Quotes and Quips

The following is compilation of various quotes and quips I have collected over the past few years. Some are here just to put a little smile on your face while others serve as a means of realization, both in around you and in yourself. Enjoy!

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! -- Anne Frank

"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others ... they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." -- Robert F. Kennedy

Mohandas Gandhi said this about light: "While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there underlying that change is a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists; in the midst of untruth, truth persists; in the midst of darkness, light persists."

A popular opinion has it that "if you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame."

Fear isn't fear it's just F.E.A.R -> False Evidence Appearing Real

"The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too." -- Herbert Samuels

"The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do." --John Holt

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. --Malcolm X

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible." --Saint Francis of Assisi

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps." --Henry Ford

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." -- Vincent van Gogh

"Not all those who wander are lost." --J. R. R. Tolkien

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."--Niels Bohr

"'But' is a fence over which few leap." --German proverb

"The shortest answer is doing." --English proverb

"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life." --Michael Leboeuf

"There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back." --Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

"You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself." --Pearl Bailey

"Fortune favors the brave." --Proverb

"It is never too late to give up your prejudices." --Henry David Thoreau

"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." -- Frank M. Hubbard

"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice." - -Norman Augustine

" . . . this thing we call 'failure' is not falling down, but the staying down." --Mary Pickford

"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do--do it and let it speak for itself." --Martin Vanbee

"Action is the foundational key to all success." --Tony Robbins

"Leadership is action, not position." --Donald H. McGannon

"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." --Eric Hoffer

"The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss." --Diane Ravitch

"If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don't wobble." -- Anon.

"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present." --Anon.

"Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow." --Horace

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." --Jean-Paul Sartre

"Some things...arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever." --Gail Godwin

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." --Mark Twain

"The delights of self-discovery are always available." --Gail Sheehy

"Know thyself." --Delphic Oracle, cited by Plutarch

"Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life." --Julia T. Alvarez

"Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen." --Marge Piercy

"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom." --Scottish proverb

"I don't want to be a passenger in my own life." --Diane Ackerman

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." --William Blake

" . . . no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." --Friedrich Nietzsche

"What a man can imagine he may one day achieve." --Nancy Hale

"It is never right to compromise with dishonesty." --Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

"The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones."--Solomon Ibn Gabirol

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning."--John Henry Cardinal Newman

"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun."--Christina Rossetti

"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind."--Bulgarian proverb

"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault."--Thomas Fuller

"I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influences the quality of my days."--Kathleen Andrus

"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."-- Mario Cuomo

"Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit."--German proverb

"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."--Dolly Parton

"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."--Maxwell Maltz

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."--Dr. Joyce Brothers

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."--Anon.

"Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do."--Quintus Ennius

"The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself."--Charles W. Eliot

"Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door-neighbors."--Julius Hare

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong."-- Charlotte Bronte

"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."--Erica Jong

"Everybody knows that if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."--Gertrude Stein

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."-- Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull

"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."--Ethel Watts Mumford

"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either."--Leo Burnett

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."--Stewart B. Johnson

"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle."--Dorothy Thompson

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."--Mark Twain

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist."--Gail Sheehy

Take criticism in your stride -- otherwise you'll trip and fall flat on your face.

"To escape criticism -- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."--Elbert Hubbard

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."--Winston Churchill

"Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down."--Olive Schreiner

"Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy."--Henry Link

"No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."--Ellen Glasgow

"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act."--Abraham Maslow

"Today is the blocks with which we build."--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow."-- Laura Palmer

"Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it."--Edna St. Vincent Millay

"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."--Woodrow Wilson

"Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances."--Napoleon Bonaparte

"We will either find a way, or make one."--Hannibal

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."--Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."--Doris Lessing

"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."--Warren Bennis

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."--Anna Freud

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

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."-- Mark Twain

"Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."--Michelangelo

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."--Amy Tan

"And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope."--Job, 11:18

"No hope, no action."--Peter Levi

"Is adult entertainment killing our children or is killing our children entertaining our adults?" -- Will Rogers

"Virginity is like a balloon. One prick and it's gone!"

"Men are like roses you gotta watch out for the pricks."

"Happiness is like peeing your pants everyone can see it but only you can feel its warmth."

"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space!"

"Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones who do."

The phrase 'Easier said than done' comes to mind. -- "Nothing is impossible for those who don't have to do it!"

"It's true, hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

"The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese." - M J Scruggs

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up."- Mohammad Ali

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."- General Omar Bradley

"It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone- but it takes a lifetime to forget someone."

"Those who judge don't matter and those who matter don't judge."

