The difficulty in life is the
choice.
--George Moore, The Bending of the Bough,
[1900], act IV
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
--Cardinal Richelieu
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
--Geri Weitzman
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves
not only our thinking, but also our feeling.
--Valdemar W. Setzer
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
--Isaac Newton
Everything you do or say is public relations.
--Unknown
Live to learn... forget... and learn again.
--Brian
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
--Calvin & Hobbes
Knowing is half the battle.
--GI Joe
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to
adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
--Peter Drucker
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
--Slovenian Proverb
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
--Albert Einstein
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
--Mother Teresa
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
--Elias Schwartz
Everything you can imagine is real.
--Picasso
It's life, Jim... but not as we know it.
--Spock
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
--W. Edwards Deming
We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.
--Kurt Vonnegut
A healthy family is sacred territory.
--Unknown
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
--Unknown
Good taste is always an asset.
--Rudy Bakalov
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
--Abraham Lincoln
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
--Malcolm S. Forbes
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
--Old Muslim Proverb
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
--Anonymous
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave
life, those the art of living well.
--Aristotle
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
--Goethe
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no
more of it than we had earned.
-- Jane Haddam
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
--Ann Landers
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
--Anonymous
[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for
a vacancy in the Trinity.
--Mark Twain
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
--Georges Guynemer
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
--Henry Kissinger
Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in
Washington.
--Mr. Shellhammer
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
--Russian proverb
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of
true friends.
--Cindy Lew
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
--Samuel Butler
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
--Joe Clark
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
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
--Bernadette Devlin
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
--Bob Wells
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
--Bob Edwards
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!
--Andy McIntyre
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
--Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
--William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
The more you know, the less you need to show.
--Anonymous
Bullwinkle: You just leave that to my pal.
He's the brains of the
outfit.
General: What does that make you?
Bullwinkle: What else? An executive...
--Jay Ward
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.
--Mentat Prayer
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
--Anonymous
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
--Ralph Ellison
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
--Lou Reed, Magic and Loss
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
--Stewart's Law of Retroaction, Murphy's Law,
Book Two
We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
--John V. Politis
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
--Salvor Hardin
Life is made up of marble and mud.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
--Bob Wells
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
--Unknown
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
--Henry Ford
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the
envelope outwards.
--Gary Lee Phillips
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
--Unknown
It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten.
They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane.
--M. Grundler
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
--A. A. Milne
That which is static and repetitive is boring.
That which is dynamic and random is confusing.
In between lies art.
--John A. Locke
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
--M. Grundler
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we
resisted.
--James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
--William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
--Unknown
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at
night.
--Unknown
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
--Unknown
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
--Anonymous
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each
day.
--M. Grundler
If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.
--Anonymous
Use soft words and hard arguments.
--Unknown
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
--Larry Leissner
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
--Anonymous
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
--Harold R. McAlindon
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
--Will Durant
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
--William Saroyan
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
--Anonymous
It is good for a man to eat thistles and to remember that he is an ass.
--E. S. Dallas
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
--Daisaku Ikeda
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
--Friedrich von Schiller
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
--W. C. Fields (1880-1946)
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
--John Locke
Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something.
--Thomas A. Edison
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.
--Paul Erlich
Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing...
--Unknown
OK, so you've got a Ph.D. Now, don't touch anything.
--Anonymous
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not.
--Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
Wine is bottled poetry.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.
--Micron
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
--Chinese proverb
"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in
quotes.
--Unknown
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
--Voltaire
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
--Mahatma Gandhi
My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery.
--"Why" on Quartz
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
--Isaac Asimov
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
--Unknown
Never give advice...
A wise man won't need it
A fool won't heed it.
--Unknown
The secret to life is that there is no secret.
--"Swampman" on Quartz
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
--Socrates
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
--Socrates
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground....
--Unknown
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
--Nietzsche
Any fool can make a rule,
and any fool will mind it.
--Thoreau
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....
--Mark Twain
If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice!
--Neil Peart
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather
forecasts and economists?
--Kelvin Throop, III
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.
--Kara Vichko
I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a
journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished.
And how else could we discover the stars?
--Unknown
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
--Anonymous
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to
myself.
--Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
--H. L. Mencken
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
--Oscar Wilde
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror.
It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing.
It receives but does not keep.
--Chuang Tzu
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
--Woody Allen
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am not for others, what am I?
And if not now, when?
--Rabbi Hillel, 12th Century
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
--Harry S Truman
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are
still undecided.
--Casey Stengal
Mi taku oyasin. (We are all related.)
--Lakota belief
It matters not what goal you seek
Its secret here reposes:
You've got to dig from week to week
To get Results or Roses.
--Edgar Guest
Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.
--Unknown
Art can't hurt you.
--Fred Babb
God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things.
Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!
--Unknown
I'm out of the loop, and that's the way I like it.
--Anonymous
Many of us are more capable than some of us...
but none of us is as capable as all of us!!
--Ziggy (by Tom Wilson)
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
--Tao Te Ching
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
--Bob Marley
We must become the change we want to see.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with
their results.
--George Patton
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the
least of real liberty.
--Henry M. Robert
Let's just say I was testing the bounds of society. I was just curious.
--Jim Morrison
Reputations are created every day and every minute.
--Christopher Ruel
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
--Ovid
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence,
regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
--Vincent T. Lombardi
We don't work for each other,
We work with each other.
--Stanley C. Gault
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
--James Klass
Not all those who wonder are lost.
--Unknown
I'm not intending to imply insult or judgment here but I am curious to know in order to be
able to respond to your posts in an appropriate manner, so please forgive what appears to
be, but in fact is not intended as, an insulting question:
Are you stupid?
--Melinda Shore
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
--Lao-Tsu, The Way of Lao-Tsu
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer
It has chosen.
--Minor White, Photographer
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at
that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
--Robert A. Heinlein
Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)
--Seneca, Epistuloe ad Lucilium, Epis. LXX, 9
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
--Gilbert Highet
...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing
lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will
take you through.
--Starhawk
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
--Paul Rudnick
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not
exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who
does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
--Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
--Alan Watts
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
--Albert Einstein
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
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
--Alexander Pope
I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
--Lord Byron
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
--John Maynard Keynes
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
--Tom Lehrer
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response
to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
--Anonymous
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
--A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last
compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with
his kind.
--Communist Manifesto
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough
for me! I demand euphoria!
--Calvin
No pressure, no diamonds.
--Mary Case
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some
form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
--Rita Mae Brown
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
--Rita Mae Brown
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
--Rita Mae Brown
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
--Carol Burnett
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
--Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia, 5th
edition
Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of.
--Nigel
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
--Ursula LeGuin
The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness.
--John Maxwell
Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?
--Marilyn Monroe
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.
--Sue S. Taylor
Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.
--Unknown
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
--Unknown
If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.
--Unknown
It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.
--Anonymous
There is no They, Only Us.
--Graffiti
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a
stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of
the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1845)
Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.
--Graffiti
Beware the man of one book.
--St. Thomas Aquinas
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
--Buddha
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--George Santayana (1863-1952)
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
--Aristophanes, 450-385 BC, Birds, 414 BC
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....
--Longfellow
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson, (1809-1892)
In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is
dangerous and dreadful.
--Samuel Johnson
Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
(To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
--Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
--Tom Stoppard
Truth fears no questions.
--Anonymous
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
--Unknown
All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.
--Holt's Law
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
(Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)
--Accius (Lucius Accius), Telephus
To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
--W. H. Auden (1907-1973), Epitaph for an
Unknown Soldier
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why...
I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
--Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential
campaign
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the
decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act,
and in acting, to live.
--General Omar Bradley
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know,
you're perfectly safe.
--James Whistler (1834-1903)
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all
doubt.
--Samuel Johnson
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
--Plato, Laws
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
--Anonymous (Greek Proverb)
It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is not blind, it sees more not less;
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
--Unknown
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
--Unknown
Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.
--Unknown
People only see what they are prepared to see.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
--Knights of Pythagoras
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
--Appius Claudius
Nothing endures but change.
--Heraclitus
To err is human, to forgive divine.
--Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
--Visions of Gregorian Chants
I think; therefore I am.
--Rene Descartes
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
--Chinese Proverb
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.
...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what
kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
--Frank Herbert, Dune
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
--Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real
world.
--Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other
people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People
don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
--William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
--Akiro Kurosawa
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
--Plato (427-347 B. C.), The Republic
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is
acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
--Plato (427-347 B. C.), The Republic
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
--Plato (427-347 B. C.), The Republic
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till
that other is ready.
--Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
--Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862)
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
--Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), inscription
beneath
his bust in the Hall of
Fame
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other
creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature
that cannot.
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), What Is Man?
(1906)
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social
ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be
restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
--Albert Einstein
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for
love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
--Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience
does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
--Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety.
--Benjamin Franklin
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the
Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel
invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in
insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
--Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting,
Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for
if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
--Thomas Paine
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 that's clear
I will choose free will.
--RUSH, Free Will
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made
all the difference.
--Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
--Adlai Stevenson
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
--John Steinbeck
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
--P. L. Berger
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
--James Thurber (1894-1961)
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
--Robert Orben
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
--General Douglas MacArthur
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
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
--Mother Theresa
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.
--Unknown
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want
and then advise them to do it.
--Harry S Truman
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as
if nothing happened.
--Winston Churchill
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would
be no rainbow.
--Jerry Chin
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the
universe together.
--Carl Zwanzig
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which
the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is
possible.
--Aristotle
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,
And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
--Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream
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 (1911-78)
Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
--Unknown
People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.
--Howard W. Newton
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent
doing nothing.
--Unknown
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct
themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of
civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and
liberality.
--George Washington
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or
loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
--Unknown
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
--Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary
to seem to know something as to know it.
--Webster
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important
than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true
art and science.
--Albert Einstein
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
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
--Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser
than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having
come by their ignorance the hard way.
--Bokonon, Cat's Cradle
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not
manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
--Putt's Law
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
--Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896)
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has
thought.
--Albert Szent-Gyorgi
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
--Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
--William Shakespeare
The future belongs to those who dare.
--Anonymous
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
--William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose
One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them
stop.
--G. Weilacher
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat
myself.
--Mark Twain
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
--H. H. Munro
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
--Liz Smith
That which is not just is not law.
--William Lloyd Garrison, Boston abolitionist
The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.
--Lao-Tzu
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my
comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in
depriving other human beings of that precious right.
--Ghandi, 1931
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
--African proverb
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
--Thomas Jefferson
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not
himself find peace.
--Albert Schweitzer
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
--Abbie Hoffman
I hate quotations.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
--Oscar Wilde
This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from
injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
--John Ruskin
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
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to
ram them down people's throats.
--Howard Aiken
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of
giants.
--Isaac Newton
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it
to be always kept alive.
--Thomas Jefferson
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
--Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
--David Hume
Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart.
--Jesus Christ
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
--Voltaire
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
--W. Somerset Maugham
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.
--Will Rogers
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle
and fans the bonfire.
--La Rochefoucald
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the
great.
--Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the
shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer
of liberty.
