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"Life is hard. It's even harder if you're
stupid"
"Patience is not waiting, it's how you act
while you're waiting"
"Age doesn't always bring wisdom.
Sometimes age comes alone"
"Always remember that you're
unique, just like everybody else"
"Opinions are
like armpits. Everyone has two of them and they
stink most of the
time."
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to determine whether or not they are genuine."
-- Abraham Lincoln
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#1)
"The information superhighway is a dirt road that
won't be paved over until 2025."
-- Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom/Blockbuster.
"Who the hell wants to hear actors
talk?"
--H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
"This telephone has too many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a means of communication. The device
is inherently of no value to us."
-- An internal Western Union memo, 1876
"I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers."
-- IBM chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in
their home."
-- Ken Olson, founder, chairman & president of
DEC, 1977
"640k ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981 (Did he mean $640K?)
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5
tons."
--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the
relentless march of science, 1949
"Everything that can be invented has already been
invented."
-- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent
Office, 1899
"Computer games don't affect kids; I
mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running
around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening
to repetitive electronic music."
- Kristin Wilson, Nintendo, Inc.,
1989.
"A rocket will never be able to leave
the earth's atmosphere."
--The New York Times, 1936
"The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is
English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every
time I add new letters like N and T."
--Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country
and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that
data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
--The editor in charge of business books for
Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what ... is it good for?"
--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems
Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial
value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in
particular?"
--David Sarnoff's associates in response to
his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The world is coming to an end in
1950."
--Historian Henry Adams, 1903
"There is no likelihood man can ever
tap the power of the atom."
--Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert
Milliken, 1923
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the
experiment. The literature was full of examples that said
you can't do this."
--Spencer Silver on the work that led to the
unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this
amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what
do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We
just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll
come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to
Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You
haven't got through college yet.'"
--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on
attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve
Wozniak's personal computer.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between
action and reaction and the need to have something better
than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the
basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert
Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle
development across all of your muscles? It can't be done.
It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept
inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable
condition of weight training."
--Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the
"unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.
"Television won't last because people
will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every
night."
--Producer Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century
Fox, 1946
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try
and find oil? You're crazy!"
--Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist
to his project to drill for oil in 1859
"Well-informed people know it is
impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it
possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical
value."
--Boston Post, 1865
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high
plateau."
--Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale
University, 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military
value."
--Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of
Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous
fiction."
--Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at
Toulouse, 1872
"If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the
production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one."
--W.C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute,
1954
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be
shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane
surgeon."
--Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon,
appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will
not see any political parties."
--Visionary and inventor R. Buckminster
Fuller, 1966
"You ain't going nowhere, son. You
ought to go back to driving a truck."
--The Grand Ole Opry's Jim Denny to
Elvis Presley, 1954
"Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of
removing Windows 95 from my hard drive."
--The winning entry in a "What were
HAL's first words" contest judged by 2001: A SPACE
ODYSSEY creator Arthur C. Clarke
"[Andy] Grove giveth and [Bill] Gates taketh
away."
--Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the
trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with
software demands
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in
order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible." --A
Yale University management professor in response to student
Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery
service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"That rainbow song's no good. Take it out."
- MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard Of Oz
"You'd better learn secretarial skills or else get
married."
- Modeling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944
"Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a
hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically
impossible."
- Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-99
"Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a
nickel."
- MGM executive, advising against investing in Gone With The
Wind
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"Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a
little." - A film
company's verdict on Fred Astaire's 1928 screen test
"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an
expert in explosives." - U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945
"Television won't matter in your lifetime or
mine."
- Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936
"And for the tourist who really wants to get away from
it all, safaris in Vietnam."
- Newsweek magazine, predicting popular
holidays for the late 1960s
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(Category #2)
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings
is justice."
-- H.L. Mencken
"Life is hard. It’s even harder if you’re
stupid."
-- Anonymous
"By and large, language is a tool for
concealing the truth."
--George Carlin
"It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is
the size of the fight in the dog!"
-- Anonymous
"An adventure is only an
inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only
an adventure wrongly considered."
--G.K. Chesterton
"The person who is not hungry says that the coconut
has a hard shell."
-- African Tribal Saying
"If you’re looking for friends when you need
them…it’s too late."
-- Mark Twain
"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for
you."
-- Francis Roberts
"Speak in anger and you'll give the
greatest speech you'll ever regret."
-- Anonymous
"It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in
favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different
opinion."
-- William Randolph Inge
Vegetarian is an old Indian word meaning "bad
hunter."
-- Anonymous
"Opinions are like armpits: Everybody has two of them
and they stink most of the time."
-- Anonymous
"Patience is the companion of
wisdom."
--Anonymous
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem.
They're there every night, they see it done every night,
they see how it should be done every night, but they can't
do it themselves."
-- Brendan Behan--Quoted by Gyles Brandreth in *Theatrical
Disasters*
"So long as you rob Peter to pay
Paul, you'll have Paul's support."
-- Anonymous
"Life is an onion. You peel it off one layer at a
time, and sometimes you weep."
-- Carl Sandburg
"Do first what you dread the
most."
-- Anonymous
"Wherever you are -- be there."
-- Anonymous
"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are
made from something they have deep inside of them - a
desire, a dream, a vision. They have last-minute stamina,
they have to be a little faster, they have to have the
skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the
skill."
-- Muhammad Ali
"If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try
missing a couple of car payments."
-- Earl Wilson
"The degree of one's emotion varies
inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you
know the hotter you get." -- Bertrand Russell
"If you aren't living on the edge, then you are taking up too much space."
-- Anonymous
"Without books the development of
civilization would have been impossible. They are the
engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erect
in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers,
magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are
humanity in print."
-- Barbara Tuchman
"The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect."
-- U.S. Andersen
"Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies."
-- St. Augustine
"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."
-- Goethe
"If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for,
demand - innovation from everyone." -- Tom Peters
"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
-- Dr. E. Land
"It takes a steady hand to carry a full cup."
-- Anonymous
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"Progress depends on people knowing they'll be able to profit from
their ideas."
-- Deborah Neville
"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a
menace to society."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"Encouragement is like a premium gasoline - it helps to take knocks out
of living."
-- Anonymous
"The easiest thing to find is fault."
-- Anonymous
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
-- Anonymous
"If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you."
-- Charles Kingsley
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the
ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream."
-- Mark Twain. American humorist, writer and lecturer, 1835-1910
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."
-- Thomas Edison
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices." William James
"Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude." -- Dr. Martin Luther King
"Act as if it were impossible to fail."
-- Dorothea Brande
"You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
-- Liz Smith
"To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that
ideas will have a chance of connecting."
-- Eric Maisil
"Smooth seas do not make for a skillful sailor."
-- African Proverb
The most terrifying words in the English
language are: "I'm from the government and I'm here to
help." --
Ronald Reagan
“Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six
impossible things before breakfast.” – the Queen in Through
The Looking Glass
“To me faith means not worrying.” – John Dewey
“Faith is taking the first step even when you
don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I don’t dream at night – I dream all day – I
dream for a living." – Steven Spielberg
"Are we willing to give up some things we like
to do to move onto those things we must do?" – Satenig St.
Marie
“It's never too late to be what you might have been.” – George
Eliot
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole
staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King,
Jr.
“It's never too late to be what you might have been.” – George
Eliot
“Adversity causes some people to break; others to break
records.” – William Arthur Ward
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which
should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after
others have let go.” – William Feather
"I've never met a couple yet who, when they were walking down the aisle,
said, 'What we want is three years of happiness, two years of [torment], a
messy divorce and 15 years of fighting over custody of the kids.' "
- Wade F. Horn, assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human
Services
"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything."
--Anonymous
"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you
don't, you will find an excuse."
--Anonymous
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a
good discussion."
-- G.K. Chesterton
“It
is impossible to love and to be wise.” – Sir Francis Bacon
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a
hard battle.” – Plato
“There is more to life than increasing its
speed.” – Gandhi
“It's nearly impossible to carry a grudge and a big dream at
the same time”…Unknown
"If a man cannot
forget, he will never amount to much." – Soren Kierkegaard
"If
you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful
person in the world." -- Emmett Fox
"If
you miss love, you miss life." -- Leo Buscaglia
"The
butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
– Rabindranath Tagore
"Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of
enemies." – Spike Miligan
“People gather bundles of sticks to build
bridges they never cross.” – Unknown
“Everybody is somewhere.” – Steve Allen
“It's never too late to be what you might have been.” – George
Eliot
Some people will
never learn anything because they understand everything too
soon. - Alexander Pope
“Every man must do two thing alone: he must do
his own believing and his own dying.” – Martin Luther
"Most men are within a
finger’s breadth of being mad." – Diogenes the Cynic
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
-- Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher
"I get so tired of listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there. It's so petty."
-- Imelda Marcos, Filipino First Lady (married to Ferdinand Marcos)
"When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion."
-- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 18th-century French author, wit and philosopher
"Virtue has never been as respectable as money."
--Mark Twain, 19th-century American humorist, author and journalist
"God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones."
--Publilius Syrus
"You are not what you own."
--Fugazi, American rock band
“Sharing money is what gives it its value.”
--Elvis Presley, singer
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“It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.''
--Elvis Presley, celebrity singer
“The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.”
-- Antiphanes, ancient Greek dramatist
“Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.”
-- B.C. Forbes, founder of Forbes magazine
"He is poor who does not feel content."
-- Japanese proverb
"For greed, all nature is too little."
-- Seneca, Roman statesman and author
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
-- Henry David Thoreau, 19th-century American essayist and nature writer
"Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold."
-- Maurice Setter
"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
-- Anonymous
"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse."
-- Anonymous
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a good discussion."
-- G.K. Chesterton
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true."
-- James Clabell in 1926
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-- Voltaire
"No one can be free who does not work for the freedom of others."
-- Anonymous
"You have freedom of choice, but not freedom from choice."
-- Wendell Jones
"False freedom leaves a man free to do what he likes; true freedom,
to do what he ought."
-- Anonymous
"If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and
approves of you, then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness and,
therefore, your excellence."
--Anonymous
"I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and
speaks forth another."
-- Homer
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be
sometimes cheated than not to trust."
-- Samuel Johnson
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the
rest."
-- Mark Twain
"The reason that worry kills more people than work is because there
are more people who worry than work."
-- Robert Frost
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-- Anonymous
"The task ahead of us is never as great as
the power behind us."
-- Anonymous
"A lie sprints. but
truth has endurance."
-- Anonymous
"When you do not listen to your
conscience it's because you do not want advice from a
stranger."
-- Anonymous
"Many people know so little about what
is beyond their short range of experience. They look
within themselves and find nothing! Therefore they
conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."
-- Helen Keller
"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with
the sense of responsibility for each others welfare,
social justice can never be attained." --
Helen Keller
"Better to light one small candle than
to curse the darkness." -- Chinese Proverb
"We can easily forgive a child who is
afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are
afraid of the light." -- Plato
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by
doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come
upon the truth." -- Pierre Abelard
"When in doubt, tell the truth." -- Mark Twain
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to
authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using
his memory." -- Leonardo Da Vinci
"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal
to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the
causes of happenings." -- Dorothy Thompson
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you
apologize for the truth." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."
--Ethiopian Proverb
"Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you." --
Spanish Proverb
"As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier
to destroy than to create." -- Mr. Spock, Star Trek 2
"The wise speak only of what they know." -- Gandalf, Lord
of the Rings
"There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere."
-- Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
"You can observe a lot by just watching." -- -- Yogi
Berra's Law
"Resentment
is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies." --
-- St. Augustine
"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician."
-- Anonymous
"Do first what you dread the most." -- Joel
Freeman
"Be kind. There is a drama of pain behind every pair of
eyes." -- Anonymous
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." --
Scottie Pippen
"Start projects worth finishing and then
finish what was started." -- Joel Freeman
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity." -- Maximus Decimus
Meridius, Gladiator
"Work hard.
Work smart. Enjoy the journey." -- Joel Freeman
"The cure for boredom
is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -- Dorothy
Parker,
"A little bad taste is
like a nice dash of paprika." -- Dorothy Parker,
"Brevity is the soul
of lingerie." -- Dorothy Parker,
"I don't care what is
written about me so long as it isn't true. -- Dorothy
Parker,
"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of
quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember
any of the damn things."
-- Dorothy Parker,
"She runs the gamut of
emotions from A to B." -- Dorothy Parker, speaking of
Katharine Hepburn
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the
overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My
own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for
that day." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic."
-- Anonymous
"There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year."
-- Anonymous
"In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday."
-- Anonymous
"Do the
details with dignity." -- Joel Freeman
"I've never been a
millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it." --
Dorothy Parker,
"If all the girls who
attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a
bit surprised." -- Dorothy Parker,
"If you want to know
what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it
to." -- Dorothy Parker,
"Take care of the
luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."
-- Dorothy Parker,
"The best way to keep
children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant – and
let the air out of the tires." -- Dorothy Parker,
"This is not a novel
to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great
force." -- Dorothy Parker,
"God is my audience." -- Joel Freeman
"I plan on living forever. So far, so good."
-- Anonymous
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the
right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
-- Anonymous
"Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever."
-- Anonymous
"That would be a good
thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went,
including here, it was against her better judgment." --
Dorothy Parker,
"They sicken of the
calm, who knew the storm." -- Dorothy Parker,
"If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd
better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or
kill it with the first blow. Anything else will just stir it
up."
-- James Thom
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you
don't understand it yourself."
-- Albert Einstein
"Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has
to make sense."
--Anonymous
"I am not young enough to know
everything."
--Oscar Wilde
"Courage is found in action. It has to be learned -
and earned." -- Doug Hall
"Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the
long run, it is easier." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Wise people talk because they have something to
say; fools, because they have to say something."
-- Plato
"The definition of a gaffe is when a
politician tells the truth."
-- Mike Kinsley
"Find a niche and scratch it."
-- Anonymous
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"He who praises himself has a congregation of one".
-- Jewish proverb.
"A critic is someone who knows the
way, but can't drive the car."
--Anonymous
"You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders.
And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself.
If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility
to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders.
It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what
we take, but we live forever through what we give"
-- Vernon Jordan, in a speech at Howard
University, 2002.
"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe
training has on a pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting
weight."
