatters family. But fancy an aboriginal stating he had been home. A. J. Campbell Category: Unsorted The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness. John C. Maxwell Category: Myth I testify that our teacher our shepherd is Christ our best friend who clears up all our doubts. He heals our wounds and turns our pain into sweet experiences. Horacio A. Tenorio Category: Unsorted We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid Category: Belief The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. Eric Hoffer Category: Prophecy Most women set out to try to change a man and when they have changed him they don't like him. Marlene Dietrich Category: Husband Coincidence is Gods way of remaining anonymous. Albert Einstein Category: Coincidences Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. Marcel Boulestin Category: Unsorted As long as men and nations are aware of their divine origin that human beings are a reflection of the source of all life then it follows that it is the beholden duty of man to increase goodness beauty truth and peace in the world. But when men and nations deny the relationship of man to the divine then the soil is fertile for the growth of hatred injustice strife and war. Joseph Zeitlin Category: Unsorted Usually children spend more time in the garden than anybody else. It is where they learn about the world because they can be in it unsupervised yet protected. Some gardeners will remember from their own earliest recollections that no one sees the garden as vividly or cares about it as passionately as the child who grows up in it. Carol Williams Category: Garden The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. Unknown Category: Fault How we observe the Sabbath indicates our feelings toward our Father in Heaven. LeGrand R. Curtis Category: Unsorted Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing Onward the sailors cry: Carry the lad thats born to be king Over the sea to Skye. Harold Edwin Boulton Category: Unsorted Poem ... A little pool of quietness. Alice Hansche Mortenson Category: Unsorted Without poets without artists men would soon weary of natures monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature and which is only an effect of art would at once vanish. Guillaume Apollinaire Category: Unsorted There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory. A. H. K. Boyd Category: Defeat Precaution is better than cure. Edward Coke Category: Better Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. Albert Einstein Category: Technology Madam before you flatter a man so grossly to his face you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Flattery To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. Proverb Category: Courtesy I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die which is not so. Stephen Butler Leacock Category: Insurance Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated. George Bernard Shaw Category: Cowardice People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: Risk One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. Alan Alexander Milne Category: Discovery The words of the world want to make sentences. Gaston Bachelard Category: Unsorted Fatigue is the best pillow. Benjamin Franklin Category: Sleep I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it. Gerald Manley Hopkins Category: Unsorted Most of the humor here is from America. It is of the feeblest Kind. John Shaw Nelson Category: Humor Nothing ever becomes real till it is experiencedeven a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. John Keats Category: Experience Carlyle was right when he said that this life is only a gleam of light between two eternities. And still some folks take it so hecticly and so seriously. Whats all the hurry for anyway? Amos Parrish Category: Unsorted I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Stevie Smith Category: Despair Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops dreamed marvels of canning ... and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced I planted no garden at all. Donald Hall Category: Unsorted In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera. Israel Zangwill Category: Love The violet droops its soft and bashful brow But from its heart sweet incense fills the air; So rich within - so pure without - art thou With modest mien and soul of virtue rare. Frances Osgood Category: Unsorted Modern man worships at the temple of science but science tells him only what is possible not what is right.. MILTON S. Eisenhower Category: Unsorted The quickest way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks. John Rooney Category: Unsorted Yet is every man his own greatest enemy and as it were his own executioner. Sir Thomas Browne Category: Endure RIGHTEOUSNESS n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries ... Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Right You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Example Experience is not what happens to us rather it is what we do with what happens to us. Category: Experience True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades. Evelyn Loeb Category: Unsorted ACCUSE v.t. To affirm anothers guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Accusations A young man came before the Rasul with a carpet and said O Rasul! I passed through a wood and heard the voices of young birds; and I took and put them into my carpet; and their mother came fluttering around my head and I uncovered the young and the mother fell down upon them then I wrapped them up in my carpet; and there are the young which I have. Then the Rasul said Put them down. And when he did so their mother joined them: and Muhammad said Do you wonder at the affection of the mother towards her young? I swear by Him who hath sent me verily God is more loving to His creatures than the mother to these young birds. Return them to the place from which ye took them and let their mother be with them. Prophet Muhammad Category: Animals One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve ones deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work concentration and continued application. Paul Gallico Category: Work For a Christian Aborigine land rights or the proposed Heritage Protection Act is a symbolic step back to the world of paganism superstition fear and darkness. Hugh Morgan Category: Unsorted The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand without growing weary. Thomas Alva Edison Category: Success You will find that the State is the kind of organization which though it does big things badly does small things badly too. John Kenneth Galbraith Category: State A tax-supported compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. Isabel Paterson Category: Unsorted A man desires praise that he may be reassured that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. Alec Waugh Category: Applause It took me seventeen years to get 3000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. Hank Aaron Category: Baseball The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today or at any time. William S. Knudsen Category: Unsorted I am not old but mellow like good wine. Stephen Phillips Category: Unsorted A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Cynic I have come to the conclusion that the more I talk about the right and the less I talk about the wrong and the more I become occupied with the right the less danger I shall be in of becoming occupied by the wrong. This is good for me and being good for me I recommend it to the Saints. Amasa Mason Lyman Category: Unsorted Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous. We should remember as we look toward the future that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity not simply for ourselves but for others the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be. Henry Ford II Category: Country I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation – the miracle moment by moment of naked existence. Aldous Huxley Category: Adam Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment a way of looking at ones existence ones misfortune or ones discomfort. If you really love if you really know how to laugh the result is the same: you forget yourself. Claude Roy Category: Forget Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. Logan Pearsall Smith Category: Soul Practical politics consists of ignoring facts. Henry Brooks Adams Category: Politics If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. Marian Wright Edelman Category: Change 'Tis a very good world we live in To spend and to lend and to give in; But to beg or to borrow or ask for our own 'Tis the very worst world what ever was known. J. Bromfield Category: World As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body but can never be so in mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Youth Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. Category: Promise It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at all. Samuel Butler the Younger Category: Idleness Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth. General Dwight David Eisenhower Category: Unite As you get older you find that often the wheat disentangling itself from the chaff comes out to meet you. Gwendolyn Brooks Category: Age I was thinking about making a comeback until I pulled a muscle vacuuming. Johnny Bench Category: Unsorted Viewed from the summit of reason all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Disease Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals ... must be content with probability where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther. Isaac Watts Category: Question The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald Category: Intelligent 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good causeand of obstinacy in a bad one. Laurence Sterne Category: Obstinacy There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic the person in whom one impulse one value has assumed ascendancy over all others. Milton R. Sapirstein Category: Fanatic Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good Fortune deceived not Francis Bacon Category: Fortune There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare Category: Philosophy To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals. Brigid Brophy Category: Unsorted I ask sir what is the militia? It is the whole people.... To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them. George Mason Category: Unsorted Genius is an African who dreams up snow. Vladimir Nabokov Category: Dream Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships. Jodie Foster Category: Love The good die young because they see its no use living if you have got to be good. John Barrymore Category: Life If winning isnt important why keep score? Unknown Category: Everything Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority; envy our uneasiness under it. William Shenstone Category: Jealous It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Dictators We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. Vince Lombardi Category: Time Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. Ruth Fulton Benedict Category: Hope PIE n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Food Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong the refuge of the weak the modesty of the proud the pride of the humble the prudence of the wise and the sense of fools. To speak is to ... dissipate ones strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of ones thoughts. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle Category: Sick Now I know what a statesman is; hes a dead politician. We need more statesmen. Bob Edwards Category: Politics You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things and the flowing fountain which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires. Robert Collier Category: Desire What we are is more important than what we have or what is said of us. Marvin J. Ashton Category: Education Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver and the gain thereof than fine gold. The Bible Category: Wisdom I am not basically a conservationist. When the last great whale is slaughtered as it surely will be the whales suffering will be over. This is not the whales loss but mans. I am not concerned about the wiping out of a species this is mans folly I have only one concern the suffering which we deliberately inflict upon animals whilst they live. Clive Hollands Category: Unsorted A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him. Saint-Evremond Category: Unsorted Serve the dinner backward eo anything but for goodness sake do something weird. Elsa Maxwell Category: Unsorted Suddenly as rare things will it vanished. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Category: Unsorted Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. Thomas Lake Harris Category: Fault SABBATH n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Sabbath Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal? Louis XIV Category: Last A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. General Dwight David Eisenhower Category: Principle If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist will answer you: I am here to live out loud. Emile Zola Category: World The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins Category: Library Suetonius says of the Emperor Titus: Once at supper reflecting that he had done nothing for any that day he broke out into that memorable and justly admired saying My friends I have lost a day! Suetonius Category: Unsorted The late Alfred P. Sloan Ir. long-time executive of General Motors Corporation had a fivepoint secret of success. It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. Category: Unsorted Luck is largely a matter of paying attention. Susan M. Dodd Category: Luck Head knowledge is good but heart knowledge is indispensable. The training of the hands and feet must be added to make a rounded education. We must all learn these days to become spiritual pioneers if we would save the world from chaos. E. V. Hammond Category: Wisdom We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. William Shakespeare Category: Housework Beloved Father Bela Lugosi Category: Unsorted I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man. Theodore Roosevelt Category: Average Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his arent very new after all. Abraham Lincoln Category: Original If you have great talents industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities industry will supply their deficiency. Sir Joshua Reynolds Category: Industry What is it to stay young? It is the ability to hold fast to old friends and to make new ones to keep forever our beloved in dear remembrance and to open our hearts quickly to a light knock on the door. Cornelia Rogers Category: Youth Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking. Jerome Lettvin Category: Explain The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation they symbolize it. David Ogilvy Category: Leadership Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they my be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. Aristotle Category: Epithet Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill. F. S. Osgood Category: Unsorted If at first you don't succeed failure may be your thing. Warren Miller Category: Factory Look to make your course regular that men may know beforehand what they may expect. Francis Bacon Category: Unsorted Joseph R. Garber Category: Madness The more intelligent one is the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. Blaise Pascal Category: Intelligent All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow The after–light upon ice–burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world. Theodore Roethke Category: Nature Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest. Bion Category: Unsorted I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion I loathe the country. William Congreve Category: Country It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world who know men understand business and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted. George Horne Category: Advice True dignity is never gained by place And never lost when honors are withdrawn. Philip Massinger Category: Dignity You cannot be lonely if you like the person youre alone with. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Category: Alone What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmur Stefansson Category: Advertising No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. Nathaniel Hawthorne Category: Face The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word. W. F. Osgood Category: Unsorted When you strike a king you must kill him. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Kindness Where the lion's skin will not reach you must patch it out with the fox's. Plutarch Category: Unsorted As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you you are on the way to being a remarkable man. Sir James Matthew Barrie Category: Unsorted Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. Enoch Arnold Bennett Category: Mind Since we humans have the better brain isnt it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from oddly enough ourselves? Joy Adamson Category: Unsorted A fox is a wolf who sends flowers. Ruth Weston Category: Flower These are the times that try mens souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily Thomas Paine Category: Country What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens. Lewis L. Dunnington Category: Death Leternite. Cest la mer mêlee Au soleil [Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.] Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud Category: Unsorted War is much too serious to be left to the generals. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Category: Unsorted With every smell I smell food. With every sight I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta! Sarah Ferguson Category: Unsorted If the world should blow itself up the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it cant be done. Peter Ustinov Category: Expert Better to eat vegetables and fear no creditors than eat duck and hide from them. Unknown Category: Debt Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of businessgreat value in small compass and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false the coin counterfeit but in both cases the false proves the value of the true. D. March Category: Unsorted If you can find something everyone agrees on its wrong. Mo Udall Category: Agreement Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives stop thinking and go in. Andrew Jackson Category: Decency The eleventh commandment - Thou shalt not be found out - is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days. Berta Buxton Category: Unsorted Love reckons hours for months and days for years; And every little absence is an age. John Dryden Category: Absent A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. Charles Franklin Kettering Category: If We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them however has not changed... Lawrence Clark Powell Category: Technology We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. Helen Adams Keller Category: Joy If ever two were one then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife then thee. If every wife was happy with a man Compare with me ye women if you can. Anne Dudley Bradstreet Category: Love When it is time to turn over in bed it is time to turn out. Arthur Wellesley Category: Bed It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love. Alan Paton Category: Unsorted The porcupine whom we must handle gloved may be respected but is never loved. Arthur Guiterman Category: Love The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all. Edward de Bono Category: Right He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom and you will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveled. William Ellery Channing Category: Duty Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity. E. Christopher Zeeman Category: Creative If written directions alone would suffice libraries wouldnt need to have the rest of the universities attached. Judith Martin Category: Unsorted Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees. Thomas Jonathan Jackson Category: Unsorted The purpose of computing is insight not numbers. Richard Hamming Category: Unsorted The real disgrace of poverty is not in owning to the fact But in declining to struggle against it. Thucydides Category: Poverty In God we trust all others must use data. W. Edwards Demming Category: Credit It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette Category: Absent It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning. P.D. Ouspensky Category: Unsorted Studious of ease and fond of humble things. Ambrose Philips Category: Unsorted When I sing people shut up. Barbra Streisand Category: Unsorted If your daily life seems poor do not blame it; blame yourself tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. Rainer Maria Rilke Category: Ordinary Among gardeners enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs mildew and frost. Roger Swain Category: Unsorted Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life. Naguib Mahfouz Category: Unsorted We cant be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... William Bill Jefferson Clinton Category: President Liberty will not descend to a people; A people must raise themselves to liberty; it is A blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. Charles Caleb Colton Category: Liberty It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. W. Edwards Denning Category: Change You cant turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. Bonnie Prudden Category: Time I hope I never get so old I get religious. Ingmar Bergman Category: Age Verily a man hath performed prayers fasts charity pilgrimage and all other good works; but he will not be rewarded except by the proportion of his understanding. Prophet Muhammad Category: Understand The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed they hurt America and American business making us less competitive in the global market. Robert Stemple Category: Unsorted My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When shes asleep I go over there and write misspelled words on them. Steven Wright Category: Spell Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. Boethius Category: Love To the Puritan all things are impure as somebody says. David Herbert Lawrence Category: Puritanism There is timing in the whole life of the warrior in his thriving and declining in his harmony and discord. Similarly there is timing in the Way of the merchant in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. Miyamoto Musashi Category: Capable A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest. Jeff Cox Category: Unsorted I cant sleep. Sir James Matthew Barrie Category: Last There are no gains without pains. Benjamin Franklin Category: Dream Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it and get a new one every six months. Clifford Stoll Category: Computer You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way. Sarah Brightman Category: Gift The wedding bell upon the hill Is crying out my name and though I love its music still tis but a curfew to my flame. Leon Gellert Category: Unsorted In general mankind since the improvement of cookery eats twice as much as nature requires. Benjamin Franklin Category: Gluttony Bernard Loomers father was a sea captain. He was acquainted with his small place in an uncontrollable nature. In a talk in 1974 Loomer described his fathers instructions about the uses of a baseball glove. The father had just overheard his sons sandlot William Dean Category: Unsorted The word meaningful when used today is nearly always meaningless. Paul Johnson Category: Unsorted I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterdays eyes. Dan Burrus Category: Eyes REPORTER n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Journalism How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine Category: Happiness Mathematics is a language. Josiah Willard Gibbs Category: Unsorted Sometimes Thou mayst walk in Groves which being full of Majestie will much advance the Soul. Thomas Vaughan Category: Unsorted It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich and great and honoured in that world where his Lord was poor and mean and despised. George Müller Category: Unsorted The fault dear Brutus lies not in our stars But in ourselves if we are underlings. William Shakespeare Category: Astrology They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Brooks Adams Category: Knowledge Put it before them briefly so they will read it clearly so they will appreciate it picturesquely so they will remember it and above all accurately so they will be guided by its light. Joseph Pulitzer Category: Newspaper Thought is action in rehearsal. Sigmund Freud Category: Action Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others. William Osler Category: Unsorted It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly. Richard Whately Category: Ingratitude And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. The Bible Category: Heaven We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Aim The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Fortune Reparation for our rights at home and security against the like future violations. William Pitt the Elder Pitt Category: Unsorted When you have much success two things happen. The first is that we begin to take success for granted. The second is that we forget how we got herenamely by exceptionally hard work and in spite of intense competition. John Mack Carter Category: Success Mans knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education in a broad liberal education where each student within his capacity can free himself from trammels of dogmatic prejudice and apply his educational accoutrement to besetting social and human problems. Harry Woodburn Chase Category: Unsorted One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own that they are wiser that we are wiser even than their discoverers that we get more out of them than was originally put into them. Heinrich Hertz Category: Unsorted I still prefer a good juggler to a bad Hamlet. Charles B. Cochran Category: Unsorted My purposes are the geography that marks out my line of travel toward the person I want to be. Alice Koeller or Koller Category: Purpose If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech could land them in jail the law imposing such a penalty must clearly define the prohibited speech not only for the potential offender but also for the potential enforcer. Judge Ronald Buckwalter Category: Unsorted Whoso hath a thing wherewith to discharge a debt and refuseth to do it it is right to dishonor and punish him. Prophet Muhammad Category: Debt No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. Charles Dickens Category: Burden To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife Thats the true pathos and sublime Of human life. Robert Burns Category: Marriage The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Birth Politicians should read science fiction not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke Category: Politics The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer. Proverb Category: Beer Go West young man and grow up with the country. Horace Greeley Category: Growth Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. Francois Voltaire Category: Metaphysics A place in thy memory dearest Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name. Gerald Griffin Category: Memory You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. Stanislaw J. Lec Category: Patience Happiness isnt something you experience its something you remember. Oscar Levant Category: Experience The [Communications Decency Act] is patently a government-imposed content-based restriction on speech and the speech at issue whether denominated indecent or patently offensive is entitled to constitutional protection. Chief Judge Dolores Sloviter Category: Unsorted I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Lech Walesa Category: Unsorted It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit.... No one can well believe that our piety is sincere when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices when we shrink from the smallest? François Fenelon Category: God 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 Category: Unsorted Thiar ain't no sense In gittin' riled! Bret Harte Category: Unsorted Id rather see a sermon than hear one any day; Id rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way. David Oman McKay Category: Preach 'Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves and mates and stays And one by one back in the Closet lays. Edward Fitzgerald Category: Games Our Christian civilization as well as our political democracy has developed through the inspiration of a high faith in man the common man. He is the sovereign of the State not because he is always wise but because he and his fellow-citizens are the State. Franklin P. Cole DD Category: Unsorted You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that whats left will be human. J. Robert Oppenheimer Category: Housework A race is just a race but a friend who paces you is a friend for life. Joseph Franko Category: Unsorted The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews but that the pews are filled with empty people. Charlie Shedd Category: Unsorted Bloody men are like bloody buses-you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear. Wendy Cope Category: Unsorted In spite of his practical ability some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. George Eliot Category: Quotations And now good morrow to our waking souls Which watch not one another out of fear; For love all love of other sights controls And makes one little room an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone Let maps to other worlds on worlds have shown Let us possess one world each hath one and is one. John Donne Category: Love If you found a man at the top of the mountain he did not fall there. Unknown Category: Life The richest genius like the most fertile soil when uncultivated shoots up into the rankest weeds. David Hume Category: Cultivated Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms. Ikkyu Sojun Category: Flower The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. Maureen Duffy Category: Love I criticize by creation not by finding fault. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Crisis Little strokes Fell great oaks. Benjamin Franklin Category: Gravity The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdoms fount. They are deep in time. E. R. (Eric Rucker) Eddison Category: Unsorted The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. George F. Will Category: Unsorted The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt. Rollo May Category: Commitment What is your sexs earliest latest care Your hearts supreme ambition? To be fair. Lord Lyttleton Category: Woe One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizoninstead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Dale Carnegie Category: Dream That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. Lou Costello Category: Last More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That in itself is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. Jonathan Kozol Category: School In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents worried five of them to death impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails we hold an election and assassinate their character. Category: President To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis Category: Crime When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies. Philip Zimmermann Category: Policy In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. William Wordsworth Category: Pleasant There's a great power in words if you don't hitch too many of them together. Josh Billings Category: Breeding Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Courage My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war and I hope it is practicable by improving the mind and morals of society to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair. Thomas Jefferson Category: War Never lend books for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me. Anatole France Category: Book Every one lives by selling something. Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Sales The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing which is the state. How bad a choice that is let Germany and Russia in recent years testify. Samuel M. Shoemaker D.D. Category: Unsorted The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. Publilius Syrus Category: Eyes The superfluous a very necessary thing. Francois Voltaire Category: Excess It's no credit to anyone to work too hard. Edgar Watson Ed Howe Category: Happiness Now I began to realize what adversity really meant. I felt ashamed to meet anyone. Some of those persons who had courted our society when we were flourishing in business now that adversity had overtaken us would pass us by without recognition. I began to learn the hollowness of so-called society. Wandle Mace Category: Adversity Success is doing what you want to do when you want where you want with whom you want as much as you want. Anthony (Tony) Robbins Category: Fidelity He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Judge Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in the newspaper. Thomas Jefferson Category: Advertising When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way you will command the world. Dr. George Washington Carver Category: Common We are a spectacular splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection. We have genes for usefulness and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally and perhaps best of all we have music. Lewis Thomas Category: Music Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good mans fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. Saint Basil the Great Category: Rain Clean your finger before you point at my spots. Benjamin Franklin Category: Hypocrisy Custom reconciles us to everything. Edmund Burke Category: Custom It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Arnold Toynbee Category: Aim Some for renown on scraps of learning dote And think they grow immortal as they quote. Edward Young Category: Quotations Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. Kin Hubbard Category: Conversation At the heart of it mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path. George Leonard Category: Unsorted He who knows himself knows his Lord. This Lord is not the impersonal self nor is it the God of dogmatic definitions self-subsisting without relation to me without being experienced by me. He is the he who knows himself through myself that is in the knowledge that I have of him because it is the knowledge that he has of me.... Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn al-`Arabi Category: Know You owe it to us all to get on with what youre good at. Wystan Hugh Auden Category: Get For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast but you can see only when the chatter stops. Frederick Franck Category: Unsorted I hate mankind for I think myself one of the best of them and I know how bad I am. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Bad If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand. Kung Fu-tzu Confucius Category: Near Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. Alvin Toffler Category: Editor To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted; The Bible Category: Seasons Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. Henry J. Kaiser Category: Unsorted Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. Frederick Douglass Category: Injustice Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey Category: False There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them. Clare Boothe Luce Category: Weak Good politics are often inextricably intertwined. Morris Udall Category: Politics We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity. Bishop Henry C. Potter Category: Unsorted We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Book My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. Sydney Smith Category: Countryside LECTURER n. One with his hand in your pocket his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Lecture Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask Why me? Then a voice answers Nothing personal your name just happened to come up. Charles M. Schulz Category: Fate To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. Sir Max Beerbohm Category: Conceit No thought no action no movement total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously and at last become one with heaven and earth. Lao Tzu Category: No It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear at top pressure we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain. Robert J. McCracken D.D. Category: Unsorted Keplers principal goal was to explain the relationship between the existence of five planets (and their motions) and the five regular solids. It is customary to sneer at Kepler for this. It is instructive to compare this with the current attempts to explain the zoology of elementary particles in terms of irreducible representations of Lie groups. S. Sternberg Category: Unsorted Truly it is in the darkness that one finds the light so when we are in sorrow then this light is nearest of all to us. Meister Eckhart Category: Grief Forgotten rimes and college themes Worm-eaten plans and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark nor land nor water. Anna Letitia (Aikin) Barbauld Category: Unsorted To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given a chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. Bette Davis Category: Creative A concept is stronger than a fact. Charlotte P Gillman Category: Fact My old stomping ground. Proverb Category: Home I am absolutely convinced that no amount of wealth in the world can help humanity move forward even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistably invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie? Albert Einstein Category: Wealth Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. Baltasar Gracian Category: Right Few maxims are true from every point of view. Vauvenargues Category: Quotations If there is anything we wish to change in the child we should first examine it and see whether it is something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Gustav Jung Category: Change Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Unknown Category: Change HOMILETICS n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs capacities and conditions of the congregation. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Preach Let a pig and a boy have everything they want and you'll get a good pig and a bad boy. J.H. Smith Category: Unsorted From error to error one discovers the entire truth. Sigmund Freud Category: Truth Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. George Eliot Category: Action Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. Henry van Dyke Category: Sick That you may retain your self-respect it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. William J. H. Boetcker Category: Please Describing how he has changed over the course of his consecutive games record. Less and grayer hair. Cal Ripkin Jr. Category: Unsorted The course of Nature is the art of God. Edward Young Category: Art A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters. William Cowper Category: Unsorted A modesty in delivering our sentiments leaves us a liberty of changing them without blushing. Thomas Wilson Category: Unsorted A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred and we must come back and settle the account at last. Joseph F. Newton Category: Duty The past is a work of art full of irrelevancies and loose ends. Sir Max Beerbohm Category: History Our only true course is to let the motive for action be in the action itself never in its reward; not to be incited By the hope of the result nor yet indulge a propensity for inertness. H. P. Blavatsky Category: Action Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down. Ashleigh Brilliant Category: Communicate To love cherish and to obey. Book of Common Prayer Category: Unsorted The trouble with America isnt that the poetry of life has turned to prose but that it has changed to advertising copy. Mortimer B. Zuckerman Category: Advertising Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Category: Genius Be careful what you set your heart upon for it will surely be yours. James Baldwin Category: Heart Should unnecessary sorrow or suffering ever come to my people because of my actions then I beseech the Almighty God to punish me. Adolf Hitler Category: Punish Perfectionism is a slow death. If everything were to just like I would want it to just like I would plan for it to then I would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. When I make a mistake I experience something unexpected. Hugh Prather Category: Perfection There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down error instead of establishing the truth. Madame Marie Curie Category: Unsorted There will always be men struggling to change and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. Ernest J. Gaines Category: Unsorted Little things console us because little things afflict us. Blaise Pascal Category: Console It takes one a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso Category: Time Nothing is more costly nothing is more sterile than vengeance. Sir Winston Churchill Category: Friendship Like other occult techniques of divination the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners. G. O. Ashley Category: Jargon However muted its present appearance may be sexual domination obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power. Kate Millett Category: Woe How fortune brings to earth the oversure! Francesco Petrarca Petrarch Category: Fate Im afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning. Andy Warhol Category: Meaning An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. Henry Clay Category: Rebellion Love such as in society is only the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two bodies. Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort Category: Love Exasperation is the minds way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction. George L. Griggs Category: Patience Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind But great actions speak to all mankind. Emily P. Bissell Category: Action Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction to wit: by consolidation [of power] first and then corruption its necessary consequence. Thomas Jefferson Category: Corrupt Because of the law of gravitation the apple falls to the ground. Because of the law of growth the acorn becomes a mighty oak. Because of the law of causation a man is as he thinketh in his heart. Nothing can happen without its adequate cause. Don Carlos Musser Category: Unsorted Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity. Charles Evans Hughes Category: Youth O. blackberry tart with berries as big as your thumb purple and black and thick with juice and a crust to endear them that will go to cream in your mouth and both passing down with such a taste that will make you close you eyes and wish you might liver forever in the wideness of that rich moment. Richard Llewellyn Category: Unsorted The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one. John Ruskin Category: Poetry We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting. Susa Young Gates Category: Unsorted When I talk to the camera mate its not like Im talking to the camera Im talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me. Steve Irwin Category: Talk All human joys are swift of wing For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing You find you havent got it. Eugene Field Category: Joy Amazingly enough almost all the fruits grown in home gardens from strawberries to apricots are members of the same plant family Rosaceae along with such decorative favorites as roses mountain ash flowering quince.... Worldwide there are about 3400 members of this very ancient plant group which exhibit primitive characteristics. Diane E. Bilderback Category: Garden Faith is putting all your eggs in Gods basket then counting your blessings before they hatch. Ramona C. Carroll Category: Faith Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Mizner Category: Life People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Perception Every ship is a romantic object except that we sail in. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Sailor Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.... The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators but names and customs. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Conspiracy Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal Category: Cheerful Music is esentially useless as is life. George Santayana Category: Music What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. Proverb Category: Adversity Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. Thomas Mann Category: Opinion It is a true proverb that if you live with a lame man you will learn to limp. Plutarch Category: Children It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do since when one comes down to it there is not one effect in nature no matter how small that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. Galileo Galilei Category: Nature You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. Kahlil Gibran Category: Praise The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washingtons first inaugural address the Senate stated: We feel sir the force and acknowledge the justness of the observation that the foundation of our national policy should be lain in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles it is in vain to look for public virtue. Thomas G. West Category: Unsorted To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem. Tom Wicker Category: Love Youth what mans age is like to be doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. John Denham Category: Unsorted This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies. John Heywood Category: Wonder Saints need sinners. Alan Watts Category: Saint Their names I know not But to every weed its flower And loveliness. Sampuu Category: Unsorted The world was young the mountains green No stain yet on the Moon was seen No words were laid on stream or stone When Durin woke and walked alone. He named the nameless hills and dells; He drank from yet untasted wells; He stooped and looked in Mirrormere And saw a crown of stars appear; As gems upon a silver thread; Above the shadow of his head. The world is grey the mountains old The forge's fire is ashen-cold; No harp is wrung no hammer falls: The darkness dwells in Durin's halls; The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria in Khazad-dûm. But still the sunken stars appear In dark and windless Mirrormere; There lies his crown in water deep Till Durin wakes again from his sleep. John Ronald Reuel J. R. R. Tolkien Category: Unsorted Some people cause happiness wherever they go. Some people cause happiness whenever they go. Oscar Wilde Category: Happiness The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day. Lewis Carroll Category: Rule Put a pot of chili on the stove to simmer. Let it simmer. Meanwhile broil a good steak. Eat the steak. Let the shili simmer. Ignore it. Allan Shivers Category: Unsorted A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Edmund Burke Category: Change It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. Robert Maynard Hutchins Category: Unsorted We acquire the strength we have overcome. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Strength People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. Eric Hoffer Category: Gratitude This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. Susan Polis Schutz Category: Power What a pity when Christopher Columbus discovered America that he ever mentioned it. Margot Asquith Category: Ambition Tell everybody I said Thanks. Dick Roe Category: Unsorted When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. Peter DeVries Category: Children Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! Theres no looking at a building after seeing Italy. Fanny Burney Category: Unsorted Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Philosophy Life means to have something definite to do--a mission to fulfill--and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something we make it empty. Human life by its very nature has to be dedicated to something. Jose Ortega y Gasset Category: Life A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident. Mahatma Gandhi Category: Accidents God has a plan of justice mercy truth cooperation and brotherhood which will bring peace upon this earth. As we worship God these qualities become part of our nature and we become fit inhabitants of the world God created. Human beings should worship God not alone to show their allegiance and dependence upon their Creator but to absorb from Him the essential qualities of a permanent civilization. Allen E. Claxton DD Category: Unsorted If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things. Vincent van Gogh Category: Understand When you stand with your two feet on the ground you will always keep your balance. Tao Te Ching Category: Unsorted Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human. Jean Rostand Category: Idea Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for. Ruth Boorstin Category: Unsorted He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. Joseph Joubert Category: Strength There is nothing so habit forming as money. Don Marquis Category: Money Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. Ashleigh Brilliant Category: Crisis She and comparisons are odious. John Donne Category: Comparison There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. Denis Diderot Category: Morality A mans errors are his portals of discovery. James Joyce Category: Error That best portion of a good mans life His little nameless unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth Category: Good Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. Arthur Schopenhauer Category: Book The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell. Saint Augustine of Hippo Category: Mathematics Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. Rose Lane Category: Door Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust Category: Gratitude The will to prepare is more important than the will to win. LaVell Edwards Category: Unsorted REDEMPTION n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned .... whoso believeth in it shall not perish but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Redemption PREHISTORIC adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: History No life may not be easy it can be lonely. Full of people we think we know but barely comprehend. Yet we must always remember: its the challenges that define us best and the obstacles that illuminate what were truly capable of. We must welcome adversity and embrace struggle and no matter what we get from life never give less than 100 percent. Of course at the end of every battle weary day we fold ourselves into peaceful darkness and find comfort in those gentle words ... good night. Unknown Category: Adversity It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. Earl Warren Category: Law Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand. Richard L. Evans Category: Understand Its not Jerusalem Its not Baghdad. Its not Bolivia. Its Oklahoma. V. Z. Lawton Category: Change Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus there exists no beautiful woman none at all because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. Paul Klee Category: Unsorted It is good to be without vices but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot Category: Temptation Thou are gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. George Linley Category: Love My son is now an entrepreneur. Thats what youre called when you don't have a job. Ted Turner Category: Business During periods of discontinuous abrupt change the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value. Peter F. Drucker Category: Change LIAR n. A lawyer with a roving commission. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Lever True it is that many find some of the speech on the Internet to be offensive and amid the din of cyberspace many hear discordant voices that they regard as indecent. The absence of governmental regulation of Internet content has unquestionably produced a kind of chaos but as one of plaintiffs' experts put it with such resonance at the hearing: What achieved success was the very chaos that the Internet is. The strength of the Internet is that chaos. Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. For these reasons I without hesitation hold that the [Communications Decency Act] is unconstitutional on its face. Judge Stewart Dalzell Category: Unsorted Next to the right of liberty the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which united with that of personal liberty has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. William Howard Taft Category: Unsorted If thou art able O stranger to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind giving all the relations thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom. Ivor Thomas Category: Unsorted If it is to be it is up to me! Unknown Category: Be In the race for quality there is no finish line. David T. Kearns Category: Unsorted Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom and poisons herself. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Category: Wickedness Wisdom is the daughter of experience. Leonardo da Vinci Category: Experience A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. Ramsey Clark Category: Ability I don't mind being miserable as long as Im painting well. Grace Hartigan Category: Art The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes openly bad and secretly bad. Henry Ward Beecher Category: Cynic Prudence is the virtue of the sense. It is the science of Appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Prudent I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Sir Winston Churchill Category: Alcohol The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. Yogi Berra Category: Baseball I want to put a ding in the universe. Steve Jobs Category: Universe Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Blaise Pascal Category: Contradict Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist. Thomas Carlyle Category: Everything When congressman Newt Gingrich was a graduate student at Tulane University I baptized him by immersion into the membership of the St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church. Perhaps I didnt hold him under long enough. The Rev. G. Avery Lee Category: Unsorted Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty. Marie Sue Category: Unsorted Fear can though it is not God create something from nothing. Porque el miedo sin ser Dios suele hacer algo de nada. Caspar de Aguilar Category: Unsorted What is a rebel? A man who says no. Albert Camus Category: Rebellion Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryan Category: Habit Thankfulness is measured by the number of words; gratitude is measured by the nature of our actions. David Oman McKay Category: Gratitude A man always has two reasons for what he does- a good one and the real one. J. Pierpont Morgan Category: Reason When you jump for joy beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. Stanislaw J. Lec Category: Joy Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. George Santayana Category: Happiness You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path thats clear I will chose free will. RUSH Category: Will You can get help from teachers but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself sitting alone in a room. Theodore Seuss Doctor Seuss Geisel Category: Teach Praise like gold and diamonds owes its value only to its scarcity. Samuel Butler the Younger Category: Diamond Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many too confusing or beyond a mans training to accomplish. George S. Clason Category: Desire I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. Richard Phillips Feynman Category: Born I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge August 31 1837. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Labor The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton Category: Rainbow If trees could scream would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might if they screamed all the time for no good reason. Jack Handey Category: Tree LOVE n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Influence If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. Kitarp Nishida Category: Unsorted Im the foe of moderation the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle ‘I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.' Tallulah Bankhead Category: Excess The police are not here to create disorder theyre here to preserve disorder. Mayor Daley Category: Disorder Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. Adlai Ewing Stevenson Category: Peace It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all rocks wood and water brooded the spirit of repose and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths. Thomas Cole Category: Unsorted Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. Newton Booth Tarkington Category: Argument The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. Doug Engelbart Category: Unsorted There can no great smoke arise but there must be some fire. John Lyly Category: Fire Listen to all plucking a feather from every passing goose but follow no one absolutely. Proverb Category: Advice You cant fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. William Seward Burroughs Category: Unsorted A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims. That is not a universal judgment today. Don B. Kates Category: Unsorted The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power great or small we ought to use in all circumstances. Charles-Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu Category: Power Nature in the garden is nature tamed cultivated made subservient to human purpose brought into subjection to conscious purpose. A garden is not merely a piece of nature fenced in near the house like a wolf chained at the back door; but nature cultivated and trained like a dog tamed and trained for human ends. Art in the garden is the human element appropriating and elevating the natural for human purpose. Abram Linwood Urban Category: Unsorted All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. James Reston Category: Politics A man doesnt begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. Richard E. Byrd Category: Indispensable You study you learn but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. Henri Matisse Category: Learn If asked when you can deliver something ask for time to think. Build in a margin of safety. Name a date. Then deliver it earlier than you promised. The world is divided into two classes of people: the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as much) and the many who don't. Get in Column A and stay there. Youll be very valuable wherever you are. Robert Townsend Category: Unsorted Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. John Milton Category: Music It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. Unknown Category: Mind The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. Nick Nuessle Category: Politeness In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. János Arany Category: Dream The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein Category: World Show me the man you honor and I will show you the kind of a man you are for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of a man you long to be. Thomas Carlyle Category: Idea A gossip is someone who talks to you about others a bore is someone who talks to you about himself an excellent conversationalist is someone who talks to you about you. Lisa Kirk Category: Conversation None knew thee but to love thee. Fitz-Greene Halleck Category: Unsorted There is no such thing as modern art. There is art and there is advertising. Albert Sterner Category: Immorality Im proof against that word failure. Ive seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. George Eliot Category: Factory Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him. King Baudouin I Category: Peace Plato is dear to me but dearer still is truth. Aristotle Category: Truth Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Ronald Wilson Reagan Category: Power I am obsessed with the edges of things like stone at the edge of the sea when foam breaks into sky or your hand dissolves into my. Stanley Cooperman Category: Unsorted The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. Samuel Johnson Category: Author ... top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people ... F. G. Buck Rodgers Category: Unsorted To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. Katharine Hepburn Category: Character As if we don't have enough violence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament. Barbara Pierce Bush Category: Television Suspicion may be no fault but showing it may be a great one. Thomas Fuller Category: Suspicion The unity of Christendom is not a luxury but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christs prayer that all may be one is answered. We must have unity not at all costs but at all risks. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ for in it alone will He find room to dwell. Charles Henry Brent Category: Unsorted There is no dispute managed without passion And yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion. Thomas Sherlock Category: Unsorted For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. The Bible Category: Fear Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality Earl Nightingale Category: Unsorted Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton Category: Crime Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Andy Warhol Category: Business Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance and flourishing in an immortal youth. Isaac Barrow Category: Smile It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds and thus to have established analysis as an independent science which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics. Thomas Reid Category: Unsorted A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions the same unbalanced prejudices and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability. William Feather Category: Vote Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. Sir James Matthew Barrie Category: Conflict War is nothing but the continuation of politics by other means. Karl von Clausewitz Category: Diploma I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. Robert Green Ingersoll Category: Hope Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. Nadine Gordimer Category: Power PRICE n. Value plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Price Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. Golda Meir Category: Unsorted On the telephone: Thats an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them? Rutherford B. Hayes Category: Telephone A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a months study of books. Proverb Category: Education LEAD n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers particularly to those who love not wisely but other mens wives. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Leadership It is never wise to seek or wish for anothers misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang. Charley Reese Category: Malice When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something kind to somebody or other. Keble Category: Unsorted Send home my long strayed eyes to me Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee. John Donne Category: Eyes However brilliant an action it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Action To brag little to lose well To crow gently if in luck To pay up to own up To shut up if beaten Are the virtues of a sportingman. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Brag We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. Ethel Percy Andrus Category: Unsorted If we are to have a stabilized market demand selling pressure should be maintained ... perhaps increased ...at the first sign of a decline in business. I know of no single way business managers can do more to stabilize market demand than through greater stabilization of sales and advertising expenditures. Paul G. Hoffman Category: Business Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. George Bernard Shaw Category: Marriage Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness patience. ... a great definition... Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Note: For Hyrum Smith's other ideas which he regards as pertinent to Success see Topics: Character Charity Goals Humility Peace of Mind Sacrifice SuccessChangePersonal Growth SuccessChangeConstructive Imagination Wisdom Hyrum W. Smith Category: Charity I'm dating a woman now who evidently is unaware of it. Garry Shandling Category: Unsorted On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built. Hafiz Category: Unsorted I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being and seems to make the days work like a happy child at play. Albert Einstein Category: Ambition Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason. W. Bernard Ullathorne Category: Unsorted Greater things are believed of those who are absent. Publius Cornelius Tacitus Category: Desire How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. Thomas Jefferson Category: Pessimist Christmas and New Year Bells The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets round From far and near on mead and moor Swell o Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Christmas Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Mortimer Jerome Adler Category: Reactionaries To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots when something great is at stake or some business is the hazard is a natural occurrence and deserves to be so deemed; and even when they come up the same way for a second time if the throw be repeated. If the third and fourth plays are the same surely there is occasion for suspicion on the part of a prudent man. Girolamo Cardano Category: Unsorted The thing I fear most is fear. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Category: Fear January is the quietest month in the garden. ... But just because it looks quiet doesnt mean that nothing is happening. The soil open to the sky absorbs the pure rainfall while microorganisms convert tilled–under fodder into usable nutrients for the next crop of plants. The feasting earthworms tunnel along aerating the soil and preparing it to welcome the seeds and bare roots to come. Rosalie Muller Wright Category: Unsorted The conquering of adversity produces strength of character forges self-confidence engenders self-respect and assures success in righteous endeavor. Richard G. Scott Category: Adversity Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. Hugh Casson Category: Machinery They are not men they are not women they are Americans. Pablo Picasso Category: Opera With increased opportunity comes increased stress. The stress comes from multiple conflicting demands and very little in the way of role models. Madeline Hemmings Category: Model I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. Samuel Goldwyn Category: Luck Mankind will not go astray after having found the right road unless from disputation. Prophet Muhammad Category: Mankind Endless money forms the sinews of war. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Money Bad Gardens copy good gardens create great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden in other words is mystical no matter what its actual content. Ken Wilbur Category: Garden New South Wales is the Elysium of quacks. Edward Kinglake Category: Unsorted I am innocent innocent innocent. Make no mistake about this. I owe society nothing. I am an innocent man and something very wrong is taking place tonight. [Executed by injection. ] Lionel Herrera Category: Last You cant steal second base and keep one foot on first. Unknown Category: Baseball Two things are bad for the heart running up stairs and running down people. Bernard Mannes Baruch Category: Heart Vision: the art of seeing the invisible. Jonathan Swift Category: Vision How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis Category: Age The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all. Mencius [Meng-tse] Category: Unsorted When you come to a road block take a detour. Mary Kay Ash Category: Road Dear Night! this worlds defeat; The stop to busy fools; cares check and curb; The day of spirits; my souls calm retreat Which none disturb! Christs progress and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime. Henry Vaughan Category: Unsorted Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. Jules Renard Category: Unsorted Some of my best friedns are children. In fact all of my best friends are children. J. D. Salinger Category: Children Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. Harriet Van Horne Category: Cook Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. Red Buttons Category: Children And the blind will lead the blind and all Those too scared to see I am afraid beware the masque And the truth it conceals. Unknown Category: Blind Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter. James Fenimore Cooper Category: Friendship SORCERY n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was however deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Politics The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Hope In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellowmen. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Good The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. John Welwood Category: Unsorted It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. Francois Voltaire Category: Chastity A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop? Donald Trump Category: Internet O Lord if there is a Lord save my soul If I have a soul. J. Ernest Renan Category: Soul We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor or of capital by capital. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Category: Work Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin Category: Nothing Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all my plays are imperfect Im rather happy to say it leaves me something to do. Edward Franklin Albee III Category: Imperfection I recognize the lion by his paw. After reading an anonymous solution to a problem that he realized was Newtons solution. Jacques Bernoulli Category: Unsorted Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110% effort! Rick Irving Category: Unsorted My country tis of thee Sweet land of liberty Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died Land of the pilgrims pride From every mountainside Let freedom ring. My native country thee Land of the noble free Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills Thy woods and templed hills. My heart with rapture thrills Like that above. Let music swell the breeze And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song; Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break The sound prolong. Our fathers God to thee Author of liberty To thee I sing; Long may our land be bright With freedoms holy light; Protect us by thy might Great God our King! Samuel Francis Smith Category: Unsorted The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm his high store of idealism his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Boy Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. Ambrose Category: Unsorted The Mathematical Intelligencer vol. 5 no. 3 1983. Nicholas P. Goodman Category: Unsorted When we lose power with God we know of a certainty that the problem lies within us and not with God. Ray H. Wood Category: Unsorted Ah what a warning for a thoughtless man Could field or grove could any spot of earth Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessedrender back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod! William Wordsworth Category: History Works of art in my opinion are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order and that is why though I don't believe that only art matters I do believe in Art for Arts sake. Edward Morgan E. M. Forster Category: Art Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled. Helen Hudson Category: Beauty To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Soul Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. George Halas Category: Work A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Margaret Fuller Category: Book Though this be madness yet there is method int. Will you walk out of the air my lord? William Shakespeare Category: Insanity Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. Charles Reade Category: Beauty ... As a so-called civilized people and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals. Nathaniel Altman Category: Unsorted Women prefer men who have something tender about them especially the legal kind. Kay Ingram Category: Unsorted Every human being of whatever origin of whatever station deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. U. Thant Category: Unsorted X n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers and like them will doubtless last as long as the language. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Spell It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced. William Shakespeare Category: Seduce Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced ... the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously ... this feeling may last for hours at a time even for days. Once you have experienced it you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will unless perhaps by dogged work.... Andre Weil Category: Unsorted The impossible is often the untried. Jim Goodwin Category: Impossible A story is told of an English officer in old India who one day went to the book shelf to take down a book. As he reached his hand up over the volume his finger was bitten by an adder. After a few hours the finger began to swell. Later on the swelling went into his arm and finally the whole body was affected and in a few days the officer was dead. There are adders concealed in many a book. Let the Saints beware of the books that enter their homes for their influence may be as poisonous and deadly as the adder which brought death to the English officer in old India. Joseph F. Smith Category: Unsorted The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it. Louis Simpson Category: Military The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. Proverb Category: Gallant The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same. Zoltan Kodaly Category: Morality No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Category: Born Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven one has to help oneself. Morarji Ranchhodji Desai Category: Unsorted If you cant beat them arrange to have them beaten. George Denis Carlin Category: Beauty It was the best of times it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens Category: Valor The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless Jean Jacques Rousseau Category: Unsorted When people tell you how young you look they are also telling you how old you are. Cary Grant Category: Holiday Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. Wilson Mizner Category: Death You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve others judge you by what have achieved. Kung Fu-tzu Confucius Category: Action Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. Dennis Breeze Category: Unsorted An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Orlando A. Battista Category: Error Ask a man which way he is going to vote and he will probably tell you. Ask him however why and vagueness is all. Bernard Levin Category: Vote Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Astonish Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation has an edge: it opens your eyes to something quickens your ears. And good conversation reverberates: it keeps on talking in your mind later in the day; the next day you find yourself still conversing with what was said. That reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness; your minds been moved. You are at another level with your reflections. James Hillman Category: Unsorted Open your eyes look within. Are you satisfied with the life youre livin? Bob Marley Category: Unsorted A little too wise they say do ne'er live long. Thomas Middleton Category: Unsorted Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small it enkindles the great. Comte de Bussy-Rabutin Category: Absent A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesnt want. William Binger Category: Bargain The flowers of the forest are a wide awae. Jane Elliott Category: Unsorted If your going to try to push nature it just pushes right back against you. Neil Dunaetz Category: Garden How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success. Sir Lewis Morris Category: Unsorted Never fear big long words. Big long words mean little things. All big things have little names Such as life and death peace and war Or dawn day night hope love home. Learn to use little words in a big way. It is hard to do But they say what you mean. When you don't know what you mean Use big words That often fools little people. Arthur Kudner Category: Unsorted Unless we think of others and do something for them we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness. Ray Lyman Wilbur Category: Volunteer If you cant get enthusiastic about your work its time to get alarmedsomething is wrong. Compete with yourself; set your teeth and dive into the job of breaking your own record. No one keeps up his or her enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions new aspirations new efforts new vision. It is your own fault if your enthusiasm is gone; you have failed to feed it. If you want to turn hours into minutes renew your enthusiasm. Unknown Category: Enthusiasm Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Knowledge Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem the greater the challenge in working it out. Speare Grace Category: Unsorted The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Cruel Life begins when we begin and each day we ought to be born again. Sterling W. Sill Category: Unsorted The aim of argument or of discussion should not be victory but progress. Joseph Joubert Category: Argument The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work and that writing didnt require any. Russell Baker Category: Writing The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. Carl Gustav Jung Category: Fear Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Samuel Johnson Category: Persecution The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor. Richard David Bach Category: Humor Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. Alfred North Whitehead Category: Progress Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar but is a stab at the health of human society. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Lever Myths are the things that never happened but always are. Synesius Category: Unsorted But whether the Constitution really be one thing or another this much is certain that it has either authorized such a government as we have had or has been powerless to prevent it. Lysander Spooner Category: Unsorted It is an open question whether any behaviour based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. Margaret Mead Category: Behavior Culture is what is left after everything we have learned has been forgotten. It consists of a deepened understanding a breadth of outlook an unbiased approach and a heart that has deep sympathy and strength of courage. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam Category: Unsorted Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. Thomas Hobbes Category: Leisure Once I was at the Atlanta airport. I was taking the train between terminals. Its a smooth quiet train and it was jammed when I walked in. But it was absolutely quiet except for a mechanical voice calling out the stops. The doors were about to close a couple rushes in and the mechanical voice says Because of late entry the train will be delayed for 30 seconds. People were staring at the couple they were angry and I yelled out George Orwell your time has come and gone things are so efficient we're losing our humanity and our sense of humor. Now there are three miscreants: The crowd is staring at me and at the young couple. Sitting nearby was a baby on a mothers lap. I asked the baby What do you think about this? She laughs and I say A human voice at last! There's still hope! Studs Terkel Category: Humor He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. Tom J. Connelly Category: Fool To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. Joseph Addison Category: Atheism A place for everything everything in its place. Benjamin Franklin Category: Order Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. Christopher Darlington Morley Category: Importance Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to a woman at a crisis time in her life. If the product is defective she can not return it for a refund. Carol Everett Category: Abortion Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. W. M. Taylor Category: Temptation The more adapted you are the less adaptable you tend to be. Unknown Category: Adapt But Faith fanatic Faith once wedded fast To some dear falsehood hugs it to the last. Charles Lamb Category: Faith Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. Sigmund Freud Category: Psychology We have a call to do good as often as we have the power and occasion. William Penn Category: God There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing that you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However it helps to understand that fire burns and when it rains the earth gets wet. Robert Fulghum Category: Unsorted What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight its the size of the fight in the dog. General Dwight David Eisenhower Category: Dog Queer thing but we always think every other mans job is easier than our own. And the better he does it the easier it looks. Eden Phillpotts Category: Unsorted The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments and is yet willing to learn more. Ed Parker Category: Accomplishment All discarded lovers should be given a second chance but with somebody else. Mae West Category: Unsorted The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Aphorism Its easy to make a buck. Its a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw Category: Money We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders stride for their every lengthened stride. M. Russell Ballard Category: Unsorted The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. A. J. Cronin Category: Self We can invent only with memory. Alphonse Karr Category: Unsorted It is better to decide between our enemies than our friends; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; But on the other hand one of your enemies will probably become your friend. Bias Category: Endure The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. Elbert Hubbard Category: Today Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. Douglas Jerrold Category: Manners Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable. Claude I. Taylor Category: Unsorted The business of America is business. John Calvin Coolidge Category: Business Its not the situation.... Its your reaction to the situation. Robert Conklin Category: Events They can conquer who believe they can. Vergil Category: Confidence PRESENT n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Eternity None of my inventions came by accidentthey came by work. Thomas Alva Edison Category: Invention If the person you are talking to doesnt appear to be listening be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. Alan Alexander Milne Category: Listen Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggardly doom A difficult journey to a splendid tomb. John Forster Category: Unsorted All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. The Bible Category: Vigilant Necessity the mother of invention. George Farquhar Category: Invention Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did times arrow had yet to be reversed by humans done was done. If a man spent his life looking over his shoulder at every possible branching of his path he could have taken he would never accomplish anything. One must learn from history so as not to repeat it but one must not waste ones energy or time worrying about what might have been. Sorry ... but people die every day and the galaxy continues on quite well without them. Consider yourself lucky you are one of those as yet unselected by the Fates. Steve Perry Category: Time Some mistakenly misread the mercy and graciousness of God. For instance some partial believers are always scolding God or disregarding Him because of the observable and lamentable consequences of our misuse of Gods gift to us of moral agency. It is as if a teenage son given his first car promptly had an accident with resulting pain suffering and expense and the errant son then railed at his father for permitting the suffering resulting from the sons misuse of the gift of the automobile. Granted in defense of the analogy mortal parents ought not to give youngsters automobiles too soon and then only when they have provided wise counsel driver training and so on. But there still comes a time when if they are ever to drive alone trained teenagers must be left alone at the wheel. The principle is the same with us in the second estate. Neal A. Maxwell Category: Mercy The Bible is a book of faith and a book of doctrine and a book of morals and a book of religion of especial revelation from God. Daniel Webster Category: Bible Good humor makes all things tolerable. Henry Ward Beecher Category: Humor The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earths history. There should be no real conflict between science which is the search for truth and Christs teachings which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation. Wendell Phillips Category: Unsorted Another piece of advice: when you read proof cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. You have so many modifiers that the reader has trouble understanding and gets worn out. It is comprehensible when I write: The man sat on the grass becaus Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Category: Advice A fairy seed I planted so dry and white and old there sprang a vine enchanted with magic flowers of gold. Marjorie Barrows Category: Unsorted A long life may not be good enough but a good life is long enough. Benjamin Franklin Category: Good I love judges and I love courts. They are my ideals that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. William Howard Taft Category: Nationalism We are perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures the worrying animal. We worry away our lives fearing the future discontent with the present unable to take in the idea of dying unable to sit still. Lewis Thomas Category: Anxiety Asked when 80 the secret of longevity: Keep breathing. Sophie Tucker Category: Unsorted I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong. Abraham Lincoln Category: Right Life is not meant to be easy. Malcolm Fraser Category: Unsorted How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it. Joannes STOBAEUS Category: Unsorted Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it leads him. Henry Miller Category: Destiny A timid person is frightened before a danger a coward during the time and a courageous person afterwards. Jean Paul Richter Category: Danger And virtue though in rags will keep me warm. John Dryden Category: Virtue Most numbers in the continuum cannot be defined by any finite set of words. Martin Kac Category: Unsorted Be sincere. Be simple in words manners and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh you can make him think and make him like and believe you. Alfred E. Smith Category: Unsorted LUNARIAN n. An inhabitant of the moon as distinguished from Lunatic one whom the moon inhabits. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Moon There is no mistake so great as that of being always right. Samuel Butler the Younger Category: Poetry Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it. J. Ogden Armour Category: Unsorted Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle Category: Action The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. Lucille S. Harper Category: Ego It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Mahatma Gandhi Category: Nonviolence Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them. Oscar Wilde Category: Children Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Saint Thomas Aquinas Category: Love When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. Peter F. Drucker Category: School Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. Horatio Alger Category: Reason Size matters not. Yoda Category: Unsorted America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom is moral not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. Woodrow Wilson Category: Freedom And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows mens eyes in April Are quicker than their brains. John Drinkwater Category: Eyes My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to. Rita Rudner Category: Unsorted A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice at times a comfort or a selfishness. Albert Camus Category: Passion CAT n. A soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Cat Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be torn away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement. Immanuel von Fichte Category: Unsorted Are there not dear Michael Two points in the adventure of the diver One when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus I plunge. Robert Browning Category: Diving I never know how much of what I say is true. Bette Midler Category: Truth A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. Jean Rostand Category: Age The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal of the crusaders a crusader and of the merchants a merchant. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Cannibalism The shaping of our own life is our own work. It is a thing of beauty or a thing of shame as we ourselves make it. Henry Ware Category: Life He who thinks himself wise O heavens! is a great fool. Francois Voltaire Category: Fool After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere Gaius Julius Caesar Category: Suspicion Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Francis Vincent Frank Zappa Jr. Category: Art The best time to plan a book is while youre doing the dishes. Agatha Christie Category: Author The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say: Well this is the way I am. I cannot do otherwise. Then the world gets to work on them and thus the majority of men are ground into conformity. In each generation a small part cling to their I cannot do otherwise and lose their minds. Finally there are a very few in each generation who in spite of all lifes terrors cling with more and more inwardness to this I cannot do otherwise. They are the geniuses. Their I cannot do otherwise is an infinite thought for if one were to cling firmly to a finite thought he would lose his mind. Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Category: Conformity If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child everything usually works out pretty well. Ruth Carlisle Category: Children To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy the true empire of beauty. Richard Steele Category: Unsorted I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. Sir Edward Appleton Category: Opera What really matters is what you do with what you have. Shirley Lord Category: Despise Logic like whiskey loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. Lord Dunsany Category: Logic One on Gods side is a majority. Wendell Phillips Category: Majority A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day. Proverb Category: Hope The almighty dollar that great object of universal devotion throughout our land... Washington Irving Category: Money There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas Alva Edison Category: Substitutes If you cant convince em confuse em. Harry S. Truman Category: Confuse A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right but irrelevant. Manfred Eigen Category: Unsorted How can we fret and stew sub specie aeternitatis - under the calm gaze of ancient Tao? The salt of the sea is in our blood; the calcium of the rocks is in our bones; the genes of ten thousand generations of stalwart progenitors are in our cells. The sun shines and we smile. The winds rage and we bend before them. The blossoms open and we rejoice. Earth is our long home. Stewart W. Holmes Category: Unsorted The human body is the best picture of the human soul. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein Category: Housework In nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place. Francis Bacon Category: Calm Reading and writing arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education any more than a knife fork and spoon constitute a dinner. Sir John Lubbock Category: Unsorted Experience is the best of school masters only the school fees are heavy. Thomas Caryle Category: Education Truth disappears with the telling of it. Lawrence Durrell Category: Truth Don't waste yourself in rejection or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Against The shortest distance between two points is through Hell. Brian Clark Category: Distance Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Language A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident to-morrows. William Wordsworth Category: Tomorrow One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take. Henry Havelock Ellis Category: Gift If youre articulate enough then you don't have to manage anybody else. Management comes in doing only one thing they cant do for themselves: finding what part of each undertaking a particular persons talents fit. Each person is talented creative and productive in some way. Edward Herbert Land Category: Unsorted Todays sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again? Lewis McDonald Grizzard Jr. Category: Discussion When the people contend for their Liberty they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. George Savile Category: Contend If you don't control your mind someone else will. John Allston Category: Control American stuntmen are smart they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car they calculate everything: the speed the distance.... But in Hong Kong we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If youve got the guts you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt. I say Do it! Camera action jump! Boom! Ambulance! Hospital! Next stuntman! Jackie Chan Category: Actors The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent. Maria Lenhart Category: Writing A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. Doug Larson Category: Memory John Daltons records carefully preserved for a century were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. Isaac Asimov Category: War Thanks be to God says the Admiral the air is soft as in April in Seville and it is a pleasure to be in it so fragrant it is. Christopher Columbus Category: Unsorted You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success. J.Richard Clarke Category: Unsorted An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart. David Augsburger Category: Listen At the heart of the First Amendment lies the principle that each person should decide for him or herself the ideas and beliefs deserving of expression consideration and adherence. Our political system and cultural life rest upon this ideal. Government action that stifles speech on account of its message or that requires the utterance of a particular message favored by the Government contravenes this essential right. Laws of this sort pose the inherent risk that the Government seeks not to advance a legitimate regulatory goal but to suppress unpopular ideas or information or manipulate the public debate through coercion rather than persuasion. U.S. Supreme Court Category: Constitution Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Francis Bacon Category: History It is a fine thing to have ability but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. Elbert Hubbard Category: Ability But some of us are beginning to pull well away in our irritation from ... the exquisite tasters the vintage snobs the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is we feel a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them. John Boynton Priestley Category: Unsorted I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change anothers creed. I have judged of others religion by their lives for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me. Thomas Jefferson Category: Judge Americans will listen but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Anthony Burgess Category: Unsorted You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults still less of others faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. John Ruskin Category: Fault Say to the seceded States Wayward sisters depart in peace. Winfield Scott Category: Unsorted If something is not worth doing at all it's not worth doing well. Warren Buffett Category: Deeds Romance like the rabbit at the dog track is the elusive fake and never attained reward which for the benefit and amusement of our masters keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. Beverly Jones Category: Amusement Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even Muhammad Ali Category: Defeat Every man is wanted and no man is wanted much. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Democracy You cant sit on the lid of progress. If you do you will be blown to pieces. Henry Kaiser Category: Unsorted Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that by means of electricity the world of matter has become a great nerve vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather the round globe is a vast head a brain instinct with intelligence! Nathaniel Hawthorne Category: Electricity Self-education is I firmly believe the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov Category: Education Im always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning.... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. Miles Davis Category: Creative He who boasts of his descent praises the deeds of another. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Ancestors The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad Category: Supernatural There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. Ansel Adams Category: Idea The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been Would he had blotted a thousand. Ben Jonson Category: Unsorted And when its all done when theres no one left youll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain Eternity. Youll come back Grant Morrison Category: Unsorted Most men are within a fingers breadth of being mad. Diogenes the Cynic Category: Madness L have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake. Robert Moses Category: Change To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. Oscar Wilde Category: Nature Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation are the sanctuary of the intuitions. Douglas Jerrold Category: Proverb This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. Dorothy Parker Category: Crisis It is always the best policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome Klapka Jerome Category: Policy Only learn to seize good fortune for good fortune is always here. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Fortune No man would listen to you talk if he didnt know it was his turn next. Edgar Watson Ed Howe Category: Listen Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action. Samuel Smiles Category: Enthusiasm You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. Bob Hope Category: Age He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you. William Blake Category: Injury We seem to have lost contact with the earlier more profound functions of art which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment personal growth communion with this world and the search for what lies beneath and above this world. Peter London Category: Unsorted Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. William Somerset Maugham Category: Illusions Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers. Herbert Kaufmann Category: Rich Don't fear change, embrace it. Category: Change Never moon a werewolf. Mike Binder Category: Unsorted The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world. William Ewart Gladstone Category: Conscience I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. Arthur Wellesley Category: Judgment 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. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Diet Education Many believe our entire public-education establishment is going in exactly the wrong direction. Rather having a goal of real achievement the trend seems to be toward reaching some kind of educational parity to make sure no students feel badly about themselves. The liberal educational theoreticians tell you that bad grades only serve to discourage underachievers. The primary objective of Outcome-Based Education is to avoid humiliating a student. We should be educating the student first. Students are passing courses and graduating because of lower requirements because of this new philosophical belief that no one should be held back. Colleges and universities are finding out that a high-school diploma is meaningless in terms of real achievement. The liberal school establishment lowers standards ignores human nature refuses to reward success and doesnt punish failure. Rush H. Limbaugh III Category: Education To bring up a child in the way he should go travel that way yourself once in a while. Josh Billings Category: Children If you have been in the habit of inviting negative thoughts, jealousy, envy, resentment, and self-pity; think of these as intruders in your mind. The old Chinese saying fits here: You cannot stop the birds of the air from flying over your head, but you need not let them nest in your hair. Face and define your troubles. Gather your worries to God. Do all you can about the situation that is causing them. Don't contaminate your friends and loved ones with them. Floyd & Eve Corbin Category: Unsorted It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. The Bible Category: Marriage The unspoken word never does harm. Louis (Lajos} Kossuth Category: Unsorted You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. Ethel Barrymore Category: Age Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character give him power. Abraham Lincoln Category: Adversity What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart liberty is to the soul of man. Robert Green Ingersoll Category: Liberty For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. Henri-Frederic Amiel Category: Action A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Lao Tzu Category: Scholar I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. Marc Chagall Category: Children The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart breed feelings of inferiority. Jacquetta Hawkes Category: Unsorted A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse form the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Alexander Tyler Category: Democracy The marvels of modern technology include the development of a soda can which when discarded will last forever and a $17000 car which when properly cared for will rust out in two or three years. Paul Harwitz Category: Automobiles May your every wish be granted. Proverb Category: Wish The asperity of the word convict shocks their ears so the more mollifying term of Government Man has been substituted. William Shaw Category: Unsorted Lifes about rubbing elbows touching peoples lives and changing them a little bit. David Ellison Category: Unsorted Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it. Karol Newlin Category: Popular Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James Category: Fatigue The perception of truth must be a growth from within. It cannot be a graft. Paramahansaji Category: Unsorted Where would we be without salt? James Beard Category: Unsorted I look to the future because thats where Im going to spend the rest of my life. George Burns Category: Future Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure and the second devoted to ambition. Samuel Johnson Category: Avarice Pressure is when youve got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and youve only got five dollars left. Lee Trevino Category: Unsorted The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best. Dorothy Dix Category: Unsorted Judges are in many respects like parents. You have to give them a good enough reason to do what you want. Darlene Ricker Category: Unsorted Whoever said money cant buy happiness didnt know where to shop. Gittel Hudnick Category: Money Laugh at yourself but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Alan Alda Category: Age Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution. Irwin Van Grove Category: Unsorted Andy Warhol is the only genius with an IQ of 60. Gore Vidal Category: Unsorted The mark of a successful organization isnt whether or not they have problems its whether it has the same problems it had last year. John Foster Dules Category: Unsorted The conqueror and king in each of us is the ... Knower of truth.... Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind emotions and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen. George S. Arundale Category: Unsorted Oh leave this barren spot to me! Spare woodman spare the beechen tree! Thomas Campbell Category: Unsorted I owe a lot to my parents especially my mother and my father. Greg Norman Category: Mother That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. Sir William Blackstone Category: Kindness I do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb it is a device which is exploding. Jacques Le Blanc Category: Unsorted The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. William Butler Yeats Category: Head Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. Lloyd George Category: Liberty Give it all you got until youre put out of your misery Aerosmith Category: Unsorted The efficacy of our prayers depends on how we care for one another. John H. Groberg Category: Praise Fame is the scentless sunflower with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: False No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Discipline Racine will go out of style like coffee. Jean Racine (1639–99) French dramatist & poet Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de Sevigne Category: Unsorted Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. Benjamin Franklin Category: Present I believe in equality for everyone except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi Category: Journalism Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. Dean Acheson Category: Assume Fear ... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday. Renata Adler Category: Fear To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton. Joseph Priestley Category: Unsorted The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. T. S. Eliot Category: Television There is but one element of government and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. For a nation to be free it is only necessary that she wills it. For a nation to be slave it is only necessary that she wills it. John Adams Category: People Twenty-two years of tofu is a lot of time. On his decision to start eating meat 1997 Paul Obis Category: Unsorted Nothing is more noble nothing more venerable than fidelity. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Friendship There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. Edward Verrall Lucas Category: Courtesy Children you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Pearl Mae Bailey Category: Ambition No other farm machine of this century has had such a profound effect on American agriculture as the farm tractor. C. H. Wendel Category: Unsorted I'm arm'd with more than complete steelThe justice of my quarrel. Unknown Category: Justice Do not let the good things in life rob you of the best things. Buster Rothman Category: Unsorted Art is the desire of a man to express himself to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Amy Lowell Category: Art The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. Quentin Crisp Category: Existence People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good soul satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. Robert Keith Leavitt Category: Mind When God thought of mother He must have laughed with satisfaction and framed it quickly so rich so deep so divine so full of soul power and beauty was the conception. Henry Ward Beecher Category: Mother One can endure sorrow alone but it takes two to be glad. Elbert Hubbard Category: Alone Anyone who hates dogs and kids cant be all bad. W. C. Fields Category: Hate No day is so bad that it can not be fixed by a good nap. Carrie Snow Category: Day Fact discipline academic structure form and even learn are negative words while approach discover feel experience impression and change are words of approbation. Professor Lauchlan Chipman Category: Unsorted That is indisputable was the answer but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. Francois Voltaire Category: Encourage A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan Category: Love You may be deceived if you trust too much but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. Dr. Frank Crane Category: Trust The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. Thornton Niven Wilder Category: Unsorted He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it may be a saint; that boasteth of it is a devil. Thomas Fuller Category: Sin ... peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for ... Abraham Lincoln Category: Peace We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. Kahlil Gibran Category: Communicate He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. Thomas Fuller Category: Potential The wisest have the most authority. Plato Category: Authority Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Evil If someone had told me I would be Pope one day I would have studied harder. Pope John Paul I Category: Pope Endure Hardness A cold wind stirs the blackthorn To burgeon and to blow Besprinkling half-green hedges With flakes and sprays of snow. Through coldness and through keenness Dear hearts take comfort so: Somewhere or other doubtless These make the blackthorn blow. Christina Georgina Rossetti Category: Unsorted In the field of public education the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Earl Warren Category: Civil If ever we hear a case of lying we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. Alfred Adler Category: Children Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil - and if they cannot feel they have lost their liberty. Aristotle Category: Revenge Dishonesty cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. George A. Knight Category: Cowardice Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. Robert Frost Category: Happiness The And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint when most I play the devil. William Shakespeare Category: Bible The wolf from the door. John Skelton Category: Unsorted I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. Jerome K. Jerome Category: Job We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. Harold Nicolson Category: Idea When Im reading material if Im a little bit afraid of a part and Im willing to admit that to myself then Ill do it definitely. If Im worried about being able to do it to get it I absolutely just love it. Jack Lemmon Category: Actors The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Baldwin Category: Professions They have computers and they may have other weapons of mass destruction. Janet Reno Category: Computer No persons are more frequently wrong than those who will not admit they are wrong. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Manners I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace harmony health love and abundance. Then whenever doubt anxiety or fear try to call me they keep getting a busy signal and theyll soon forget my number. Edith Armstrong Category: Peace Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant Category: Everyone We know where most of the creativity the innovation the stuff that drives productivity liesin the minds of those closest to the work. Its been there in front of our noses all along while weve been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japaneseor at least manage like them. John F. Welch Category: Unsorted Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing those which average eyes would see as fixed and still. Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi Category: Tree Ay sir; to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. William Shakespeare Category: Honest Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you you cannot escape it. When you go visiting your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. Lewis Gannit Category: Unsorted Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. Dale Turner Category: Dream COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Achievement Outside of a dog a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read. Groucho Marx Category: Reactionaries One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. Antonio Porchia Category: Hope To Peter Carr 1785: A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body it gives boldness enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks. Thomas Jefferson Category: Health Basically I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. Albert Giacometti Category: Work I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Dame Edith Sitwell Category: Stupidity He loved to ask his mother questions. It was the pleasantest thing for him to ask a question and then to hear what answer his mother would give. Bambi was never surprised that question after question should come into his mind continually and without effor Felix Salten Category: Unsorted I thoroughly believe in a university education for both men and women but I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible. William Lyon Phelps Category: Bible Et tu Brute? William Shakespeare Category: Last What fairy-like music steals over the sea Entrancing our senses with charmed melody? Mrs. C. B. Wilson Category: Unsorted Seedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... its optimism. Geoff Hamilton Category: Unsorted Theres not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone elses brains. Woodrow Wilson Category: Brain Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. R. Buckminster Fuller Category: Nature In a country where the sole employer is the State opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work does not eat has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat. Leon Trotsky Category: Unsorted The hair was a Vaseline cathedral the mouth a touchingly uncertain sneer of allure. One two-wham! Like a berserk blender the lusty young pelvis whirred and the notorious git-tar slammed forward with a jolt that symbolically deflowered a generation of teenagers and knocked chips off 90 million older shoulders. Then out of the half-melted vanilla face a wild black baritone came bawling in orgasmic lurches. Whu-huh-huh-huh fthe money! Two fthe show! Three tgit riddy naa GO CAAT GO! Brad Darrach Category: Road There are no ugly women only lazy ones. Helena Rubenstein Category: Ugly Music is a thing of the soula roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal seaa strange bird singing the songs of another shore. Josiah Gilbert Holland Category: Unsorted War is the science of destruction. John Abbott Category: War Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson Category: Unsorted Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity. W. Kelly Griffith Category: Wages These are not books lumps of lifeless paper but minds alive on the shelves. Gilbert Highet Category: Book The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship. Jacob H. Schiff Category: Unsorted The future is made up of the same stuff as the present. Simone Weil Category: Future TYPE n. Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enlightenment despite their obvious agency in this incomparable dictionary. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Publicity Early to bed early to rise Work like hell: fertilize. Emily Whaley Category: Advertising Of hobbies there are many many kinds. For example money-making. But money-making is not exactly a hobby for it will scarcely carry a boy along in continuous joy comfort and pleasure - to say nothing of a full-grown man. Money comes not because it is ridden as a hobby but because a real hobby is ridden so cleverly and carefully that it oozes out money on the side! John Cotton Dana Category: Greed It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. Robert Green Ingersoll Category: Indispensable Unless you choose to do great things with it it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have. Oprah Winfrey Category: Power The nature of God is a circle of which the centre is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. Unknown Category: Center Die? I should say not dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. John Barrymore Category: Allow Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd. William Shakespeare Category: Fortune Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues. William Butler Yeats Category: Unsorted Transport of the mails transport of the human voice transport of flickering pictures in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Category: Accomplishment I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown not for a fine glossy surface but such qualities as would wear well. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Marriage He who believes he knows the ending of things before they begin is either a very wise person or an idiot. Regardless he is unhappy for he hast drove a knife into the heart of wonder. Osten Ard Category: Unsorted My poor fellow why not carry a watch? Herbert Beerbohm Tree Category: Unsorted Kinetics is natures way of preventing everything from happening all at once. S.E. LeBlanc Category: Unsorted See Ive always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero mate. Hes a legend - like my dad just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the 60s through the 70s was just phenomenal. Steve Irwin Category: Conservation Nothing shows a mans character more than what he laughs at. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Laugh Patience is the ability to let your light shine after your fuse has blown. Bob Levey Category: Patience Every public action which is not customary either is wrong or if it is right is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time. Francis Macdonald Cornford Category: Change Being on the tightrope is living. Everything else is just waiting. Karl Wallenda Category: Unsorted The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. Lady Stella Reading Category: Unsorted Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. Bertrand Russell Category: Intelligent Few people even scratch the surface much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. Randolph S. Bourne Category: Experience A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. Samuel Grafton Category: Money The timing of death like the ending of a story gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. Mary C. Bateson Category: Unsorted No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. Henry A. Kissinger Category: Politics There is no such thing as the Queens English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares! Mark Twain Category: Immorality That was a great speech. Every thinking American will vote for you. Thats not enough. I need a majority. Morris King Mo Udall Category: Unsorted Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this. Marianne Craig Moore Category: Unsorted A garden was the primitive prison till man with Promethean felicity and boldness luckily sinned himself out of it. Charles Lamb Category: Unsorted We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity blessings are showered upon us. Albert Theodore Tuttle Category: Adversity When two men in business always agree one of them is unnecessary. William Wrigley Jr. Category: Agreement In the morning when you are sluggish about getting up let this thought be present: I am rising to a mans work. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Category: Bed But nature would not let us sleep; She loved so well To talk and had such things to tell. Roderic Quinn Category: Unsorted Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need no money no hurry no desire no trust. Zig Ziglar Category: Observe Advice its more fun to give than to receive. Malcolm S. Forbes Category: Advice Writers will happen in the best of families. Rita Mae Brown Category: Accidents Life is like eating artichokes you have got to go through so much to get so little. Thomas Aloysius Dorgan Category: Life PANTOMIME n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Drama The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat or takes its milk on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is but the milk is more likely to be watered. Samuel Butler the Younger Category: Opinion If we are to abolish the death penalty I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers. Alphonse Karr Category: Capable It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. Thomas Carlyle Category: Problem It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence. Samuel Butler the Younger Category: History Thou hast the keys of Paradise oh just subtle and mighty opium! Thomas de Quincy Category: Drugs Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space. Leston Havens Category: Unsorted What is Paradise? Muhammad replied It is what the eye hath not seen nor the ear heard nor ever flashed across the mind of man. Prophet Muhammad Category: Heaven We all like stories that make us cry. Its so nice to feel sad when youve nothing in particular to feel sad about. Annie Sullivan Category: Unsorted Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Immanuel Kant Category: Sin How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Henry David Thoreau Category: Education We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. Alexis De Tocqueville Category: Success It is often difficult to change circumstances but a positive attitude can help lift discouragement. Val R. Christensen Category: Unsorted Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isnt the work he is supposed to be doing. Robert Charles Benchley Category: Work Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself but most of them were written for him. Harry Emerson Fosdick Category: Library Peace is the evening star of the soul as virtue is its sun; and the two are never far apart. Charles Caleb Colton Category: Peace The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Stephen R. Covey Category: Others Anyone who stops learning is old whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity. Harvey Ullman Category: Age The advantage of doing ones praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. Samuel Butler the Younger Category: Ego Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus now superseded by the Higher Algebra all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity. Mary Somerville Category: Unsorted Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results. George W. Goethals Category: Duty Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth renewal and transformation in our lives. Mary Ann Brussat Category: Unsorted T was whispered in heaven t was mutterd in hell And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; On the confines of earth t was permitted to rest And the depths of the ocean its presence confessd. Catherine M. Fanshawe Category: Unsorted Ay tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. Beneath it rung the battle shout And burst the cannon's roar The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Ship Self-respect is the very cement of character without which character will not form nor stand; a personal ideal is the only possible foundation for self-respect without which self-respect degenerates into vanity or conceit or is lost entirely its place being taken by worthlessness and the consciousness of worthlessness; and that is the end of all character. It is often said that if we do not respect ourselves no one else will respect us; this is rather a dangerous way to put it; let us rather say that if we are not worthy of our own respect we cannot claim the respect of others. True self-respect is a matter of being and never of mere seeming. As Paulsen says It is vanity that desires first of all to be seen and admired and then if possible really to be something; whereas proper self esteem desires first of all to be something and then if possible to have its worth recognized. Edward O. Sisson Category: Character When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves that we have left them. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Quit Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Pleasure The thing you really believe in always happens ... and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Lloyd Wright Category: Belief The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of arts audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. Paul Gauguin Category: Art 24. Actions have consequences. Morton C. Blackwell Category: Consequences Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. Sophia Loren Category: Unsorted Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything. Jean-Louis Etienne Category: Unsorted A cool and candid people will at once reflect that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them that the choice must always be made if not of the lesser evil at least of the greater not the perfect good. James Madison Category: Unsorted Management means in the last analysis the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle of knowledge for folkways and superstition and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Peter F. Drucker Category: Management Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry van Dyke Category: Life People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. Rebecca West Category: Unsorted Mankind continues to become gradually less cruel because a few people in every generation keep saying This isnt right. It hurts me to see it. Joan Gilbert Category: Unsorted Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. Madame de Rieux Category: Marriage Sitting quietly doing nothing Spring comes and the grass grows by itself. Unknown Category: Do How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he does himself to make it just and holy. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Category: Neighbor I have loved many the more and the few I have loved many that I might love you. Grace Fallow Norton Category: Commandments Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. Alfred Adler Category: Inferior If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid how then with deadlier facts not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events not books should be forbid. Herman Melville Category: Book Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket! Andrew Carnegie Category: Cause Knowledge is the treasure but judgment the treasurer of a wise man. William Penn Category: Judgment Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless. Honore de Balzac Category: Passion Before beginning plan carefully. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Prepare The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. Henry Alfred Kissinger Category: Leadership But all resistance against her is vain Who has the advantage both of Eyes and Voice. And all my forces needs must be undone She having gained both the Wind and Sun. Andrew Marvell Category: Voice Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare. Al Batt Category: Advice Love is not singular except in syllable. Marvin Taylor Category: Love No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars. William Winter Category: Unsorted All human power is a compound of time and patience. Honore de Balzac Category: Patience Women like a man who is tall dark and has some. William J. Meehan Category: Unsorted Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. Proverb Category: Friendship If peace cannot be maintained with honour it is no longer peace. Lord John Russell Category: Unsorted I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world. Albert Einstein Category: Play Form is never more than an extension of content. Robert Creeley Category: Unsorted Responsibility educates. Wendell Phillips Category: Responsibility Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. Thomas Category: Action He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. Ring Lardner Category: Love Wear the old coat and buy the new book. Austin Phelps Category: Book You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith and with the gift of the Holy Ghost you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude. You could try the same thing as you write an entry in your book of remembrance. The Holy Ghost has helped with that since the beginning of time. You remember in the record of Moses it says: And a book of remembrance was kept in the which was recorded in the language of Adam for it was given unto as many as called upon God to write by the spirit of inspiration. (Moses 6:5.) Henry B. Eyring Category: Faith Roys wife of Aldivalloch Wat ye how she cheated me As I came oer the braes of Balloch? Anne Grant Category: Unsorted If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your place. Orison Swett Marden Category: Growth The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Respect Grown ups never understand anything for themselves and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Category: Understand Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons: those that make them those that execute them and those that suffer if they break them. Halifax Category: Law Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors we borrow it from our Children. Proverb Category: Earth Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett Category: Change An after-dinner speech should be like a ladys dress-long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting. Richard Austen Butler Category: Speak The shame that comes to us as we see ourselves praised when we are unworthy of it often gives us the occasion to accomplish things that we might never have achieved without such undeserved praise. Marquise Magdeleine de Sable Category: Praise Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann Category: Housework We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts foreign ideas alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Category: Nation If we live truly we shall see truly. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Present Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together and perhaps when I have finished it could show the future. If people want to interpret my work as warnings about too much overpopulation disease and mechanization in the future then that is up to them. I like to combine human beings creatures and biomechanics. And I love to work with bones they are elemental and function and after all are part of human beings. I have many bones in my home in Zurich and I study them and use them as models. Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic with the emphasis on death blood overcrowding strange beings and so on but I don't really think it is. There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere if you look for it. H. R. Giger Category: Unsorted You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. M. Shawn Cole Category: Wise This trend [emphasizing applied mathematics over pure mathematics] will make the queen of the sciences into the quean of the sciences. Quean: a disreputable woman a prostitute. L.M. Passano Category: Unsorted Im never going to be famous. I don't do anything not one single thing. I used to bite my nails but I don't even do that any more. Dorothy Parker Category: False The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Youth No one returns with goodwill to the place which has done him a mischief. Phædrus Category: Unsorted The chief virtue that language can have is clearness and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Hippocrates Category: Language No Sire it is a revolution. Duc de la Rochefoucaluld-Liancourt Category: Unsorted Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. Ronald Wilson Reagan Category: Air Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. Aldous Huxley Category: If Things forbidden have a secret charm. Publius Cornelius Tacitus Category: Charm Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. Henry Ward Beecher Category: Wages Each member of this Church has the personal responsibility to be an eternal architect of this [family history] bridge for his or her own family. Dennis B. Neuenschwander Category: Unsorted In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid. Gerald White Johnson Category: Rich Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. James Abram Garfield Category: Effort Arguing with a persons faith is like chasing them around a big empty parking lot. You can keep backing them up and backing them upbut you never actually corner them. George Weilacher Category: Unsorted A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Fact This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrows happiness grow. Margaret Lindsey Category: Flower The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost. Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Category: Loquacity It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied and most men live only for the gratification of it. Aristotle Category: Desire If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender. John Locke Category: Punish What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. Simone Weil Category: Cause Is getting well ever an art or art a way to get well? Robert Lowell Category: Unsorted The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational A. N. Wilson Category: Logic Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. Scott Raymond Adams Category: Unsorted One may have a blazing hearth in ones soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. Vincent van Gogh Category: Alone When you have nothing important or interesting to say don't let anyone persuade you to say it. H. Jackson Brown Jr. Category: Interest O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head! Thomas Hood Category: Bed Monsieur l'abbe I detest what you write but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write. Francois Voltaire Category: Book Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck. Gabrielle Coco Chanel Category: Unsorted Life isnt all beer and skittles. Hughes Thomas Category: Life The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterward. Arthur Koestler Category: Discovery A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it. E. W. Rice Category: Unsorted What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight what counts is the size of the fight in the dog. Mark Twain Category: Dog Anyway People are unreasonable illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good people will accuse you of ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for some underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and youll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best youve got anyway. Mother Teresa Category: God The great composer ... does not set to work because he is inspired but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven Wagner Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. Ernest Newman Category: Unsorted Geometry is a skill of the eyes and the hands as well as of the mind. Jean Pedersen Category: Unsorted Each one has his own most real thing. Mine is the garden. Louisa Yeomans King Category: Unsorted The moon of Mahomet Arose and it shall set; While blazoned as on heavens immortal noon The cross leads generations on. Percy Bysshe Shelley Category: Christianity Winter summer spring and fall It doesnt matter death loves them all Sanjay Singh Category: Unsorted Opinions are flexible prejudices. Gerald Horton Bath Category: Unsorted Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? Rupert Brook Category: Tea For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple neat and wrong. Samuel Goldwyn Category: Solution Don't just do your bestget the job done! Stan Watts Category: Unsorted O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts! John Keats Category: Feelings I and a woman whose color and cheeks shall have become black from toiling in the sun shall be near to one another in the next world as my two fingers; and that is a handsome widow whose color and cheeks shall have become black in bringing up her family. Prophet Muhammad Category: Mother The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. Lewis Thomas Category: Language Without freedom no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others. Albert Camus Category: Art It is better to learn late than never. Publilius Syrus Category: Better All I need to make a comedy is a park a policeman and a pretty girl. Charlie Chaplin Category: Comedy There is no place more delightful than ones own fireplace. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Unsorted Let the punishment match the offense. Marcus Tullius Cicero Category: Punish A merely fallen enemy may rise again but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Category: Endure The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. Thomas Jefferson Category: Religion When I read about the evils of drinking I gave up reading. Trent Redman Category: Alcohol If any man seeks for greatness let him forget greatness and ask for truth and he will find both. Horace Mann Category: Gravity Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary Category: Epithet It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. Elinor Smith Category: Action The good Lord never gives you more than you can handle. Unless you die of something. Guindon Category: Unsorted Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. George Orwell Category: Obvious No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year nor so young that he cannot die today. Fernando de Rojas Category: Age Time is precious but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Truth The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work the finding of new paths is left to smaller men. Ralph Vaughan Williams Category: Music I am the State. Louis XIV Category: State I saw a star flame in the sky I heard a wild bird sing And down where all the forest stirred Another answering. All suddenly I felt the gleam That made my faith revive: Ah God it takes such simple things To keep the soul alive. Harold Vinal Category: Unsorted I think we might be going a bridge too far. Sir Frederick Browning Category: Unsorted How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden? PhineasTaylor Barnum Category: Last Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. Category: Poetry Patience is a most necessary quality for business: many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. Philip Dormer Shanhope Lord Chesterfield Category: Listen It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest. John Heywood Category: Home One who is riding should salute one who is walking one who is walking should salute one who is sitting and a small company should salute a large one. Prophet Muhammad Category: Cook Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Category: Government How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected but time is gone forever. David B. Norris Category: Mistake Women have commonly a very positive moral sense; that which they will is right; that which they reject is wrong; and their will in most cases ends by settling the moral. Henry Brooks Adams Category: Unsorted The dust comes secretly day after day Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings Is Solomons temple poets Nineveh. Viola Meynell Category: Unsorted Elliott: Hes a man from outer space and were taking him to his spaceship. Greg (Elliott's friend): Well cant he just beam up? Elliott: This is reality Greg. Henry Thomas Category: Unsorted We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face.... We must do that which we think we cannot. Eleanor Roosevelt Category: Confidence We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation but he does not know what to create. Jose Ortega y Gasset Category: Capable If I could live my life over again there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less. Luciano Pavarotti Category: Climb Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted. Andre Malraux Category: Convert THE WANTS OF MAN ‘Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.'* ‘Tis not with me exactly so But ‘tis so in the song. My wants are many and if told Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold I still should long for more. *from Oliver Goldsmith's Hermit. John Quincy Adams Category: Life Pythagoras when he was asked what time it was answered that it was the soul of this world. Plutarch Category: Time We make our friends; we make our enemies; But God makes our next-door neighbor. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Category: Neighbor The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. Henry David Thoreau Category: Music For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. Thats a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard theyre unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. Neil Gershenfeld Category: Mathematics You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Tom Wilson Category: Complacency There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and the other half discreditable. Christian Nestell Bovee Category: Anxiety Since when was genius found respectable? Elizabeth Barrett Browning Category: Genius Part of human nature resents change loves equilibrium while another part welcomes novelty loves the excitement of disequilibrium. There is no formula for the resolution of this tug-of-war but it is obvious that absolute surrender to either of them invites disaster. J. Bartlet Brebner Category: Unsorted I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer and Madame C.J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit. Oprah Winfrey Category: Freedom Quarrels would not last so long if the fault were only on one side. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Argument Its better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard Category: Quotations Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes only with more finesse! Derwood Fincher Category: Experience When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant! Thomas Hood Category: Adam Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food but not appetite; medicine but not health; acquaintance but not friends; servants but not loyalty; days of joy but not peace or happiness. Henrik Ibsen Category: Happiness Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon Category: Breakfast English was good enough for Jesus Christ and its good enough for the children of Texas. Miriam ``Ma Ferguson Category: Engineer A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; But when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice he is godlike. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Justice The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect but love can be (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Thomas Eugene (Tom) Robbins Category: Perfection When gardening I have one gift You wont find in any manuals. I know its strange but I can change Perennials to annuals. Dick Emmons Category: Unsorted Peace has no borders. Yitzhak rabin Category: Unsorted Its not what youve done but what you do next that keeps your competitor at bay. Moses Joseph Category: Unsorted Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. George Norman Douglas Category: Guest Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. Edward Young Category: Age How can you eat anything with eyes? Will Kellogg Category: Vatican Its the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction things begin to happen. Claude M. Bristol Category: Belief Of all the horrid hideous notes of woe Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast Is that portentous phrase I told you so. Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Discussion Put this restriction on your pleasures be cautious that they injure no being that lives. John Zimmerman Category: Pleasure To be happy one must rid oneself of prejudice be virtuous healthy and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ... Madam du Châtelet Category: Unsorted The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Carl Gustav Jung Category: Acceptance Lying increases the creative faculties expands the ego and lessens the frictions of social contacts. Claire Booth Luce Category: Lever Money begets money. John Ray Category: Money Reality is that which when you stop believing in it doesnt go away. Philip K. Dick Category: Belief Painting n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Ambrose Bierce Category: Art He hath no power that hath not power to use. Bailey Category: Unsorted Weep no more nor sigh nor groan Sorrow calls no time thats gone: Violets plucked the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again. John Fletcher Category: Unsorted Ive never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. Mike Todd Category: Potential To dry ones eyes and laugh at a fall And baffled get up and begin again. Robert Browning Category: Eyes Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket. James R. Newman Category: Games Shuffle Off to Buffalo ...The honeymoon in store Is one that youll adore Im gonna take you for a ride Ill go home and pack my panties You go home and get your scanties And away well go Off were gonna shuffle Shuffle Off to Buffalo To Niagara in a sleeper Theres no honeymoon thats cheaper And the train goes slow Off were gonna shuffle Shuffle Off to Buffalo... For a little silver quarter We can have the Pullman porter Turn the lights down low Off were gonna shuffle Shuffle Off to Buffalo Ruby Keeler Category: Unsorted Keep your sense of humor. Theres enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game youre supposed to enjoy. Amy Strum Alcott Category: Humor Everyone is in the best seat. John Cage Category: Life Politicians are like baby diapers. They need to be changed frequently and for the same reason! Larry L. Taylor Category: Change From childhoods hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved I loved alone. Then- in my childhood in the dawn Of a most stormy life- was drawn From every depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still: From the torrent or the fountain From the red cliff of the mountain From the sun that round me rolled In its autumn tint of gold From the lightning in the sky As it passed me flying by From the thunder and the storm And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view. Edgar Allan Poe Category: Others People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. Jean Iris Murdoch Category: Flower Bernard van Dieren commenting on the music of Frederick Delius: To all that he touched he gave a new meaning a new color a new outline a new loveliness and a new poignancy. Frederick Delius Category: Unsorted Think you can think you cant you are RIGHT!!! (Rudy) Rodolfo Tellez Category: Optimism When I was young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco. Arturo Toscanini Category: Kissing All you need to be a net junkie is a skull jack an IV and a catheter. Vere Category: Unsorted It is not the position but the disposition. J. E. Dinger Category: Attitude You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything even poverty you can survive it. William Henry Bill Cosby Jr. Ed.D. Category: Humor Such is Life [Executed by hanging.] Ned Kelly Category: Unsorted Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Jonathan Swift Category: Humor Im just a person trapped inside a womans body. Elayne Boosler Category: Woe It is far more easy to acquire fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman. Charles Caleb Colton Category: Spending Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance. Wystan Hugh Auden Category: Theory How pure the joy when first my hands unfold The small rare volume black with tarnished gold. John Ferriar Category: Unsorted The goal of all life is death. Sigmund Freud Category: Death When a man points a finger at someone else he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. Louis Nizer Category: Accusations Strategy is; A style of thinking a conscious and deliberate process an intensive implementation system the science of insuring future success. Pete Johnson Category: Unsorted People are brave enough to spit into an open wound the problem is that theyre so afraid that theyll only do it after the beast is dead. Sanjay Singh Category: Brave Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow. Ronald E. Osborn Category: Diet When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children anyway they could By pouring their derision Upon anything we did And exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids But in the town it was well known When they got home at night Their fat and psychopathic wives Would thrash them Within inches of their lives. Pink Floyd Category: Unsorted There is hardly anything in the world that some man cant make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this mans lawful prey. John Ruskin Category: Price It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle Category: Acceptance New discoveries in science ... will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who would still adventure. Herbert Clark Hoover Category: Science Who are the learned? They who practise what they know. Prophet Muhammad Category: Learn 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 Category: Autobiography For me the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world but a dangerous one full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. Joyce Cary Category: Unsorted Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. Romain Gary Category: Dignity The first recorded instruction given to Adam after the Fall dealt with the eternal principle of work. The Lord said: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. (Gen. 3:19.) Our Heavenly Father loves us so completely that he has given us a commandment to work. This is one of the keys to eternal life. He knows that we will learn more grow more achieve more serve more and benefit more from a life of industry than from a life of ease. Howard W. Hunter Category: Adam How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee freely as men strive for Right; I love thee purely as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs and with my childhoods faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saintsI love thee with the breadth Smiles tears of all my life!and if God choose I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Category: Love We are not punished for our sins but by them. Proverb Category: Punish We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinionsof our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. George Bernard Shaw Category: Nude The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then little will ever be accomplished. Alfred Adler Category: Mathematics The little gnomes of Zurich. Harold Wilson Category: Unsorted In other words the propositions of philosophy are not factual but linguistic in character that is they do not describe the behaviour of physical or even mental objects; they express definitions or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact. Alfred Jules Ayer Category: Unsorted Be daring be different be impractical be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers the creatures of the commonplace the slaves of the ordinary. Sir Cecil Beaton Category: Ordinary Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. E. M. Cioran Category: Unsorted Why are you unhappy? because 99% of everything you do is for your self and there isnt one! Wei Wu Wei Category: Unsorted Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. Vix ulla tam iniqua pax quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior Desiderius Erasmus Category: Unsorted The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole. John Peter Zenger Category: Unsorted In education in marriage in religion in everything disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every womans heart until she bows down to it no longer. Lucy Stone Category: Woe Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is there are only two things in life reasons and results and reasons simply don't count. Dr. Robert Anthony Category: Procrastination In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore though you should fail immediately you had better aim at something high. Henry David Thoreau Category: Aim The will to win is important but the will to prepare is vital. Joe Paterno Category: Will Work to become not to acquire. Elbert Hubbard Category: Constitution We will learn that computers amazing as they are still cannot come close to being as effective as human beings. A computer isnt creative on its own because it is programmed to behave in a predictable way. Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. Computers simply cannot do that. Masaru Ibuka Category: Unsorted What you cant communicate runs your life. Dr. Robert Anthony Category: Unsorted Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say This was their finest hour. Sir Winston Churchill Category: Duty Life is a tragedy for those who feel but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole Category: Comedy Because of the interconnectedness of all minds affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take. Willis Harman Category: Vision A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone and the wisest man needs advice. Zoroaster Category: Advice What do butterflies get in their stomachs when they are nervous? Mary H. Waldrip Category: Unsorted Her lips were red and one was thin; Compared with that was next her chin Some bee had stung it newly. Sir John Suckling Category: Unsorted Dreams books are each a world; and books we know Are a substantial world both pure and good. Round these with tendrils strong as flesh and blood Our pastime and our happiness will grow. William Wordsworth Category: Book Any book about gardens written for the pleasure of writing must have its sources in dreams. The visions of gardens beautiful and retired hover before the imagination and no real garden however humble but is invested in celestial light of cherished hopes of what it may become in fragrant flowers or what it might have been had fortune been kind. Lena May McCauley Category: Unsorted We are as near to heaven by sea as by land! Humphrey Gilbert Category: Unsorted We can offer up much in the large but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Sacrifice Nimble thought can jump both sea and land. William Shakespeare Category: Thief All the resources we need are in the mind. Theodore Roosevelt Category: Mind Nothing is interesting if youre not interested. Helen Clark MacInness Category: Curiosity A definition encloses a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. Samuel Butler Category: Dictionary Democracy which is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. Plato Category: Disorder Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now The place to be happy is here The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll Category: Unsorted Man must get his thoughts words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are hopefully more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities? H.Jay Dinsah Category: Morality All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individuals sensibilities in relation not only to ones fellow humans everywhere but to all living things whatsoever. Ashley Montagu Category: Compassion Great Literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Ezra Pound Category: Literature Art cant hurt you. Fred Babb Category: Unsorted Here am I dying of a hundred good symptoms. Alexander Pope Category: Last Society exists for the benefit of its members not the members for the benefit of society. Herbert Spencer Category: Unsorted 43. Promptly report your action to the one who requested it. Morton C. Blackwell Category: Action There are various orders of beauty causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men but of all intelligent mammals even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief a beauty with which you can never be angry but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you. George Eliot Category: Beauty We had our guns. People determined to stand up for themselves survived ... the looters went somewhere else. Bob Zirgulis Category: Unsorted Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. George S. Patton Category: Courage Even if there is only one possible unified theory it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Stephen William Hawking Category: Universe Farewell a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope tomorrow blossoms And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost a killing frost And - when he thinks good easy man full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root And then he falls as I do. William Shakespeare Category: Farewell You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream how ya gonna make a dream come true? Bloody Mary Category: Unsorted The will of a wealthy New York woman in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach. James Keller Category: Advice Exhilaration that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you and before you realize whats wrong with it. Unknown Category: Feelings Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God. Heywood Campbell Broun Category: Atheism We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have. Alex Agase Category: Unsorted MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT n. Government. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Monarchy For there are deeds Which have no form sufferings which have no tongue. Percy Bysshe Shelley Category: Force Romanticism may not inaccurately be described as a conviction that the world is an Englischer Garten on a grand scale. The God of the seventeenth century like its gardeners always geometrized; the God of Romanticism was one in whose universe things grew wild and without trimming and in all the rich diversity of their natural shapes. The preference for irregularity the aversion from that which is wholly intellectualized ... which were eventually to invade the intellectual life of Europe at all points made their first modern appearance on a grand scale in the eighteenth century in the form of the new fashion in pleasure gardens. Arthur O. Lovejoy Category: Unsorted If you want to be free there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. there is no other. Carl Schurz Category: Unsorted Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. Samuel Johnson Category: Theory The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. William Edgar Borah Category: Burden Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. Its how true friends talk. Peggy Noonan Category: Unsorted Action may not always bring happiness; But there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Action War will cease when men refuse to fight. Fridtjof Hansen Category: Refuse Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life. Constantin Brancusi Category: Unsorted Criticizing TV is second only to watching TV as an American pastime. Robert M. Batscha Category: Television We are all born for love.... It is the principle of existence and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Love The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinaryman takes everything either as a blessing or a curse. Don Juan Category: Challenge We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. Jack Herbert Category: Advice Be sincere; be brief; be seated. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: President Its easy perhaps to die for a dream With banners unfurled and be forgiving! Its the hardest part to follow the gleam When scorned by the world and go on living! Myra Brooks Welch Category: Unsorted An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. Walter Bagehot Category: Quiet Gardening is such a highly individual area that it is irresistible to egocentrics.... The word is used in its broadest most correct sense and is not to be confused with egoist. It includes not only those who are normally naturally self–centered but also those who have been rendered self–centered by circumstances – those who are lonely timid shy; those who have a compulsion to express themselves in some art or other; and especially those who are ostriches who are only truly happy when they escape from the bewilderment of daily life by burying their heads in an interesting well–ordered and preferably beautiful landscape. Francis H. Cabot Category: Garden Above all challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have what you can accomplish. Cecile M. Springer Category: Challenge The imposition of stigma is the most common form of violence used in democratic societies. R. A. Pinker Category: Unsorted The purpose of our lives is to be happy. The Dalai Lama Category: Purpose When you are down and out something always turns up and its usually the noses of your friends. Orson Welles Category: Friendship When asked what it was like to set about proving something the mathematician likened proving a theorem to seeing the peak of a mountain and trying to climb to the top. One establishes a base camp and begins scaling the mountains sheer face encountering obstacles at every turn often retracing ones steps and struggling every foot of the journey. Finally when the top is reached one stands examining the peak taking in the view of the surrounding countrysideand then noting the automobile road up the other side! Robert J. Kleinhenz Category: Unsorted Mans love is of mans life a thing apart Tis womans whole existence. Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Love Laws just or unjust may govern mens actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life. Sir Winston Churchill Category: Oppression We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other not just pitter-patter but real talk. We shouldnt be so afraid because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. Its so much easier to be together when we drop our masks. Liv Ullmann Category: Talk We are prone to magnify weaknesses and to imagine vices in others that do not exist. We chew the cud of slander with satisfaction slander whose whisper over the world's diameter as level as the cannon to its blank transports his poisoned shot. Talk about battles yet to be fought! Backbiting and evil speaking head the list! David Oman McKay Category: Slander We all sorely complain of the shortness of time and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all or in doing nothing to the purpose or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few and acting as though there would be no end of them. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Time One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. Frank Sheed Category: Unsorted Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem. Alan Lindsay Mackay Category: Unsorted Theres one good thing about snow it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbors. Clyde Moore Category: Unsorted There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower Touched by its influence in the soul arise Diviner feelings kindred with the skies. John Henry Cardinal Newman Category: Unsorted Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Andre Maurois Category: Age Fish for no compliments; they are generally caught in shallow water. D. Smith Category: Unsorted Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some. Charles Dickens Category: Present My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water. Anne Rice Category: Unsorted I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord Category: Army If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates Category: Misfortunes There is a happy land Far far away Where Saints in glory stand Bright bright as day. Andrew Young Category: Unsorted Father forgive them; for they know not what they do. The Bible Category: Forgive Congress is continually appointing fact-finding committees when what we really need are some fact-facing committees. Roger Allen Category: Unsorted If you don't say anything you wont be called on to repeat it. John Calvin Coolidge Category: Repeat I never wonder to see men wicked but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. Jonathan Swift Category: Shame We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. Woodrow Wilson Category: Fight Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Category: Tolerance Some editors are failed writers but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot Category: Book When I don't like a piece of music I make a point of listening to it more closely. [Attributed] Florent Schmitt Category: Music The happiest people are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same thing. Unknown Category: Achievement I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself. Sir Peter Smithers Category: Unsorted Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out. Robert Frost Category: Unite It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. John Burroughs Category: Belief Its better to lead with your dreams than to be pushed by your problems. John T. Dornbach Category: Unsorted For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. James Boswell Category: Unsorted To meet the great tasks that are before us we require all our intelligence and we must be sound and wholesome in mind. We must proceed in order. The price of anger is failure. Elwood Hendricks Category: Unsorted From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless. Hazrat Inayat Khan Category: Unsorted Democracy is something we must always be working at. It is a process never finished never ending. And each new height gained opens broader vistas for the future. Thus it has been as one looks back over the sweep of history; thus it must continue to be if democracy is to continue as a working tool in the hands of free men. Edmund de S. Brunner Category: Unsorted The greatest and most impossible problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. Carl Gustav Jung Category: Problem What do girls do who havent any mothers to help them through their troubles? Louisa May Alcott Category: Mother Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. Bertrand Russell Category: Arithmetic If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should therefore protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander. Mary McLeod Bethune Category: Slander When any fit of anxiety or gloominess or perversion of the mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints but exert your whole care to hide it. By endeavoring to hide it you will drive it away. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Complacency I am not arguing with youI am telling you. James Abbott McNeill Whistler Category: Argument What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. Frank Adams Category: Cigar I strive to be brief and become obscure. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace Category: Breeding A grateful mind By owing owes not but still pays at once Indebted and dischargd. John Milton Category: Gratitude A series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John William Gardner Category: Opportunity Past Its linkage Im talking about and harmonies and structures And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past. Charles Wright Category: Unsorted If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character and at the same time give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics we will enable them to retain their freedom and at the same time make them worthy to be free. Winthrop Williams Aldrich Category: Freedom I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. John Cleese Category: Business Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace. Francis B. Sayre Category: Unsorted I didnt know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child. Loretta Lynn Category: Unsorted Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids wont laugh at you. Jim Rohn Category: Ocean EXPERIENCE n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Acquaintance The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love. Francis Bacon Category: Love Whatever else can be said about sex it cannot be called a dignified performance. Helen Lawrenson Category: Unsorted If people knew how hard I have to work to gain my mastery it wouldnt seem wonderful at all. Michelangelo Category: Art The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. Jean Iris Murdoch Category: Amusement Heavens eternal wisdom has decreed that man should ever stand in need of man. Theocritus Category: Unsorted The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind but not weak; be bold but not bully; be thoughtful but not lazy; be humble but not timid; be proud but not arrogant; have humor but without folly. Jim Rohn Category: Humor A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made it to the big leagues. Joe Dimaggio Category: Unsorted Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content. Helen Adams Keller Category: Content To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. Alexander Pope Category: Anger The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity. Rui de Alarcon Category: Unsorted Truths that wake To perish never. William Wordsworth Category: Truth It is better to be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt. Benjamin Franklin Category: Stupidity No accident so grave but that the clever man can turn it to some good; no luck so great but that the fool can twist it to his hurt. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Accidents Cats don't adopt people. They adopt refrigerators. Solomon Short Category: Cat The obvious is always least understood. Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar Von Metternich Category: Unsorted If you believe the noises of the world rather than the silences of your soul you will be lost. Neale Donald Walsch Category: Unsorted I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries. Romain Rolland Category: Money I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night. John Heywood Category: Alcohol It is easy in the world to live after the worlds 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 Category: Solitude It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it than to be sane and have ones doubts. G. B. Burgin Category: Madness Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Category: Future Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament not a necessity of life.... Fortunate gardener who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society considered in terms of economics he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it however humbly with the painter and poet. Vita Sackville-West Category: Unsorted Driven from every corner of the earth freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum. Samuel Adams Category: Ambition There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven. Tryon Edwards Category: If Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying. Mary Wilson Little Category: Unsorted What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member an instrument a thing. Archibald MacLeish Category: Freedom The eye is bigger than the belly. George Herbert Category: Abdomen We are fully aware too fully aware of our lack of contemporary identity. We are totally unsure of whether we are mini-Americans emasculated Poms or our own Zorbas. Max Harris Category: Unsorted It destroys ones nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Every woman should marry and no man Benjamin Disraeli Category: Marriage If a man can see both sides of a problem you know that none of his money is tied up in it. Verda Ross Category: Unsorted One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. John Foster Category: Genius I asked God for strength that I might achieve I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.... I asked for health that I might do greater things I was given infirmity that I might do better things... I asked for riches that I might be happy. I was given poverty that I might be wise... I asked for power that I might have the praise of men I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.... I asked for all things that I might enjoy life I was given life that I might enjoy all things.... I got nothing I asked for but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered. I am among men most richly blessed! Unknown Category: Civil The young man who would succeed must identify his interests with those of his employer and exercise the same diligence in matters entrusted to him as he would in his own affairs. Back of all the gifts the candidate for success may possess must be a willing capacity for hard work.... Youth today is not considered a handicap in selecting men for responsible jobs as it was twenty years ago.... In almost any field today in which a youngster has an intelligent interest the road to the top is open as it never was before. But the one way to the top is by persistent intelligent hard work. A. T. Mercier Category: Unsorted A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Classes Here lies a great and mighty king Whose promise none relies on; He never said a foolish thing Nor ever did a wise one. John Wilmot Category: Epitaphs Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion and private behavior and private conversation are so terrifyingly important. Jan Struther Category: Unsorted I don't know where hell is ... another dimension perhaps or another plane of reality. As for getting there ... its a choice between sinning and being tricked by demons! Its a plane of evil ... despair ... and magic of the foulest kind. Alan Grant Category: Hell We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye. William Blake Category: Television Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more. Category: Victory Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture. Allen Ginsberg Category: Television What you shouldn't do ... Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guy's out dancing. Buddy Hackett Category: Unsorted The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men. Joaquin Miller Category: Mother God created memories so that we might have roses in December. Italo Svevo Category: Garden A wise man changes his mind a fool never. Proverb Category: Change I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood and I I took the one less traveled by And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost Category: Conformity There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when hes absolutely free to choose. William M. Bulger Category: Freedom Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. Jean Toomer Category: Acceptance Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler the Younger Category: Laugh Animals are reliable many full of love true in their affections predictable in their actions grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Alfred Armand Montapert Category: Animals A man stands taller when he stoops for a child. Proverb Category: Boy You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. Stanislaw J. Lec Category: Memory I care not what subject is taught if only it be taught well. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Teach If you stop searching you stop living because then youre dwelling in the past. If youre not reaching forward to any growth or future you might as well be dead. Wynn Bullock Category: Future Every separate thought takes shape and becomes visible in color and form. Liu Hua-Yang Category: Unsorted The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he wont take it but somebody always does. Bill Vaughan Category: President Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either late or unusually cold abnormally dry or fantastically wet for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring. Thalassa Crusso Category: Unsorted Ab absurdo - From the absurd. Proverb Category: Absurd Most women have no characters at all. Alexander Pope Category: Woe Normal is not something to aspire to its something to get away from. Jodie Foster Category: Normal There was thunder There was lightning Then the stars went out And the moon fell from the sky. Tom Waits Category: Unsorted Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. Alfred Gerald Al Capp Category: Success To have a right to do a thing is not the same as to be right in doing it. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Category: Right Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Zora Neale Hurston Category: Anger Theres nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. Johann Sebastian Bach Category: Piano Don't look to me. Don't ask for help. Don't ask for anything that you can do yourself Lemmy Kilmister Category: Unsorted For those who have seen the Earth from space and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us. Donald Williams Category: Unsorted The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are, because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you.... There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too. Frederick Buechner Category: Gift Its a drag having to wear socks during matches because the tan like stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin like color coordinated. Monica Seles Category: Unsorted These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. Sam Snead Category: Golf The many truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view. Ben Kenobi Category: Perception Out of clutter find Simplicity. From discord find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity. Albert Einstein Category: Simple Assassination has never changed the history of the world. Benjamin Disraeli Category: Assassination Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek. Thomas Eugene (Tom) Robbins Category: Angel Every class is unfit to govern. First Baron Acton Category: Unsorted With all its alluring promise that some one else will guarantee for the rainy day social security can never replace the program that mans future welfare is after all a matter of individual responsibility. Dr. Harold Stonier Category: Unsorted If its tourist season why can't we shoot them? Steven Wright Category: Travel True friendships laws are by this rule expressed Welcome the coming speed the parting guest. Alexander Pope Category: Guest Spring flowers are long since gone. Summers bloom hangs limp on every terrace. The gardeners feet drag a bit on the dusty path and the hinge in his back is full of creaks. Louise Seymour Jones Category: Unsorted He that will not when he may When he would he shall have nay. John Heywood Category: Country If you follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track which has been there all the while waiting for you and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Joseph Campbell Category: Life You need not tell the truth unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth. Horace Mann Category: Truth The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. Clinton aide George Stephanopolous Category: President Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. Matt Groening Category: Love We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Vice Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Francois Voltaire Category: Appreciation Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. Bob Wells Category: Depend Roamin' in the gloamin'. Sir Harry Lauder Category: Unsorted Give them pleasurethe same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. Alfred Hitchcock Category: Dream It is only to the individual that a soul is given. Albert Einstein Category: Indispensable Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish but you only spend it once. Lillian Dickson Category: Life She must know all the needs of a rational being Be skilled to keep counsel to comfort to coax And above all things else be accomplished at seeing My jokes. Sir Owen Seaman Category: Humor My mind to me a kingdom is Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned. Edward Dyer Category: Unsorted When we have second thoughts about something our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all just feelings. Sydney J. Harris Category: Feelings Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find these words. Rainer Maria Rilke Category: Comfort The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it. Reggie Jackson Category: Will Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century. Daniel Kleppner Category: Machinery We have rights as individuals to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money. Colonel David (Davy) Crockett Category: Unsorted Baby: an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other. Elizabeth Adamson Category: Big The contented person enjoys the scenery of a detour. Unknown Category: Content There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith Category: Age The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Category: Clergy Life isnt fair. Its just fairer than death thats all. William Goldman Category: Fair This is death To die and know it. This is the Black Widow death. Robert Lowell Category: Death The Largest Rewards in Business go to Those Who TAKE THE RISKS ... HERES TO YOUR SUCCESS! The enthusiastics to those who are not are always something of a trial. A. Goodier Category: Unsorted It is not enough to have knowledge one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes one must also accomplish. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Knowledge When a man wants to murder a tiger its called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him its called ferocity. George Bernard Shaw Category: Sports A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Home Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image. A. W. Tozer Category: God What is REAL? asked the Rabbit one day. Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle? Real isnt how you are made said the Skin Horse. Its a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long long time not just to p Margery Williams Category: Rabbit Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. James Russell Lowell Category: Happiness If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you cant fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln Category: Confidence A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants but is miles ahead in results. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Category: Compliment Prisons are built with stones of Law Brothels with bricks of Religion. William Blake Category: Prison The same day I saw my first horror camp I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda. General Dwight David Eisenhower Category: Propaganda Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. Will Rogers Category: Humor In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight. Thomas Tusser Category: Unsorted Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar William Wordsworth Category: Wisdom True music ... must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today. George Gershwin Category: Unsorted Sit quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself. Proverb Category: Do I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. Mark Twain Category: Wealth In the past those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Category: Power I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. Ed Koch Category: Unsorted What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. Phyllis Diller Category: Christmas In the Affairs of the World Men are saved not by Faith but by the Want of it. Benjamin Franklin Category: Faith Water is the only drink for a wise man. Henry David Thoreau Category: Alcohol People that think logically are a nice contrast to the real world. Matt Biershbach Category: Contrast A people secure in their jobs taking pride in their work and sure of just recognition will help our society grow to new heights. If all industry should adopt an incentive system the standard of living of all peoples would be quadrupled; friction between labor and management would disappear and the satisfaction of all workers would be greatly enhanced. James F. Lincoln Category: Industry Ah the insight of hindsight! Thurston N. Davis Category: Unsorted When you are at sea keep clear of the land. Publilius Syrus Category: Sailor Im sitting on the stile Mary Where we sat side by side. Lady Dufferin Category: Unsorted To see what is in front of ones nose requires a constant struggle. George Orwell Category: See We have our factory which is called a stage. We make a product we color it we title it and we ship it out in cans. Cary Grant Category: Unsorted If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world. Francis Bacon Category: Citizen The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr. Category: Reform Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller Category: Love The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate Christopher Fry Category: Moon Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it and privately we excuse and overlook it. Victoria Billings Category: Woe You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind you change your experience. Serge Kahili King Category: Unsorted Every kind of music is good except the boring kind. Gioacchino Rossini Category: Unsorted It seems safe to say that significant discovery really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm. Mary Henle Category: Problem Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. Hilaire Belloc Category: Statistics Its funny. Im attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say Ive done a great thing for women. I don't think I have. People say Ive given people courage. That makes me feel good but I don't see how I do that. I think my running is a selfish thing. But it provides the challenge that allows me to feel good about myself. How can I expect to do well in other activities if I don't feel good about myself? Joan Benoit Category: Unsorted A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. Abraham Lincoln Category: Diploma For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the game. Grantland Rice Category: Defeat Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without. Joseph Wood Krutch Category: Unsorted The reason people blame things on previous generations is that theres only one other choice. Doug Larson Category: Responsibility You must either conquer and rule or lose and serve suffer or triumph and be the anvil or the hammer. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Conquer The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original. Karl Kraus Category: Mirror Mistakes are the inevitable accompaniment of the greatest gift given to man individual freedom of action. Let us be glad of the dignity of our privilege to make mistakes glad of the wisdom that enables us to recognize them glad of the power that permits us to turn their light as a glowing illumination along the pathway of our future. Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. Without them there would be no individual growth no progress no conquest. William George Jordan Category: Mistake Neither genius fame nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Category: Unsorted It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T. Porridge and apples Mince muffins and mutton Jam junket jumbles Not a rap not a button It matters; the moment They're out of her plate Though shared by Miss Butcher And sour Mr. Bate Tiny and cheerful And neat as can be Whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T. Walter John de La Mare Category: Food 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 Handey Category: God The point as Marx saw it is that dreams never come true. Hannah Arendt Category: Dream Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions. Albert Einstein Category: Wisdom Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage. Jean Anouilh Category: Courage It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. Blaise Pascal Category: Faith A drop of sweat on the drill ground will save many drops of blood on the battlefield. August Willich Category: Unsorted Theres no sense in whipping a tired horse because hell quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it. Eddie Arcaro Category: Unsorted Yee have many strings to your bowe. John Heywood Category: Try Verbosity leads to unclear inarticulate things. Dan Quayle Category: Clear Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. Herbert Asquith Category: Youth A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. Oscar Wilde Category: Conceit I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain have I tried to step beyond what bound me. Despite my years I am still trying. Count Maurice Maeterlinck Category: Opportunity A man's character is his fate. Heraclitus Category: Character If you cant annoy somebody theres little point in writing. Sir Kingsley William Amis Category: Writing It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life. Reinhold Niebuhr Category: Original There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesnt matter who gets the credit. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Credit The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said 'And lo the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day it was as one dead.' Movie Category: Unsorted SELFISH adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Selfishness The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing. William Barclay Category: Unsorted Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Mary Ellen Kelly Category: Ambition Romance like a ghost eludes touching. It is always where you were not where you are. Charles P. Curtis Category: Ghost Yet I argue not Against Heavns hand or will nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. John Milton Category: Fate Man unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe grows beyond his work walks up the stairs of his concepts emerges ahead of his accomplishments. John Ernst Steinbeck Category: Ahead I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorillas going to do and theyre purely motivated. Dian Fossey Category: Unsorted We come and go just like ripples in a stream. John V. Politis Category: Unsorted The greater difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epicurus Category: Glory Rise up rise up Xarifa! lay your golden cushion down; Rise up! come to the window and gaze with all the town. John G. Lockhart Category: Unsorted We are fortunate to live in such interesting times we have a ringside seat for the fall of western civilization the only problem is that it is inside the ring. Robert A. Nelson Category: Unsorted However we may pity the mother whose health and even life imperiled by the performance of her natural duty there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent. Pope Pius XI Category: Abortion Every time a student walks past a really urgent expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college it can help reassure him that he does have that mind does have that soul. Louis Kahn Category: Soul Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight! The Bible Category: Woe A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week But I'm damned if I see how the helican. Dixon Lanier Merritt Category: Unsorted If ye would go up high then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other peoples backs and heads! Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Status Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix Category: Wisdom Ten Spiritual Tonics 1. Stop worrying. Worry kills life. 2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul. 3. Control appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind. 4. Accept your limitations ... 5. Don't envy. It wastes time and energy. 6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition. 7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves. 8. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your views. 9. Spend some time alone for the peace of solitude and silence. 10. Try to want what you have instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want. Abraham L. Feinberg Category: Unsorted A strong nor'wester's blowing Bill Hark! Don't ye hear it roar now? Lord help ‘em how I pities all Unhappy folks on shore now! William Pitt Category: Unsorted He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. J. Heller Category: Immortality Mans greatest wisdom consists in knowing his own follies. Marquise Magdeleine de Sable Category: Unsorted The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god. Scott Alexander Category: Virtue We have nowhere else to go ... this is all we have. Margaret Mead Category: Unsorted When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead. Cecil Frances Alexander Category: Unsorted Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and theyre always tax deductible. Andy Warhol Category: Employees Thats one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind. Neil Alden Armstrong Category: Man If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow how many would be pitied who are now envied! Metastasio Category: Unsorted The weaker sex to piety more prone. Sir William Alexander Category: Unsorted Absence and death are the same only that in death there is no suffering. Walter Savage Landor Category: Absent The effective impact upon us of men of honor rectitude and goodwill is to arouse kindred impulses within us. We begin to detect in ourselves undeveloped capacities. The touch of the heroic awakens in us the slumbering hero. Fellowship with a true servant of mankind calls into action our latent impulses to minister. Charles Malcolm Douglas D.D. Category: Hero What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Henry David Thoreau Category: War If Number rules the universe as Pythagoras asserted Number is merely our delegate to the throne for we rule Number. Eric Temple Bell Category: Unsorted If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. Nora Ephron Category: Book Next to of course America I love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh. Edward Estlin Cummings Category: Unsorted The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he! Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Acceptance Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works. John Calvin Category: Unsorted Though God hath raised me high yet this I count the glory of my crown: That I have reigned with your loves. Queen Elizabeth I Category: Kindness He who turns the other cheek too far gets it in the neck. H. Herth Category: Unsorted The best Muslim house is that in which is an orphan who is benefited; and the worst Muslim house is that in which an orphan is ill-treated. Prophet Muhammad Category: Children Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Category: Money Oppression can only survive through silence. Carmen de Monteflores Category: Sick And having looked to Government for bread on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. Edmund Burke Category: Government I believe that justice is instinct and innate the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling seeing and hearing. Thomas Jefferson Category: Justice No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. Carrie Chapman Catt Category: Unsorted Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Liberty A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. Fontenelle Category: Happiness The cynic never grows up but commits intellectual suicide. Dr. Charles Reynolds Brown Category: Unsorted To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts not even to found a school but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity independence magnanimity and trust. Henry David Thoreau Category: Philosophy Earth's crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes The rest sit round it and pick blackberries And daub their natural faces unaware More and more from the first similitude. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Category: Earth It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desirelearned from the teachings of antiquitythat our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange organize and regulate it according to their fancy. Claude Frederic Bastiat Category: Liberty The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies cold friends cold enemies; half friends half enemies; fervid enemies warm friends. Johann Kaspar Lavater Category: Friendship It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong. Tiorio Category: Fashion There are two kinds of truth small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth. Niels Henrik David Bohr Category: Truth A thousand years scarce serve to form a state: An hour may lay it in the dust. Lord George Gordon Byron Category: Nation Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Illusions If a rich man is proud of his wealth he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Socrates Category: Wealth Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise. The Bible Category: Confidence Men lose their tempers in defending their taste. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Temper And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Category: Arab No sacrifice short of individual liberty individual self-respect and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace. Clark H. Minor Category: Sacrifice I cannot say that I do not disagree wtih you. Groucho Marx Category: Agreement At the height of laughter the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. Jean Houston Category: Laugh When another person makes you suffer it is because he suffers deeply within himself and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. Thats the message he is sending. Thich Nhat Hanh Category: Unsorted The way up and the way down are one and the same. Heraclitus Category: Down But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose must become our deepest concern our national preoccupation our passion our obsession. We must think of education as relevant for everyone everywhere at all ages and in all conditions of life. John William Gardner Category: Unsorted Our ships were British oak And hearts of oak our men. S. J. Arnold Category: Unsorted The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald Category: Dream One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. Muriel Spark Category: Unsorted A heavenly place is where I will find my Father A heavenly place is where I am destined to go when I die A heavenly place will have festivities like singing and dancing A heavenly place will give a warm welcome to those who come A heavenly place is not difficult to find if you know Jesus Christ! Janae Ivie Category: Unsorted There are scores of thousands of sects who are ready at a moments notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject. George Bernard Shaw Category: Ready False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare Category: False Old age is like flying through a storm. Once youre aboard theres nothing you can do. Margaret Mead Category: Age I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord and of His servants in this our day. Heber J. Grant Category: God Ceste donc par letude des mathematiques et seulement par elle que lon peut se faire une idee juste et approfondie de ce que cest quune science. Auguste Comte Category: Unsorted To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature. Alfred North Whitehead Category: Mathematics Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. Joseph Addison Category: Sweet Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out out brief candle! Lifes but a walking shadow a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. William Shakespeare Category: Creep Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them and when he has done so is seldom satisfied with the result. Elspeth Huxley Category: Unsorted I couldn't wait for success so I went on ahead without it. Jonathan Winters Category: Unsorted Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity. William Shakespeare Category: Necessity Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with. Max Planck Category: Unsorted Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today. Abraham Lincoln Category: Present We live by trust in part by hope in part by inquiry patiently and humbly pursued. And to the degree that these sensibilities of our creaturehood are observed the pursuit of intelligibility and understanding in [our] faith is a creative adventure full of promise in expanding sensitizing illumining and hopefully fulfilling this pilgrimage of existing. Every other mode of seeking to wrest the fire and efficacy of reality either by way of sanctioning those who presume to believe or as ground for registering realitys curse upon those who presume not to believe in accordance with the prescribed language of human forms and symbols is blasphemous and carries within its own degree of dementia. And this I submit is the judgment of reality itself; not of any human formulation dependent upon the language of our fallible forms and symbols. Bernard Eugene Meland Category: Language TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS REMEMBER YOUR ABC ' S Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Believe in yourself Consider things from every angle. Don't give up and don't give in. Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone, tomorrow may never come. Family and Friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches. Give more than you planned to. Hang on to your dreams. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Just Do it. Keep trying no matter how hard it seems, it will get easier. Love yourself first and the most. Make it happen. Never lie, cheat or steal, always strike a fair deal. Open your eyes, and see things as they really are, not as you wish them to be. Practice make perfect, patience is a virtue. Quitters never win, winners never quit. Read, study, learn about everything important in your life. Stop procrastinating. Take control of your own destiny. Understand yourself, in order to better understand others. Visualize it. Want it more than anything. Xcellerate your efforts. You are unique of all God's creations. Zero in on your target and go for it. Wanda Hope Carter Category: Unsorted I drink when I have occasion and sometimes when I have no occasion. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Category: Solitude Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval. W. A. Lewis Category: Unsorted Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. Mitchell Kapor Category: Internet I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. Lauren Bacall Category: Face Brave your storm with firm endeavor. Let your vain repinings go! Hopeful hearts will find forever Roses underneath the snow! George Cooper Category: Hope Young men think old men are fools; But old men know young men are fools. George Chapman Category: Fool For the cause that lacks assistance For the wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do. George Linnæus Banks Category: Unsorted I have an Egyptian cat. He leaves a pyramid in every room. Rodney Dangerfield Category: Cat What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. Roland Barthes Category: Sarcasm Everybody in love is blind. Propertius Category: Unsorted Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle Category: Eternity You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometime fight it out or perish; and if that be so why not now and where you stand. Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Weak A spark in the sun this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth. Harry Behn Category: Unsorted A fine mornings killing ay! All their necks wrung all dead birds! Once they could fly fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now and sold cheap in the open market! Marie Corelli Category: Unsorted The priesthood have in all ancient nations nearly monopolized learning.... And ever since the Reformation when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest billingsgate the most ungentlemanly insolence the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured countenanced propagated and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect though capable of the clearest proof and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand and fly into your face and eyes. John Adams Category: Priest A tribute published October 22 1931 to Thomas Alva Edison upon his death: THE passing of Thomas Alva Edison serves to direct our attention to the multitude of benefactions he bestowed upon all humanity during his many years of fruitful activity. It reminds us of the debt of gratitude we owe him as members of the human race. By his achievements he laid the foundation for continued and greater development. His persistent efforts and indefatigable spirit multiplied many times the valuable opportunities for man especially the young man. To each and every young man Mr. Edison left a legacy of opportunities. Thomas J. Watson Category: Epitaphs The alleged power to charm down insanity or ferocity in beasts is a power behind the eye. Douglas Jerrold Category: Insanity I weigh the man not his title; t is not the kings stamp can make the metal better. William Wycherley Category: Title There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein Category: Life Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Benjamin Franklin Category: Man Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is) but of avoiding failure. This is the living death when security becomes the overwhelming consideration. Randy Read Category: Unsorted You don't raise heroes you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons they'll turn out to be heroes even if it's just in your own eyes. Walter M. Schirra Sr. Category: Unsorted How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Oliver Goldsmith Category: Cause If the world were extremely seductive that would be easy. If it were merely challenging that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. That makes it hard to plan the day. William Allen White Category: World The most exciting phrase to hear in science the one that heralds the most new discoveries is not Eureka!(I found it!) but hmmm ... That's funny.... Isaac Asimov Category: Funerals There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. Alfred Adler Category: Love Bad men are full of repentance. Aristotle Category: Remember Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn vos Savant Category: Defeat To forget ones purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Purpose A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. Thomas Scott Category: Unsorted All actions beyond the ordinary limits are subject to a sinister interpretation. Michel de Montaigne Category: Limits I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met excepting in romances with fonder husbands more affectionate parents more impassioned ... than in the lunatic asylum during their intervals of calmness and reason. Philippe Pinel Category: Madness We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible. Allan Massie Category: Responsibility No one is such a liar as the indignant man. Friedrich Nietzsche Category: Lever I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. Martha Washington Category: Happiness Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ice. From what Ive tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Robert Frost Category: End Tell a man he is brave and you help him to become so. Thomas Carlyle Category: Courage All things come to him who waits even justice. Category: Patience A party of order or stability and a party of progress or reform are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. John Stuart Mill Category: Politics Coincidence is logical. Johan Cruijff Category: Unsorted It is apparent that no lifetime is long enough in which to explore the resources of a few square yards of ground. Alice M. Coats Category: Unsorted The great object is that every man be armed. Patrick Henry Category: Gun I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. Francis Gary Power Category: Unsorted One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness it is usually returned. Cort R. Flint Category: Kindness Who oer the herd would wish to reign Fantastic fickle fierce and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a womans mood And fierce as Frenzys feverd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing Oh who would wish to be thy king! Sir Walter Scott Category: Monarchy Say goodbye to the oldies but goodies because the good old days werent always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. Billy Joel Category: Tomorrow A great fortune is a great slavery. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Fortune One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again. Friedrich Nietzsche Category: No Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. Christopher Marlowe Category: Cause A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him H.S.M. Burnes Category: Unsorted The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. Alfred North Whitehead Category: Humor ... Behold let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. Abigail Category: Bible When you have closed your doors and darkened your room remember never to say that you are alone for you are not alone; God is within and your genius is withinand what need have they of light to see what you are doing? Epictetus Category: Alone It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. Henry David Thoreau Category: Illusions During your life everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal these little specks of experience in a great enormous river that has no end. Harriet Doerr Category: Unsorted Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Martin Luther King Jr. Category: Joy For tyme y-lost may not recovered be. Geoffrey Chaucer Category: Time He who has his thumb on the purse has the power. Otto von Bismarck Category: Power The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. James Baldwin Category: Art At times I think and at times I am. Paul Valery Category: Last A strange lot this to be dropped down in a world of barbarians men who see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages except their own. Ernest Crosby Category: Times You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. Napoleon Hill Category: Service Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott Category: Love SCRIPTURES n. The sacred books of our holy religion as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Scriptures The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. Hanna Rion Category: Unsorted It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things. Dr. Samuel Johnson Category: Cheerful If you must speak ill of another do not speak it write it in the sand near the waters edge Napoleon Hill Category: Gossip Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. John Updike Category: Drama Alice laughed: Theres no use trying she said; one cant believe impossible things. I daresay you havent had much practice said the Queen. When I was younger I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes Ive believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll Category: Breakfast Flattery is all right if you don't inhale. Adlai Ewing Stevenson Category: Flattery Either hes dead or my watch has stopped. Groucho Marx Category: Death What is love? ... It is the morning and the evening star. Sinclair Lewis Category: Work Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies. George F. Will Category: Articulate I am not just another notch on your belt? she asked him. Of course not. he said as he put a mark on the chalkboard. Jay Leno Category: Man The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cant be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. Elbert Hubbard Category: Progress The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. Alfred North Whitehead Category: Question Women who buy perfume and flowers for themselves because their men wont do it are called self basting. Adair Lara Category: Unsorted When the tea is brought at five oclock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there. Harold Monro Category: Cat With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner. Sir Philip Sidney Category: Unsorted Physicians of the utmost fame Were called at once; but when they came They answered as they took their fees There is no Cure for this Disease. Hilaire Belloc Category: Disease The rights of women are sacred. See that women are maintained in the rights assigned to them. Prophet Muhammad Category: Women Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck Category: Doctor Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. Maurice Chevalier Category: Love A fanatic is a man who does what he thinks the Lord would do if only He knew the facts of the case. Finley Peter Dunne Category: Fanatic It takes a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso Category: Youth Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus Category: Better Steel loses much of its value when it loses its temper. Unknown Category: Temper I laugh for hope hath happy place with me If my bark sinks 'tis to another sea. William Ellery Channing Category: Hope His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. Woody Allen Category: Insults The emotions arent always immediately subject to reason but they are always immediately subject to action. William James Category: Action Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society. Richard Royster Category: Society The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one proposes to do. Pablo Casals Category: Unsorted Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before my own power my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary. Anthony (Tony) Robbins Category: Celebration Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style. Jonathan Swift Category: Style A person who seeks help for a friend while needy himself will be answered first. Proverb Category: Help Seriously I do not think I am fit for the Presidency. Abraham Lincoln Category: Alcohol Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. Ben Hecht Category: Prejudice He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not is simple. Teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows is wise. Follow him. Lady Isabella Burton Category: Knowledge It isnt pollution thats harming the environment. Its the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. Dan Quayle Category: Pollution If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed they will fall by the hands of the clergy. Lafayette Category: Clergy I don't care what is written about me as long as it isnt true. Katherine Hepburn Category: Me The super-salesman neither permits his subconscious mind to broadcast negative thoughts nor give expression to them through words for the reason that he understands that like attracts like and negative suggestions attract negative action and negative decisions from prospective buyers. Napoleon Hill Category: Sales We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Day If it isnt one thing its another unless its neither. Unknown Category: If Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. William Arthur Ward Category: Curiosity A man is not poor because he has nothing but because he does nothing. Unknown Category: Leisure Wisdom comes by disillusionment. George Santayana Category: Disillusionment In sober state Through the sequestered vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way. Beilby Porteus Category: Unsorted When you were quite a little boy somebody ought to have said hush just once. Mrs. Patrick Campbell Category: Acceptance It is not who governs but what government is entitled to do that is the essential problem. Charles G. Bragg Category: Unsorted Our lives teach us who we are. Salman Rushdie Category: Unsorted University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Henry Kissinger Category: Politics In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice there is. Jan L.A. Van De Snepscheut Category: Practice A little less complaint and whining and a little more dogged work and manly striving would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. W.E.B. DuBois Category: Unsorted The earth is the cradle of the mind but one cannot eternally live in a cradle. Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky Category: Earth A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer. A. Whitney Brown Category: Africa The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. Bertrand Russell Category: Thief No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step. Nemo repente fuit turpissimus Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal Category: Evil I think therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. Miles Kindera Category: Pain There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so. Charles Caleb Colton Category: Pride Everywhere in life the true question is not what we gain But what we do. Thomas Carlyle Category: Do We mourn; we sorrow for our loved ones that go our wives our husbands our children our parents; we sorrow for them; and it is well and proper that we should moum for them and shed tears for the loss for it is our loss; but it is their gain for it is in the march of progress advancement and development. It will be all right when our time comes when we have finished our work and accomplished what the Lord required of us. If we are prepared we need not be afraid to go for it will be one of the most pleasant sensations that ever comes to the soul of man whenever he departs if he can go with a clear conscience into the presence of the Lord. Francis M. Lyman Category: Mourn History repeats itself and thats one of the things thats wrong with history. Clarence Seward Darrow Category: History Kindness a language which the dumb can speak and the deaf can understand. Christian Nestell Bovee Category: Deaf Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. Niccolo Machiavelli Category: Armed The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. William Blake Category: Excess Storys to rede ar delitabill Suppos that thai be nocht bot fabill. John Barbour Category: Unsorted Someday Ill be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow Serenaded by a stray bird or two. Kings and commoners end up the same No more enduring than last nights dream. Ryokan Category: Unsorted History is philosophy teaching by examples. Dionysius of Halicarnassus Category: History Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown Jr. Category: Heart There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care can not accomplish. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Accomplishment Should I pluck it My hands Would defile the flower; I offer it as it stands To the Buddhas of the Three Worlds. Empress Komyo Japan Category: Unsorted American society is a sort of flat fresh-water pond which absorbs silently without reaction anything which is thrown into it. Henry Brooks Adams Category: Society Timidity is mistrust of self and proceeds not from modesty but from conceit. A man is timid because he is afraid of not appearing to his best advantage. Unknown Category: Timid Are you striving for success? Then never think of quitting; Footprints in the sand of time Cannot be made by sitting. A. W. Thomas Category: Unsorted The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. Jim Samuels Category: Unsorted Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. Samuel Johnson Category: Affectation Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them. Dion Boucicault Category: Quiet Its all right for a woman to be above all human. I am a woman first of all. Anaïs Nin Category: Woe But still his tongue ran on the less Of weight it bore with greater ease. Samuel Butler Category: Tongue Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase and when you ride up to it if you throw your heart over the horse will go along too. Lawrence Bixby Category: Unsorted RESTITUTIONS n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Gift The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I did not have time. Franklin Field Category: Success Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson Category: Advice It was one of those winter days that suddenly dream of spring when the sky is blue and soft and clear and the wind has dropped its voice and whispers instead of screaming and the sun is out and the trees look surprised and over everything there is the faintest palest tint of green. Shirley Jackson Category: Unsorted A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home. Carl Burns Category: Unsorted Learn to obey before you command. Solon Category: Command I never ever say I cant about anything. I might say I don't have the authority to make that decision or Building A is too heavy for me to lift or I will need training before I pilot that space shuttle. Mike Huber Category: Unsorted A wise man is strong; yea a man of knowledge increaseth strength. The Bible Category: Wise People who soar are those who refuse to sit back sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow lifes circumstances to push them down and hold them under. Charles Swindoll Category: Leadership God is dead! Heaven is empty - Weep children you no longer have a father. G-rard de Nerval Category: Unsorted Medical education is not completed at the medical school it is only begun. William H. Welch Category: Unsorted The heros will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism. Ortega y Gassett Category: Scorn Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems you don't get any seeds. Norman Vincent Peale Category: Unsorted The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions. George Henry Lewes Category: Unsorted They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing. Proverb Category: Ambition All travel has its advantages. If the traveler visits Better countries he may learn to improve his own; and if fortune carries him to worse he may learn to enjoy his own. Samuel Johnson Category: Travel Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein Category: Death In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. George Eliot Category: Dull In Spain in the meantime Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: Compare then the blessings enjoyed by Spaniards of prudence genius magnanimity temperance humanity and religion with those of the little men [the Indians] in whom you will scarcely find even vestiges of humanity.... How can we doubt that these people so uncivilized so barbaric contaminated with so many impieties and obscenities have been justly conquered? Juan Gines de Sepulveda Category: Unsorted COMFORT n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbors uneasiness. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Comfort ... and so castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually. Jimi Hendrix Category: Unsorted Grammar is the logic of speech even as logic is the grammar of reason. Trench Category: Unsorted If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. William Shakespeare Category: Action Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing sometimes dramatically. Philip Crosby Category: Factory Structures are the weapons of the mathematician. Bourbaki Category: Unsorted October is crisp days and cool nights a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book. John Sinor Category: Unsorted The most decisive actions of our life I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future are more often than not unconsidered. Andre Gide Category: Action I am devilishly afraid that's certain; but ... I'll sing that I may seem valiant. John Dryden Category: Afraid You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. Sir James Matthew Barrie Category: Idleness In the long run digging for truth has always proved not only more interesting but more profitable than digging for gold. George R. Harrison Category: Unsorted You cant see Canada across lake Erie but you know its there. Its the same with spring. You have to have faith especially in Cleveland. Paul Fleischman Category: Unsorted I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. Bleiberg and Leubling Category: Madness As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time. Francis Bacon Category: Birth To arrive at perfection a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. Diogenes the Cynic Category: Perfection Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. Gerry Sikorski Category: Unsorted Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. Roger Ward Babson Category: Future Naught venture naught have. Thomas Tusser Category: Risk The transcendent importance of love and goodwill in all human relations is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and society. George David Birkhoff Category: Unsorted True nobility is exempt from fear. William Shakespeare Category: Noble It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. Christian Nestell Bovee Category: Kissing Truths like a fire and will burn through and be seen. Maxwell Anderson Category: Unsorted Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. Ogden Nash Category: Dog Todays mighty oak is yesterdays little nut that held its ground. Unknown Category: Small It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. Frederick Philipse Category: Unsorted Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold Category: Death What the mass media offers is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish. Wystan Hugh Auden Category: Media A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette Category: Children Cruelty and fear shake hands together. Honore de Balzac Category: Cruel What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. Kerry Thornley Category: Chaos Someone of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. Unknown Category: Deeds Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add colour to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagor Category: Color When you can always advise people to do what you see they really want to do .... Doing what they want to do they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do they wont. James Gould Cozzens Category: Unsorted We all of us are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about everything that is for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a planetary agenda for all the religions all the various fields of expertise. Sally McFague Category: Religion Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve. Proverb Category: Fault We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves. Vauvenargues Category: Vigilant Attributed to him in a caption which said Frenchmen heard Marshal Petain pronounce this requiem over a lost France. Our spirit of enjoyment was stronger than our spirit of sacrifice. We wanted to have more than we wanted to give. We tried to spare effort and met disaster. Marshal HENRI PETAIN Category: Unsorted In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior. Francis Bacon Category: Revenge Envy is like a fly that passes all a bodys sounder parts And dwells upon the sores. George Chapman Category: Envy The union of the mathematician with the poet fervor with measure passion with correctness this surely is the ideal. William James Category: Mathematics Tony is one of the most courageous people Ive ever met. Describing his student Tony Brown wrestling competitively at 105 lbs a year after having both legs amputated following an accident. Steve Komac Category: Courage Born at Kaliste in Bohemia the son of a Jewish peddler Gustav Mahler described himself as: ... three times homeless a Bohemian in Austria an Austrian among Germans and a Jew throughout the world everywhere an intruder never welcomed. Gustav Mahler Category: Unsorted The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. Sir Philip Sidney Category: Credulity We do not believe in immortality because we have proved it but we forever try to prove it because we believe it. James Martineau Category: Belief If all men were just there still would be some though not so much need of government. Abraham Lincoln Category: Just Womens Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. Its the men who are discriminated against. They cant bear children. And no ones likely to do anything about that. Golda Meir Category: Feminist If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. Robertson Davies Category: Stupidity Rush If you ever see me getting beaten by the police put down the video camera and come help me. Bobcat Goldthwait Category: Unsorted Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this that he would not have had to represent the truth of change only to give stability to one beautiful moment. George Eliot Category: Art QUIVER n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Lawyers We must always think about things and we must think about things as they are not as they are said to be. George Bernard Shaw Category: Love To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy than to attempt to fully understand. Henry T. Tuckerman Category: Flower The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough it will spread automatically. If we do not no strength of arms can permanently oppose it. Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Category: Improve What is laid down ordered factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Category: Truth Love is acceptance. When you love someone ... you take them into your heart and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love because we lose a part of ourselves. Andrew Category: Love The successful revolutionary is a statesman the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm Category: Statesman Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasnt. Victor Borge Category: Marriage Genius does not herd with genius. Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Genius Its not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is lets face it far more reliable than a man. Miranda Ingram Category: Chocolate Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray. Helen Rowland Category: Kissing For books are more than books they are the life the very heart and core of ages past the reason why men worked and died the essence and quintessence of their lives. Amy Lowell Category: Book A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision a dream of the whole thing. Charles Michael Schwab Category: Business Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see Thinks what neer was nor is nor eer shall be. Alexander Pope Category: Imperfection Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time and ... not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy. Gustav Freytag Category: Unsorted Ive never had a humble opinion in my life. If youre going to have one why bother to be humble about it? Joan Baez Category: Humanitarian Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. Niels Henrik Bohr Category: More THe car has become the caraspace the protective and aggressive shell of urban and suburban man. Marshall McLuhan Category: Automobiles Its a funny thing the more I practice the luckier I get. Arnold Palmer Category: Funerals Music is a means of Rapid Transportation. John Cage Category: Music Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan; The earth shall be his and all her laughing daughters. Happy the man. Richard le Galliene Category: Unsorted In my house theres this light switch that doesnt do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said Cut it out Steven Wright Category: German I have two doctors my left leg and my right. G. M. Trevelyan Category: Doctor And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth. John Edward Masefield Category: Children It was no great tragedy being Judy Garlands daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood yearsexcept they had little to do with being a child. Liza Minnelli Category: Unsorted That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. Anatole France Category: Unsorted RITUALISM n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom keeping off the grass. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Freedom I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Oscar Wilde Category: Acquaintance The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones or even for caresses and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves it prefers the person who gives it nothing and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise to all the liberal cooks and active dog–boys in the world. Frances P. Cobbe Category: Unsorted One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with. Ogden Nash Category: Family Liberty according to my metaphysics ... is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. John Adams Category: Liberty Of all the spirits I believe the spirit of judging is the worst and it has had the rule of me I cannot tell you how dreadfully and how long.... This I find has more hindered my progress in love and gentleness than all things else. I never knew what the words Judge not that ye be not judged meant before; now they seem to me some of the most awful necessary and beautiful in the whole Word of God. F. D. Maurice Category: Unsorted We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs or a bee makes honey or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Category: Good Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era it will have to come from the soul alone. Jaron Lanier Category: Computer A day without laughter is a day wasted. Charlie Chaplin Category: Day Reasons last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. Blaise Pascal Category: Reason I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. Mahatma Gandhi Category: House Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princesses? Elizabeth I Category: Unsorted Pride like laudanum and other poisonous medicines is beneficial in small though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself even in a personal sense can please others. Frederick Saunders Category: Unsorted There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them and so they bring us nothing but sit and sing awhile upon the roof and then fly away. Henry Ward Beecher Category: Joy We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged than those who have obliged us. La Rockefoucauld Category: Life Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. Unknown Category: Chocolate An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it. James Albert Michener Category: Light Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker Category: Courtship The power to tax involves the power to destroy. John Marshall Category: Tax Mi taku oyasin. (We are all related.) Proverb Category: Race No dictator no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years we will be free. J. Michael Straczynski Category: Force The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. Elbert Hubbard Category: Content Bromidic though it may sound some questions don't have answers which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn. Katharine Graham Category: Answer The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon but only to hold a mans foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Thomas Henry Huxley Category: Growth Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. Isaac Singer Category: Knowledge I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally success in that field is measured by batting averages number of home runs and RBIs fielding averages ERAs and other statistics. Fame notoriety and the bright lights fade quickly. To me true success in life would be to develop both physically and spiritually to our fullest and to endure to the end! Harmon Killebrew Category: Unsorted Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong they ask Is this thing still flying? If the answer is yes then theres no immediate danger no need to overreact. Alan L. Bean Category: Unsorted When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Direction Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions not so pointed as to alarm nor so vague as not to be understood. Laurence Sterne Category: Courtship An obligation rests upon each one of us to analyze the intellectual problem of his time and to attempt to formulate his statement of its significance for the impact of modern science affects the individual as well as society. Each one of us must answer to himself what place it will find in the mansions of his spirit. Hayward Keniston Category: Unsorted I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell Category: Belief The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago ... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Henry Havelock Ellis Category: Housework Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning. Sir Winston Churchill Category: Begin The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat. Theodore Roosevelt Category: Defeat Liberty is the proper end and object of authority and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good just and honest. John Winthrop Category: Authority My father used to say: Never suspect people. Its better to be deceived or mistaken which is only human after all than to be suspicious which is common. Stark Young Category: Unsorted To become different from what we are we must have some awareness of what we are. Bruce Lee Category: Happiness Marriage is a wonderful institution but who would want to live in an institution? Henry Louis Mencken Category: Institutions Power like a desolating pestilence pollutes whatever it touches. Percy Bysshe Shelley Category: Power Ambition is an idol on whose wings Great minds are carried only to extreme; To be sublimely great or to be nothing. Robert Southey Category: Ambition Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. Richard Milhouse Nixon Category: Politics Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life good sayings are its ornament and guide. Charles Simmons Category: Sense I am ready. Woodrow Wilson Category: Last On thy fair bosom silver lake The wild swan spreads his snowy sail And round his breast the ripples break As down he bears before the gale. James G. Percival Category: Unsorted O thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the Beauty of a thousand stars. Christopher Marlowe Category: Beauty You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for the more will be given you. Sarah Ban Breathnach Category: Gratitude The cats meow. Proverb Category: Cat After youve heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history. How do we know for sure what ever happened anywhere? Unknown Category: History ... a pity I never had children. But youre wrong.... I have ... thousands of them ... thousands of them ... and all boys! Robert Donat Category: Unsorted After all all he did was string together a lot of old well-known quotations. Henry Louis Mencken Category: Quotations I wish theyd shut the gates and let us play ball with no press and no fans. Dick Allen Category: Unsorted We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world. Margaret Mead Category: World We who revel in natures diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. Stephen Jay Gould Category: Unsorted Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. Josiah Royce Category: Thief A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Hector Hugh Munro [Saki] Category: Mistake Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world whether you have money or not. Jerry Gellis Category: Unsorted I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today. William Allen White Category: Love I am going to fight to see this country is not merely a quarry sending bauxite or lead concentrates to Britain. Sir John McEwen Category: Unsorted We must plant the sea and herd its animals. Using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about farming replacing hunting. Jacques Yves Cousteau Category: Unsorted Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. Bob Goddard Category: Unsorted What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. Edgar Watson Ed Howe Category: Community He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. H. H. (Saki) Munro Category: Death I'll be a wife and mother first then first lady. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Category: Unsorted Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. Robert G. Allen Category: Unsorted Our greatest opportunities for advancing productivity and improving living standards are to be found in the field of human relationships. Having achieved a better understanding of each other and their common responsibility to consumers and investors both management and labor should do all in their power to educate the American public to understanding of the simple economic facts that underlie our industrial and business relationships. Louis Ruthenburg Category: Unsorted Every other artist begins with a blank canvas a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. Edward Steichen Category: Art Thats the risk you take if you change: that people youve been involved with wont like the new you. But other people who do will come along. Lisa Alther Category: Change The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. John Madden Category: Football It is better to be faithful than famous. Theodore Roosevelt Category: Fidelity Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by Action alone. Thomas Carlyle Category: Doubt A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Friendship Peace hath her victories no less renowned than War. John Milton Category: Peace Never forget that when we are silent we are one. And when we speak we are two. Shrimati Indira Gandhi Category: Wrong A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. Francis Bacon Category: Body Grub first then ethics. Bertolt Brecht Category: Ethics If you don't like yourself you cant like other people. Robert Anson Heinlein Category: Others Oh cease! Must hate and death return? Cease! Must men kill and die? Cease! Drain not to its dregs the urn of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past Oh might it die or rest at last! Percy Bysshe Shelley Category: Past Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own. Francis Thompson Category: Pain Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. William Somerset Maugham Category: Exaggeration Become a fixer not just a fixture. Category: Fix The function of art is to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene and as if by magic we see a new meaning in it. Anaïs Nin Category: Writing A state is not a mere society having a common place established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions and not of mere companionship. Aristotle Category: State It is my right to be uncommon ... if I can; I seek opportunity ... not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stole calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself; enjoy the benefits of my creations and to face the world boldly and say ‘This I have done and this is what it means to be an American.' Dean Alfrange Category: Opportunity The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present. Publilius Syrus Category: Unsorted The rich swell up with pride the poor from hunger. Sholom Aleichem Category: Unsorted Good luck Mr. Gorsky! Neil Alden Armstrong Category: Unsorted Let all who have never loved find love tomorrow And let all love who live for one more day! Tiberianus Category: Unsorted In positive terms we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one. William C. Menninger Category: Give Be sure to wear a good cologne a nice aftershave lotion and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes too. George Burns Category: Unsorted It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking feeling and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought we will know very little ... We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work ... in order to free their hold. Mary Caroline Richards Category: Unsorted If you intend to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming and crawling from place to place can do no good. Abraham Lincoln Category: Work I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and dominion. Alexander III the Great Category: Example I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Category: Action A trouble is a scratch scratches turn into scars and scars grow with you. Tim Ault Category: Unsorted Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. Londo Molari Category: Unsorted Traditions exist so we can go beyond them Greg Hawkes Category: Unsorted Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on the contrary whilst terror and bloodshed reign in the land involving mens minds in the extremities of hopes and fears there can be no process of thought no education going on by which alone can a people be prepared for t | |