If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams/ he will meet with a success. - Henry D. Thoreau
It is possible to give without loving/ but it is impossible to love without giving. - Richard Braunstein
I never resist temptation because I have found that the things that are bad for me do not tempt me. - George Berhard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. - George Bernard Shaw
There is only one religion/ though there are a hundred versions of it. - George Bernard Shaw
I am a millionaire. That's my religion. - George Bernard Shaw
I am a collector of religions and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all. - George Bernard Shaw
What really flatters a person is that you think him worth flattering. - George Bernard Shaw
He who curbs his wrath merits forgiveness for his sins. - Hebrew proverb
They that worship merely from fear would worship the devil/ too/ if he were to appear.
The happiest person is one who learns from Nature the lesson of worship. - Emerson
One world at a time/ one world at a time. - Henry Thoreau
Good for the body is work of the body/ good for the soul the work of the soul/ and good for either the work of the other. - Henry Thoreau
Poor eyes limit your sight; poor vision limits your deeds. - Franklin Field
Only one who can see the invisible can do the impossible. - Frank Gaines
Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for/ for unless we stand for something/ we shall fall for anything. - Peter Marshall
I do not pray for a lighter load/ but for a stronger back. - Phillips Brooks
The trouble is that too often charity not only begins but ends at home.
Charity sees the need/ not the cause. - German proverb
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds ceases to be charity and is only pride and ostentation. - William Hutton
It is right to be contented with what we have/ but never with what we are. - Sir James Mackintosh
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good folks do nothing. - Edmund Burke
The happiest people are less forgetting and more forgiving.
It is easier for the generous to forgive than for the offender to ask forgiveness. - James Thomson
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. - Mark Twain
Good has but one enemy/ the evil; but the evil has two enemies/ the good and itself. - Johannes von Muller
God may forgive your sins/ but your nervous system won't. - Alfred Korzybski
The net of heaven has large meshes and yet nothing escapes it. - Lao Tze
All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas
The higher we are placed/ the more humbly we should walk. - Cicero
One hour of justice is worth a hundred of prayer. - Arab proverb
Justice is truth in action. - Joseph Joubert
He who lives well is the best preacher. - Cervantes
We should love those who point out our faults/ but we seldom do.
To love anyone is nothing else but to wish that person good. - St. Thomas Aquinas
Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished/ it becomes sturdy and enduring/ but neglected it will soon wither and die. - Hugh B. Brown
Whoever lives true life will love true love. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you would be loved/ love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. - Goethe
Love is not blind: it sees more/ nor less. But because it sees more/ it is willing to see less. - Rabbi Julius Gordon
By the accident of fortune a person may rule the world for a time/ but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever. - Lao Tze
What is easy to understand we despise; we need prodigies and miracles. - Synesius
To me/ every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. - Walt Whitman
Put not your trust in money/ but put your money in trust. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The lack of money is the root of all evil. - Mark Twain
Make all you can/ save all you can/ give all you can. - John Wesley
Pain is the outcome of sin. - Buddha
All people desire peace/ but very few desire those things that make for peace. - Thomas a Kempis
The wise person carries his possessions within him.- Bias of Priene
I believe that every right implies a responsibility/ every opportunity an obligation/ and every possession/ a duty. - John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Poverty is a blessing hated by all men. - Italian proverb
One who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays. - John Owen
Success is to be measured not by wealth/ power/ or fame/ but by the ratio between what a person is and what he might be. - H. G. Wells
The success of the wicked entices many more. - Phaedrus
The finest test of character is seen in the amount and power of gratitude that we have. - Milo Gates
Snow is water/ and ice is water/ and water is water. These three are one. - Joseph Dare
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. - George Eliot
It is more religious and more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them. - Tacitus
The wicked obey from fear; good from love. - Aristotle
A good tale/ ill told/ is marred in the telling. - John Heywood