-- Josh Billings
"People will do better, when they know better".
-- Anonymous
"Everyone is ignorant, only on
different subjects"
--Will Rogers
"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."
-- Helen Hayes
"Heads that are filled with wisdom have little space
left for conceit."
-- Anonymous
"By the time your face clears up, your brain starts
going fuzzy."--Anonymous
"Every man has his disciples, and
it's always Judas who writes the biography."
--Chicago Tribune
"Let us so live life that when we come to die even
the undertaker will be sorry."
-- Mark Twain
"When were the good and the brave ever in a
majority?"
-- Henry David Thoreau
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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or
ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, support
any friend, oppose any for to assure the survival and the
success of liberty."
-- John F. Kennedy
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from
an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be
divested of a crutch."
-- James Baldwin
"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test
before presenting the lesson."
-- Vernon Law
"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."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"What does not destroy me, makes me strong."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's
courage."
-- Anais Nin
"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes
several days attack me at once."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and
sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when
it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
-- Satchel Paige
"Tis the mind that makes the body rich."
-- William Shakespeare
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NOW.
Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all
of its students.
Some people are only alive because it is illegal to
kill.
Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited
inventory.
Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they
appear.
Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get
worse.
Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes.
Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count
& those who can't.
Why is 'abbreviation' such a long word?
Keep honking...I'm reloading
2 Kings 9:20
Dain bramaged.
Eat Well, Stay Fit, Die Anyway
Body by Nautilus; brain by Mattel
Boldly going nowhere
CAUTION - Driver legally blonde!
Heart Attacks...God's Revenge for Eating His Animal
Friends
He's not dead, He's electroencephalographically
challenged
How many roads must a man travel down before he
admits he is lost?
All Men Are Animals, Some Just Make Better Pets
Forget world peace. Visualize using
your turn signal.
I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
WANTED: Meaningful overnight relationship.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
All men are idiots...I married their king.
IRS We've got what it takes to take what you've got.
Out of my mind...Back in five minutes.
Hang up and drive.
I took an IQ test and the results were negative.
Where there's a will...I want to be in it.
It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
Be nice to your kids...They will pick out your
nursing home.
Always remember you're unique...Just like everyone
else.
If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of
car payments.
I've taken a vow of poverty. To annoy me, send money.
Never take life seriously.
Nobody gets out alive, anyway
Never knock on Death's door:
Ring the doorbell and run (he hates that)
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel
universe.
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against
you.
You're just jealous because the voices only talk to
me.
The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with
yesterday.
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse
gets the cheese.
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with
it.
CATS: The other white meat
I'm an imbecile and I vote
Money Isn't Everything... But it Sure Keeps the Kids
In Touch
If you lived in your car, you'd be home by now
Saw it... Wanted it... Had a fit... Got it!
WARNING! Driver only carries $20.00 in ammunition
If you can read this, I can slam on my brakes and sue
you!
Your gene pool needs a little chlorine.
You're just jealous because the voices are talking to
me not you!
You are depriving some poor village of its IDIOT
Grow your own dope, plant a man
And Now, Back To The Regularly
Scheduled Programming...
"My happiness derives from knowing the people I love
are happy." -- Holly Ketchel
"Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice
cold and lonely as the North Pole."
-- Vicky Baum
"Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age
comes alone -- all by itself."
--Anonymous
"Misers aren't much fun to live with. But they make
wonderful ancestors."
-- Terry Glaspey
"You can get everything you want if you help enough
others get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the
stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in
your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of
your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts
are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong
qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With
it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only
alibis."
- Henry Ford -
"In each of us are places where we have never gone.
Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them."
online diversity course
"I have come to the conclusion that
there is nothing good that doesn't have bad consequences and
nothing bad that doesn't have good consequences."
--Pete Seeger
"You don't have to be great to get started but you have
to get started to be great."
- Les Brown
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is
the key to unlocking our potential."
- Winston Churchill
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than
him who overcomes his enemies; for the hardest victory is
victory over self."
-- Aristotle
"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the
mouth, is to close it again on something solid."
--G.K. Chesterton
"The rung of a ladder was never meant
to rest upon, but only to support your weight long enough so
you can reach for something higher."
--Anonymous
"The best time to plant a tree was 20
years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is
today."
--African Proverb
"Patience is not so much about
waiting, as it is about how one behaves while waiting."
-- Anonymous
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that
won't work."
--Thomas Edison during the light bulb invention
process.
"A leaky head never swells up."
--Anonymous
"Much of moral indignation is
jealousy with a halo."
--H.G. Wells
"Gossip is when you must hurry and tell someone
before you find out it isn't true."
-- Anonymous
"The character of a person is what he or she is when
no one is looking."
-- Anonymous
"Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying
to put on its shoes."
-- Attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte
"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can
borrow."
--Woodrow Wilson
"Things are only impossible until they're not."
-- Jean-Luc Picard
"It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry
people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the
homeless."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
"Don't Bunt! Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the
company of the immortals."
-- David Ogilvy -
"Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are
you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for
you."
-- William T. Esrey -
"Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use
words."
-- St. Francis of Assisi
"If you must borrow, always borrow from a pessimist.
They don't expect to be paid anyway."
-- Anonymous
"The beginning is the most important part of the
work."
-- Plato, The Republic. Book II.
"The greatest problem with communication is the
illusion that it has been accomplished once and for
all."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in
weakness."
-- Erich Fromm
Humor break -- Ineffective Daily
Affirmations
-I have the power to channel my
imagination into ever-soaring levels of suspicion and
paranoia.
- I am willing to make the mistakes if
someone else is willing to learn from them.
- To have a successful relationship I
must learn to make it look like I'm giving as much as
I'm getting.
- I assume full responsibility for my
actions, except the ones that are someone else's
fault.
- I no longer need to punish, deceive or
compromise myself. Unless, of course, I want to stay
employed.
- Just for today, I will not sit in my
living room all day watching TV. Instead I will move
my TV into the bedroom.
- Today I will gladly share my
experience and advice, for there are no sweeter words
than "I told you so."
- The first step is to say nice things
about myself. The second, to do nice things for
myself. The third, to find someone to buy me nice
things.
- All of me is beautiful and valuable,
even the ugly, stupid, and disgusting parts.
- Only a lack of imagination saves me
from immobilizing myself with imaginary fears.
- I need not suffer in silence while I
can still moan, whimper and complain.
- I am grateful that I am not as
judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous
people around me.
- I honor my personality flaws, for
without them I would have no personality at all.
- I can change any thought that hurts,
into a reality that hurts even more.
- My intuition nearly makes up for my
lack of good judgment.
- A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome
as a solution to the problem.
And Now, Back To The Regularly
Scheduled Programming...
"Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business
are negative."-- Harold Geneen
"You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the
outfield. You are only as good as the team you have behind
you."
-- Jim Palmer -
"The secret to winning football games is working more
as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but
my best 11.
-- Knute Rockne -
"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble
enterprise."
-- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it... It
is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth."
-- Virginia Woolf
"To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question."
-- S. Tobin Webster
"You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up
again."
-- Bonnie Prudden
"All that is not eternal is out of date."
-- C.S. Lewis
"As a general rule, prosperity is what keeps us in
debt."
-- Anonymous
"If you are living on the edge, then you are taking
up too much space."
-- Anonymous
"We are drowning in information, but starved for
knowledge and wisdom."
-- John Naisbitt
"Their is a fine line between courage and craziness,
and one between wisdom and cowardice. The people who drew
those lines never knew the difference."
-- Anonymous
"I want nothing to do with natural foods. At my age
I need all the preservatives I can get."
-- George Burns
"American men are obsessed with money. American
women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the
women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more
boring."
-- Marya Mannes
"There’s no limit to what a person can do or where
he or she can go, if he or she doesn’t mind who gets the
credit."
-- Anonymous
"A man travels all over the world in search of what
he needs and returns home to find it."
George Moore
"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless
one has plenty of work to do."
--Jerome K. Jerome
"I know God will not give me anything I can't
handle. I just wish He wouldn't trust me so much."
-- Mother Teresa
"Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice."
-- Quoted by Christopher Reeves
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it
from betting on people."
-- W.C. Fields
"The more you have to live for, the less you need to
live on. Those who make acquisition their goal never have
enough."
-- Sydney Harris
"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even
if you win, you're still a rat."
-- Lily Tomlin
"Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it
hurts when God pries your fingers open."
-- Corrie Ten Boom
"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't
have anything to laugh at when you're old."
-- Ed Howe
"Here's to our town -- a place where people spend
money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need to
impress friends they don't like."
-- Lewis C. Henry
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Contentment is destroyed by comparison."
--Anonymous
"Eulogize the mundane."
-- William Kissinger
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but
after a while he or she gets to know something."
-- Wilson Mizner
"Success = Those who are the nearest to me love and
respect me the most."
-- Anonymous
"Some people like my advice so much that they frame
it upon the wall instead of using it."
-- Gordon R. Dickson
Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how
frail we are."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new
problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of
solving an existing one."
-- Albert Einstein
"Doubts are the ants in the pants that keep faith
moving."
-- Fredrick Beuchner
"You can observe a lot by just watching."
-- Berra's Law
A P H O R I S M
A Short, Pointed Sentence That Expresses a Wise or Clever
Observation or a General Truth.
1.
The nicest thing about the future is...that it always starts
tomorrow.
2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his
tail.
3. If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense
at all.
4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.
5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark
to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
7 Business conventions are important...because they demonstrate how many
people a company can operate without.
8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else
looks?
9.
Scratch a cat...and you will have a permanent job.
10. No one has more driving ambition than the teenage boy who wants to buy
a car.
11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4
a.m. - like, it could be the right number.
13. No one ever says "It's only a game" when their team is winning.
14. I've reached the age where 'happy hour' is a nap.
15.
Be careful about reading the fine print...There's no way
you're going to like it.
16.
The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has
the same size bucket.
17. Do you realize that, in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of old
ladies running around with tattoos in strange places?
(And rap music will be the Golden Oldies!)
18
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more
comfortable to cry in a Cadillac than in a Yugo.
19
After 60, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you're
probably dead.
20.
Always be yourself because the people that matter don't mind
… and the
ones that mind don't matter.
21. Life
isn't tied with a bow...but it's still a gift.
"God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our
pain. Pain is His megaphone to rouse a dulled world."
-- C.S. Lewis
"Success in marriage is more than finding the right
person: it is being the right person."
-- Robert Browning
"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events
from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't always seem to
be working."
-- Anonymous
"To solve big problems you have to be willing to do
unpopular things."
-- Lee Iacocca
"We are always one generation away
from total anarchy."
--Anonymous
"Be kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a
hard battle."
-- John Watson
"Always remember that you're unique,
just like everybody else."
--Anonymous
"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it;
ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but there it
is."
-- Winston Churchill
"God's love elevates us without inflating us, and
humbles us without degrading us."
-- B.M. Nottage
"The most difficult part of golf is learning not to
talk about it."
-- Anonymous
"It is not what is poured into a student, but what
is planted, that counts."
-- Eugene P. Bertin
"The person who has no inner life is the slave to
his or her surroundings."
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
"Little people with little minds and little
imagination jog through life in little ruts, smugly
resisting all changes which would jar their little
worlds."
-- Marie Fraser
"The two quickest ways to disaster are to take
nobody's advice and to take everybody's advice."
-- Dublin Opinion
"Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a
realist."
-- David Ben-Gurion
"Research is the process of going up alleys to see
if they are blind."
-- Marston Bates
"Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy
you to give them an education."
-- Robert A. Cook
"People defend nothing more violently than the
pretenses they live by."
-- Allen Drury
"Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the
plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force
is always unscrupulous and is always cruel. We should
remember this in an age where morality seems to be
disappearing and is being replaced by politics."
-- Eustace Percy
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and
narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on
these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men
and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little
corner of earth all one's lifetime."
-- Mark Twain
"Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their
ingenuity."
-- Gen. George S. Patton
"Ultimately we know deeply that
the other side of every fear is freedom."
-- Marilyn Ferguson
"A heavy purse makes for a light
heart."
-- Irish Proverb
"An appeaser is one who feeds a
crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
-- Winston Churchill
"The worst team in baseball's history won only 55
games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're
virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of
the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't
know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if
you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of
them."--Tommy La Sorda (addressing Little
Leaguers)
"What we believe about God is the most important
thing about us."
-- A.W. Tozer
"The world is divided into people who do things and
people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the
first class. There's far less competition."
--Dwight Morrow
We're not primarily put on this earth to see through one
another, but to see one another through.
--Peter De Vries
Time is really the only capital that any human being has,
and the one thing that he can't afford to lose.
--Thomas A. Edison
I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time
articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.
--Thomas A. Edison (In 1876 letter to a
friend.)
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can
only be maintained by violence.
-- Solzhenitsyn
Want to make God laugh? Tell Him you've got plans.
-- Anonymous
...compassionate action is the only valid test of true
spirituality; and people in post-Christian Europe are keenly
aware of this insight. Many have left the conventional
church because they are repelled by the
uncharitable behavior of the devout; crusades, inquisitions
and persecutions, past and present, have discredited
faith....The deification of Diana, Princess of Wales, in the
extraordinary days after her death was a religious event,
due, at least in part, to the fact that Diana had become an
icon of compassion in a depersonalized world.
-- Karen Armstrong, author of "A History
of God"
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School
Board.
-- Mark Twain
The level of civilization in a society may be determined by
entering its prisons.
-- Fydor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
There's a way to do it better -- find it!
--Thomas A. Edison
Everything comes to him that hustles while he waits.
--Thomas A. Edison
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to understanding with the passing whisper of
their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our
hearts.
--Anonymous
A leader is best
When people hardly know that he exists,
Not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
Worst when they despise him....
But of a good leader, who talks little
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say, "We did this ourselves."
--Martin Buber, 1957, as quoted by Brynner in
1962
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I
have not seen.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep a smile on your face till 10 o'clock and it will stay
there all day.
--Douglas Fairbanks
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy
days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
--William Feather
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
--Andre Gide
I like my way of doing things better than your way of not
doing them.
--D. L. Moody.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
--Goethe
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face
and not Gary Cooper.
--Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the
leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research
reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy
cookies like you make.
--Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting
Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can be counted.
--Albert Einstein
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger
than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose.
