 | In business you don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. |
| Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing
just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
―
Aristotle |
| We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin
to see the present only when it is already disappearing. - R. D. Laing |
| Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
― Leonardo da Vinci [Which is why I'm publishing this website
―
Ralph] |
| In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of
great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ― Chinese proverb |
| I'm still learning. ― Michelangelo,
at age 87 |
| It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin |
| Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at
your best. - David O. McKay |
| Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves
on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -Susan Ertz, author |
| Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein |
| Luck never gives; it only lends. -Swedish proverb |
| The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one. -
Elbert Hubbard |
| Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop
thinking and go in. One man with courage makes a majority - Andrew Jackson |
| Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; great minds rise above
them. - Washington Irving |
| The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic
and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most
part, humble, tolerant and kind. - William Somerset Maugham |
| For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being
anything else. - Winston Churchill |
| Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you
can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend
it for you. - Carl Sandburg |
| Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ― Margaret Fuller |
| The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the
intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell |
| Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you
need, and you don't want to have what you don't need. - Charan Singh |
| Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you
understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
- Ben Stein |
| Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect
it, will be fish. - Ovid |
| As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty,
and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a
scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
- Matt Cartmill |
| Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
― Benjamin
Franklin |
| Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don¹t quit. - Conrad Hilton |
| The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one. -
Elbert Hubbard |
| The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in
an awful hurry. - John Jensen |
| Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from
themselves. - Sir James M. Barrie |
| What a man says drunk he has thought sober. - Flemish proverb |
| When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step
into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things
shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you
will be taught how to fly. - Edward Teller |
| It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire |
| A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he
is. - Joseph Addison |
| Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and
honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. - Cicero |
| I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the rights of the
people by the gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by
violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison |
| The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the
right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill |
| Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the
abuses of power. - James Madison |
| All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. -Sean
O'Casey |
| Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who
hustle. - Abraham Lincoln |
| I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He
didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa |
| We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings,
which when worn with use we throw away. -Plutarch |
| A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an
optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. - Harry
Truman |
| Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become
great. - Mark Twain |
| Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather
than housed in them. -Henry David Thoreau |
| Who we are today is the result of yesterday's choices. Who we will be
tomorrow is the result of today's decisions." - Pat Messiti |
| It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot |
| If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only
real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability. - Henry Ford |
| Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached
in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington |
| What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? - Jean Jacques
Rousseau |
| Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - Samuel
Johnson |
| Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no
proverb to you 'till your life has illustrated it. - John Keats |
| If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. - Margaret
Fuller |
| You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit. - Ronald
Reagan |
| Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. - Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe |
| The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward |
| To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand
Russell |
| Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character
to keep you there. - John Wooden |
| They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin
Franklin |
| Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine
what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you
will. - George Bernard Shaw |
| Tell me, I may forget; show me, then I may remember;
but involve me, and I'll understand. - Chinese proverb |
| It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to
entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle |
| It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the
established authorities are wrong. - Voltaire |
| Better to write for yourself and have no public, than
to write for the public and have no self. -Cyril Connolly [The first is probably what I'm doing - Ralph] |
| Mathematics is the language with which God has written
the universe. -Galileo Galilei |
| Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to
do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S.
Patton |
| Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen
Keller is the other. - Erma Bombeck |
| I think we consider too much the good luck of the early
bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| One reason that Jefferson, or for that matter Zola or
Balzac or any of those great figures of the 18th and 19th centuries, got so
much done, so much more done than people today, is that they didn't have any
timesaving or labor-saving devices. - Tom Wolfe |
| Some of us have great runways already built for us. If
you have one, take
off! But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a
shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you. -
Amelia Earhart |
| There are no secrets to success. It is the result of
preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell |
| Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing
those you hold well. - Josh Billings |
| I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from
listening carefully. Most people never listen. - Ernest Hemingway |
| Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain.
An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many
beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. - Harold B.
