· Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle

· My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look upon my works, ye Mighty, 
  and despair! - Percy Shelley

· The world's a wood, in which all lose their way, 
  Though by a different path each goes astray. - Buckingham

· Those who in quarrels interpose,
  Must often wipe a bloody nose. - Gay

· A little nonsense now and then,
  Is relish'd by the best of men. - Anon.

· Beware the fury of a patient man. - Dryden

· My mind to me an empire is. - Southwell

· A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things,
  But cannot receive great ones. - Chesterfield

· There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know. - Dryden

· No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius. - Disraeli

· There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness. - Seneca

· When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, 
  that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Swift

· It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. - Ben Franklin

· He conquers who endures. - Persius

· Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
  Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. - Addison

· All that glisters is not gold,
  Gilded tombs do worms enfold. - Shakespeare

· Para scire faciem Auctoris!
  Prepare to know the face of the maker! - Ham

· By the pricking of my thumbs,
  Something wicked this way comes. - Shakespeare

· There is not a fiercer hell than failure in a great object. - Keats

· Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall  - Goldsmith

· The paths of glory lead but to the grave. - Gray

· Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. - Stanislaus

· He who has hope has everything. - Arabian proverb

· Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.
  Hope is the dream of a waking man. - Pliny

· The mighty hopes that make us men. - Tennyson

· Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. - Napoleon I

· The most utterly lost of all days is that in which you have not once laughed. - Chamfort.

· Let them obey that know not how to rule. - Shakespeare

· Downy sleep, Death's counterfeit. - Shakespeare

· Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, Morieris.
  Now this bell, tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die. - John Donne

· No man is an island, entire of itself. - John Donne

· Never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. - John Donne

· Death, be not proud, though some have called thee 
  Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
  For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
  Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. - John Donne

· And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. - John Donne

· Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. - Richard Lovelace

· To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
  Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. - John Milton

· For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope

· A little learning is a dangerous thing;
  Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. - Alexander Pope

· Hope springs eternal in the human breast. - Alexander Pope

· Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war! - Shakespeare

· If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. - Blake

· Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson

· He that is down need fear no fall. - John Bunyan

· To hope is good. - Fanshawe

· Only the actions of the just
  Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. - Shirley

· A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds. - Anon.

· Dying is a pleasure, when living is a pain. - Dryden

· I have been happy, tho' but in a dream. - Poe

· Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream? - Poe

· Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. - Emily Dickinson

· Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
  It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country. - Horace

· Timor mortis conturbat me.
  The fear of death distresses me. - William Dunbar

· Be it evil, be it well, be I bound, be I free,
  I am as I am and so will I be. - Wyatt

· And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming. - Poe

· I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. - Robert Oppenheimer

· Nothing exists in itself. - Melville

· O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. - Melville

· Talk to me not of a name great in story,
  The days of our youth are the days of our glory. - Lord Byron

· He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. - Von Knebel

· And here I stand; judge, my masters. - Shakespeare

· It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by a cunning man. 
  - La Rochefoucauld

· His back against a rock he bore, and firmly placed his foot before:
  "Come one, come all!  This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I." - Scott

· By night an atheist half believes in God. - Young

· When you begin with so much pomp and show,
  Why is the end so little and so low? - Roscommon

· The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. - Shakespeare

· A brave man may fall, but cannot yield. - Dryden

· It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortune of others. - Publius Syrus

· All's to be feared where all is to be lost. - Byron

· Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 
  Old Time is still a flying:
  And that same flower that blooms today,
  Tomorrow shall be dying. - Herrick

· Rocks have been shaken from their solid base, 
  but what shall move a firm and dauntless mind? - Joanna Baillie

· Thy words have darted hope into my soul, and comfort dawns upon me. - Southern

· Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! - Shakespeare

· For good men but see death, the wicked taste it. - ???

· How wonderful is Death!  Death and his brother Sleep. - Shelley

· Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?  
  And live how we can, yet die we must. - Shakespeare

· 'Tis late before the brave despair. - Thomson

· To doubt is worse than to have lost. - Massinger

· Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win 
  by fearing to attempt. - Shakespeare

· Every dog must have his day. - Swift

· The general prizes most the fortress which took the longest siege. - ???