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; if I cannot carry forests on my back/ neither can you crack a nut. - Emerson
Hidden talent counts for nothing. - Nero
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the most just thinkers.- William Hazlitt
There can be no disputing about tastes. - Jeremy Taylor
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. - Amiel
The greatest fool can ask more than the wisest of all can answer. - C. C. Colton
It is good to be without vices/ but it is not good to be without temptation. - Walter Bagehot
Many people have too much will power. It's won't power they lack. - John A. Shedd
Thieves are never rogues among themselves. - Cervantes
Our thought is the key which unlocks the doors of the world. There is something in us which corresponds to that which is around us/ beneath us/ and above us. - Samuel Crothers
The thoughts that come often unsought/ and as it were/ drop into the mind/ are commonly the most valuable of any we have. - Locke
Great thoughts/ like great deeds/ need no trumpet. - P. J. Bailey
Thought once awakened does not again slumber. - Carlyle
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply/ it is proof that it should be rejected. - Vauvenargues
He that will not command his thoughts will soon lose command of his actions. - Thomas WIlson
Thought is the soul of act. - Robert Browning
First thoughts are not always the best. - Alfieri
Second thoughts are oftentimes the very worst of all thoughts. - William Shenstone
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks but nobody says/ and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? - O. W. Holmes
Thought is often bolder than speech. - Benjamin Disraeli
If you put nothing into your purse/ you can take nothing out. - Thomas Fuller
Who will not lay up a penny will never have many. - Thomas Fuller
The tide turns at low water as well as at high. - Havelock Ellis
Time eateth away at many an old delusion. - Robert Bridges
Wherever anything lives/ there is open somewhere a register in which time is being inscribed. - Henry Bergson
Time's waters will not ebb nor stay. - John Keble
The wisest thing is time/ for it brings all things to light. - Thales
Time is the one loan which even the grateful recipient cannot repay. - Seneca
Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin
He that hath time and looketh for a better time/ loseth time. - George Herbert
Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its shortness. - La Bruyere
Boast not thyself of tomorrow/ for thou knowest not what one day may bring forth. - Book of Proverbs
Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing. - Ecclesiastes
Let us all be happy and live within our means/ even if we have to borrow the money to do it. - Artemus Ward
Skill to do comes of doing. - Emerson
An evil speaker differs from an evil doer only in opportunity. - Quintillian
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three afterward. - George Hebert
It is necessary to happiness that we be faithful to ourselves. - Thomas Paine
Common sense is the shortest line between two points. - Emerson
Moral qualities rule the world/ but at short distances/ the senses are despotic. - Emerson
It is the nature of a great mind to be calm and undisturbed. - Seneca
We all laugh at pursuing a shadow/ but the lives of the multitude are devoted to the chase. - William Wordsworth
Shame to those who think shame. - Sir James Harington
It makes a great difference whether a person is unwilling to sin or does not know how. - Seneca
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain
One may smile and smile and be a villain. - Shakespeare
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - J. R. Lowell
The greatest things gain by being said simply; they are spoiled by emphasis. But one must say little things nobly/ because they are propped by expression/ tone/ and manner. - La Bruyere
To speak much is one thing/ to speak well is another. - Sophocles
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon
It is the dull person who is always sure and the sure person who is always dull. - H. L. Menken
It is style alone by which posterity will judge a great work/ for an author can have nothing truly his own hut his style. - Isaac D'Israeli
A person's style is his mind's voice. - Emerson
Style is what gives value and currency to thought. - Amiel
There is only one success: to be able to spend your life your own way. - Christopher Morley
Success is full of promise until we get it; then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown. - Henry Ward Beecher
Success makes a fool seem wise. - H. G. Bohn
We never know/ believe me/ when we have succeeded best. - Unamuno
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well/ and doing well whatever you do/ without a thought of fame. - Longfellow
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. - Montesquieu
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as you're driving away from it. - Ronald Reagan
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. - Ronald Reagan
It's true that hard work never killed anybody/ but why take the chance?