Melchart |
| We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right
and nobody's got a responsibility. - Newton Minow |
| The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that
resists. - Japanese proverb |
| Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by
concealing evidence that they ever existed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt |
| There is no security on this earth, there is only
opportunity. - General Douglas MacArthur |
| Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will
lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train
yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. - Mary Hemingway |
| The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success
and happiness
possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest
extent. - Dr. Smiley Blanton |
| Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to
solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and
you may remain in ignorance. - William Wirt |
| To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup
Whenever you're wrong, admit it
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash |
| The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he
approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is
in the right. - Cato |
| A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s
unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather
than push. - Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that
fears not, gives advantage to the danger. - Francis Quarles |
| We only do well the things we like doing. - Colette |
| The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought
not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -
Abraham Lincoln |
| The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
| If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you
forgive others? - Dolores Huerta |
| Things turn out best for the people who make the best
out of the way things turn out. - Art Linkletter |
| One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the
best he can. - Josh Billings |
| Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. - Greek Proverb |
| You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. - M.
Shawn Cole |
| Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious,
than to be able to decide. - Napoleon |
| The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the
people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein |
| A free society is a place where it's safe to be
unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. |
| Tact is the ability to describe others as they see
themselves. - Abraham Lincoln |
| If a man could have half his wishes, he would double
his trouble. - Benjamin Franklin |
| As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to
live. - Goethe |
| It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with
problems longer. - Albert Einstein |
| Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours
to win or lose. - Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Failure is an event, never a person. - William D.
Brown |
| For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are
these: It might have been. - John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
- Jean Vanier |
| Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are
those who encourage more than criticize. - Elizabeth Harrison |
| What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is
dearness only that gives everything its value. - Thomas Paine |
| Nothing would be done at all if we waited until we
could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. - Cardinal Newman |
| The last of the human freedoms, to choose one's
attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way. -
Viktor Frankl |
| When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. -
Henry J. Kaiser |
| The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the
moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the
office. - Robert Frost |
| When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but
often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us. - Helen Keller |
| Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu |
| Creative minds have always been known to survive any
kind of bad training. - Anna Freud |
| Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine |
| Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. -
Sophocles |
| Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its
purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the
vigor of the mind. - Leonardo Da Vinci |
| The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer
somebody else up. - Mark Twain |
| Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your
energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that
wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. - Robert Service |
| Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost |
| Your vision will become clear only when you can look
into your own heart…. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -
Carl Jung |
| Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom
Stoppard |
| Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an
opportunity. - Kahlil Gibran |
| The greatest good you can do for another is not just to
share your riches but to reveal to him his own. - Benjamin Disraeli |
| There are two means of refuge from the miseries of
life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer |
| The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct
and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being
afraid. - Dale Carnegie |
| Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being
done to him or by him. -Frank A. Clark |
| I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from
listening carefully. Most people never listen. - Ernest Hemingway |
| Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not
until people get old do they become wise. - Chinese proverb |
| History is a guide to navigation in perilous times.
History is who we are and why we are the way we are. - David McCullough |
| Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood
or appreciated. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Science is built up with facts, as a house is with
stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones
is a house. - Jules Henri Poincare |
| We don't understand life any better at forty than at
twenty, but we know it and admit it. - Jules Renard, writer |
| The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -e.e.
cummings |
| Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately
explained by incompetence. - Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't
mind, ...it doesn't matter. - Mark Twain |
| Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William R. Inge |
| It is better to die on your feet than to live on your
knees. - Dolores Ibarruri |
| Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the
goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are
still savages. -Thomas Edison |
| Nature does nothing uselessly. -Aristotle |
| Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of
others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
- Goethe |
| Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps
the fear of a loss of power. - John Steinbeck |
| The soul is the same in all living creatures, although
the body is different. - Hippocrates |
| There is no expedient to which man will not resort to
avoid the real labor of thinking. - Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| There is no sure cure for birth and death save to enjoy
the interval. - George Santayana |
| 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 |
| If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all
humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to
befall one another. - Epicurus |
| Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with
the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
- Buddha |
| If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If
you want to be happy, practice compassion. -Dalai Lama |
| I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate,
but through being the right mate. - Barnett Brickner |
| Work expands to fill the time available for its
completion. - C. Northcote Parkinson |
| Human beings, who are almost unique in having the
ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their
apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams |
| Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen
and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi |
| Tell me and I may forget. Show me and I may
remember. Involve me and I will understand. - Chinese proverb |
| Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of
many. - Publilius Syrus |
| I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of
library. -Jorge Luis Borges |
| There are three ingredients in the good life: learning,
earning and yearning. - Christopher Morley |
| Often people attempt to live their lives backwards;
they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they
want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You
must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to
have what you want. - Margaret Young |
| Reading is seeing by proxy. -Herbert Spencer |
| All men should strive to learn before they die
What they are running from, and to, and why.
