There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.^ Albert Camus
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
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.^ Jorge Luis Borges
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
Someday is not a day of the week.^ Ralph Marston
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
Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'^ Cardinal de Retz
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
Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is.^ Source Unknown
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
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.^ Sven Goran Eriksson
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.^ Horace
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.^ William Blake
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.^ Grantland Rice
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.^ Jascha Heifetz
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
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.^ James Thurber
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
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.^ Henry Ward Beecher
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
I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.^ Hobbes
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.^ John Dryden
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.^ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.^ Thomas Jefferson
They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.^ Ani Difranco
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.^ Pierre de Coubertin
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.^ Jack Kinder
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.^ Oliver Goldsmith
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.^ Edward Abbey
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. - Every Man In His Humor.^ Ben Johnson
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.^ Thomas Campbell Clark
In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.^ Michael Bruce
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.^ Robert Burns
A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.^ Briana Scurry
Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.^ Henry St. John Bolingbroke
Tenderness is the repose of Passion^ Joseph Joubert
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.^ Confucius
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'^ George Bernard Shaw
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.^ Josh Billings
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.^ Quentin Crisp
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.^ George Eliot pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.^ Colette Dowling
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.^ Henry David Thoreau
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.^ Eric Berne
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can^ William Feather
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.^ Jawaharlal Nehru
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.^ Arthur OShaunessey
Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves. -Unknown.^ Unknown
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.^ Mark Twain
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.^ Albert Einstein
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.^ Thomas A. Edison
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.^ Alexander Pope
Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time, That we no more our verse would scrawl, For Shakespeare he had said it all!^ Richard Watson Gilder
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.^ Edward Steichen
Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin For her feet? You lucky little kid, You perished, so you did, For my sweet.^ Frederick Locker-Lampson
Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.^ Louis D. Brandeis
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.^ W. H. Auden
Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.^ Alexander Crummell
I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.^ Nancy Reagan
There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn^ Chinese Proverbs
By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever^ Lao Tzu
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.^ Eleanor Roosevelt
If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work^ Richard Livingstone
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.^ Unattributed Author
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.^ Mark Twain
Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells, One, two, three, four, five, six; They sound so woundy great, So wound'rous sweet, And they troul so merrily.^ Dean Henry Aldridge Aldrich
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.^ Edmund Burke
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.^ Hosea Ballou
Attitudes are more important than facts.^ Karl A. Menninger
O my prophetic soul! My uncle?^ William Shakespeare
Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life.^ Swami Omkarananda
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.^ David Gibbs
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.^ George Eliot pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.^ Rabindranath Tagore
I've personally used e2fsprogs 1.05 to make a 54bib partition. That's a lot of bibs. I thought a double chin was a lot, but to need 54 bibs, it would have to be a FAT partition.^ Kevin M Bealer
Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil.^ William Cowper
As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find.^ Samuel Daniel
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.^ Swami Sivananda
Lo! where the rosy bosom'd Hours Fair Venus' train appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers, And wake the purple year.^ John Gray
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.^ William Shakespeare
It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.^ Minnie Pearl
Law is a bottomless pit.^ John Arbuthnot
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.]^ Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.^ William Arthur Ward
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.^ William Shakespeare
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.^ Charles Mackay
What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?^ John Milton
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.^ Irving Wallace
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.^ Jim Rohn
ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.^ Ambrose Bierce
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!^ William Blake
O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.]^ Caroline Matilda
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.^ John McEnroe
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence^ Samuel Johnson
The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.^ Senator John Kerry
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.^ Philip Sidney
It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.^ Eleanor Roosevelt
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.^ Oscar Wilde
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.^ Groucho Marx
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.^ John Kenneth Galbraith
The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.^ Julian Simon
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
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.^ Jorge Luis Borges
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
Someday is not a day of the week.^ Ralph Marston
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
Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'^ Cardinal de Retz
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
Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is.^ Source Unknown
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
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.^ Sven Goran Eriksson
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.^ Horace
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.^ William Blake
For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.^ Grantland Rice
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.^ Jascha Heifetz
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
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.^ James Thurber
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
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.^ Henry Ward Beecher
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
I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.^ Hobbes
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.^ John Dryden
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.^ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.^ Thomas Jefferson
They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.^ Ani Difranco
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.^ Pierre de Coubertin
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.^ Jack Kinder
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.^ Oliver Goldsmith
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.^ Edward Abbey
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. - Every Man In His Humor.^ Ben Johnson
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.^ Thomas Campbell Clark
In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.^ Michael Bruce
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.^ Robert Burns
A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.^ Briana Scurry
Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.^ Henry St. John Bolingbroke
Tenderness is the repose of Passion^ Joseph Joubert
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.^ Confucius
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'^ George Bernard Shaw
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.^ Josh Billings
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.^ Quentin Crisp
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.^ George Eliot pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.^ Colette Dowling
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.^ Henry David Thoreau
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.^ Eric Berne
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can^ William Feather
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.^ Jawaharlal Nehru
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.^ Arthur OShaunessey
Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves. -Unknown.^ Unknown
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.^ Mark Twain
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.^ Albert Einstein
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.^ Thomas A. Edison
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.^ Alexander Pope
Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time, That we no more our verse would scrawl, For Shakespeare he had said it all!^ Richard Watson Gilder
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.^ Edward Steichen
Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin For her feet? You lucky little kid, You perished, so you did, For my sweet.^ Frederick Locker-Lampson
Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.^ Louis D. Brandeis
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.^ W. H. Auden
Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.^ Alexander Crummell
I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.^ Nancy Reagan
There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn^ Chinese Proverbs
By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever^ Lao Tzu
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.^ Eleanor Roosevelt
If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work^ Richard Livingstone
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.^ Unattributed Author
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.^ Mark Twain
Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells, One, two, three, four, five, six; They sound so woundy great, So wound'rous sweet, And they troul so merrily.^ Dean Henry Aldridge Aldrich
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.^ Edmund Burke
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.^ Hosea Ballou
Attitudes are more important than facts.^ Karl A. Menninger
O my prophetic soul! My uncle?^ William Shakespeare
Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life.^ Swami Omkarananda
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.^ David Gibbs
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.^ George Eliot pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.^ Rabindranath Tagore
I've personally used e2fsprogs 1.05 to make a 54bib partition. That's a lot of bibs. I thought a double chin was a lot, but to need 54 bibs, it would have to be a FAT partition.^ Kevin M Bealer
Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil.^ William Cowper
As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find.^ Samuel Daniel
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.^ Swami Sivananda
Lo! where the rosy bosom'd Hours Fair Venus' train appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers, And wake the purple year.^ John Gray
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.^ William Shakespeare
It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.^ Minnie Pearl
Law is a bottomless pit.^ John Arbuthnot
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.]^ Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.^ William Arthur Ward
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.^ William Shakespeare
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.^ Charles Mackay
What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?^ John Milton
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.^ Irving Wallace
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.^ Jim Rohn
ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.^ Ambrose Bierce
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!^ William Blake
O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.]^ Caroline Matilda
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.^ John McEnroe
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence^ Samuel Johnson
The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.^ Senator John Kerry
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.^ Philip Sidney
It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.^ Eleanor Roosevelt
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.^ Oscar Wilde
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.^ Groucho Marx
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.^ John Kenneth Galbraith
The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.^ Julian Simon