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it. - Emerson
A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim. - Thomas Fuller
Some strand of our own misdoing is involved in every quarrel. - R. L. Stevenson
There is no such test of a person's superiority of character as in the conducting well of an unavoidable quarrel. - Sir Henry Taylor
It is not every question that deserves an answer. - Publilius Syrus
Courage to ask questions; courage to expose our ignorance. - Emerson
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. - Book of Isaiah
If you wish to subject all things to yourself/ subject yourself to reason. - Seneca
Good reasons must/ of force/ give place to better. - Shakespeare
Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform/ which dares not yet name itself/ advances. - Emerson
To make a crooked stick straight/ we bend it the contrary way. - Montaigne
All the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person. - Emerson
No one/ however great/ is known to everybody/ and no one/ however solitary/ is known to no one. - George Moore
The only way to compel others to speak good of us is to do it. - Voltaire
Take rest: a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. - Ovid
Whatsoever a man soeth/ that shall he also reap. - Galatians
Vengeance is not cured by another vengeance/ nor a wrong by another wrong. Each incraseth and aggreggeth the other. - Chaucer
One who studeith revenge keeps his own wounds green/ which otherwise would heal and do well. - Bacon
No one was ever as rich as all of us ought to be. - John Ray
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. - Book of Proverbs
The shortest way to riches is by contempt of riches. - Seneca
He that riseth first is first dressed. - George Herbert
A person is safe from danger who is on guard even when safe. - Publilius Syrus
A ship in harbor is safe/ but that is not what ships are built for. - John A. Shedd
The way of this world is to praise dead saints and to persecute living ones. - Nathaniel Howe
True science teaches/ above all/ to doubt and to be ignorant. - Miguel de Unamuno
It is easy to spread the sails to propitious winds. - Manilius
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin
The person who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. - Jean Paul Richter
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson
One is strong who conquers others; one who conquers himself is mighty. - Lao Tze
Weigh not thyself in the scales of thy own opinion/ but let the judgement of the judicious be the standard of thy merit. - Sir Tohomas Browne
What is not ours charms more than our own. - Ovid
Much will have more. - Emerson
All the possessions of mortals are mortal. - Metrodorus
You can never consider that as your own that which can be changed. - Publilius Syrus
To know how to do without is to possess. - Renard
No one can swim ashore and carry his baggage with him. - Seneca
Posterity gives to every one his proper prase. - Tacitus
When the pot boils over/ it cooleth itself. - Thomas Fuller
Poverty is not a shame/ but the being ashamed of it is. - Thomas Fuller
The most pleasing of all sounds is that of your own praise. - Xenophon
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. - Emerson
The highest price that we can pay for a thing is to ask for it. - John Ray
Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adversity. - Thomas Fuller
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some to be ridiculous/ but prevents others from becoming so. - C. C. Colton
Half the promises people say were never kept were never made. - E. W. Howe
The righteous promise little and perform much; the wicked promise much and perform little. - Babylonian Talmud
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. - Cervantes
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way. - Josh Billings
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing/ but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. - Robert Benchley
The ant is knowing and wise but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation. - Clarence Day
A wise person sees as much as he ought/ not as much as he can. - Montaigne
He does not own money whose money owns him. - St. Cyprian
Absence make the heart go wander. - Gerald Barzan
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents/ which in prosperous circumstances/ whould have lain dormant. - Horace
One can comfortably give advice from a safe port. - Schiller
Conceit is incompatible with understanding. - Tolstoy
Change is a measure of time/ and in the autumn/ time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change. - Edwin Way Teale
It's when you run away that you're most likely to stumble. - Casey Robinson
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time keep one foot on the ground. - Marcel Proust
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. - Confucious
The best way to lose weight is to develop a belief in some religion that doesn't allow any fun. - Gregory Nunn
The only thing we learn from a new election is that we learned nothing from the old. - Gerald Barzun
Epigrams succeed where epics fail. - Persian proverb
The fame of the great ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it. - La Rochefoucauld
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead/ either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin
Fashion wears out more apparel than we do. - Shakespeare
A fool must now and then be right/ by chance. - William Cowper
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool. - Moliere
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein
It is not what they profess/ but what they practice/ that makes them good. - Greek proverb
It is respectable to have no illusions/ and safe/ and profitable/ and dull. - Joseph Conrad
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
The secret of love is in opening up your heart. - James Taylor
Since we're only here for a while/ we might as well show some style. Give us a smile. - Jame Taylor
Try not to try to hard. It's just a lovely ride. - James Taylor
Time isn't really real. It's all in your point of view. How does it feel to you? - James Taylor
Knowledge is power/ if you know it about the right people. - Franklin K. Dane
In America/ we believe in life/ liberty/ and the pursuit. - Al Diamond
We are apt to mistake the strength of our feeling for the strength of our argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. - Gladstone
Be good and you will be lonely. - Mark Twain
The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. - Persian proverb
Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is the extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant
If we have our own "why" of life/ we can bear almost any "how". - Friedrich Nietzsche
A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. - Leo Baeck
It is a proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. - Seneca
Be moderate in everything/ including moderation. - Horace Porter
Moderation in temper is always a virtue/ but moderation in principle is always a vice. - Thomas Paine
Modesty died when false modesty was born. - Mark Twain
The meek may inherit the earth. The rest of us inherit the mortgage. - Noah Goldstein
Love your neighbor as yourself/ but don't take down the fence. - Sandburg