- James Thurber |
| Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the
eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a
crown are events of the same size. - Mark Twain |
| If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -
Derek Bok |
| People are always blaming their circumstances for what
they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on
in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they
want, and if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw |
| No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved
we are indispensable. - Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and
sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.
-Arthur C Clarke |
| There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old,
and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." - John
Brunner |
| An optimist is a person who sees a green light
everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise
person is color-blind. - Albert Schweitzer |
| Easy reading is damned hard writing. - Nathaniel
Hawthorne |
| People are always blaming their circumstances for what
they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world
are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if
they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw |
| The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The
secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into
small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. - Mark Twain |
| Determine never to be idle. No person will have
occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful
how much can be done if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson |
| The things that will destroy America are
prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of
duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
- Theodore Roosevelt |
| His mother had often said, When you choose an action,
you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary
of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had
damned well better take the action that would create it. - Lois McMaster
Bujold |
| I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him
who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. - Aristotle |
| When I am working on a problem I never think about
beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - R. Buckminster Fuller |
| Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look
which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov |
| A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000 word document
and calls it a 'brief'. - Franz Kafka |
| Speech is conveniently located midway between thought
and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes |
| Though no one can go back in time and make a brand-new
start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending. - Anonymous |
| 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. - Goethe
[I'm trying to avoid both. - Ralph] |
| Those who make the worse use of their time are the
first to complain of its shortness. - Jean De La Bruyere |
| He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who
does not remains a fool forever. - Chinese proverb |
| When people tell you how young you look, they are also
telling you how old you are. - Cary Grant |
| When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that
is in itself a choice. - William James |
| It's not over 'till it's over. - Yogi Berra |
| What's done is done. - Anna Pracher |
| By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
- Latin proverb |
| Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your
eyes, it obstructs your vision. - Hsi-Tang |
| A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens |
| Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be
accurate. The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%. - Douglas
MacArthur |
| Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by
taking up another. -Anatole France |
| There are 1011 stars
in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion.
It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical
numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman |
| The main thing needed to make men happy is
intelligence. - Bertrand Russell |
| Swords and guns have no eyes. - Chinese proverb |
| I must say I find television very educational. The
minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. -
Groucho Marx |
| To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. -
Bernard Baruch |
| A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses
happiness. - Elsa Schiaparelli |
| Always look toward the sunrise, don't look back,
Remember the past, but don't dwell on it,
Look toward the future, but don't count on it,
Always enjoy every single second of the present.
-
Mattie Stepanek
(1990-2004) |
| Perfectionism spells paralysis. - Winston Churchill |
| To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love
with your work. - Sister Mary Lauretta |
| The most revolutionary act one can commit in our world
is to be happy. - Hunter Patch Adams |
| Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with
ourselves. - Nathaniel Branden |
| Do not bother just to be better than your
contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -
William Faulkner |
| Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some
people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they
expect to have. - Edward Everett Hale |
| Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as
the brain empties. - Jules Renard |
| A problem well stated is a problem half solved. - John
Dewey |
| One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in
kind" somewhere else in life. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier
to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. - Samuel Johnson |
| The illusion that we are separate from one another is
an optical delusion of our consciousness. - Albert Einstein |
| The more original a discovery, the more obvious it
seems afterward. - Arthur Koestler |
| Try to learn something about everything and everything
about something. -Thomas Huxley |
| Grief is the price we pay for love. - Queen
Elizabeth II |
| Never idealize others. They will never live up to your
expectations. - Leo Buscaglia |
| If you've decided to live 'close to the edge,' you have
to be prepared to fall off. - Ralph Johnson |
| Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than
when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Laurens Van der
Post |
| Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. - Alfred
Hitchcock |
| When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that
is in itself a choice. - William James |
| You can't see the future through a rearview mirror. -
Peter Lynch |
| The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and
they shoot. - William Ralph Inge |
| One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripedes |
| The principal contributor to loneliness in this country
is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. - Ashley
Montagu |
| It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has
data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of
theories to suit facts. - Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The perfect inheritance is enough money so that they feel that they can do
anything, but not so much that they could do nothing. - Warren Buffett |
| You cannot make yourself feel something you do not
feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. - Pearl S.
