1997 Quotes of the Week
December 28, 1997
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett
December 21, 1997
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. - Cindy Lew
December 14, 1997
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. - Anatole France
December 7, 1997
Modern paintings are like women; you will never enjoy them if you try to understand them. - Anonymous (Contributed by Shital Shah)
November 30, 1997
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard P. Feynman
November 23, 1997
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Anonymous (Contributed by Shital Shah)
November 16, 1997
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. - Napoleon Bonaparte
November 9, 1997
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. - Abraham Lincoln
November 2, 1997
The Haves and the Have nots can often be traced back to the Dids and the Did nots. - Anonymous (Contributed by Avinash Chandra Kavi)
October 26, 1997
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. - Josh Billings
October 19, 1997
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. - Napolean Hill
October 12, 1997
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. - Elbert Hubbard
October 5, 1997
Where there is a will, there is a way. - Annonymous (Contributed by Sanjiv Desai)
September 28, 1997
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. - Henry Ward Beecher
September 21, 1997
To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! - Alfred A. Montapert
September 14, 1997
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli
September 7, 1997
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
August 31, 1997
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. - Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
August 24, 1997
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. - Booker T. Washington
August 17, 1997
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. - Henry Miller
August 10, 1997
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. - Eric Hoffer
August 3, 1997
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
July 27, 1997
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. - Marilyn Vos Savant
July 20, 1997
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. - Washington Irving
July 13, 1997
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. - Roy Croft
July 6, 1997
Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is progress; Working together is success. - Henry Ford
June 29, 1997
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke
June 22, 1997
There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. - Charles P. Steinmetz
June 15, 1997
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.- Voltaire
June 8, 1997
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - G. B. Shaw
June 1, 1997
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. - Greg Allen
May 25, 1997
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. - Lloyd Jones
May 18, 1997
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. - Thomas Edison
May 11, 1997
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Friedrich Nietzsche
May 4, 1997
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. - Anonymous
April 27, 1997
You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. - Richard Bach
April 20, 1997
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. - Anonymous
April 13, 1997
I dreamt a thousand new paths...
I woke and walked my old one. - Chinese Proverb
April 6, 1997
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. - Cicero
March 30, 1997
Progress is impossible without voicing up and those who dare not speak their minds cannot change anything! - Anonymous
March 23, 1997
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages:
First, people say it conflicts with the Bible.
Next they say it had been discovered before.
Lastly, they say they always believed it. - Jean Louis Agassiz
March 16, 1997
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. - Fontenelle
March 9, 1997
The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power. - Hugh White
March 2, 1997
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. - Desraeli
February 23, 1997
The measure of a man's character is what he would do, if he knew he would never be found out. - Macaulay
February 16, 1997
We humans are a curious sort - Little girls like dolls and little boys like soldiers. When we grow up, women like soldiers and men like dolls. - Anonymous
February 9, 1997
Men always want to be a woman's first love; Women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde
February 2, 1997
Sit on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. But sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
January 26, 1997
Failure isn't the opposite of success. A runner may come in last but if he beats his own record, he succeeds. - Anonymous
January 19, 1997
Always aim for the moon and give your best shot. Even if you fall short, you will still be among the stars. - Anonymous
January 12, 1997
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Szent GyOrgy
January 5, 1997
Real success is finding your lifework in the work you love. - David McCullough
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