Do well and you will have no need of ancestors. - Voltaire
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. - La Rochefoucauld
The fiercest quarrels do not always argue the greatest offenses. - Terence
The meek may inherit the earth/ but the earth inherits all of us. - Gregory Nunn
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others/ not to reason at all; and others/ to persecute those who do reason. - Voltaire
One advantage of poverty is that your relatives gain nothing by your death. - Hebrew Proverb
Judge a person by the reputation of his enemies. - Arabian proverb
Ah/ if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches. - Emerson
What some invent the rest enlarge. - Swift
Steam is no stronger now that it was a hundred years ago/ but it is put to better use. - Emerson
Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself. - Greek proverb
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. - Sidney Smith
Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. - Gerald F. Lieberman
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. - Lauren Bacall
I have never been hurt by anything I did not say. - Calvin Coolidge
I avoid looking forward or backward and try not to keep looking upward. - Charlotte Bronte
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined! - Henry D. Thoreau
As you simplify your life/ the laws of the universe will be simpler/ solitude will not be solitude/ poverty will not be poverty/ nor weakness weakness. - Henry D. Thoreau
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility/ never an opportunity. - Kahil Gilbran
The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here. - Robert G. Ingersoll
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. - Mark Twain
Happiness is not a state to arrive at/ but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Runbeck
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman
Love is not a matter of counting the years; it is making the years count. - William Smith
Love is what you go through together. - Thornton Wilder
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody. - Malcolm Forbes
Love must be learned/ and learned again and again; there is no end to it. - Katharine Porter
Mediocre passions are eloquent. Only great ones are silent. - Christine de Suede
Love may not make the world go round/ but it sure makes the trip worthwhile. - Eric Johnson
When one has only fully entered the realm of love/ the world/ no matter how imperfect/ becomes rich and beautiful and consists solely of opportunity. - Soren Kierkegaard
Love is the greatest educational institution on earth. - Channing Pollock
Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. - Goethe
The story of love is not important; what is important is that one is capable of love. - Helen Hays
Love is perhaps the only glimpse that we are permitted of eternity. - Helen Hays
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution. - Kahil Gilbran
Your success and happiness lie in you. - Helen Keller
Treasure the simplest of things. The grand events will come and you will feel pride/ but when you need comfort and direction/ you will find it in the simple things. - Bernice Smith
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. - Henry Ward Beecher
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it. - Anita Roddick
Don't compromise yourself; you are all you've got. - Betty Ford
Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry. - Dorothy Dix
Be bold what you stand for and careful what you fall for. - Ruth Boorstin
What we anticipate seldom occurs; but what we least expect generally happens. - Benjamin Disraeli
Having it all doesn't necessarily mean having it all at once. - Stephanie Luethekehans
Never eat more than you can lift. - Miss Piggy
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their taste may not be the same. - George Bernard Shaw
All the things I really like to do are either immoral/ illegal or fattening. - Alexander Woollcott
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed/ but that he cannot believe anyone else. - George Bernard Shaw
Blessed is the person who expects nothing/ for he shall never be disappointed. - George Bernard Shaw
The reason which often prevents us abandoning a single vice is having so many. - La Rochefoucauld
Everybody sets out to do something/ and everybody does something/ but no one does what he sets out to do. - George Moore
People say you mustn't love your friend's wife/ but how are you to love your enemy's wife? - George Moore
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. - Elbert Hubbard
Eat/ drink/ and be merry/ for tomorrow ye diet. - William Gilmore Beymer
Love is an ocean of emotions/ entirely surrounded by expenses. - Lord Dewar
Words/ as is well known/ are the great foes of reality. - Joseph Conrad
Attitudes are more important than facts. - Karl Menninger
You'll never be licked as long as you know what it is you've lacked. - Robert Schuller
If you're too proud (or too afraid) to admit that you are hurting ... don't be surprised if nobody seems to care. - Robert Schuller
What happens to good people when bad things happen to them? They become ... better people. - Robert Schuller
I'd rather change my mind and succeed than have my own way and fail. - Robert Schuller
Never look at what you have lost. Look at what you have left. - Robert Schuller
The rose and the thorn/ and sorrow and gladness are linked together. - Saadi
Not failure/ but low aim/ is the crime. - Lowell
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - Shakespeare
I will study and get ready/ and perhaps my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln
Every noble work is at first impossible. - Carlyle
Trifles make perfection/ but perfection itself is no trifle. - Michael Angelo
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. - Sheridan
People are not to be judged by what they do not know/ but by what they know/ and by the manner in which they know it. - Vauvernargues
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary. - La Rochefoucauld
We live in deeds/ not years; in thoughts/ not breaths; in feelings/ not in figures on a dial. - Philip James Bailey
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand/ but in what direction we are moving. - Goethe
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune/ but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving
We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others. - La Rochefoucauld
Quiet minds can not be perplexed or frightened/ but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace/ like a clock during a thunderstorm. - Robert L. Stevenson
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp/ but which/ if you will sit down quietly/ may alight upon you. - Hawthorne
Success lies not in achieving what you aim at/ but in aiming at what you ought to achieve. - R. F. Horton
Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. - Charles Dickens
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes/ but in its fears. - A. C. Benson
We should never be ashamed to own that we have been wrong/ which is but saying in other words that we are wiser today than yesterday. - Alexander Pope
The great person is what he is because he was what he was.