--John Haldane
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstein
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us
to forgo their use.
--Galileo Galilei
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
--Voltaire
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
--Winston Churchill
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream
things that never were and ask why not.
--George Bernard Shaw
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over
the man who cannot read them.
--Mark Twain
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way
out. - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles,
1962
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a
miracle.
--Albert Einstein
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and,
if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
--Goethe
Socialism only
works in two places:Heaven where they
don'tneed it and hell
where they already have it. --Ronald Reagan
Here's my strategy on
the Cold War:We win,
they lose. -- Ronald Reagan
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came
about because the U.S. was too strong. --
Ronald Reagan
I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would
have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S.
Congress. --
Ronald Reagan
The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal
government but doesn't have to take the civil service
examination. --
Ronald Reagan
'Government is like a baby:
An alimentary canal with abig appetite
at one end andno sense of
responsibilityat the other.
-- Ronald
Reagan
The nearest thing to eternal life we
will ever see on this earth is a government program.
-- Ronald Reagan
Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the
faults of those around me.
--Edgar A. Guest
He started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn't be
done, and he did it.
--Edgar A. Guest
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the
only animal that is struck by the difference between what
things are and what they ought to be.
--William Hazlitt
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be
picked in strangers' gardens.
--Douglas Jerrold
Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.
--Thomas a'Kempis
Thou wilt always rejoice in the evening if thou has spent
the day profitably.
--Thomas a'Kempis
Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and
infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for
that thyself also has many failings which must be borned
with by others.
--Thomas a'Kempis
There are two ways to slide easily through life: To believe
everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from
thinking.
--Alfred Korzybski
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
--Dr. Robert Schuller
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
--La Rouchefoucauld
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk
well nor enough judgment to be silent.
--LaBruyere
No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does
the average human being born in the 20th century. Our
ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are
puzzled about the day after
tomorrow.
--Walter Lippman
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while
others judge us by what we already have done.
--Longfellow
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees
and flowers, and clouds, and stars.
--Luther
Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when
we are right, make us easy to live with.
--Peter Marshall
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are
loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of
ourselves.
--Victor Hugo
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends,
you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest
pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
--Alice Duer Miller
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.
--Michelangelo
The less men think, the more they talk.
--Montesquieu
If you treat a man as he is, he will stay as he is, but if
you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, and could
be, he will become that bigger and better man.
--Goethe
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being
loved. It is the finger of God on a man's shoulder.
--Charles Morgan
This day I will become part of the life of someone who needs
help.
--D.H. Mundt
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
--Chinese proverb
When a man has quietly made up his mind that there is
nothing he cannot endure, his fears leave him.
--Grove Patterson
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be
ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
--Norman Vincent Peale
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we
give.
--J. Petit-Senn
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything.
--Edward J. Phelps
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
--Booker T. Washington
I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my
child.
--Tagore
Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
--Elbert Hubbard
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by
just one person.
--V. Putnam
He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most
faithful in the performance of it.
--Rousseau
You understand people better if you look at them--no matter
how old or impressive or important they may be--as if they
were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow
taller.
--Leo Rosten
Mankind is divisible into two great classes, hosts and
guests.
--Sir Max Beerbohm
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to
the air.
--Schiller
"There is danger from all men. The
only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man
living with power to endanger the public liberty."
- Right-wing extremist John Adams (an
ironic designation)
"If ye love wealth better than
liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating
contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not
your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which
feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
- Right-wing extremist Samuel Adams (an ironic designation)
"The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and
tyrants."
- Right-wing extremist Thomas
Jefferson (an ironic designation)
"They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety."
- Right-wing extremist Benjamin
Franklin (an ironic designation)
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate
life.
--Seneca
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your
energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the
mountain ahead that wears you out--it's the grain of sand in
your shoe.
--Service
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing
it than to consume wealth without producing it.
--George Bernard Shaw
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
--Shakespeare
It has been said that politics is the
second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a
striking resemblance to the first.
-- Ronald
Reagan
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few
short phrases:
If it moves, tax it.If it keeps
moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,subsidize
it. -- Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you
succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself,
you can always write a book.
-- Ronald Reagan
No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as
formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and
women. -- Ronald
Reagan
If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD, then we
will be a nation gone under.
-- Ronald Reagan
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world
is to be in reality what we appear to be.
--Socrates
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with
others.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You
have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
--Winston Churchill
The greatest gift of sight is to see as Christ sees.
--E. Clayton Calhou
Gandhi had a sign reading: When you are in the right you
can afford to keep your temper; and when you are in the
wrong, you cannot afford to lose it.
--Chester Bowles
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to
make earth happy like the heaven above.
--Julia F. Carney
Man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he
begins to blame somebody else.
--Buffalo News
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not
pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal
to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no
miracle. But you shall be a
miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the
richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the
secret of happiness.
--James M. Barrie
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take
without forgetting.
--Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco
The reason why the Ten Commandments are short and clear is
that they were handed down direct, not through several
committees.
--Dan Bennett
A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in
which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble
over which it runs.
--Henry W. Beecher
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into
everlasting forgetfulness.
-Henry W. Beecher
Life is a long lesson in humility.
--James M. Barrie
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
--Balzac
15 WORDS TO INCREASE RESPONSE.
Here are the 15 most effective words
to increase response to an offer:
1. Free
2. New
3. You
4. Now
5. Win
6. Easy
7. Introducing
8. Today
9. Save
10. Guarantee
Parents who wish to train up their children in the way
they should go must go in the way in which they would have
their children go.
--Bacon
Fear knocked at my door. Faith opened that door and no one
was there.
--Author Unknown
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better
than the oak which resists it.
--Sir Walter Scott
It isn't the thing you do, It's the thing you leave undone
which gives you a bit of a heartache at the setting of the
sun.
--Author Unknown
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I
can do something. What I can do, I ought to do. And what I
ought to do, by God's grace, I will do.
--Author Unknown
The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.
--Leighton
Do not worry about what people are thinking about you--for
they are not thinking about you. They are wondering what you
are thinking about them.
--Anonymous
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness,
yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as
in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the
owner knows not of.
--Jonathan Swift
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the
dawn is still dark.
--Rabindranath Tagore
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is
laughter.
--Mark Twain
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
--Henry Van Dyke
Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and
works to no end.
--H.G. Wells
Do all the good 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
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a
thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without
comment.
--T. H. White
We search the world for truth; we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful,
From all old flower fields of the soul;
And weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our Mothers read
God knows our strength; he calls us to perform that he knows
we can do.
--H. L. Wolfe
Oh, to have the gift to think for ourselves as we can think
for others!
--Author Unknown
If you are content with the best you have done, you will
never do the best you can do.
--Martin Vanbee
If you see good in everybody,
Nearly everybody will see good in you.
--Author Unknown
Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still
likes you.
--Author Unknown
Learning is like rowing upstream: Not to advance is to drop
back.
--Chinese Proverb
We are not here to play, to dream and drift. We have work to
do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle, face it, 'tis
God's gift.
--Author Unknown
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when
tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the
weight is more than a man can bear.
--George MacDonald
Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I
have no choice.
--Madeleine L'Engle
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law. -Galatians 5:22,23
God must be very great to have created a world that leaves a
mystery as to whether he created it.
--Richard Wurmbrand
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they
do it from religious conviction.
--Blaise Pascal
Recently a small black leader from an African nation went to
speak in Texas. After the speech, someone came
up to him and asked, "Don't you feel intimidated in
front of all these big Texans?" "No," he
said, "I feel like a dime amongst many nickels."
--(furnished by R. Pudaite)
If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is
probably that you have never heard God speak.
--Amy Carmichael
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and
afflict the comfortable.
--Clarence Darrow
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who
gets the credit.
--Harry Truman
People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.
--George Bernard Shaw
Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy
people.
--Tchaikowsky
"Lord, give me the strength to
accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust
You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've
already assigned to someone else."
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of
godly things, it would take off something from God's grace;
and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but
small things they become noble.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and
if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you
will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not
lack for nourishment.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well
employed procures a happy death.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Life if well spent, is long.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so
study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it
retains nothing it takes in.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Ask counsel of him who rules himself well. He who does not
punish evil commands it to be done.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
He who thinks little, errs much.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do
against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the
cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way
increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot
hurt your feelings.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.
---from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
"When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle,
in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it
is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of
arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that
faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning
God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!"
--C. Everett Koop, retired U.S Surgeon
General
Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to
gather wealth and take so little care of your children to
whom you must one day relinquish all?
--Socrates, about 390 B.C.
So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but
then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum
created by your retreat from popular culture.
--Cal Thomas, L.A. Times Syndicate, August
14th, 1989.
In chess you have the general rules. To find the best
position for a piece, to fight for the open line, to have a
strong center, to attack the opponent's king. The real art
in chess is to evaluate the factors because they are so
different. What is more important, one pawn or the open
line? What's more important, the weak position of your king
or some initiative on the queenside? Material must be
compared against time [how long it will take for one's
attack to crystallize relative to an opponent's]. Material
and time must be evaluated against quality [whether pieces
are located on squares that are tactically strong]. It takes
imagination. At the highest level, chess is a talent to
control unrelated things. It is like controlling chaos.
--Gary Kasparov, world chess champion.
A friend is one to whom you may pour out all the contents of
your heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the
gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth
keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
--Arabian Proverb
If I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my
livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.
--Irving Wallace
A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by
giving you its perfume.
--Richard Wurmbrand
I have learned more about the Gospels from the handicapped
people, those on the margins of our society, those who have
been crushed and hurt, than I have from the wise and the
prudent. They have reminded me that we are all weak and all
called to death and that these are the realities of which we
are most afraid.
In the so-called normal world, we look at the titles and
function more than at the person. We look, then we measure
efficiency of action and amount of possessions rather than
quality of being. People are called "Doctor",
"Director", "Chairman" and so on, and
often their relationships with others remain superficial and
exterior, even functional. These aren't relationships
between people: they are relationships between titles or
functions. As long as we are going out to people of other
cultures, we must go not to do good, but to listen, to
touch, to admire, to watch them grow in the beauty of their
being, to see them flower in their own
language, to discover the diversity of mankind. (p.99)
--Jean Vanier, from the book, "Be Not
Afraid"
A man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven
for.
--Rudyard Kipling
I would seek out one or two people who seemed amiable and
would make myself useful to them . . . . I would raise
animals and plants and find joy in their thriving. I would
surround myself with beauty--no matter how primitive and
artless objects, colors, sounds. I would eat and drink well.
When the darkness grows denser, I would penetrate to its
very core and ground, and would not rest until amid the pain
a light appeared to me, for in excessu affectus Nature reverses
herself. I would turn in rage against myself and with the
heat of my rage I would melt my lead. I would renounce
everything and engage in the lowest
activities should depression drive me to violence. I would
wrestle with the dark angel until he dislocated my hip. For
he is also the light and the blue sky which he withholds
from me. Anyway that is what I would do. What others would
do is another question, which I cannot answer. But for you
too there is an instinct either to back out of it or to go
down to the depths. But no half-measures or half-heartedness. . .With cordial wishes, As ever,
---C. G. Yung
To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of
spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in
which we find a new world.
--Ernst CaSirer, 1942
"What yells out at the US public . . . is the
incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of
free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions
are conservative."
--William F. Buckley.
What's free in this country is free enterprise and the more
enterprising you are, the freer you're going to be.
--Errol Smith, black entrepreneur
Forget your experiences, grab the lessons, and keep on
swinging!
--Errol Smith, black entrepreneur
He who has the plan wins. Without a plan of your own, you
run the risk of waking up one day, and finding out that
you've ended up where somebody else wanted you to go! Make a
list of five things that you least want to do that would
change your life if you did them. Pick the first one and
start doing it.
--Errol Smith, black entrepreneur
Never, Never, Never Give Up.
--Winston Churchill
The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.
--Dale Carnegie
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right
once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is
a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. There is no room for
second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's
first place. I have finished second twice in my time at
Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finished second again.
There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for
losers played by losers. It is and always has been an
American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and
to win, and to win. Every time a football player goes to ply
his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the
soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him
has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's
O.K. You've to be smart to be number one in any business.
But more importantly, you've got to play with your
heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough
to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart,
he's never going to come off the field second. . . . And in
truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long
run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind,
the discipline. There is something in good men that really
yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head
combat. I don't say these things because I believe in
the "brute" nature of man or that men
must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I
believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any
man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds
dear - is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a
good cause and he's exhausted on the field of battle -
victorious.
--Vincent Lombardi.
Success is a journey, not a destination.
--Vince Lombardi
The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.
--Vince Lombardi
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
--Vince Lombardi
It takes months to find a customer . . . seconds to lose
one. Do not follow where the path may lead. . . go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail.
--Vince Lombardi
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
--Vince Lombardi
Your attitude determines your altitude.
--Vince Lombardi
The difference between a successful person and others is not
a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a
lack of will.
--Vince Lombardi
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of
high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and
skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many
alternatives.
--Vince Lombardi
Excellence can be obtained if you . . .
Care more than others think is wise.
Risk more than others think is safe.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
--Vince Lombardi
The Winner is always part of the answer.
The Loser is always part of the problem.
The Winner always has a program.
The Loser always has an excuse.
The Winner says, "Let me do it for you."
The Loser says, "That's not my job."
The Winner sees an answer for every problem.
The Loser sees a problem for every answer.
The Winner sees a green near every sand trap
The Loser sees two or three sand traps near every green.
The Winner says, "It may be difficult but it's
possible."
The Loser says, "It might be possible but it's too
difficult."
Be a Winner.
--Vince Lombardi
Leaders are like eagles. They don't flock. You find them one
at a time.
--Vince Lombardi
"When I was a young man, I observed that nine out of
ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a
failure, so I did ten times more work."
--George Bernard Shaw
If you would not be forgotten, either write things worth
reading or do things worth the writing.
--Benjamin Franklin
I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man
has good corn, or woods, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can
make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road
to his house. though it be through the woods."
--Ralph Walso Emerson's Journal, February
1855.
David Ogilvy made his copywriters come up 100 different
headlines for every ad they wrote.