--Abraham Lincoln
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show,
That slaves however contented never know.
--Cowper
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or
publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became
slaves.
--John Peter Zenger
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it
is once lost.
--Rousseau
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know --
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
--Kipling
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious
things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice
either.
--Mark Twain
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
--Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita.
(The way to the stars is open.)
--Sergei Koroljov
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
--Theodor W. Adorno
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating,
and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
--Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical
Atomism
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we
would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice
and experience of them.
--Socrates (BC 469-399)
Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will?
Seek virtue, and of that possest,
To Providence resign the rest.
--Gay (1688-1732)
Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre.
(Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)
--Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (1807-1874)
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
--Marcel Proust
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
--Delmore Schwartz
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over
the mind of man.
--Thomas Jefferson
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be
the truth.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
--Shakespeare
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are
thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
--Robert Southey
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
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
--Albert Camus
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
--G. B. Stern
Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
--Tom Lehrer
If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?
--Unknown
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern
that it will not someday be antiquated.
--Ellen Glasgow
There are people who make things happen,
those who watch what happens,
and those who wonder what happened.
--Unknown
What Every Computer Consultant Needs to Know:
1) In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
2) Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them.
--Murphy's Computer Laws (Finagle's Rules)
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire,
and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational
success.
--Stephen R. Covey, Principle-centered
Leadership
You are only as wise as other's perceive you to be.
--M. Shawn Cole
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but
impossible to enslave.
--Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
--Lewis Grizzard
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more
uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of
things.
--Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership,
society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the
opportunity to change things for the better.
--Harry S Truman (1884-1972)
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
--Socrates (470-399 BC)
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
--Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him
power.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of
his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
--Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the
approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
--Henry Miller (1891-1980)
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
--David Hume (1711-1776)
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
--Arnold H. Glasgow
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of
the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a
promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's
death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
--John Donne (1571? - 1631), Meditation XVII
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with
what you have left.
--Hubert Humphrey
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
--Confucius, Analects
'Tis hard if all is false that I advance
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
--William Cowper, Conversation
We can never tell what is in store for us.
--Harry S Truman
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
--e. e. cummings
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
--Charles Caleb Colton
Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
--Samuel Butler
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
--Charlie Brown (by Charles Schulz)
If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive.
--Elbert Hubbard
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
--Albert Camus
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be
said to remedy anything.
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the
blind.
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of
meeting me is another matter.
--Mark Twain
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity
for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of
this, but they insist on amassing information.
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
--Roland Barthes, Esprit
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
--Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
--Shakespeare
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
--John F. Kennedy
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary
and the idealist.
--Eric Hoffer
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and
will to carry on.
--Walter J. Lippmann
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be
affected by it.
--Marian Anderson
People are more easily led than driven.
--David Harold Fink
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
--Jesse Jackson
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, Memos for Management:
Leadership, 1983
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
--Harold Geneen
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be
powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
--John Henry Cardinal Newman
Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently.
--John G. Vance
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
--Anthony Jay
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of
working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of
insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
--S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and
revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
--Anton Chekhov
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not
more followers.
--Ralph Nader
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by
responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or
moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
--Theodore H. White, The Making of the
President, 1960
Learn to obey before you command.
--Solon
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
--Latin proverb
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
--Abraham Lincoln
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
--Frederick Douglass
The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.
--Shakespeare.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
--Frederick Douglass.
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
--Unknown
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the
web, he does to himself.
--Chief Seattle
The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
--David Storey
Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today's world, it has become a necessity.
--Unknown
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in
flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and
criminals.
--Charles Kuralt
The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity
but often running empty.
--Unknown
They copied all they could follow
but they couldn't copy my mind
so I left them sweating and stealing
a year and a half behind.
--Rudyard Kipling
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally
corrupt, except themselves.
--Robert Anton Wilson
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never
know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
--Anais Nin
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person
begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
--From the I Ching
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
--Anonymous
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
--Anonymous teacher
If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever!
--Anonymous
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
--Anonymous
Cycology -- The science of propelling one's self through the environment to enhance
well-being.
--Unknown
My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said.
--Anonymous
Change is good, but dollars are better.
--Anonymous
I live for books.
--Thomas Jefferson
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
--P. J. O'Rourke
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
--Emerson
Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.
--Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
--George Santiano
The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it.
--John Gilmore
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need -- tremendous self
control.
--Ashleigh Brilliant
I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the
suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one...
ME!!!
--Anonymous
Service...
Giving what you don't have to give.
Giving when you don't need to give.
Giving because you want to give.
--Damien Hess
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
--Erik Nupponen
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show
for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our
eyes watered.
--Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom
Stoppard
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
--John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
--William Congreve, The Mourning Bride
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
--Joseph Addison, Cato
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
--Edward Young, Night Thoughts
All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every
prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
--Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of
America
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope,
or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
--Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
--David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
--Sir John Vanbrugh, The Relapse
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
--Aristotle, Rhetoric
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
--Bessie Stanley
Technology: No Place for Wimps!
--Scott Adams, Dilbert
Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!
--Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
...You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
--Bob Dylan, from "Subterranean Homesick
Blues" 1967
To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.
--Unknown
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction
we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we
must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
--Oliver W. Holmes
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
--Havelock Ellis
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
--Bertrand Russell
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing.
Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
--Samuel Hazo
Politicians are the same all over. they promise to build a bridge even where there is no
river.
--Nikita Khrushchev
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
--James Joyce
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
--Winston Churchill
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
--Shakespeare, King Henry V, Act III, Scene 1
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
--Doug Larson
Stupid is a boundless concept.
--Anonymous
Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.
--Anonymous
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
--Unknown
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
--Unknown
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
--Unknown
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
--Anonymous
By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts!
--Anonymous
Courage atrophies from lack of use.
--Unknown
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
--Unknown
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
--Sam Brown, "Washington Post," 1977
Step with care and great tact
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
--Dr. Suess, Oh, the Places You'll Go
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there
is any reaction, both are transformed.
--Jung
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
--Napoleon
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
--Samuel Johnson
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.
--Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
--Cicero
Life is short; live it up.
--Khrushchev
Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand,
and those who understand what they do not manage.
--Mike Trout
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.
--Old Russian saying
Live simply that others might simply live.
--Elizabeth Seaton
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting
thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
--Woody Allen
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
--Steven Wright
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
--Henrik Tikkanen
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 W. Holmes (dissent, Abrams v. United
States, 1919)
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him
it's called ferocity.
--George Bernard Shaw
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy
those who are weaker than he is.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
--Chinese proverb
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
--Unknown
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the
people who live in it.
--H. L. Mencken
My work is a game, a very serious game.
--M. C. Escher
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego
goes with it.
--Colin Powell
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
--Judge John Kane, US District Court
The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional
attachment to that opinion.
--Anonymous
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
--Aesop
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
--Alfred Adler
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
--Chinese proverb
The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
--Cole's axiom
In war there is no substitute for victory.
--General Douglas MacArthur
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
--Harry S Truman
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the
blame.
--Laurence Peter
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
--Will Rogers
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of
our lives.
--William Dement
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know
something.
--Wilson Mizner
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something
stupid.
--Art Spander
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
--Midori Koto
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.
Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that
attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume
it.
--Herbert Simon, economist
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
--Harry S Truman
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law,
no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court
to save it.
--Learned Hand, jurist
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work.
--Thomas Edison
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
--Stephen Wright
I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even
if it costs them their jobs.
--Samuel Goldwyn
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
--Segal's Law
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
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident.
That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
--Nathaniel Borenstein
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we
think of the other person.
--Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called
rain.
--Michael McClary
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
--Joseph Stalin
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
--Bertrand Russell
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we
were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be
compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of
Persia.
--Hans A. Bethe
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
--Albert Einstein on atomic energy, Jan. 22,
1947
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
--Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
--Kurt Herbert Alder
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
--Ashleigh Brilliant
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible,
too.
--Lichty & Wagner
Imagination is more important than knowledge....
--Albert Einstein
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the
world must live up to mine.
--Fritz Perls
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
--Wilson Mizner
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
--Anatole France
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
--Paul Fix
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
--Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
--G. H. Lewes, Physiology of Common Life
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
--Charles Dickens, Bleak House
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
--Thomas Jefferson, Writings
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
--Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Consumer's Guide,
1897
What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty.
--Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can
do for your country.
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20,
1961
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of
government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted
to the hands of the American people.
--George Washington, First Inaugural Address,
Apr. 30, 1789
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.
We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage
which flow from conviction.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural
Address, Jan. 20, 1945
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we
are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations.
--Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address,
Mar. 4, 1865
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural
Address, Mar. 4, 1933
If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything.
--Unknown
The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free
will universe I do have a choice.
--Sovereign
I must stand up in search of the truth, if I don't I only roll with the flow of the lie
and make it stronger.
--Sovereign
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this -- I either
choose the truth or I am deceit.
--Sovereign
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the
rule.
--Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Never mistake motion for action.
--Ernest Hemingway
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
--Soren Kierkegaard
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
--Robert Orben
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
--James Feibleman
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
--Robert Byrne
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
--Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as
superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
--Eric Ambler
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies
ridiculous." And God granted it.
--Voltaire
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it
good and hard.
--H. L. Mencken
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of
themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
--Bertrand Russell
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
--Mae West
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in
taxes as he formerly got in wages.
--H. L. Mencken
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
--Lord Byron
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is
public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free
from men.
--Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
--Oscar Wilde
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and
campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
--David Broder
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
--Aristotle
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
--Carl Sandburg
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
--Old Indian saying
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in
a room.
--Blaise Pascal
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather
short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
--Eeyore, Pooh's Little Instruction Book,
inspired by A. A. Milne
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that
was left out by mistake.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck
in the doorway trying to get out.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're
probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether
you don't.
--Rabbit, Pooh's Little Instruction Book,
inspired by A. A. Milne
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big
Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a
Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the
open and has other people looking at it.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do
amazing things,
--Joe Namath
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
--Unknown
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
--Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's
blown into their heads by mistake.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
Brains first and then Hard Work.
--Eeyore, Pooh's Little Instruction Book,
inspired by A. A. Milne
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply
be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
--Piglet, Pooh's Little Instruction Book,
inspired by A. A. Milne
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to
go to them sometimes.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you
begin looking for it.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half
of the conversation.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river
slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can
do is go where they can find you.
--Winnie-the-Pooh, Pooh's Little Instruction
Book,
inspired by A. A. Milne
It's so much more friendly with two.
--Piglet, Pooh's Little Instruction Book,
inspired by A. A. Milne
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the
things you can't hear, and not bothering.
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
--Adolph Hitler
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe
that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be
believed.
--Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own
spiritual death on an installment plan.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
--Basho
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed
journalism.
--Hedrick Smith
Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to
destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of
the Net.
--Glen Raphael
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.
--Gandhi
Cynics are made, not born.
--Max
There is nothing so asinine that governments will not proclaim it as official doctrine.
--Nolan's Observation
Delay is preferable to error.
--Thomas Jefferson
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
--Confucius
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it
bears a very close resemblance to the first.