We confess our little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones. - La Rochefoucauld
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - La Rochefoucauld
There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it ill becomes any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. - George Eliot
Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own. - Thoreau
Ignorance with love is better than wisdom without it.
There is nothing by which we display our character so much as in what we consider ridiculous. - Goethe
The ignorant marvel at the exceptional; the wise marvel at the common. - G.D. Boardman
It were happy if we studied Nature more and acted according to Nature/ whose rules are few/ plain/ and most reasonable. - William Penn
Nature is commanded by obeying her. - Bacon
Symphony with nature is part of the good person's religion. - F. H. Hedge
Nature and wisdom always say the same. - Juvenal
You may follow luck to ruin/ but not to success. - James Garfield
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times/ but to make them really ours we must think them over again honestly until they take firm root in our personal experience. - Goethe
The person who would lift others must be uplifted himself/and he who would command others must learn to obey. - Charles K. Ober
Our venom poisons ourselves more than our victims. - Charles Buxton
Troubles must come to all/ but troubles need not be wicked/ and it is wicked to be a destroyer of happiness. - Amelia E. Barr
We all get new chances until the end of life/ but not second chances in the same set of circumstances. - Thomas Hughes
Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole. - Marie Dressler
One who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. - George Hebert
If religion has done nothing for your temper/ it has done nothing for your soul. - Clayton
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone/ but it takes two to be glad. - Henrik Ibsen
Dissatisfaction with your condition is often due to the false idea we have of the happiness of others. - Churchman
I will not follow where the path may lead/ but I will go where there is no path/ and I will leave a trail. - Muriel Strode
You want to double your wealth without gambling. Share it. - J.C. Hare
If we would read the secret history of our enemies/ we would find in each one's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. - Longfellow
Never be afraid of giving up your best/ and God will give you better. - Hinton
People do not lack strength/ they lack will. - Victor Hugo
If it weren't for the optimist/ the pessimist would never know how happy he wasn't.
We can read poetry and recite poetry/ but to live poetry is the symphony of life. - S. Frances Foote
Joy is not in things/ it is in us. - Wagner
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. - Thoreau
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Thoreau
Poverty is no disgrace but it is confoundedly inconvenient. - Sydney Smith
When I want to speak let me think first: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If not/ let it be unsaid. - Babcock
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. - Voltaire
To have what we want is riches/ but to be able to do without is power. - George MacDonald
Today is yesterday's pupil. - Benjamin Franklin
If it don't go up/ don't buy it. - Will Rogers
Study the past if you would divine the future. - Confucius
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. - Emerson
The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion/ makes the thought start into action/ and at once plans and performs/ resolves and executes. - Hannah More
It's a great country but you can't live in it for nothing. - Will Rogers
Those who bestow too much application on trifling things become incapable of great ones. - La Rochefoucauld
Do not waste five dollar time on five cent job. - John T. Faris
Small twigs will prove thorny bushes if not timely stubbed up. - Swinnock
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces/ and most throw away. - Colton
A little and a little/ collected together/ become a great deal. The store in the barn consists of single grains. - Saadi
A stray hair/ by its continued irritation/ may give more annoyance than a sharp blow. - Lowell
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do. - Elbert Hubbard
As a cure for worrying/ work is better than whiskey. - Thomas A. Edison
I like work. It is fascinating. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Jerome K. Jerome
An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise. - Howell
General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge/ comprehending great store in a little room. - Locke
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains. - Arthur Brisbane
The greatest prayer is patience. - Buddha
The diminutive chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its sole end. - Benjamin Disraeli
Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak of yourself at all. - Pascal
Eloquence is the art of saying things in such a way that those to whom we speak may listen to them with pleasure. - Pascal
When we are too young our judgement is weak; when we are too old/ ditto. - Pascal
People never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Pascal
Happiness is neither within us only/ or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God. - Pascal
Riches ennoble a person's circumstances/ but not the person himself. - Kant
An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good/ regardless of consequences. - Kant
If a person is often the subject of conversation/ he soon becomes the subject of criticism. - Kant