· All's well that ends well, still the finis is the crown. - Shakespeare

· If you want enemies excel others; if you want friends let others excel you. - Colton

· From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. - Syrus

· None but a fool is always right. - Hare

· Who then is free?  The wise man who can command himself. - Horace

· He doth bestride the narrow world, like a Colossus; 
  and we petty men walk under his legs, 
  and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves. - Shakespeare

· In my stars I am above thee, 
  but be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, 
  some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. - Shakespeare

· Oh! greatness! thou art a flattering dream, a wat'ry bubble, lighter than the air. - Tracy

· Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here. - Young

· He that loses hope may part with anything. - Congreve

· I am misanthropes and hate mankind. 
  For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, that I might love thee something. - Shakespeare

· The vile are only vain; the great are proud. - Byron

· There are hurts so deep that words cannot reach or heal them. - Kate Seredy

· Lives of great men all remind us
  We can make our lives sublime
  And departing leave behind us
  Footsteps on the sands of time;
  Footsteps that perhaps another,
  Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
  A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother,
  Seeing, shall take heart again. - Longfellow

· It is possible to fly without motors but not without knowledge. - Wilbur Wright

· There is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. - Jane Austen

· War is Peace
  Freedom is Slavery
  Ignorance is Strength - George Orwell

· Evil springs up softly like a flower. - Baudelaire

· Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth. - Picasso

· Every kind thought is the hope of the world. - William Blatty

· Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. - Ovid

· Hope was but a timid friend. - Emily Bronte

· We see in part, thus is the mirror of prophecy darkened. - Stephen King

· When traitors are called heroes, or heroes traitors, 
  dark times must have fallen. - Stephen King

· I know what exile means. - Roland of Gilead (Stephen King)

· Let the word and the legend go before you. 
  There are those that will carry both. - Cort (Stephen King)

· Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. 
  - Andy Dufresne (Stephen King)

· We all die in time. But we will be magnificent. - Roland of Gilead (Stephen King)

· In the deserts of the heart,
  Let the healing fountains start.
  In the prison of his days,
  Teach the free man how to praise. - W.H. Auden

· Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
  Time held me green and dying
  Though I sang in my chains like the sea. - Dylan Thomas

· Do not go gentle into that good night.
  Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas

· After the first death there is no other. - Dylan Thomas

· And death shall have no dominion. - Dylan Thomas

· A goose's quill has put an end to murder that put an end to talk. - Dylan Thomas

· It is better to understand than to be understood. - ???

· Two roads diverged in a wooded path, and I --
  I took the path less traveled by,
  And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost

· We love the things we love for what they are. - Robert Frost

· The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
  But I have promises to keep,
  And miles to go before I sleep.
  And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost

· Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
  And thin partitions do their bounds divide. - Dryden

· The best is yet to be. - Robert Browning

· Remorse is memory awake. - Emily Dickinson

· The way to be happy is to make others so. - Robert Ingersoll

· I took my power in my hand
  And went against the world;
  'Twas not so much as David had,
  But I was twice as bold.

  I aimed my pebble, but myself
  Was all the one that fell.
  Was it Goliath was to large,
  Or only I too small? - Emily Dickinson

· This is my letter to the world,
  That never wrote to me, --
  The simple news that nature told,
  With tender majesty.

  Her message is committed
  To hands I cannot see;
  For love of her, sweet countrymen,
  Judge tenderly of me! - Emily Dickinson

· My friend must be a bird,
  Because it flies!
  Mortal my friend must be
  Because it dies!
  Barbs has it, like a bee,
  Ah, curious friend,
  Thou puzzlest me! - Emily Dickinson

· The scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because 
  he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. - Henry Poincare

· If there were dreams to sell,
  Merry and sad to tell,
  And the crier rung his bell,
  What would you buy? - Thomas Beddoes

· But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
  I have spread my dreams under your feet;
  Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams. - W.B. Yeats

· The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose. - Shakespeare 

· Thou hast conquered. - Emperor Julian (dying words)

· I know that I know nothing. - Socrates 

· Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
  And grow forever and forever. - Tennyson

· Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. - Socrates

· Fare thee well!  And if forever, still forever, fare thee well. - Byron

· What fools these mortals be! - Shakespeare

· Fortune favors the bold. - Virgil

· I never think about the future. It comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein 

· Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. - Special Olympics slogan

· Be loyal to yourself, and considerate toward your neighbors. - Confucius

· Life has a meaning, and to find it is the quest of my soul. - Zarathustra

· Be not too timid too speak the truth. - Ptah-hotep

· Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Tennyson

· Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. - Thoreau

· Learn to labor and to wait. - Longfellow

· Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. - John Fletcher

· I can resist everything except temptation. - Oscar Wilde

· They always talk who never think. - Prior

· Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of the man.
  Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. - Owen Meredith

· Go where glory waits thee;
  But, while fame elates thee,
  O, still remember me! - Thomas Moore

· The golden rule is that there is no golden rule. - Bernard Shaw

· The great are only great because we are on our knees.  Let us rise! - P.J. Proudhon 

· Oh, make us happy and you make us good. - Robert Browning

· There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; these be the dreams of baby minds. - Phoebe Cary

· In the world's broad field of battle,
  In the bivouac of Life,
  Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
  Be a hero in the strife! - ???

· Still nursing the unconquerable hope, still clutching the inviolable shade. - Matthew Arnold

· The heart bowed down by the weight of woe to the weakest hope will cling. - A. Bonn

· Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. - Dante 

· While there is life there's hope. - John Gay

· I am a man, and nothing human can be of indifference to me. - Terence

· But hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. - Wordsworth

· The best sauce for food is hunger. - Socrates

· Is there beyond the silent night
  An endless day?
  Is death a door that leads to light?
  We cannot say. - R.G. Ingersoll

· The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. - Ibsen

· Judge not, that ye be not judged. - Matthew, VIII, I

· And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep. - Byron

· Give me liberty, or give me death! - Patrick Henry

· Prejudice is the child of ignorance. - William Hazlitt

· Into each life some rain must fall,
  Some days must be dark and dreary. - Longfellow

· And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say. - Prior 

· It is the right of war for conquerors to treat the conquered according to their pleasure. 
  - Caesar

· They can conquer who believe they can.  
  It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting it again. - Emerson

· I have lived enough, for I die unconquered. - Epaminondas

· It is difficult to contend with a conqueror. - Horace

· See the conquering hero comes!
  Sound the trumpets, beat the drums! - Dr. Thomas Morell

· It is hard to conquer, but conquer you shall. - Ovid

· Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances. - Scott

· He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. - Plautus 

· Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old. - Tennyson

· He went forth conquering and to conquer. - New Testament

· Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  
  Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Goethe

· Look with favor upon a bold beginning. - Virgil

· As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you" 
  you lack the eye of knowledge. - Friedrich Nietzsche

· Love of one is a barbarism; for it is exercised at the expense of all others.  
  The love of God, too. - Nietzsche

· Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself. - Nietzsche

· Terrible experiences pose the riddle whether the person who has them is not terrible. 
  - Nietzsche

· The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen 
  our evil as what is best in us. - Nietzsche

· Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.  
  And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. - Nietzsche

· In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired. - Nietzsche

· Whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil. - Nietzsche

· Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, 
  and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

· Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very insistent one. - Albert Einstein

· Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. 
  Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein 

· The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. - Albert Einstein 

· The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein 

· We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, 
  but no personality. - Albert Einstein 

· When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. 
  When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. 
  - Albert Einstein 

· The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. - Albert Einstein 

· The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking 
  we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein 

· Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. 
  - Albert Einstein 

· He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. 
  He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. 
  - Albert Einstein

· He who can best dismantle the machine is he who knows it best. - Carmine Muscarella

· Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. 
  - Albert Einstein 

· I wish they would only take me as I am. - Vincent Van Gogh

· I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. 
  Most people never listen. - Ernest Hemingway

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

· Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. 
  - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

· We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. 
  - Martin Luther King, Jr.

· Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. 
  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

· Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. - Henry Kissinger

· Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. - Timothy Leary

· Time is the fire in which we burn. - Gene Roddenberry

· You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' 
  I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw

· Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates 

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

· Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. 
  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, 
  can become great. - Mark Twain

· Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these...it might have been. 
  - John Greenleaf Whittier

· Men are born to succeed, not to fail. - Henry David Thoreau 

· Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry  David Thoreau 

· Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry  David Thoreau

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

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

· You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin

· The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. - Epicurus 

· It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

· All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

· There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to 
  brighten it everywhere. - Isaac Asimov

· Don't steal. The government hates competition. - Anon. 

· Only the good die young. Note the average age in Congress. - Anon. 

· Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs louder. - Anon.

· Hope is the denial of reality. - Anon.

· When nine hundred years old, look as good you will not. - Yoda

· Wars not make one great. - Yoda

· Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things. - Yoda

· Try not. Do...Or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

· Luminous beings are we...not this crude matter. - Yoda

· That is the way of things...the way of the Force. - Yoda

· A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. - Yoda

· Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
  Consume you it will.... - Yoda

· Beware of the dark side. Anger...fear...aggression.... - Yoda

· You must feel the Force around you. - Yoda

· Through the Force, things you will see. Other places. The future. The past. Old friends long
  gone. - Yoda

· Size matters not. - Yoda

· If you choose the quick and easy path, you will become an agent of evil. - Yoda

· Control, control. You must learn control. - Yoda

· Mind what you have learned. Save you it can. - Yoda

· You must unlearn what you have learned. - Yoda

· Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall. - Yoda

· Of those who say nothing, few are silent. - Thomas Neill

· Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide

· Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog.
  Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement. - Snoopy

· I've said it in jest, now I say it in earnest.  I used to laugh, but now I believe.
 The time isn't now, the time has always been.  The people have never cared, but the enlightened cry out for something new.
 We must go free.  Death to the administration. - Ham 

· Do not stand at my grave and weep.
  I am not there, I do not sleep.
  I am a thousand winds that blow.
  I am the diamond glint on snow.
  I am the sun on ripened grain.
  I am the soothing, gentle rain.
  When you awake in morning hush,
  I am the swift uplifting rush
  of quiet birds in circled flight.
  I am the stars that shine at night.
  Do not stand at my grave and cry.
  I am not there. I did not die. - Anon

· Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! - Henry Vaughan

· Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. - Henry Van Dyke

· A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. - Steward Alsop

· Whosoever is out of patience, is out of possession of his soul. – Sir Francis Bacon

· I smote him myself. I smoted him good! – Bart Simpson

· I don't want anything more to do with your killer God! – Franny Redman

· Go, be true...Stand.... – Mother Abigail (dying words)

Children, I must share with you this bit of humor. We're all at Hooters (a VERY fine establishment) in Greensboro (the People's City) on 12/27/99 at 11:50 PM, and are feasting on piles of spicy chicken wings (we were feasting our eyes on other things as well, but that's another story). Anyway,
here's the good part....

Ham: Damn, dude, I thought you were supposed to like spicy foods!

Lorenzo Ponce de Leon: Man, I'm Puerto Rican, not Mexican!

We found this to be hilarious, if you didn't, well, that sounds like a personal problem :)

· Bureacrats are specialists without spirit. – Max Verger

· Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. – Henry David Thoreou

· 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. – Tennyson

· 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. – Shakespeare

· 'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ
  To gain the riches he can ne'er enjoy. - Anon.

· ...Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed. – Anon.

· There should be nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another
  without subordination or subjection. – John Locke

· A God alone can comprehend God – Young

· A Smith and Wesson beats four aces. – Anon.

· A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other. – Anon.

· A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. – Mark Twain

· A brave man is sometimes a desperado; a bully is always a coward. – Haliburton

· A child of 5 could understand this! Fetch me a child of 5. – Anon.

· A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man could do in an hour. – Elbert Hubbard

· A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde

· A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. – Milton

· A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. – Else Schiaparelli

· A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever. – Zimmerman

· A great fortune is a great slavery – Seneca

· A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. – Barry Goldwater

· A kind word and a gun can do more than a kind word alone. – Al Capone

· A light heart lives long. – Shakespeare

· A little virtue will never hurt you. – Piet Hein

· A man is average when he can see the other man's faults; he becomes above average only when he can also see his own – Haliburton

· A man's errors are what make him amiable. – Goethe

· A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is. – Jack Miner

· A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. – Mohammed

· A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. – Denys Parsons

· A pretty woman is a welcome guest – Byron

· A prudent question is one-half wisdom. – Francis Bacon

· A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. – Ramsey Clark

· A scar nobly got is a livery of honor. – Shakespeare

· A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin

· A soft answer turneth away wrath. – Mark Twain

· A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn. – Ernest May

· Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy. – Anon.

· It is only to the individual that a soul is given.  – Einstein

· To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. – Einstein

· Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. – Einstein

· We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of
  annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn
  and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from
  being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented. – Einstein

· He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my
  contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal
  cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away
  with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome
  nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this,
  how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be
  part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak
  of war is nothing but an act of murder. – Einstein

· Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets. – Einstein

· I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with
  the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed,
  but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start
  again, and civilization could be restored. – Einstein

· If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. – Einstein

· Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds.
  The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
  hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and
  fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form. – Einstein

· He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. – Einstein

· The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. – Einstein

· Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. – Einstein

· In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter
  of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble.
  But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing,
  their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into
  the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. – Einstein

· I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food. – Einstein

· If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. – Einstein

· Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. – Einstein

· The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. – Einstein

· If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? – Einstein

· The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. – Einstein

· The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. – Einstein

· Let whoever can win glory before his death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark. – Beowulf

· My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you.
  Then you would realize what a truly special person you are. – B. A. Billingsley

· The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart. – Mencius

· A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal. – Winston Churchill

· A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. – Grace Murray Hopper

· Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. – Leonardo da Vinci

· Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
  Criticize me, and I may not like you.
  Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
  Encourage me, and I may not forget you. – Sir William Arthur

· An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it – Orlando A. Battista

· A house is a home, no matter how it looks. – Kim Gilman

· For memory has painted this perfect day
  With colors that never fade,
  And we find at the end of a perfect day
  The soul of a friend we've made. – Carrie Jacobs Bond

· Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words,
  little by little it becomes shapeless, somber. – Ugo Betti

· We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. – Lloyd Alexander

· Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. – Henry Louis Mencken

· Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating. – Val Peters

· Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones

· In person, we transcend words. – Meeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! :)

· And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.– Revelation 6:8

· It is nothing to die; it is frightful not to live. – Victor Hugo

· Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. – Matthew Arnold

· I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. – Winston Churchill

· One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. – Nietzsche

· I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly. – Albert Einstein

· Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only
  wilted leaves on the tree of life. – Albert Einstein

· Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau

· Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. – Ephesians 4:26

· Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
  Pray for power equal to your tasks. – Phillips Brooks

· The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. – Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

· All great truths begin as blasphemies. – George Bernard Shaw

· To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves. – Caitlin Matthews

· The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has         ever been. – Alan Ashly-Pitt

· Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. – Sam Levenson

· A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Robert Darwin

· You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. – Paul Sweeney

· If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly. – Guy Finley

· Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. – Charlie McCarthy

· Julian Haase is more than anyone ever gave him credit for. – Jonathan Hamilton

· Make a difference: Subtract an idiot. – Jonathan Hamilton

· Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. – Maya Angelou

· Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live,           unquestioning, in the moment. – Christopher Darlington Morley

· Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. – Emily Dickinson

· Don't quote others all your years, make your own. – Charles Cagle

· When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."
  – Father Andrew SDC

· Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – Buddha

· If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog
  to be tethered on a 1-foot chain. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

· No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. – Scott Adams

· The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. – Ralph W. Sockman

· I before E, except after C, but weird is spelled weird. – Betsy Dorsett

· Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,                           Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown

· Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart. – Anthony J. D'Angelo

· Our friends see the best in us, and by that very fact call forth the best from us. – Hugh Black

· Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God. – Robert W. Pierce

· A friend will strengthen you with her prayers, bless you with her love, and encourage you with her heart. – Anon.

· Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring
  cannot congeal in winter. –James Fenimore Cooper

· If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart. – Anon.

· If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. – Anon.

· It is when we forget ourselves that we do things that will be remembered. – Anon.

· We love without reason, and without reason we hate. – Jean-Francois Regnard

· Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. – Ed Cunningham

· Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. – Anon.

· I look at my myself; and see a stone,
  I look at my friends and see gold,
  But I look at you, and see a gem. – Anon.

· What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

· Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
  Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
  Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus

· A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself. – Anon.

· Take time to laugh, it's the music of the soul. – Anon.

· Hide not your talents, they for use were made, what's a sundial in the shade? – Benjamin Franklin

· In dreams and love there are no impossibilities. – Janos Akany

· Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter,
  and think that even such a result is no trifle. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

· He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. – Sir Francis Bacon

· If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. – Coleman Hawking

· They never fail who die in a great cause. – Lord Byron

· Where as gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest unto those that receive it in their hand.
  – Simondes of Ceos

· I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns

· Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. – Cyril Connolley

· Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
  – General Charles De Gaulle

· A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. – Epictetus

· If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. – Herman Hesse

· I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. – Dr. Samuel Johnson

· There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university...a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who               perceive truth may strive to make others see. – John Masefield

· Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans...aim high in hope and work. – Daniel Hudson Burnham

· If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
  – Edward Morgan Forster

· Hope, like the gleaming taper's light
  Adorns and cheers our way;
  And still, as darker grows the night,
  Emits a brighter ray. – Oliver Goldsmith

· Hope is the poor man's bread. – George Herbert

· The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. – Edward Kennedy

· You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mohandas Gandhi

· Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. – Martin Luther

· My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. – Ovid

· One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. – Antonio Porchia

· It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. – Roger Ward Babson

· A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. – Aesop

· Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. – Alphonse Karr

· Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. – Conte Vittorio Alfieri

· The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
  the master calls a butterfly. – Richard David Bach

· Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

· Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel

· What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

· I stumbled when I saw. – Shakespeare

· Nothing will come of nothing. – Shakespeare

· Oh, that way madness lies. – Shakespeare

· The prince of darkness is a gentleman. – Shakespeare

· I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course. – Shakespeare

· I have journey, sir, shortly to go;
  My master calls me, I must not say no. – Shakespeare

· Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he. – Emerson

· When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. – Erasmus

· Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. – Edward Albee

· Confidence is: Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, and taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring
  with mustard on his sword. – Zig Ziglar

· A thought that sometimes makes me hazy,
  Am I, or the others, crazy? – Einstein

· He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom. – J.R.R Tolkien

· Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. – J.R.R Tolkien

· Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. – J.R.R Tolkien

· Thou fool, no living man may hinder me! – J.R.R Tolkien

· We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it. – Donald Curtis

· Worries go better with soup than without. – Yiddish Proverb

· I would rather make my name than inherit it. – William Thackeray

· Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe;
  dreaming more than others think is practical; and expecting more than others think is possible. – Anon.

· He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. – J.R.R Tolkien

· The wise speak only of what they know. – J.R.R Tolkien

· I only share my women with other women! – Denny Brewer

· The things you own end up owning you. – Tyler Durden

· I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people
  and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created. – Larry McFarland (Stephen King)

· All great empires of the future will be empires of the mind. – Winston Churchill

· Nothing in the world is as certain as death. – Jean Froissart

· Risk everything, or gain nothing. – Geoffrey De Charney

· The glory of the past is an illusion.
  So is the glory of the present. – Edward Johnston

· If the wind no longer calls to you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name. – Caamasi proverb

· There is no death, only the Force. – Jedi creed

· For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands. – C.S. Lewis

· Consciousness is that annoying thing between naps. – ???

· No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. – Henry Brooks Adams

· When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go. – Carol Burnett

· Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. – H. Jackson Browne

· Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. – Maya Angelou

· Life is not measured by the moments of breath you take but by the breath taking moments. – Anon.

· Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

· Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be. – Ted Rall

· The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

· Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward;
for there you have been, there you long to return. – Leonardo da Vinci

· Those truly linked don't need correspondence, when they meet again after many years apart,
their friendship is as true as ever. – Deng Ming-Dao

· Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. – Robert Brault

· The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. – Arnold H. Glasow

· She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. – Olga Brouman

· I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. – Douglas Noel Adams

· Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential. – Black Elk

· No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. – Charles Dickens

· What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us.
The greatest university of all is the collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

· The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible,
and achieve it, generation after generation. – Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

· Let me warn you, you who are thirsty for knowledge, against the thicket of opinions and the conflict of words. Opinions mean nothing, they can be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. – Buddha

· The Master of the art of living
draws no sharp distinction
between his labor and his leisure,
his mind and his body,
his work and his play,
his education and his recreation.
He hardly knows which is which.
He simply pursues his
vision of excellence,
through whatever he is doing,
and leaves others to determine whether
he is working or playing,
to himself, he is always doing both. – Anon.

· I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I
had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed
insufficient for the day. – William Adams

· When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not
wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future
before the time is ripe. Patience is needed. – I Ching

· True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind;
the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. – Akhenaton

· Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. – Charles Anderson Dana

· You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world
or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. – Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

· People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. -- Saint Augustine

· Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly,
as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy,
to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. – Annie Besant

· Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day,
for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. – Susanna Moodie

· Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. – Dahli Lahma

· I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. – Dudley Field Malone

· The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. – Ellen Parr

· Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you.
Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in. – Wanda Carter

· There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry.
Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is Yesterday…And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow. – Robert Jones Burdette

· Doubt sees the obstacles, Faith sees the way.
Doubt sees the darkest night. Faith sees the day.
Doubt dreads to take a step. Faith soars on high.
Doubt questions,"Who believes?" Faith answers,"I." – Anon.

· The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. – Æschylus

· When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises. – Franklin P. Adams

· You're a slave to the system, working jobs that you hate, for that shit you don't need. – Papa Roach

· Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Denis Waitley

· Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be;
your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. – Denis Waitley

· I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

· Alea iacta sit!
Let the die be cast! – Julius Caesar

· Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

· Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth. – Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

· He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

· Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp,
but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

· Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places,
don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. – Alan Alda

· Behold, the fool saith, 'Put not all thine eggs in the one basket', which is but a manner of saying,
'Scatter your money and your attention', but the wise man saith, 'Put all your eggs in the one basket and watch that basket'. – Mark Twain

· I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than
we have gone ourselves. – E. M. Forster

· I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do. – Helen Keller

· Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't really learned anything. – Muhammad Ali

· Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. – Josephus Daniels

· It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Conan Doyle

· He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. – Michel de Montaigne

· It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! – Emiliano Zapata

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

· Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. – Sydney J. Harris

· We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. – Joseph Roux

· The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
– Eugene Kennedy

· A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. – Elbert Hubbard

· When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us. – Helen Keller

· The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. – Flora Whittemore

· Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. – Anon.

· If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. – Chinese Proverb

· It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. – William Blake

· Humor is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. – Romain Cary

· An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

· Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. – Sophocles

· It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle

· That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. – Emily Dickinson

· Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson

· We mortals are but shadows and dust--shadows and dust, Maximus! – Proximo

· If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. – Albert Einstein

· You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being molded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society. – Doris Lessing

· Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. – Joseph Addison

· Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. – Æschylus

· What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. – Alain

· Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly; the chances are, it's holding you too. – Bob Alberti

· For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief. – Fernandez de Andrada

· Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
– Bruce Barton

· Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. – Ludwig van Beethoven

· False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
– John Christian Bovee

· I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar. – Robert Brault

· Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first,
and end by eating all. – Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

· I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means. – Clarence Seward Darrow

· These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. – Vernon Cooper

· Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. – Dr. Joyce (Diane Bauer) Brothers

· To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. – Kahlil Gibran

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

· Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things.
You can never do more, you should never wish to do less. – Robert Edward Lee

· Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever. – Gail (Kathleen) Godwin

· I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense,
and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes. – Federico Fellni

· To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic. – Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

· Wait for that wisest of counselors, Time. – Pericles

· Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. – Athenæus

· Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe.
She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

· There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. – Mary Wilson Little

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

· We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. – Rudyard Kipling

· Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. – H. Jackson Brown

· The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryant

· The way everyone should really want to be remembered is that whatever they did, they did it as best they possibly could. – Walter Payton

· If you planted hope today in any hopeless heart,
If someone's burden was lighter because you did your part,
If you caused a laugh that chased some tears away,
If tonight your name is named when someone kneels to pray,
Then your day has been well spent. – Anon.

· Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. – Plato

· Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. – Isaac Friedmann

· Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. – Charles Chaplin

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

· We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey,
or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. – Marcus Aelius Aurelius

· Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. – Derek Bethune

· Keep your mind open, like the expansive valley.
And your heart clear, like the spring water. – Anon.

· I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there
is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. – Helen Adams Keller

· No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is
unhappy. – Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

· I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark
in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream. – John A. Appleman

· It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases
the judgment. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

· Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. – Æschylus

· Remember that the truth doens't always live in the number of voices – Robert Penn Warren

· This--this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain,
the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape. – Roger Bannister

· Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not
make any progress. – Alfred A. Montapert

· So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it
remains. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

· If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. – Anne Dudley Bradstreet

· The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. – Robert Green Ingersoll

· A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. – Aesop

· Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. – Loren Corey Eiseley

· Friendship is like a sheltering tree. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

· Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition. – Hugh Prather

· Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge
and dares to forgive injury. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

· Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. – Aristotle

· We can endure neither our vices nor their cure. – Livy

· To journey into space is to return to the place where it all started. – Andrew Chaikin

· Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the
world. – John Evelyn

· To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day,
to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human
being can fight; and never stop fighting. – Edward Estlin Cummings

· Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a
computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation. – Sid Taylor

· I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to
keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. – Jerome Klapka Jerome

· Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open. – John Barrymore

· Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its
opponents. – Sir William Penn

· It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly,
Can never know what true friendship means. – Charles Kingsley

· Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is
there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? – Jane Austen

· Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. – Bhagavad Gita

· It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. – Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

· All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. – John Ronald Reuel Tolkein

· In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. – Janos Arnay

· We need not think alike to love alike. – Francis David

· Genius is perseverence in disguise. – Mike Newlin

· Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the
right way they may not be possessed. – Confucius

· It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to
find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it – A. A. Hodge

· When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not
wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future
before the time is ripe. Patience is needed. – I Ching

· The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat,
something to drink and somebody to love you. – Brandan Francis Behan

· Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of
water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. – Buddha

· Heal another's heart and in the process you will heal your own. – Dan Kelly

· A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. – Jassamyn West

· What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. – Alain

· Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Louis Hector Berlioz

· Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind,
slowly shaking its head. – Niels Henrik David Bohr

· A friend in power is a friend lost. – Henry Brooks Adams

· It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. – Aesop

· The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. – Carl Sagan

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

· Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

· The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of
one's self to others. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

· It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for
him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its
citizens. – Baha'u'llah

· If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

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

· Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of
trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success
achieved. – Helen Keller

· Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that
cannot fly. – Langston Hughes

· We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we
might have the power to save ourselves. – Michael Crichton

· I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember
or courage to forget. – Charles Hamilton Aide

· Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination. – Melissa Mayer

· Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. – Rabbi Abraham Heschel

· Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. – Thomas a Kempis

· Things do not change, we change. – Henry David Thoreau

· Do I contradict myself? Very well; I contradict myself. – Walt Whitman

· A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

· A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure. – Ecclesiasticus 6:14

· I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends, they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights. – Oscar Levant

· Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff. – May Sarton

· Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man. – Friedrich Nietzsche

· Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. – Joan Vinge

· It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. – William Blake

· If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. – Anonymous

· Friends applaud, the comedy is over. – Last words of Ludwig von Beethoven (the comedy wasn't his life, he was reffering to the ministrations of a priest, who his family insisted on letting in to perform the last rites for Beethoven, who was an atheist.

· We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. – Luciano de Crescenzo

· I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. – James Arthur Baldwin

· We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. – Sir Francis Bacon

· In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. – Orson Scott Card

· You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. – Frank H. Crane

· A stiff apology is a second insult...The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged;
he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

· The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. – Albert Einstein

· There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

· What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pike

· The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. – John Maynard Keynes

· I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns

· No path of flowers leads to glory. – Jean de La Fontaine

· It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. – Charles Baudelaire

· What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – Sir John Lubbock

· The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. – Henrik Ibsen

· You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought. – Lauren Bacall

· Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. – Alexander Smith

Many thanks to Chris and Amen for their constant input. The rest of you should do the same, after all, I can only do so much.

This collection of quotes is constantly being revised and edited as my opinions change. If you have any suggestions or corrections please email me.

 
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