Future Quotes

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

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