--David Ogilvy
Ten rules for writing a good headline from Murray Raphel's
excellent book, "Mind Your Own Business,"
1. Self-interest. What's in it for the reader.
2. Arouse curiosity. Make them STOP and ask, "How can
that be?" or "What do they mean by that?"
Then answer the question well.
3. Does your ad SINGLE OUT your intended audience?
4. Is it EASY to understand?
5. Is it newsworthy?
6. Is it believable? David Oglivy: "The customer is not
a moron. She's your wife."
7. Quick results.
8. Be specific.
9. Something of value.
10. Make it well known. Brand names and testimonials make
people feel comfortable.
--Murray Raphel, 1989:
When turned a year old (and some before), they were taught
to fear the rod and to cry softly; by which means they
escaped abundance of correction they might otherwise have
had; and that most odious noise of the crying of children was rarely heard in the house; but
the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there
had not been a child among them. In order to form the minds
of children, the first thing to be done is to conquer the
will, and bring them to an obedient temper. To inform the
understanding is a work of time, and must with children
proceed by slow degrees as they are able to bear it; but
subjecting the will is a thing which must be done at once;
and the sooner the better. For by neglecting timely
correction they will contract a stubbornness and obstinacy
which is hardly ever conquered. Whenever a child is
corrected, it must be conquered; and this will be no hard
matter to do, if it be not grown headstrong by too much
indulgence . . . I cannot yet dismiss this subject.
Self-will is the root of all sin and misery, so whatever
cherishes this in children insures their after-wretchedness;
whatever checks and mortifies it promotes their future
happiness.
--Susanna Wesley as quoted in John Wesley's
journal, quoting their mother.
"One great blemish in the popular mind of America and
the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is
Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol
firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into
fragments: and this because directly you reward a
benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely
because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high
place among you, from the President downwards, may date his
downfall from that moment."
--Charles Dickens: American Notes (written
after visiting the United States)
"Do you think it's possible to change something in
humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something
and is not risking, it probably means he's not changing
anything."
--Leolupa Orlando. Italian Politician who put
his life at great risk by attempting to obliterate the
Italian Mafia.
"All that is needed for the triumph of evil is that
good men do nothing."
--Edmund Burke
"They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety."
- Right-wing extremist Benjamin
Franklin (note the irony)
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of
your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of
such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee,
supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to
glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the
dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face
of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the
tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of
freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or
arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May
your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen!"
- Right-wing extremist Samuel Adams (note the irony)
"To have the ability to withdraw into oneself
and forget everything around one when one is creating --
What, I think is the only requirement for being able to
bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is -- a mystery."
--Edvard Grieg
When I am, as it were, completely alone, and of good
cheer -- say, traveling in a carriage, or walking after a
good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on
such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Whence and how they come, I know not; nor can I force them.
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy,
poetry or the arts are melancholic?"--Aristotle
Commit thy way unto the Lord. Trust also in Him, and he
shall bring it to pass.
--Psalm 37:5
The first step to better times is to imagine them.
--Chinese fortune cookie
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where
others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and
dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something
you have never seen before. Of
course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One
discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you
will have something worth thinking about to occupy your
mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.
--Alexander Graham Bell
You must have the will to prepare to win.
--Bobby Knight
A great test of courage is to bear defeat without losing
heart.
--Dave Roberson, former New Trier swim coach
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing
nearly right or doing it exactly right.
--Dave Roberson, former New Trier swim coach
Coast and you will go downhill.
--Dave Roberson, former New Trier swim coach
Get off the starting block, then improve your position.
--Dave Roberson, former New Trier swim coach
You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
--Dave Roberson, former New Trier swim coach
Do your best all day and say prayers at bedtime. Then get a
good sleep and leave the worrying to God, because he is
going to be up all night anyway.
--Dave Roberson, former New Trier swim coach
What I am to be I am now becoming. Try for excellence.
(added on later)
--Dave Roberson, former New Trier swim coach
The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.
--Dave Robertson, New Trier swimming coach.
The essential quality of business is dispatch.
--C.K. Chesterton (paraphrased)
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long
displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight,
love, and joy without ceasing.
--Martin Luther.
Tis by art and not by force of many blows that we achieve.
--Anon
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Small leaks sink the ship.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Every tub has to sit on its own bottom.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Do unto others as you would have them do to you.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Long time no see 'em -- by'n'by see 'em all the time.
--"Papa" (My Grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
I've known a penny to break a friendship.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Bold again, got the tin, another poor sucker taken in.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
It's yours: I only want what belongs to me, and I want you
to have what belongs to you.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
One of Dad's theories: If every man were given a fair share
of what he produces there would be a better economic system.
(in other words, higher wages for the working people)
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Don't take a lazy man's load.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Use your head to save your heels.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Now we will go home and see what the neighbors have brought
in.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
A person is known by the company he keeps.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln
Water seeks its own level.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Now we will go home and see what the neighbors have brought
in.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
If you can't say anything good about anyone don't say
anything at all.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
It's better to have the good than the ill will of a dog.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
We'll be glad to accommodate if we can accumulate.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
The pot calls the kettle black.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
All you get in this world is what you eat, so eat all you
want.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
A place for everything and everything in its place.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
If a hen and a half lays and egg and a half, how many eggs
do six hens lay in a week?
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
A penny saved is a penny earned.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Every man has a right to do as he pleases so long as he does
not interfere with the rights of others.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Health comes first.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
When you start something finish it.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Speaking of strawberries: The Lord might have made a better
berry but He never did.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Just knocked a little fur off (when he cut himself)
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
There's another day coming.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
What's worth doing at all is worth doing well. --"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Molasses is hard stuff to pick up.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Mend you clothes upon your back, poverty you'll never lack.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
My family have all fulfilled my wish on marriageable age: 20
for girls and 25 for the boys.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
Wouldn't give a nickel for another child, but wouldn't part
with one I have for all the money there is.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
--"Papa" (My grandfather Abraham
Lincoln Turner)
When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray
hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of how St. Peter
had given his choice of getting bald or getting gray and he
chose the latter. Have never smoked, chewed nor used tea
coffee or liquor except for medicinal purposes. The want of
it is more than the worth of it.
--A. L. Turner (as recorded by one of his
daughters)
Victoria had the discipline of being a queen to help her
through the biggest trial of her life -- when she lost
Albert and faltered. I've had the discipline of the theatre
to help me over the ups and downs. A wonderful life . . . Go
it old girl. You've done it well."
--Helen Hayes (as quoted in writing by W.T.
McDougal, my mom) concerning Victoria Regina
I will place no value on anything except as it pertains to
God.
--Livingston as quoted in writing by W.T.
McDougal
The scientist has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is
about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over
the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who
have been sitting there for centuries.
--Robert Jastrow, astronomer, founder of
ASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
--Young
The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is
asleep.
--Sengalese Proverb
Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace.
--Mother Teresa
I can't get no satisfaction,
Cause I've tried and tried and I've tried and tried;
I can't get no satisfaction.
--Rolling Stones
Absence of occupation is not rest. A mind quite vacant is a
mind distressed.
--William Cowper
Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.
--Jesus
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and
truth discourtesy.
--George Herbert
We do not write because we want to, we write because we
must.
--W. Sommerset Maugham
The sins of youth are paid for in old age.
--Latin Proverb
The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than
the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the
color of its leisure thoughts.
--Dean Inge
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their
leisure time that men are made or marred.
--W.M. Taylor.
Flattery is alright--if you don't inhale.
--Adlai Stevenson.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a
hundred days of sorrow.
--Chinese Proverb
Worry is paying interest on trouble that may never come.
--Robert C. Savage.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good
works.
--Augustine of Hippo.
Be awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em
all comin' down.
--Jimmy Durante
Keep praying but be thankful that God's answers are wiser
than your prayers.
--William Culbertson
The most pitiful poverty is that of a man who has more than
he needs but feels he doesn't have enough.
--Robert C. Savage
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half
times his own weight in other people's patience.
--John Updike
The recognition of the truth that we get in the artist's
work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. We did not
know it before, but the moment it is shown to us, we know
that, somehow or other, we had always
known it.
--Dorothy L Sayers
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a
center of fear.
--Corrie Ten Boom
The secret to success in any human endeavor is total
concentration.
--Kurt Vonnegut.
One great cause of failure of young men in business is the
lack of concentration.
--Andrew Carnegie
A torn jacket is soon mended; but harsh words bruise the
heart of a child.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Elbow grease is the best polish.
--English Proverb
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed
than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
--Peter Marshall
When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't
hold on for minute longer, never give up; for that's just
the place and time that the tide will turn.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of
taste, swim with the current.
--Thomas Jefferson
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they
could and should do for themselves.
--Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is
trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
--Abraham Lincoln
Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections
must first be overcome.
--Samuel Johnson
Few things help an individual more than to place
responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust
him.
--Booker T. Washington
"What you do with your billable time determines your
current income, but what you do with your non-billable time
determines your future."
- David Maister
A writer needs three things, experience, observation and
imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which,
can supply the lack of the others.
--William Faulkner
Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business, or
God, that is your god!
--Billy Graham
How do I work? I grope.
--Albert Einstein
Amateurs hope. Professional work.
--Garson Kanin
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels
the least like working.
--Frank Lloyd Wright
Words to deeds cold breath gives.
--Lady Macbeth (Shakespeare)
He who has no fire in himself cannot warm others.
--Anonymous
The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says
things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things
which he has never heard.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed
down the stairs a step at a time.
--Mark Twain
Habit is overcome by habit.
--Thomas A. Kempis
A man grows most tired while standing still.
--Chinese Proverb
What I do today is important because I'm exchanging a day of
my life for it.
--Albert M. Wells, JR.
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without
providing you with company.
--Gian Vincenzo Gravina
Those who limit their own appetites free themselves to
follow voices other than the sirens of self-gratification.
--Peter Monkres
Distrust is poison to friendship.
--Christian Clippings
Our chief want in life somebody who will make us do what
we can.
--Emerson
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes
furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
--Dale Carneagie
All evil stems from this--that we do. Know how to handle
your solitude.
--Blaise Pascal
The difference between the right word and the nearly right
word is the difference between lightning and the lightning
bug.
--Mark Twain
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given
rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the
other becomes a habit of life.
--Elilsabeth Elliot
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what
you have to.
--Epictetus
The man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
--Henry David Thoreau
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the
consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
--Fyodor Dostoevsky
Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! Thine own has
reached the shore.
--Hindu Proverb
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm...Enthusiasm is
at the bottom of all progress. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it, there are only alibis..
--Henry Ford
If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you
have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
--Maurice Baring
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
--Daniel S. Greenberg
Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the
world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he
is only sad.
--Robert C. Savage
Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, is oft but
perseverance in disguise.
--Henry W. Austin
To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be
different.
--Marchant
They are ill discoverers who think there is no land, when
they see nothing but sea. --Francis Bacon
The first duty of love is to listen.
--Paul Tillich
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover
creative solitude.
--Carl Sandburg
Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice and
want.
--Voltaire
An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is
the second.
--Thomas Jefferson
The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing
his conscience; is--not to give him things
To think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or
say, to make him think things for himself.
--George MacDonald
To love a person means to see him as God intended him to be.
--Gyodor Dostoyevsky
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
--George Eliot
If we treat people as they are, they will stay as they are.
But if we treat them for what they might be, and might
become, they will become those better selves.
--G.T. Smith
You must try to forget all you have learned. You must begin
to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the
roaring of the voices.
--Sherwood Anderson
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead,
either write things worth reading or do things worth
writing.
--Benjamin Franklin
If men will not be governed by God, then they must be
governed by tyrants.
--William Penn
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of
mediocrity is disappointment.
--William Aruthur Ward
A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.
--Danish Proverb
He gives twice who gives quickly.
--Publisus Mimus
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we
will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the
decision.
--Herbert V. Prochnow
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do,
chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes'
palaces.
--Shakespeare
I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I
looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and
decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe.
Folks had always liked my chicken.
--Colonel Harland Sanders
Life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we
respond to it.
--Albert M Wills, Jr.
The most important attributes a writer must have are faith,
hope, and clarity.
--Will Conway
Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to
complain of its shortness.
--Jean De La Bruyere
A wise man listening to a fool will learn more than a fool
listening to a wise man.
--Nuggets
If you can dream it, you can do it.
--Walt Disney
A man Sir, must keep his friendships in constant repair. If
a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through
life, he will soon find himself left alone.
--Samuel Johnson
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man
contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a
cathedral.
--Saint-Exupery
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will
help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
--Bill Graham
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ
can fill.
--Augustine
Study composure and repose, also reserve. Acquire
self-control and the habit of silence. Be at peace with
yourself and the rest of the world. Silence is the first
refuge of the wise and the last refuge of the foolish. In a
sense all of life is business and life is the finest of the
fine arts. Many people never learn how to live. They grow up
at random, carrying into mature life only the purely animal
methods and motives they had as little children. The man who
killed all his enemies by transforming them into friends
must have been a good leader, a là Lincoln.
--Robert McDougal, Sr. (my grandfather)
You know that the beginning is the most important part of
any work, especially in the case of a young and tender
thing; for that is the time at which the character is being
formed and the desired impression is more readily taken . .
. . Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any
casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to
receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very
opposite of those which we should wish them to have when
they grow up? We cannot . . . . Anything received into the
mind at that age is likely to become indelible and
unalterable, and therefore it is most important that the
tales which the young first hear should be models of
virtuous thoughts. . . .Then will our youth dwell in a land
of health, amid fair sights and sounds, and receive the good
in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works,
shall flow into the eye and ear, like a health-giving breeze
from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul
from the earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the
beauty of reason. There can be no nobler training than that. -Plato's Republic (preface to William J.
Bennett's Book of Virtues)
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile
are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third,
common sense.
--Thomas A. Edison
We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away
their last piece of break. They may have been few in number,
but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken
from a man but one thing: the last of his freedoms--to
choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to
choose one's own way.
--Victor S. Frankl
1. Never lose your capacity for enthusiasm.
2. Never lose your capacity for indignation.
3. Never judge people, don't type them too quickly, but in a
pinch, always assume that a man is good
and that at worst he is in the gray area
between good and bad.
4. If you can't be generous when it's hard, you won't be
when it's easy.
5. The greatest builder of confidence is the ability to do
something--almost anything--well. When that
confidence comes, then strive for
humility; you aren't as good as all that.
