... Sagacious Sayings 3 ...

Make your own acquaintance, the first job is to get some clarity of understanding about yourself, what you are, and where you are going. -Harry D. Gideonse (former President of Brooklyn College, 1940's & 1950's)
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. -Bertrand Russell
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. -Blaise Pascal
Men who never get carried away should be. -Malcolm Forbes
Money is human happiness in the abstract: so he who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money. -Arthur Schopenhauer
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes -they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. -Agatha Christie
My favorite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. -Groucho Marx
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power. -Abraham Lincoln
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. – Robert A. Heinlein
Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you. -Joey Adams
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full. -Henry Kissinger
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. -Henry Kissinger
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. -John Donne
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. -Barbara De Angelis
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. -Edmund Burke
None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us. -Thurgood Marshall
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. -Henry David Thoreau
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these ... it might have been. -John Greenleaf Whittier
Of the many difficulties in writing about the treatment of Jews by Christians, not least is the problem of believability. That some things could have occurred seems scarcely credible. Yet they did. . . . we have seen the collusion of Christianity with pogrom and Holocaust. . . . What is the goodness of this world . . . when millions are killed by those baptized in the name of the Redeemer? . . . The immensity of human suffering and death inflicted on Jews for 1,500 years by some who called themselves Christian, and the apparent worthlessness to Christians of the lives of those who did not convert to Christianity, fundamentally question Christian claims about the value of human life. . . . Christians have lost forever the credibility of their claim to a superior religion and a superior ethic. -Theologian Clark Williamson
On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty to G-d and my country and to obey the Scout Law. To help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight. -Boy Scout Oath
Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child. -Lao-tzu, philosopher
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. -Agatha Christie
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -Elbert Hubbard
One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson
One thing is an object, two things are a pair, three make a collection, and 100 things become art. -Robert Rindler, dean of School of Art at Cooper Union
Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -Somerset Maugham
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. -Stephen King
Only sick music makes money today. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (that was in the 19th century; can you imagine what he'd say today?)
Only the foolish and the dead never change their opinions. -James Russell Lowell
Only the shallow know themselves. -Oscar Wilde<
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -Oscar Wilde
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. -William Shakespeare
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. -Guy de Maupassant
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they make them. -George Bernard Shaw
People have a strange idea about what legalizing means. It is as if anything that is legal should be approved of. It is perfectly legal for a seventy-year-old millionaire to marry a poor girl one-day over the age of consent, but it is not socially acceptable or right. It is not illegal to seduce a married person, wreck their marriage and then walk away laughing. It is not illegal to spend money on things you do not want just to show other people that you can. There is a big distinction between morality and legality. A government does not have to make everything it is uneasy about or opposed to strictly illegal. -Martin Willett
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. -Otto von Bismarck
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. -William Butler Yeats
Pete Seeger has been singing out like this since the Great Depression. The earnest troubadour who either co-wrote or popularized canonical songs like "If I Had a Hammer" and "John Henry" has become something like America's folkie emeritus. -Michael Hill
Pray, v. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), [The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]
Punctuality is the politeness of kings. -King Louis XVIII of France
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. -Sir James Jeans
Recipe For Success ... Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing. -William A. Ward
Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide. For all its peace-inviting potential, therefore, arrant (not to mention arrogant) religiosity has led to immense individual and social harm by fomenting an incredible amount of anti-human and anti-humane aggression. -Psychologist Albert Ellis
Remember what the fellow said: In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. And in Switzerland they had brotherly love and 500 years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. – Harry Lime (Orson Welles) in “The Third Man”
Romance ... If papas were at all romantic before marriage, they quickly shed the foolishness as soon after as possible. My father never took my mother out before they were married, and afterwards only if they were headed for the maternity hospital, which in Mama's case was often enough to give her rosy cheeks. -Sam Levinson (who was my Spanish teacher in Samuel J Tilden High School, Brooklyn, NY)
Saying 'I can't do it' never yet accomplished anything; saying 'I will try' has performed wonders. -George P. Burnham
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. -Gladys Browyn Stern
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. -Robert A. Heinlein
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. -Colette
Someday I would like to stand on the moon, look down through a quarter of a million miles of space and say, 'There certainly is a beautiful earth out tonight." -Lt. Colonel William H. Rankin
Something must die in order to grow -your old habits, your old self image, your old thinking, your old life ... must be weeded out for the seeds of success to grow.
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. -Sam Levenson (one of my Spanish teachers in Samuel J. Tilden High School)
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -St. Francis of Assisi
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret (by stealth) is pleasant. -King Solomon (Shlomo haMelech)
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. -Sir Winston Churchill
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, and snow is exhilarating. There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -John Ruskin (I'm not sure Ruskin knew the Talmud but the Talmud teaches us that whenever something we perceive to be bad happens to us we should say right away, "This, too, is for the good"; there must be some good in it, even if we can't see it right now).
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves -Abraham Lincoln
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary. -Henry David Thoreau
Teach him to think for himself? Oh no, teach him rather to think like other people. –Mary Shelly, author of Frankenstein.
Tell me I forget, teach me I remember, involve me I learn. -Ben Franklin
That wretched alchemist called money can turn a man's heart into a stone! -Mehmet Murat Ildan
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. -Alexander Haig (oh those politicians)
The alternative to uncertainty is authority, against which science has fought for centuries. -James Gleick
The American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself. –Richard Gilman
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. -Albert Ellis
The bigger the lie, the more they believe it. -Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's Propaganda Minister).
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. -Iris Murdoch
The chick that’s in him [Ahab] pecks the shell. – Stubb to Flask in Melville’s Moby Dick
The court (and, I think, the country) loses when important precedent is overruled without good reason, and there is no justification for departure from our usual rule of stare decisis here. -Justice David H. Souter ("stare decisis" is the legal principle of following precedents in deciding a case, the idea that future decisions of a court should follow the example set by the prior decisions)
The discipline of desire is the background of character. -John Locke
The first man gets the oyster; the second man gets the shell. -Andrew Carnegie
The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see. -Huang Po
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -- in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -- known to medical science is work. -Thomas Szasz
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. -Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. -Arthur C Clarke
The harder the conflict, the more glorious is the triumph. When we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. -Thomas Paine
The heart has reasons that the mind cannot understand (The heart has reasons that reason knows nothing of). -Blaise Pascal
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. -Joanna Macy
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. -Peter. B. Medawar
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. --Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. -Victor Frankl
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. -Malcolm De Chazal
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. -Wilhelm Stekel
The meaning of life ... it is "but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." -Macbeth in Shakespeare’s play of the same name
The mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains, the superior teacher demonstrates, the great teacher inspires. -William A. Ward
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. -Carl Jung
The most important pedagogic dharma that should guide the teacher in such a situation is that he should not hastily jump to the conclusion that his learners are unfit, dull, stupid, lacking in motivation, can never be made to learn and so on. -Dr. Aruna Chalam Angappan
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. -Stephen Jay Gould
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. -Hannah Arendt
The normal expectation is that a person will start out as quite radical and left wing in their student days and with age and growing commitments they gradually move to the center ground and finally become a reactionary, totally conservative in every sense. I am happy to say I don't fit the pattern. -Martin Willett
The number of miracle cures attributed to trips to Lourdes is statistically less than would be expected by random chance, or to put it facetiously, a higher proportion receive miracle cures after visits to Las Vegas or Disneyland. -Martin Willett (all because, Bernadette Sourbirous, a French peasant girl, in 1858, said the Virgin Mary appeared to her at Lourdes. Humans are capable of the greatest foolishness.)
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. -Oscar Wilde
The oldest, shortest words --"yes' and "no" --are those which require the most thought. -Pythagoras
The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled by someone else -at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a chair and let your mind daydream. -Paul MacCready
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing; to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. -John Keats
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. -George Bernard Shaw
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -Winston Churchill
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -William Arthur Ward
The place where optimism flourishes is the lunatic asylum. -Havelock Ellis
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. -Arthur Koestler
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money. -John Henry Jowett
The reason houses have four walls is to keep all information inside (in other words, don’t discuss family affairs with strangers). – Vartan Gregorian’s grandmother
The saddest part of being a parent is when you look into your child's eyes, and you realize that the bright, beautiful gleam of innocence has been replaced by a shimmering light that will travel on a roller coaster of hope, confusion, love or despair. -Oscar Wilde
The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread. – Rumi
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. -Aldous Huxley
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. -Aristotle Onassis
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. -Marcus Tullius Cicero
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. -Richard Bach
The smaller the mind, the greater is the conceit. -Aesop
The sweetest of all sounds is praise. -Xenophon
The taxpayer: someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. -Ronald Reagan
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. -John F. Kennedy
The tree of learning bears the noblest fruits. -Attorney Rabinowitz (on the Archie Bunker show)
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time. -Franklin P. Adams
The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is....Nothing should be able to harm a man but himself....What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance. (in other words, It is much more important to BE than to HAVE.) -Oscar Wilde
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. -Marcus Aurelius
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
The unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates (I take exception with that; many people carefully examining their lives would want to commit suicide. The most difficult thing to accept is the truth.)
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrates as equally useful. -Edward Gibbon
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to himself: You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. -George Carlin
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -Bertrand Russell
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. -Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are those of us who are always 'about' to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down - until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living. -George Sheehan
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. -Christopher Morley
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. -Albert Schweitzer
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. -Nikolai Berdyaev
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. -Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher
There is no terror in the bang; it's in the anticipation of the bang. -Alfred Hitchkock
There is one God that is Lord over the Earth, and one Captain that is lord over the Pequod. -Ahab to Starbuck (Chap. 109). Starbuck answers, “Let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man.”
There isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training. Through training we can change; we can transform ourselves. -Dalai Lama
There's an empty spot I've always had inside me -I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends. I think this chair is the answer. -Homer Simpson
There's only one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him. If he says “Yes” you know he's a crook". -Groucho Marx
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. -Robert Orben
There's something about constantly stretching yourself to what you believe your limit may be, and then discovering that it's possible to repeatedly break through those limits and achieve things just for the sake of it. -Joe Robson
These are the times that try men's souls...Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered: yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. -Thomas Paine
This boy is ignorance and this girl is want. But most of all, beware this boy. -Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. -Abraham Lincoln
Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. -Henry Ford
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. -Faith Baldwin
To avoid criticism; keep your head down, risk nothing, and take up the fetal position. To achieve success; seek new knowledge, try the untryable, peek over the parapet, and expect to be shot at. Then learn, and grow, from the experience. -Joe Robson, Internet Marketer
To hell with the truth. As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober. -Larry Slade to Rocky in Act I of 's play, The Iceman Cometh" -by Eugene O'Neill
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -Ogden Nash
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. -Khalil Gibran
Too many men drift lazily into any job, suited or unsuited for them; and when they don't get along well they blame everybody and everything but themselves. Grouches are nearly always pinheads, small men who have never made any effort to improve their mental capacity. -Thomas Edison
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. -Will Rogers
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, explore, dream, discover. -Mark Twain
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde
We are not retreating -we are advancing in the other direction. -General Douglas MacArthur
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. -William Somerset Maugham
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it? -Katherine Hepburn
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. -C. G. Jung
We cannot make our days longer, nor can we add additional hours to our nights. But we can maximize our usage of time by regarding each segment of time as a world of its own. When we devote a portion of time --whether it is an hour, a day or a minute --to a certain task, we should be totally invested in what we are doing, as if there exists nothing else in the world. -Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn said to his son-in-law, the late Lubavitcher Rebbe.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. -Mark Twain
We have nothing, and we are nobodies. -Asiya Khatun, March 2000, living beside the train tracks for 20 years, making her home in a filthy lean-to barely a yard square, in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. -Epictetus
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. -Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson, 1776)
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. -Thomas Jefferson
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -Joseph Campbell
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. -Edward R. Murrow
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. -Aesop
What a piece of work is a man. How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. – Hamlet
What luck for rulers that men do not think. -Adolf Hitler
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. -Alice Walker
When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger. -Confucius
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence. -Elie Wiesel
When I stand before G-d at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." -Erma Bombeck
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. -Abraham Joshua Heschel, theology professor (1907-1972)
When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. -Robert T. Pirsig, author and philosopher
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. -Abraham Maslow
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. -William Wrigley
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. --Barbara J. Winter
Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. -Ludwig Feuerbach
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T. S. Eliot
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -Henry Ford
Whoever fights with monsters should look to it to see that he himself does not become a monster. -I think Fredrick Nietzche
Whoever imagines himself a favorite with G-d holds others in contempt. -Robert Green Ingersoll
Why is God making me suffer so much, just because I don't believe in him? – Sidney Morgenbesser (asked in the final weeks of his life as he struggled with complications from Lou Gehrig’s desease)
With love one can live even without happiness. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -Charles Schultz
Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. -Elwood P. Dowd (in the play and movie "Harvey" by Mary Chase
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
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and of people some of time, but you can't fool all of the people all of time. -Abraham Lincoln (said on May 29, 1849)
You can't always get what you want. – Mick Jagger
You don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything and you don't have to do anything. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and … blow. -Lauren Bacall in "To Have and Have Not"
You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley -Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in "On the Waterfront" (spoken to his brother, Charlie in the famous car scene)
You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. -Khalil Gibran
You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?' -George Bernard Shaw
You talking to me? You talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. -a memorable quote from Robert DeNiro playing Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" a bleak look at the decaying and corrupt society of the 70's (alas, in my city) and about his loneliness and the gradual and eventual take-over of insanity.
You win or loose by how you choose -Judge Judy Sheindlin.

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