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"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they
avoid. "
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. "


- Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure
about the former. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its
pants on. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"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

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice,
there is. "
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. "
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our
friends. "
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. "
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. "


- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to
dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."


- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people
will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."


- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."


- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."


- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

"If you are going through hell, keep going."


- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."


- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the
attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants,
rather than to create it herself."
- Anais Nin (1903-1977)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."
- Frederick (II) the Great

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."


- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy
evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot (1819-1880)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable,
must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."


- Steven Wright

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."


- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."


- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."


- Vince Lombardi

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the
pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on


friendship."
- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."
- G. K. Chesterfield

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that
is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an
underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no
good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working."

- Albert Giacometti (sculptor)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is


violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf
life."
- Frank Zappa
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint Exupery

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."


- Isaac Asimov

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe."
- Carl Sagan

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's
doubts."
- G. B. Burgin

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."


- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"


- - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."


- Jimi Hendrix

"A clever man commits no minor blunders."


- Goethe (1749-1832)

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."


- Richard Bach

"A witty saying proves nothing."


- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."


- Will Durant

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."


- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered
religion."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic.


I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that
agnosticism means."
- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your
goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"I'll sleep when I'm dead."


- Warren Zevon

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in
the form of bread."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free.
First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison
you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."
- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas
closer together." - Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."


- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you
win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"Luck is the residue of design."


- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team

"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Wit is educated insolence. "


- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not,
you'll become a philosopher."
- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. "


- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. "


- Gore Vidal

"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. "


- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
"
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. "


- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying
to be funny. " - Guy Davenport

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. "


- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is
over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a


profound truth may well be another profound truth. "
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how
to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong. "
- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by


everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact
opposite. "
- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

"I would have made a good Pope. "


- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of


course, in a state of sin. "
- John von Neumann (1903-1957)

"The mistakes are all waiting to be made. "


- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening
position

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. "


- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. "


- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being
able to keep up with software demands

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "


- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's
work is terribly important. "
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. "


- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so
simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it
so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far
more difficult."
- C. A. R. Hoare

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. "


- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"What do you take me for, an idiot?"


General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy

"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W.
Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. "
- Bill Hirst

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. "
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to
plant vines. "
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959 )

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. "


- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. "
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. "


- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"Logic is in the eye of the logician. "


- Gloria Steinem

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly. "


- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live. "


- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. "
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. "
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with
laughter. Some day I intend reading it. "
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. "


- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy. "


- Goethe (1749-1832)

"In the end, everything is a gag. "


- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. "
- Lucille S. Harper

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not
get there. "
- Yogi Berra

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. "
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"He who hesitates is a damned fool. "


- Mae West (1892-1980)

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. "


- Gail Godwin

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. "
- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men. "


- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. "


- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime. "


- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. "
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"I am not young enough to know everything. "


- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard
die for his. "
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. "


- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food. "


- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. "


- Katherine Cebrian

"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. "
- Steven Wright

"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. "
- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. "


- Oliver Herford (1863-1935)

"I have read your book and much like it. "
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

"The covers of this book are too far apart. "


- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion


is that they don't stifle enough of them. "
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. "
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. "


- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried
before. "
- Mae West (1892-1980)

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. "
- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

"No Sane man will dance. "


- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

"Hell is a half-filled auditorium. "


- Robert Frost (1874-1963)

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. "
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

"Vote early and vote often. "


- Al Capone (1899-1947)

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"


- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. "
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Hell is other people. "
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds. "


- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavadgita, after
witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory. "


- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. "


- Thomas Jones

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
"
- Al Capone (1899-1947)

"The gods too are fond of a joke. "


- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. "


- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. "


- Gloria Leonard

"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. "
- Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in
America. If I'm not there, I go to work. "
- Robert Orben

"The cynics are right nine times out of ten. "


- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any
man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. "
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. "


- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"Plato was a bore. "


- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. "


- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. "
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Hemingway was a jerk. "


- Harold Robbins
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"How can I lose to such an idiot?"


- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)

"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. "
- Woody Allen (1935-)

"I don't feel good. "


- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. "
- Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)

"Men have become the tools of their tools. "


- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. "


- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. "
- Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines

"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. "


- Gore Vidal

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve


immortality through not dying. "
- Woody Allen (1935-)

"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other
alternatives. "
- Abba Eban (1915-)

"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. "
- Charles William Stubbs

"Sanity is a madness put to good uses. "


- George Santayana (1863-1952)

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television. "


- Fred Allen (1894-1956)

"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. "
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. "
- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. "
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

"Why don't you write books people can read?"


- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. "
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible. "
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest. "


- Tom Stoppard

"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. "


- Karl Wallenda

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized. "


- Sun Tzu

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. "
- Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)

" The best way to predict the future is to invent it. "
- Alan Kay

"Never mistake motion for action. "


- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"Hell is paved with good samaritans. "


- William M. Holden

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that
all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my
time. "
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Silence is argument carried out by other means. "


- Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)

"Well done is better than well said. "


- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"The average person thinks he isn't. "


- Father Larry Lorenzoni

"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman
scorn'd. "
- William Congreve (1670-1729)

"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. "
- Helen Rowland (1876-1950)

"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. "
- Perelman

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait
till that other is ready. "
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal. "


- Sigfried Hulzer

"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. "


- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is
dying

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. "
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943

"I think it would be a good idea. "


- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. "
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!"


- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. "


- Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality


of opportunity. "
- Irving Kristol

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. "


- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"640K ought to be enough for anybody. "


- Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981

"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.)

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"


- H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. "
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

"Everything that can be invented has been invented. "


- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. "


- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. "


- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have
one. "
- Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. "
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. "
- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. "
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. "
- Tom Clancy

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
"
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. "


- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. "


- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. "
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. "


- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

"Half this game is ninety percent mental. "


- Yogi Berra

"There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human
imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it
reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole. "
- Bill Wulf

"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. "
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."


- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

"Love is friendship set on fire."


- Jeremy Taylor

"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply
to run both at the same time."
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
"My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate."
- Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession
was

"Woman was God's second mistake."


- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."


- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper

"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-
not-worth-knowing."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

"Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single
petitioner confessedly unworthy."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black
flag, and begin slitting throats."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."


- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he
renounce Satan.

"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

"He would make a lovely corpse."


- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb

"I worship the quicksand he walks in."


- Art Buchwald

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."


- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "


- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."


- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024
chickens?"
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

"#3 pencils and quadrille pads."


- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I
supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the
lines were not so dominant.

"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."


- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought
a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis. "


- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics
make no mention of God.

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. "
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his
remarkable statues

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot
read them. "
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"The truth is more important than the facts. "


- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. "
- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the
other is getting it. "
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"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 (1879-1955)

-----------------------------

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps
you make a life."
-- Sandra Carey

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's
life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The mark of a man is one who knows he can't control his circumstances - but he
can control his responses."
-- Kelsey Grammer as Frasier, in Frasier,television show
"Happiness is not something you experience, it is something you remember."
-- Oscar Levant

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its
animals are treated."
-- Gandhi

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but
where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty..."
-- Albert Einstein

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."


-- Arthur C. Clarke, author

"The first wealth is health."


- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "The Conduct of Life" 1860, 'Power'

"Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul
oyster."
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), "As You Like It" 1596-1600, act I, sc. IV

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise
you with their ingenuity."
-- George S. Patton(1885-1945), American military leader

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it


permanent."
-- Marilyn vos Savant

"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when
he goes for a walk."
-- Raymond Inmon

"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than to our
strength."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French epigramist

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will
make one."
-- Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915

"What you were yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are
today, what you will be tomorrow."
-- from The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis, mystery novelist

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a
field as in writing a poem."
-- Booker T. Washington
"It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an
opportunity and not be prepared."
-- Whitney Young

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a
friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's
nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the
way down."
-- Ray Bradbury

"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the
event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it"
-- Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian dramatist

"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are
doing the impossible."
-- Saint Francis of Assisi

"The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette."


-- Henry S. Haskins

"Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul
oyster."
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), "As You Like It" 1596-1600, act I, sc. IV

"If you build it, he will come."


-- William P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe [1982]
(basis for the movie Field of Dreams)

"Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."
-- Dorothy Parker, on herself

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.


Henrik Ibsen

A deed without a name.


William Shakespeare

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever,
and generally stopping before it gets there.
Agnes Repplier

A life without cause is a life without effect.


Barbarella

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.


H. H. Munro 'Saki' (1870-1916)

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.


Zadok Rabinwitz

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.


Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the


opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.


George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that
others throw at him or her.
David Brinkley

A clever man commits no minor blunders.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging
their prejudices.
William James (1842-1910)

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of


being right
Thomas Paine - Common Sense

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.


Michael Garrett Marino

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.


Francis Bacon

A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all!


William Wordsworth

A wise man's question contains half the answer.


Solomon Ibn Gabriel

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
Chesterfield, Lord

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.


Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.


Carl Sandburg

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and


social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if
he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience
of their parents.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.


Margaret Atwood

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.


Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult
and left untried.
G. K. Chesterton

Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
William Temple

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less
seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to
make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana (1863-1952)

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are
unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own
all the liquor stores in Heaven.
P. J. O'Rourke

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.


Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to


be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-William Jennings Bryan

"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon
ourselves."
-George Gordon Byron

"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for
the fate waiting them on this earth."
-Joseph Conrad, Chance

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."


-Kim Hubbard

"And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own."
-Andr� Malraux, The Voices of Silence

"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept
it, no matter where it leads him."
-Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."


-William Shakespeare

"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they
are and will be what they will be."
-Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
-(Robert Frost) The Road Not Taken
"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's
rules, while quietly playing by your own."
-Michael Konda

"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."


-Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something
no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly
enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
-Christopher Morley

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and
reflect."
-Mark Twain

"Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot."


-Sicilian Proverb

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."


-Confucius

"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds."
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can


find information upon it."
-Samuel Johnson

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."


-Bertrand Russell

"One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is
reserved for the guardian angel."
-Jewish Folk Saying

"The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?"


-Psalm 27

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for


complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy
is kindness."
-Dalai Lama

"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."
-Frederick the Great

"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

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your
church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"

"Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their
greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife."
-Kahlil Gibran, "Beauty"
"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within
him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one,
he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly


assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves,
lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in
words."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of
confidence."
-Doug McLeod

"We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the
extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children
smart."
-H. L. Mencken

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,


Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
-William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on
another."
-Jonathan Swift

"We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them,
and discuss whether they was made or just happened."
-Mark Twain

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."


-Voltaire

"Great minds think alike."


-Anon.

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our
thoughts, we make the world."
-Buddha

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."


-Sir Winston Churchill

"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open."


-Lord Thomas Dewar

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts."


-Benjamin Disraeli

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the
morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-Robert Frost
"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it.
Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights
begin."
-Hermann Hesse

"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call
'thought'."
-Hume

"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much."


-Walter Lippmann

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their
thoughts."
-John Locke

"Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself."


-Plato

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."


-Plutarch

"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still
thinking."
-Jerry Seinfeld

"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the
world, but to change it."
-Colin Wilson

"Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view."


-Anon.

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."


-Woody Allen

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have
succeeded."
-Maya Angelou

"For many are called, but few are chosen."


-Matthew 22:14

"They never fail who die in a great cause."


-George Gordon Byron

"The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to
get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have
none."
-Philip Caldwell

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone."
-Bill Cosby

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."


-Salvador Dali
"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
-Josephus Daniels

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the
betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to
leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a
redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you
have lived. This is the meaning of success."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
-Ernest Hemingway

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in
creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
-Napoleon Hill

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
-Robert Francis Kennedy

"It's not failure, but low aim is crime."


-Lowell

"Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage."


-Charles Luckman

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both,
he is twice blessed indeed."
-Harold MacMillan, 1963

"It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail."


-David Merrick

"I concede!"
-Richard Milhous Nixon

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
-Beverly Sills

"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it
works."
-William Strong

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."


-Henry David Thoreau

"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world."


-Lily Tomlin

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on
intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
-Sloan Wilson

"Nothing recedes like success."


-Walter Winchell
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
-George E. Woodberry

"One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from
force."
-David Borenstein, October 26, 1999

"All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the
other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own."
-Oscar W. Firkins, Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters

"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for
war."
-John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses

"But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means
a sort of weakness and giving in."
-D. H. Lawrence, Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

"There is no way to peace; peace is the way."


-A. J. Muste

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition


for benevolence, confidence, justice."
-Baruch Spinoza

"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you
love her."
-Anon.

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If
they don't, they never were."
-Anon.

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are
expected to give -- which is everything."
-Anon.

"Ama me fideliter!
Fidem meam noto:
De corde totaliter
Et ex mente tota,
Sum presentialiter
Absens in remota."
Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my
soul/I am with you/Though I am far away."
-Anon., Carmina Burana, "Omnia Sol Temperat"

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle,
love is a war; love is a growing up."
-James Baldwin

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot
live within."
-James Baldwin

"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its
eternal goal is life."
-Smiley Blanton

"The best proof of love is trust."


-Joyce Brothers

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."


-H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when
alone together."
-La Bruyere

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you
continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the
sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of
the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."
-Leo Buscaglia

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."


-Willa Cather

"A relationship is like a rose,


How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you'll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you'd rather die;
You hope you've found that special rose,
'Cause you love and care for the one you chose."
-Rob Cella

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights


Whatever stirs this mortal frame
All are but ministers of Love
And feed His sacred flame."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or


opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one
whole."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."


-Charles Caleb Colton

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and
to put its trust in life."
-Joseph Conrad

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it


enkindles the great."
-Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"Love builds bridges where there are none."


-R. H. Delaney

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks."
-John Donne, "The Bait"

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have
truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."
-Henry Drummond

"Footfalls echo in the memory


Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind."
-T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"

"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence."


-Albert Ellis

"All mankind love a lover."


-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain;


to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."
-Nan Fairbrother

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."
-Erich Fromm

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need
you because I love you.'"
-Erich Fromm

"Where there is love there is life."


-Mahatma Gandhi

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips
you kissed, but my soul."
-Judy Garland

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."


-Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say
so."
-David Grayson

"There is only one terminal dignity -- love."


-Helen Hayes

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."


-Victor Hugo

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for
ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor Hugo
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."
-Javan

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel
the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the
world is transformed."
-J. Krishnamurti

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives
you courage."
-Lao-Tzu

"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of
humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that
everywhere produces and restores life."
-Lydia Maria Child

"Do all things with love."


-Og Mandino

"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good
health has vanished."
-Og Mandino

"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."


-Anais Nin

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."


-Plato

"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one,
perfection."
-Sidney Poitier

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate
it where it does not."
-La Rochefoucauld

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts
dead."
-Bertrand Russell

"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
-Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

"I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how
I feel as perfectly as you deserve it."
-Kyle Schmidt

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."


-Erich Segal

"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy
name..."
-William Shakespeare

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
-Stendhal

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human
loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade
through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
-Anna Louise Strong

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."


-Mother Theresa

"Nunc scio quit sit amor."


Lat., "Now I know what love is."
-Virgil

"Fear less, hope more;


Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
-Swedish Proverb

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."


-Anon.

"Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold
thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique."
-Anon.

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."


-Anon.

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."
-Anon.

"Life is wasted on the living."


-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're
alive, it isn't."
-Richard Bach

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
-Josh Billings

"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
-Joan Borysenko

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on
the present moment."
-Buddha

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the
walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to
see."
-John Burroughs

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."


-Robert Byrne
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All life is an experiment."


-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some
blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow
is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept
no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
-Harvey Fierstein

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost

"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you
do with your life that counts."
-Millard Fuller

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what
lives within us."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
-William James

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."
-William James

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
-William James

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to
begin it."
-W. M. Lewis

"Tell me not, in mournful numbers,


Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive."
-Warren Miller

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."


-Jean-Paul Sartre

"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be."

-Jeremy Schwartz

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."


-Socrates

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
-Laura Swenson

"May you live every day of your life."


-Jonathan Swift

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."


-Anon.

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come
true. You may have to work for it, however."
-Richard Bach

"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps
away all obstacles."
-Claude M. Bristol

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing
what is necessary."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."


-David Dunham

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."


-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."
-Harry Firestone

"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree."
-Thomas Fuller

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
-Johann von Goethe

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."


-McAlexander

"It's always too early to quit."


-Norman Vincent Peale

"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."
-Laurence J. Peter

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

-Will Rogers
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"To do two things at once is to do neither."


-Publilius Syrus

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.


Voltaire (1694-1778)

God is subtle but he is not malicious.


Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage
makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday

Hell is paved with good samaritans.


William M. Holden

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not


ridiculous.
Thornton Wilder

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful
to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.


Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me.
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So
what is there to worry about.
Henry Ford (1863-1947)

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is


sacred.
Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.


Anonymous

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself
no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of
people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Cat's Cradle

Boswell: That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, Sir, stark
insensibility.
Samuel Johnson

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

But 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

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for
talent is genius.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

Eccentricities of genius.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from
trying.
Harry Anderson

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an
expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more
about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Konrad Lorenz

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an
international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

After it, follow it, Follow The Gleam.


Lord Tennyson

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp -- or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

All things are difficult before they are easy.


Thomas Fuller , M.D.

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Always do what you are afraid to do.


Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.


William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.


Phoebe Cary

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.


Richard Bach

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we
can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie
ahead.
Andre Norton

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating;


there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
-- John Ruskin

"Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All
is well in my life."
-- Louise Hay

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it."
-- Edith Warton

"A woman is like a tea bag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."
-- Nancy Reagan

1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.


2. Get mad, then get over it.
3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls,
your ego goes with it.
4. It can be done!
5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
6. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
7. You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make
yours.
8. Check small things.
9. Share credit.
10. Remain calm. Be kind.
11. Have a vision.
12. Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
-- General Colin Powell's Rules to Live By

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible
summer."
-- Albert Camus, novelist

"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be


hopelessly in love with spring."
-- George Santayana

"To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the
conduct of business."
-- Cicero (106-43 BC), "De Officiis" bk. II, ch. XI

"The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward."
-- Aristotle

"Each of us bears his own Hell."


-- Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro], 70-19 B.C.

"Force is not a remedy."


-- John Bright, speech at Birmingham (November 16, 1880)

"Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will
deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen."
-- Maimonides

"A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy."


-- Publilius Syrus
" Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
--- Malcolm S. Forbes

" We worry about what a child will be tomorrow,


Yet we forget that he or she is someone today."
--- Stacia Tausher

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.


Bette Davis

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one


will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what
it takes."
Clare Boothe Luce

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!


Elizabeth Barret Browning

Boldness be my friend.
William Shakespeare - Coriolanus

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely
overwhelm me.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
Nikita Khruschev

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?


Artist formerly known as Prince

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small
ones.
Phillip Brooks

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.


Lucretius

I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.


Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know
that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Cudgel thy brains no more about it.


William Shakespeare - Hamlet

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.


William Ellery Channing

Diligence is the mother of good luck.


Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Do or do not. There is no try.


Yoda , character in the movie, The Empire Strikes Back

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.


Voltaire (1694-1778)

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.


George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.


Kenny Rogers

A little neglect may breed great mischief...


for want of nail, the shoe was lost; for want of shoe,
the horse was lost; for want of horse, the rider was lost;
and for want of rider, the war was lost. - Benjamin Franklin

That is the nice thing about jargon � it effectively desensitises, distances

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