Buck |
| The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to
express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less. - Piet Hein |
| I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely
miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly
that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie |
| Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and
purify the heart. - Washington Irving |
| Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one
does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. -
Erich Fromm |
| You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become
uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. - Thomas Wolfe |
| Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -
T.H. Huxley |
| One can hope that our habit of equating 'old' with obsolete and 'new' with
best will in time disappear. - Hyman Rickover |
| There are two kinds of fool. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.'
And one says, 'This is new, and therefore better.' - John Brunner |
| The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to
be broken. - Samuel Johnson |
| He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a
fool forever. - Chinese Proverb |
| Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without
forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco |
| Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold
weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. -
Leonardo Da Vinci |
| Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our
galaxy is one of the billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be
the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things within
that enormous immensity. - Wernher von Braun |
| The best portion of a good man's life is the little,
nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth |
| The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows
the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| It is dangerous to be right when the government is
wrong. - Voltaire |
|
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or
pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. -
Samuel Butler |
| No one will dare maintain that it is better to do
injustice than to bear it. - Aristotle |
| Life is not holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor
hand well. - Danish Proverb |
|
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more
important than the thing that must be endured. - Dean Acheson |
| Chance favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur |
| It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not
care who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman |
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The happy people are those who are producing something; the
bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. - William
Ralph Inge |
| Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you into
trouble. - Frank Tyger |
| Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -
Theodore Roosevelt |
| No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of
good books. - Elizabeth Barret Browning |
| Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. -
African proverb |
| Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you
take your eyes off the goal. - Hannah More |
| A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. - Chinese
proverb |
| Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as
possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury.
There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over
again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging
affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor
alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the
law demands. - Judge Learned Hand |
| Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as
a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their own
personal happiness. - Leo Tolstoy |
| Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much
more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by
reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. - Philip Dormer
Stanhope |
| Try not to become a man of success but rather to become
a man of value. - Albert Einstein |
| The world we have created is a product of our thinking.
It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. - Albert Einstein |
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If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent
revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy |
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Ideas are like children: there are none so wonderful as your
own. - Chinese fortune cookie |
|
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I
will find something in them to hang him. - Cardinal Richelieu |
| If you want creative workers, give them enough time to
play. - John Cleese |
| Intellectuals solve problems: geniuses prevent them. -
Albert Einstein |
| Don't ask, "what if it doesn't work?" Instead,
ask, "how will I feel if I don't even try?" - Suzanne Zoglio |
| What you do best is probably so easy you underestimate
its value. - Fred Smith |
| He who establishes his argument by noise and command,
shows that his reason is weak. - Michel De Montaigne |
| Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like
wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward |
| One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever
in debt to those who are kind. - Malayan proverb |
| Worry pulls tomorrow's clouds over today's sunshine. -
Ethel Wilhelm |
| Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs;
therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates |
| Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
- John Ruskin |
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than
anywhere else. - Clarence Darrow |
| Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for
powers equal to your tasks. - Phillips Brooks |
| I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me
hate him. - Booker T. Washington |
| May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome,
dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and
above the clouds. - Edward Abbey |
| To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is
to remain always a child. - Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on
after others have let go. - William Feather |
| My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions,
but in the fewness of my wants. - J. Brotherton |
| Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and
actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. -Socrates |
| A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it
that he always has good company. - Charles Evans Hughes |
| A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's
birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost |
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A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. -
Adlai Stevenson |
| A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but
a great idea will keep you awake during the night. - Marilyn Vos Savant |
| Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute
power. - Eric Hoffer |
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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is
committing another mistake. - Confucius |
| So long as we have enough people in this country
willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. - Roger
Baldwin |
| A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't
particularly feel like it. - Alistair Cooke |
| A statesman is a politician who places himself at the
service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at
his service. - Georges Pompidou |
| Never spend your money before you have it. -Thomas
Jefferson |
| Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we
never use. - Charles Schulz |
| Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. - Victor Hugo |
| After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done -
Anonymous |
| All animals except man know that the ultimate of life
is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler |
| All growth depends upon activity. There is no
development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means
work. - Calvin Coolidge |
| 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 |
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than
jewels. - Hazrat Inayat Khan |
| If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is
not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the
power to revoke at any moment. - Marcus Aurelius |
| Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it
merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first
of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them --
and then, the opportunity to choose. - C. Wright Mills |
| Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their
common sense. - Gertrude Stein |
| The brute necessity of believing something so long as
life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. - George Santayana |
| Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics
won't take an interest in you. -Pericles |
| Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to
look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's
only for wallowing in. - Katherine Mansfield |
| The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a
person's conscience. - Harper Lee |
| There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall
McLuhan |
| I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I
can reach for; perfection is God's business. - Michael J. Fox |
| One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another
person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through
time. - Carl Sagan |
| Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison |
| Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing
those you hold well. - Josh Billings |
| Once you eliminate the impossible whatever remains no
matter how improbable must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes |
| All truth passes through three stages. First it is
ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being
self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer |
| Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy
of truth. - Albert Einstein |
| Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.