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. - Kant
The busier we are/ the more acutely we feel that we live/ the more conscious we are of life. - Kant
One is not rich by what one owns/ but more by what one is able to do without/ with dignity. - Kant
Thinking is easy/ acting is difficult/ and putting one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. - Goethe
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. - Goethe
He is happiest/ be he king or peasant/ who finds peace in his home. - Goethe
The day is immeasurably long to one who knows not how to value and to use it. - Goethe
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. - Goethe
Genius develops in quiet places/ character out in the full current of human life. - Goethe
Architecture is frozen music. - Goethe
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high/ or to rate one's self too cheap. - Goethe
Ignorant people raise questions that wise people answered a thousand years ago. - Goethe
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do. - Goethe
Reading makes a full person/ conference a ready person/ and writing an exact person. - Francis Bacon
All knowledge is of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would rather not know it. - Samuel Johnson
Even when we are quite alone/ how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us ... - Charles Darwin
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. - Freud
Genius is the gold in the mine. Talent is the miner who works and brings it out. - Lady Blessington
It is much easier to train the mind than to form the character. - Mortimer Adler
Defining truth is easy; knowing whether a particular statement is true is much harder/ and pursuing the truth is most difficult of all. - Mortimer Adler
The more science we have/ the more we are in need of wisdom to prevent its misues. - Mortimer Adler
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. - Hippocrates
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age/ but to him who is on an opposite disposition/ youth and age are equally a burden. - Plato
The wise person will always want to be with one who is better. - Plato
If I were sure God would pardon me/ and others would not know my sin/ yet I should still be ashamed to sin/ because of its essential baseness. - Plato
However we may deceive ourselves/ the poor peasant is as dear to God as is the mighty prince. - Plato
He who intends to be a great person ought to love neither himself nor his own things/ but only what is just/ whether it happens to be done by himself or by another. - Plato
If a person be endowed with a generous mind/ this is the best kind of nobility. - Plato
Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge/ but clearer than ignorance. - Plato
If a rich person is proud of his wealth/ he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. - Socrates
The high minded person must care more for the truth than for what people think. - Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors/ but in the consciousness that we deserve them. - Aristotle
Some people are just as firmly convinced of what they think as others are of what they know. - Aristotle
I count braver one who overcomes desire than one who conquers enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. - Aristotle
All that one gains by a falsehood is to believed when he speaks the truth. - Aristotle
The ideal person bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace/ making the best of circumstances. - Aristotle
It is not death that a person should fear/ but he should fear never beginning to live. - Marcus Aurelius
The greatest wealth is to live content with little/ for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. - Lucretius
Beauty is a light that plays over the symmetry of things rather than the symmetry itself. - Plotinus
Wonder grows where knowledge fails. - Nicomachus
The wise learn many things from their foes. - Aristophanes
A ship ought not to be held by a single anchor/ nor life by a single hope. - Epictetus
As leaves on the trees/ such is our life. - Homer
We accomplish more by wisdom than by force. - Ptolemy
Intelligence and wisdom are more easily stamped our than revived. - Tacitus
There is nothing that the Divine Mind does not understand actually/ not the human mind potentially. - Aquinas
Patience is the companion of wisdom - St. Augustine
Every sin is more injury to him who does than to him who suffers it. - Saint Augustine
Go not abroad; retire into yourself/ for truth dwells inside. - Saint Augustine
There is nothing so laborious as not to labor. Blessed is the person who devotes life to great and noble ends. - Saint Augustine
He is not to be called a true lover of wisdom who loves it for the sake of gain. - Dante
There is no greater sorrow than to recall/ in misery/ the time when we were happy. - Dante
It is the wisest who grieve most at loss of time. - Dante
Concord is the harmonious movement of several wills. - Dante
Ambition is so powerful a passion that however high we reach/ we are never satisfied. - Machiavelli
It is not titles that honor people/ but people that honor titles. - Machiavelli
People are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. - Machiavelli
New benefits cannot obliterate old injuries. - Machiavelli
A wise person will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion/ however much he may be compelled by necessity. - Machiavelli
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility/ witty without affectation/ free without indecency/ learned without conceitedness/ novel without falsehood. - Shakespeare