--Ronald Reagan
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
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
--Mark Twain
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to loose.
--S. I. Hayakawa
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those
who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
--Alvin Toffler
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
--George Bernard Shaw
Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
--J. R. R. Tolkien
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
--Anne O'Hare McCormick
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say
something.
--Plato
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
--Elbert Hubbard
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins
to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his
market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges
everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and
judgment. And you can see forever.
--Nancy Kerrigan
Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves
you a chance to love you enough.
--Dinah Shore
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
--The Land Before Time
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the
lens does.
If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will
know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your
capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
--Dag Hammarskjold
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
--Burt Bacharach
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time
to do something about it.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Experience is not what happens to us, rather it is what we do with what happens to us.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Give more than take.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Continually strive to improve yourself.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Not only are you what you think you are, more so; what you think, you are.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Don't fear change, embrace it.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for
Nature cannot be fooled.
--Richard Feynman
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the
impossible.
--Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
--James Thurber
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
--Jules de Gaultier
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
--Mark Twain
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
--Frank Zappa
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
--Woody Allen
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
--M. C. Escher
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
--Marshall McLuhan
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
--Lily Tomlin
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
--Abraham Lincoln
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
--Ellen Parr
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
--Mark Twain
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
--Albert Einstein
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
--Timothy Leary
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
--Jean Giraudoux
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
--Eugene McCarthy
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."
--Mark Twain
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
--Tom Lehrer
I never know how much of what I say is true.
--Bette Midler
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the
ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
--Joe Ancis
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
--William Shakespeare
I improve on misquotation.
--Cary Grant
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
--Will Rogers
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
--Albert Einstein
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
--Will Rogers
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
--Lily Tomlin
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
--Douglas Adams
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
--Bertold Brecht
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
--Ashleigh Brilliant
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
--Ashleigh Brilliant
Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.
--Ashleigh Brilliant
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
--Dale Carnegie
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
--Henry Cate, VII
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
--Quentin Crisp
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
--Quentin Crisp
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
--Philip K. Dick
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
--Walt Disney
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
--David Dunham
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
--Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death
by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
--Charles Brower
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
--Japanese proverb
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
--Garrison Keillor
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
--Christopher Lasch
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
--Oscar Levant
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
--Janet Long
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
--Groucho Marx
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
--J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert
Einstein
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
--John Russell
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
--Charles Schulz
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
--Solomon Short
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
--Werner von Braun
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
--Joe Walsh
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
--Oscar Wilde
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
--H. H. Williams
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
--Werner von Braun
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
--Albert Einstein
I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
--David Letterman
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
--Robert Byrne
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or
the handle.
--James Russell Lowell
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
--Mark Twain
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
--Mark Twain
Honesty is the best image.
--Ziggy (Tom Wilson)
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
--Theodore Sturgeon
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
--Mark Twain
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
--William Blake
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
--Aldous Huxley
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
--Unknown
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
--Bertrand Russell
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
--Dylan Thomas
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
--Jeff Marder
Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in
the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in
the sunset.
--Crowfoot
Why are we surprised when politicians play politics? It's not like they are supposed to be
real adults... they are, after all, politicians and don't have real jobs and aren't
playing around with their money.
--Max
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
--Stephen Leacock
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.
--T. S. Eliot
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
--Nietzsche
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the
principal difference between a dog and a man.
--Mark Twain
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
--Mark Twain
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
--Robert Frost
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward,
forward, toward the sun.
--Ruth Westheimer
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
--Ben Franklin
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become
life itself.
--John Harold
Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.
--The Lion
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
--Euripides
My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
--Anna M. Uhlich
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
--Vince Lombardi
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
--Unknown
Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are,
but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are.
--Mickey Manfield
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy
it.
--Karol Newlin
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
--Krishnamurti
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one
another.
--Luciano de Crescenzo
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
--Dean Acheson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look
forward to the trip.
--Caskie Stinnett
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought
with sticks and stones.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
--H. G. Wells
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
--Voltaire
The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
--Voltaire
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after
them.
--Bill Vaughn
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out
of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary
tyranny.
--Bertrand Russell
Victory is a political fiction.
--Anonymous
To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day.
--Anonymous
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
--George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
--George Bernard Shaw
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
--Francious de la Rochefoucauld
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and
understanding.
--Bacon
Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
--Bierce
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
--Franz Kafka
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
--C. J. Jung
A cult is a religion with no political power.
--Tom Wolfe
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours.
The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
--Nietzsche
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
--Wilson Mizner
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
--Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
--Unknown
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With
confidence, you have won even before you have started.
--Marcus Garvey
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no
limitations to where you can go.
--James Baldwin
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can
reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
--Franz Schubert
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I
know no way of judging the future but by the past.
--Unknown
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward
freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of
freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
--Gandhi
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
--Robert M. Pirsig
When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would
be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
--Joseph Campbell
You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
--Adam Marshall
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
--Alfred Alder
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed
but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland,
they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did
that produce? The cuckoo clock.
--Orson Welles, The Third Man, 1949
I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a wounded squire pulling
arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right
but is defined by one's action.
--Kevin Costner, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves,
1994
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone,
something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
--Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a
serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
--Harry S Truman (1884-1972)
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for
his.
--General G. C. Patton (1885-1945)
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
--President Lyndon Johnson (1908-1973)
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
--Douglas MacArthur
War is based on deception.
--Sun Tzu (ca. 500 BC)
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
--Carl von Clausewitz
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
--Lao Tse
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time
to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going
at a good pace.
--Frederick W. Taylor
Gray hair is God's graffiti.
--Bill Cosby
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
--Martin Fraquhar Tupper
In the end, everything is a gag.
--Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
--Gail Godwin
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If
I'm not there, I go to work.
--Robert Orben
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
--Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
--Abba Eban
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
--Charles William Stubbs
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
--George Santayana
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in
every difficulty.
--Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
--Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
--Lao Tze
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
--Alan Kay
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967)
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmond Burke
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
--Carl Jung (1875-1961)
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
--Abraham Lincoln
We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the
power to save ourselves.
--Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on
answers -- not excuses.
--William Arthur Ward
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
--Proverbs 15:1
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
--William Arthur Ward
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within
us.
--Emerson
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
--Theodore Roosevelt
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the
places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you
can.
--John Wesley
Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
--Thoreau
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain
alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth
keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
--Unknown
Happiness is as a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but which if
you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your
mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family
and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
--Unknown
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God
hold you in the palm of his hand.
--Irish Blessing
Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like
the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following
them you will reach your destiny.
--Unknown
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
--Unknown
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare
that things are difficult.
--Seneca
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not
just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
--General Colin Powell
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
--Gordon R. Dickson
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
--Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he
is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
--Ted Morgan
No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.
--Sara Teasdale
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
--Jean de La Fontaine
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
--Michel de Montaigne
All a man can betray is his conscience.
--Joseph Conrad
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
--Confucius Analects
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend
apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously
unaware.
--David Armistead
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
--Elizabeth I
It's amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.
--Michael Arlen
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
--Cicero
Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world
--The Law of Thumb
Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent
for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a
hole in the head.
--Unknown
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted
feelings.
--Alice Miller
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting
discoveries.
--A. A. Milne
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point
higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb
higher tomorrow.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing
generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose
faces are coming from beneath the ground.
--Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois
Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
--John G. Riefenbaker
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
--William Feather
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Promise a lot and give even more.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he
can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't
find anybody who can tell me what they want.
--Mark Twain
The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to
view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.
--Bishop John Shelby Spong
Thoughts come through people, not from them.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
In life, it is not what you know or who you know that counts -- it is both!
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Become a fixer, not just a fixture.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest
bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you have a vision, do something with it.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself
still remains a very effective therapist.
--Karen Horney
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
--Albert Camus
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
--Graham Greene
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
--George Eliot
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
--Erica Jong
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
--Miguel de Cervantes
To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
--Rosabeth Moss Kanter
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even
starts.
--Addison Walker
One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
--Proverb
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
--Josh Billings
Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
--Paul Gauguin
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
--Malcolm Forbes
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
--Foster's Law
The only one who can tell you "you can't" is you. And you don't have to listen.
--Nike advertisement
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
--Art Linkletter
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying
your own.
--John Mason Brown
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
--Albert Einstein
You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can
truly call your own.
--Billy Joel, You're Only Human (Second Wind)
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.
--Ani Difranco, Letter to a John
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
--Unknown
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
--Justice William O. Douglas
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
--Albert Schweitzer
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
--Mohammed Ali
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should
have the guts to betray my country.
--Forster
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and
among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back
to us as effects.
--Herman Melville
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
--Mary H. Waldrip
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Your mind is like a parachute. It only works if it is open.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that
your ideas will upset.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most
opinions often have the fewest facts.
--Bethania McKenstry
All the knowledge in the world is found within you.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
--Robert Fulghum
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
--Will Rogers
To philosophize is to doubt.
--Montaigne
Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang
except for the best.
--Unknown
To generalize is to be an idiot.
--William Blake
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
--Mark van Doren
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
--Unknown
To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart.
--Bob Allisat
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play
with your hair.
--Kahlil Gibran
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with
no logical end.
--Scott Adams
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.
--Unknown
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is
consistent with the maintenance of social order.
--Barry Goldwater
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all
that is not gold.
--Leo Tolstoy
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
--Shakespeare
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
--W. Migner
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
--Mark Twain
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.
--Unknown
O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died
out.
--W. B. Yeats, Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.
--Katherine Hepburn
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of
using people and loving things.
--Unknown
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
--Ebner-Eschenbach
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
--Henry Adams
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
--Christopher Morley
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have
capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
--Abraham Maslow
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
--Arthur Koestler
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
--Unknown
Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I
need you because I love you."
--Erich Fromm
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
--Theodore Roosevelt
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
--Albert Einstein
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
--W. B. Yeats
Threats don't work with the person who's got nothing to lose.
--Maduro Ash
An idea is salvation by imagination.
--Frank Lloyd Wright
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the
incomprehensible.
--Eugene Ionesco
To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
--Elbert Hubbard
There are no facts, only interpretations.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.
--North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
--Goethe
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.
--George Bernard Shaw
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is
adequate perception of the world.
--Hans Margolius
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
--Stephen Leacock
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear
raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
--Aristotle
Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase -- that's what wild geese are for.
--Anonymous
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
--Anonymous
At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
--William Shakespeare, Love's Labour Lost
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
--Immanuel Hermass von Fichte
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
--Ed Howe
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at
present very few people have reached this level.
--Bertrand Russell
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with
anyone else in the world.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can
look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
--E. B. White
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
--John Dryden
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And
there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
--Bergen Evans
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
--Mark Twain
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
--Tom Robbins
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some
distant day into your answers.
--Rainer Maria Rilke
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
--The Midrash
The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?
--Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and animal rights
activist
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us,
binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
--Alan Chadwick
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is
completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal
everything in sight.
--Michael Bridge
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
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
--George Herbert
They can because they think they can.
--Virgil
Conform and be dull.
--James Frank Dobie
A good conscience is a continual feast.