-H.L. Mencken |
| Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to
drop back. - Chinese proverb |
| It (marriage) may be compared to a cage, the birds
without try desperately to get in, and those within try desperately to get
out. - Michel de Montaigne |
| The palest ink is better than the best memory. - Chinese proverb |
| Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you
have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let
other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg |
| Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others
belong to us as well. - Voltaire |
| Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering
others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. - Lao-Tzu |
| There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there
must never be a time when we fail to protest. - Elie Wiesel |
| Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people
bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect
to have. - Edward Everett Hale |
| Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the
other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective
and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. - Mahatma Gandhi |
| Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most
accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. -
Charles W. Eliot |
| The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the
pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell |
| It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for
which we are accountable. - Moliere |
| To kill time is not murder, it's suicide. - William James |
| The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is
no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober
one. - George Bernard Shaw |
| The influence of each human being on others in this
life is a kind of immortality. - John Quincy Adams |
| Observe your enemies, for they first find out your
faults. - Antisthenes |
| The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and
he does it without destroying something else. - John Updike |
| Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. -
Albert Camus |
| It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of
wealth. - Charles Caleb Colton |
| The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. - Hungarian proverb |
| The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable
who enjoys the least pleasure. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to
make us love one another. -Jonathan Swift |
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Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections
must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson |
| It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no
God. - Thomas Jefferson |
| Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. - Henry
David Thoreau |
| If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the
shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton |
| People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I
don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the
people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't
find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw |
| Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is
oblivion. - Mark Twain |
| Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it
takes to sit down and listen. - Sir Winston Churchill |
| 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 |
| Some people think they are worth a lot of money just
because they have it. - Fannie Hurst |
| When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you. - Lao-Tzu |
| Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what
happens to him. - Aldous Huxley |
| Who, being loved, is poor? - Oscar Wilde |
| If you want total security, go to prison. There you're
fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is
freedom. - Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it
means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid. -
Desmond Tutu |
| 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 |
| They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin
Franklin |
| Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most
agreeable. - Francis Bacon |
| Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. -
Charles Caleb Colton |
| Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where
you least expect it, there will be a fish. - Ovid [hence the NYS Lottery
motto, "you've got to be in it to win it."] |
| The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity,
and is only pride and ostentation. - William Hutton |
| It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in
the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. - John Steinbeck |
| The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. - William
Shakespeare |
| It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin |
| To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the
body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must
exercise, study and love. - Karl Viktor von Bonstetten |
| Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that
is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. - Mohandas K.
Gandhi |
| There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental
difference in someone's life. - Sister Mary Rose McGeady |
| We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to
public office. - Aesop |
| Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living
shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might. - Phillips Brooks |
| In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -
Adlai Stevenson |
| I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because
I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B Anthony |
| Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with
the greatest of violence. - Francis Jeffrey |
| Beauty is whatever gives joy. - Edna St.Vincent
Millay |
| You can’t hold a man down without staying down with
him. - Booker T. Washington |
| What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I
understand. - Chinese proverb |
| Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham
Lincoln |
| Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're
yours. - Richard Bach |
| Your children need your presence more than your
presents. - Jesse Jackson |
| Our lives improve only when we take chances --- and the
first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. -
Walter Anderson |
| In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The
learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer
exists. - Eric Hoffer |
| One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that
one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell |
| Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant
use of four simple words: I do not know. - André Maurois |
| I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our
newspapers make it. - Will Rogers |
| If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is
truly worth living for in time of peace. - Hamilton Fish |
| A dead-end street is a good place to turn around. - Naomi Judd |
| Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the
dickens underneath. - Michael Caine |
| Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each
time you succeed. - Mia Hamm |
| So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had
one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas |
| Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in
nature ... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller |
| The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your
environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in
yourself alone. - Orison Swett Marden |
| Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties,
passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing
them gratified. - Samuel Johnson |
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