I???ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven???t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.^    John Taylor Gatto

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.  [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]^    Jean de la Bruyere

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.^    Bible

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.^    Plutarch

You may delay, but time will not.^    Unknown

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.^    Emperor Sigismund

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.^    Eliot Spitzer

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.^    Francis Bacon Sr.

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.^    Joseph Collins

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees.  Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.^    Richard Alfred Milliken Millikin

It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.^    Robert E. Lee

The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use.  This sets a fashion which others imitate.  Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit.  Thus luxury furthers progress.  Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.  The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow."  Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented.  In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.^    Ludwig von Mises

Jests that give pains are no jests.^    Miguel de Cervantes

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.^    Nicholas Murray Butler

A good memory is needed once we have lied.  [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]^    Pierre Corneille

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.^    Edgar R. Fiedler

There are no passengers on spaceship earth.  We are all crew.^    Unknown

He seemed  For dignity compos'd and high exploit:    But all was false and hollow.^    John Milton

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.^    Lynda Barry

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little;  but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her^    Helen Rowland

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.^    Rita Mae Brown

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.^    Sir Walter Scott

I sometimes think I was born to live up to  my name. How could I be anything else but what  I am having been named Madonna?  I would either have ended up a nun or this.^    Madonna

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.^    Jonathan Swift

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic.  Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise.^    Terence Joseph McSwiney M.P.

We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.^    Anon.

A precious pair of brothers [i.e., rascals].^    John Heywood

The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.^    Jean Baptiste Racine

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.^    Sydney Smith

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.^    William Shakespeare

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.^    Woodrow Wilson

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.  -Martha Washington.^    Martha Washington

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.^    John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson

Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.^    Gilbert Keith Chesterton

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?^    Kahlil Gibran

Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.^    Frank Caplan

When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.^    Portuguese Proverb

Beauty is the gift of God.^    Aristotle

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.^    James Nathan Miller

But it is not reason that governs love.  ^    Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends,  And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;    White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud      Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:        Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;          And instant death on every wave appears.^    Homer Smyrns of Chios

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.^    Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton

A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.^    Thomas Carlyle

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires  The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,    And Fear her danger; opens a new world      When this, the present, palls.^    Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].^    Christie Brinkley

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.^    Ambrose Bierce

Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.^    Nonnee Coan

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.^    Rene Descartes

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.^    Stephen Leacock

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.^    Sorphia Loren

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.^    Frank Rizzo

Evil spelled backward is live.^    Source Unknown

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.^    Sorphia Loren

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.^    Frank Rizzo

I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear.^    George Romney

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If i had a flower for every time you made me smile and laugh i'd have a garden to walk in forever

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.^    Sydney Smith

This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.^    William Shakespeare

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.  Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.^    Scott Adams

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness.  -Thomas Merton.^    Thomas Merton

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.^    Henry Miller

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.^    Samuel Johnson

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.^    Kin Hubbard

Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth,  Thirty days to each affix;    Every other thirty-one,      Except the second month alone.^    Unattributed Author

Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads.^    Charles Sprague

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.^    Lindsay Anderson

The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.^    Starhawk

Somewhere on this globe, every  ten seconds, there is a woman  giving birth to a child. She  must be found and stopped.^    Sam Levinson

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.^    Mark Twain

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.^    Pierre Jean de Beranger

The palpable obscure.^    John Milton

Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and borrowing for the remainder of their lives.^    Robert Louis Stevenson

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.^    Robin Williams

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.^    Otto Weininger

It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You heard about the Medicare actuary who was forced to fudge the numbers and lie to Congress to keep his job. You heard the falsified numbers in Iraq on everything from the cost of the war to the number of trained Iraqi troops to a slam dunk case for weapons of mass destruction. You heard about the administration sponsored fake newscasts to mislead people all across America.^    Senator John Kerry

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.^    Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.^    Alice James

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you.... The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.'^    William Somerset Maugham

In these times we fight for ideas,  and newspapers are our fortresses.^    Heinrich Heine

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.^    Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Irish are often nervous about having  the appropriate face for the occasion. They  have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.^    Peggy Noonan

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.^    Malcolm X

To be matter of fact about the world  is to blunder into fantasy --  and dull fantasy at that, as the real  world is strange and wonderful.^    Robert Heinlein

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul^    G. K. Chesterton

Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright  and yellow, hard and cold.^    Thomas Hood

My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.^    Sydney Smith

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.^    Scott Alexander

You don't get harmony when  everybody sings the same note.^    Doug Floyd

It's easy to make good decisions  when there are no bad options.^    Robert Half

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.^    George Bancroft

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.  Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje^    Martin Luther King Jr.