6. And the way to become truly useful is to seek the best
that other brains have to offer. Use them to
supplement your own, and give credit to
them when they have helped.
7. The greatest tragedies in world and personal events stem
from misunderstanding.
--Gordon Dean, former head of the Atomic
Energy Commission scrawled on the back of an envelope
found beside him after his death in a plane
crash.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved,
what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it
proves false? . . . If you gain, you gain all; if you lose,
you lose nothing. Wager,
then, without hesitation, that He exists.
--Blaise Pascal
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I
would still plant my apple tree.
--Martin Luther
England has two books, one which she has made and one which
as made her. Shakespeare and the Bible.
--Victor Hugo
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more
terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom,
from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out
the accusing light of reason and suppressing the
unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of
deliverance.
--Malcolm Muggeridge
Boredom is the root of all evil-- he despairing refusal to
be oneself.
--Soren Kierkegaard
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of
any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest
number of artificial amusements of any country. People have
become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves.
They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then
laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and
comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful,
frightening,
hollow feeling--that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost
and alone.
--Billy Graham
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and
very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them:
"Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy
laden."
--Saint Augustine
Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might
laugh at erring men no more.
--Michelangelo
Character is what you are in the dark.
--D. L. Moody
Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be
able to read Latin.
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service to have a
gloomy face or a chilling look.
--Saint Francis of Assisi
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
--Evelyn Underhill
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have
to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of
weeds.
--Luther Burbank
He is no fool, who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what
he cannot lose.
--Jim Elliot (who gave his life for the salvation of the
Auca Indians)
Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would
be entirely fearless, absurdly happy, and that they would
get into trouble.
--W. Russell Maltby
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter
can mankind be remade.
--Desiderius Erasmus
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires;
but on what foundation did we rest the creations of our
genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon
love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
--Napoleon Bonaparte
I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the
more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God
governs in the affairs of men.
--Benjamin Franklin
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
--D. L. Moody
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being
rash.
--General George Smith Patton
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time;; for that's
the stuff that life is made of.
--Benjamin Franklin
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
--Gene Fowler
He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world ust be a
man of one idea, that is, of one great overmastering
purpose, overshadowing al his aims and guiding and
controlling his entire life.
--Bate
The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to
believe in God.
--Robert M. McCheyne
Please all and you will please none.
--Aesop
What I have taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.
--John Huss
Abraham Lincoln once walked down the street with his two
sons, both of whom were crying. "What's the matter with
you boys?" asked a passerby. "Exactly what is
wrong with the whole world," said Lincoln. "I have
three walnuts, and each boy wants two."
--(told by George Sweeting)
A thick skin is a gift from God.
--Conrad Adenauer
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
--Mathew Arnold
Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter
of the king's lodge.
--John Henry Jowett
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and
space trips pale into insignificance.
--Joseph Bayly (lost three sons to death
before age 20)
History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a
sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins.
--Arnold Toynbee
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom
nothing is habitual but indecision.
--William James
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the
doctrine of the strenuous life.
--Theodore Roosevelt
Now there are five vows I have in mind which we do well
to make and keep.
1. Deal thoroughly with sin.
2. Never own anything--get rid of the sense of possessing.
3. Never defend yourself.
4. Never pass anything on about anybody else that will hurt
him.
5. Never accept any glory.
--A. W. Tozier
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God,
"Thy will be done," and those to whom God says,
"All right, then, have it your way."
--C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
--Henry Ford's Fireplace Motto
How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God
speak.
--François Fenelon
Storms make oaks take deeper root.
--George Herbert
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers
formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
--George Washington, letter of instruction to
the Virginia Regiments, July 29, 1759
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
--Benjamin Franklin
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
--Benjamin Disraeli
The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your
friend.
--Abraham Lincoln
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be
appreciated.
--William James
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the
production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in
the world.
--C. S. Lewis
Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where
to find the bread.
--D. T. Niles
Well done, is better than well said.
--Benjamin Franklin
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. --Abraham Lincoln
God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers.
--Old Jewish Saying
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
--Saint Francis of Assisi
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
-- Louis Pasteur
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its
freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing
about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort, too.
--W. Somerset Maugham
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are
willing to give it to others.
--William Allen White
You can make more friends in two months by becoming
interested in other people than you can in two years by
trying to get other people interested in you.
--Dale Carnegie
Three men are my friends: he that loves me, he that hates
me, and he that is indifferent to me. Who loves me teaches
me tenderness. Who hates me teaches me caution. Who is
indifferent to me teaches me
self-reliance.
--These Times
Those who best knew Sir Walter Scott used to say of him,
"He spoke to every man he met as if he were a blood
relative."
--(George Sweeting)
The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
--Blaise Pascal
The unexamined life is not worth living.
--Socrates
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth
and you will get neither.
--C. S. Lewis, Living Quotations
History is a story written by the finger of God.
--C. S. Lewis
"Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat
it."
--George Santayana
"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation.
For when you come back to your work, your judgment will be
surer, since to remain constantly at work, you lose power of
judgment. Go some distance away because then the work
appears smaller, and more of it can be taken in at a glance,
and a lack of harmony or proportion is more readily
seen."
--Leonardo Da Vinci
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song,
read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were
possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
--Johann Worlfgang Von Goethe
"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put
out the light of one small candle."
--Anonymous
"One thing I know: the only ones among you, who will be
really happy, are those who will have sought and found how
to serve."
--Albert Schweitzer
". . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be
happy, and no one can stop him."
--Aleksander Sozhenitsyn
"To laugh often and much; to win respect of intelligent
people and the affection of children . . . to leave the
world a better place. . . to know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whatever you love more than God is your idol."
--D. L. Moody
". . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining
whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings
forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth."
--Plato
"The human race is governed by its imagination."
--Napoleon Bonaparte
"The good person increases the value of every other
person whom he influences in any way."
-Anonymous
"The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most
powerful influence in the world, next to the night of
God."
--Blaise Pascal
"The length and breadth of our influence upon others
depends upon the depth of our concern for others."
-Anonymous
"You cannot antagonize and influence at the same
time."
--John Knox
"The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature..."
-- President Taft
"I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God
who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has
intended us to forego their use."
--Galileo
"Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which
has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the
devotion of its adherents."
-John Stott
"I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man.
Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human
being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God."
--Napoleon
"The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as
the hand that was laid in blessing upon the little children;
the face that is as the sun shining in its strength beams
with as much love as when it drew publicans and harlots to
His feet. The breast that is girt with the golden girdle is
the same breast upon which John leaned his happy head."
--Alexander MacLaren
"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and
are famous preservers of youthful looks."
-Charles Dickens
"The best place to find a good helping hand is at the
end of your own arm."
--Martin Vanbee
"He who laughs lasts."
--Norwegian Proverb
"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,
if I did not laugh I should die."
--Abraham Lincoln
"Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs
of present or impending decay."
--Richard Weaver
"Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and
ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is
able to accomplish."
--Thomas Buxton
"The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do
tomorrow."
--Norwegian Proverb
"A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no
desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership
by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of
the external situation."
--A. W. Tozier
A leader is best
When people barely know that he exists,
Not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
Worse when they despise him.
"Fail to honor people,
They fail to honor you.";
But of a good leader, who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim is fulfilled,
They will all say, "We did this ourselves."
--Lao-Tzu
"A great leader never sets himself above his followers
except in carrying responsibilities."
--Jules Ormont
"As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so
the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest
foundation to falsehood."
--Oliver Goldsmith
"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do
well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
--Cicero
"When I consider the short duration of my life,
swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little
space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the
infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and
which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished being
here rather than there, why now rather than then."
--Blaise Pascel
"Better to light one small candle than to curse the
darkness."
--Chinese Proverb
"All man's miracles derive from not being able to sit
quiet in a room alone."
--Blaise Pascal
"There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart."
--Blaise Pascal (original idea, Augustine)
"What a vast difference there is between knowing God
and loving Him."
--Blaise Pascal
"People don't go where the action is, they go where
love is."
--Jess Moody
"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot
better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the
order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and
vegetables."
--Stuart Briscoe
"There are few greater treasures to be acquired in
youth than great poetry--and prose--stored in the memory. At
the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep
in the memory and awake in later
years, illuminated by life and illuminating it."
--Richard W. Livingstone
"Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a
resolution."
--John Burroughs
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their
minds to be."
--Abraham Lincoln
"Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and
you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be
careful that you do not let other people spend it for
you."
--Carl Sandburg.
"The brevity of time."
--Billy Graham, when asked what the biggest
surprise of life was for him.
"I wish I'd watched less TV."
--Billy Graham, when asked if he had any
regrets.
All that trouble, and no more enjoyment than from a game of
marbles.
--Renoir referring to the "horses,
carriages, society people, ridiculous clothes and even a
poor fox" that are needed to hunt as opposed to the
simplicity of the child's game.
I have four sons whom I love dearly. Suppose our lawn needed
to be cut. I could say, "Boys, can you see the need?
The grass is high. It's above my knees. Soon I will not be
able to get to the garage. Don't you see the desperate
need?" But in the final analysis, they get out the
mower because their father says, "Mow the grass!"
World evangelization is an imperative because Jesus said so.
--George Sweeting
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a
widower in the next.
--William R. Inge
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must
be stupid enough to want it.
--G.K. Chesterton
A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his
character. How he makes it and how he spends it.
--James Moffat
In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with
property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.
--George Sweeting
Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly
possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a
reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.
--Charles Stanley
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the
varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human
genius will never exhaust.
--Igor Stravinsky
There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in
our hearts.
--Karl Barth
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or
sarcastic thing.
--John Erskine
The superior mind does not set his mind either for anything,
or against anything; what is right he will follow.
--Confucious
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being
commanded what others do only from fear of the law
--Aristotle
Perhaps a naturalist, with seventy years of work and
observation behind him, can be forgiven if he preaches a
little, and it seems to me this is a good time to preach
briefly on the theme of Service....I will bet a straw hat to a felt one that, if you are tired of your job
and discouraged with life and down in the mouth about the
way you are treated, you have got a little mixed up about
your importance to the scheme of things, but I will bet an
entire new suit of clothes against a poor necktie that, if
you are happy, capable, liked and trusted, you are giving
the world or your family or your employers or your employees
a little more than is expected or than you are paid for or
than you get back.
--Luther Burbank
When any action has become overly pleasure-seeking, history
has already begun its epitaph.
--Howard Whitman
Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent,
I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the
thunder praise Him as it rolls like drums in the march of
the God of armies? Do not the mountains praise Him when the
woods upon their summits wave in adoration? Doth not the
lightning write His name in letters of fire? Hath not the
whole earth a voice? And shall I, can I, silent be?
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever
there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are
inseparable; they go together.
--Earl Nightingale
Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays
valuable dividends for a lifetime.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
A child should have every advantage -- including those
taught by disadvantage.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great
way of not doing it.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
Mistakes are the byproduct of action -- and thus an accurate
gauge of effort.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
Most will choose to leave someone who can't bear to see them
go.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
A fool harvests his opinions in the spring.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
Personal happiness is so important, most choose to let
someone else take care of it.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
Talent is truth on display.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some
paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to
our lives. A quick survey of the world shows that pretty
much any idea will do -- it need
not reflect reality or truth, merely function to fascinate,
distract, and compel. We are designed for belief, not for
truth.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many
blunders, but you've become much more adept at not
recognizing them.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you
choose to have more faith in yourself than anything
else.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full
stomach.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all,
is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from
the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and
sadly lost past. Avoid as long
as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement
award.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed
lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any
path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
Alas!
Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the
positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
-- Baudelaire
The doubts of some
are more indicative of a love for truth than the belief of
others. -- John Ker
When I
have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and
calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt
grateful to God, and have blessed His name.
-- Charles Spurgeon
Is it not
a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so
cowardly in execution?
-- St. Francis de Sales
Since life
itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can
boast much stability.
-- Samuel Johnson
What if
everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I
definitely overpaid for my carpet. -- Woody Allen
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
-- G.K. Chesterton
For well
you know that it's a fool who plays it cool by making his
world a little colder.
-- The Beatles
To
consider persons and events and situations only in the light
of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of
hell. -- Thomas
Merton
I never
expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the
places they do today.
-- Will Rogers
It is a
miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein
It is the
mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it. -- Aristotle
In
measuring a circle, one begins anywhere. -- Charles Fort
What lies
behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared
to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How poor
are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but
by degrees. --
William Shakespeare
Enjoy when
you can, and endure when you must. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The true
nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
-- Aristotle
There is
no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
-- French Proverb
Something
always takes the place of missing pieces.
-- Beck, Guero
What you
look at hard seems to look at you.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
There is
no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of
thinking. --
Thomas A. Edison
To the
hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw
large and startling figures.
-- Flannery O'Connor
True
friends stab you in the front.
-- Oscar Wilde
Every
story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat."
-- C.S. Lewis
The
ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his
capacity.
-- Jacques Barzun
Stories
are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.
-- Stephen King
All
beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in
silence, ere it issues out in might.
-- James Martineau
It is much
better to know something about everything, than everything
about something.
-- Pascal
Minds,
like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned
state from mere excess of comfort.
-- Charles Dickens
I have no
fear of drowning, It's the breathing that's taking all this
work. -- Jars of
Clay, Good Monsters
The world
speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is
worldly language.
-- Frederick Buechner
Beer. Now
there's a temporary solution.
-- Homer Simpson
It is
better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of
the ale-house in church.
-- Martin Luther
When I am
king you will be first against the wall.
-- Radiohead, OK Computer
The act of
defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the
exhilaration of a vice.
-- G.K. Chesterton
We live in
an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.
-- T-Bone Burnett, The Criminal Under My Own Hat
The nice
thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people,
they think it's their fault.
-- Henry Kissinger
It is not
in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected.
The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
-- George MacDonald
Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing
by your own rules -- in which case, you'd think it would be
easier to come by.
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort.
Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the
appreciation of it exceed the pleasure of being able to tell
others what to do. There is but one tick on the accuracy
scale between 'optimism' and 'denial.'
--quoted or originated by Terry Rossio
If I keep from meddling with people, they take care of
themselves,
If I keep from commanding people, they behave themselves,
If I keep from preaching at people, they improve themselves,
If I keep from imposing on people, they become
themselves."
