If
you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for
a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want
happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
Cut Men's throats with whisperings.^ Ben Jonson
No man ever yet became great by imitation.^ Dr Samuel Johnson
Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.^ Source Unknown
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!^ Alexander Pope
Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality^ Albert Einstein
Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.^ Gerhard Kocher
Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.^ Henry St. John Bolingbroke
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.^ Bible
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
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.^ Ouida
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.^ Josh Billings
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.^ St Theresa of Jesus
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
why wait for the weekend to have fun?^ Loesje
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.^ Corazon Aquino
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can^ William Feather
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.^ Brendan Francis
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.^ Charles Simic
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.^ Abraham Cowley
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
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.^ W. Clement Stone
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
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.^ Cicero
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.^ Alexander Pope
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.^ Rabindranath Tagore
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
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.^ Charles de Lint
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
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.^ Edmund Hillary
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
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.^ Benjamin Franklin
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
Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.^ Led Zeppelin
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
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
Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.^ Wendell Phillips
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
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.^ John LeCarre
What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?^ John Milton
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.^ Arthur Miller
When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.^ Xeni Jardin
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
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
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.^ Dennis Prager
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.^ John James Ingalls
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.^ J. Yahl
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.^ Bernadette Devlin
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.^ Chuck Palahniuk
Joy delights in Joy^ William Shakespeare
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.^ Tyron Edwards
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.^ Kin Hubbard
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. 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.^ Unknown
The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.^ Marcelene Cox
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?^ W. Clement Stone
Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.^ Cartman South Park
How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!^ John Wilson 2 used pseudonym Christopher North
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
I am not a Virginian but an American.^ Patrick Henry
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
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
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
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
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 a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.^ Aristotle
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
You can't control what you can't measure^ Tom DeMarco
In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.^ Livy
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
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.^ James Baldwin
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
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.^ Archbishop Richard Whately
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
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
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.^ Jean de La Fontaine
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
The feller that calls you "brother" generally wants something that don't belong to him^ Kin Hubbard
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
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
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
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
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
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
I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.^ William Shakespeare
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
Cut Men's throats with whisperings.^ Ben Jonson
No man ever yet became great by imitation.^ Dr Samuel Johnson
Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.^ Source Unknown
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!^ Alexander Pope
Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality^ Albert Einstein
Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.^ Gerhard Kocher
Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.^ Henry St. John Bolingbroke
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.^ Bible
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
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.^ Ouida
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.^ Josh Billings
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.^ St Theresa of Jesus
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
why wait for the weekend to have fun?^ Loesje
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.^ Corazon Aquino
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can^ William Feather
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.^ Brendan Francis
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.^ Charles Simic
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.^ Abraham Cowley
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
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.^ W. Clement Stone
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
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.^ Cicero
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.^ Alexander Pope
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.^ Rabindranath Tagore
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
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.^ Charles de Lint
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
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.^ Edmund Hillary
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
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.^ Benjamin Franklin
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
Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.^ Led Zeppelin
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
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
Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.^ Wendell Phillips
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
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.^ John LeCarre
What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?^ John Milton
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.^ Arthur Miller
When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.^ Xeni Jardin
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
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
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.^ Dennis Prager
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.^ John James Ingalls
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.^ J. Yahl
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.^ Bernadette Devlin
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.^ Chuck Palahniuk
Joy delights in Joy^ William Shakespeare
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.^ Tyron Edwards
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.^ Kin Hubbard
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. 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.^ Unknown
The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.^ Marcelene Cox
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?^ W. Clement Stone
Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.^ Cartman South Park
How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!^ John Wilson 2 used pseudonym Christopher North
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
I am not a Virginian but an American.^ Patrick Henry
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
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
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
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
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 a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.^ Aristotle
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
You can't control what you can't measure^ Tom DeMarco
In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.^ Livy
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
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.^ James Baldwin
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
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.^ Archbishop Richard Whately
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
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
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.^ Jean de La Fontaine
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
The feller that calls you "brother" generally wants something that don't belong to him^ Kin Hubbard
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
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
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
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
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
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
I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.^ William Shakespeare
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