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;  Within that circle none durst walk but he.^    John Dryden

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.^    Winston Churchill

I sing the Poppy!  The frail snowy weed!  The flower of Mercy!  that within its heart    Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need,      A drowsy balm for every bitter smart.        For happy hours the Rose will idly blow--          The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.^    Mary A. Barr

It is a creature  That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague    To beguile many and be beguiled by one.^    William Shakespeare

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.^    Thomas Paine

Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.^    Albert Einstein

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.^    William Hazlitt

Life is the outcome of a balance between the air we breath andanaerobes trying to stifle our aerobic dependence. In death, anaerobestake over and new life begins. Within the context of spiritual,emotional and cultural life this same scientific paradigm applies. So,enjoy the interlude between birth and death.^    Earl Nightingale

My tongue within my lips I rein:  For who talks much must talk in vain.^    John Gay

God made bees, and bees made honey,  God made man, and man made money,    Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin;      So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.      - transcribed by James Henry Dixon,^    William Cowper

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.^    Henry David Thoreau

I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus.^    Norman Brodsky

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.^    Benjamin Franklin

When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don???t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice^    Senator John Kerry

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.^    George Bernard Shaw

It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.^    Sydney Smith

Good-night!  good-night!  as we so oft have said  Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days    That are no more, and shall no more return.      Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;        I stay a little longer, as one stays          To cover up the embers that still burn.^    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?^    Chinese Proverbs

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations^    Ashleigh Brilliant

The republic of letters. ^    Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.^    David Wolf

If it be aught toward the general good,  Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,    And I will look on both indifferently;      For let the gods so speed me as I love        The name of honor more than I fear death.^    William Shakespeare

A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chair of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus.  What do you tell me?  is this a beau, Cotilus?  Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing.^    Marcus Valerius Martial

The eagle suffers little birds to sing,  And is not careful what they mean thereby,    Knowing that with the shadow of his wings      He can at pleasure stint their melody:        Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.^    William Shakespeare

These two hated with a hate  Found only on the stage.^    Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron

In time there is no present,  In eternity no future,    In eternity no past.^    Lord Alfred Tennyson

Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet  From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,    Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so      Who art not missed by any that entreat.^    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth you'd probably be able to get a lot of free games.^    Jack Handy

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh:  for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.^    Bible

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.^    Joseph Chamberlain

Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious,  Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.^    Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.^    Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, the Thames, or the Zuyder Zee, where now, in the tumult of enjoyment, the heart and the eyes are too slow to take in the multitude of sensations?  Who knows but he will sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned and their greatness changed into an empty name?^    Constantin Francois de Chassebeouf de Volney

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.^    Oliver Goldsmith

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.^    Plato

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerfulchannel. (on focus).^    James Allen

It must be so, for miracles are ceased  And therefore we must needs admit the means    How things are perfected.^    William Shakespeare

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.^    Philip James Bailey

The sweetest honey  Is loathsome in his own deliciousness    And in the taste confounds the appetite.^    William Shakespeare

Run like hell and get the agony over with.^    Clarence DeMar

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.^    John Lyly Lylie or Lyllie

The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.  -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.^    William Shakespeare

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.^    William Camden

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the Most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any Motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.^    George Oppen

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself  a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.^    Philip James Bailey

After the conquest of Afric, Greece, the lesser Asia, and Syria were brought into Italy all the sorts of their Mala, which we interprete apples, and might signify no more at first; but were afterwards applied to many other foreign fruits.^    Sir William Temple

A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father^    Sigmund Freud

If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.^    Hale Irwin

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.^    Margaret Thatcher

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.  -M. Scott Peck.^    M. Scott Peck

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster^    Richard Bach

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible^    Bertrand Russell

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown  To saints whose lives are better than his own.^    Charles Churchill

To hate fatigues.^    Jean Rostand

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.^    Francis Bacon

Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.^    Scott Roeben

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.  [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]^    Jean de la Bruyere

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.^    Bible

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.^    Plutarch

You may delay, but time will not.^    Unknown

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.^    Emperor Sigismund

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.^    Eliot Spitzer

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.^    Francis Bacon Sr.