" Paranoia--- you only have to be right once to make it all worthwhile."

"Just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you!"

-An ugly girl once said... "Always be nice to the ugly girls... They either grow up and become beautiful or they have beautiful friends."

"Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks; and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks." - Phillip Brooks

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."- Daniel J. Boorstin

"Families are like fudge...mostly sweet with a few nuts!"

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.-- Mayra Mannes

Generalizations are generally wrong.-- Mary Wortley Montagu

To a man with an empty stomach, food is God.-- Ghandi

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.-- Jonathan Swift

In love, a man is victorious only when he runs away.-- Napoleon

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.-- Eleanor Roosevelt

The real danger is not that machines will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like machines.-- Sydney J. Harris

Most people would rather die than think: many do.-- Bertrand Russell

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knocking it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.-- Rosie Perez

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.-- Mark Twain

You are all you will ever have for certain.-- June Havoc

Poverty is no shame, but being ashamed of it is.-- Franklin

"Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses."-- Samuel Johnson

"Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen." --James Russel Lowell

"Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day-to-day obstacles of life: facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and, in the process, discovering our own unique potential." --John Amatt

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind: the thief doth fear each bush an officer." -- William Shakespeare

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."--Stephen Covey

"Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life." --Tove Ditlevsen

"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence." --George Eliot

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." --Charles Lamb

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" --Stephen Levine

"Do not trust your memory, it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it." --Georges Duhamel

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find ways in which you yourself have altered." --Nelson Mandela

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." --Winston Churchill

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration." - -Thomas Edison

"Men are born with two eyes but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." - -Charles Caleb Colton

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - -James Baldwin

"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." --Charles du Bois

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." --Plato

"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead." --Frank Gelett Burgess

"Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows." - -Sir William Osler

"Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery." --Matthew Arnold

"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain." --Aeschylus

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." --Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." --Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy." --Persian Proverb

"Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control." --Cyril Connolly

"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?" --Marcel Marceau

"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." --Joseph Addison

"Should you yield the canyons from the windstorms, you would not see the beauty of their carvings." --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are." --Gail Godwin

"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities." -- Voltaire

"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." --Leo Buscaglia

"The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust." --Persian Proverb

"Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar." --Benjamin Franklin

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." --Horace

"The world is a sad, sad place I know; And what soul living can doubt it. But it will not lessen the want and woe, To be always singing about it." -Elle Wheeler Wilcox

"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity." --Baltasar Gracian

"On with the dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine." --Mark Twain

"Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice." --Lyman Abbott

"As with narrow-necked bottles: the less in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out." --Jonathan Swift

"Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong." --Lord Mansfield

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." --Jean de La Bruyere

" 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view." --Thomas Campbell

"Funeral: A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker." --Ambrose Bierce

"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service." --Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life." --Richard Paul Evans

"The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered." --Samuel Butler

"Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying." --Merry Browne

"Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them, and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it." --Marcel Proust

"The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing." --John Adams, 1765

"The arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die free rather than live slaves." --Thomas Jefferson, 1775

"I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest." --William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, 1766

"Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the colour of their skin." --Wendell Willkie

"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty; that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good, and that all questions are open." --Clive Bell

"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom." --Robert Frost

"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it! If you do not, I shall repent it in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it!" --John Adams, 1777

"The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car -- it can't steer." --Joyce Cary

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us." --Dag Hammarskjold

"But pleasures are like poppies spread -- You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river -- A moment white, then melts for ever." -Robert Burns

"But what if I should discover that the enemy himself is within me, that I myself am the enemy that must be loved -- what then?" --C. G. Jung

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." -Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

"Love always brings confrontation because it demands change, and people are afraid to change. That's a paradox." --Johann Christoph Arnold, Author of "Seeking Peace"

"Adversity will melt like a giant icicle, though your hardships be that time in between deep Winter and long awaited Spring." --Richard S. Drapo

"Some things never change," Mama whispered to me that day. "There will always be grief and laughter, fear and courage. It's up to us to decide on which of these things we will focus." --Nancy B. Gibbs

"It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured." --Tacitus

"Courtship is when a young man gets tripped by a girl who's putting her best foot forward." -�- Franklin P. Jones

"When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows." --- Frederick Ryder

Some girls are unmarried for the same reason some drivers run out of gas. They pass too many filling stations looking for their favorite brand. -- Anonymous

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -- Victor Borge

"Humor is just another defense against the universe." -- Mel Brooks

"Flattery is the art of telling a person exactly what s/he thinks of himself." -- Anonymous

"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate." �- Doug Engelbart

"A friend is someone who sees right through you, yet still enjoys the show." -- Farmer's Almanac