--Robert Burton
Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
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
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
--John M. Barrie
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
--Seneca
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
--Eden Phillpotts
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
--Mark Twain
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we
have.
--Don Herold
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in
its taste, but in its effects.
--J. W. Fulbright
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak
of nonviolence to cover impotence.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
--Ziggy
Life has no rehearsals, only performances.
--Unknown
People only see what they are prepared to see.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
--Albert Einstein
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
--Harold Taylor
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
--Rudyard Kipling
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
--Elbert Hubbard
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
--Gustave Flaubert
If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
--Louise Brown
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
--Unknown
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow
old.
--Ed Howe
You may delay, but time will not.
--Benjamin Franklin
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
--Eugene Ionesco
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
--Samuel Johnson
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
--Unknown
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, "It might have been!"
--John Greenleaf Whittier
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in
sinks into the mind.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he
does, he is wasting water.
--African Proverb
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
--Albert Schweitzer
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
--William Strong
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
--Thomas Jefferson
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being
governed by your inferiors.
--Plato
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a
dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding
fathers used in the struggle for independence.
--Charles Austin Beard, historian
When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they
took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the
second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first
amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
--Tim Freeman
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
--Voltaire
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn
down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and
failure, you get more of both.
--James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and
sold are legislators.
--P. J. O'Rourke
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create
a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his
subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
--Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment
Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution?
--C. D. Tavares
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome
servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible
action.
--George Washington
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a
capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade
and laissez faire.
--Ludwig Mises
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the
government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious
encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
--Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928
The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.
--Nick Nuessle, 1992
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous
to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them
imaginary.
--H. L. Mencken
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
--Richard L. Evans
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
--Unknown
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want
to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
--John Burrough
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never
listen.
--Ernest Hemingway
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope
of survival.
--Wendell Berry
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its
existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
--Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
--Albert Camus
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
--Marshall McLuhan
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
--Euripides
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two
small jumps.
--David Lloyd George
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they
seldom use.
--Kierkegaard
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
--Unknown
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
--Richard Armour
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
--Gail Sheehy
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
--Chinese proverb
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
--Unknown
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
--Carl W. Buechner
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago
today.
--Rotarian
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit
for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
--Philip Caldwell
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
--Ghandi
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior,
responding wonder meets it.
--Herman Melville
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
--William James
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
--Unknown
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
--William Blake
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the
pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
--Herman Hesse
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
--James Bryce
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
--Jonathan Kozol
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must
be felt.
--Unknown
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
--Josh Billings
The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
--Unknown
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
--Oscar Wilde
Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.
--Charles Luckman
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
--Swedish proverb
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
--Yiddish proverb
The road to a friend's house is never long.
--Danish proverb
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
--German proverb
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the
mature than in the young.
--W. Somerset Maugham
Good questions outrank easy answers.
--Paul A. Samuelson
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
--Ayn Rand
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
--Unknown
My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.
--The Lockhorns
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
--Cousin Woodman
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is
absolutely good for nothing.
--Lord Chesterfield
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart
of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.
--Unknown
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not
the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that
are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it
is good.
--Vaclav Havel
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the
opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
--From the last episode of "Cheers"
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
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have
done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with
nothing.
--The Metro Para pledge
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
--William Feather
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
--Thomas Fuller
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
--Lord John Russell
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off
our feet when we want shoes.
--Jonathan Swift
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
--William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
--Seneca (the Younger)
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
--Count Oxenstierna
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended
to be.
--Douglas Adams
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
--Margaret Fuller
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
--Dr. Laurence J. Peter
It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.
--French management saying
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
--T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
--H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on
your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
--H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
--H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
We shall never cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
--T. S. Eliot
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means
what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
--Frank Lloyd Wright
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves,
or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is
cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady
presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
--Anna Louise Strong
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
--Arthur Calwell
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
--Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
--Confucius
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your
life that counts.
--Millard Fuller
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
--William Hazlitt
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
--Herodotus
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a
small one.
--Adolph Hitler
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten
you.
--Eric Hoffer
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
--Edward Keating
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
--Robert F. Kennedy
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
--Rudyard Kipling
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him
power.
--Abraham Lincoln
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
--Walter Lippmann
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
--John Locke
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
--Hannah More
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
--Napoleon
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
--Napoleon
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
--Napoleon
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
--George Jean Nathan
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
--Flower A. Newhouse
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
--Alan Paton
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the
cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
--William Proxmire
Practice is the best of all instructors.
--Publilius Syrus
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
--George Santayana
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
--Harry S Truman
Words divide us, actions unite us.
--Slogan of the Tupamaros
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
--Emiliano Zapata
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
To do two things at once is to do neither.
--Publilius Syrus
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life,
not the top.
--Unknown
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind
--John Allston
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
--Marcus Aurelius
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for
benevolence, confidence, justice.
--Baruch Spinoza
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would
have lain dormant.
--Horace
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
---Epicurus
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and
suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
--Helen Keller
This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a
mighty one...
--George Bernard Shaw
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running
brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
--Shakespeare
You can never plan the future by the past.
--Edmund Burke
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know
better.
--Anonymous
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
--Flora Whittemore
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
--Shakespeare
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the
thoughtless act of a single day.
--Winston Churchill
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
--A. N. Whitehead
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
--Roger Babson
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
--Paul Valery
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
Conservation is humanity caring for the future.
--Nancy Newhall
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
--G. C. Lichtenberg
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
--Euripides
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
--Socrates
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
--Winston Churchill
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
--Abraham Lincoln
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom
is its own.
--W. R. Inge
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
--Shakespeare
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
--Goethe
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your
eye.
--Samuel Grafton
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
--Anonymous
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is
immortal.
--Albert Pine
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
--German proverb
He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.
--A. P. Gouthey
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
--Thomas Kempis
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we
esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man
that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by
reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and
whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
--Thomas Paine
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
--Charlie Brown
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness
from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
--Kahlil Gibran
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
--Thoreau
Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
--Josh Billings
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an
oak.
--James Russell Lowell
Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
--R. D. Lang
Who so loves believes the impossible.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
--John F. Kennedy
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
--John Kenneth Galbraith
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
--La Rochefoucauld
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to
achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
--Etty Hilsum
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives
within us.
--Thoreau
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful
muscles, but no personality.
--Albert Einstein
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take
indecent advantage of them.
--Walter Kerr
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in
the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than
would be necessary to erect a hut.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
--Goethe
"He means well" is useless unless he does well.
--Plautus
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you
give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and
withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
--George Washington
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson
will be.
--Abraham Lincoln
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to
give -- which is everything
--Unknown
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say
different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you
listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
--C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Think you can, think you can't, you are Right!!!
--Rodolfo Tellez (Rudy)
Grace under Pressure.
--Ernest Hemingway
Live life to the fullest.
--Ernest Hemingway
In order to write about life, first you must live it!
--Ernest Hemingway
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
--Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
--Winston Churchill
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept
on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
--Dale Carnegie
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
--Winston Churchill
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
--Unknown
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing
what is necessary.
--Winston Churchill
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more
common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost
a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always
will solve the problems of the human race.
--Calvin Coolidge
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
--David Dunham
Learning is finding out what you already know
--Richard Bach
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young
minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
--Anatole France
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
--Richard Buckminster Fuller
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
--Alan Saporta
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
--Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
--Max Eastman
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and
thinking that having problems is a problem.
--Theodore Rubin
We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.
--William Reece Smith, Jr.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll
be called a democracy.
--Roger Baldwin, founder ACLU
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot
cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
--Albert Einstein
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his
tools.
--Spanish proverb
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
--Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the
other never forgets them.
--Ogden Nash
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 Pomidou
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
--Mary Richards, "The Mary Tyler Moore
Show"
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
--J. M. Barrie, British Playwright
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
--Cicero
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a
corporation.
--Howard Scott, Economist
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
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life
always spills over the rim of every cup.
--Boris Pasternak
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What
I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize
at the time; I mean joy.
--Ursula K. LeGuin
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
--Francis Bacon
We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
--Newton Minow, chairman of the FCC
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
--Henry David Thoreau
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
--E. J. Phelps
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
--H. G. Wells
If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible.
--Bernard M. Baruch
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
--Harold Geneen
If you want to succeed, you'd better look as if you mean business.
--Jeanne Holm
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
--H. L. Mencken
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in
business by being a conformist.
--J. Paul Getty
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
--Roger Babson
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
--George F. Burns
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right
side.
--Baltasar Gracian
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and
accomplishment.
--Norman Vincent Peale
Common sense is not so common.
--Voltaire
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
--Robert Greenleaf
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
--Dr. Linus Pauling
Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
--Chinese Proverb
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
--Clare Booth Luce
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
--Vidal Sassoon
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
--An Wang
You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
--English Proverb
Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
--Edgar W. Howe
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
--George Bernard Shaw
Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer.
--Macy's Motto
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
--Chinese Proverb
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.
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
--Langston Hughes
Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit.
--Diane Westlake
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
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
--Christopher Morley
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
--Sir James Barrie
All things are possible to him that believeth.
--Mark 9:23
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must
be felt within the heart.
--Helen Keller
A dreamer lives for eternity.
--Anonymous
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a
trail.
--Anonymous
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
--Helen Keller
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
--Soren Kierkegaard
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of
his powers.
--Erich Fromm
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
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look
up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
--Louisa May Alcott
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
--Maxwell Maltz
To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.
--The Best of the Best (motion picture)
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 Walpoe
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
--D. H. Lawrence
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour.
The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
--Israel Zangwill
He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.
--Unknown
The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.
--Oscar Arias
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
--Francios de La Rochefoucauld
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that
jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up
that force, you are ruined.
--Patrick Henry
What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a
day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and
we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most
important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in
that.
--Victor Kiam
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
--Paul Valery
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything
too soon.
--Alexander Pope
Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
--Unknown
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly
where one is.
--Arnold Bennett
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force
down helpless babies.
--W. C. Fields
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
--George William Curtis
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
--Dietrich Bonhoffer
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a
constantly changing vortex of reactions.
--Unknown
Smile -- It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
--Unknown
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
--Toledo Blade
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
--Oscar Wilde
It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
--Unknown
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.
--Unknown
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel
like it.
--Alistair Cooke
A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
--Wilma Askinas
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
--John F. Kennedy
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
--L. P. Hartley
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
--Huey Long
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he
is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
--Ted Morgan
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
Many a man's tongue broke his nose.
--Seamus MacManus
May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don't love you, may the Lord give them a
limp so you can see them coming.
--Irish Blessing
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
--Margaret Thatcher
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world
at large with surprise and horror.
--W. Somerset Maugham
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
--Confucius
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
--Oscar Wilde
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then
be false to any man.
--Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
Human kind cannot bear much reality.
--T. S. Eliot
Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
--Michel De Montaigne
You know you're getting old when it takes to much effort to procrastinate.
--Unknown
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
--Max Frisch
Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a
matter of controversy.
--Bertrand Russell
We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
--Oscar Wilde
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
--J. D. Salinger
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off
that spark in one another.
--Kenny Ausubel
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except
those that sang the best.