--As related by Friedman in 1972, attributed
to Lao-Tse
...it doesn't matter how
beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you
are-- if it doesn't agree with experiment it's wrong.
-- R.P.
Feynman, Unknown , Unknown
A conclusion is the
place where you got tired of thinking.
--
Martin Fischer, Unknown , born November 10, 1879
A fool must now and then
be right by chance.
--
William Cowper, Conversation. Line 96., Unknown
A fool sees not the same
tree that a wise man sees.
--
William Blake, Unknown , Unknown
A fool's brain digests
philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art
into pedantry. Hence University education.
--
George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , 1856-1950
A foolish consistency is
the hobgoblin of little minds.
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown
A great many people
think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging
their prejudices.
--
William James, Unknown , Unknown
A great oak is only a
little nut that held its ground.
--
Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown
A half truth is a whole
lie.
--
Yiddish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown
A handful of patience is
worth more than a bushel of brains.
--
Dutch proverb, Unknown , Unknown
A little folly now and
then is cherished by the wisest men.
--
Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown
A little learning is a
dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian
spring.
--
Alexander Pope, Unknown , 1688-1744
A man of genius makes no
mistakes. His errors are volitional and are portals of
discovery.
--
James Joyce, Unknown , Unknown
A mind is a fire to be
kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
--
Plutarch, Unknown , Unknown
A mind is a terrible
thing to ugg.. I forgot.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
A modest little person
with much to be modest about.
--
Winston Churchill, Unknown , Unknown
A PBS mind in an MTV
world.
--
Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown
A person is never happy
except at the price of some ignorance.
--
Anatole France, Unknown , Unknown
A person who speaks
cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.
--
Terry Carr, Unknown , Unknown
A sign of intelligence
is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
A small mind is
obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
--
Alexander Cannon, Unknown , Unknown
A technician is a man
who understands everything about his job except its
ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the
universe.
-- Sir
Richard Livingston, Unknown , Unknown
A wise man knows
everything; a shrewd one, everybody.
--
Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown
Academic disciplines are
subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"-- a
state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and
makes one immune to enthusiasm.
--
Richard Rorty, Chronicle of Higher Education, pg A48, Feb.
9, 1996
Advertising may be
described as the science of arresting the human
intelligence long enough to get money from it.
--
Stephen Leacock, Unknown , born December 30,1869
All logic texts are
divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible
logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on
inductive logic, they are committed.
--
Morris Raphael Cohen, attributed in Meehl, P. E.
Appraising and amending theories. Psychological Inquiry,
1, p. 110., 1990
All too often we are
stuffing the heads of the young with the products of
earlier innovations rather than teaching them to be
innovative. We treat their minds as storehouses to be
filled rather than as instruments to be used.
--
Robert Finch, Secretary of HEW, Unknown , 1970
Almost all rich veins of
original and striking speculation have been opened by
systematic half-thinkers.
-- John
Stuart Mill, Unknown , born May 20, 1806
Always be smarter than
the people who hire you.
-- Lena
Horne, in interview, 1985
An artist is a person
who has invented an artist.
--
Harold Rosenberg, Unknown , Unknown
An expert is a person
who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand
fallacy.
--
Benjamin Stolberg, Unknown , Unknown
An expert is a person
who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very
narrow field.
--
Niels Bohr, Unknown , Unknown
An intellectual is a
person whose mind watches itself.
--
Albert Camus, Unknown , Unknown
And if education is
always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of
a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be
hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what
is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's
total development lags behind?
--
Maria Montessori, Unknown , Unknown
Any fool can criticize,
condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
-- Dale
Carnegie, Unknown , Unknown
Any fool can tell the
truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how
to lie well.
--
Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown
Any fool can write a bad
advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off
a good one.
--
David Ogilvy, Unknown , Unknown
Any idiot can face a
crisis--it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
--
Anton Chekhov, Unknown , Unknown
Any intelligent fool can
make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It
takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction.
--
Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955
Any slower and he'd be
in reverse.
--
Gignac, Unknown , Unknown
Any teacher can study
books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that
human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
--
Bliss Perry, Unknown , Unknown
Anything more dull and
commonplace it wouldn't be easy to reproduce.
-- The
London Times, on Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address,
Unknown , Unknown
Anything too stupid to
be said is sung.
--
Voltaire, Unknown , Unknown
As long as I can
remember, I've had amnesia.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
As soon as you
understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when
you didn't understand it.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
As we acquire more
knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but
more mysterious.
-- Will
Durant, Unknown , Unknown
Be different--if you
don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply
listen. When word gets around that you can listen when
others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.
-- Ed
Koch, Unknown , 1996
Be prepared.
-- Boy
Scout Motto, Unknown , Unknown
Bear in mind that brains
and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles
of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them
by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world
not for sale is character.
--
Justice Antonin Scalia, Unknown , Unknown
Beauty is in the
details.
--
German proverb, Unknown , Unknown
Because learning does
not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but
also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not
do.
--
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, Unknown
Before God we are all
equally wise - and equally foolish.
--
Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955
Better by far you should
forget and smile, Than that you should remember and be sad
--
Christina Rossetti, "Remember," Goblin Market, 1862
Better to understand a
little than to misunderstand a lot.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
Brains are an asset, if
you hide them.
-- Mae
West, Unknown , born August 17, 1892
By ignorance the truth
is known.
--
Henry Suso, The Little Book of Truth, 1300-1365
Cato used to assert that
wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men;
for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that
fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
--
Plutarch, Life of Marcus Cato, Unknown
Cats are intended to
teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
--
Garrison Keillor, Unknown , Unknown
Chance favors the
prepared mind.
--
Louis Pasteur, Unknown , Unknown
Computers are useless.
They can only give you answers.
--
Pablo Picasso, Unknown , Unknown
Confusion not only
reigns, it pours.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
Consistency is a paste
jewel that only cheap men cherish.
--
William Allen White, Unknown , Unknown
Creative minds have
always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
-- Anna
Freud, Unknown , Unknown
Critical thinking is to
a liberal education as faith is to religion.
-- Jane
Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 24l, 1995
Cynicism is the
intellectual cripple’s substitute for intelligence. It is
the dishonest businessman’s substitute for conscience. It
is the communicator’s substitute, whether he is
advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.
--
Russell Lynes, Unknown , Unknown
D'oh!
--
Homer Simpson, Matt Groening cartoon, Unknown
Doctors and scientists
said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible,
that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up
from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I
figured I was dead.
--
Roger Bannister, Unknown , Unknown
Doing the right thing is
not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's
the challenge.
--
Lyndon Johnson, Unknown , Unknown
Don't be afraid to ask
dumb questions. They're easier to handle than dumb
mistakes.
--
Carolyn Coats, Things Your Mother Always Told you but You
Didn't Want to Hear, 1994
Don't be stupid. We have
world leaders for that.
--
bumper sticker, Unknown , Unknown
Don't be too stupid to
be lazy.
-- West
Indies proverb, Unknown , Unknown
Don't worry about people
stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll
have to ram them down people's throats.
--
Howard Aiken., Unknown , Unknown
Don’t know much about
history. Don’t know much biology. Don’t know science
books. Don’t know about the French I took. But I do know I
love you And I do know if you love me too, what a
wonderful world this would be. Don’t know much about
geography. Don’t know much trigonometry. Don’t know much
about algebra. Don’t know what a slide ruler is for. But I
do know one and one is two And if this one could be with
you, what a wonderful world this would be. Now I don’t
claim to be an A student. But I’m trying to be. Maybe by
being an A student, baby, You’ll give your love to me.
-- Joel
Landry, song "What a Wonderful World", Unknown
Education is
understanding relationships.
--
George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown
Education is what
remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in
school.
--
Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown
Education is what
remains when we have forgotten all that we have been
taught.
--
Marquis of Halifax, Unknown , Unknown
Education makes a man a
more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but
not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the
mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.
-- John
Stuart Mill, Unknown , Unknown
Education...has produced
a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish
what is worth reading.
-- G.M.
Trevelyan, Unknown , Unknown
Education: That which
discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their
lack of understanding.
--
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Embedded in every
technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or
three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology
predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and
accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every
technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in
how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it
codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies,
in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it
disregards.
-- Neil
Postman, The End of Education, Unknown
Even a fool, when he
holdeth his peace, is counted wise.
--
Jeremiah: 28, Unknown , Unknown
Even babies like to grab
for things just beyond their reach.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
Even when all the
experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
--
Bertrand (Arthur William) Russell), Unknown , born May 18,
1872
Ever notice that anyone
going slower than you is an idiot, but going faster is a
maniac?
--
George Carlin, Unknown , Unknown
Ever wonder if
illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
-- John
Mendoza, Unknown , Unknown
Every man who rises
above the common level has received two educations: the
first from his teachers; the second, more personal and
important, from himself.
--
Edward Gibbon, Unknown , Unknown
Every piece of the
puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
Everybody gets so much
information all day long that they lose their common
sense.
--
Gertrude Stein, Unknown , Unknown
Everyone has a
photographic memory. Some don't have film.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
Everyone has talent.
What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the
dark place where it leads.
--
Erica Jong, Unknown , Unknown
Everyone is brilliant
some of the time, and no one is that way all the time.
--
Kathleen Cushmes, Unknown , Unknown
Everyone is gifted. Some
open the package sooner.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
Everyone is wise, until
he speaks.
--
Irish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown
Everyone[Everybody] is
ignorant only on different subjects.
-- Will
Rogers, Unknown , Unknown
Experience is a dear
teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
--
Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , 1706-1790
Experience is that
marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when
you make it again.
-- F.
P. Jones, Unknown , Unknown
Failure is simply the
opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
--
Henry Ford, Unknown , Unknown
Failures are divided
into 2 classes those who thought and never did, and those
who did and never thought.
-- John
Charles Salak, Unknown , Unknown
Fear is what prevents
the flowering of the mind.
-- J.
Krishnamurti, On Education., Unknown
Foolishness is
infinitely more fascinating than intelligence….
Intelligence has limits while foolishness has none.
--
Claude Chabrol, Unknown , born June 24, 1930
Fools rush in where
fools have been before.
--
Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown
For an actress to be a
success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of
Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay,
the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
--
Ethel Barrymore, in George Jean nathan, (1953) The Theatre
in the Fifties, lived 1879-1959
For every student with a
spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition
trouble.
--
Milton Berle, Unknown , Unknown
For God's sake give me
the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of
himself.
--
Robert Louis Stevenson, Unknown , bron November 13, 1850
For original ideas to
come about, you have to let them percolate under the level
of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make
them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their
random combinations are driven by forces we don't know
about.
--
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Unknown , Unknown
Galinda was slow coming
to terms with actual learning. She had considered her
admission into Shiz University as a sort of testimony to
her brilliance, and believed that she would adorn the
halls of learning with her beauty and occasional clever
sayings. She supposed, glumly, that she had meant to be a
sort of living marble bust: This is Youthful Intelligence;
admire Her. Isn't She lovely?
--
Gregory Maguire, Wicked, p. 75, NY: HarperCollins Pub.,
1995
Genius is one percent
inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
--
Thomas A. Edison, Unknown , Unknown
Genius is only a form of
sustained patience.
--
Donald Murray, Unknown , Unknown
Genius is the ability to
reduce the complicated to the simple.
-- C.W.
Ceran, Unknown , Unknown
Genius without education
is like silver in the mine.
--
Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown
Getting lost teaches you
how to read a map.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
God is in the details.
-- Mies
Van Der Rohe, Unknown , Unknown
God must love stupid
people, he made so many.
--
Unknown , Unknown , Unknown
Golf appeals to the
idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players
become is proven by their frequent inability to count past
five.
-- John
Updike, Unknown , Unknown
Good judgment comes from
experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
--
Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown
Good people are good
because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get
very little wisdom from success, you know.
--
William Saroyan, Unknown , Unknown
Great achievements are
accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.
--
Joseph Conrad, Unknown , born December 3, 1857
Great minds discuss
ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss
people.
--
Eleanor Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown
Half of being smart is
knowing what you’re dumb at.
--
David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown
Have you ever imagined a
world with no hypothetical questions?
--
Geroge E. Bradley, print media column, "Ever Wonder?",
Unknown
He can compress the most
words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
--
Abraham Lincoln., Unknown , Unknown
He continued to be an
infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
--
Robert Moses, Unknown , Unknown
He doesn't know the
meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades
and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words.
--
Bobby Bowden, Florida State footballer, on player Reggie
Herring, Unknown , Unknown
He had just enough
intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but
certainly no more.
-- P.G.
Wodehouse, Barmy in Wonderland, Unknown
He has the lucidity
which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
--
Aneurin Bevan, on Neville Chamberlain, Unknown , Unknown
He is a fool who thinks
by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.
--
Samuel Tuke, Adventures of Five Hours. Act v. Sc. 3., ----
-1673
He is not only dull
himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
--
Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown
He may look like an
idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you
-- he really is an idiot.
--
Groucho Marx, Unknown , 1895-1977
He must have been an
incredibly good shot.
-- Noel
Coward, On being told that someone had blown his brains
out., Unknown , Unknown
He was not so much brain
as earwax
--
William Shakespear's character, Thersites, Troilus and
Cressida, Unknown
He who knows nothing,
loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing.
He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who
understands also loves, notices, sees....The more
knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.
--
Paracelsus, Unknown , Unknown
He who laughs last
thinks slowest!
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
His ignorance covers the
world like a blanket, and ther's scarcely a hole in it
anywhere.
-- Mark
Twain, Unknown , Unknown
How Important Are You?
More than you think. A rooster minus a hen equals no baby
chicks. Kellogg minus a farmer equals no corn flakes. If
the nail factory closes what good is the hammer factory?
Paderewski’s genius wouldn’t have amounted to much if the
piano tuner hadn’t shown up. A cracker maker will do
better if there’s a cheesemaker. The most skillful surgeon
needs the ambulance driver who delivers the patient. Just
as Rodgers needed Hammerstein you need someone and someone
needs you.
-- From
Wall Street Journal, Unknown , Unknown
I am never afraid of
what I know.
-- Anna
Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877
I can’t understand why
people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the
old ones.