"Some of the narrowest minds are found in the fattest heads." -- Anonymous

"Everybody loves an accent. If you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent." -- Marilyn vos Savant

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." -- Benjamin Franklin

"One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk about other people." -- Anonymous

"Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. �- Russell Baker

"This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant." -- George F. Will

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity." -- Anonymous

"I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners." -- Jeff Stilson

"Procrastination means never having to say you're sorry." -- Anonymous

"Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry." -- Anonymous

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." -- Mark Twain

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -- Mark Twain

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- Cartoon in The New Yorker

"An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer." -- Evelle J. Younger

"Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better attorney." -- Anonymous

"A miser isn't much fun to live with, but he makes a wonderful ancestor. " -- Anonymous

Police Quotes: - "Life's tough, it's tougher if you're stupid." - "No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to have quotas, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we want." - "Just how big were those two beers?" - "In G-d we trust, all others are suspects."

"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing." -- Dave Barry

"You can't have everything... where would you put it?" -- Stephen Wright

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier...I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. -- Anonymous

"Even when all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken." -- Bertrand Russell

"The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right." -- Jill Ruckelshaus

"An unbreakable toy can be useful for breaking other toys." -- Anonymous

"As easy as 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841." -- Anonymous

When things go wrong they like to blame the President, and that's one of the things that Presidents are paid for.-- John F. Kennedy

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.-- V. S. Naipaul

Every man's memory is his private literature.-- Aldous Huxley

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.-- Chesterton

If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is pleased.-- Katharine Hepburn

It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor.-- Eric Hoffer

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.-- Walt Whitman

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.-- Elie Wiesel

Let us not be too particular: it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. -- Mark Twain

To think and to be fully alive are the same thing.-- Hannah Arendt

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.-- Voltaire

Nobody has a better vision of who you are than yourself.-- Sheryl Crow

A never failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.-- Kin Hubbard

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.-- Henry Ford

To achieve, you need thought ... that's real power.-- Ayn Rand

You must remember this,
A kiss is still a kiss,
A sigh is just a sigh;
The fundamental things apply,
As time goes by.

-- Herman Hupfeld

Humility is a good quality, but it can be overdone.-- Conrad Black

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.-- Woodrow Wilson

Fashion can be bought, style one must possess.-- Edna Woolman Chase

The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there.-- Steven Wright

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action.-- Georges Clemenceau

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.-- Stephen Leacock

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.-- John D. Rockefeller

Never complain and never explain.-- Benjamin Disraeli

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.-- Nikita Khrushchev

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.-- Bob Brown

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.-- Ellen Key

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.-- Earl Wilson

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.-- Sam Rayburn

Don't go on looking at me like that, because you'll wear your eyes out.-- Emile Zola

The trouble with some women is they get all excited over nothing - and then they marry him!-- Cher

No good deed ever goes unpunished.-- Thomas Brooks

If I am not myself, who will I be?-- Pirke Avot

What's done cannot be undone.-- Shakespeare (Macbeth)

A jury consists of twelve people chosen to decide who has a better lawyer.-- Robert Frost

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.-- Dick Cheney

Don't fight forces; use them.-- Buckminster Fuller

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.-- Reggie Leach

When you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't in us doesn't disturb us.-- Hermann Hesse

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.-- Ben Sweet

Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.-- Knute Rockne

Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others are ready to save us the trouble?-- George W. Pachaud

We must be true to each other. --Lucy Stone

It's no longer a question of staying healthy--it's a question of finding a sickness you like.-- Jackie Mason

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. -- Stanislaw Lec

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.--Mike Murdock

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.-- Margaret Chase Smith

I don't care too much for money, for money can't buy me love.--John Lennon and Paul McCartney

The cobra will bite you whether you call it cobra or Mr. Cobra.--Indian Proverb

The most important thing about goals is having one. --Geoffrey Albert

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. --Anais Nin

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery -- Dorothy Parker

Nothing can be so perfect when we possess it as it will seem when remembered. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. --Elizabeth Bowen

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. --Publilius Syrus

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life. --Janet Erskine Stuart

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. --Northcote Parkinson

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.--Robert Louis Stevenson

Miracles happen only to those who believe in them. --French Proverb

Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases. --John W. Raper

The minute a man is convinced that he's interesting, he isn't. --Stephen Leacock

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

I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle but today it means getting along with people. -- Indira Ghandi

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.-- Anne Bradstreet

The moment you stop learning, you stop leading.-- Rick Warren

To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.-- Vauvenarges

Problems are the price you pay for progress.-- Branch Rickey

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.-- Don Herold

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.-- Italian Proverb

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.-- Jonathan Winters

Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side.-- The Talmud

What can be done at any time is never done at all.-- English Proverb

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do.-- Olin Miller

A great man is always willing to be little.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words are seductive and dangerous material to be used with caution.-- Barbara Tuchman

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.-- Larry Bird

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.-- Ivy Baker Priest

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.-- William Hale White

You manage things; you lead people.-- Grace Murray Hopper

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.-- Joe E. Lewis

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.-- Anne O'Hare McCormick

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.-- Channing Pollock

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.-- Henry J. Kaiser

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.-- Louis Armstrong

We are only rich through what we give.-- Anne-Sophie Swetchine

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.-- Andrew Carnegie

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.-- Bob Hope

Do not feel entitled to anything you do not sweat or struggle for.-- Marian Wright Edelman

What was once thought can never be unthought.-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." --Moliere

"Little drops of water, little grains of sand Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land." --Julia Carney

"If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?" --Robert Townsend

"Regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades, and there had better be a lot of money to take its place."

History is the science of what never happens twice. -- Paul Valery

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. -- L. P. Hartley

Longevity conquers scandal every time. -- Shelby Foote

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. ---Albert Schweitzer

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. -- Agatha Christie

"Reality is an illusion created by alcoholic deficiency." -- Anonymous

"When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood." --Sam Ewing

"One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends." --Oscar Wilde

"Love is a thirst that one cannot quench without becoming intoxicated." --Sydney Tremayne

"Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others -- his last breath." -- Mark Twain

"The greatest shackles we bear in this life are those forged by our own fears." --Richard Paul Evans

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." -- Doris Mortman

"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years." --Simone Signoret

"Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best." --R. Turnbull

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." --Aldous Huxley

"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head." --Mark Twain

"Little things console us, because little things afflict us." --Blaise Pascal

"When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death -- ourselves." --Eda LeShan

"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship." -- General Omar N. Bradley

"The dead take to the grave, clutched in their hands, only what they have given away."-- DeWitt Wallace

"Year; A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments." --Ambrose Bierce

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The seed of knowledge withers in the harsh wasteland of ignorance, yet grows strong in the fertile fields of imagination."--- Nantala A. Lavarenlavadora

"USA Today has come out with a new survey- apparently, three out of every four people make up 75 percent of the population."-- Dave Letterman

" I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. "--Bob Newhart

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.---Violeta Parra

"If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?"---Art Hoppe

"It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired."---Robert Heinlein

"Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp."--- Bob Ettinger

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.---Francis Bacon

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.---Joseph Joubert

"I ain't ever had a job. I just always played baseball."---Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.---Thucydides

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.--- Noah

I need a prison in order to dream of being free.---John Popper

"Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp."--- Bob Ettinger

"I ain't ever had a job. I just always played baseball."---Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.--- Rollo May

"There are two ways of losing oneself; by insulation in the particular or by dilution in the 'universal'."--Aime Cesaire

"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page. And be alone on earth, as I am now." -Lord Byron

"Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story; rather it is the story that owns us and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbours." --Chinua Achebe

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" --Emiliano Zapata

"I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky." -Oscar Wilde

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate; he attacks when it is abundant. ---Sun Tzu

"Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution?" -- Groucho Marx

"Ah, yes, divorce..., from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet." -- Robin Williams

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house." -- Rod Stewart

"We don't really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and ask quickly if anybody's there." --Martin Amis

"I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth." --Luis Bunuel

"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself." --Kahlil Gibran

"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes -- only sooner." --Tallulah Bankhead

"Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured, From evils which never arrived!" -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured." --D. H. Lawrence

"You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you a new way." --Will Rogers

"To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation." --Albert Camus

"A precedent embalms a principle." --Benjamin Disraeli

"It is amazing what you can accomplish when you set out to do nothing." ---Robert Schaeffer

"If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?" ---Art Hoppe

Always remember this....... A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth your while. --- Donna Harris

"Religion is the best armour in the world, but the worst cloak." --- Thomas Fuller

"To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish."--- Euripides

"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"--- Ralph Emerson

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."-- E. M. Forster

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.--- Katharine Mansfield

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers"---Pablo Picasso

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."---- Tim McGraw

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."-- Robert Frost

"What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking a the television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that."--- Victor Kiam

"Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly."---U. Peter

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests."--- John Stuart Mill

"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."-- H. T. Leslie

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.--Arthur Calwell

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.--Robert Townsend

When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president.--Dick Houser

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.--- Simone De Beauvoir

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.--Naguib Mahfouz

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.--Galileo Galilei

"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."---Tao Te Ching

Using drugs isn't cheating. It's stealing victory from someone who deserves it.-- Ian Thorpe, swimmer

"Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins." --Franz Kafka

"One owes respect to the living; but to the dead one owes nothing but the truth." -- Voltaire

"We shall never be rough and heartless when it is not necessary, that is clear. We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude towards animals, will also assume a decent attitude towards these human animals."--Heinrich Himmler

"Bankers sometimes look on politicians as people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel."--John Quinton

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

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis."--Margaret Bonanno

"It's easy to make a man confess the lies he tells to himself; it's far harder to make him confess the truth."--Geoffrey Household

"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself the best I can. But lacking this, in the future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind and see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."--Ray Bradbury

"People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices."--Terry Anderson (after being released as a hostage in 1992)

"Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust and ambition look ahead."--C. S. Lewis

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you."-- Henry Fielding

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."--Benjamin Franklin

Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.-- Lao Tzu

"If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books."-- Stephen Leacock

"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness."-Gilda Radner

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."-Douglas Adams

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life."-Greg Anderson

"Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child... if you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent."--Bette Davis

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."--C. Northcote Parkinson

"The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready made opinions into his head."--Sir Leslie Stephen

"We can do nothing well without joy, and a good conscience which is the ground of joy."- -Sibbes

"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer a need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life."--Geoffrey F. Abert

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."--George Bernard Shaw

"Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk."--Jack Gibb

"It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do, that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant."--Henry Ward Beecher

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country." --Anais Nin

"Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales."--Bryon J. Langenfeld

"If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead."--Wynn Bullock

"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business."---D. W. Brogan, The American Character

Success is counted sweetest ~ By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar ~ Requires sorest need.--- Emily Dickinson

The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win.--- J.M. Charlier

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restrainst it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.----Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.--- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right.---Byrd Baggett

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.---Stephen Vincent Ben�t

"Never curse the darkness, only be inspired by it."---MeLany Jean Berg

"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."- -William M. Thackeray

"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."---Joseph Campbell

"One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict -- girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe."--Percival

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"To know that one has never really tried -- that is the only death."--Marie Dressler

"How can you be free from fears? Fear no one, but love every man that you see. We are living in fear because our mind holds negative thoughts about people. Are you afraid of your loved ones?"--Ty Luu

"Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation."--Gail Sheehy

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."--Abraham Lincoln

"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve."--President George W. Bush

"How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people."--Pope John Paul II

"It is a wise father who knows his child. But maybe it's a very wise child who takes the times to know his father."----Anonymous

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.---Alfred Jarry

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.----Albert Einstein

'A brave man likes the feel of nature on his face", "Yeah and a wise man has enough sense to get in out of the rain" --- Wang Chi and Egg Shen

"This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink, don't you say?"---Lee Remick

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.'---Martin Luther King, Jr

"Today equals the sum of yesterdays dreams and tomorrows memories."---William Shubin

"A man walks through life painting a portrait, not of what he would have done, could have done, or should have done, but of what he did."---unknown

"I don't think there ever was a lazy man in this world. Every man has some sort of gift, and he prizes that gift beyond all others. He may be a professional billiard-player, or a Paderewski, or a poet - I don't care what it is. But whatever it is, he takes a native delight in exploiting that gift, and you will find it is difficult to beguile him away from it. Well, there are thousands of other interests occupying other men, but those interests don't appeal to the special tastes of the billiard champion or Paderewski. They are set down, therefore, as too lazy to do that or do this - to do, in short what they have no taste or inclination to do. In that sense, then I am phenomenally lazy. But when it comes to writing a book - I am not lazy. My family find it difficult to dig me out of my chair."--- Mark Twain

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."--- Albert Camus

"There was a man from Sung who pulled at his rice plants because he was worried about their failure to grow."---Confucius

"Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success."--Diana Rankin

"Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier."--Charles Kettering

"Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind- power, and the other water-power; that is all."--Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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 how to fly."--Barbara J. Winter

Advertising is legalized lying. -- H.G. Wells

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. -- Henry Ford

Veni, Vedi, Veci => I came, I saw, I conquered

Alea Iacta Est => The die is cast

Pro Patria => For one's country

Carpe Diem => Seize the day

Excelsior => Ever upward

Vincit Veritas => Truth wins out

Tempus Fugit => Time flies

Cognito Ergo Sum => I think, therefore I am

Amor Vincit Omni => Love conquers all

Sic Semper Tyrannis => Thus ever to tyrants

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi => So passes away the glory of the world

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