--Unknown
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot
--Charlie Chaplin
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an
opportunity and not be prepared.
--Whitney Young, Jr.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
--Publilius Syrus
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
--Frank W. Woolworth
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
--Proverbs 12:15
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
--Rudyard Kipling
There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
--Unknown
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves
not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble,
logical diagram once recorded will not die.
--Daniel Burnham
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
--Adlai E. Stevenson
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in
life.
--Marcus Aurelius
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the
life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
--Henry David Thoreau
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
--Lord Chesterfield
Why is it when we talk to God we're praying -- but when God talks to us, we're
schizophrenic?
--Lily Tomlin
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it
or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you
"come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real
questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most
important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered
most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often
against your will.
--Ingrid Bengis
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
--St. Francis of Assisi
I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted.
--Mae West
Never complain. Never explain.
--Katherine Hepburn
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you
own.
--Emerson
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
--Keith Richards
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and
market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
--John Lahr
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
--Walter Savage Landor
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes
to live.
--Oscar Wilde
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
--Napoleon Bonaparte
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building
block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen,
and that is the basic building block of the universe.
--Frank Zappa
Someday is not a day of the week.
--Anonymous
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
--William McFee
One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
--Josh Billings
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when
you explain your successes.
--Wilbur N. Nesbit
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
--Unknown
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
--Unknown
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
--Franklin P. Jones
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with
means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . .
--Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)
If man does his best what else is there?
--George S. Patton
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a
partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to
those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we
seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is
to avoid being a failure.
--A. Lou Vickery
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
--Albert Schweitzer
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for
the stars are of the same stuff as you.
--Nicholai Velimirovic
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his
duty.
--George Bernard Shaw
It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.
--Unknown
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but
also to be wrong.
--Thomas Szasz
If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.
--Chinese Proverb
The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
--Gerald Burrill
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
--Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee)
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.
--Ethel Barrymoore
Since when was genius found respectable?
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a
life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
--Louis E. Boone
If you rest, you rust.
--Helen Hayes
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
--Doris Day
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
--Erica Jong
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most
truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
--Albert Schweitzer
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
--Plato
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.
--Anonymous
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
--Seneca
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
--Abraham Lincoln
In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the
other is getting it.
--Oscar Wilde
It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the
same things happen to him.
--M. Thompson
Nothing's ever really changed. What difference does it make whether it's the Corporate
state or the Nation state? In our struggle for freedom we still find ourselves fighting
the state.
--Jay Terpstra
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is
what makes American what it is.
--Gertrude Stein
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
--Old Chinese Proverb
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to
do so.
--Proverbs 3:27
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
--Mother Teresa
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful
beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
--Nelson Mandela
It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong
enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was
designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and
religious fanatics.
--Denise Caruso (digital commerce columnist,
New York Times)
I am a part of all that I have met.
--John Milton
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
--Abraham Lincoln
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others,
rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
--Frederick Douglass
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
--Anatole France
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
--Alan Kay
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
--Hodding Carter, Jr.
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
--Socrates
Brevity is the soul of wit.
--William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
--Unknown
Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind.
--Kay Ingram
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away
without the sympathy of the community.
--William James
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very
much.
--Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
--Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband"
Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.
--Karl Weick
We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves.
--Prophet Joseph Smith
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the
inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
--Marilyn Ferguson
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
--Abraham Lincoln
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
Only the shallow know themselves.
--Oscar Wilde
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
--Janis Joplin
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
--Will Durant
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
--Sigmund Freud
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
--Jim Beggs
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
--Samuel Ullman
Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
--Kin Hubbard
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
--Horace Walpole
There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.
--Brett Butler's unnamed friend
There are two rules for success. . .
1) Never tell everything you know.
--Roger H. Lincoln
When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue.
--Merkin's Maxim
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
--Unknown
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
--Unknown
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
--Walt Disney
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
--George Washington
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if
adults cannot figure it out.
--Unknown
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
--Unknown
The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat
them.
--Unknown
Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave
up.
--Unknown
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
--Victor Marie Hugo
I hear and I forget.
I see and I believe.
I do and I understand.
--Confucius (551-479 BC)
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
--Redd Foxx
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
--Mother Teresa
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will
not meet again in life.
--John Paul Richter
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
--Nikos Kazantzakis
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
--Olivier
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing
and succeed.
--Lloyd Jones
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but
a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The
future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be
found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the
destination.
--John Schaar, futurist
I have learned, in whatever state I am ,therewith to be content.
--Epistle of Paul
Courage conquers all things.
--Ovid
Tempt not a desperate man.
--Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Love is my Sword,
Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield.
--Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily
contrived answers.
--Learned Hand
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
--Errol Flynn
Never cut what you can untie.
--Joseph Joubert
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
--Mary Howitt
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the
bold.
--Baltasar Gracian
We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
--Eric Hoffer
Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do
without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
--Kathleen Norris
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
--John Ray
A good rest is half the work.
--Yugoslav Proverb
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
--Friedrich Engels
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable
either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
--Gloria Naylor
Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.
--Shakespeare
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
--Unknown
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
--David Searls
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first
is not to assail the last.
--Charlotte Bronte
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
--Katherine Hepburn
If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.
--Unknown
It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.
--Unknown
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character;
the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one
club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit
of one's nation affect the individual.
--Jean Paul Richter
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding,
Understanding is not wisdom.
--Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
--Ben Johnson, Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.
--Millard Fuller
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
--Robert F. Kennedy, South Africa, 1966
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
--William Plomer
My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
--Larry Hagman
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.
--Goethe
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
--William James
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
--Wilhelm von Humboldt
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
--Unknown
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
--Unknown
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
--Jacob Riis
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
--Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
--Benjamin Disreali (1804-1881)
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
--Hubert H. Humphrey
It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
--Judith S. Marin
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
--Pamela Vaull Starr
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
--Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
--Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]
No man is free who is not master of himself.
--Epictetus
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
--Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)
The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
--Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
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
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
--Aristotle
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
--George Washington
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!
--Margaret Meade
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
--Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.
--Albert Schweitzer
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
--Thomas S. Szasz
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
--Heraclitus of Ephesus
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
--Frederick Douglas
I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
--Kathe Kollwitz
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
--Frank Leahy
It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
--Albert Einstein
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
--The Buddha
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
--Francis Bacon
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
--Herb Brody
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
--Samuel Johnson
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
--Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
--Pamela Vaull Starr
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
--Marcel Proust
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
--Frank Lloyd Wright
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
--Saint Benedict
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
--Keller
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
--Emerson (1803-1882)
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
--Vince Lombardi
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
--Vince Lombardi
The good man is the teacher of the bad,
And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.
He who does not value the teacher,
Or greatly care for the material,
Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.
Such is the essential mystery.
--Lao-Tzu (fl. BC 600)
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
--William James
A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all,
a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all,
the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him,
the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.
--Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
--Samuel Johnson
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
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
--Han Suyin, "A Many Splendored Thing"
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
--Jessamyn West
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
--William Faulkner
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
--Lily Tomlin
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
--Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A prudent question is one half of wisdom.
--Francis Bacon
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
--Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
--Ovid (43 BC -18 AD)
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
--Thornton Wilder, Our Town
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
--Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
--Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
--Sun Tzu (fl. c. BC 500)
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.
--Croesus of Lydia
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
--Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977)
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
--H. L. Mencken
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
--Albert Einstein
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
--Malcolm S. Forbes
I can endure my own despair but not another's hope.
--William Walsh, Song
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
--Ovid, Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
--Dale Carnegie
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
--Chinese Proverb
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
--Corazon Aquino
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.
--Alvin Toffler
If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
--Lee Iacocca
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
--Robert P. Vanderpoel
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
--Lao-Tzu
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
--Isaac Newton
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
--Martin Luther
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
--Hannah More
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. . ..
--Isaac Asimov
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
--Isaac Asimov
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
--Albert Einstein, "Autobiographical Notes"
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
--Jassamyn West
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
--Henry David Thoreau in Walden, "Economy"
"Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .
--Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance
Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other.
--Baha'u'llah
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
--David Russell
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
--George F. Will
Oppression can only survive through silence.
--Carmen de Monteflores
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
--Aldous Huxley
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
--Helen Keller
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
--Jane Austen
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
--Shunryu Suzuki
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
--Henry Ward Beecher
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
--Theodore Roosevelt, "Man in the Arena" Speech given April 23, 1910
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
--Richard Byrd
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
--Richard Byrd
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
--E. V. Lucas
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
--Edmund Hillary
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.
--Doug Larson
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
--Albert Einstein (1897-1955)
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination.
--Ruth Ross
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.
--Marilyn Vos Savant
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
--B. C. Forbes
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
--Lillian Dickson
Never underestimate the power of the irate customer.
--Joel E. Ross
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
--Roy L. Smith
...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
--John Milton
Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.
--Peter Drucker
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
--Jean-Paul Sartre
Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it [Denmark] is a prison.
--Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
--Nicholas Boileau (1636-1711)
He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.
--Klopstock
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
--Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
--Whitney M. Young, Jr. (1921-1971)
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
--Confucius
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
--George Santayana
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
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
--Anais Nin
Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
--Gore Vidal
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
--Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
--Niettzche, The Twilight of the Idols (1888).
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
--Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Dancing Men"
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
--De La Rochefoucauld.
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
--Richard Bach
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
-- Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
--Joseph Addison
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
--Chinese proverb
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
--Patrick Henry
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
--Chinese proverb
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
-- Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
--William James
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
--Herman Melville
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
--Aristophanes
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
--John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
--Dean Koontz
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
--Karl Menninger
You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
--Barbara Bush
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
--Dale Carnegie
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
--Diogenes
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
--Balthasar Gracian
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
--Assyrian Proverb
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
--Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm.
--Bruce Barton
Beware the fury of a patient man.
--John Dryden (1631-1700)
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
--Antonio Porchia, Voces
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
--Indira Gandhi
There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey.
--John Ruskin
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
--Dag Hammarskjold
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
--Henry Kissinger
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
--Maya Angelou
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
--Albert Pike (1809-1891)
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
--Will Rogers
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
--Arnold Toynbee
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
--George Eliot
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
--Thomas Jefferson
He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
--The Talmud
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
--Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
--Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.
--Edith Hamilton (1867-1963)
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
--Edith Hamilton (1867-1963)
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
--Napoleon I (1769-1821)
Imagination rules the world.
--Napoleon I (1769-1821)
There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
--Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
--Napoleon I (1769-1821)
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.
--Jean de LaBruyere (1645-1696)
A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
--Bill Cosby
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
--George Eliot (1819-1880)
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
--Peter Mere Latham
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
--Stephen Covey
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
--Schiller (1759-1805)
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
--Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560), Sonnet de Regrets
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
--Edgar Allan Poe
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
--Aristotle
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
--Izaak Walton
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895)
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
--Thomas Carlyle
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
--Laura Ingalls Wilder
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
--Richard Feynman
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
--Calvin Coolidge
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
--Bernard Baruch
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
--Thomas Fuller
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
--Samuel Johnson
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
--Voltaire
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
--John, Lord Morley (1838-1923)
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
--Hippocrates
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
--Queen Victoria in a letter to King Leopold of Belgium, April 4, 1848
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
--Horace Mann (1796-1859)
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
--Seymore Cray, on virtual memory
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
--Scott Adams
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
--Friedrich Nietzche
The first duty of love is to listen.