-- John
Cage, Unknown , Unknown
I do not believe that
every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite
of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do
believe that what I was able to attain came to be because
we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the
past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the
greatness of tomorrow.
--
Jackie Robinson, "This I believe" National Public Radio
series, c1951
I don't divide the world
into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the
failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide
the world into learners and non-learners.
--
Benjamin Barber, Unknown , Unknown
I happen to feel that
the degree of a person's intelligence is directly
reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can
bring to bear on the same topic.
-- Lisa
Alther, Unknown , Unknown
I have always been
amoung those who believe that the greatest freedom of
speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a
fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to
advertise the fact by speaking.
--
Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown
I have always believed
the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's
intellectual work are inseparable.
--
Whitfield Diffie., Unknown , Unknown
I have great faith in
fools--self-confidence my friends call it.
--
Edgar Allan Poe, Unknown , Unknown
I have never found in a
long experience of politics that criticism is ever
inhibited by ignorance.
--
Harold Macmillan, Unknown , Unknown
I just got lost in
thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
I know a lot of people
think I’m dumb. Well, at least I ain’t no educated fool.
-- Leon
Spinks, LA Times, 19 78, June 28
I must learn to love the
fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much,
takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often,
lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt,
promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone
protects me against that utterly self-controlled,
masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me
of human aliveness, humility and dignity but for my fool.
-- Dr
Theodore I Rubin, Love Me, Love My Fool, McKay, 1976
I never saw an ugly
thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it
may, --light, shade, perspective will always make it
beautiful.
-- John
Constable, Unknown , Unknown
I prefer the wicked
rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
--
Alexandre Dumas, Unknown , Unknown
I think and think for
months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is
false. The hundredth time I am right.
--
Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown
I think the world is run
by C students.
-- Al
McGuire, Unknown , Unknown
I took an IQ test and
the results were negative.
--
Unknown , Unknown , Unknown
I was gratified to be
able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know.'
-- Mark
Twain, Unknown , November 30, 1835
I watched "Titanic" when
I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew then
that my IQ had been damaged.
--
Stephen King, Unknown , Unknown
I went to school with a
kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer
wrong, they had to go back and change the question.
-- Gene
Perret, Unknown , Unknown
I wish I knew as much
about anything today as I knew about everything when I was
twenty.
-- Bill
Ayers, Unknown , Unknown
I wish there was some
way to turn down the stupidity on tv. There's a knob
called 'brightness,' but that doesn't work.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
I wonder whether if I
had had an education I should have been more or less a
fool than I am.
--
Alice James, The Diary of Alice James, Unknown
I'm not a complete
idiot, some parts are missing!
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
I've always wanted to be
somebody, but I should have been more specific.
--
Lilly Tomlin, Unknown , Unknown
Ideas without precedent
are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are
shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world
challenged.
-- J.
Harlen Bretz., Unknown , Unknown
If a little knowledge is
dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out
of danger?
--
Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown
If at first you don't
succeed, you have two choices - try again or read the
instructions.
--
Unknown , Unknown , Unknown
If children grew up
according to early indications, we should have nothing but
geniuses.
--
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , born August 28, 1749
If I could read a book,
I'd definitely read one of yours.
--
Paris Hilton, when introduced to author Joan Collins,
Unknown
If I have not seen as
far as others, it is because giants were standing on my
shoulders.
-- Hal
Abelson, Unknown , Unknown
If I have seen farther
than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders
of giants.
--
Isaac Newton, Unknown , Unknown
If people only knew how
hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so
wonderful at all.
--
Michelangelo Buonnarroti, Unknown , Unknown
If the brain were simple
enough for us to understand it, we would be too simple to
understand it.
-- Ken
Hill, Unknown , Unknown
If the horse you're
drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
If the minds of women
were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be
more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a
means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of
that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would
confer.
--
Sarah M. Grimke, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and
the Condition of Woman, 1838
If you can talk
brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling
illusion that it has been mastered.
--
Stanley Kubrick, Unknown , born July 26, 1928
If you keep missing, get
closer to the basket.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
If you think education
is expensive--try ignorance.
--
Derek Bok, Unknown , Unknown
If you want to zoom down
the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny
slope today.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
Ignorance is salvageable
but stupid is forever.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
Ignorance never settles
a question.
--
Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown
Imagination is more
powerful even than knowledge.
--
Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown
Immortal gods! how much
does one man excel another! What a difference there is
between a wise person and a fool!
--
Terence, Act ii. Sc. 2, 1. (232.), Unknown
In all matters of
opinion, our adversaries are insane.
--
Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown
In California you lose a
point off your IQ every year.
--
Truman Capote, 1924-1984, born September 30, 1924
In computer science, we
stand on each other's feet.
--
Brian K. Reid, Unknown , Unknown
In politics, stupidity
is not a handicap.
--
Napolean Bonaparte, Unknown , Unknown
In reality, serendipity
accounts for 1 percent of the blessings we receive in
life, work, and love. The other 99 percent is due to our
efforts.
--
Peter McWilliams, Unknown , Unknown
In seeking knowledge,
the first step is silence, the second listening, the third
remembering, the fourth practicing, and the
fifth--teaching others
--
Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Unknown , Unknown
In the first place God
made idiots; this was for practice; then he made school
boards.
-- Mark
Twain, Unknown , Unknown
In the sciences, we are
now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the
giants on whose shoulders we stand.
--
Gerald Holton, Unknown , Unknown
Inside every C+ student
is a B- student trying to get out.
-- Art
Peterson, Unknown , Unknown
Intelligence is what you
use when you don't know what to do.
-- Jean
Piaget, Unknown , 1896-1980
Interpretation is the
revenge of the intellect upon art.
--
Susan Sontag, Evergreen Review, December 1964.
It is bad luck to be
superstitious.
--
Andrew W. Mathis, Unknown , Unknown
It is better to know
nothing than to learn nothing.
--
Hebrew Proverb, Unknown , Unknown
It is better to know
some of the questions than all the answers.
-- J.
Thurber, Unknown , Unknown
It is better, of course,
to know useless things than to know nothing.
--
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Unknown , Unknown
It is easier to perceive
error than to find truth, for the former lies on the
surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the
depth, where few are willing to search for it.
--
Johann von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown
It is in fact a part of
the function of education to help us escape -- not from
our own time, for we are bound by that -- but from the
intellectual and emotional limitations of our own time.
-- T.
S. Eliot, Unknown , 1888-1965
It is not certain that
everything is uncertain.
--
Blaise Pascal, Unknown , born June 19, 1623
It is not enough to have
a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
--
Descartes, Unknown , Unknown
It is not necessary to
understand things in order to argue about them.
--
Caron deBeaumarchais, Unknown , Unknown
It is not the IQ but the
I Will that is most important in education.
--
Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown
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, Unknown , Unknown
It is only the
intellectually lost who ever argue.
--
Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown
It isn't what you know
but the simple things you don't overlook.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
It takes a genius to
whine appealingly.
-- F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Unknown , Unknown
It's a fact that if you
stay in California you lose one point of IQ for every
year.
--
Truman Capote, Unknown , Unknown
It's choice--not
chance--that determines your destiny.
-- Jean
Nidetch, Unknown , Unknown
It's not enough to be
able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to
be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling
bee.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
Junior was being chided
for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors
away, was held up as an example. "Robert doesn't get C's
and D's does he?" asked his father. "No," Junior admitted,
"but he's different. He has very bright parents."
--
Jacob M. Braude, Unknown , Unknown
Know thyself.
--
Thales, Unknown , Unknown
Knowing is not enough;
we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
--
Johann Wolfgan von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown
Knowledge comes, but
wisdom lingers.
--
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown
Knowledge is
power--especially if you know about the right people.
--
Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown
Knowledge is power.
--
Hobbs or Sir Francis Bacon, Unknown , Unknown
Knowledge rests not upon
truth alone, but upon error also.
-- C.G.
Jung, Unknown , Unknown
Language grows out of
life, out of its needs and experiences…Language and
knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are
interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and
depends on a real knowledge of things.
-- Anne
Sullivan, Unknown , Unknown
Learning makes the wise
wiser and the fool more foolish.
-- John
Ray, Unknown , Unknown
Lecturers should
remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is
limited to what the seat can endure.
-- Evan
Esar, Unknown , Unknown
Let a fool hold his
tongue and he will pass for a sage.
--
Publius Syrus, Maxim 914, Unknown
Let schoolmasters puzzle
the brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good
Liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better
discerning.
--
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, Unknown
Let such teach others
who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written
well.
--
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Unknown
Let us be thankful for
the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
-- Mark
Twain, Unknown , 1835-1910
Let us by wise and
constitutional measures promote intelligence among the
people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
--
James Monroe, First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1817
Light travels faster
than sound--isn't that why some people appear bright until
you hear them speak?
--
Steven Wright, Unknown , Unknown
Little things affect
little minds.
--
Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown
Logic is like the sword:
those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
--
Samuel Butler, Unknown , Unknown
Logic is the art of
going wrong with confidence.
--
Joseph Wood Krutch, Unknown , born November 25, 1893
Logic: The art of
thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the
limitations and incapacities of the human understanding.
--
Ambrose Bierce, Unknown , born June 24, 1842
Longevity is the revenge
of talent upon genius.
--
Cyril Connolly, Unknown , born September 10, 1903
Love is the triumph of
imagination over intelligence.
-- H.L.
Mencken, Unknown , born September 12, 1880
Man had always assumed
that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had
achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on,
whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in
the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins
believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for
precisely the same reasons.
--
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
Unknown
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
--
Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, "News Item" (1926) in Not So
Deep as a Well (1937), Unknown
Mind like a steel trap -
rusty and illegal in most states.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
Most of our so-called
reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on
believing as we already do.
--
James Harvey Robinson, Unknown , Unknown
My heart is singing for
joy this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of
understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and
behold, all things are changed.
-- Anne
Sullivan, Unknown , Unknown
My idea of education is
to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their
intellects.
--
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown
My success was not based
so much on any great intelligence but on great common
sense.
--
Helen Gurley Brown, Unknown , b. 1922
Never attribute to
malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
-- Nick
Diamos, Unknown , Unknown
No man but a blockhead,
ever wrote, except for money.
--
Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown
No matter what side of
an argument you're on, you always find some people on your
side that you wish were on the other side.
--
Jascha Heifetz., Unknown , Unknown
No one can arrive from
being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms
talent into genius.
-- Anna
Pavlova, Unknown , Unknown
No one can make you feel
inferior without your consent.
--
Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story, 1937
Not only is there an art
in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it:
"Nam non solum scire aliquid artis est, sed quaedam ars
etiam docendi."
--
Cicero, DeLegibus, Unknown
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 quite
common. Education alone will not; the world is full of
educated failures. Persistence and Determination alone are
the all-powerful elements.
--
Adapted by ? From a quote by Calvin Coolidge, Unknown ,
Unknown
Nothing is foolproof to
a sufficiently talented fool.
--
Unknown , Unknown , Unknown
Nothing is foolproof to
a talented fool.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
Nothing is more
conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at
all.
-- G.
C. Lichtenberg, Unknown , Unknown
Nothing spoils a good
party like a genius.
-- Elsa
Maxwell, `, 1883-1963
On Artificial
Intelligence: The real problem is not whether machines
think but whether men do.
-- B.F.
Skinner, Unknown , Unknown
On those who overanalyze
his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is
no longer a butterfly
--
Claude Debussy, Unknown , Unknown
One must know oneself.
If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least
serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
--
Blaise Pascal, Unknown , Unknown
One of the keys to
happiness is a bad memory.
-- Rita
Mae Brown, Unknown , Unknown
One of the things that
Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell
him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he
spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might
ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.
-- Jane
Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 20., 1995
Only the thinking man
lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
--
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorism, 1905
Only when the heart
loves can the intellect do great work.
-- N.D.
Hillis, Unknown , Unknown
Ordinary people know
little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I
have been 80 years at it, and have not reached my goal.
--
Johann von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown
Original thinking
migrates each day in search of nourishment.
-- Maya
Angelou, Unknown , Unknown
Our great democracies
still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be
honest than a clever man, and our politicians take
advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more
stupid than nature has made them.
--
Bertrand Russell, Unknown , born 1872
Out of my mind. Back in
five minutes.
--
Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown
People are what you make
them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of
average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns
into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been
an angel.
--
André Maurois, News summaries, 1950, January 30
People don't care how
much you know until they know how much you care.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
People don't care how
much you know until they know how much you care.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
People sometimes accuse
me of knowing a lot...This is a bit like telling a person
who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns
much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there
is in the world such a person is, to all intents and
purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all
ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of
knowledge whose existence we have never even guessed at,
let alone visited.
--
Stephen Fry, Preface for "The Book of General Ignorance"
by Lloyd & Mitchinson, 2006
Philosophical habits of
mind do not come quicker through fiber optics. Clear
thinking is not aided by better dot resolution.
Understanding ourselves and feeling for others does not
come with a software upgrade.
--
Linda Ray Pratt, Unknown , Unknown
Please provide the date
of your death.
-- from
an IRS letter, Unknown , Unknown
Power does not corrupt
men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power,
corrupt power.
--
George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , Unknown
Practical men, who
believe themselves to be quite exempt from any
intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some
defunct economist.
-- John
Maynard Keynes, Unknown , born June 5, 1883
Practice random acts of
intelligence & senseless acts of self-control.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
Remember half the people
you know are below average.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
Remember, any jackass
can kick over the barn, but it takes a carpenter to build
one.
-- Tip
O'Neil quoting Sam Rayburn, former Speaker of the House,
Unknown , Unknown
Rules and models destroy
genius and art
--
William Hazlitt, "On Taste", 1778-1830
Said the Wizard of Oz to
the scarecrow, "I can't give you brains but I can give you
a diploma."
--
Unknown , Unknown , Unknown
Science, engineering,
technology. All worthless unless they make you feel
something.
-- BMW
ad, Brill's Content, p. 16, 1998, November
Scientists are the
easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable,
directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only
world they know is the one where everything has a logical
explanation and things are what they appear to be.
--
James P. Hogan, Code of the Lifemaker, Unknown
Simplicity of character
is the natural result of profound thought.
--
Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown
Since new developments
are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore
stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way
possible.
