Accident: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better All easy problems have already been solved All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right Always borrow money from a pessimist; they don't expect to be paid back Always try to do things in chronogical order; it's less confusing that way Anarchy may not be the best form of government, but it's better than no government at all An armed society is a pite society An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy Anyone can count the seeds in an apple No one can count the apples in a seed Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw Artificial Intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in movies Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity As a general rule, the freedom of any people can be judged by the volume of their laughter As of 1992, they're called European Economic Community fries Be kind to unkind people they need it the most A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours Bumper sticker: Auntie Em: Hate you, hate Kansas, taking dog Business is like a wheelbarrow Nothing ever happens until you start pushing Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage Computers are not intelligent They only think they are Condense soup, not books! Conscious is when you are aware of something, and conscience is when you wish you weren't Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research A day without sunshine is like night Democracy is mob rule, but with income taxes Do not flow where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail Don't have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing Eschew obfuscation Every revolutionary idea in science, politics, art, or whatever evokes three stages of reaction in a hearer: It is completely impossible don't waste my time It is possible, but it is not worth doing I said it was a good idea all along Every time history repeats itself the price goes up A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother The goal of science is to build better mousetraps The goal of nature is to build better mice Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier The greatest threat towards future is indifference Half of the people in the world are below average He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit The high cost of living hasn't affected its popularity Hindsight is an exact science Horses just naturally have mohawk haircuts How can you tell when sour cream goes bad? The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity The rest is overhead for the operating system The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail If I ever needed a brain transplant, I'd choose a teenager's because I'd want a brain that had never been used If the car industry behaved like the computer industry over the last 30 years, a Rolls-Royce would cost $5, get 300 miles per gallon, and blow up once a year killing all passengers inside If God wanted me to touch my toes, he'd have put them on my knees If the hours are long enough and the pay is short enough, someone will say it's women's work If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? If the odds are a million to one against something occuring, chances are 50-50 it will If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system If you hear an onion ring, answer it If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the precipitate I have often regretted my speech, never my silence In a survey taken several years ago, all incoming freshman at MIT were asked if they expected to graduate in the top half of their class Ninety-seven percent responded that they did Include the success of others in your dreams for your own success In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice .In practice, however, there is Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to I still miss my ex-wife, but my aim is getting better It may be that your whe purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it It's hard to make a program foolproof because fools are so ingenious Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet Life would be so much easier if everyone read the manual The light at the end of the tunnel is usually a "No Exit" sign Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone Madness takes its toll Please have exact change A metaphor is like a simile Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell Nearly everyone is in favor of going to heaven but too many are hoping they'll live long enough to see an easing of the entrance requirements Never appeal to a man's better nature .He might not have one Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from 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 No man knows what true happiness is until he gets married By then, of course, its too late The number you have dialed is imaginary Please divide by 0 and try again Objects in mirror are closer than they appear Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most One essential to success is that you desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you are in the bathroom People seldom know what they want until you give them what they ask for People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues The philosophy exam was a piece of cake which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives Q: How do you spell "onomatopoeia"? A: The way it sounds Q: What do you get when you cross an ethernet with an income statement? A: A local area networth Quantum particles: The dreams that stuff is made of A rolling stone gathers momentum Roses are red Violets are blue Some poems rhyme Some people march to the beat of a different drummer And some people tango! Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma The speed of time is one second per second A Stanford research group advertised for participants in a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder They were looking for therapy clients who had been diagnosed with this disorder The response was gratifying; they got 3,000 responses about three days after the ad came out All from the same person Status quo Latin for the mess we're in Success in marriage is not so much finding the right person as it is being the right person Teenagers are people who express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike There are some strings They're just not attached There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone There's no future in time travel Thought for the day: What if there were no hypothetical situations? To be a winner, all you need to give is all you have Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow Too many people are ready to carry the stool when the piano needs to be moved Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins, you can't imagine the smell We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing When the tide of life turns against you And the current upsets your boat Don't waste tears on what might have been Just lie on your back and float What's the sound a name makes when it's dropped? What was sliced bread the greatest thing since? When all else fails, read the instructions When all is said and done, more is said than done Where would we be without rhetorical questions? While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does Why can you only have two doors on a chicken coop? If it had four it would be a chicken sedan Work 8 hours, sleep 8 hours; but not the same 8 hours Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what you've already covered You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely You can fool some of the people all of the time, and You can fool all of the people some of the time, but You can't fool mom You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days You don't have to worry about me I might have been born yesterday but I stayed up all night Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so Douglas Adams Comedy is tragedy plus time Carl Burnett Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education Chuang-Tzu It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data Arthur Conan Doyle Never judge a book by its movie J W Eagan A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming Jane Fonda Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined Samuel Goldwyn "As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow He could be plotting something Hagar the Horrible Last night I dreamed I had insomnia I woke up exhausted, yet too well rested to go back to sleep Bob Ingman The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper Thomas Jefferson Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics Fletcher Knebel Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful Ann Landers I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty Groucho Marx We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are Anais Nin Never fight an inanimate object P J O'Rourke Things are not always what they seem Phaedrus Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things Dan Quayle You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake Jeannette Rankin All life's answers are on TV Homer Simpson You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people Melissa Timberman School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you John Updike Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd Voltaire Expect nothing Live frugally on surprise Alice Walker All men think all men are mortal but themselves Edward Young The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity Zig Ziglar "i'm sorry i didn't mean to destroy the universe geoff made me do it" "I do NOT have a sense of humor! It says so in my 1000-line sig!" "We used to *dream* of getting two points for a bumper When I was a wee lad, to even get to a pinball machine one had to wake up at five in the morning, trudge ten miles each way through the industrial waste from our corrugated box outside the sausage factory to the pool hall, battle goons to even get to the pinball machine, and then you wouldn't even get points for hitting a bumper, just electric shocks" Ted Frank "Anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron, because I said so" Matt McIrvin "If the attempts at censorship continue, I will have no option but to shut down this newsgroup" V Nagarajan "I can't kill you, I have to be sick and demented and scary right now" Lisa Kellner "thou shalt not usurp kibo, lest thee become not allowed" "I want this group What do you think? Anyone who disagrees with me is a communist" "And under HappyNet, whenever rn says "End of newsgroup alt slack ", it'll rmgroup it for you" "And whenever sees your signature it'll rmgroup alt slack as well! "Take your sense of humor out of rec .org mensa" "People like Dan Gannon, Serdar Argic, and John Winston have consistently attempted to push their own private paranoid fantasies on the rest of us, denying us our Constitutional Right to our OWN, PRIVATE paranoid fantasies" "Moments of insight like the above are the abandoned single sneakers on the information superhighway" It's not denial I'm just very selective about what I accept as reality" "I'm not an insomniac I'm pursuing an alternative sleeping lifestyle" "I'm a closet discordian a pantry subgenius " Lisa Kellner "I'm not hurling abuse AT you, I'm hurling abuse WITH you!" "I don't like sex on the computer I mean, I keep falling off" Ted Frank "You have some intriguing ideas Have you considered naming yourself after a radioactive element?" Lewis Stiller "Fuck you and the prepositional phrase you rode in on" "time flies when you're having drinks" "Hell, I remember when Alex and his Droogs in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE were SCIENCE FICTION characters UNTHINKABLY VIOLENT and DEVOID OF VALUES Well, good Tony Burgess turns out to have been a SIMPERING OPTIMIST" Rev Ivan Stang "Eris is in my nipples!" wednesday "If Nenslo is indeed a neocheater who exists through dishonestly usurping the values of others, and those usurpations can be objectively identified, then Nenslo will eventually become permanently entrapped in Neo-Tech's inescapable ostracism matrix" nichas rich "Chad, you're reasoning is crisp and precise Your grasp of human psychology is cocksure and robust You've earned my lasting respect, and if you have any JPEGs of your butt that you could post, I'd be sincerely grateful" Joe Newman Courage is being scared to death and sading up anyways John Wayne It all comes down to you Joni Mitchell It all comes down to do Peter McWilliams Ideas are for action Aristotle Knowledge is nothing without action Nothing changes until you do something What you do will directly determine what you learn James A Belasco, Ralph C Stayer, Flight of the Buffalo Some reasons given for not doing something 1 We've been moving too fast We have to slow down and get this right 2 We could never afford to take this kind of risk 3 If we make a big push on this, people will think it is just another program 4 Many of our people will never accept this They will not want to change We have been hearing about what 'they' will or will not do for years We have never been able to find one they; in a company 'They' always seem to be in the next room, the next level, the next division, the next building, the bathroom 5 But we're a big company But we're a small company But we have a union But we don't have a union But we're a private company But we're a public company But the wind is blowing from the east and it's Tuesday James A Belasco, Ralph C Stayer, Flight of the Buffalo Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions All of life is an experiment How do you do? That's easy You do by learning And how do you learn? You learn by doing The more you learn, the more you can learn; the more you have to associate new learning with Roger Merrill, Connections The more associations we make when learning material, the easier it is to remember the material Peter Russell, The Brain Book Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have of trying to change others Jacob M Braude To change is difficult; not to change is fatal People don't resist change They resist being changed We should recognize that if we want to improve, we need to be prepared to change John Sherwood When someone says they will improve (themselves or something else), there are two questions to be asked: What will you do differently? When will you start? Ferdinand Fournes What we need, then, are training techniques that will produce a permanent increase in our capacity for attention Douglas Herrmann, Super Memory I've always felt that coaching was a word that was synonymous with trust, integrity, dignity, ; wisdom, that coaches were people you could count on, talk to, and be counseled by Pat Riley Education is what you get when you sit in your living room with a bunch of teenagers Education can no longer be confined to the schools Every employing institution has to become a teacher (Peter Drucker) I respect faith but doubt its what gets you an education Wilson Mizner Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence (Robert Frost) True education means mind deployment; not merely the gathering and classifying of knowledge Napoleon Hill, Laws of Success Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute (John Adams) Learning you get from school Education you get from life Mark Twain Fifteen minutes a day devoted to one definite study will make one a master in a dozen years Edward Howard Griggs) There is only one thing which will really train the human mind and that is the voluntary use of the mind by the man himself You may aid him, you may guide him, you may suggest to him, and above all you may inspire him; but the only thing worth having is that which he gets by his own exertions; and what he gets is proportionate to the effort he puts into it Lawrence Lowell When you stop trying, you stop growing Keep the facility of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day William James Whistle while you work (The Seven Dwarfs) Start each day in a happy way it drives everybody crazy! Greeting card Get on the Happy Bus(Happy, But Unsatisfied) (Peter McWilliams) The important thing to remember is that if you don't have that inspired enthusiasm that is contagious whatever you do have is also contagious (Danny Cox) Be the best If others don't see it who cares? The more effective you are in class, the more is demanded of you outside class (C Rand Christensen) If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people (Chinese Proverb) All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare (Benedict Spinoza) Ichiban: Japanese for number 1, the biggest, the best (itch-e-bon) If you grow with it a step at a time, and a day at a time, anything is possible (Ruth Zikowski, worker at Crazy Horse Nat'l Monument) When a person has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do (Charles Schwab) If you expect the best, very often you'll get it Treat each learner as a unique individual with unique potential, whose limits only he or she will ultimately determine adapted from guiding philosophy of indep school district, (Twin Cities, Ruth Randall) Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be (Goethe) Everyone needs to know what is expected of them Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying (Merry Browne) At one time or another, we can all play both Pygmalion the creator who strongly molds another and the object of a Pygmalion Conversely what others think about us and how they treat us does affect us How we behave toward others has consequences for them and for us These effects are consequences either positive or negative, but never neutral (Wess Roberts, Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich) If you were told you are dumb and let yourself believe it, you will perform accordingly You will be victimized through your own low expectations, and if you convince others as well, then you are in double jeopardy (Wayne Dyer) Eisenhower had a high opinion of the potential of the common man In 1967 he wrote: In our Army, it was thought that every private had at least a Second Lieutenant's bars somewhere in him and he was helped and encouraged to earn them I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused Teachers are similar to bosses: You rarely get to choose them; some are good and some are bad And while you're subject to their authority, what they think of you really does matter (Wess Roberts, Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich) An mountaineer from West Virginia was celebrated for his wisdom Uncle Zed, a young man asked him, how did you get so wise? Weren't hard, said the man I've got good judgment Good judgment comes from experience, and experience well that comes from making bad judgments The great difficulty in eduation is to get experience out of ideas (George Santayana) We want you (students) to come to the point where, in every phase of your life, you will be able to make a moral responsible choice by asking, What do I think? rather than What does the book say? or What does the professor say? (Dr Alfred B Bonds, Jr) Facilitating is like driving - you've got to pay attention a lot (Kevin Eikenberry) People fear failure, because they don't see it as the road to success (Richard Saul Wurman, Flow the Yellow Brick Road ) You can never go too far Ferris Beuller, to his compatriots as he schmoozes their way into a posh (Manhattan restaurant dressed in a T-shirt) The harder you work the harder it is to surrender (Vince Lombardi) 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 We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God Your playing small doesn't serve the world There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you You were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within you It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others (Nelson Mandela) Because it's so common, fear has many other names: apprehension, misgiving, trepidation, dread, horror, phobia, terror, alarm, consternation, foreboding, qualm, suspicion, fret, alarm, uneasiness, distress, panic, etc (Peter McWilliams, Do It!) Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will (W Clement Stone) I've got to keep breathing It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't (Sir Nathan Meyer Rothschild) Nothing is so much to be feared as fear (Henry David Thoreau, 1841) The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out ; The only way to feel better about myself, is to go out ; Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I' m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else (Suzanne Jeffries) Act as if you are poised, confident, and beautiful and you will be (William James) The two greatest fear busters are knowledge ; Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them (Epictetus) A U of M study showed that 60% of our fears are unwarranted, and 20% have already become past events and are completely out of our control Another 10% are so petty that they don't make any difference Of the remaining 10% of our fears, only 4 to 5% are real ; justifiable And we can't do anything about half of them! That means only about 2% of our fears are really worth thinking about these can be solved by simply stop stewing ; start doing! Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear In time, courage becomes the ability to use all the elements of the comfort zone as additional energy to move toward our goal When we add en to courage, we have encourage En is a prefix meaning to be at one with (Peter McWilliams Do It!) When thinking won't cure fear, action will (W Clement Stone) 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) You gain strength, courage ; confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror I can take the next thing that comes along You must do the thing you think you cannot do (Eleanor Roosevelt) Critics assessment of a young Fred Astaire: Can't act .Can't sing .Balding .Can dance a little Giving is receiving When our attention is on giving and joining with others, fear is removed and we accept healing for ourselves (Gerald Jampsky, Teach Only Love) One of the best things you can do for other people is help them recognize how they can improve (Wess Roberts,Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich) Flatter me, and I may not believe you Criticize me, and I may not like you Ignore me, and I may not forgive you Encourage me, and I will not forget you (William Arthur Ward) Work works better when it's fun Lisa Menna, (Corporate Magician) Having fun and learning are not mutually exclusive (from Playfair) I think you learn better when you're having fun (Lisa Harris) No fun without music and no music without fun (Albert D Stewart) True humor is fun it does no put down, kid, or mock It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together (Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself) Someone who gives me carte blanche permission to be silly, to be goffy,is the kind of person who liberates my playful self .There can be a lot of sense in non-sense (from Playfair) There is a direct connection between wellness and playfulness In China, for example, the Teahouse is a real social institution Throughout the day, families, neighbors, and friends drop in for tea and light food They stay as long as they like Discussions may last for hours It would be a bit strange to call the Teahouse the non-exclusive neighborhood social club; such terms are too Western But that can roughly describe part of the function, at least from our rather compartmentalized point of view You're important Relax and enjoy yourself (That's the message of the Teahouse Benjamin Moff, The Tao of Pooh) Mi Casa, Su Casa! (Speedy Gonzales) A sense of humor implies a confident person if you can joke about a tough situation, you're saying, Yes, it's serious, but I'm in control (Robert Orben, Former Director of the White House Speech writing Dept) Who is it that says most? Which can say more, Then this rich praise, that you alone are you? (Shakespeare) Organizations learn only through individuals who learn Individual learning does not guarantee organizational learning But without it no organizational learning occurs (Peter Senge) Anticipation = being active and imaginative rather than passive and habitual Learning by listening to others Participation: shaping events, rather than being shaped by them (Warren Bennis) It's what you learn after you know it all that counts (John Wooden) It's amazing how much we can learn from those who apparently have nothing to teach The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration (Wanda Landowska) We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is superficial learning We must make it our own (Michael Eyquim de Montaigue, Essays) To learn, you must want to be taught (Proverbs 12:1) If you want to get the most from your brain use it! Make the most of it! (Kevin Eikenberry) The process of making something our own is called learning (Peter McWilliams, Wealth 101) The process of learning can be given in four steps: Look for the mistakes (criticize) Learn how to do it better next time Go to 1(from Do It!) One of the marvelous things about life is that any gaps in your education can be filled, whatever your age or situation, by reading and thinking about what you read (Warren Bennis, On Becoming A Leader) No matter what happens to me, I'm going to learn something useful from it The burden of teaching is on the person who wants to teach the burden of learning is on the person who wants to learn (Jo Milburn Smith) After you've done all you can to learn a new skill or to broaden your knowledge, you've earned the right to be proud of your efforts regaress of the grade you receive Remembering this point will help you become consistent and dependable, instilling in you a sense of self-worth, and all of these qualities are far more important that sheer brilliance (Wess Roberts, Straight A's Never Made Anybody Rich) Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human Through learning we re-create ourselves Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline) Learning is by no means something we are supposed to do only from the ages of 5 to 21, in buildings called schools,but rather that it is a lifelong process, the proper conduct of which is not only absutely necessary for the physical survival of individuals but for the survival of entire species (Steve Allen) Learning is the core of work All people have two jobs: (a) their daily task; and (b) improving the reliability of processes by which they do their work (John J Sherwood) Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty Anyone who keeps learning stays young The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young (Henry Ford) It is in knowledge as in swimming: he who flounders and splashes on the surface makes more noise, and attracts more attention, than the pearl diver who quietly dives in quest of treasures to the bottom (Washington Irving) Get to know what it is you don't know as fast as you can (Robert Miller, The Super Manager) That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games Losing, in a curious way, is winning (Richard Bach) He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning 'Come over this afternoon and play croquet,' said Irina Cherkassova 'I don't know the game,' replied Flapping Eagle 'Then it will be instructive,' she smiled 'When you play a game you don't understand, it teaches you a great deal about yourself and your limitations (Salman Rushdie, Grimus) No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression-this is the maxim which the teacher ought never to forget (William James) You can see alot, just by listening (Yogi Berra) Consider putting an imaginary drop of Elmer's glue between your lips during a conversation to improve your listening skills adapted from (Victor Dishy) After a student finishes talking, watch her eyes Do they indicate that her thought is now complete? If you feel unsure, wait a few seconds and recheck A five-second pause often produces a contributor's most insightful thought (C Rand Christensen) Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things I am tempted to think there are no little things (Bruce Barton) Small Behavior Difference Big Performance Difference (Kevin Eikenberry) In 1989, the difference between the 1st and 41st money winners on the PGA tour was 1 strokeround Little things don't mean a lot; they mean everything (Harvey Mackay) Life is frittered away by detail Simplify! Simplify! (Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862) Verbal reactions, useful as they are, are insufficient (William James) As long as the superiority between words and pictures can't be determined, it makes sense to use both, where applicable, when communicating information (Richard Saul Wurman, flow the Yellow Brick Road) Everything is easy, when you know how (Joe Walden) Our goal is to provide the right training, to the right persons, at the right time, and return them to the right environment, so that the skills can be used immediately We are a long way from that, but we are looking at methods to help us get there (Motorola Corp) The ultimate responsibility for your getting good instruction lies not with your teacher, but with you (George Leonard,Mastery) True education requires students to be personally invested in the learning process (David Garvin) Focus on the contribution you can make (Peter Drucker) Retention, it appears, increases markedly when learning is solidly anchored in the experience and interest of students (David Garvin) Anything given less than one minute of thought will fade from your memory Douglas J (Herrmann, Super Memory) MURPHY'S LAWS Nothing is as easy as it looks Everything takes longer than you think Anything that can go wrong will go wrong If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something Nature always sides with the hidden flaw Mother nature is a bitch It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first The Light at the end of the tunnel is only the light of an oncoming train Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy Friendly fire ain't The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at The further you are in advance of your own positions, the more likely your artillery will shoot short Incoming fire has the right of way If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss Don't be conspicuous In the combat zone, it draws fire Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abishes the system or expands it beyond recognition Technogy is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure All great discoveries are made by mistake Always draw your curves, then plot your reading Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget All's well that ends A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost The first myth of management is that it exists A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection New systems generate new problems To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything Any given program, when running, is obsolete Any sufficiently advanced technogy is indistinguishable from magic A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote thebook or even what book The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable Give all orders verbally Never write anything down that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File" Under the most rigorously contrled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well leases If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totalled correctly after 4:30 p.m on Friday The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday Fill what's empty Empty what's full And scratch where it itches All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door The only perfect science is hind-sight Work smarder and not harder and be careful of yor speling If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist If an experiment works, something has gone wrong When all else fails, read the instructions If there is a possibility of several things going wrong the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong Everything that goes up must come down Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it If it jams, force it If it breaks, it probably needed to be replaced anyway The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management All the good ones are taken If the person isn't taken, there's a reason (corr to 1) The nicer someone is, the farther away (s)he is from you Brains x Beauty x Availability = Constant The amount of love someone feels for you is inversely proportional to how much you love them Money can't buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position The best things in the world are free-and worth every penny of it Every kind action has a not-so-kind reaction Nice guys(girls) finish last If it seems too good to be true, it probably is Availability is a function of time The minute you get interested is the minute they find someone else The more beautiful the woman is who loves you, the easier it is to leave her with no hard feelings Nothing improves with age No matter how many times you've had it, if it's offered take it, because it'll never be quite the same again Sex has no calories Sex takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble There is no remedy for sex but more sex Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got No sex with anyone in the same office Sex is like snow; you never know how many inches you are going to get or how long it is going to last A man in the house is worth two in the street If you get them by the balls, their hearts and minds will flow Virginity can be cured When a man's wife learns to understand him, she usually stops listening to him Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself The qualities that most attract a woman to a man are usually the same ones she can't stand years later Sex is dirty only if it's done right It is always the wrong time of month The best way to hold a man is in your arms When the lights are out, all women are beautiful Sex is hereditary If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either Sow your wild oats on Saturday nightThen on Sunday pray for crop failure The younger the better The game of love is never called off on account of darkness It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden Sex discriminates against the shy and the ugly Before you find your handsome prince, you've got to kiss a lot of frogs There may be some things better than sex, and some things worse than sex But there is nothing exactly like it Love your neighbor, but don't get caught Love is a hole in the heart If the effort that went in research on the female bosom had gone into our space program, we would now be running hot-dog stands on the moon Love is a matter of chemistry, sex is a matter of physics Do it only with the best Sex is a three-letter word which needs some old-fashioned four-letter words to convey its full meaning One good turn gets most of the blankets You cannot produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all Thou shalt not commit adultery - unless in the mood Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you Abstain from wine, women, and song; mostly song Never argue with a women when she's tired or rested A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick It is better to be looked over than overlooked Never say no A man can be happy with any woman as long as he doesn't love her Folks playing leapfrog must complete all jumps Beauty is skin deep; ugly goes right to the bone Never stand between a fire hydrant and a dog A man is only a man, but a good bicycle is a ride Love comes in spurts The world does not revolve on an axis Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation; the other eight are unimportant Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking Don't do it if you can't keep it up There is no difference between a wise man and a fool when they fall in love Never go to bed mad, stay up and fight Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another "This won't hurt, I promise Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born John Florio A man's best friends are his ten fingers Robert Collyer I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process Benjamin Harrison He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor Benjamin Franklin There is no real wealth but the labor of man Percy Bysshe Shelley It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things Theodore Roosevelt Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price Samuel Johnson Labor is man's greatest function He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working Orville Dewey Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne Robert Green Ingersoll The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures Luc de Clapiers Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas Samuel Johnson Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone Ralph Waldo Emerson Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow Oliver Wendell Holmes Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people William Butler Yeats Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks Alfred North Whitehead Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Language is the dress of thought Samuel Johnson Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests Samuel Taylor Coleridge He laughs best who laughs last English Proverb A man isn't poor if he can still laugh Raymond Hitchcock The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed Chamfort Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain Charlie Chaplin Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves James Matthew Barrie If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash Puzant Kevork Thomajan Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face Victor Hugo I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at Wilson Mizner Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent H. L. Mencken We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom Hubert H Humphrey Petty laws breed great crimes If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can That means first chaos, then tyranny Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process Felix Frankfurter It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive Earl Warren Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced Elbert Hubbard If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable Louis D Brandeis If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made Otto von Bismarck You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people Will Rogers No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature Ralph Waldo Emerson A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it Henry Ward Beecher Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals Niccolò Machiavelli The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly Abraham Lincoln The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely Robert Bolt Any law that takes hd of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life Henry Ward Beecher There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick Grover A. Whalen How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread! Anatole France The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty Ashleigh Brilliant In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited Herbert Hoover The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on Walter Lippmann Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it Dwight D Eisenhower You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too Sam Rayburn And when we think we lead, we are most led Lord Byron If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch Matthew 15:14 The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground Winston Churchill Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone And acting alone, accept everything alone Ferdinand Edralin Marcos No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session Gideon J Tucker Legislators represent people, not trees or acres Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests Earl Warren In all forms of government the people is the true legislator Edmund Burke Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear Anonymous He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare William Henry Davies They talk of the dignity of work The dignity is in leisure Herman Melville Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure Benjamin Franklin Leisure is the mother of philosophy Thomas Hobbes The end of labor is to gain leisure Aristotle In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on Pythagoras We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace Aristotle What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man Robert Green Ingersoll I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it Thomas Jefferson Where liberty is, there is my country Benjamin Franklin Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches Will Rogers Liberty consists in wholesome restraint Daniel Webster I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty Woodrow Wilson It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own Thomas Jefferson Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world Earl Warren Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself Henry Brooks Adams Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others William Allen White The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants It is it's natural manure Thomas Jefferson Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have Harry Emerson Fosdick Liberty means responsibility That is why most men dread it George Bernard Shaw Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty John Fitzgerald Kennedy Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety Benjamin Franklin I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone H. L. Mencken Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost Jean Jacques Rousseau Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people John Adams Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations Herbert Spencer Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns Charles Feidelson, Jr The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life William James Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways Stephen Vincent Benét We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it William Osler Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry Mark Twain A baby is God's opinion that life should go on Carl Sandburg I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived Oliver Wendell Holmes Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive Elbert Hubbard Life is the childhood of our immortality Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded Fulton J Sheen Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first Benjamin Franklin Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think Jean de La Bruyère Life is a dead-end street H. L. Mencken The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another James Matthew Barrie It is not true that life is one damn thing after another It's one damn thing over and over Edna St.Vincent Millay Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry Try to be alive You will be dead soon enough William Saroyan May you live all the days of your life (Jonathan Swift Polite Conversation) Simply the thing I am shall make me live William Shakespeare Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die Robert Southwell Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations) Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour Stephen Butler Leacock Light is the symbol of truth James Russell Lowell The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light Matthew Arnold Light is the first of painters There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures James Thurber Literature is the immortality of speech August Wilhelm von Schlegel The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Literature is the orchestration of platitudes Thornton Wilder A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself Don Marquis Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice Cyril Connolly Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree Ezra Pound Literature is news that stays news Ezra Pound Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money Jules Renard Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason André Gide Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature Ralph Waldo Emerson Logic is the anatomy of thought John Locke Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge Benjamin Jowett Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice Elbert Hubbard Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis John Dewey Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence Joseph Wood Krutch Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic William E Gladstone Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities Lord Dunsany The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it Bernard de Voto I was never less alone than when by myself Edward Gibbon The surest cure for vanity is loneliness Thomas Wolfe The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence Thomas Wolfe Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone Paul Tillich In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely Geoffrey Francis Fisher People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges Joseph F. Newton H2LoquacityH2 Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative Oliver Goldsmith German Proverb Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed Sir Walter Raleigh He who talks much cannot talk well Carlo Goldoni They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say Matthew Prior No fool can be silent at a feast Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms William Shakespeare The cheerful loser is the winner Elbert Hubbard It's the good loser who finally loses out Kin Hubbard When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost German Motto No evil is without its compensation The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it Richard Whately Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old John Ciardi There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies François de La Rochefoucauld All mankind loves a lover Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination Voltaire If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving Anonymous Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies John Donne There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish Alfred Adler To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave Mahatma Gandhi The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost Gilbert K. Chesterton Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late Douglas Jerrold I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation Samuel Osgood He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals Benjamin Franklin First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it George Bernard Shaw I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love Henry Ward Beecher We are shaped and fashioned by what we love Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning Thornton Wilder Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another H. L. Mencken Love gives itself; it is not bought Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all Alfred, Lord Tennyson Loyalty is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation Henry S Commager Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul Mark Twain Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union Rufus Choate Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice Woodrow Wilson My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right Carl Schurz Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living Josiah Royce Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit R. E. Shay It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck Joseph Conrad Chance favors the prepared mind Louis Pasteur So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else Don Marquis If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? Stanislaw J. Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold Yiddish Proverb As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for Josh Billings Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success Anonymous I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? Jean Cocteau Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect Ralph Waldo Emerson A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck James A. Garfield The only sure thing about luck is that it will change Wilson Mizner War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind John Crowne We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities Oscar Wilde Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind Henry David Thoreau Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor Henry Home On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired Edward Young Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind Albert Einstein Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries Oliver Wendell Holmes Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins Edward Payson Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well Samuel Butler Never chase a lie Let it alone, and it will run itself to death I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it Lyman Beecher The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else George Bernard Shaw One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie Corneille Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all Oliver Wendell Holmes You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says Aristippus The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe H. L. Mencken I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy Samuel Butler There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it William James Time is the coin of your life It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you Carl Sandburg The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend Henri Bergson The cure for boredom is curiosity There is no cure for curiosity Ellen Parr All nature is but art unknown to thee Alexander Pope Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream Kahlil Gibran The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for Allan K. Chalmers Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing Thomas H. Huxley The world is but a canvas to the imagination Henry David Thoreau You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot do Eleanor Roosevelt Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground Theodore Roosevelt Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others Robert Louis Stevenson Destiny is no matter of chance It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved William Jennings Bryan Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness James Thurber Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born John Florio A man's best friends are his ten fingers Robert Collyer I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process Benjamin Harrison He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor Benjamin Franklin There is no real wealth but the labor of man Percy Bysshe Shelley It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things Theodore Roosevelt Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price Samuel Johnson Labor is man's greatest function He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working Orville Dewey Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne Robert Green Ingersoll The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures Luc de Clapiers Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas Samuel Johnson Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone Ralph Waldo Emerson Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow Oliver Wendell Holmes Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people William Butler Yeats Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks Alfred North Whitehead Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Language is the dress of thought Samuel Johnson Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests Samuel Taylor Coleridge He laughs best who laughs last English Proverb A man isn't poor if he can still laugh Raymond Hitchcock The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed Chamfort Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain Charlie Chaplin Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves James Matthew Barrie If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash Puzant Kevork Thomajan Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face Victor Hugo I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at Wilson Mizner Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent H. L. Mencken We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom Hubert H. Humphrey Petty laws breed great crimes If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can That means first chaos, then tyranny Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process Felix Frankfurter It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive Earl Warren Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced Elbert Hubbard If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable Louis D. Brandeis If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made Otto von Bismarck You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people Will Rogers No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature Ralph Waldo Emerson A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it Henry Ward Beecher Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals Niccolò Machiavelli The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly Abraham Lincoln The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely Robert Bolt Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life Henry Ward Beecher There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick Grover A. Whalen How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread! Anatole France The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty Ashleigh Brilliant In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited Herbert Hoover The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on Walter Lippmann Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it Dwight D. Eisenhower You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too Sam Rayburn And when we think we lead, we are most led Lord Byron If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch Matthew 15:14 The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground Winston Churchill Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone And acting alone, accept everything alone Ferdinand Edralin Marcos No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session Gideon J. Tucker Legislators represent people, not trees or acres Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests Earl Warren In all forms of government the people is the true legislator Edmund Burke Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear Anonymous He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare William Henry Davies They talk of the dignity of work The dignity is in leisure Herman Melville Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure Benjamin Franklin Leisure is the mother of philosophy Thomas Hobbes The end of labor is to gain leisure Aristotle In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on Pythagoras We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace Aristotle What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man Robert Green Ingersoll I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it Thomas Jefferson Where liberty is, there is my country Benjamin Franklin Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches Will Rogers Liberty consists in wholesome restraint Daniel Webster I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty Woodrow Wilson It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own Thomas Jefferson Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world Earl Warren Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself Henry Brooks Adams Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others William Allen White The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants It is it's natural manure Thomas Jefferson Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have Harry Emerson Fosdick Liberty means responsibility That is why most men dread it George Bernard Shaw Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty John Fitzgerald Kennedy Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety Benjamin Franklin I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone H. L. Mencken Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost Jean Jacques Rousseau Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people John Adams Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations Herbert Spencer Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns Charles Feidelson, Jr The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life William James Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways Stephen Vincent Benét We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it William Osler Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry Mark Twain A baby is God's opinion that life should go on Carl Sandburg I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived Oliver Wendell Holmes Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive Elbert Hubbard Life is the childhood of our immortality Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded Fulton J. Sheen Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first Benjamin Franklin Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think Jean de La Bruyère Life is a dead-end street H. L. Mencken The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another James Matthew Barrie It is not true that life is one damn thing after another It's one damn thing over and over Edna St. Vincent Millay Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry Try to be alive You will be dead soon enough William Saroyan May you live all the days of your life Jonathan Swift (Polite Conversation) Simply the thing I am shall make me live William Shakespeare Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die Robert Southwell Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations) Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour Stephen Butler Leacock Light is the symbol of truth James Russell Lowell The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light Matthew Arnold Light is the first of painters There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures James Thurber Literature is the immortality of speech August Wilhelm von Schlegel The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Literature is the orchestration of platitudes Thornton Wilder A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself Don Marquis Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice Cyril Connolly Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree Ezra Pound Literature is news that stays news Ezra Pound Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money Jules Renard Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason André Gide Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature Ralph Waldo Emerson Logic is the anatomy of thought John Locke Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge Benjamin Jowett Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice Elbert Hubbard Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis John Dewey Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence Joseph Wood Krutch Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic William E Gladstone Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities Lord Dunsany The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it Bernard de Voto I was never less alone than when by myself Edward Gibbon The surest cure for vanity is loneliness Thomas Wolfe The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence Thomas Wolfe Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone Paul Tillich In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely Geoffrey Francis Fisher People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges Joseph F Newton Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative Oliver Goldsmith Loquacity and lying are cousins German Proverb Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed Sir Walter Raleigh He who talks much cannot talk well Carlo Goldoni They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say Matthew Prior No fool can be silent at a feast Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms William Shakespeare The cheerful loser is the winner Elbert Hubbard It's the good loser who finally loses out Kin Hubbard When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost German Motto No evil is without its compensation The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it Richard Whately Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old John Ciardi There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies François de La Rochefoucauld All mankind loves a lover Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination Voltaire If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving Anonymous Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies John Donne There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish Alfred Adler To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave Mahatma Gandhi The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost Gilbert K. Chesterton Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late Douglas Jerrold I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation Samuel Osgood He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals Benjamin Franklin First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it George Bernard Shaw I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love Henry Ward Beecher We are shaped and fashioned by what we love Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning Thornton Wilder Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another H. L. Mencken Love gives itself; it is not bought Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all Alfred, Lord Tennyson Loyalty is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation Henry S Commager Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul Mark Twain Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union Rufus Choate Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice Woodrow Wilson My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right Carl Schurz Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living Josiah Royce Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit R. E. Shay It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck Joseph Conrad Chance favors the prepared mind Louis Pasteur So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else Don Marquis If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? Stanislaw J Lec Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold Yiddish Proverb As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for Josh Billings Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success Anonymous I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? Jean Cocteau Shallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect Ralph Waldo Emerson A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck James A Garfield The only sure thing about luck is that it will change Wilson Mizner War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind John Crowne We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities Oscar Wilde Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind Henry David Thoreau Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor Henry Home On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired Edward Young Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind Albert Einstein Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries Oliver Wendell Holmes Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins Edward Payson Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well Samuel Butler Never chase a lie Let it alone, and it will run itself to death I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it Lyman Beecher The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else George Bernard Shaw One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie Corneille Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all Oliver Wendell Holmes You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says Aristippus The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe H. L. Mencken I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy Samuel Butler There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it William James "Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe" St. Theresa of Lisieux "The wise learn many things from their enemies" Aristophanes, The Birds "In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed" Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays "We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it" William Hazlitt "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them" Alfred Adler "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing" George Bernard Shaw "Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the one who makes the same mistake twice" Dr. William J. "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" Gen. Omar Bradley "The graveyards are full of indispensable men" Charles De Gaulle "All warfare is based on deception Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity When near, make it appear that you are far away; when far away, that you are to lure him; feign disorder and strike him When he concentrates, prepare against him; where he is strong, avoid him Anger his general and confuse him Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance" "There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity" Gen. Douglas MacArthur "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor" Vince Lombardi "People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it" Howard W. Newton "Production is not the application of tools to material, but of logic to work" Peter Drucker "If two men agree on everything, you can be sure one of them is doing the thinking" Lyndon Baines Johnson "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 "Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of Reason, I'm very much afraid you will never really see the point" Hafiz of Shiraz "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator" Francis Bacon, Essays "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 [384-322 B C] "Life is made up of small pleasures Happiness is made up of those tiny successes the big ones come too infrequently If you don't have all of those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything" Norman Lear "As we come around and take our places at the table, a moment to remember & reflect upon our wealth Here's to loving friends and family, here's to being able to gather here together in good company and health And may the light of Love be shining deep within your spirit, May the torch of Mercy clear the path and show the way, May the horn of Plenty sound so everyone can hear it, May the light of Love be with you every day" "Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things" Elise Boulding "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience" "We say that we cannot bear our troubles but when we get to them we bear them" Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai "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 "General notions are generally wrong" Lady Mary Wortley Montagu "One who finds no satifaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere" La Rochefoucauld "Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire" Anwar El-Sadat "No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time" Robert Half "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 "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 "Home is not where you live, but where they understand you" Christian Morgenstern "Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time" Hebrew proverb "Change cannot be avoided Change provides the opportunity for innovation It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity" Keshavan Nair "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult" "Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said" Thomas ˆ Kempis "The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it" David Searles "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas" Linus Pauling "While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior" Henry C Link "Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years If something is wrong, fix it if you can But train yourself not to worry Worry never fixes anything" Mary Hemingway "There's an alternative There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways - it's a different way" David Carradine "It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish" Aeschylus "He knew that insofar as one denies what is, one is posessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void" Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven "If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth" Hans Reichenbach "Let honor be as strong to us an obligation as necessity is to others" Pliny the Elder "First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do" Epictetus "If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself" Haitian proverb "You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" Robert Louis Stevenson "Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities:the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates" Dr A Lawrence Lowell "Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast You can't wait to do your exercises You can't wait to put on your clothes You can't wait to get out - and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot" George Burns "If you want to make God laugh, tell him you have plans" Sister Emerita "Finish what you begin Public confidence in government isn't guaranteed; it has to be earned I know of no other way to earn the trust and cooperation of the public than first, to say what you intend to do, and second, to do it" Neil Goldschmidt "Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it" La Rochefoucauld "A lot of it is the money, but I'd be playing if I was making $150,000" Reggie Jackson "Maybe you're right, boss It all depends on the way you look at it Look, one day I had gone to a little village An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree 'What, grandad!' I exclaimed 'Planting an almond tree?' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die 'I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute 'Which of us was right, boss?" Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek "The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them" Benjamin Jowett "Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire" Arab proverb "Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong" Baltasar Gracian "It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door" Publilius Syrus "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance" cummings "People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it" Lee Iacocca "You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about - the more you have left when anything happens" Ethel Barrymore "With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble Courage is the foundation of integrity" Keshavan Nair "Everyone thinks his sack heaviest" George Herbert "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success" John D. Rockefeller, Sr "Dreams are renewable No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born" Dr Dale E Turner "Grant me the Serenity to prioritize things I cannot delegate, the Courage to say No when I need to, and the Wisdom to know when to go home" "Knowing is not enough; we must apply Willing is not enough; we must do" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits" Mark Twain "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best 'You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary" Sir Winston Churchill "Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something?That's like me I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing" Albert P Ryder "The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces" "Shoot for the moon Even if you miss you'll land among the stars" Les Brown "As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope" Ursula K. LeGuin "It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes You will not live long enough to make them all yourself" Adm. Hyman G Rickover "There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty" Wendell Berry on kinds of cultural change "If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished" Ed Lindeman (heard at the American Planners Assn conference, quoted by Glen Hiemstra) "No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming" Charles E Wilson "Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you'll see farther" Anonymous" it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you" Woodrow Wilson "If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?" Thomas Henry Huxley "Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it" Cardinal Newman "A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday" Alexander Pope "A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side" Anne Morrow Lindberg "Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification" Martin H Fischer " On some hill of despair the bonfire you kindle can light the great sky - though it's true, of course, to make it burn you have to throw yourself in" Galway Kinnell "What do we need in our Todays? Quiet where faith can grow, songs that blossom hope, reading that remembers love, honest words to untangle a small length of knotty existence, gifts offering service of the heart" Maren C Tirabassi (paraphrased) "I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice" Clint Eastwood "Quality doesn't improve by sitting on things" Val Fitch "In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Network, at CUE "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power" "You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time" Charles F. Kettering "It seems to me like this it's not a terrible thing I mean, it may be terrible, but it's not damaging, it's not poisoning to do without something one really wants What's really terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better" Doris Lessing "People think love is an emotion Love is good sense" Ken Kesey "Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?" Bernice Fitz-Gibbon "To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer" George Bernard Shaw "Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant This is like driving a car by looking in the rear view mirror" Herb Brody "Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain" Mary Catherine Bateson "My purposes are the geography that marks out my line of travel toward the person I want to be" Alice Koller "You are not thinking You are merely being logical" Niels Bohr to Albert Einstein "It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and of the soul of society coincides with the pauperization of the environment One is the cause and the reflection of the other" Paolo Soleri "Forget about likes and dislikes They are of no consequence Just do what must be done This may not be happiness, but it is greatness" George Bernard Shaw "The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts That is where the battle should be fought" Mahatma Gandhi "Vision without action is merely a dream Action without vision just passes the time Vision with action can change the world" Joel Barker "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for:it is a thing to be achieved" William Jennings Bryant "Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try" "Very seldom will a person give up on himself He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation" Hugh Prather, Notes On Love and Courage "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity" Octavio Paz "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but, after a while, knows something" Wilson Mizner "I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean" G. K. Chesterton "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 "Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him But a day comes when he begins to care that he does notcheat his neighbor Then all goes well He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun" Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 "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 "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 "It may be that those who do most, dream most" Stephen Leacock "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 "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another" Luciano de Crescenzo "Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases" John W. Raper "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others" We are not our own Earth forms us, human leaves on nature's growing vine, Fruit of many generations, seeds of life divine We are not alone Earth names us: past and present, peoples near and far, family and friends and strangers show us who we are Therefore let us make thanksgiving, and with justice, willing and aware, give to earth, and all things living, legacies of care Brian Wren, 1987 "Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings" Alice Miller "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 "We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job" William Feather "One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints" "Mistakes are the portals of discovery" James Joyce "Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out" Art Linkletter "If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room" Anita Koddick "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 whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it" G- K. Chesterton "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 "If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them" "One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth" Friedrich Hebbel "You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair" Chinese proverb "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none" Shakespeare "Make your bargain before beginning to plow" Arabic proverb "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 really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!" Doris Day "There are no facts, only interpretations" Friedrich Nietzsche "Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world" Hans Margolius "Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase - that's what wild geese are for" "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business" Tom Robbins "Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it" The Midrash (thanks to Anu the Wordsmith for this one) "Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into your answers" Rainer Maria Rilke "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 "Everything we come across is to the point" John Cage Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change" Marcel Proust "Since when was genius respectable?" Elizabeth Barrett Browning "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 "You will neverfind 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" Saint Teresa "If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!" George Jessel "In all human affairs, the odds are always six to five against" Damon Runyon "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood" Marie Curie "A crank is someone with a new idea - until it catches on" Mark Twain "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 "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, December 11, 1964 "Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!" Derwood Fincher "People only see what they are prepared to see" Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you can't return a favor, pass it on" Louise Brown "A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success" Cullen Hightower "Ideologies separate us Dreams and anguish bring us together" Eugene Ionesco "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do" Willa Cather "Forget your enemies It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems" Michael J. "The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works" William Strong "I like to listen I have learned a great deal from listening carefully Most people never listen" Ernest Hemingway "If we don't change, we don't grow If we don't grow, we aren't really living" Gail Sheehy "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 "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" Hermann Hesse "What does the Lord require of you? To seek kindness, do justice, and walk humbly with your God" The Bible, Book of Micah, Ch. 6/Verse 8 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing" Oscar Wilde "Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage" Charles Luckman "Good questions outrank easy answers" Paul A. Samuelson "People say:idle curiosity The one thing curiosity cannot be is idle" Leo Rosten "There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing" Lord Chesterfield 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 "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 "One that would have the fruit must climb the tree" Thomas Fuller "It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory" French management saying "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 "To do two things at once is to do neither" Publilius Syrus "How much more grevious 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 "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 "Next week there can't be any crisis My schedule is already full" Herry Kissinger "First we will be best, then we will be first" Grant Tinker "Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time" John Donne "One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas That isprobably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life" Etty Hilsum "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 "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 "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 "A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools" Spanish proverb "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 "Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly" Langston Hughes "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 "Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards, make the city, but men able to use their opportunity" "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits" Thomas Edison "The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect" Robert Louis Stevenson I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown Woody Allen Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else Anonymous Do not regret growing older It is a privilege denied to many Anonymous If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over Anonymous Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once Anonymous I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate Lady Astor How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I putt them down John Aubrey What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork Pearl Bailey, singer Pandemonium did not reign; it poured John Kendrick Bangs If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner Tallulah Bankhead, actress Tallulah Bankhead, last word You will find my last words in the blue folder Max Beerbohm, last words Applaud friends, the comedy is over Ludwig van Beethoven, last words I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph Shirley Temple Black, actress, singer, and US ambassador That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happinesss is assured Ambrose Bierce, (1842-1914) 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, american inventor Ability is nothing without opportunity Napoleon Bonaparte Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television Rita Mae Brown Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all Dale Carnegie How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong Because someday in your life you will have been all of these George Washington Carver, american inventor and horticulturist It's a long time since I drank champagne Anton Checkov, last words The more you study, the more you find out you don't know, but the more you study, the closer you come Cozy Cole 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 Public behavior is merely private character writ large Stephen R. Covey, author, self-help speaker In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies Winston Churchill You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics Benjamin Disraeli, statesman Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys Fyodor Dostoyevsky It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data Arthur Conan Doyle, english author when you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth Arthur Conan Doyle, english author Everything that can be invented has been invented Charles Duell, Dir US Patent Office, 1899 We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and industrialist To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and industrialist Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and industrialist Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results I know several thousand things that won't work Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and industrialist Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and industrialist It's very beautiful over there Thomas Edison, last words The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources Albert Einstein This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher Our best thoughts come from others Ralph Waldo Emerson So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours Ralph Waldo Emerson Men are what their mothers made them Ralph Waldo Emerson To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth amd Sun But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings Clifton Fadiman Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse! Derwood Fincher It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it Malcolm S. While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time or dreaming Lee De Forest, 1926 Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of Benjamin Franklin Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late Benjamin Franklin Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity Sigmund Freud The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization Sigmund Freud There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible John Galsworthy, English author If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it James A. Garfield, US President Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be Jose Ortega y Gasset When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings Harold Geneen, from Managing Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream Kahlil Gibran Knowing is not enough; we must apply Willing is not enough; we must do More light! Goethe, last words Every absurdity has a champion to defend it Oliver Goldsmith I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink Adm William Halsey The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people Lucille S. My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way Ernest Hemingway Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny John Oliver Hobbes Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt Herbert Hoover I don't think I shall ever get over this Leigh Hunt, last words It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word Andrew Jackson I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy Gen. Stonewall Jackson The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling Douglas Jerrold I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult Samuel Johnson My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there Charles F. Kettering There is a woman at the begining of all great things Alphonse de Lamartine Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful Ann Landers, author The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it Doug Larson Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible Doug Larson Power corrupts Absolute power is kind of neat John Lehman, US secretary of the navy Life is what happens while you are making other plans John Lennon, singer and songwriter When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil Max Lerner Everything you see I owe to spaghetti Sophia Loren, actress I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them E. V. Lucas Every man is the architect of his own life He builds it just the way he wants it However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself Sidney Madwed Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed Mao Tse-tung, revolutionary and party chairman It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help Judith S. Martin An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones W. Somerset Maugham, author Excess on occasion is exhilarating It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit W. Somerset Maugham, author It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation Herman Melville, american author One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries A. .A. Milne, author It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can Relaxing your brain is fatal Stirling Moss, British racing car driver, Newsweek May 16, 1955 Writing is like getting married One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck Iris Murdoch It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book Friedrich Nietzsche, (1844-1900) Turn up the light I don't want to go home in the dark O' Henry, last words Who controls the past controls the future Who controls the present controls the past George Orwell, author There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule Charles Osgood, journalist What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value Thomas Paine It is not good to be too free It is not good to have everything one wants Blaise Pascal Never tell people how to do things Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity George S. Patton, US General I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it Pablo Picasso, artist If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure Dan Quayle Draw the curtain, the fraud is over Rabelais, last words Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects Will Rogers, philosopher What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds Will Rogers Do what you can, with what you have, where you are Theodore Roosevelt Never let the fear of striking out get in your way Babe Ruth Life is but a moment, death also is but another Dr Robert Schuller Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory Albert Schweitzer, doctor The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it David Searles Why, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist Gen. John Sedgewick, last words We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience George Bernard Shaw, english playwright First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity George Bernard Shaw, english playwright Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people George Bernard Shaw, english playwright They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts Philip Sidney Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten B F Skinner , American psychologist He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful Sydney Smith Pay quickly what thou owest The needy tradesman is made glad by such considerate haste Walter Smith We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching Roy L. Smith All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom, I have been pouring van-loads of information into the vacancy of oblivion I call my mind Logan Pearsall Smith When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion Herbert Spencer, (1820-1903) The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life Robert Louis Stevenson I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place Harriet Beecher Stowe Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by Preston Sturges, Epitaph The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues Elizabeth Taylor, actress I am a part of all that I have seen Alfred Lord Tennyson It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all William Makepeace Thackeray You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive Margaret Thatcher, English prime minister You simply must stop taking advice from other people Melissa Timberman It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech Mark Twain We are all alike, on the inside Mark Twain I can live for two months on a good compliment Mark Twain 'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry ' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me Mark Twain, from Home Conditions 1900, referring to a saying from his Grandmother To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered Voltaire Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be Kurt Vonnegut, author I'm all right H. G. Wells, last words Too much of a good thing is wonderful Mae West, American actress Loves conquers all things except poverty and a toothache Mae West, American actress When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before Mae West, American actress An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation Billy Wilder , American director First things first, but not necessarily in that order Doctor Who, fictional English SF character Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority Doctor Who, fictional English SF character 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, English author A man is a fool is he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts Boris Yeltsin Every obnoxious act is a cry for help Zig Ziglar "No one wants advice, only corroboration" John Steinbeck "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 "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 "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 "If we stand tall it is because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors" Yoruba proverb "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility" Dietrich Bonhoeffer "A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it Alistair Cooke "There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere" Sufi proverb "If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else" Yogi Berra "A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view" Wilma Askinas "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 "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 "Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea" Wei Wu Wei "To live in fear is a life half-lived" Spanish proverb, quoted in the film Strictly Ballroom "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will 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 "Dreams have as much influence as actions" Stephane Mallarmé "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 "If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours" Henry David Thoreau "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 "Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks" Herodotus "I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face Don't trust that conventional idea Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it" Charles Dickens "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal" Albert Camus "If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again" William Penn "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought" John F. Kennedy "The instruction we find in books is like fire We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all" Voltaire "In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak" James Russell Lowell "In nature there are neither rewards nor punishmentsthere are consequences" Robert G. Ingersoll "It isn't so astonishing the number of things I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so" Mark Twain "Just throw away all that computerized shit listing all human data No one knows anything about human beings You have to love the people because they always lose" Leslie Woolf Hedley "We do not remember days, we remember moments" Cesare Pavese "A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility" Dag Hammarskjold "While I am busy with little things, I m not required to do greater things" St. Francis de Sales "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 "He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles" Henry David Thoreau "Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on" Frederic Chopin "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it I want to have lived the width of it as well" Diane Ackerman "The gulf between knowledge and truth is infinite" Henry Miller "The shortest way to do many things is to do one thing at once" Samuel Smiles "Men trust their ears less than their eyes" Herodotus "Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?" George Eliot "Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity" Paul Goodman "Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness "Leo Tolstoy "If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives" Robert South "The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love" William Wordsworth "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not" Ralph Waldo Emerson "No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them" Alan Watts "If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world This makes it hard to plan the day" E. B. White "Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!" Fannie Flagg "One man with courage makes a majority" Andrew Jackson "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact" George Eliot "A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which he is totally unfit Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way?You are trying to make another you One's enough" Ralph Waldo Emerson "Joy is not in things; it is in us" Richard Wagner "Should-haves solve nothing It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about" Alexandra Ripley "If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around Trouble creates a capacity to handle it I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy But I do say:meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it" Oliver Wendell Holmes "Why is it that when people say 'that's a good question' they never have a good answer?" Walter J.Kennevan "I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes" Sir Humphry Davy "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon" Susan Ertz "Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, stains the white radiance of eternity" Percy Bysshe Shelly "What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul" Jewish proverb "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative" Martin Luther King, Jr. , 1929-1968 "Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little over a century ago?" Bernice Fitz-Gibbon "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly" Mignon McLaughlin "The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn" David Russell "In the coming world they will not ask me, 'Why were you not Moses? 'They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?'" "He who would be friends with God must remain alone or make the whole world his friend" Mahatma Gandhi "If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there" The Cowboy's Guide to Life "When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity He turns insult into humor, and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him" Baltasar Gracian "Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust Only faith and generosity can overcome them" Jawaharlal Nehru "Justice is truth in action" Benjamin Disraeli "Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all" Thomas `a Kempis "There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words" Dorothy Parker "We must become new people, or be satisfied the way we areeither way we risk tragedy But by the first, we choose Life; by the second we choose Death" Corita Kent "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed" Josh Billings "We write our own destiny:we become what we do" Madame Chiang Kai-Shek "Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience" Admiral Hyman Rickover "We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves" John Buchan "The sense of the future is behind all good policies Unless we have it, we can give nothing either wise or decent to the world" C. P. Snow "The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty:not knowing what comes next" Ursula K. LeGuin "He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise" William Blake "Mistakes are the portals of discovery" James Joyce "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives" Abba Eban "The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there:all of it" Richard Rohr "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination" Tommy Lasorda "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing The worst thing you can do is nothing" Theodore Roosevelt "Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble" Jaroslav Pelikan "The land is a mother that never dies" Maori saying "Reason can answer questions,but imagination has to ask them "Ralph Gerard "You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of Do or Die! The world will always welcome lovers, As time goes by" Herman Hupfield, "As Time Goes By," from Everybody's Welcome "You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality" Walt Disney "About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends" Herbert Hoover "I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock" Henny Youngman "A machine is as distinctively and brilliantly and expressively human as a violin sonata or a theorem in Euclid" Gregory Vlastos "Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is" Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience" George Washington "No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong timebut a good plan should keep a concentration from forming" Charles E. "When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did dowell, that's memoirs" Will Rogers "William James used to tell us we must follow thought with action, on pain of spiritual death Yet we hear of bankers stealing, and cabinet officers grafting, and public service corporations expiating, and sit still and do nothing This does not foreshadow death, it is death" W. E. B. DuBois "Complete posession is proved only by giving All you are unable to give possesses you" Andre Gide "No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public" George McGovern "I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's I will not Reason and Compare; my business is to Create" William Blake "Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections" Malcom Forbes "We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice" Jack Herbert "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important" Bertrand Russell "The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained" Mayra Mannes "The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once" Jane Bryant Quinn "Do what you will, this Life's a Fiction And is made up of Contradiction" William Blake "The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating" William Sloane Coffin, The Courage to Love "A leader who keeps his ear to the ground allows his rear end to become a target" Angie Papadakis "Behold the turtle He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out" James Bryant Conant "A wise man lowers a ladder before he jumps into a pit" folk saying "Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes?There is more hope for a fool than for him" Bible, Proverbs 26:12 "It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants The question is:what are we busy about?" Henry David Thoreau "Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great wings across the sky" Ojibway saying "Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation" Andre Gide, Fruits of the Earth "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on!" Franklin Delano Roosevelt "Never give in!Never give in!Never, never, never, neverin nothing great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honor and good sense" Winston Churchill "Man:a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal" Alexander Hamilton "A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently" S. Augustine" the whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things" Maeve Binchey, Irish writer "To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy" Hippocrates "To get others to come over to our way of thinking, we must go over to theirs And it is necessary to follow in order to lead" William Hazlitt "Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience" Hasidic saying "Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words" "Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go" Oscar Wilde "There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule" Malcome Forbes "Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?" George Moore The following quotations are in honor of Myrtle Osner, B March 26, 1920 (the same year that women got the vote in the USA and also the year of founding of the League of Women Voters) Happy Birthday, Mom! "A worthy woman is far more precious than jewels, strength and dignity are her clothing" Proverbs 31 But as the Myrtle breathes its fragrance into space through her hands God speaks, and from behind her eyes, God smiles upon the Earth" Kahlil Gibran Woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself" Susan Brownell Anthony, 1871 "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" William Shakespeare "Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training" Lewis Mumford "I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward" Charlotte Bronte "What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence" Samuel Johnson "No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back" Turkish proverb "No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up" Jane Wagner Is this a day of new beginnings, time to remember and move on, time to believe what love is bringing, laying to rest the pain that's gone? How can the seasons of a planet mindlessly spinning round its sun with just a human name and number say that some new thing has begun? Then let us with the Spirit's daring, step from the past and leave behind its disappointment, guilt, and grieving, seeking new paths, and sure to find Brian Wren, 1978 Two step formula for handling stress: Step 1:Don't sweat the small stuff Step 2:Remember that it's all small stuff Anthony Robbins "Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around" Henry David Thoreau "Of journeying the benefits are many:The freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners" "Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other" Henry David Thoreau "Quality isn't a thing It is an event" Robert Pirsig "Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen" Phillip Adams "All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at itwalk!" Ayn Rand "Noise proves nothingoften a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid" Mark Twain "I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose" attributed to Woodrow Wilson "If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it" Isadora Duncan "A man can only do what he can do But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day" Albert Schweitzer The ideas I stand for are not mine I borrowed them from Socrates I swiped them from Chesterfield I stole them from Jesus And I put them in a book If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it Then proceed to improve on the worst If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying You can make more friends in two months by becoming interrested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interrested in you Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all The price of greatness is responsibility The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others theirprinciples for the sake of their party He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last I have never accepted what many people have kindly saidnamely that I inspired the nation Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable It fell to me to express it on his 80th birthday, address to Parliament 11/30/54 Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire "No comment" is a splendid expression I am using it again and again My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever Use a pile driver Hit the point once Then come back and hit it again Then hit it a third timea tremendous whack War is a game that is played with a smile If you can't smile, grin If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can Eating words has never given me indigestion Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous In war you canonly be killed once, but in politics many times A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject It is a mistake to look too far ahead Only one link in the chain of destiny canbe handled at a time Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe No one pretends that democracy is perfect or allwise Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to methan my talent for absorbing positive knowledge Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler An empty stomach is not a good political advisor Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms from Life Magazine, 1/9/50 I think and think for months and years Ninetynine times, the conclusion is false The hundredth time I am right The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysteriousthe fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science from Living Philosophies, 1931 I never think of the future It comes soon enough When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute But let him sit on a hot stove for a minuteand it's longer than any hour That's relativity Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z X is work Y is play Z is keep your mouth shut Recalled on his death 18 Apr 55 A photograph never grows old You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago You see them as you remember them But as people live on, they change completely That is why I think a photograph can be kind I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America from his Inaugural address 1/20/53 Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield from an address at Peoria, IL 9/25/56 The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield 3/17/54 Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him from a Presidential campaign speech, Time Magazine, 10/6/52 Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebelsmen and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law from an address on the first observance of Law Day, 5/5/58 I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problemand that yardstick is: Is it good for America? Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates from his State of the Union address 1/12/61 Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and arenot clothed from an address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/16/53 History is more or less bunk Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently Whether you think you can or think you can'tyou are right It is not the employer who pays wageshe only handles the money It is the product that pays wages A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it 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 Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty Anyone who keeps learning stays young The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young Wise men don't need advice Fools won't take it Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing The world is full offools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do Beware of little expenses A small leak will sink a big ship Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he will never be dissappointed Wealth is not his who has it but his who enjoys it Creditors have better memories than debtors He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on If a man could have half his wishes he could double his troubles Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days Who is wise? He that learns from everyone Who is powerful? He that governs his passions Who is rich? He who is content Who is that? He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money We hold these truths to be selfevident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Eternal Vigilance is the price of liberty No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it Information is the currency of democracy The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their owngovernment; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperateto surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance It is time for a new generation of leadership, to coope with new problems and new opportunities For there is a new world to be won (July 4, 1960) The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promisesit is a set of challenges It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them For those to whom much is given, much is required (Jan 9, 1961) Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich (Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1961) All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet But let us begin (Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1961) And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country (Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 1961) I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone (Address to Nobel Prizewinners, 4/62) Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated this is not the case (June 12, 1963) Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:'We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well We must use time creativelyand forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man'scharacter, give him power The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tired on him personally If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect andesteem You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be Force is allconquering, but its victories are shortlived Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other onething Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth the sport The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor Football is a game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity New York Times, 12/10/67 If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two thingsblocking and tackling It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender Winning is a habit Unfortuantely, so is losing 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 Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an allthetime thing A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall Football is like lifeit requires perserverence, selfdenial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! New York Times, 6//10/73 We do not rejoice in victories We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel Old age is like a plane flying through a storm Once you're aboard ther's nothing you can do A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them from The Power of Positive Thinking There is a real magic in enthusiasm It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others They will love you for it They will go for you and with you Become a possibilitarian No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilitiesalways see them, for they're always there We tend to get what we expect Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities No man is above the law and no man below it Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far Do what you can, with what you have, where you are Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and selfrestraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing Get action Seize the moment Man was never intended to become an oyster I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his wellbeing, to risk his life in a great cause I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work That is the recipe It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left London Daily Telegraph, 3/21/86 I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it Pennies do not come from heaventhey have to be earned here on earth If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best from an interview with Barbara Walters, 3/18/87 In politics if you want anything said, ask a man If you want anything done, ask a woman from People Magazine, 9/15/75 You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive The buck stops here If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen Study men, not historians Being too good is apt to be uninterresting I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again on leaving the White House, from Time Magazine, 1/26/53 Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that If you can't convince them, confuse them A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years 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 It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Toombstone, Arizona It says: "Here lies Jack Williams He done his damnedest I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there Failure to prepare is preparing to fail It's what you learn after you know it all that counts Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do "I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply" Ralph Waldo Emerson "There are two kinds of people:those who finish what they start, and so on" Robert Byrne "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip" Daniel L. Reardon "Necessity is the mother of taking chances" Mark Twain "Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large" "A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim" George Santayana "We cannot change [our memories], but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us" David Seamands "None of us suddenly becomes something overnight The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime" Gail Godwin "We have only one person to blame, and that's each other" Larry Breck of the NY Rangers, on who started a brawl during the Stanley Cup playoffs "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort" Sydney Smith "When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target" George Fisher "'Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man" Thomas Fuller "If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere" Joan Miro "Incipe, parve puer:qui non risere matrem, Nec deus hunc mensa, ea nec dignata cubili est" (Begin, baby:if you haven't a smile for your mother, then neither will a god think you worth inviting to dinner, nor a goddess to bed) Virgil, Aeneid "An apology is the superglue of life:it can repair just about anything" Lynn Johnston "When one finds oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship" John Renmerde "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible" St. Francis of Assisi "People may or may not say what they mean but theyalways say something designed to get what they want" Davied Mamet "These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future" Vernon Cooper, Lumbee tribe (Native American) "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example" Mark Twain "In the end it will not matter to us whether we fought with flails or reeds It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought" G. K. Chesterton "If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you and you have to battle with only one of them" Calvin Coolidge "Trust forms the foundation of total quality, and trust is made up of both character and competence" Steven R. Covey "Advice:what a man gives when he gets too old to set a bad example" La Rochefoucauld "I refuse to be intimidated by reality anymore What is reality? Nothing but a collective hunch" Lily Tomlin "The universe isn't run on the point system And survival isn't what it's all about Do what your're going to do; and with humor be aware that you might as well be doing the opposite" R. K. Welsh "Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile" Arnold Toynbee" this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down" Mary Pickford" the path without a Heart will turn against men and destroy them It does not take much to die, and to seek death and to seek nothing" Carlos Castaneda,The Teachings of Don Juan "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars" Latin proverb "The tragedy and the magnificence of Homo sapiens together rise from the same smoky truth that we alone among the animal species refuse to acknowledge natural law" Robert Ardrey,The Social Contract "Our lives improve only when we take chancesand the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves" Walter Anderson "Don't mistake pleasure for happiness They're a different breed of dog" Josh Billings "Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature; but don't lend it to your neighbors" Rudyard Kipling "Everybody knows that if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something" Gertrude Stein "Action is eloquence" William Shakespeare "Whoever wants to see a brick must look at its pores, and must keep his eyes close to it But whoever wants to see a cathedral cannot see it as he sees a brick This demands a respect for distance" Jose Ortega y Gasset "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously" Henry Kissinger "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there" Charles F. Kettering "At the root of human responsibility is the concept of perfection, the urge to achieve it, the intelligence to find a path toward it, and the will to follow that path, if not to the end at least the distance needed to rise above individual limitations and environmental impediments" Aung San Suu Kyi "Don't compromise yourself You're all you've got" Betty Ford (also attr. to Janis Joplin) "Each of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way" Suzuki Roshi "The function of dreams is to teach the waking mind how to forget what it thinks it knows but doesn't" William R. "When a child is born, a father is born A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening She becomes what's happening But for even the bestprepared father, it happens all at once On the other side of a plateglass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave He has seen the creation of the world It has his mark on it He has its mark on him Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible "All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start He must survive too Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children Lost fathers have to fend for themselves "Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves Terrible blnders will be madedisappointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on And every hard knock they ever get knocks the father even harder still if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation" Frederick Buechner,Whistling in the Dark "More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying they made them" "Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve" Tom Landry "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be Now put foundations under them" Henry David Thoreau "To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else" Bernadette Devlin "Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before" Polybius "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing" Theodore Roosevelt "There's nothing wrong with having nothing to sayunless you insist on saying it" anonymous "Some people have greatness thrust upon them Few have excellence thrust upon them they achieve it They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose John Gardner" the path without a Heart will turn against men and destroy them It does not take much to die, and to seek death and to seek nothing" Carlos Castaneda,The Teachings of Don Juan "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars" Latin proverb "The tragedy and the magnificence of Homo sapiens together rise from the same smoky truth that we alone among the animal species refuse to acknowledge natural law" Robert Ardrey,The Social Contract "Our lives improve only when we take chancesand the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves" Walter Anderson "Don't mistake pleasure for happiness They're a different breed of dog" Josh Billings "Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature; but don't lend it to your neighbors" Rudyard Kipling "Everybody knows that if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something" Gertrude Stein "Action is eloquence" William Shakespeare "Whoever wants to see a brick must look at its pores, and must keep his eyes close to it But whoever wants to see a cathedral cannot see it as he sees a brick This demands a respect for distance" Jose Ortega y Gasset "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously" Henry Kissinger "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there" Charles F. Kettering "At the root of human responsibility is the concept of perfection, the urge to achieve it, the intelligence to find a path toward it, and the will to follow that path, if not to the end at least the distance needed to rise above individual limitations and environmental impediments" Aung San Suu Kyi "Each of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way" Suzuki Roshi "The function of dreams is to teach the waking mind how to forget what it thinks it knows but doesn't" William R. "When a child is born, a father is born A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening She becomes what's happening But for even the bestprepared father, it happens all at once On the other side of a plateglass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave He has seen the creation of the world It has his mark on it He has its mark on him Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible "All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start He must survive too Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children Lost fathers have to fend for themselves "Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves Terrible blnders will be madedisappointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on And every hard knock they ever get knocks the father even harder still if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation" Frederick Buechner,Whistling in the Dark "More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying they made them" "Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve" Tom Landry "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be Now put foundations under them" Henry David Thoreau "To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else" Bernadette Devlin "Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before" Polybius "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing" Theodore Roosevelt "There's nothing wrong with having nothing to sayunless you insist on saying it" anonymous "Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish" "The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth" Chinese proverb "A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain" Mildred Witte Stouven "Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you" Maori proverb "There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap Carrie Fisher "Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your own way" Daniele Vare "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water" Swedish proverb "Don't go through life, grow through life" Eric Butterworth "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes" Marcel Proust "The best way to know God is to love many things" Vincent Van Gogh "The secret of success is constancy to purpose" Benjamin Disraeli "What we vividly imagine, ardently desire, enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass" Colin P. Sisson "Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified" Dr. Samuel Johnson "One can never pay in gratitude, one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life" Anne Morrow Lindbergh "A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life" John Hancock "Words that enlighten are more precious than jewels" Hazrat Inayat Khan "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 Disraeli "An idealist believes the short run doesn't count A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter A realist believes what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run" Sydney J. Harris "I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it" Will Rogers "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be" Kurt Vonnegut, Jr "The past is a ghost, the future a dream, all we everhave is now" Bill Cosby "Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune Carl Jung "Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours" Swedish proverb "There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity" Gen. Douglas MacArthur "We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are" Max DuPree "Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top Then you will see how low it was" Dag Hammarskjold "To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it It also means that without it, life will be valueless" Marsha Sinetar "Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experiences" Katherine Tingley "It is not doing the things we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed" "All things are possible until they are proved impossibleand even the impossible may only be so as of now" Pearl S. Buck "Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em" Mary Webb "Failures are divided into two classesthose who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought" John Charles Salak "She was weeping over the end of a cycle How one must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap the most difficult to make, to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelationship of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might lean as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle agasinst diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end Anais Nin "Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind" Ralph Waldo Emerson "There are two kinds of lightthe glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures" James Thurber" the ability to piece together work that will both satisfy and support us is the secret to surviving, even thriving" Wendy Reid Crisp "Talk doesn't cook rice" Chinese proverb "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 "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength" Ralph Sockman "Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value" Bertrand Russell "The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy However "sacred" a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify; but rather as we are and have the divine being within, we bless each task we do, be it eating, or sleeping, or watching, or any other" Meister Eckhart "If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing" Miguel de Unamuno "When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first" Ralph Waldo Emerson "Every one of us live this life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough" Greta Garbo "I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape this aloneness" Jim Harrison,Dalua "Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers" Joan Baez "Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit" Baltasar Gracian "Knowledge is free at the library Just bring your own container" "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 "One may be in as just possession of truths as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender" Sir Thomas Browne "The innovator is not an opponent of the old, he is a proponent of the new" Lyle E. Schaller "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes Art is knowing which ones to keep" Scott Adams "Storytelling reveals meaning without comitting the error of defining it" Hannah Arendt "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 "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 "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely" "The crux of leadership is that you must contantly stop to consider howyour decisions will influence people" Michigan State Police Maxim "Convincing yourself does not win an argument" Robert Half "It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive" C. W. Leadbeater "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything" Alexander Hamilton 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 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 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 We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another Luciano de Crescenzo Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it Karol Newlin 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 It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society Krishnamurti 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 (18791955) 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 wellmannered Voltaire The public is a ferocious beastone 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 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 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 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 TruthAn ingenious compound of desirability and appearance 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 (15681639) One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetratesit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Politicians are like diapers They both need changing regularly and for the same reason 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 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 Any effort that has selfglorification 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 Man1949 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 Thieves1994 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 (18841972) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his General G. C Patton (18851945) While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass President Lyndon Johnson (19081973) There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity Douglas MacArthur War is based on deception Sun Tzu (ca. 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 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. Gray hair is God's graffiti Bill Cosby 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 (19021984) Welltimed silence hath more eloquence than speech Martin Fraquhar Tupper In the end, everything is a gag Charlie Chaplin (18891977) Good teaching is onefourth preparation and threefourths theater Gail Godwin Every day I get up and look through the Forbeslist 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 (19151983) 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 Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research Wilson Mizner (18761933) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar zeThe best way to predict the future is to invent it Alan Kay Silence is argument carried out by other means Ernesto ;Che; Guevara (19281967) A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty Sir Winston Churchill (18741965) 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 (18751961) 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 planetor to save it But we might have the power to save ourselves Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park It is wise to direct your anger towards problemsnot people; to focus your energies on answersnot 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 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 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 Happiness is as a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly may alight uponyou 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 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 It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you reallyare It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult 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 Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world The Law of Thumb Wordsso 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 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 (18791955) 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 throughpeople, not fromthem 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 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; 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 The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom Justice William O. 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 Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself Mary H. Waldrip 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 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 I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my sideI've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts Bethania McKenstry 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 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 possessfor the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best 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 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 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 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 In youth we learn; in age we understand EbnerEschenbach 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 Immature love says, ;I love you because I need you Mature love says, ;I need you because I love you Erich Fromm Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye 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 firmthis 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 Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courageit 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 chasethat'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 newfangled 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 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 societythings 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 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 Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers Rainer Maria Rilke 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 Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity It is what makes nations great and marriages happy Phyllis McGinley They can because they think they can Conform and be dull James Frank Dobie A good conscience is a continual feast Robert Burton As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do Zachary Scott You will never findtime 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 worsttempered 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 Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading Sarah Orne Jewett 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 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 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 handinhand I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone 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 Calamity is man's true touchstone Beaumont and Fletcher He who forsees calamities, suffers them twice over Beilby Porteus Calamity is virtue's opportunity Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves William Davenant Calamity is the test of integrity Samuel Richardson Calamities are of two kinds Misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others Ambrose Bierce It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man Henry Mackenzie Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant Thomas Bailey Aldrich We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate William James Frank and explicitthat is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others Benjamin Disraeli Examine what is said, not him who speaks Arabian Proverb A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble Mahatma Gandhi Candor is the brightest gem of criticism Benjamin Disraeli Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman James Fenimore Cooper Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other George MacDonald There is no wisdom like frankness Benjamin Disraeli Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing Ralph Waldo Emerson The dynamo of our economic system is selfinterest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of selfexpression Felix Frankfurter The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries Winston Churchill Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ;fine home, says: "No man should have so much " The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All men should have as much" Phelps Adams The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good Ralph Barton Perry Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth Alfred Marshall Men are blind in their own cause Neywood Broun We are all ready to be savage in some cause The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause William James No cause is helpless if it is just Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction John W. Scoville In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes Julius Caesar Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom We know it is God's cause Thomas E. Dewey The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one Wilhelm Stekel The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live William P. The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error William Jennings Bryan Great causes and little men go ill together Jawaharlal Nehru It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same Thomas Paine If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause Wendell Phillips A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men Thomas Paine No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his wellbeing, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause Theodore Roosevelt The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just Abraham Lincoln It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, ;never do anything Henry Ward Peecher The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions Alfred Adler Be slow of tongue and quick of eye Miguel de Cervantes Among mortals second thoughts are wisest Euripides It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others Publilius Syrus Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness Charles Hole It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution Joseph Addison I find that the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise Thomas Jefferson The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us Seigneur de SaintEvremond Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them François de La Rochefoucauld He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure The dread of censure is the death of genius William Gillmore Simms Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent Jonathan Swift They have a right to censure that have a heart to help William Penn The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves Demosthenes I am opposed to censorship Censors are pretty sure fools I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts James Robinson Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book Walt Whitman Only the suppressed word is dangerous Ludwig Börne Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship Ben Lindsay Every burned book enlightens the world Ralph Waldo Emerson I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too Thomas Jefferson He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own Elias Lyman Maggon As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything Beaumarchais Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself Potter Stewart If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero Voltaire The internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it John Perry Barlow When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me John Wesley To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it Olin Miller In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain Pliny the Elder Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! George Meredith There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing Robert Burns If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties Francis Bacon Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies Friedrich Nietzsche There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it Owen Meredith To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice Ambrose Bierce There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place Washington Irving When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland He who rejects change is the architect of decay The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery Harold Wilson Change is an easy panacea It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there Elizabeth Clarke Dunn Never swap horses crossing a stream American Proverb I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and ;prepared to do it Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it The capacity ; for reformation and change lies within Preston Bradley Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself Leo Tolstoi Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal Arthur Schopenhauer The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change Laurence Joseph McGinley We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it Carl T. Rowan We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped Lyman Lloyd Bryson Things do not change, we do Henry David Thoreau The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress Charles F. Kettering He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils Francis Bacon Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation Robert F. Kennedy There is nothing permanent except change Heraclitus All change is not growth; all movement is not forward Ellen Glasgow In a progressive country change is constant; is inevitable Benjamin Disraeli Weep not that the world changesdid it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep William Cullen Bryant Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it Harry Emerson Fosdick Everything flows; nothing remains Heraclitus Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you Ralph Waldo Emerson A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents G. C. Lichtenberg Character is a victory, not a gift Anonymous There is no such thing as a "selfmade" man We are made up of thousands of others Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, ;or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success George Matthew Adams Every man has three charactersthat which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has Alphonse Karr What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary Ralph Waldo Emerson You must look into people, as well as at them Lord Chesterfield Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else Thomas Carlyle Character is what you are in the dark Dwight Moody Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character George Dana Boardman Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended François de La Rochefoucauld Characters do not change Opinions alter, but characters are only developed Benjamin Disraeli The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and ;Independence Edward Rickenbacker Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character Henry Clay A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's Jean Paul Richter Character is not made in a crisisit is only exhibited Robert Freeman Man's character is his fate Heraclitus As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled Victor Hugo If you give money, spend yourself with it Henry David Thoreau He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything Samuel Johnson The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest Henry Home Charity sees the need, not the cause German Proverb Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much Erich Fromm The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable J. S. Buckminster What we frankly give, forever is our own George Granville It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts, 20:35 Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and almsgiving procures us admission The Koran If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble Bob Hope Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there Elbert Hubbard Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal I Corinthians 13:13 They take the paper and they read the headlines,   So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of breadlines, And they philanthropically cure them all   By getting up a costume charity ball Ogden Nash With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in Abraham Lincoln One must be poor to know the luxury of giving George Eliot A bone to the dog is not charity Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog Jack London Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament Henry Van Dyke There are charms made only for distant admiration Samuel Johnson A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm Edgar Saltus Charm is more than beauty Yiddish Proverb The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up Mark Twain Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,an open and noble temper Ralph Waldo Emerson Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness ;there is Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts Anonymous Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurancethe cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen Thomas Carlyle A good laugh is sunshine in a house William Makepeace Thackeray The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence P. Godwin Cheer up! The worst is yet to come! Philander Johnson Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow Helen Keller So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains Ralph Waldo Emerson The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards Cheerfulness is the offshoot of goodness Christian Nestell Bovee Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen James Russell Lowell I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness Charles Dickens Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline Edwin Percy Whipple Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never Anna Jameson Children are poor men's riches English Proverb Children begin by loving their parents After a time they judge them Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them Oscar Wilde If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair If this doesn't work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child Anonymous Ah! what would the world be to us   If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us   Worse than the dark before Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children Richard Henry Dana The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation Ray L. Wilbur The child is father of the man William Wordsworth It is dangerous to confuse children with angels David Fyfe The best way to make children good is to make them happy Oscar Wilde My mother loved childrenshe would have given anything if I had been one Groucho Marx A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic Ralph Waldo Emerson Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt Benjamin Franklin Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children We've had bad luck with our kidsthey've all grown up Christopher Morley Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards Anonymous Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires Marcelene Cox It is a wise child that knows his own father It is a wise father that knows his own child William Shakespeare Children are our most valuable natural resource Herbert Hoover Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children Oliver Wendell Holmes To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both Tryon Edwards When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have Owen Wister A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything A choice is all that is left him H. Mathews He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to It is the means that determine the end Harry Emerson Fosdick Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods Charles Caleb Colton In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people André Maurois When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice William James Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose R. H. Blyth If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere Henry Ward Beecher Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully Charles Templeton The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing Leslie Dixon Weatherhead Christianity is a battle, not a dream Wendell Phillips Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbors Ambrose Bierce There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed Hannah More Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a nonmissionary church is in the bands of death Friedrich Max Müller A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday Thomas Ybarra Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I Alfred Kreymborg Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried Gilbert K. Chesterton The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one David Hume No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state Felix Adler In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality Thomas Campbell Clark The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back Charles de Gaulle The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system C. C. Morrison The church is only a secular institution in which the halfeducated speak to the halfconverted William Ralph Inge Citizenship consists in the service of the country Jawaharlal Nehru Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world Plutarch Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind Ralph Barton Perry Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear ;conscience break his contract with society To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do ;more than your share under it is noble Isaiah Bowman Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred He is willing to risk his ;life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it Andrew Jackson If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the ;wrong way Omar N. Bradley Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of ;fraternal feeling Abraham Lincoln Now the trumpet summons us againnot as a call to bear arms, though arms we neednot as a call to battle, though embattled we ;arebut a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"a ;struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself John Fitzgerald Kennedy The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight Theodore Roosevelt Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, ;family and country; such as the individual, honor and religion R. P. Lebret The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself Robert Green Ingersoll Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities Mark Twain The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion Thomas Carlyle The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out Ralph Waldo Emerson Civilization is not a burden It is an opportunity Alexander Meiklejohn The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually Woodrow Wilson Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity Will Durant Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man Leonard Sidney Woolf In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal W. R. Whitney We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization Franklin Delano Roosevelt Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent Bertrand Russell All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody really enjoyed the ;benefits of them James G- Daly You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way Will Rogers Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos Will Durant The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization Ralph Waldo Emerson Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite Oliver Wendall Holmes Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies Clara Lucas Balfour The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force Albert Einstein The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes Henry Ward Beecher I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready ;saddled and bridled to be ridden Richard Rumbold Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched Thomas Fuller All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move Arabian Proverb Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people Walt Whitman Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts Joseph Stalin There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class Leonard Sidney Woolf Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like Arnold Bennett The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid Gilbert K. Chesterton The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so François de La Rochefoucauld It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness François de La Rochefoucauld Cleverness is not wisdom Euripides Clever men are good, but they are not the best Thomas Carlyle Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing A culdesac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled John A. Lincoln A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it Israel Zangwill Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent Anonymous If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it Charles F. Kettering A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary Anonymous A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours Milton Berle When it comes to facing up to serious problems, each candidate will pledge to appoint a committee And what is a committee? ;A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary But it all sounds great in a campaign speech Richard Long Harkness Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult W. Somerset Maugham Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization F. L. Lucas Common sense is very uncommon Horace Greeley Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done Josh Billings Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius Josh Billings Common sense is genius in homespun Alfred North Whitehead He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them Charles Kingsley Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education Victor Hugo Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has Descartes Common sense is only a modification of talent Genius is an exaltation of it The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature Edward G. BulwerLytton Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual Earl Warren We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and ;open, across international boundaries Harry S. Truman Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us Edward Fairfax Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible Frank Moore Colby A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered ;about the globe It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals Robert M. Hutchins News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ;publication and not news Benjamin Disraeli What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling Ebenezer Elliott Communism has nothing to do with love Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy Mao TseTung A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up Winston Churchill I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men H. L. Mencken The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property Karl Marx I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the ;best friends I have got are Communists Franklin Delano Roosevelt Communism means barbarism James Russell Lowell Communism possesses a language which every people can understandits elements are hunger, envy, and death Heinrich Heine They say that the Soviet delegates smile That smile is genuine It is not artificial We wish to live in peace, tranquility But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle Nikita Khrushchev Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs Pierre Joseph Proudhon Communism is the death of the soul It is the organization of total conformityin short, of tyrannyand it is committed to making tyranny universal AdlaiE- Stevenson Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will William Cowper The value of compassion cannot be overemphasized Anyone can criticize It takes a true believer to be compassionate No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands Arthur H. Stainback The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion Everett M. The dew of compassion is a tear Lord Byron We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and ;brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware Julia Moss Seton Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy Benjamin Franklin The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity Samuel Johnson Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others Fénelon Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives Jonathan Swift The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease Josh Billings The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced Anonymous I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last Helen Rowland Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you Jules Renard If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one Mark Twain I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough Mark Twain My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light Edna St. Vincent Millay All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter Edmund Burke Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward Reginald Wright Kaufman What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease Bliss Carman It is the weak man who urges compromisenever the strong man Elbert Hubbard From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned Charles Sumner Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf Gilbert K. Chesterton If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory Benjamin Disraeli Real life is, to most men, a long secondbest, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity Bertrand Russell Better bend than break Scottish Proverb From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied Louis Untermeyer Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship James Russell Lowell People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into ;the gray areas Things are not all black and white There have to be compromises The middle of the road is all of the usable surface The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters Dwight D. Eisenhower Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining anothertoo often ending in the loss of both Tryon Edwards An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodilehoping it will eat him last Winston Churchill Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions Samuel Johnson Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship Humanity needs a lesson in humility Richard Dawkins The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it Vannevar Bush (1945) Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruffit is a palliative rather than a remedy Peter De Vries To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it Publilius Syrus Open confession is good for the soul Scottish Proverb It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution Oscar Wilde The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works Saint Augustine Nothing spoils a confession like repentance Anatole France Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee William Penn For they conquer who believe they can John Dryden He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted Auerbach If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellowcitizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem Abraham Lincoln The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return Marie Edgeworth True prosperity is the result of wellplaced confidence in ourselves and our fellow man Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too I have great faith in foolsselfconfidence my friends call it Edgar Allan Poe The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity Robert Anthony A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist Ralph Waldo Emerson The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently Friedrich Nietzsche Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the welltrodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road Voltaire Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect Mark Twain We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove Mark Twain Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion Benjamin Franklin Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do Ivan Turgenev It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed Albert Einstein Conform and be dull J- Frank Doble Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it Henry David Thoreau 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 Henry David Thoreau I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike Emile Henry Gauvreau I've said many a time that I think the UnAmerican Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most unAmerican thing in America! Don't try to go too fast Learn your job Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about If you want to get along, go along Sam Rayburn No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else Henry Brooks Adams Congress is so strange A man gets up to speak and says nothing Nobody listensand then everybody disagrees Boris Marshalov "Do you pray for the Senators, Dr Hale?" someone asked the chaplain "No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country" Edward Everett Hale The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour Hubert H- Humphrey Conservation is ethically sound It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law Lyndon Baines Johnson The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value Theodore Roosevelt Worldwide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace Gifford Pinchot As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them Louis Bromfield Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men Gifford Pinchot Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience George Santayana A good conscience is a continued Christmas Benjamin Franklin Conscience is a motherinlaw whose visit never ends H. L. Mencken '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 He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes Chinese Proverb The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within Mahatma Gandhi No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! Lord Byron Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape George Bancroft Consciencethe only incorruptible thing about us Henry Fielding The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive Edward Gibbon The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements John Marshall Harlan I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them It's my job Oliver Wendell Holmes Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves Ramsey Clark In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution Thomas Jefferson I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise Benjamin Franklin We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same James Bryce Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties Abraham Lincoln To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race Calvin Coolidge The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please Thomas Jefferson The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom Calvin Coolidge We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution Charles Evans Hughes The Bill of RightsThe Original Contract With America Accept no substitutes Beware of imitations Insist on the genuine articles Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all G. C. Lichtenberg Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get Spanish Proverb My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more Charles Lamb If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach Lin Yutang One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him Christian Nestell Bovee It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are James Mackintosh One should either be sad or joyful Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers Eugene O'Neill Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence Thomas C. Haliburton Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase John Balguy Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty Socrates A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it George Moore To the right, books; to the left, a teacup In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post There is no greater happiness than this The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together Where there is much light, the shadow is deep Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The superiority of some men is merely local They are great because their associates are little Samuel Johnson The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue Samuel Johnson Joy and grief are never far apart In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door The smiles and Robert Eldridge Willmott Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood William Shakespeare Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment George Sala Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors Ralph Waldo Emerson Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing Robert Benchley Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know André Maurois I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits John Locke Conceit causes more conversation than wit François de La Rochefoucauld A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation Mark Twain Silence is one great art of conversation William Hazlitt Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them Lord Chesterfield "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober" Gilbert K. Chesterton Our country In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong! Stephen Decatur So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal Giuseppe Mazzini Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just Thomas Jefferson I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death Let him who loves his ;country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me Giuseppe Garibaldi 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 My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders The country is the real thing, the ;substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, ;they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, ;disease, and death Mark Twain Our country is the worldour countrymen are mankind William Lloyd Garrison The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities Lord Acton The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion Thomas Paine Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free Montesquieu How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it Henry George There is no such thing as a little country The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a ;man is determined by his height Victor Hugo Every man has two countries, his own and France Henri de Bornier I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world Eugene V. Debs There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country Joseph Addison There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a wellformed mind would be disposed to relish To make us love our ;country, our country ought to be lovely Edmund Burke Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny Daniel Webster Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fearnot absence of fear Mark Twain Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing Samuel Johnson Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other Oliver J. Hart Last, but by no means least, couragemoral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave It's the ageold strugglethe roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other Douglas MacArthur I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it Lyndon Baines Johnson Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die Gilbert K. Chesterton Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage Ralph Waldo Emerson I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row 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 No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut Channing Pollock What a new face courage puts on everything! Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart Robert Green Ingersoll Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner Joseph Addison Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ;spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat Theodore Roosevelt It takes vision and courage to createit takes faith and courage to prove Owen D. Young One man with courage makes a majority Andrew Jackson This is no time for ease and comfort It is the time to dare and endure Winston Churchill True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher John Petit Senn The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from Joanna Baillie Courage is grace under pressure Ernest Hemingway The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence H. L. Mencken A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever Henry Waldorf Francis Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide Henry Waldorf Francis The place of justice is a hallowed place Francis Bacon Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts Abel Stevens The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it Christian Nestell Bovee It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice Baltasar Gracián To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart Henry Clay Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy Ralph Waldo Emerson We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is ever lost by courtesy It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much It pleases him who gives and ;him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed Erastus Wiman If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world Francis Bacon True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can Alexander Pope Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest Jean Paul Richter Courtesy is a science of the highest importance opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, ;and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation Michel de Montaigne One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs Ambrose Bierce Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men Bishop Westcott Is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination Ernest Hemingway The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know Napoleon Bonaparte To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice Confucius It is the coward who fawns upon those above him It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination Jeremy Collier Cowards can never be moral Mahatma Gandhi A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites Quintus Curtius Rufus It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward Dolores Ibarruri The cowards never startedand the weak died along the way Anonymous Faint heart ne'er won fair lady Miguel de Cervantes There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice Mark Twain Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive George A. Knight A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit Thomas Jefferson Fear has its use but cowardice has none Mahatma Gandhi The coward threatens when he is safe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every hardboiled egg is yellow inside Anonymous Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once William Shakespeare Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements Alfonso X not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain Thomas Browne Creation is a drug I can't do without Cecil B. DeMille The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity Thomas Carlyle It is wise to learn; it is Godlike to create John Saxe Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired Mark Twain Ideas are the root of creation Ernest Dimnet The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker Voltaire Never tell people how to do things Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity George S. Patton, Jr Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away 2Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time, not light years ahead 3Always look for a second right answer 4If at first you don't succeed, take a break 5Write down your ideas before you forget them 6If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead 7The answer to your problem "preexists " You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer 8When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer 9Never solve a problem from its original perspective 10Visualize your problem as solved before solving it Chalres "Chic" Thompson Don't play what's there, play what's not there Miles Davis A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience Oliver Wendell Holmes Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent Horace Walpole The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery Upton Sinclair No man's credit is as good as his money The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any Maurice Switzer A person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay Charles Dickens A pig bought on credit is forever grunting Spanish Proverb In God we trust; all others must pay cash Anonymous Credit is like a lookingglass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired Walter Scott Buying on trust is the way to pay double Anonymous Remember that credit is money Benjamin Franklin Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to Ambrose Bierce I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem FitzGreene Halleck Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence Tryon Edwards You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others John PetitSenn The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence Christian Nestell Bovee The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one Adolf Hitler When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous Calvin Coolidge We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection Is this not sad? Madame Dorothée Deluzy There's a sucker born every minute P. T. Barnum I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all Ralph Barton Perry The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity Philip Sidney Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty Henry Ford Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness Edward G. BulwerLytton Small crimes always precede great ones Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness Jean Baptiste Racine There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals Ramsey Clark Set a thief to catch a thief Anonymous It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld Don Marquis Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity Jean de La Bruyère Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it Henry Thomas Buckle The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind Joseph Conrad There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass Ralph Waldo Emerson If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs Arthur "Bugs" Baer Fear follows crime, and is its punishment Voltaire Crime is a product of social excess Lenin, Vladimir Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it Anonymous We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them Allen Tucker Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime Charles H. Parkhurst We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business Will Rogers If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father Jean de La Bruyère Crime is contagious If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law Louis D. Brandeis Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime Conte Vittorio Alfieri All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such Mahatma Gandhi And who are the greater criminals those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them? Robert Emmet Sherwood Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder George Washington What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few Benjamin Disraeli I have too great a soul to die like a criminal John Wilkes Booth We easily forget crimes that are known only to ourselves François de La Rochefoucauld Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society Lyndon Baines Johnson Every crisis offers you extra desired power William Moulton Marston Every little thing counts in a crisis Jawaharlal Nehru Crises refine life In them you discover what you are Allan K. Chalmers The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his lifeknowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live Aristotle These are the times that try men's souls Thomas Paine as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become Bishop Westcott Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think Jawaharlal Nehru Man is not imprisoned by habit Great changes in him can be wrought by crisisonce that crisis can be recognized and understood Norman Cousins It is much easier to be critical than to be correct Benjamin Disraeli Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar Channing Pollock The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all Mark Twain The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Blame is safer than praise Ralph Waldo Emerson I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell Harry S. Truman Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well Samuel Johnson The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon Charles Buxton Even the lion has to defend himself against flies Anonymous To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing Elbert Hubbard Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants Walter Winchell Some people are always critical of vague statements I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled "wrong" Raymond Smullyan Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity George Eliot Cruelty and fear shake hands together Honoré de Balzac Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us Robinson Jeffers The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow Samuel Johnson Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! Robert Burns If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one Anatole France When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama Mark Twain All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel Thomas Fowell Buxton The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty Jesse Bennett Culture is one thing and varnish is another Ralph Waldo Emerson Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit Jawaharlal Nehru The end of culture is right living W. Somerset Maugham Culture, with us, ends in headache Ralph Waldo Emerson No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive Mahatma Gandhi Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart Mahatma Gandhi That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all Henry Ward Beecher Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why Henry Van Dyke Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture John Abbott One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute William Lyon Phelps A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity Alexander Pope Curiosity is only vanity Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling Blaise Pascal It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory Richard Whately 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 Albert Einstein The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity Edmund Burke Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts Clarence Day Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs Moritz Guedmann Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb Robert Green Ingersoll Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools Thomas Fuller Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom Francis Bacon The old ways are the safest and surest ways Charles Caleb Colton Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life Francis Bacon There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments Joseph Anderson There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted Christian Nestell Bovee Ancient custom has the force of law Legal Maxim We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of freethinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned Thomas Carlyle Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had Joseph Wood Krutch Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well Jean Jacques Rousseau Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom Mark Twain Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot J. Bartlett The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrowso arbitrary are these transient laws Alexander Dumas A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset J. G. Cozzens A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye Carolyn Wells The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game Henry Ward Beecher It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to Fannie Hurst A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin H. L. Mencken The only deadly sin I know is cynicism Henry L. Stimson A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word Ralph Waldo Emerson A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be Ambrose Bierce A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing Oscar Wilde Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment Owen Felltham Never let your zeal outrun your charity The former is but human, the latter is divine Hosea Ballou Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly in fools Ancient Proverb Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark John Newton To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious William Penn Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, wellmeaning, but without understanding Louis D. Brandeis Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul Charles Buxton There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country Joseph Addison Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes Alan Watts Spirited, restive flea, become a Buddha by my hand! No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back You cannot describe it or draw it You cannot praise it enough or perceive it No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard Zen Saying The ultimate Path is without difficulty Just avoid picking and choosing SengTs'an One day a student asked Taiga, "What is the most difficult part of painting?"Taiga answered, "The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult" Painting Zen Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to lifeafter that you cannot be deceived Zen Saying An American seeker: "If you follow any way, you will never get there; and if you do not follow any way, you will never get there So one faces a dilemma" Hisamatsu: "Let that dilemma be your way" Contemporary Mondo The mind that does not understand is the Buddha There is no other There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung Zen Saying Zest is the secret of all beauty There is no beauty that is attractive without zest Christian Dior Mirth is the sweet wine of human life It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God Henry Ward Beecher Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life Elbert Hubbard A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards Jean Paul Richter If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? Thomas Huxley The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps William Lloyd George We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears We must not demean life by standing in awe of death David Sarnoff As soon as there is life there is danger Ralph Waldo Emerson This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer Will Rogers If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else Reinhold Niebuhr There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain agoing C. C. Phelps We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger Corneille We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger Raymond G. The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly Jawaharlal Nehru In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it George Bernard Shaw There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone Marquise de Sévigné Don't play for safetyit's the most dangerous thing in the world Hugh Walpole In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave John James Ingalls Tis after death that we measure men James Barron Hope Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives A. Sachs I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter Winston Churchill Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good William Mitford Deaththe last sleep? No, it is the final awakening Walter Scott To stop sinning suddenly Elbert Hubbard All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live Mark Twain Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live Henry Van Dyke Now comes the mystery Henry Ward Beecher A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor I look upon life as a gift from God I did nothing to earn it Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain Joyce Cary The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world Mark Twain Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now! Thomas F. Healey I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this Hugh Hamilton God's finger touched him, and he slept Alfred, Lord Tennyson Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it W. Somerset Maugham He that lives to forever, never fears dying William Penn To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead Bertrand Russell How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty Eric Hoffer Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it William Shakespeare Most people would rather die than think: Bertrand Russell Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill Ralph Waldo Emerson And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude Thomas Jefferson Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves Franklin Delano Roosevelt 'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle Benjamin Franklin We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier François de La Rochefoucauld A man in debt is so far a slave Ralph Waldo Emerson A church debt is the devil's salary Henry Ward Beecher One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back Jesse H. Jones Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies Edward G. BulwerLytton Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime Benjamin Disraeli Never spend your money before you have it Thomas Jefferson Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people Wendell Phillips Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it George D. Prentice Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them George Herbert Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them Ogden Nash Debt is the worst poverty Thomas Fuller Debt is the slavery of the free Publilius Syrus A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy Publilius Syrus Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity Samuel Johnson Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt Benjamin Franklin A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory Austin O'Malley A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field Robert Green Ingersoll He who promises runs in debt The Talmud Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things Robert South Every crowd has a silver lining P. T. Barnum It is double the pleasure to deceive the deceiver Jean de la Fontaine You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time Abraham Lincoln The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others François de La Rochefoucauld When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people Mark Twain No law reaches it, but all rightminded people observe it Chamfort We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile R. W. Riis Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed François de La Rochefoucauld Don't overestimate the decency of the human race H. L. Mencken All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last Marcel Proust Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth Gene Fowler When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment William B. Given, Jr We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow Jonathan Westover It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do Elbert Hubbard Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them Laurence J. I hate to see things done by halves If it be right, do it boldly,if it be wrong leave it undone Bernard Gilpin The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong Thomas Carlyle We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately Benjamin Franklin We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness Thomas Jefferson Defeat is not the worst of failures Not to have tried is the true failure George E. Woodberry Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated Will Rogers Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact Norman Vincent Peale There are some defeats more triumphant than victories Michel de Montaigne Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong Henry Ward Beecher There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory In War: Resolution In Defeat: Defiance In Victory: Magnanimity In Peace: Goodwill Winston Churchill What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better Wendell Phillips The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult Winston Churchill Many a good man I have seen go under Walt Whitman Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it Josephus Daniels Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated Jawaharlal Nehru But man is not made for defeat A man can be destroyed but not defeated Ernest Hemingway It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible Henry Ward Beecher Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? Defeat should never be a source of courage, but rather a fresh stimulant Robert South I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail Wendell L Willkie We are confident that we can penetrate any enemy defenses with our missiles We know that we are more than the equal of any nation in the world Robert McNamara If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War George Washington That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves Chester Nimitz To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace George Washington The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security Gerald R. Ford The worst deluded are the selfdeluded Christian Nestell Bovee No man is happy without a delusion of some kind Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities Christian Nestell Bovee Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth If the people be governors, who shall be governed? John Cotton In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen G. Norman Collie Remember, democracy never lasts long It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide John Quincy Adams Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people Abraham Lincoln government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few" George Bernard Shaw Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor James Russell Lowell Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven H. L. Mencken You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution Gilbert K. Chesterton Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage H. L. Mencken As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of democracy Abraham Lincoln Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people Harry Emerson Fosdick Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it Walter Winchell Democracy is good I say this because other systems are worse Jawaharlal Nehru Democracy is a system of selfdetermination It's the right to make the wrong choice John Patrick In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility Norman Cousins Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary Reinhold Niebuhr The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder Ralph Waldo Emerson No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance Samuel Johnson Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others Johann Kaspar Lavater There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self John Gay There is no one subsists by himself alone Owen Felltham By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act Claude Adrien Helvétius All human activity is prompted by desire Bertrand Russell We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none Christian Nestell Bovee What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants Joseph Wood Krutch While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do Edgar F. Roberts There are two tragedies in life One is not get your heart's desire The other is to get it George Bernard Shaw It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow François de La Rochefoucauld You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration James Allen Desire is the essence of a man Benedict Spinoza Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs Dwight D. Eisenhower Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head Pierre Charron Despair ruins some, presumption many Benjamin Franklin The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things Anne Sophie Swetchine The man who lives only by hope will die with despair Italian Proverb Despair is the conclusion of fools Benjamin Disraeli It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear Francis Bacon When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up Roger W. Babson What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope George Eliot It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die Alfred, Lord Tennyson The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation What is called resignation is confirmed desperation A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind Henry David Thoreau One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it French Proverb Destiny is no matter of chance It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved William Jennings Bryan Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny John Oliver Hobbes A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure Ambrose Bierce Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire Orison S. Marden Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny Kin Hubbard If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water Yiddish Proverb Men are what their mothers made them Ralph Waldo Emerson The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug Mark Twain The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked H. L. Mencken Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress Mahatma Gandhi Where there is no difference, there is only indifference Louis Nizer If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences Eugene Edwards The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them Robert Frost The difference is no less real because it is of degree Benjamin Nathan Cardozo If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world Joseph Addison Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow Ronald E. Osborn Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict William Ellery Channing No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his selfrespect George Bernard Shaw Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them Phyllis Bottome We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges Abram Sacher The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things Chinese Proverb Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow Henry H. Haskins Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation Oscar Wilde The discontented man finds no easy chair Benjamin Franklin Restlessness and discontent are the necessities of progress Thomas A. Edison Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment Robert Herrick One thing only has been lent to youth and age in commondiscontent Matthew Arnold That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others James Thomson The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world And from the discontent of man The worlds best progrss springs Ella Wheeler Wilcox The greatest weariness comes from work not done Eric Hoffer Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand George Santayana Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance Elbert Hubbard No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem Booker T. Washington Dignity belongs to the conquered Kenneth Burke The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and wellbeing Emma Goldman Human rights rest on human dignity The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for Robert Maynard True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn Philip Massinger When boasting ends, there dignity begins Owen D. Young Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them Aristotle There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble Washington Irving All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view Napoleon Bonaparte Diligence is the mother of good luck Benjamin Franklin What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence Samuel Johnson Every noble work is at first impossible Thomas Carlyle Few things are impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance Samuel Johnson He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor Menander of Athens That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in and the best of me is diligence William Shakespeare When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work George Bernard Shaw The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools Confucius I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats I speak the truth, and they never believe me Camillo di Cavour Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war Randolph Bourne International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one Ambrose Bierce Diplomacy: lying in state Oliver Herford The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacygive one and take ten Mark Twain Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way Daniele Vare Let us never negotiate out of fear But let us never fear to negotiate John Fitzgerald Kennedy Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way Isaac Goldberg A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth Arthur J. Goldberg A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol Adlai E. Stevenson I never refuse I contradict I sometimes forget Benjamin Disraeli This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims James Reston 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 Anonymous American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet Charles G. To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy Will Durant The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place Barry M. Goldwater A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age Anonymous the patriotic art of lying for one's country Ambrose Bierce Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes Samuel Johnson The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them Agnes Repplier We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal Mary Baker Eddy A person's age is not dependent upon the number of years that have passed over his head, but on the number of colds that have passed through it Shirley W. Some remedies are worse than the diseases Publilius Syrus When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs Russian Proverb It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do Charles Caleb Colton There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure Bernard M. It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it Ralph Waldo Emerson A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past Nathaniel Hawthorne Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature Hosea Ballou The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century William Lyon Phelps If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease Robert Green Ingersoll We are the carriers of health and diseaseeither the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety Joshua Loth Liebman False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil Socrates Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people Kin Hubbard Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss Democritus Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long Wait until you meet him at night Robert C. Edwards If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve G. C. Lichtenberg Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible George Bancroft Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect Stephen Butler Leacock Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive George A. Knight The United States can be proud that it has institutions and a structure that permit its citizens to express honest dissent, even though those who do so may be maligned by the highest official in the land New York Times Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness in our society Earl Warren Dissent does not include the freedom to destroy the system of law which guarantees freedom to speak, assemble and march in protest Dissent is not anarchy Seymour F. In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law Charles Evans Hughes Thought that is silenced is always rebellious Majorities, of course, are often mistaken This is why the silencing of minorities is always dangerous Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions Alan Barth Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard Felix Frankfurter The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them Camillo di Cavour Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody John Churton Collins On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women H. L. Mencken However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others François de La Rochefoucauld The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization Franz Boas What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires Jean Baptiste Racine I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education Wilson Mizner To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man Oliver Wendell Holmes Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise William Shakespeare Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother Kahlil Gibran Faith keeps many doubts in her pay If I could not doubt, I should not believe Henry David Thoreau In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted Bertrand Russell The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people s ofull of doubts Bertrand Russell Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt Clarence Darrow Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt William Shakespeare Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom George Iles We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt enters Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt H. L. Mencken People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today John Fitzgerald Kennedy Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States Burton Kendall Wheeler Pressed into service means pressed out of shape Robert Frost A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living John Fitzgerald Kennedy Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep Benjamin Rush Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives Charles William Dement The smaller the head, the bigger the dream Austin O'Malley People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table Max Beerbohm A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace Walter de la Mare It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow Robert H. Goddard Nothing happens unless first a dream Carl Sandburg There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream They are right It is the American Dream Archibald MacLeish Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare H. F. Hedge If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be Now put the foundations under them Henry David Thoreau The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it William Faulkner All men of action are dreamers James G. Huneker If one advances confidently in the directions 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 more a man dreams, the less he believes H. L. Mencken Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it John Sterling Good clothes open all doors Thomas Fuller Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible George Washington The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells what the kernel is Anonymous Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul Mark Twain The cat in gloves catches no mice Benjamin Franklin If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare William Arnot The welldressed man is he whose clothes you never notice W. Somerset Maugham Clothes don't make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job Herbert Harold Vreeland I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a wearer of new clothes Henry David Thoreau Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best Phineas Fletcher Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women Elsa Schiaparelli I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain Ben Hecht Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others Benjamin Franklin If a woman rebels against highheeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat George Bernard Shaw No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women Sir Walter Raleigh Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and halfstarved their families "Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire," as Poor Richard says Benjamin Franklin There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel Ella Wheeler Wilcox Clothes make the man Latin Proverb Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed Coleman Cox Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse Isaac Watts The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them Walt Whitman The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth The Jews know the true God, and love only theearth The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth Blaise Pascal The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in Thomas Jefferson The earth and its resources belong of right to its people Gifford Pinchot The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood Lewis Mumford I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum George Bernard Shaw Our earth is but a small star in a great universe Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory Stephen Vincent Benét There is enough for all The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace Bourke Coekran I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not Friedrich Nietzsche The green earth sends her incense up From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine John Greenleaf Whittier How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves? Paul Bigelow Sears Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe Christopher Morley Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God Samuel M. Hageman There can be no economy where there is no efficiency Beaconsfield What this country needs is a good fivecent Nickel Franklin P. It is of no small commendation to manage a little well To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more Joseph Hall Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it Armand Salacrou The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair" Joseph Addison Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship Benjamin Franklin Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it Christian Nestell Bovee He who will not economize will have to agonize Confucius Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny Plutarch A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year Benjamin Franklin I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the Thomas Jefferson Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor Samuel Johnson The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength Thomas Fowell Buxton Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest William Shakespeare Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse Benjamin Franklin Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee Benjamin Franklin The market puts an almost irresistible pressure on every activity to justify itself in the only terms it recognizes: to become a business proposition, to pay its own way, to show black ink on the bottom line It turns news into entertainment, school Cristopher Lasch (The Revolt of the Elites, 1995) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion George Bernard Shaw He who opens a school door, closes a prison Victor Hugo There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in Will Rogers If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest Benjamin Franklin Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty James Madison Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts Henry Brooks Adams Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave Henry Peter Brougham Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime Chinese Proverb Only the educated are free Epictetus Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding Ambrose Bierce Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat Martin H.Fischer Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army Edward Everett Education is too important to be left solely to the educators Francis Keppel The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living Wendell Phillips The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead Aristotle Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education John Fitzgerald Kennedy The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government Sam Houston My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately George Bernard Shaw An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't Anatole France I have never let my schooling interfere with my education Mark Twain Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,the balancewheel of the social machinery Horace Mann Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends Benjamin Disraeli You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think Elbert Hubbard Education is a social process Education is growth Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself John Dewey To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society Theodore Roosevelt Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught Oscar Wilde Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day Thomas Jefferson Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance Will Durant Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know Gilbert K.Chesterton Education is the fireproofer of emotions Frank Crane There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is run by C students No one wants a good education Everyone wants a good degree Lee Rudolph We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiencyclear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought Woodrow Wilson Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit Jawaharlal Nehru In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare Gifford Pinchot A sense of the value of timethat is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activitiesis an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry Arnold Bennett Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage Jawaharlal Nehru It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent Walter Scott There is nothing so useless as doing effeciently that which should not be done at all Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick Anonymous If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it The more things you do, the more you can do Lucille Ball Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up James A. Garfield Many a man never fails because he never tries Norman MacEwan The path to success is to take massive, determined action Anthony Robbins It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed In this life we get nothing save by effort Theodore Roosevelt Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past Theodore Roosevelt There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering Theodore Roosevelt The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way We must not create a deterrent to hard work Robert A. Taft It's not enough to be busy The question is: What are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself Shunryu Suzuka In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside John Fitzgerald Kennedy It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion Mark Twain By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holierthanthou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it Joseph Collins Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness John Sterling The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool George Santayana Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind Max Eastman Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor Josh Billings In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend Anne Sophie Swetchine One very important ingredient of success is a good, wideawake, persistent, tireless enemy Frank B. Shutts Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace Petrarch Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view Lord Halifax When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover Ambrose Bierce There is no little enemy Benjamin Franklin A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies Oscar Wilde An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you Elbert Hubbard Man is his own worst enemy A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies Don Piatt Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults Antisthenes We have met the enemy and he is us Walt Kelly If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends Elbert Hubbard Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind Gene Fowler Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and selfsatisfaction Sydney Harris To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself Ivan Turgenev I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse Nicholas Breton Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man Hugh Blair Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety" Francis Quarles If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrapheap Glen Buck True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united Humboldt The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity Mark Twain My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your platethat's my philosophy Thornton Wilder The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything Edward Phelps An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it Orlando A. Battista If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself William Godwin To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it Josh Jenkins Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Truth is immortal; error is mortal Mary Baker Eddy A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man J. Robert Oppenheimer Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth Jeremy Taylor It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Error is discipline through which we advance William Ellery Channing No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it Thomas Hobbes Give me a productive error over a boring, mundane and unproductive fact any day Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair Judith Stern A burnt child dreads the fire English Proverb Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience George Bernard Shaw I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience I know of no way of judging the future but by the past Patrick Henry We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience Abraham Lincoln Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been Josh Billings Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies Josh Billings Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing Oscar Wilde A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn Samuel Taylor Coleridge One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning James Russell Lowell If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! George Bernard Shaw Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards Vernon Saunders Law Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around But when I got to be twentyone, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years Mark Twain An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife Franklin P. All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs Japanese Proverb Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich Oscar Wilde That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose Richard Whately Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license George Chapman Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything Johann Kaspar Lavater I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old Robert Frost Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance Seigneur de SaintEvremond I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue Barry M. Goldwater In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility Ralph Waldo Emerson Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say Charles Caleb Colton The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands Benjamin Franklin An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity Ralph Waldo Emerson A fact in itself is nothing It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes Claude Bernard A concept is stronger than a fact Charlotte P. Get the facts, or the facts will get you And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong Thomas Fuller Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing Thomas Huxley Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth William C. Redfield Comment is free but facts are sacred Charles P. We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time F. Marion Smith A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words Thomas Huxley Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes Jawaharlal Nehru If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right Bernard M. I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anythingand it works William Strong A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself Georges Clemenceau I have no use for men who fail The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates John D. Rockefeller Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure Thomas A. Edison Ambition is the last refuge of the failure Oscar Wilde A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience Elbert Hubbard It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed Theodore Roosevelt Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes Lewis E. Lawes A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else John Burroughs Failures are divided into two classesthose who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought John Charles Salak Not failure, but low aim, is crime James Russell Lowell The only people who never fail are those who never try Ilka Chase Ninetynine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses George Washington Carver He's no failure He's not dead yet William Lloyd George When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead John Greenleaf Whittier Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable H. L. Mencken We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession George Bernard Shaw I always prefer to believe the best of everybodyit saves so much trouble Rudyard Kipling Faith is love taking the form of aspiration William Ellery Channing It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it William Makepeace Thackeray The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness Henry David Thoreau Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days Ecclesiastes 11:1 I can believe anything provided it is incredible Oscar Wilde Even the best things are not equal to their fame Henry David Thoreau The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate Emily Dickinson The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it François de La Rochefoucauld It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven Nicolas Caussin Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings Only one thing endures and that is character Horace Greeley Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright H. L. Mencken The highest form of vanity is love of fame George Santayana Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else Oliver Wendell Holmes Fame is proof that people are gullible Ralph Waldo Emerson The present condition of fame is merely fashion Gilbert K. Chesterton If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it All objects lose by too familiar a view John Dryden Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it Familiar acts are beautiful through love Percy Bysshe Shelley Familiarity breeds contemptand children Mark Twain Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration William Hazlitt When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman Joseph Addison Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds Antoine Rivarol The family is one of nature's masterpieces George Santayana Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice Reinhold Niebuhr None but a mule denies his family A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold Ogden Nash The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have Ring Lardner He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too Benjamin Franklin A happy family is but an earlier heaven John Bowring The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intendedand not to take a kint when a hint isn't intended Robert Frost Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other I would rather start a family than finish one Don Marquis If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance George Bernard Shaw An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't Sacha Guitry Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues Giuseppe Mazzini Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful Ida Ross Wylie It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it Fidelity is seventenths of business success James Parton It is better to be faithful than famous Theodore Roosevelt Onethird of the people in the United States promote, while the other twothirds provide Will Rogers There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks Louis D. Brandeis Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile Woodrow Wilson Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out Will Rogers A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you Will Rogers The moneychangers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths Franklin Delano Roosevelt A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination Arthur Wing Pinero High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts Finley Peter Dunne Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy J. Swarlz Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing Alexander Hamilton When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary Napoleon Bonaparte The purpose firm is equal to the deed Edward Young It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity François de La Rochefoucauld That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey Lord Erskine The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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 Lord Chesterfield The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm Confucius Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering George Bernard Shaw Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency François de La Rochefoucauld Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present Samuel Johnson Flattery is from the teeth out Sincere appreciation is from the heart out Dale Carnegie It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise Jean Paul Richter It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the deadthese the living Antisthenes Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise William Penn Knavery and flattery are blood relations Abraham Lincoln Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed Josh Billings None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not Benedict Spinoza What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools George Chapman No fools are so troublesome as those who have some wit François de La Rochefoucauld Fools grow without watering Thomas Fuller A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears William Makepeace Thackeray To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's William Penn Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed Mark Twain Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient selfinspection Frank Moore Colby The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way Josh Billings The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble Lajos Kossuth In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force Mahatma Gandhi We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited Ralph Waldo Emerson When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, the blow with an agreement Leon Trotsky Force is allconquering, but its victories are shortlived Abraham Lincoln There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right Woodrow Wilson Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force Blaise Pascal Force is not a remedy John Bright Right reason is stronger than force James A. Garfield By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live George F. Kennan The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world John Fitzgerald Kennedy Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another Jean Paul Richter He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers Koran, sura 42 I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled notetorn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one Henry Ward Beecher Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself Ausonius It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend Madame Dorothée Deluzy The weak can never forgive Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong Mahatma Gandhi The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing George Bernard Shaw There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness Josh Billings Always forgive your enemiesnothing annoys them so much Oscar Wilde To err is human; to forgive, divine Alexander Pope A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man Every man is the architect of his own fortune He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner Benjamin Franklin Fortune is a great deceiver She sells very dear the things she seems to give us Vincent Voiture It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence John Dryden Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave James Russell Lowell Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character Ralph Waldo Emerson Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together Douglas Jerrold Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her Mark Twain Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry Oliver Goldsmith The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself Gamaliel Bailey All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support Richard Whately The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence Charles Caleb Colton It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay Publilius Syrus For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame Charles Simmons Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once Josh Billings Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do Eric Hoffer We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in Thomas Paine The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion John Fitzgerald Kennedy A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes Thomas Huxley No man is free who is not a master of himself Epictetus We are not free, it was not intended we should be A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves Then we are free, and only then A hungry man is not a free man Adlai E. Stevenson When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free Charles Evans Hughes Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it Abraham Lincoln I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind Antoine de SaintExupéry Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free Dwight D. Eisenhower In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger I do not shrink from this responsibilityI welcome it John Fitzgerald Kennedy For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? Ralph Waldo Emerson Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err Mahatma Gandhi Freedom rings where opinions clash Adlai E. Stevenson To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort in Mark Van Doren Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it Thomas Paine Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate Adlai E. Stevenson The greatest Glory of a freeborn People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children William Havard The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission John Fitzgerald Kennedy You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? Kahlil Gibran No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation Douglas MacArthur A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten Kemal Atatürk Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time Richard M. We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better Albert Camus I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom Simone de Beauvoir Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost Thomas Jefferson The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants Samuel Johnson Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty Adlai E. Stevenson The press is not only free, it is powerful That power is ours It is the proudest that man can enjoy Benjamin Disraeli Never Explainyour Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway Elbert Hubbard If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair Samuel Johnson Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemyfor friendship's sake William Blake The only way to have a friend is to be one Ralph Waldo Emerson Friendship without selfinterest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life James F. Byrnes Friendship is one mind in two bodies The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent Anonymous Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces Austin O'Malley Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous Ambrose Bierce A homemade friend wears longer than one you buy in the market Austin O'Malley Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods Esther M. Clark Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends William Butler Yeats Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life David Grayson The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away Wilson Mizner But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine Thomas Jefferson Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots George Santayana Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity Kahlil Gibran The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him Ralph Waldo Emerson You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist Golda Meir The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own Benjamin Disraeli Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln When all else is lost, the future still remains Christian Nestell Bovee My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there Charles F.Kettering I never think of the future It comes soon enough Albert Einstein I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past Patrick Henry The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today Let us move forward with strong and active faith Franklin Delano Roosevelt For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence John Fitzgerald Kennedy The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be Paul Valery Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss Publilius Syrus Sometimes the best gain is to lose George Herbert The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much Francis Beaumont And gain is gain, however small Robert Browning It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community Thorstein Veblen No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have Latin Proverb For everything you have missed you have gained something Ralph Waldo Emerson To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even Elbert Hubbard Gallantry to womenthe sure road to their favoris nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it William Hazlitt To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives Elbert Hubbard Gallantry of the mind is saying the most empty things in an agreeable manner François de la Rochefoucauld The more he cast away the more he had John Bunyan What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one François de la Rochefoucauld Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear Horace Mann Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need Kahlil Gibran What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost Old Epitaph Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can Edward G. BulwerLytton No great genius is without an admixture of madness Aristotle Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck Christopher Quill It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us James Russell Lowell Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninetynine per cent perspiration Thomas A. Edison Genius without education is like silver in the mine Benjamin Franklin Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipedenot because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen G.C. Lichtenberg Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedentthe power to do the right thing the first time Elbert Hubbard True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii Puzant Kevork Thomajan Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them Joseph Joubert Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught John Dryden When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire John Watson Foster To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all menthat is genius Ralph Waldo Emerson When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him Jonathan Swift Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind Lord Essex When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius William Crashaw I don't want to be a geniusI have enough problems just trying to be a man Albert Camus This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him William Lyon Phelps We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them Ralph Waldo Emerson one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally Oliver Herford The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one Robert S. Surtees The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense Puzant Kevork Thomajan A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others Robert E. Lee Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another Tom Masson I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now Will Rogers Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people Allan Beck A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot Allan Beck I am fond of childrenexcept boys Lewis Carroll It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man Heinrich Heine Glory paid to our ashes comes too late Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall Oliver Goldsmith For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her Charles de Gaulle Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt William Cowper Glory is the shadow of virtue Latin Proverb The fire of glory is the torch of the mind Anonymous Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves Joseph P. Thompson In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires Benjamin Franklin Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth French Proverb They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well George W. Thornbury A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well" Elbert Hubbard The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide Josh Billings One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man George Fordyce The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god Charles Buck One should eat to live, not live to eat Benjamin Franklin God never made His work for man to mend John Dryden God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs G. C. Lichtenberg God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined Saint Augustine If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion Goncourt God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things Harry Emerson Fosdick Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world John Burroughs Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million Mark Twain God made the country and man made the town William Cowper If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him Voltaire I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are Edwin Arlington Robinson God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves George Bernard Shaw God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse Plutarch God is clever, but not dishonest Albert Einstein I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side Abraham Lincoln We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? Friedrich Nietzsche For I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty Alben W. Barkley Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hidingplace, your heart You yourself are a part of Him Christopher Morley The best way to know God is to love many things Vincent van Gogh If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment Voltaire Two men please Godwho serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not Nikita Ivanovich Panin I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach Heywood Broun You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God Ernest Dimnet An honest God is the noblest work of man Robert Green Ingersoll God enters by a private door into every individual Ralph Waldo Emerson In the faces of men and women I see God Walt Whitman There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He Friedrich Nietzsche You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say Benjamin Jowett It's GodI'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere Robert Frost Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me Robert Frost Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable H. L. Mencken It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart Thomas Fuller Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble Yiddish Proverb Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls Antoine Rivarol The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on Joseph French Johnson Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell: William Shakespeare Gold will be slave or master Gold has worked down from Alexander's time When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory Bernard M. A mask of gold hides all deformities Thomas Dekker The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them Will Rogers None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them Charles Caleb Colton Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way Antoine Rivarol Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement George Bancroft Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility Josiah Gilbert Holland That which is everybody's business is nobody's business Izaak Walton Knowledge is power if you know about the right person Ethel Watts Mumford There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it Kin Hubbard A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid Walter Winchell You can't run a government solely on a business basis Government should be human It should have a heart Herbert Henry Lehman A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top James Reston Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for Adlai E. Stevenson The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau James F. Byrnes All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people James A. Garfield The true art of government consists in not governing too much Jonathan Shipley My experience in government is that when things are noncontroversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on John Fitzgerald Kennedy You have the Godgiven right to kick the government arounddon't hesitate to do so Edmund Muske He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor Grover Cleveland The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have Gerald R. Ford A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter George Greenville Good government is no substitute for selfgovernment Mahatma Gandhi Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants William Penn No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent Abraham Lincoln Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed George Hoadly Government is a kind of legalized pillage Elbert Hubbard The government is us; we are the government, you and I Theodore Roosevelt In the longrun every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government Thomas Carlyle The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men Every country has the government it deserves Joseph de Maistre Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul William Hazlitt He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural William Shakespeare Beauty and grace command the world Park Benjamin God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses Henry Ward Beecher How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance Samuel Taylor Coleridge Grace is to the body, what good sense is to the mind François de La Rochefoucauld A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation Francis Bacon Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life? Henry Harland Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect Charles A. Stoddard Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it Lord Halifax Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect Jean Jacques Rousseau If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you This is the principal difference between a dog and a man Mark Twain Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep Felix Frankfurter Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it Gratitude is the heart's memory French Proverb Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul Henry Ward Beecher He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels Henry Wadsworth Longfellow O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living Philip II An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there Edward Young We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven Tryon Edwards The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny G. C. Lichtenberg There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave Henry Ward Beecher A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul Nathaniel Hawthorne The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions Ellen Glasgow Too much gravity argues a shallow mind Johann Kaspar Lavater Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it Confucius Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men John Dryden Gravity is a trick of the body devised to conceal deficiencies of the mind François de La Rochefoucauld There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity Josh Billings There aren't any great men There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet William F. There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help Charles Dudley Warner Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state Edmund Burke In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon 'em William Shakespeare Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds Albert Einstein The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness Its one object is to produce and consume It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life Rabindranath Tagore The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty Thomas Adams There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart Wilson Mizner Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life Benjamin Disraeli It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness There is no grief like the grief that does not speak Henry Wadsworth Longfellow While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it Samuel Johnson The only cure for grief is action George Henry Lewes Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not Xenophon The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest Edouard R. Laboulaye No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days Every guest hates the others, and the host hates them all Albanian Proverb Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing William Cowper Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest Kin Hubbard A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast George Herheri Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves He who flees from trial confesses his guilt Publilius Syrus Every guilty person is his own hangman Guilt is always jealous John Ray Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch Thomas Paine Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind William Shakespeare It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown The sin lessens as the guilt increases Johann von Schiller Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behindWith whips and stings Nicholas Rowe Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great Samuel Johnson From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed William Wordsworth The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot Conte Vittorio Alfieri Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do Voltaire Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves Horace Bushnell The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken Samuel Johnson Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted Ralph W. Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity Saint Augustine Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good Benjamin Franklin Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities Aldous Huxley Good habits result from resisting temptation Ancient Proverb Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time Mark Twain Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you Elbert Hubbard The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones W. Somerset Maugham A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an inkdrop soileth the pure white page Hosea Ballou Sow an act and you reap a habit Sow a habit and you reap a character Sow a character and you reap a destiny Charles Reade Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom Greek Proverb By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy George Bancroft Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; Between the cradle and the grave Lies a haircut and a shave Samuel Hoffenstein Gray hairs are death's blossoms English Proverb The hair is the richest ornament of women Martin Luther Happiness is not a rewardit is a consequence Suffering is not a punishmentit is a result Robert Green Ingersoll The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for Allan K. Chalmers A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance Anatole France Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead Scottish Proverb The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my family public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs Thomas Jefferson The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet James Oppenheim Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye Austin O'Malley Happiness is not a destination It is a method of life Burton Hills Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length Robert Frost It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed Kin Hubbard To fill the hourthat is happiness Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember Oscar Levent Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring Chinese Proverb Make haste slowly Latin Proverb Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste Ralph Waldo Emerson Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven Thomas Fuller Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste Benjamin Franklin Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written Charles A Stoddard No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized Will Durant Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry John Wesley When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate François de La Rochefoucauld A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man Archibald MacLeish Hatred is selfpunishment Hosea Ballou It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not André Gide Hatred is the madness of the heart Lord Byron To hate fatigues Jean Rostand National hatred is something peculiar You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred Henry Ward Beecher Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned William Congreve I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man Booker T Washington Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything Arabian Proverb The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not Mark Twain Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell Dorothy Canfield Fisher To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body Francis Bowen It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen François de La Rochefoucauld There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it Josh Billings The heart has reasons that reason does not understand Jacques Bénigne Bossuel Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it Jean Jacques Rousseau Wealth and want equally harden the human heart Theodore Parker As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft H. L. Mencken The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart Benjamin Franklin The heart is forever making the head its fool François de La Rochefoucauld The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses Jean Galoert de Campistron Two things are bad for the heartrunning up stairs and running down people Bernard M. The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences Henry Ward Beecher There is no instinct like that of the heart Lord Byron What a man misses mostly in heaven is company Mark Twain I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hellyou see, I have friends in both places Mark Twain On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it Jules Renard Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul Henry Ward Beecher The few men who have managed to reach heaven must be terribly spoiled by this time The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him Thomas Hardy What a pity the only way to heaven is in a hearse Stanislaw J. To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight To be with God Confucius There may be some doubt about hell beyond the grave but there is no doubt about there being one on this side of it I never give them hell; I just tell the truth and they think it's hell Harry S. Truman The wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous to reach heaven Josh Billings It doesn't matter what they preach, Of high or low degree; The old Hell of the Bible Is hell enough for me Frank L. Stanton If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses William A. To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer George Bernard Shaw The road to hell is thick with taxicabs Don Herold The road to Hell is paved with good intentions Karl Marx Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season Tryon Edwards Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons John Ruskin God helps them that help themselves Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help George MacDonald When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching Edward G. BulwerLytton Light is the task where many share the toil The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other We cannot exist without mutual help All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellowmen; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt Walter Scott He stands erect by bending over the fallen He rises by lifting others Robert Green Ingersoll Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue Giuseppe Garibaldi If you're in trouble, or hurt or needgo to the poor people They're the only ones that'll helpthe only ones John Steinbeck Every hero becomes at last a bore Ralph Waldo Emerson We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by Will Rogers Heroworship is mostly idol gossip Anonymous The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history Henry Ward Beecher The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die Will Rogers A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer Ralph Waldo Emerson Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards Jean Jacques Rousseau In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one H. L. Mencken Selftrust is the essence of heroism Ralph Waldo Emerson Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom Herbert Spencer A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around Calculation never made a hero John Henry Newman Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion Calvin Coolidge The main thing is to make history, not to write it Otto von Bismarck History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind Edward Gibbon A land without ruins is a land without memoriesa land without memories is a land without history Abram Joseph Ryan God cannot alter the past, but historians can Samuel Butler History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history Clarence Darrow The men who make history have not time to write it Metternich Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history Abraham Lincoln History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead Voltaire No historian can take part withor againstthe forces he has to study To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics Henry Brooks Adams What is history but a fable agreed upon? Napoleon Bonaparte History is bunk Henry Ford Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe H. G. Wells Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo George Bernard Shaw Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in Robert Frost My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner Home is where the heart is Pliny the Elder He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home Home interprets heaven Home is heaven for beginners Charles H. Parkhurst Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest Robert Montgomery Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments Channing Pollock A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home Chinese Proverb Honesty is the best policywhen there is money in it Mark Twain Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world Thomas Carlyle We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy George Bernard Shaw Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people Kin Hubbard A man is sorry to be honest for nothing Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread Josh Billings I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man Sam Houston An honest man's the noblest work of God Alexander Pope Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity Don Marquis The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons Ralph Waldo Emerson All honor's wounds are selfinflicted Andrew Carnegie Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil John Dryden When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity Ben Jonson Honor lies in honest toil Grover Cleveland Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor Joseph Addison It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them Mark Twain When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead! John Greenleaf Whittier In all things it is better to hope than to despair Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every cloud has a silver lining, but it is sometimes difficult to get it to the mint Don Marquis Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst English Proverb He that lives upon hope will die fasting Benjamin Franklin Hope is the parent of faith Cyrus A. Bartol A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day Ancient Proverb Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity Robert Green Ingersoll We should not expect something for nothing but we all do, and we call it hope Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity Herman Melville To the sick, while there is life there is hope A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them George Eliot From the withered tree, a flower blooms Zen Saying Humanity to me is not a mob A mob is a degeneration of humanity A mob is humanity going the wrong way Frank Lloyd Wright There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce Mark Twain Humanity is the sin of God Theodore Parker The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man Charles Sumner There is nothing on earth divine except humanity Walter S. Landor We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings Albert Einstein We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature Howard Lindsay It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly Anatole France Some of us are like wheelbarrowsonly useful when pushed, and very easily upset Jack Herbert It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples Charles Dickens It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor Eric Hoffer We have provided for the survival of man against all enemies except his fellow man Lyman Lloyd Bryson There is a great deal of human nature in people Mark Twain Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe Albert Einstein My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand William Shakespeare Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility Ralph Waldo Emerson The first of all other virtuesfor other people Oliver Wendell Holmes It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels Saint Augustine I feel coming on a strange diseasehumility Frank Lloyd Wright Without humility there can be no humanity John Buchan Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship Humanity needs a lesson in humility Richard Dawkins Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else Will Rogers The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance Peter De Vries Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn Irvin S. Cobb Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society William Makepeace Thackeray Whenever you find humor, you find pathos close by his side Edwin Percy Whipple Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice David Seabury There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree Josh Billings Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? Frank Moore Colby If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide Mahatma Gandhi If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress Will Rogers A man isn't poor if he can still laugh Raymond Hitchcock No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach Woodrow Wilson Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness, and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible Woodrow Wilson We can plant wheat every year, but the people who are starving die only once Fiorello H. A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers No clock is more regular than the belly Rabelais An empty stomach is not a good political advisor Albert Einstein Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient H. L. Mencken The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open Groucho Marx An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her Agatha Christie A good husband should be deaf and a good wife should be blind French Proverb Fat generally tends to make a man a better husband His wife is happy in the knowledge she is not married to a woman chaser Few fat men chase girls, because they get winded too easily Hal Boyle Husband: what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted Helen Rowland All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart Anonymous No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true Nathaniel Hawthorne A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint Francis Bacon Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person hypocrisy begins Ralph Waldo Emerson A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation Adlai E. Stevenson Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan Abraham Lincoln It is with pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on Thomas Paine He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are Edwin Arlington Robinson Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste George Bernard Shaw Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue François de La Rochefoucauld If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitionerslet us thank heaven for hypocrisy Aldous Huxley If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person Ralph Bunche There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea P. W. Bridgman Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness Morris Leopold Ernst Ideas are the factors that lift civilization They create revolutions There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs John H. Vincent Ideas are the root of creation Ernest Dimnet The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity Eric Hoffer An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all Elbert Hubbard The vitality of thought is in adventure Ideas won't keep Something must be done about them When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it Alfred North Whitehead There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come Victor Hugo Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up Oliver Wendell Holmes Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal Oliver Wendell Holmes The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it James Russell Lowell We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt Walter Scott Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them Carl Schurz An idealist believes the short run doesn't count A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run Sidney J. Harris An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing H. L. Mencken The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion Stanley Baldwin What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real H. F. Hedge Words without actions are the assassins of idealism Herbert Hoover Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement Theodore Roosevelt The way to be nothing is to do nothing Nathaniel Howe Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative Anonymous It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do Jerome K. Jerome Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind Johann G. Seume Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright Benjamin Franklin Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible Mahatma Gandhi An idle brain is the devil's workshop English Proverb Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains Thomas Fowell Buxton Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company Jeremy Collier That man is idle who can do something better Ralph Waldo Emerson To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual Oscar Wilde The idol is the measure of the worshipper James Russell Lowell Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another John Selden 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god William Shakespeare When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them Richard H. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more William Wordsworth We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of his idolatry William B. Ullathorne Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man Thomas Paine Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune Nicholas Ling Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star Confucius Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects Will Rogers Most ignorance is vincible ignorance We don't know because we don't want to know Aldous Huxley He knows so little and knows it so fluently Ellen Glasgow Nothing is worse than active ignorance Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ignorant men Don't know what good they hold in their hands until They've flung it away Sophocles Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge Horace Mann The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes Mark Twain Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise Thomas Gray I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so Josh Billings Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything Sydney Smith A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality Christian Nestell Bovee The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action Oscar Wilde Don't part with your illusions When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live Mark Twain Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull Joseph Conrad Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith Harry A. Overstreet Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion Arthur Koestler You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus Mark Twain Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world Blaise Pascal Science does not know its debt to imagination Ralph Waldo Emerson Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much Marcel Proust Imagination rules the world Napoleon Bonaparte Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is Oscar Wilde Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man Ralph Waldo Emerson He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet Joseph Joubert The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze Ralph Waldo Emerson Imitation belittles Christian Nestell Bovee Insist on yourself; never imitate Ralph Waldo Emerson To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic Pablo Picasso When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other Eric Hoffer Example has more followers than reason We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire Christian Nestell Bovee There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him Benjamin Franklin Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals François de La Rochefoucauld Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust James Shirley The first requisite for immortality is death Stanislaw J. The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead Jules Renard Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving Frank Rooney One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive Friedrich Nietzsche Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality Walter Gropius The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever Anatole France What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal Albert Pike The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one William James Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death Ludwig Börne The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer George Santayana Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done Louis D. Brandeis Impossibility: a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools Napoleon Bonaparte It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow Robert H. Goddard Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible François de La Rochefoucauld Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today Mark Twain To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so Walter Scott Every noble work is at first impossible Thomas Carlyle "There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things ""I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impos Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking Glass) If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve Charles Caleb Colton As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it George Bernard Shaw People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after Oliver Goldsmith Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself William Ellery Channing Acorns were good until bread was found Francis Bacon He who stops being better stops being good Oliver Cromwell Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next Charles Simmons Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever Thomas Secker No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies Edward G. BulwerLytton All concord's born of contraries Ben Jonson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds Ralph Waldo Emerson Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature Joseph Addison Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good Ralph Waldo Emerson Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool Josh Billings The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible H. L. Mencken More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much P. T. Barnum Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return James Russell Lowell The amplest knowledge has the largest faith Ignorance is always incredulous Robert Eldridge Willmott Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking beforehand Maurice Switzer Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habitforming Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others H. A. Hopf He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty Samuel Johnson While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse The wavering mind is but a base possession Euripides Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision Oscar Levant A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself John Watson Foster When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone Thomas Scott There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision William James It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants William Cobbett Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence David BenGurion No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person Willa Cather I do desire we may be better strangers William Shakespeare [I am] lord of myself, accountable to none Benjamin Franklin There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail Will Rogers So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell Anonymous Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? Ralph Waldo Emerson The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it John Stuart Mill If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not nowwhen? 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 the something that I can do Edward Everett Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way Aristotle The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual Walt Whitman An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Henry David Thoreau Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse Mediocrity finds safety in standardization Frederick E. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time John Stuart Mill Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making William James But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences John Stuart Mill Individuality is the aim of political liberty James Fenimore Cooper If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies Nothing is denied to welldirected labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it Joshua Reynolds A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune Richard Whately The more we do, the more we can do William Hazlitt It is better to wear out than to rust out Richard Cumberland Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity Charles Dickens No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable Letitia Landon The sleeping fox catches no poultry Benjamin Franklin Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement Oliver Goldsmith In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot Henry Ward Beecher People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community Leo XIII One half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad goodwill towards all men? Dorothy Thompson No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals Henry P. Fairchild Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There is always inequity in life Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality Lif John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends Lord Chesterfield The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority John C. Calhoun We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority Alfred Adler The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation Alfred Adler Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority Alfred Adler The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell Confucius Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome George Santayana No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other Samuel Johnson No one can make you feel inferior without your consent Eleanor Roosevelt No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself Henry Brooks Adams Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world Ralph Waldo Emerson I am a part of all that I have met Alfred, Lord Tennyson Let him that would move the world, first move himself Socrates Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another George Eliot We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described Henry David Thoreau No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world Bernard M. The least movement is of importance to all nature The entire ocean is affected by a pebble Blaise Pascal He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own Henry Ward Beecher The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others Henry Ward Beecher Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude François de La Rochefoucauld Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude Henry Ward Beecher People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them Eric Hoffer One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid Publilius Syrus When I'm not thanked at all I'm thanked enough Henry Fielding How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! William Shakespeare A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves Henry Ward Beecher Ingratitude is treason to mankind James Thomson We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them François de La Rochefoucauld Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man Ausonius We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with Don Marquis Never say you know a man till you have divided an inheritance with him Johann Kaspar Lavater Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst really possess it What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To inherit property is not to be bornit is to be stillborn, rather Henry David Thoreau He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral Yiddish Proverb What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul Mahatma Gandhi Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all Thomas Fuller It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it Francis Beaumont No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself Lord Kames Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury Edwin Hubbel Chapin If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember Kahlil Gibran The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scale The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by strategem Washington Irving No man is hurt but by himself Diogenes If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared Niccolò Machiavelli If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it Democritus Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden Hosea Ballou He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it Henry David Thoreau If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him Richelieu A book might be written on the injustice of the just Anthony Hope No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it Aristotle They that know no evil will suspect none Ben Jonson Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue Anatole France Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends Robert South To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations William Penn It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer William Blackstone He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed Nathaniel P. There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity William Allen White Insanity destroys reason, but not wit Nathaniel Emmons I teach that all men are mad 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 hereditary: you can get it from your children Sam Levenson Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed Oliver Wendell Holmes The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary Francis W. There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it Joseph Addison Instinct is the nose of the mind Madame de Girardin A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us Ralph Waldo Emerson A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend Oliver Wendell Holmes Instinct is untaught ability Alexander Bain It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves James Russell Lowell Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is Van Hartmann He who puts up with insult invites injury It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking Epictetus The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the ne plus ultra of art What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent? Julia Kavanagh The best way to procure insults is to submit to them William Hazlitt If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved Russell Lynes A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me Frederick Douglass It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble Sinclair Lewis A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults Louis Nizer When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains Anonymous It is impossible to underrate human intelligencebeginning with one's own Henry Brooks Adams There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have Don Herold Intellect annuls fate So far as a man thinks, he is free Ralph Waldo Emerson The test of a firstrate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas at the same time, and still retain the ability to function F. Scott Fitzgerald A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones Lord Chesterfield It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence James Russell Lowell People who are smart get into Mensa People who are really smart look around and leave James Randi It is not clear that intelligence has any longterm survival value Stephen Hawking Interest makes some people blind, and others quicksighted Francis Beaumont I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people Gilbert K. Chesterton I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest James Russell Lowell It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine Charles Darwin Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own Woodrow Wilson A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself George Bernard Shaw The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest François de La Rochefoucauld Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it George Santayana The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite Gerald W. Johnson Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home Harold E. Stassen In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief Walter Lippmann Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance Henry Ward Beecher Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state Samuel Davies Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue Charles Simmons The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt Henry George The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper Eden Phillpotts Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age Jonathan Swift A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the wellbeing of mankind Henry Ward Beecher We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanitygunpowder and romantic love André Maurois Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor Ralph Waldo Emerson Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself Alexander Graham Bell Irony is the gaity of reflection and the joy of wisdom Anatole France A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself Jessamyn West Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment Edwin Percy Whipple Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity John Weiss Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains John Philip Sousa Jazz may be a thrilling communion with the primitive soul; or it may be an earsplitting bore Winthrop Sargeant Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul Paul Whiteman The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice Don Herold Jazz is the folk music of the machine age Paul Whiteman The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous H. L. Mencken And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not William Shakespeare Jealousy is the injured lover's hell John Milton In jealousy there is more of selflove than of love to another François de La Rochefoucauld There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard Washington Irving What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes John Gay Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first Job E. Hedges Jealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart Michael Beer O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the greeneyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on William Shakespeare Jealousy lives upon doubts It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty François de La Rochefoucauld Judge of a jest when you have done laughing William Lloyd Jesting is often only indigence of intellect Jean de La Bruyère Many a true word is spoken in jest English Proverb Jests that give pains are no jests Miguel de Cervantes The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh Johann von Schiller Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them Adlai E. Stevenson Journalism is literature in a hurry Matthew Arnold Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts Winston Churchill A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets Napoleon Bonaparte Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread Oscar Wilde A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and lifewhat people are interested in That's journalism Burton Rascoe Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by oververification James Gordon Bennett In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever Oscar Wilde Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys Christian Nestell Bovee There are joys which long to be ours God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away Henry Ward Beecher Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart Martin Luther King, Jr In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast Henry Ward Beecher Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue Henry Fielding The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it Michel de Montaigne All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it Eugene Field One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad Elbert Hubbard Joys divided are increased Josiah Gilbert Holland The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light of the glowworm, which gives no heat, and illumines nothing but itself Samuel Taylor Coleridge To be a Jew is a destiny Vicki Baum Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being Morris Joseph Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions Auerbach Historically the profoundest meaning of Passover is something which sets Judaism apart from other religions It marks the birth of a nation Out of a mass of slaves, Moses fashioned a nation and gave them a faith From that day to this, Jews have neve Philip S Bernstein The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils The thing to do is to supply light and not heat Woodrow Wilson Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never Theodore Parker I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned First Duke of Wellington In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail Joseph Cannon You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends Joseph Conrad When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart Russian Proverb Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment François de La Rochefoucauld We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker Dagobert D. If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it Abraham Lincoln It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own Alexander Pope Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast William Penn But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream Amos 5:24 Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey Denis Diderot Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together Daniel Webster Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just Blaise Pascal There is no such thing as justicein or out of court Clarence Darrow Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues An honest man nearly always thinks justly Jean Jacques Rousseau Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace Dwight D. Eisenhower One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe Edmund Burke Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all Edmund Burke Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it François de Chateaubriand Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy Gilbert K. Chesterton Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service Ambrose Bierce Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake George Bernard Shaw The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion Voltaire Justice is the great interest of man on earth Daniel Webster That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved Benjamin Franklin Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property Obedience is the premium which we pay for it William Penn The love of justice in most men is only the fear of themselves suffering by injustice François de La Rochefoucauld Rather suffer an injustice than commit one Anonymous Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due Justinian He who decides a case without hearing the other sidethough he decides justly, cannot be considered just Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough Franklin Delano Roosevelt Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand Christian Nestell Bovee The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love William Wordsworth A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles Washington Irving Kindness is loving people more than they deserve Joseph Joubert We hate the kindness which we understand Henry David Thoreau You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late Ralph Waldo Emerson He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged Benjamin Franklin Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home Kin Hubbard Wise kings generally have wise counsellors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one Diogenes Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors Kings is mostly rapscallions Mark Twain A king is one who has "few things to desire and many things to fear" Francis Bacon The right kind of monarchy is one where everybody goes about with the permanent conviction that the king can do no wrong Gilbert K. Chesterton Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues Agesilaus II One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion Thomas Paine The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal Austin O'Malley A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifthand endures all the rest Helen Rowland It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it Christian Nestell Bovee A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point Mistinguette A peculiar proposition Of no use to one, yet absolute bliss to two The small boy gets it for nothing, the young man has to lie for it, and the old man has to buy it The baby's right, the lover's privilege, and the hypocrite's mask To a young girl, V P. I. Skipper A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving; 'Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear Edmond Rostand God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness Henry Ward Beecher A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous Ingrid Bergman Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul Will Durant Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge Kahlil Gibran We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance John A. Wheeler Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers Alfred, Lord Tennyson I am not young enough to know everything James Matthew Barrie Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know Ralph Waldo Emerson Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify Ambrose Bierce I keep six honest servingmen [They taught me all I knew]; Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who Rudyard Kipling The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance Confucius Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves Josh Billings All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so Josh Billings True knowledge lies in knowing how to live Baltasar Gracián A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives James Madison Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow Sir Richard Francis Burton Wake up and smell the chaos! Dennis Miller This table has four legs A table with a broken leg remains a table But a table from which the four legs have been removed becomes only a flat piece of wood At what moment did it cease to be a table? Carlo Suares When you eat, the meal is yourself Zen Saying Only one koan mattersyou If you have no feelings about worldly things, they are all Buddhism; if you have feelings about Buddhism, it is a worldly thing Zen Saying Zen is discipline in enlightenment D. T. Suzuki What is this true meditation?It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan There is neither heaven nor earth, only snow, falling incessantly From the end of the nose of the Buddha on the moor, hang icicles An ancient buddha said, "Mountains are mountains; waters are waters "These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains we are so both and oneful night cannot be so sky sky cannot be so sunful i am through you so i e. e. cummings The desolation of winter; passing through a small hamlet, a dog barks Venerable NanCh'uan asked Chaochou, "When not a single thing is brought, then what?" Chaochou said, "Put it down" Nanch'uan said, "If I don't bring a single thing, what should I put down?" Chaochou said, "Then carry it out" Zen Saying The reverse side also has a reverse side Japanese Proverb Knock on the sky and listen to the sound! Zen Saying As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines Joseph Wood Krutch To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they Inside the capsule, man is still in charge Adlai E Stevenson A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool He that invents a machine augments the power of man and the wellbeing of mankind Henry Ward Beecher Men have become tools of their tools Henry David Thoreau One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man Elbert Hubbard To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity Lewis Mumford On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends Oscar Wilde The machine unmakes the man Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody Ralph Waldo Emerson There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody Alexandre de TalleyrandPérigord Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one Henry David Thoreau It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital Horace Mann One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted Thomas B. Reed When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble Sam Rayburn The voice of the majority is no proof of justice Johann von Schiller It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail Thomas Jefferson Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform Mark Twain Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians John Stuart Mill All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts William Shakespeare The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are Franklin Delano Roosevelt Man is a piece of the universe made alive Ralph Waldo Emerson All that I care to know is that a man is a human beingthat is enough for me; he can't be any worse Mark Twain I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color They are superior who have the best heartthe best brain The superior man stands erect by bending above the fallen He rises by lifting others Robert Green Ingersoll Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders Daniel Webster Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is Albert Camus Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man Hans J. Morgenthau Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal Alexander Hamilton The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics Albert Schweitzer No man is an island entire of itself; every man is part of the main 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 Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so François de La Rochefoucauld Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard Benjamin Disraeli Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals Horace Mann A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners Lord Chesterfield To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be wellmannered Voltaire A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours Benjamin Franklin It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help Mark Twain I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man Benjamin Disraeli Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning Alexis Dupuy God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her Benjamin Tillett Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal Louis K. Anspacher Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three Washington Irving Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious Both are disappointed Oscar Wilde Wellmarried, a man is winged: illmatched, he is shackled Henry Ward Beecher The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character Peter DeVries A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day André Maurois Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up Joseph Barth I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage Will Rogers It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure Herbert Samuel The bonds of matrimony are like any other bondsthey mature slowly Peter De Vries Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage Benjamin Franklin Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them Sydney Smith I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't Samuel N. Behrman A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it Oscar Wilde The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones Nathaniel Howe It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one Horace Mann It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr Napoleon Bonaparte Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life Anonymous By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed Robert S. Hillyer Only the middleaged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits Hervey Allen The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one Wilhelm Stekel Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth Thomas A. Edison All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth William Mathews Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory Denis Diderot Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations James Mackintosh A man of maxims only, is like a cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head Samuel Taylor Coleridge Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case Frank Gelett Burgess They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night Joseph Joubert The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something Not to be onto something is to be in despair Walker Percy Being is Being is initself Being is what it is JeanPaul Sartre The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate It is for us to put ourselves in unison eith this order Henry Miller The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face I am a part of all that I have met Alfred Lord Tennyson Hide your body in the Big Dipper Zen Saying Darkness within darkness The gateway to all understanding Tao te Ching In my hut this spring, there is nothingthere is everything! The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form?If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone?You must seek without seeking Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake Wallace Stevens How could drops of water know themselves to be a river?Yet the river flows on Antoine de SaintExupéry The journey is the reward Chinese Proverb This is it There are no hidden meanings All that mystical stuff is just what's so Werner Erhard He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope Samuel Taylor Coleridge I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes Oliver Wendell Holmes God heals and the doctor takes the fee Benjamin Franklin The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence James Bryce Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out Jean Paul Richter A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness Elbert Hubbard Unless we remember we cannot understand Edward M. Forster Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council chamber of thought Saint Basil Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good Nietzsche Every man's memory is his private literature Aldous Huxley If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so Christopher Morley Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment Michel de Montaigne A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin George Herbert The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge William Shakespeare Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat Edwin Hubbel Chapin Hate shuts her soul when doveeyed mercy pleads Charles Sprague Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me Alexander Pope The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes William Shakespeare Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work François de La Rochefoucauld Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man Charles Caleb Colton It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks John Dryden The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself François de La Rochefoucauld If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people Oriental Proverb Few minds wear out; more rust out Christian Nestell Bovee I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up Mark Twain The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose Ralph Waldo Emerson The mind is like the stomach It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests Albert Jay Nock Life is not a static thing The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries Everett M. Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order John Quincy Adams Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky Henry Ward Beecher The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old François de La Rochefoucauld I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow Woodrow Wilson Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding François de La Rochefoucauld Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float Martin H. Fischer The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands Charles Simmons The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority James Fenimore Cooper All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one Ralph Waldo Emerson The political machine works because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority Will Durant If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up Oliver Wendell Holmes That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it James Russell Lowell Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one Thomas Carlyle The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities Theodore Roosevelt In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue Ethan Allen All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science Matthew Arnold Miracles happen to those who believe in them Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her? Bernard Berenson The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles Louis D. Brandeis As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities Voltaire "God works in many ways His wonders to perform "But He's not a skillful mechanic A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road Paul Goodman Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it William Shakespeare Most people would rather die than think: Bertrand Russell The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not Publilius Syrus The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable Theodore Parker The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make Robert Emmet Sherwood A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich William Shenstone The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest Thomas Fuller Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends Charles Sprague Misers mistake gold for good, whereas it is only a means of obtaining it François de La Rochefoucauld There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb Josh Billings Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate Addison Mizner Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so Jacopo Sannazaro There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples Oliver Wendell Holmes He that is down need fear no fall John Bunyan If misery loves company, misery has company enough Henry David Thoreau A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer Joseph Addison It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains Thomas Fuller Thomas Fuller The mob is the mother of tyrants Diogenes The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast Ralph Waldo Emerson A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils John Dryden The nose of a mob is its imagination By this, at any time, it can be quietly led Edgar Allan Poe Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns Cardinal de Retz Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob Samuel Johnson A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason William Rounseville Alger Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions D. H. Lawrence A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures Francis Bacon You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do is herd them into voting booths Barry Shein It is better to rise from life as from a banquetneither thirsty nor drunken Aristotle Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess Oscar Wilde To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity Blaise Pascal He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance Mark Twain Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance Charles Caleb Colton The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice Thomas Paine With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy Arthur Schopenhauer Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue Joseph Addison There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself Maurice Switzer Modesty is the conscience of the body Honoré de Balzac Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense Jonathan Swift Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise Lord Chesterfield Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more Modesty died when clothes were born Modesty died when false modesty was born Mark Twain False modesty is the refinement of vanity It is a lie Jean de La Bruyère It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody Jules Renard Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it W. Somerset Maugham I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time Hilaire Belloc The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket Kin Hubbard The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated H. L. Mencken Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul Henry David Thoreau The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it Benjamin Franklin Money does all things for reward Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money Benjamin Franklin Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent Robert Frost Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust Oliver Wendell Holmes Money often costs too much Ralph Waldo Emerson The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one Nathaniel Hawthorne If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument If not, no monument can preserve my memory Agesilaus II Those only deserve a monument who do not need one William Hazlitt Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one Thomas Fuller Monuments are the grapplingirons that bind one generation to another Joseph Joubert Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great John L. Motley God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers Jewish Proverb The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world W. S. Ross A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary Dorothy Canfield Fisher All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother Abraham Lincoln The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom Henry Ward Beecher All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind usthey can't get away this time Chesty Puller (USMC, when surrounded by 8 enemy divisions during the Korean War) The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours Sigmund Freud It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets Voltaire Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life Daniel Webster Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men George Bernard Shaw I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more William Wordsworth Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music Aldous Huxley Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle Thomas Beecham Music is the universal language of mankind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing Lord Erskine The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at Music is well said to be the speech of angels Thomas Carlyle Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune Kin Hubbard We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency Mark Twain Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain Tryon Edwards What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end Jean Paul Richter Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads Horace Walpole It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery Edmund Burke All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil Benjamin Disraeli Mystery and innocence are not akin Hosea Ballou The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science Albert Einstein It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit Antoine Rivarol The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates The radicals are the men past middle life Woodrow Wilson In youth we run into difficulties, in old age difficulties run into us Josh Billings All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by Conrad Aiken Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father H. V. Wade Youth is a wonderful thing What a crime to waste it on children George Bernard Shaw Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him Baudouin I I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us Howard Mumford Jones When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over George MacDonald It is better to be a young Junebug than an old bird of paradise Mark Twain It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world Helen Keller Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own Logan P. Smith Thou know'st the o'ereager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgement weak I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg James Matthew Barrie Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living Carey Williams The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity Benjamin Disraeli The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch" Lord Chesterfield I believe one of America's most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the young people of America My generation has invested all that it has, not only its love but its hope and faith, in yours Richard M. Older men declare war But it is the youth that must fight and die Herbert Hoover If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon James Russell Lowell Youth comes but once in a lifetime Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself Robert Louis Stevenson Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing Oliver Wendell Holmes Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing George Bernard Shaw 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; ninetenths 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 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 wellfed 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 Life has no rehearsals, only performances 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 If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up 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 For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ;It might have been! John Greenleaf Whittier Advice is like snowthe 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 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 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 When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators P. J. O'Rourke 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. The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money 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 fourleaf clovers 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 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 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 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 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 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing Oscar Wilde Success is that old ABCability, 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 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 My goal in life is to survive Everything else is just a bonus The Lockhorns Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young W. Somerset Maugham 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 goldbut so does a hardboiled egg 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 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 BulwerLytton A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one Lord John Russell 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 The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes Jonathan Swift 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. 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 Pople 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 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 Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind Rudyard Kipling 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 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 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 lifebeing 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 Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better Anonymous You can never plan the future by the past Edmund Burke 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 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 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 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 What we do for ourselves dies with us What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal Albert Pine 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 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 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 Every man has his folliesand 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 Insanitya perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world R. D. Lang 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 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 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 He means well; is useless unless he does well 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 givewhich is everything 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 It is no use saying, ;We are doing our best You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary Winston Churchill If you fear nothing, you love nothing If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life? 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