--Paul Tillich
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
--Paul Tillich
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
--Ray Bradbury
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
--Hannah Arendt
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.
--George Bernard Shaw
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.
--Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
--Henri Louis Bergson (1859-1941)
Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy,
and you will intensify its ecstasy.
--Author Unknown
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to
live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are
here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
--Woodrow Wilson
The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be
his boss.
--Diane Ravitch, quoted in "Quotable
Business," by Louis E. Boone
Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better
idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far,
the universe is winning.
--Unknown
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.
--Henry Louis Mencken
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
What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.
--Edgar Z. Friedenberg
The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem
really is.
--Unknown
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in
kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest
word of all--look.
--Robert Fulghum
Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found
them.
--Robert Fulghum
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
--Rodin
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to
reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
--Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream"
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side
with the powerful, not to be neutral.
--Paulo Freire
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
--George Orwell
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are
properly their business.
--Paul Valéry
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
--Seneca, 65 AD
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore
them like wise men?
--Natalie Clifford Barney
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that
a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
--Henry Ford
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is
man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Orator
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing
institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed
by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the
removal of censorships.
--George Bernard Shaw
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is
what makes America what it is.
--Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of
America. . .
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
--Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they
would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still
more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another
way.
--Gurdjieff (1873-1949)
Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
--Robert Half
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
--Ovid
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
--Leonard Bernstein
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
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great
danger.
--Confucius
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your
ignorance.
--Confucius
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
--John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes
what we read ours.
--John Locke
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on
which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
--Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural
phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity
must lie in the phenomenon.
--Maria Montessori
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with
immobility and evil with activity.
--Maria Montessori
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined
only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a
paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
--Maria Montessori
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
--Maria Montessori
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement
rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard,
think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages,
with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in
a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is
to be my symphony.
--William Henry Channing
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
--Unknown
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all
the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
--Unknown
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
--George Hyman Rickover
The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their
reputation from storms and tempests.
--Epicures (BC 341-270)
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
--Seneca (BC 3-65 AD)
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has
pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be
without toil.
--Epictetus (50-138 AD)
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
--August Hare (1792-1834)
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits
of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
--Igor Stravinsky
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all
yourself.
--Alfred Sheinwold
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are
necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're
necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
--Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
--Dan Stanford
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
--Abraham Lincoln
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life
unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything
we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful,
evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every
moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
--Henry Miller
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if
you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much
worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we
actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and
unfairness of the universe.
--Marcus, Babylon 5
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
--Oscar Wilde
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to
reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
--Cervantes, The Impossible Dream
Take Nothing but Pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
--Motto of the Baltimore Grotto (caving
society)
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
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly
administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if
improperly administered.
--Lyndon Johnson
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.
--Van Gogh
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
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot
understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but
honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
--Albert Einstein
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces
are all in confederacy against him.
--Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than
death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is
merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks
into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of
the world, and the chief glory of man.
--Bertrand Russell
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
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and
Stars, 1939
...[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
--John Gillespie Magee, Jr., High Flight
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to
what he might have done.
--Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life, 1770
The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
--John Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10,
1790
You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
--Goethe
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and science.
--Albert Einstein
If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.
--Unknown
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
--Margaret Lee Runbeck
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
Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems.
--Michael J. Tucker
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other
things do.
--Willa Cather
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I
will fight no more forever.
--Chief Joseph on his surrender to Gen. Howard,
October 5, 1877
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
--Robert Byrne
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in
the name of justice.
--Montesquieu, 1742
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
--Baltasar Gracian
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
--Alfred Adler
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
--Galileo Galilei
I am not young enough to know everything.
--Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
--Thomas Jefferson
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
--P. J. O'Rourke
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
--General George Catlett Marshall
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of
his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
--Froude
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
--General Douglas MacArthur
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
--Abraham Lincoln
Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.
--Anonymous
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
--Anonymous
The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
--Unknown
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
--Unknown
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
--Unknown
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
--Unknown
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
--Unknown
All good things are wild, and free.
--Henry David Thoreau
You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The most important things in life aren't things.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you talk the talk, you damn well better walk the walk.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live
longer.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
--Thomas Neil
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
--Jane Wagner
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
--Somerset Maugham
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
--Jane Wagner
Where facts are few, experts are many.
--Donald R. Gannon
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
--Jerome Blattner
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
--Terry Cohen
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got
it.
--George Bernard Shaw
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
--T. H. Huxley
Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten
minutes from now?
--Arnot L. Sheppard, Jr.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
--Seneca
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
--Horace
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
--Ken Hakuta
Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now.
--Barry Forbes
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human
qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous
and dynamic faith.
--John Foster Dulles
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow
within.
--Dave Winer
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
--Don Marquis
A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
--George Moore
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of
the human race. That's bad enough for me.
--Mark Twain
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
--Bernard Berenson
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
--Anatole France
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer
"Present" or "Not Guilty."
--Theodore Roosevelt
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and
marriages happy.
--Phyllis McGinley
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
--Zachary Scott
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
--Charles Buxton
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the
facts than to change the preconceptions.
--Jessamyn West
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
--Wilson Mizner
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have
infinite power against you.
--Charles Gordon
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
--Unknown
Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.
--Sarah Orne Jewett
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a
discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
--Henry L. Mencken
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
--Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
--Thomas Browne
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
--Confucius Analects
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
--Anais Nin
Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
--Lady Mary Wortley Montague
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
--Betty Bender
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
--Marie Curie
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
--Henry David Thoreau
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the
need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and
violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
--Martin Luther King, Jr., December 11, 1964
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand.
--Unknown
I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
--Javan
When I say beautiful things, I'm not necessarily living them; when I live them, the
beautiful thing is that words aren't necessary.
--Brock Tully
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!
--Derwood Fincher
In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
--Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
--Henry Brooks Adams
Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.
--Paul Duncun
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
--Gary Wills
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
--Emil Nolde
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is
overestimated.
--H. L. Mencken
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible
to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
--Jim Bishop
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
--W. Somerset Maugham
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And
they both take practice.
--Nora Roberts
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
--Unknown
'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
--Sir Hugh Walpole
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there
was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished
business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it
dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
--Fr. Alfred D'Souza
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
--M. Scott Peck
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
--John F. Kennedy
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
--Greville
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a
great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by
a prospect of interest, or some reward.
--George Washington
The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the
train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.
--Robert Benchley
If you don't control your mind, someone else will.
--John Allston
When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses.
--Anonymous
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
--Edward de Bono
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
--Henry Kissinger
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
--Groucho Marx
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find
it not.
--Emerson
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have
already done.
--Longfellow
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
--Thomas Edison
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
--Danny Kaye
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to
break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
--Stewart B. Johnson
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by
conflict.
--William Ellery Channing
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life
unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything
we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful,
evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every
moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
--Henry Miller
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way.
Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
--The Dhammapada (c. BC 300)
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
--Christina Georgina Rossetti
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the
comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
--John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28
July 1989)
Let the world go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch
has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war,
disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to
witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always
been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much
--John Wayne
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no
gains without pains.
--Adlai Stevenson
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever
reason, turn his back on life.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he
already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
--Johann Goethe
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a
brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper
function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong
them. I shall use my time.
--Jack London, Jack London's Tales of Adventure
We... anticipate what's to come, then ignore what's actually here.
--Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD, Timeshifting
(1996)
Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you
cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel
all you are beyond the pain.
--Bartholomew
Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here,
you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function
of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the place to have the
experience.
--Joseph Campbell
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
--Sam Rayburn (1882-1961), Lawrence Daily
Journal-World
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting
discoveries.
--A. A. Milne
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
--Russian proverb
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
--Plato (BC 427?-347?)
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the
discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the
sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another
error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
--H. L. Mencken
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance
even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and
consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
--Shelley
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
--Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
--Robert Burton
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
--Albert Einstein
Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of
discipline, and as much valor.
--Major General Sir William Napier, Peninsular
War [1810]
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim
Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame,
Obtained with labor, for mankind employed,
And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
--Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement
for, critical thinking.
--Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality
Progress [August 1996]
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon
the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
--Alexander Graham Bell
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of
fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
--Albert Einstein
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
--Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
--Albert Einstein
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
--Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of
the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a
little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
--Albert Einstein
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
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 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
us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
--Albert Einstein
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for
recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school
demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
--Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the
main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in
work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the
community.
--Albert Einstein, On Education
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
--Albert Einstein
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are
goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to
me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
--Albert Einstein
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their
lives.
--Robert M. Hutchins
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
--Emerson
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
--Wilson Mizner
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather
to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory
with thoughts of other men.
--Bill Beattie
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind
is our fundamental resource.
--John F. Kennedy
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking
questions.
--Bishop Creighton
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the
use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
--Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
--George Eliot
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated
philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
--Dalai Lama
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If
you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high
to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.
--Author Unknown
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
--Ralph Waldo Trine
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the
clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment
where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except
where they can be found--in himself.
--Erich Frohm
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
--Pythagoras (BC 582-507)
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
--Longfellow (1819-1892)
A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from
being right about it.
--Unknown
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve
them.
--Mark Twain
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
--Mark Twain
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves.
Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy
struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to
your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of
the universe.
--Daisaku Ikeda
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as
if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
--Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)
We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.
--Mickey Rivers
We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.
--Ed Vargo, major league baseball umpire
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front
page has nothing but man's failures.
--Chief Justice Earl Warren
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they
must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the
passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of
any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is
stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.
--Eric Lustbader, The Kaisho
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
--Garth Henrichs
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and
beginning all over again.
--Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse (1891)
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the
technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our
material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer
waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic
engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.
--Ernest K. Gann, The Black Watch
Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It
is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark
water of that silver shell we call the moon.
--Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
--Eden Philpotts
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
--Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of
Virginia
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is
so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our
adversaries in today's world do not have.
--Ronald Reagan
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. To map out a course of action and follow it to an
end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but
it takes brave men and women to win them.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These
qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
--Vince Lombardi
It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his
own feet. All collective identities... interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such
collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy,
nurseries for the irresponsible....
--C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of
speech.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new
distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King
Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
--Herman Melville, Moby Dick
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
--Hemingway
If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
--Sun-Tzu, The Art of War
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
--Samuel Johnson
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
--H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best
instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
--Philip Dormer Chesterfield (1694-1773)
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
--William Faulkner
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
--Al Capp (1909-1979)
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in
governmental action.
--Louis D. Brandeis
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that
we loathe.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
--Bertrand Russell
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power
to repay it.
--Benjamin Franklin
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
--Robert South
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
--Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.
--La Rochefoucauld
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the
good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the
genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
--Johnson (1709-1784)
If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and
give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some
of your evil deeds.
--Koran (c. 651 AD)
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of
them all--the apathy of human beings.
--Helen Keller
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how
they shall think.
--Arthur Shopenhauer
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular
color, but the candle is always there.