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson






There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.^    Oscar Wilde

Our envy of others devours us most of all.^    Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.^    James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another.^    Unknown

Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.^    Alexander Pope

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.^    W. Clement Stone

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.^    John Petit-Senn

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.^    Wayne Dyer

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.^    John Milton

Opposition brings concord. Out of  discord comes the fairest harmony.^    Heraclitus of Ephesus

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you???re learning, you???re not old.^    Rosalyn S. Yalow

Who can refute a sneer?^    William Paley

I'm saddest when I sing.^    Thomas Haynes Bayly

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.^    James A. Froude

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:  Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day:  and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.^    Bible

And we had thought that our hard climb  out of that cruel valley led to some cool,  green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's  all jungle here, a wild and savage  wilderness that's overrun with ruins.^    Eldridge Cleaver

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.^    Mother Teresa

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one  of my favorite things about it, and when  I first did it, I felt very perverse.^    Diane Arbus

No good man ever became suddenly rich.  [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.]^    Syrus Publilius Syrus

Birth: The first and  direst of all disasters.^    Ambrose Bierce

The wine is poured, you should drink it.  [Fr., Le vin est verse, il faut le boire.]^    Thomas Campbell

London!  the needy villain's general home,  The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!    With eager thirst, by folly or by fate,      Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.^    Samuel Johnson

It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to And someone to love.^    Marya Mannes

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.^    William Cowper

Man is so muddled, so dependent  on the things immediately before  his eyes, that every day even the  most submissive believer can  be seen to risk the torments of the  afterlife for the smallest pleasure.^    Joseph De Maistre

Within a bony labrinthean cave,  Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,    This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found,      Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.^    Abraham Coles

Lost time is never found again.^    John H. Aughey

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.^    Thomas Jefferson

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind^    Henry David Thoreau

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.^    Frederick Douglass

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but the saying is true, 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.'^    William Shakespeare

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.^    George Orwell

Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.^    Anonymous

Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.^    Brigham Young

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive  things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as  hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.^    Sylvia Plath

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.^    M. Henry

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;  Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers.^    Bible

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things?  for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.^    Bible

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money.^    William Cowper

Good intentions are not good enough.......... ultimately we are measured by our actions.^    Source Unknown

If you believe that feeling bad or  worrying long enough will change  a past or future event, then you  are residing on another planet with a different reality system.^    William James

Each of us is a being in himself and a being  in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care  of others and be taken care of himself.^    Haniel Long

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds^    Antoine Rivarol

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.^    Albert Einstein

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.^    Storm Jameson

The Revolution has not yet succeeded.  Comrades, you must carry on!^    Sun Yat-sen

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices^    Benjamin Franklin

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.^    James Matthew Barrie

We English are good at forgiving  our enemies; it releases us from the  obligation of liking our friends.^    P. D. James

My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall.^    George Herbert

We hold these truths to be self-evident:  that all men and women are created equal.^    Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.^    J. Russell Lynes

The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.^    Thomas Fuller

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.^    Woody Allen

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.^    Elias Lyman Maggon

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.^    Albert Einstein

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.^    Benjamin Disraeli

Autumn  Into earth's lap does throw    Brown apples gay in a game of play,      As the equinoctials blow.^    Dinah Maria Mulock used pseudonym Mrs. Craik

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.  - Lacon, 1825.^    Charles Caleb Colton

Make hay while the sun shines.^    Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.^    Friedrich Nietzsche

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;  We are belabored by the gout,    Our blindness is a dark profound,      Our deafness each one laughs about.        Then reason's light with falling ray          Doth but a trembling flicker cast.            Honor to age, ye children pay!              Alas!  my fifty years are past!^    Pierre Jean de Beranger

The more haste, ever the worst speed.^    Charles Churchill

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not  reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our  own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.^    Emile Durkheim

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected  a lot of empty yesterdays.^    Harrold Hill

Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore,  O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;    The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar      Twined amorous round the raptures scene.^    Robert Burns

I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.^    Francois Rabelais

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.  - My Summer in a Garden.^    Charles Dudley Warner

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.^    Henry Miller

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.^    Lance Morrow

Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.^    Rudolph Rummel

And through the hall there walked to and fro  A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,    Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow      Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came,        And knew them how to order without blame.^    Edmund Spenser

The paradox of courage is that  a man must be a little careless  of his life in order to keep it.^    G. K. Chesterton

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase^    John Balguy

We are here on earth to do good to others.  What the others are here for, I do not know.^    Matthew Arnold

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.^    Bible

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.^    Mark Twain

Never make a defense or an  apology until you are accused.^    Charles I King of England

