Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

--Shakespeare

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

--Albert Einstein

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children

of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is

no safer in the long run than exposure.

--Helen Keller

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from

a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a

stranger. --Franklin P. Jones

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold

the world together. --Woodrow Wilson

Should you really open your eyes and see, you would

behold your image in all images.And

should you open your ears and listen, you would hear

your own voice in all voices. --Gibran

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes

into us at midnight very clean.It's perfect

when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It

hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

--John Wayne

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be

true either is true or becomes true. --John   Lilly

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings

of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline

luggage. --Mark Russell

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around...Well,

all right, I might not've been around, but

I've been...nearby. --Mary Richards, 'The Mary Tyler

Moore Show'

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each

other. Perhaps they should live next

door and just visit now and then.-- Katharine

Hepburn

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom

through failure. --William Saroyan

While one person hesitates because he feels

inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and

becoming superior. --Henry C. Link

Education is the ability to listen to almost

anything without losing your temper or your

self-confidence. --Robert Frost

What a caterpillar calls the end of the world, we

call a butterfly -- Bach

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split

second when it can be recalled and perhaps

remedied. --Pearl S. Buck

The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's

Lane holding his own hand. --Fred Allen

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people

say you cannot do. --Walter Bagehot

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

--Euripides, 438 B.C.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking.

He called me a quitter. --Steven Pearl

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I

could hear heavy breathing again. --Erma

Bombeck

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man

ceases to live unreflectively and begins to

devote himself to his life with reverence in order to

raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to

deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to

live. --Albert Schweitzer

A coward dies a hundred deaths, a brave man only

once...But then, once is enough, isn't it?

--Judge Harry Stone

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from

18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35

to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on

she needs cash. --Sophie Tucker

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He

taught that the brain exists merely to cool the

blood and is not involved in the process of thinking.

This is true only of certain persons. --Will   Cuppy

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my

bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

--Joan Rivers

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given

birth. --Erma Bombeck

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,

close-knit family in another city. --George Burns

Your vision will become clear only when you can look

into your own heart. Who looks outside,

dreams; who looks inside, awakes. --Carl Jung

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but

most pick themselves up and hurry off as if

nothing happened. --Sir Winston Churchill

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can

also bring peace to others. --Thomas a   Kempis, 1420

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for

ourselves after a journey that no one can

take for us or spare us. --Marcel Proust

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to

employ all the heart and the soul and the

senses forever in joy! --Robert Browning, 1855

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the

glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the

appalling things that other people think about us.

--Quentin Crisp

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the

illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in

the slight details we are able to perceive with our

frail and feeble mind. --Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is

that it is comprehensible. --Albert Einstein

When choosing between two evils, I always like to

try the one I've never tried before. --Mae   West

Any sufficiently advanced technology is

indistinguishable from magic. --Arthur C. Clarke

What a wonderful day we've had. You have learned

something, and I have learned something.

Too bad we didn't learn it sooner. We could have gone

to the movies instead. --Balki

Bartokomous, 'Perfect Strangers'

I have found the best way to give advice to your

children is to find out what they want and then

advise them to do it. --Harry S. Truman

Exit according to rule, first leg and then head.

Remove high heels and synthetic stockings before

evacuation: Open the door, take out the recovery line

and throw it away. --Rumanian National

Airlines Emergency Instructions

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to

win. --Jonathan Kozol

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is

indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small

jumps. --David Lloyd George