--Mohammed Neguib
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not
to trust.
--Samuel Johnson
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
--Malcolm X
Not to be cheered by praise,
Not to be grieved by blame,
But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers
Are the characteristics of an excellent man.
--Saskya Pandita (1182-1251)
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.
--Ernst F. Schumacher
The will to do, the soul to dare.
--Sir Walter Scott
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
--Christopher Morley
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense
to all our life.
--Daniel Boorstin
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the
strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is
elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and
arduous quest after Truth.
--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person
who does not know how to learn.
--Alvin Toffler
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and
use your own intelligence and judgment.
--Alvin Toffler
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature,
reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them;
experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
--Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments
exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses
are not common.
--Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless
extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
--Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does
not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.
--Gerald W. Johnston
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to
appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
--W. Edwards Deming
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
--Fred Dehner
Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process.
--Arnold Horshak
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and
tyrants.
--Thomas Jefferson
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
--Anne Swetchine (1782-1857)
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 (1584-1645)
Necessity never made a good bargain.
--Benjamin Franklin
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the
possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any
authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
--Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
--T. S. Eliot
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
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations
together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme
to accomplish exactly that same end.
--H. L. Mencken (1928)
Virtues are acquired through endeavor,
Which rests wholly upon yourself.
So, to praise others for their virtues
Can but encourage one's own efforts.
--Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 AD)
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is
to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
--Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
--Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American
and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
--Teddy Roosevelt
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
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free
people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its
methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of
art.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And
there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
--Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense
(1946)
The mind has a thousand eyes.
And the heart but one;
Yet the life of a whole life dies
When love is done.
--Francis William Bourdillon
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you
are doing, you will be successful.
--Herman Cain
Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his
opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international
affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right
solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to
get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.
--Linus Pauling, No More War!
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who
think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to
get caught.
--J. C. Watts
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not
ridiculous.
--Thornton Wilder
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the
blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but
within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it
must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life
lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because
if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no
answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making
your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
--Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
--Francois de la Rochefoucauld
When we honestly ask ourselves which person 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, Out of Solitude
What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty,
sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent
expression prompted not by hope but by trust.
--Vicomte de Valmont, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or
loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
--Unknown
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows
like a shadow that never leaves.
--Buddha, The Dharmapada
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a
lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside
yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no
external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the
Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
--Buddha
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and
become blind to the arguments against it.
--George Bernard Shaw
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies
are the intelligent and corrupt.
Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)
Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.
--John Dykes
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
--Hazlitt (1778-1830)
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
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present
contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
--Alfred North Whitehead
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
--Winston Churchill
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
--Leonard I. Sweet
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
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the
storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
--Heinrich Heine
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
--James Baldwin
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
--Heinrich Heine
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 day's work like a happy child at play.
--Albert Einstein (referring to America)
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved
something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
--Charles Sorenson
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
--Abraham Lincoln
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation;
every possession a duty.
--John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
--Harold Geneen, Founder, MCI Communications
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not
been.
--Henry Kissinger
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
--Ray Kroc, Founder, McDonald's
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou
canst not then be false to any man.
--Shakespeare, Hamlet
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
--Henry Ford
It is easier to be critical than correct.
--Benjamin Disraeli
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
--Seneca
Procrastination is the thief of time.
--Edward Young
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
--Italian Proverb
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
--Miguel de Cervantes
What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.
--Isadora Duncan
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
--Henry Ward Beecher
A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the
very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
--Marjorie Holmes
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of
good.
--John Locke (1632-1704)
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times
Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower
that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in
mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.
--Kabbalah (BC 1200?-700? AD)
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times
Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human
ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
--Edgar Allen Poe, The Gold Bug
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
--John Ruskin
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, New York Times
Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb
and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
--Robert Burton (1576-1640)
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when
you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes.
Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is
to be on the highest mountain.
--Richard M. Nixon
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 M. Nixon
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times
Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times
Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of
a man's thinking or his writing.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times
Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
--Richard Feynman
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one
another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of
harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
--Buddha
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which
there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
--Auguste Rodin
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.
--Auguste Rodin
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
--Auguste Rodin
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the
rational apprehension of things temporal.
--Saint Augustine
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you
are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep
walking, keep advancing.
--Saint Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
--Saint Augustine
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks
of the reasons for his action.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
A theory must be tempered with reality.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
--John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
--Thomas Hood
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
--Origen
By doubting we come at truth.
--Cicero
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
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
--Lloyd George
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
--Leonardo DaVinci (maybe)
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
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
--Joseph Addison
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the
options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We
must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about
"unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and
action becomes mindless.
--James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that
he is possessed by his fantasy.
--Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination
(1950)
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep
places of the imagination.
--Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination
(1950)
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the
hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so
plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist
under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is
true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really
rotten to the core.
--Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (1963)
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the
finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer
knowing.
--Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior
(1951)
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt
that they are right.
--Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the
Kalahari (1958)
My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the
present because that is where life resides.
--Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is
why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that
which kills.
--Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears.
--Gene Oliver
Every path serves a purpose.
--Gene Oliver
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, The Second Sex (1950)
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
--Adlai Stevenson, speech, October 3, 1952
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on
terms they can afford to pay.
--Millard Fuller, founder and president,
Habitat for Humanity International
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a
star does not change his mind.
--Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities
that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
--Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love
(1963)
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
--Euripides, Orestes (408 BC)
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with
unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would
be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other
familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there
is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy.
Conquest of illiteracy comes first.
--John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society
(1958)
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20,
1961
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim
high in hope and work.
--Daniel H. Burnham
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
--Proverbs 29:18
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It
is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us
to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's
wounds.
--Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address,
Mar. 4, 1865
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good
qualities in action.
--Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism.
Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled
white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an
abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit.
You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.
--Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
--James 2:10
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, The Need for Roots (1949)
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, former British ambassador to
the United States
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in
love is undisguisable.
--John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
(1978)
Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are
homesick all the time. . . You don't really long for another country. You long for
something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
--John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
(1978)
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
--Jean Toomer
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage,
we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful,
generous, or honest.
--Maya Angelou
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
--Thucydides
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
--Henry David Thoreau
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
--William Shakespeare
Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests,
but also the interests of others.
--Peter Farquharson
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
--Henry Boye
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
--Barbara Johnson, The Joy Journal
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
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must
respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live
together not as nations, but as the human race.
--Clarence Jordan
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and
enduring and accomplishing.
--George Sheehan
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
--Will Smith
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he
will become what he should be.
--Jimmy Johnson
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by
the many acts of the small.
--Mark Yost
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the
incomprehensible.
--Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes (1969)
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the
aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because
someday you will have been all of these.
--George Washington Carver
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will
never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better,
whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
--Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death
(1960)
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, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine
yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or
might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be
otherwise.
--Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
--Margaret Fuller
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender
is mutual.
--Otavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
--Mark Twain
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
--Socrates
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
--Matsuo Basho
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
--Gail Sheehy
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts.
It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and
appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
--Thomas Hughes
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
--Mark Twain
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, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than
our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days
governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
--P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores (1991)
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
--Oscar Wilde
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge
concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
--P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores (1991)
The past is but the past of a beginning.
--H. G. Wells
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world,
you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody
believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something,
use that something to support their own existence.
--Frank Zappa
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you
have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
--Clint Eastwood
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other
people's lives.
--Clint Eastwood
Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics are, like God's
infinite mercy, a last resort.
--P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores (1991)
When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
--Dolly Parton
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
--Jack Nicklaus
Focus on remedies, not faults.
--Jack Nicklaus
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone
gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
--Susan Taylor
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage
their growth.
--Susan Taylor
Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
--Susan Taylor
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
--Susan Taylor
Genius is talent provided with ideals.
--William Somerset Maugham
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
--Pablo Picasso
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 S. Burroughs
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you
sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
--William Makepeace Thackeray
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the
idea first occurs.
--William Osler
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all
reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are
dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
--Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will
to succeed.
--Edwin Whipple
Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams
come true.
--Lester R. Bittel, The Nine Master Keys of
Management
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us
to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's
wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among
ourselves, and with all nations.
--Abraham Lincoln
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
--Marvin Gaye
Within the problem lies the solution
--Milton Katselas
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national
life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask
ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When
you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
--J. P. Donleavy
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human
attribute.
--John P. Grier
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
--Harold Geneen
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a
pejorative sense to identify this limitation.
--Myron Tribus
What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every
team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual
competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a
win-win basis.
--W. Edwards Deming
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
--Robert Pirsig
He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great.
--Herman Melville
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
--Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Continual improvement is an unending journey.
--Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason,
Thinking About Quality
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
--Lillian Hellman
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must
always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system
must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The
aim is a value judgment.
--W. Edwards Deming
It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all
work together.
--Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason,
Thinking About Quality
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather
than their behavior taken separately.
--Russell L. Ackoff
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at
when we created them.
--Albert Einstein
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession
is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their
ability to work together.
--Robert Reich
The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
--Ecclesiastes 9:11
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
--Wilbur Wright
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares.
--Hebrews 13:2
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
--Hiram Johnson
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.
--Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason,
Thinking About Quality
The more opinions you have, the less you see.
--Wim Wenders
If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system.
--Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason,
Thinking About Quality
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more
collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
--Robert Reich
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
--Daniel J. Boorstin
The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the
strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done
something as well as you can do it.
--Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason,
Thinking About Quality
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis.
Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.
But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem
to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
--Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the
repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.
--Isaiah 58:12
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of
every successful nation in the world.
--Frederick Chiluba
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as
never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.
--Eduard Sagalaev
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
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed,
but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
--Dominique de Menil
Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term
problems will remain fundamental long-term problems.
--UNICEF, "The State of the World's
Children" (1995)
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
--Thomas Edison
Happy is he who can give himself up.
--Naguib Mahfouz
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
I gotta be me.
--Sammy Davis, Jr.
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are
in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
--Eddie Myers
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
--Edmund Everett Hale
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but
it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with
kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you
will feel better about yourself.
--Robert Solow
There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice
is to take it or keep on moving.
--Phylicia Rashad
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the
passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the
possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
--Sřren Kierkegaard
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of
looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if
you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.
--Claude Roy
To fly we have to have resistance.
--Maya Lin
You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.
--Stephen W. Comiskey
Whatever you want to do, do it know. There are only so many tomorrows.
--Michael Landon
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long
stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity
to perform at our best.
--Michael Johnson
None of us is as smart as all of us.
--Phil Condit
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes.
--John Ruskin
The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
--Alexandra Stoddard, Gracious Living in a New
World
We can spend our whole lives underachieving.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
The great discoveries are usually obvious.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes
dramatically.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated.
--Brenda Hammond
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to
people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired
of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
--Brenda Ueland
A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Quality has to be caused, not controlled.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.
--W. Kelly Griffith
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
--Samuel Johnson
Quality has to be caused, not controlled.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
--George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today
will not exist in this form tomorrow.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is
not.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
--Honore de Balzac
Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
--Proverbs 25:15
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
--Peter Marshall
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate
persistence.
