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- Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.
- The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
- Words are plentiful, but deeds are precious.
- Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.
- We are never prepared for what we expect.
- More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows (--- Spanish Proverb).
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Will the 2000 model Volkswagen new Beetle be known as the Y2K Bug?
- Please all and you please none (--- Aesop).
- Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same (--- Fransesca Reigler).
- There is a time to speak and a time to keep quiet. There are things to tell and things not to tell. But it is an excellent rule to practise frankness in all dealings and associations with others, whether in business or socially.
The frank person treads a firm bridge crossing a river, while the secretive person charily steps from stone to stone.
- Eternity: The first 60 seconds of a blind date.
- Scientist have isolated the gene that makes scientists want to isolate genes.
- History is a vast early warning system.
- They differ in order to become similar.
- Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet planes.
- I'm not cheap; but I'm on special this week.
- I intend to live forever - So far so good.
- I love defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy.
- Mental backup in progress - Do not disturb.
- When everything is coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane.
- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
- What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
- 24 hours in a day... 24 beers in a crate... Coincidence?
- Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
- Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have the film.
- Who is general failure and why is (s)he reading stuff on my website.
- Energiser Bunny arrested. Charged with battery.
- SHIN. A device for finding furniture in the dark.
- Cancer cures smoking.
- Join the army, meet interesting people, kill them.
- Laughing stock: Cattle with a sense of humour.
- For sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.
- Music alone with sudden charms can bind the wandering sense, and calm the troubled mind (--- William Congreve).
- Resources are scarce, and those who own or control them must have the right to exclude others from their use, or to decide how they are to be utilised.
- e.t.c - End of Thinking Capacity.
- Don't steal, the government hates competition.
- Fear is the shadow of endeavour.
- Fear is the greatest enemy of endeavour.
- Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door where in I went (--- Omar Khayyam).
- Laughing is not and should not be used as a sign of knowledge. Even an infant can laugh and I wonder what it is that an infant knows.
- If you are born once, you will die twice,
If you are born twice, you will die once.
- Discretion causes destabilisation and worsens instability.
- We don't win battles by retreating.
- All machinery is on an irresistible march to the junk heap and its progress, while it may be delayed, cannot be prevented by repair.
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Difficulty is no excuse for not trying.
- Staying on one path will eventually lead to a dead end.
- It is not good enough to succeed, others have to fail.
- A dark side of distinguishing oneself is the risk of isolation and alienation.
- If you are not breaking new ground, gaining new knowledge, you risk being trapped in your success.
- Do not walk in front of me,
I may not follow.
Do not walk behind me,
I may not lead.
Walk beside me
And just be my friend.
- If you love something,
Set it free.
If it comes back to you,
It's yours.
If it doesn't,
It never was!
- In times of trouble confidence is like an unfaithful man; it runs away.
- The mind is the greatest sexual organ.
- In Germany, everything is forbidden unless it is explicitly allowed by the law.
In England, everything is allowed except what is forbidden by the law.
In China everything is forbidden, even though it is allowed by the law.
In Italy, everything is allowed especially if it is forbidden.
- Sound really does travel slower than light. The advice parents give to their 8-year-olds doesn't reach them until they're about 40.
- When fate closes a door go in through a window.
- Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
- The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
- Genius is an infinite capacity in taking short cuts.
- I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
- We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.
- Do not judge by appearances, but judge by right judgement.
- If you don't where you're going, any road will get you there.
- The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
- Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.
- Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle aged men.
- Instead of causing a scene when your upset, just say "Have a nice day, it was great seeing you".
- There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
- True Science teaches, above all, to doubt, and to be ignorant.
- Your actions are shouting so loudly, that I can't hear what you say!
- The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- A good man is one who doesn't fall asleep but one who stays awake just to watch you sleep.
- If laughing makes you live longer, you would make me live forever.
- A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.
- There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
- Look not for beauty or whiteness of skin, but look for the heart that is loyal within. Beauty may fade and skin may grow old, but the heart that is loyal will never grown cold.
- The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
- The best cure for depression is thinking about someone other than yourself.
- A coward is one who, in an emergency, thinks with his legs.
- Due to intense mind fog, all thoughts have been grounded.
- Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
- In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
- We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers (--- Martin Luther King Jr).
- A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
- After all is said and done, there is more said than done.
- The reason there are so many fools in the world, is because anyone can be one.
- When life knocks you to your knees; well, that's the best position in which to pray, isn't it?
- We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view (--- Mao Tse-tung).
- If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
- One man with courage makes a majority.
- If the enemy is in range, so are you.
- Those who gossip a great deal, have much on their minds, but absolutely nothing in them.
- Eat shit. Billions of flies can't be wrong.
- Every now and then you have to sit yourself down take stock of your life and say "What the hell".