Intolerance betrays want  of faith in one's cause.^    Mahatma Gandhi

a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jacketsin the Democratic Party.^    Al Sharpton

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger  than the causes of it.^    Marcus Aurelius

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself^    Dale Carnegie

I feel wonderful because I see / The love light in your eyes. / And the wonder of it all / Is that you just don't realize how much I love you.^    Eric Clapton

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.^    Arthur Koestler

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning;  for I still live, as I pass to and fro through  the mouths of men^    Quintus Ennius

I'm not young enough to know everything^    James Matthew Barrie

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue^    Mark Twain

a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jacketsin the Democratic Party.^    Al Sharpton

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger  than the causes of it.^    Marcus Aurelius

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself^    Dale Carnegie

I feel wonderful because I see / The love light in your eyes. / And the wonder of it all / Is that you just don't realize how much I love you.^    Eric Clapton

If you think education is  expensive, try ignorance.^    Derek Bok

Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it.  In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard.  ('What else could it be?')  I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system.  Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems.  Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult.  At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.^    John R. Searle

Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded,  With a crown of thorns surrounded,    Buffeted, and bruised and battered,      Smote with reed by striking shattered,        Face with spittle vilely smeared!          Hail, whose visage sweet and comely,            Marred by fouling stains and homely,              Changed as to its blooming color,                All now turned to deathly pallor,                  Making heavenly hosts affeared!^    Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.^    Dale Carnegie

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.^    Lord Kames

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.^    Shania Twain

He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the road, where he also espied an Inn.  Sancho positively maintained it was an Inn, and his master that it was a castle; and the dispute lasted so long that they arrived there before it was determined.^    Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.^    Kamran Hamid

I am optimistic and confident in all that  I do. I affirm only the best for myself and  others. I am the creator of my life and my  world. I meet daily challenges gracefully  and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.^    Alice Potter

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.^    Theodore Roosevelt

One swallow does not make spring.^    Aristotle

Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,  They rave, recite, and madden round the land.^    Alexander Pope

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.^    FranBois de la Rochefoucauld

Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,  His only answer was a blameless life;    And he that forged, and he that threw the dart,      Had each a brother's interest in his heart.^    William Cowper

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.^    Unknown

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.^    Philip James Bailey

Valor is a gift. Those having it never  know for sure whether they have it till  the test comes. And those having it  in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.^    Carl Sandburg

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not  ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.  And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.^    Elie Wiesel

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.^    Charles Caleb Colton

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.^    James Madison

Man is a piece of the universe made alive.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."^    Mark Twain

My master's visualizations were so powerfultheir condensation into matter was mere signature.Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Pathabout his guru Yogananda.^    Donald Walters

Forgive thyself little, and others much.^    Leighton

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.^    Harry Emerson Fosdick

And when a damp  Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand    The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew      Soul-animating strains--alas!  too few.^    William Wordsworth

Jesus will prevail. His Church will prevail. Everything else is just passing away. Our current leadership [of the Episcopal Church USA] will die one day, as will you and I. It is not for us to condemn others, but to witness to them of Him who is in our lives. Even now, the enemy is at work, but Jesus will prevail. I know a God whose mercy knows no limits and whose power has no restraints.^    Todd H. Wetzel

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.^    Malachy McCourt

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.^    Mahatma Gandhi

And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.^    Bible

Tolerance implies no lack of  commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression  or persecution of others.^    John F. Kennedy

As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?^    Thomas Gray

From Stirling Castle we had seen  The mazy Forth unravelled;    Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay,      And with the Tweed had travelled;        And when we came to Clovenford,          Then said "my winsome marrow,"            "Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside,              And see the braes of Yarrow."^    William Wordsworth

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.^    Anton Chekhov

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.^    Robert M. Pirsig

Higher than the perfect song  For which love longeth,    Is the tender fear of wrong,      That never wrongeth.^    Bayard Taylor

Why love if losing hurts so much??? I have no answers anymore??? only the life I have lived??? The pain  now is part of the happiness (then).^    Anthony Hopkins

Will is the dynamic soul-force.^    Sivananda

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.^    Benjamin Lee Whorf

I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.^    John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day^    German Proverb

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

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.^    Ben Hogan

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.^    Maya Angelou

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.^    Don Marquis

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.^    Groucho Marx

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!  To all the sensual world proclaim,    One crowded hour of glorious life      Is worth an age without a name.^    Sir Walter Scott

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.^    Madonna

There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody.^    Alexandre De Talleyrand-p%A9rigord

Like an army defeated  The snow hath retreated,    And now doth fare ill      On the top of the bare hill;        The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon!          There's joy in the mountains:            There's life in the fountains;              Small clouds are sailing,                Blue sky prevailing;                  The rain is over and gone.^    William Wordsworth

Our revels are now ended.  These our actors  As I foretold you, were all spirits and    Are melted into air, into thin air;      And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,        The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,          The solemn temples, the great globe itself,            Yea, all of which it inherit, shall dissolve,              And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,                Is rounded with a sleep.^    William Shakespeare

Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour?  And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.^    John Bright

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot^    Thomas Carlyle

He that will win his dame must do  As love does when he draws his bow;    With one hand thrust the lady from,      And with the other pull her home.^    Samuel Butler 1

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.^    Marquis De Vauvenargues

As we do at such times, I turned on my  automatic pilot and went through the motions  of normalcy on the outside, so that  I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.^    Sonia Johnson

Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.^    Sydney Harris

The beloved of the Almighty are:  the rich who have the humility of the  poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.^    Saadi

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.^    Hebbel

Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.^    Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.^    Robin Williams

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.^    Oscar Wilde

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation^    Herbert Spencer

Sex is nature's way of saying 'Hi!'^    Woody Allen

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.  [Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere, velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]^    Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero

And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.  -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.^    William Shakespeare

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.^    Rosario Castellanos

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.^    Leon Lederman

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.^    Ben Hecht

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.^    Philip Dormer Stanhope fourth Earl of Chesterfield

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.^    Albert Pike

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.^    Madonna

Of all the thoughts of God that are  Borne inward unto souls afar,    Along the Psalmist's music deep,      Now tell me if that any is.        For gift or grace, surpassing this--          "He giveth His beloved sleep."^    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.  [A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.]^    George Herbert

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.  -Unknown.^    Unknown

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?^    Gore Vidal

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.^    Zen Proverb

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass  But still remember what the Lord hath done.^    William Shakespeare

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.^    Benjamin Rush

To the red rising moon, and loud and deep  The nightingale is singing from the steep.^    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When God throws the dice are loaded.^    Greek proverb

We spirits have just such natures  We had for all the world, when human creatures;    And, therefore, I, that was an actress here,      Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.^    John Dryden

That which the world miscalls a jail,  A private closet is to me.    . . . .      Locks, bars, and solitude together met,        Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.^    William Kendrick

No change, no pause, no hope!  Yet I endure.^    Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.  [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.]^    Francois Rabelais

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.^    Marcus T. Cicero

I deal with temptation by yielding to it^    Mark Twain

The water is the same on both sides of the boat^    Finnish Proverb

A kiss without a hug is like a  flower without the fragrance.^    Maltese Proverb

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.^    Geoffrey Fisher

To the red rising moon, and loud and deep  The nightingale is singing from the steep.^    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When God throws the dice are loaded.^    Greek proverb

We spirits have just such natures  We had for all the world, when human creatures;    And, therefore, I, that was an actress here,      Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.^    John Dryden

That which the world miscalls a jail,  A private closet is to me.    . . . .      Locks, bars, and solitude together met,        Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.^    William Kendrick

No change, no pause, no hope!  Yet I endure.^    Percy Bysshe Shelley

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.^    Marcus T. Cicero

I deal with temptation by yielding to it^    Mark Twain

The water is the same on both sides of the boat^    Finnish Proverb

A kiss without a hug is like a  flower without the fragrance.^    Maltese Proverb

All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.^    Giraudoux

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.^    Geoffrey Fisher

As if Religion were intended  For nothing else but to be mended.^    Samuel Butler 1

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a  serious and dangerous hallucination.^    Alan Wilson Watts

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.^    French Proverb

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.      - Francis Bacon,^    Francis Bacon

All evils are equal when they are extreme.  [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]^    Pierre Corneille

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.^    Marshall McLuhan

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.^    Robert Fritz

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.^    Horace

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.^    Shirley Bassey

As innocent as a new-laid egg.^    William S. Gilbert

Declare World Party I !^    Vanna Bonta

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.^    James Allen

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.^    Marshall McLuhan

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.  -B. F. Harris.^    B. F. Harris

Justice is truth in action.^    Benjamin Disraeli

Mother of dead dogs.^    Thomas Campbell

A friend is a present you give yourself.  -Robert Louis Stevenson.^    Robert Louis Stevenson

Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.^    Roger Starr

We are but as the instrument of Heaven.  Our work is not design, but destiny.^    Lord Lytton Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton Owen Meredith

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.^    Ayn Rand

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.^    Isaac Watts

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.^    Oscar Wilde

I'd hate to be a teetotaller.  Imagine getting up in the  morning and knowing that's as  good as you're  going to feel all day.^    Dean Martin

Immortality - a fate worse than death.^    Edgar A. Shoaff

When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which hasopened for us.^    Alexander Graham Bell

I act like sh*t don't phase me, inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.^    Eminem

Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.^    Bob Verdi

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.^    Unknown

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.^    Alfred Victor Vigny

I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know what off for John Kerry is because I believe him. I believe he'll be a good president and a much better president than George Bush.^    Howard Dean

It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen,  Unless the adage must be verified,    That beggars mounted run their horse to death.^    William Shakespeare

Exasperation is the mother of invention.^    Source Unknown

Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.^    William Shakespeare

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books^    Chinese Proverbs

This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,--  That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.^    Geoffrey Chaucer

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.^    Queen Victoria

He is a fool  Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.^    Homer Smyrns of Chios

The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.^    Senator John Kerry

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.^    Oscar Wilde

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.^    Buddha

Haste makes waste.^    John Heywood

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co^    Bertrand Russell

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.  -Josh Billings.^    Josh Billings

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.^    Winston Churchill

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.^    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.^    Sandra Cisneros

At length her grace rose and with modest paces  Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like    Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly; Then rose again and bowed her to the people;        When by the Archbishop of Canterbury she had all the royal makings of a queen, As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems Laid nobly on her; which performed, the choir,With all the choicest music of the kingdom Together sung 'Te Deum.'  So she parted And with the same full state packed back again To York Place, where the feast is held.^    William Shakespeare

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well.".^    Elbert Hubbard

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.^    Ludwig von Mises

If solid happiness we prize,  Within our breast this jewel lies,    And they are fools who roam;      The world has nothing to bestow,        From our own selves our bliss must flow,          And that dear hut,--our home.^    Nathaniel Cotton

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn about adoption today.^    Bruce Willis

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.^    George Chapman

Desperate courage makes One a majority.^    Andrew Jackson

People who matter are most aware  that everyone else does, too.^    Malcolm S. Forbes

The languages, especially the dead,  The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,    The arts, at least all such as could be said      To be the most remote from common use,        In all these he was much and deeply read.^    Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron

I was not born for Courts or great affairs;  I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.^    Alexander Pope

Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committeefor an animal adapted to communities without water..it was a divine consensus.^    O Anna Niemus

I will not go down to posterity  talking bad grammar.^    Benjamin Disraeli

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.^    St. John of the Cross

Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.^    Euripides

Liars need to have good memories.^    Algernon Sidney

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.^    Josh Billings

Giving birth is like taking your  lower lip and forcing it over your head.^    Carol Burnett

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. .  -David Norris.^    David Norris

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.^    Hans J. Morgenthau

Blue thou art, intensely blue;  Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?^    James Montgomery

It is more blessed to give than to receive.^    Bible

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations  these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe  has occurred in the psychic landscape.^    Leonard Cohen

EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.^    G. W. Target

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.^    Bible

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.^    Thomas Henry Huxley

He who loses money losses much.  He who loses a friend loses more.  But he who loses faith loses all.^    Henry H Haskins

Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.^    Gao Xingjian

There swift return  Diurnal, merely to officiate light    Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.^    John Milton

Never support two weaknesses at  the same time. It's your combination  sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the  vices and bring them into bad repute.^    Thornton Wilder

I wish I knew the good of wishing.^    Henry S. Leigh

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?^    Bible

If you should go skatingOn the thin ice of modern lifeDragging behind you the silent reproachOf a million tear-stained eyesDon't be surprised when a crack in the iceAppears under your feet.You slip out of your depth and out of your mindWith your fear flowing out behind youAs you claw the thin ice.^    Pink Floyd

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken:  for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.^    Bible

One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends.      - William Hazlitt,^    William Hazlitt

It is never too late to be what you might have been.  ???George Eliot    It takes time to build a castle.  ???Irish Proverb    A minute now is better than a minute later.  ???Anonymous    Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time?  ???Karan Varsheni    Today is the tomorrow we  worried about yesterday.  ???Anonymous    I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.  ???Dan Quisenberry    Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like an orange.  ???Unknown    If you're not five minutes  early, you're ten minutes late.  ???Anonymous    To be on time is to be late.  To be early is to be on time.  ???Tim Gunter    The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.  ???Leo Kennedy    Eternity is a terrible thought.  I mean, where's it going to end?  ???Stoppard    Time is a great teacher, but  unfortunately it kills all its pupils.  ???Berlioz    One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.  ???Anonymous    You may delay, but time will not.  ???Benjamin Franklin    With time and patience the mulberry  leaf becomes a silk gown. ???Chinese proverb    Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never  miss the opportunity to tell these people  how much they mean to you.  ???Cheers    You can never plan the future by the past.  ???Edmund Burke    Let him who would enjoy a good  future waste none of his present.  ???Roger Babson    The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.  ???Paul Valery    Until you value yourself,  you won't value your time.  Until you value your time,  you will not do anything with it.  ???M Scott Peck    Time is the fire in which we burn.  ???Gene Roddenberry    You will never find time for anything.  If you want time you must make it.  ???Charles Buxton    Time ripens all things.  No man's born wise.  ???Cervantes    Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon  at the speed of light while rotating.  Time is like that, except without  the cannon and the donut.  ???Dilbert    Half our life is spent trying to find  something to do with the time we  have rushed through life trying to save.  ???Will Rogers    You can fool too many of the  people too much of the time.  ???James Thurber    Time cools, time clarifies;  no mood can be maintained  quite unaltered through  the course of hours.  ???Thomas Mann  Temptation rarely comes in  working hours. It is in their leisure time  that men are made or marred.  ???W N Taylor    Just as you began to feel that  you could make good use of time,  there was no time left to you.^    George Eliot

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

In poison there is physic; and these news,  Having been well, that would have made me sick,    Being sick, have in some measure made me well.^    William Shakespeare

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.^    Robert Louis Stevenson

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one^    Albert Einstein

Modern jazz:  Variations on a non-existent theme^    Maxim Gorky

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.^    Frank Moore Colby

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so  much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.^    James Truslow Adams

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.^    Deng Xiaoping

Journalism is merely history's first draft.^    Geoffrey C. Ward

Now, while the honour thou hast got  Is spick and span new.^    Samuel Butler 1

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?^    Bible

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken:  for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.^    Bible

One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends.      - William Hazlitt,^    William Hazlitt

It is never too late to be what you might have been.  ???George Eliot    It takes time to build a castle.  ???Irish Proverb    A minute now is better than a minute later.  ???Anonymous    Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time?  ???Karan Varsheni    Today is the tomorrow we  worried about yesterday.  ???Anonymous    I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.  ???Dan Quisenberry    Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like an orange.  ???Unknown    If you're not five minutes  early, you're ten minutes late.  ???Anonymous    To be on time is to be late.  To be early is to be on time.  ???Tim Gunter    The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.  ???Leo Kennedy    Eternity is a terrible thought.  I mean, where's it going to end?  ???Stoppard    Time is a great teacher, but  unfortunately it kills all its pupils.  ???Berlioz    One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.  ???Anonymous    You may delay, but time will not.  ???Benjamin Franklin    With time and patience the mulberry  leaf becomes a silk gown. ???Chinese proverb    Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never  miss the opportunity to tell these people  how much they mean to you.  ???Cheers    You can never plan the future by the past.  ???Edmund Burke    Let him who would enjoy a good  future waste none of his present.  ???Roger Babson    The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.  ???Paul Valery    Until you value yourself,  you won't value your time.  Until you value your time,  you will not do anything with it.  ???M Scott Peck    Time is the fire in which we burn.  ???Gene Roddenberry    You will never find time for anything.  If you want time you must make it.  ???Charles Buxton    Time ripens all things.  No man's born wise.  ???Cervantes    Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon  at the speed of light while rotating.  Time is like that, except without  the cannon and the donut.  ???Dilbert    Half our life is spent trying to find  something to do with the time we  have rushed through life trying to save.  ???Will Rogers    You can fool too many of the  people too much of the time.  ???James Thurber    Time cools, time clarifies;  no mood can be maintained  quite unaltered through  the course of hours.  ???Thomas Mann  Temptation rarely comes in  working hours. It is in their leisure time  that men are made or marred.  ???W N Taylor    Just as you began to feel that  you could make good use of time,  there was no time left to you.^    George Eliot

In poison there is physic; and these news,  Having been well, that would have made me sick,    Being sick, have in some measure made me well.^    William Shakespeare

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.^    Robert Louis Stevenson

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one^    Albert Einstein

Modern jazz:  Variations on a non-existent theme^    Maxim Gorky

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.^    Frank Moore Colby

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so  much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.^    James Truslow Adams

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.^    Deng Xiaoping

Now, while the honour thou hast got  Is spick and span new.^    Samuel Butler 1

An Austrian army awfully arrayed.^    Unattributed Author

No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.^    Alan Biole

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.^    Ronald Reagan

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.^    Douglas Adams

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.^    Joseph R. Krutch

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign....  Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.^    Saint Thomas Aquinas

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium  to secure love, but it is a secure  medium to destroy one's self-respect.  For jealous people, like dope-fiends,  stoop to the lowest level and in the end  inspire only disgust and loathing.^    Emma Goldman

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.^    William Shakespeare

You can't control what you can't measure^    Tom DeMarco

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.^    Oscar Wilde

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.^    Arthur Schopenhauer

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...^    Michael Stipe

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.^    Charles C. Noble

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.^    Chief Seattle

Her beads while she numbered,  The baby still slumbered,    And smile in her face, as she bended her knee;      Oh!  bless'd be that warning,        My child, thy sleep adorning,          For I know that the angels are whispering with thee.^    Samuel Lover

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.^    Alexandre Dumas

Humor comes from self-confidence.  There's an aggressive element to wit.^    Rita Mae Brown

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.^    Gotthold Lessing

Rain, rain, and sun!  a rainbow in the sky!^    Lord Alfred Tennyson

We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.^    James Bryce

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.^    William C. Bryant

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.^    James Thurber

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson

The strongest principle of growth  lies in human choice.^    George Eliot

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.^    Lyndon Baines Johnson

Sorrow is the great idealizer.^    Unknown

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,  Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,    Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,      Are all with thee,--are all with thee!^    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.^    Francis Bacon

For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake,  Do all the good you can,    To all the people you can,      In all the ways you can,        As long as ever you can.^    Epitaph

A sadder and a wiser man,  He rose the morrow morn.^    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.^    Martin Luther King Jr.

There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.^    Thomas Jefferson

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah,  they have all the necessary leisure.^    Aldous Huxley

Now good digestion wait on appetite,  And health on both!^    William Shakespeare

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior.  Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.^    Unknown

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.^    Joe Paterno

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in  being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.^    George Soros

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.^    Austin OMalley

A hungry man is not a free man.^    Adlai E. Stevenson

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will  always be helpful. He isn't  likely to grow dim or doubtful.  Chances are, he isn't likely to carry  the cat that way again, either.  But if he wants to, I say let him!^    Mark Twain

The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.^    Source Unknown

Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them.^    Anonymous Anonymous

Originality is nothing by judicious  imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.^    Voltaire

For 'tis impossible  Hate to return with love.    [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.]^    Vittorio Alfieri

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.^    Joe Paterno

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in  being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.^    George Soros

A hungry man is not a free man.^    Adlai E. Stevenson

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will  always be helpful. He isn't  likely to grow dim or doubtful.  Chances are, he isn't likely to carry  the cat that way again, either.  But if he wants to, I say let him!^    Mark Twain

The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.^    Source Unknown

Originality is nothing by judicious  imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.^    Voltaire

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.^    Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron

Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.^    Didacus Stella

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in  March, that month of wind and taxes, the  wind will presently disappear,  the taxes last us all the year.^    Ogden Nash

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.^    Edmund Burke

Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.^    Unattributed Author

Thank God, I have done my duty.^    Lord Horatio Nelson

It shall be so.  Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.^    William Shakespeare

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.^    Friedrich von Schiller

Here's a sigh to those who love me,  And a smile to those who hate;    And whatever sky's above me,      Here's a heart for every fate.^    Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.^    Oscar Wilde

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.^    Dr. Carl Sagan

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit^    Edward Abbey

More than we use is more than we want.^    Gaelic Proverb

How sweet the answer Echo makes  To music at night,    When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,      And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,        Goes answering light.^    Thomas Moore

We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.^    Theodore Parker

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.^    Horace

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few^    Shunryu Suzuki

If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied!  [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno    Si leggesse in fronte scritto,      Quanti mai, che invidia fanno,        Ci farebbero pieta!]^    Metastasio pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.^    Gerald Stanley Lee

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.  The more things you do, the more you can do.^    Lucille Ball

Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.^    Colley Cibber

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the  secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far.^    Charles Schwab

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.^    Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.^    Oscar Wilde

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes.  All his government is groping.^    Ben Jonson

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.^    Johann Kaspar Lavater

In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.^    Daniel Readon