-- Unknown
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
--Dorothy Law Nolte
If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand
--Confucius
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. .
. . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
--Rudyard Kipling, "If"
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international
reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
--George Bernard Shaw
The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free
from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
--Marya Mannes
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of
our lives.
--Charles William Dement
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself
in the ranks of the insane.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and
idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those
whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also
rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
--Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and
the wishbone that go with it.
--Elaine Agather
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a
matter of time.
--Marabel Morgan, The Electric Woman
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
--Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.
--David W. Johnson
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. . . get on your way.
--Dr. Seuss
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes,
tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as
"nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated
computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."
--Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
--Robert South
I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
--General Curtis Le May
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely
mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.
--J. B. S. Haldane
When it's all over, it's not who you were. . . it's whether you made a difference.
--Bob Dole
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces
those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
--Thich Nhat Hanh
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have
allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
--Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love
is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.
--Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds,"
free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful
hearts.
--Joan Borysenko, A Woman's Book of Life
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and
philosophers and divines.
--R.W. Emerson, Self-Reliance
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants,
and so saves societies.
--Colton
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
--Samuel Johnson
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
--Aristotle
Great wits are sure to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
--Dryden
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
--Seneca
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
--Karl Kraus
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or
irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency,
and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which
dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
--Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to
make it worth the effort.
--Herm Albright
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude
determines how well you do it.
--Lou Holtz
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
--William Bennett
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
--Nathaniel Emmons
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for
humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel
nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
--Richard Dawkins
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by
altering his attitude.
--William James
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
--Mark Twain
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental
institution of the universe.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
--Mark Twain
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
--Nathaniel Emmons
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day
of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful
which God has implanted in the human soul.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
--Samuel Ullman
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is
that we shall do nothing.
--Adolph Monod
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
--Hannah Moore
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
--Madame Swetchine
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
--Rabindranath Tagore
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.
--Fitzgerald
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
--Aristophanes
I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.
--Chinese proverb
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive
results.
--Willie Nelson
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
--Benjamin Spock
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
--Golda Meir
I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
--Winston Churchill
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
--Dante Alighieri
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch
its coat-tails.
--Clarence Darrow
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man
rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
--Clarence Darrow
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
--Charles de Gaulle
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
--Charles de Gaulle
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
--D. H. Lawrence
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
You have to believe that the universe will provide.
--Steve Crosby
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
--Maurice Baring
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
--Alfred Hitchcock
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is
something seriously wrong somewhere.
--John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also
believe.
--Anatole France
When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can
understand the other fellow's side.
--Francis Cardinal Spellman
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
--Margaret Thatcher
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make
it again.
--F. P. Jones
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
--Unknown
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
--Nick Diamos
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way.
Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
--Buddha, The Dharmapada
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it
was conveyed.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
--Peter Drucker
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
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on
what you think.
--Dale Carnegie
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they
say when you lose.
--Lou Holtz
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because
it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
--Alexander Hamilton
A witty saying proves nothing.
--Voltaire
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
--Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose
opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
--Robert Hall
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
--Homer
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing
sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all
-- friends?
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a
man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through
loving words, that is friendship.
--Henry Ward Beecher
It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
--Epicurus
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the
trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is
there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on
the back.
--Edgar Lee Masters
Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent
does what it can.
--E. R. Bulwer-Lytton, Last Words (1860)
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to
the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style
of its architecture from within.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature
(1841)
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with
skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story
men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their
own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from
above through the skylight.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright
ideas closer together.
--George Lichtenberg
Man has responsibility, not power.
--Tuscarora proverb
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
--Bill Cosby
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own
minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to
be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or
others.
--Hazlitt
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
--Alexander Graham Bell
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
--Kahlil Gibian
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
--Samuel Johnson
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and
that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day
to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
--Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Whatever you are, be a good one.
--Abraham Lincoln
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the
end.
--Ursula K. LeGuin
You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.
--Joe E. Lewis
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
--Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
--Theodore Roosevelt
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal
to our present?
--Confucius, Analects
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
--Leo Buscaglia
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not
some reason to fear I may be wrong?
--Jane Austen
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not
enjoy it any more than is good for us.
--Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to
be great.
--Alexis de Tocqueville
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man
when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing --
where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do
something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
--Phillips Brooks
Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
--Frank Crane
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
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've
got an audience.
--Diogenes
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or
any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness
to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or
continue bleeding for all to see.
--Frank Herbert
It's easy to get lost in thought if it's not familiar territory to you.
--Unknown
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.
--Unknown
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
--Peter Drucker
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
--Oscar Wilde
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to
me? And why should I not speak to you?
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to
do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to
exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should
weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.
--Lao-Tzu
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the
scales.
--Byron J. Langenfeld
Rise above principal and do what's right.
--Joseph Heller
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
--Sigmund Freud
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme,
but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what
they say about their opponents.
--Robert Kennedy
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
--Harry S Truman
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before
was wrong.
--Bill Vaughn
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
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have
become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people
who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from
accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
--Srully Blotnick
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
--George Sand
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make
money nor find much fun in life.
--Charles Schwab
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness
which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
--Napoleon Hill
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations.
. . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be
an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
--Jimmy Carter
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have
much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we
already do.
--James Harvey Robinson
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain
around us.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.
--Anonymous
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the
impossible.
--Anonymous
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness
in giving creates love.
--Lao-Tzu
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a
goal comparable with sanctity.
--George Sarton, History of Science
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
--James Taylor
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between
lightning and a lightning bug.
--Mark Twain
A witty saying proves nothing.
--Voltaire
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world.
--Mata Hari
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have
necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
--Jacob Bigelow
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
--Martha Graham
There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin -- I will
die in the last ditch.
--William Of Orange
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in
particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
--Henry James
Nothing is more useful than silence.
--Menander
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that
his place will be proud of him.
--Abraham Lincoln
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
--Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
--William Shakespeare
The impossible is often the untried.
--Jim Goodwin
Man is the cruelest animal.
--F. Nietzsche
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
--Ann Douglas
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find
the future has run out on us.
--Michael Cibenko
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
--David Eddings, King of the Murgos
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent
of the time you haven't.
--Peter F. Drucker
While it's important to win, it's imperative to compete.
--David Weinbaum
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
--Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
--Sam Ewing
The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.
--Lao-Tzu
Action is the antidote to despair.
--Joan Baez
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
--Ansel Adams
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations
and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
--Mark Twain
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than
criticize.
--Elizabeth Harrison
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man
when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing --
where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do
something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
--Phillips Brooks
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
--T. S. Eliot
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
--George S. Patton
Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two
small steps.
--David Lloyd George
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
--Pierre Corneille
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a
winning game.
--Goethe
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
--Jawaharlal Nehru
In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
--Sheldon Kopp
Fortune favors the bold.
--Virgil
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more
important than fear.
--Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
--Eddie Rickenbacher
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
--William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory
and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
--Thucydides
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
Accept life, and you must accept regret.
--Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1856)
Live dangerously and you live right.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806)
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
--George Bernard Shaw
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first
base.
-- Frederick Wilcox
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
--Beverly Sills
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of
them.
--John Ruskin
Saving love doesn't bring any interest.
--Mae West
The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.
--Arthur Powell Davies
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to
love, something to do, and something to hope for.
--Tom Bodett
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
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
--Alexander Penney
Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.
--Heraclitus of Ephesus
I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the
world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and
the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
--Henry Ford
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the
fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
You don't have to be noisy to be effective.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Successful people breed success.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred
battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also
suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every
battle.
--Sun-Tzu
There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what
is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one.
--Swahili proverb
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but
impossible to enslave.
--Henry Peter Brougham
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
--Sun-Tzu
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his
manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is
absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is
perfection, which all should aim at.
--Oscar Wilde
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
--James B. Conant
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
--William Shakespeare, Hamlet
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
--Seneca, Epistles
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the
person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive
yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right
attitude toward others.
--Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
--Abraham Lincoln
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
--Nelson Boswell
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The
trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think,
because thinking is such hard work.
--Thomas J. Watson
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
--M. C. Escher
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness
which links us with all humanity.
--Nancy Astor
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.
--Nancy Astor
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
--Honore de Balzac
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
--Alexander Pope
Courage is one step ahead of fear.
--Coleman Young
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires
no one.
--Mary Kay Ash
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
--William A. Ward
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.
--L. A. Safian
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
--Plutarch
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose
romanticism or politics.
--Charles Bukowski
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
--Charles F. Kettering
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so
constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
--Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
--Jess Lair
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in
letting go of them.
--John Seely Brown, Fast Company
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all,
endurance.
--James Baldwin
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
--Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are
traveling for.
--Louis L'Amour, Ride the Dark Trail
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
--Henry Ward Beecher
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
--Carl Sandburg
To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess.
--Glenn Holm
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
--Herman Wouk
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and
strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their
time comes.
--John Ruskin
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
--Tennessee Williams
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is
indispensable.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have
ceased to live.
--Mark Twain
The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings.
--The Buddha
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that
surrounds us.
--Henri Matisse
There is no substitute for victory.
--Douglas MacArthur
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any
burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and
success of liberty.
--John F. Kennedy
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise
counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
--Joseph Addison
An idea is salvation by imagination.
--Frank Lloyd Wright
I prepared excitedly for my departure, as if this journey had a mysterious significance. I
had decided to change my mode of life. "'til now," I told myself, "you have
only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the
substance."
--Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is
achieved.
--Anne Sullivan
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your
own self.
--Aldous Huxley
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the
ball.
--Billie Jean King
If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in
the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis.
Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
--Edward Hodnett
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they
oppose.
--J. S. Habgood
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness
from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
--Kahlil Gibron
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
--John Galsworthy
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
--John, Lord Morley
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
--Harold Nicolson
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
--T. S. Eliot
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most
perfectly alive.
--David H. Lawrence
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
--John M. Keynes
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
--William Rose Benet
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
--Don Marquis
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
--Stanislaus J. Lec
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
--George Jean Nathan
Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?
--Edwin A. Robinson
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
--Dolores Ibarruri
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace,
privacy, for everyone.
--William F. Claire
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.
--Clare Boothe Luce
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our
technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
--Omar Bradley
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
--Boake Carter
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they
forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
--Carl Sandburg
If a thing goes without saying -- let it.
--Jacob Braude, Treasury of Wit & Humor For
All Occasions
There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
--H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure.
--Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that
you can.
--Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
--Meryl Streep
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is
in our lives.
--C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.
--Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby, Procrastinator's
Success Kit
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which
once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you
known.
--Garrison Keillor
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and
then remembering again.
--John Gray, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From
Venus
Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.
--James Webb
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among
the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the
group will achieve its goals.
--Rensis Likert
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
--Dogen
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Always do what you are afraid to do.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
--Errol Flynn
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
--Henry Ford
I am responsible only to God and history.
--Francisco Franco
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when
it begins to rain.
--Robert Frost
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
--Benjamin Franklin
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
--Erich Fromm
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
--Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
--Robert Frost
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
--Athol Fugard
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your
life that counts.
--Millard Fuller
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.
--Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality