confess you were wrong yesterday,it will show you are wise today-unknown
to none will we sell,to none deny or delay,right or justice-Magna Carta
recompense injury with justice,and recompense kindness with kindness-Confucious
hail the small sweet courtesies of life,for smooth do they make the road of it-Lawrence Sterne
train up a child in the way he should go,and walk there yourself once in a while-Josh Billings
12 things to remember,the value of time,the success of perserverance,the pleasure of working,the dignity of simplicity,the worth of character,the power of kindness,the influence of example,the obligation of duty,the wisdom of economy,the virtue of patience,the improvement of talent,the joy of originating-Marshall Field
service is the rent we pay for our room on earth-unknown
blessed is the generation in which the old listen to the young,and doubly blessed is the generation in which the young listen to the old-The Talmud
books are the ever burning lamps of cumulated wisdom-GeorgeWilliam Curtis
we often boast that we are never bored,but yet we are so concieted that we do not percieve how often we bore others-Duc De La Rochefoucauld
he who will not reason is a bigot,he who cannot is a fool,and he who dares not is a slave-Lord Byron
sin has many tools,but a lie is the handle which fits them all-Oliver Wendell Holmes
oh,what a tangled web we weave,when first we practice to decieve!-sir Walter Scott
Drink injures a man externally,internally and eternally-unknown
good words cost no more than bad-unknown
good temper oils the wheels of life-unknown
how many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made-Holmes
love can niether be bought nor sold,its only price is love-unknown
the most difficult of all instuments to play is the second fiddle-unknown
one of these days is none of these days-unknown
a man who does nothing never has time to do anything-unknown
whoso neglects learning in his youth,loses the past and is dead for the future-Euripides
a fool says "i can't" a wise man says"i'll try"-unknown
meddle with dirt and some of it will stick to you-unknown
Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -Jules Combarie
No one travels so high as he who knows not where he is going. -Oliver Cromwell
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. -Charles Dickens
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -Thomas Edison
The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them. -Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity 2. From discord, find harmony 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity ,(Three rules of work) -Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -Albert Einstein
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right. -Henry Ford
The more you think, the more time you have. -Henry Ford
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. Julius Sextus Frontinus Source: Highly regarded engineer in Rome, 1st century A.D. >
Persistance is the hard work that you do after you are tired of doing the hard work you already did -Newt Gingrich
What you can do,or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Goethe
To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to grow intellectually -J. P. Guilford
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end -Ursula K. Le Guin
"Silence is Foo." -Woody Woodpecker
"Random quotes can be most effecatious." -Anon
"To thine own self be true." -William Shakespaere
"...we are free at last!" -Martin Luther King
"The truth shall set you free.."
"I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere." -Anon
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." -George Bernard Shaw
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." -Frank Zappa
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world." -Frank Zappa
"A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure." -Theodore Adorno
"To ask the hard question is simple. -W. H. Auden
"I'm not young enough to know everything." -J. M. Barrie
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." -Bash
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it." -Anon
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." -William Blake
"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My business is to create." -William Blake
"Life is:'trying things to see if they work'" -Ray Bradbury
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. -Frank Capra
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. -James Carswell
One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. -G. K. Chesterton
When the way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through. -I Ching
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time steady eye. -Winston Churchill
You lose it if you talk about it. -Ernest Hemingway
One cannot step twice into the same river. -Heraclitus
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. -Dean William R. Inge
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. -William James
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. -William James
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. -Steve Jobs
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. -Nikos Kazantzakis
The map is not the territory -Alfred Korzbyski
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. -Dr. Edwin Land
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. -Paul McCartney
The obvious is always least understood -Prince Metternich
To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid -Yaqui Mystic
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. -Isaac Newton
The only joy in the world is to begin. -Cesare Pavese
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -Pablo Picasso
I do not seek. I find. -Pablo Picasso
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. -Chinese Proverb
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. -Ned Rorem
Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind. -Zen saying