--
George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown
Since we are all likely
to go astray the reasonable thing is to learn from those
who can teach.
--
Sophocles, Unknown , Unknown
Sixty years ago I knew
everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive
discovery of our own ignorance.
-- Will
Durant, Unknown , Unknown
Smartness runs in my
family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher
was in my class for five years.
--
Gracie Allen, Unknown , Unknown
Some students drink at
the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
-- E.
C. McKenzie, Unknown , Unknown
Sometimes it's smart to
be scared.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
Sorrow is knowledge,
those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree
of knowledge is not the tree of life.
-- Lord
Byron, Unknown , Unknown
Srebrenica's not simply
another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how
intelligent people can always come up with intelligent
reasons to do nothing.
--
Scott Simon on the 1990 massacre of 8,000 over the course
of 2 days that was watched by world governments via
satellite and radio, commentary, National Public Radio
Weekend Edition, June 16, 2005
State a moral case to a
plowman and a professor. The former will decide it well
and often better than the latter, because he has not been
led astray by artificial rules.
--
Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown
Stoop and you'll be
stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.
--
Carlos Urbizo, Unknown , Unknown
Strong and bitter words
indicate a weak cause.
--
Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown
Stupid, stupider,
stupidest, how stupid can it be? But when I really thought
about it, the stupid one was me!
--
unknown, Unknown , Unknown
Systems die; instincts
remain.
--
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Unknown , Unknown
Teach him to think for
himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other
people!
-- Mary
Shelley, in Matthew Arnold (1888) Essays in Criticism
Second Series, 1797-1851
Teaching is the highest
form of understanding.
--
Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown
That is what learning
is. You suddenly understand something you've understood
all your life, but in a new way.
--
Doris Lessing, Unknown , Unknown
The admission fee was a
viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a
sort of intellectual slaughterhouse. [With reference to
the Algonquin "Round Table"]
--
Groucho Marx., Unknown , Unknown
The American people are
a very generous people and will forgive almost any
weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
-- Will
Rogers, Unknown , Unknown
The art of being wise is
the art of knowing what to overlook.
--
William James, Unknown , Unknown
The average
kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV--more
time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.
--
Shook, M. & Shook, R., The Book of Odds, 1991
The beginning of wisdom
is to call things by their right names.
--
Chinese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown
The best learners...
often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real
sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what
it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes
so naturally to them.
--
Stephen Brookfield, Unknown , Unknown
The boy had just learned
to plough with the family mule. He was in the field
yelling out orders and trying to show his new skill.
Finally his father stopped him and said, "How long have
you been plowing?" "At least a couple of days," the young
boy replied. "And how long has the mule been plowing?" the
father asked. "At least fifteen years," the boy replied.
"Don't you think you would be wise just to follow the
mule."
--
Unknown , Unknown , Unknown
The chief danger in life
is that you may take too many precautions.
--
Alfred Adler, Unknown , Unknown
The college graduate is
presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual
nakedness.
--
Robert M. Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown
The color of truth is
gray.
--
Andre' Gide, Unknown , Unknown
The computer is a moron.
--
Peter Drucker, Unknown , Unknown
The cure for boredom is
curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
--
Ellen Parr, Unknown , Unknown
The difference between
intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make
you a good living.
--
Charles F. Kettering, Unknown , born August 29, 1876
The fact that some
geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are
laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they
laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
-- Carl
Sagan., Unknown , Unknown
The fellow that agrees
with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting
ready to skin you.
-- Kin
Hubbard, Unknown , Unknown
The fellow who never
makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
--
Herbert (Victor) Prochnow, Sr., Unknown , born May 18,
1897
The fool doth think he
is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
--
William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Unknown
The free school is the
promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a
nation. If we were to have another contest in the near
future, of our national existence, I predict that the
dividing line will not be Mason's or Dixon's, but between
patriotism and intelligence on one side, and superstition,
ambition and ignorance on the other.
--
Ulysses S. Grant, Unknown , Unknown
The function of genius
is not to give new answers, but pose new questions which
time and mediocrity can resolve.
--
Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown
The function of wisdom
is discriminating between good and evil
--
Cicero, Unknown , Unknown
The geek shall inherit
the earth.
--
E-mail humor, Proverbs for the Millennium or Axioms for
the Internet Age, Unknown
The graduate with a
Science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with
an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The
graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it
cost?" The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do
you want fries with that?"
--
Unknown , Unknown , Unknown
The greatest lesson in
life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
--
Winston Churchill, Sir, Unknown , 1874-1965
The happiness of a man
in this life does not consist in the absence but in the
mastery of his passions.
--
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown
The heart is as
important as the head in learning
-- K.
Patricia Cross, Motivation: Er...Will That Be on the
Test?, The Cross Papers, Number 5,, 2001, February
The heart is wiser than
the intellect.
--
Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown
The important thing is
not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for
existing.
--
Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown
The intelligent man
finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man
hardly anything.
--
Goethe, Unknown , 1749-1832
The man who doesn't read
has no advantage over the man who can't read.
-- Mark
Twain, Unknown , Unknown
The mind does not take
its complexion from the skin….
--
Frederick Douglass, 1849, Unknown
The most powerful
factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of
energetic men of good will.
-- J.
Arthur Thomson, Unknown , Unknown
The most valuable of all
talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
--
Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown
The New England Journal
of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1
out of 10 doctors is an idiot.
-- Jay
Leno, Unknown , Unknown
The one exclusive sign
of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
--
Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown
The only fence against
the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
-- John
Locke, Unknown , 1693
The only genius with an
IQ of 60.
-- Gore
Vidal, on Andy Warhol, Unknown , Unknown
The philosophy of one
century is the common sense of the next.
--
Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown
The power of
generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions
from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for
an immortal being, that really deserves the name of
knowledge.
-- Mary
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792
The principal difference
between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
-- Mark
Twain, Unknown , Unknown
The public is
wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except
genius.
--
Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown
The purpose of learning
is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue
growing as we continue to live.
--
Mortimer Adler, Unknown , Unknown
The task of the
excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary"
people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in
identifying winners: it is in making winners out of
ordinary people.
-- Pat
Cross, Unknown , Unknown
The teacher can always
tell when you did your homework on the bus.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
The thing that makes you
exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which
must also make you lonely.
--
Lorraine Hansberry, Unknown , Unknown
The third-rate mind is
only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The
second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with
the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is
thinking.
-- A.
A. Milne, Unknown , Unknown
The trouble with a lot
of artists today is that they have too much technique and
equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you
cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower
limits.
--
Alexander Calder, Unknown , Unknown
The trouble with the
world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt.
--
Bertrand Russell, Unknown , Unknown
The two most common
elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
The way to get good
ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
--
Linus Pauling, Unknown , Unknown
The whole world of
thought lay unexplored before me, -- a world of which I
had already caught large and tempting glimpses…
-- Lucy Larcom, A New
England Girlhood, 1889
The word 'genius' isn't
applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman
Einstein.
-- Joe
Theisman, Unknown , Unknown
The world needs
specialists and highly trained people with advanced
degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs
diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as
much about our value system as they do about our solar
system. -- Roger B.
Smith, Unknown , 1982
The worst kind of
poverty is ignorance. --
Unknown
There are 3 kinds of
people: those who can count & those who can't.
-- Unknown
There are no limits to
the power of the human mind to construct new meaning from
experience.
--
Novak and Gowin, Unknown , 1984
There are one-story
intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story
intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have
no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story
men compare, reason, generalize, using the labors of the
fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men
idealize, imagine, predict - their best illumination comes
from above, through the skylight.
--
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Unknown , Unknown
There are only two
things that are infinite: the universe and stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former.
--
Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown
There is no problem,
however trivial, that by strict application of accepted
methods of pedagogy cannot be rendered completely
incapable of solution.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
There must be such a
thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find
a parent who will admit that it is his child.
-- Thomas Bailey
There's an idea going
about that the human race basically understands how the
universe works. Not you and me, obviously, but scientists
perhaps, or experts. Regrettably, this is not the case. In
the words of Thomas Edison, the man who didn't invent the
lightbulb, "We don't know a millionth of one percent about
anything."
-- John
Lloyd, Introduction to "The Book of General Ignorance",
2006
They don't tell you this
in school, Everybody plays the fool.
--
Smokey Robinson, song, Unknown
They never open their
mouths without subtracting from the sum of human
knowledge.
--
Thomas Reed, Speaker of the House, on congressmen, Unknown
, Unknown
They never open their
mouths without subtracting from the sum of human
knowledge.
--
Thomas Brackett Reed, Unknown , Unknown
They show you how
detergents take out bloodstains... I think if you've got a
T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe your laundry
isn't your biggest problem.
--
Jerry Seinfeld, Unknown , Unknown
They'll remember you if
you're the best reader in class--or if you throw up at
lunch.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown
This must be an era when
the soul catches up with the brain, when soul directs
science, when motives master machines, when how men feel
becomes as important as what men know.
-- Rev.
Louis Hadley Evans, Unknown , 1952
This world belongs to
the man who is wise enough to change his mind in the
presence of facts.
-- Roy
L. Smith, Unknown , Unknown
Those who are too smart
to engage in politics are punished by being governed by
those who are dumber.
--
Plato, Unknown , Unknown
Those who will not
reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those
who dare not, are slaves.
-- Lord
Byron, Unknown , Unknown
Those whom the gods
would destroy they first call "promising."
-- Jan
Carew, Unknown , Unknown
Tis better to be thought
a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
To be able to fill
leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
--
Arnold Toynbee, Unknown , Unknown
To be conscious that you
are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
--
Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown
To be stupid, selfish,
and have good health are three requirements for happiness,
though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
--
Gustave Flaubert, Unknown , Unknown
To educate a person in
mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
--
Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown
To generalize is to be
an idiot.
--
William Blake, Unknown , Unknown
To know whom to strike
is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know
where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is
victory.
-- Roby
James, Commencement, p. 172,, Unknown
To see what is in front
of one's nose requires constant struggle.
--
George Orwell, Unknown , Unknown
To teachers, students
are the end products, -- all else is a means. Hence there
is but one interpretation of high standards in teaching:
standards are highest where the maximum number of
students-- slow learners and fast learners alike-- develop
to their maximal capacity.
--
Joseph Seidlin, Unknown , Unknown
True genius can be
identified by the fact that its expression changes the
world into something it has never been before.
--
David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown
Truth fears no
questions.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
We are all either fools
or undiscovered geniuses.
--
Bonnie Lin, Unknown , Unknown
We distinguish the
excellent man from the common man by saying that the
former is the one who makes great demands upon himself,
and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
-- Jose
Ortega Y Gasset, Unknown , Unknown
We don't blame the
student who can't see the chalkboard; why then do we blame
the student who can't see the point?
--
Nicola Simmons, Unknown , Unknown
We have enough Youth,
how about a fountain of Smart?
--
Unknown , Unknown , Unknown
We must abandon the
prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
--
Daniel Boorstin, Unknown , Unknown
We ought to hear at
least one little song every day, read a good poem, see a
first-rate painting, and if possible speak a few sensible
words.
--
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown , (1749-1832)
Well, the years start
coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and
I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for
fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.
-- Greg
Camp of the music group Smash Mouth, song, 'All Star',
1999
What a waste it is to
lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very
wasteful. How true that is.
-- Dan
Quayle, Unknown , Unknown
What gets measured, gets
managed.
--
Unknown , Unknown , Unknown
What is important to a
relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too
great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.
--
Mirra Komarovsky, Unknown , Unknown
What lies before us and
what lies beyond us is tiny compared to what lies within
us.
--
Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown
What the world needs is
more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
--
Oscar Levant, Unknown , born December 27, 1906
What we do not call
education is more precious than which we call so.
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown
What we must decide is
perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we
are.
-- F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Unknown , Unknown
Whatever we believe
about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.
--
Susan L. Taylor, Unknown , Unknown
When I was young, I
admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind
people.
--
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Unknown , 1907-1972
When in doubt, make a
fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line
between being brilliantly creative and acting like the
most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
--
Cynthia Heimel, "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics" in
Village Voice, Unknown
When times are calm,
reflect. When times are difficult, be brave.
--
Korean Proverb, Unknown , Unknown
When we have done our
best, we should wait the result in peace.
-- J.
Lubbock, Unknown , Unknown
When you go to the mind
reader, do you get half price?
--
David Letterman, Unknown , Unknown
When your IQ rises to
28, sell.
--
Professor Irwin Corey to a heckler, Unknown , Unknown
Who are a little wise
the best fools be.
-- Dr.
John Donne, The Triple Fool., Unknown
Why does Sea World have
a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger
and I realize, Oh my God….I could be eating a slow
learner.
--
Lynda Montgomery, Unknown , Unknown
Why, Sir, Sherry is
dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great
deal of pains to become what we now see him Such an excess
of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
-- Dr.
Samuel Johnson, on Thomas Sheridan, English critic and
poet., Unknown , Unknown
Wisdom is oft times
nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
--
William Wordsworth, Unknown , Unknown
Wise men don't need
advice. Fools won't take it.
--
Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown
Wit consists in seeing
the resemblance between things that differ, and the
difference between things which are alike.
--
Madame de Stael, De L'allemagne, 1813
Wit is educated
insolence.
--
Aristotle, Rhetoric II, 384-322 B.C.
Worrying about seat time
is worrying about the wrong end of the student.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
You can ask a question
and look stupid, or not ask a question and be stupid.
--
Unknown, Unknown , Unknown
You can say any foolish
thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that
says, "My God, you're right! I never would've thought of
that!"
-- Dave
Barry, Unknown , Unknown
You'll have a lot more
respect for a bird after you try making a nest.
--
Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids
have taught me, 1994
You're smart when you
know the answer. You're wise when you know you do not.
-- Greg
Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, November 1,
Unknown
You've got to remember
that common sense is not factored into the intelligence
quotient.
-- Greg
Gabriel, Altadena Search & Rescue leader, Newsweek, after
saving 24 Caltech students trapped on Mount Wilson in
tutus, capes, etc as part of hazing., Feb 13, 2006
Your kid may be an
honors student, but you're still an idiot.
--
Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown
…I had been fed, in my
youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would
instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a
brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting
out in the world, I had never seen this happen.
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