Give every one your ear/ but few your voice; take each person's censure/ but reserve your judgement. - Shakespeare
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant person grows poor by seeming rich. - Shakespeare
One who loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer. - Shakespeare
I think that the king is a person as I am. The violet smells to him as it does to me. - Shakespeare
Fortune turns round like a mill wheel and the person who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom. - Cervantes
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and to cause things to appear other than what they are. - Cervantes
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a person. It was not reasoned into him/ and cannot be reasoned out. - Adam Smith
You cannot teach someone anything. You can only help him to find it for himself. - Galileo
The lack of wealth is easily repaired/ but the poverty of the soul is irreparable. - Montaigne
If one only wished to be happy/ this could easily be accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people/ and this is always difficult/ for we believe others to be happier than we are. - Montesquieu
In order to improve the mind/ we ought less to learn than to contemplate. - Descartes
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. - Descartes
If you would be a real seeker of truth/ it is necessary that at least once in your life/ you doubt as far as possible/ all things. - Descartes
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world/ for every person is convinced that he is well supplied with it. - Descartes
A free person thinks of death least of all things/ and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life. - Spinoza
One who thinks himself more blessed because he enjoys benefits which others do not is ignorant of true blessedness. - Spinoza
To be what we are/ and to become what we are capable of becoming/ is the only end in life. - Spinoza
Fame has this great drawback/ that if we pursue it/ we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of others. - Spinoza
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful every living agent. - Isaac Newton
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries/ it has been owing more to patient attention than to to any other talent. - Newton
If I have done the public any service/ it is due to patient thought. - Sir Isaac Newton
A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone. - Jonathan Swift
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. - David Hume
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. - David Faraday
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm/ you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vince Lombardi
When one door of happiness closes/ another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller
Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. - Henry Kissinger
By necessity/ by proclivity/ and by delight/ we all quote. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. - Henry D. Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify. Simplify. - Henry D. Thoreau
Through our own recovered innocence/ we discern the innocence of our neighbors. - Henry D. Thoreau
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. - Henry D. Thoreau
I never knu a man trubbled with melankolly/ who had plenty to dew/ and did it. - Henry Wheeler Shaw
It is but little good you'll do watering last year's crops. - George Eliot
Rather than loving truth/ people try to make true that which they love. - Robert Ringer
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing/ the last of human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given circumstances/ to choose one's own way. - Victor Frankl
When you're ready for a thing/ it will make its appearance. - Napoleon Hill
Happiness cannot be pursued. The more we aim at happiness/ the more we miss our aim. - Victor Frankl
What man needs is not a tensionless state/ but rather the striving and struggling of some goal worthy of him. - Victor Frankl
The truth is that the moment never quite arrives. - Robert Ringer
Yesterday is a cancelled check/ tomorrow a promissory note/ but today is cash.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word "impossible." He knows all the rules which will not work. - Napoleon Hill
Success comes to those who become success conscious. - Napoleon Hill
Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence. - Napoleon Hill
Tell the world what you intend to do/ but show it first. - Napoleon Hill
Life is a checkerboard and the player opposite you is time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision. - Napoleon Hill
For me/ the greatest luxury has always coincided with a certain bareness. - Albert Camus
We must put our principles into great things; mercy is enough for the small ones. - Albert Camus
There is no love of life without despair of life. - Albert Camus
A man's work is nothing but a slow trek to rediscover/ through the detours of art/ those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. - Albert Camus
Learning patiently and arduously how to live is enough for me/ well worth all their arts of living. - Albert Camus
There is a time for living and a time for giving expression to life. There is also a time for creating/ which is less natural. - Albert Camus
It was neither I nor the world that counted/ but solely the harmony and silence that gave birth to the love between us. - Albert Camus
If I obstinately refuse all the "later on's" of this world/ it is because I have no desire to give up my present wealth. - Albert Camus
It takes ten years to have an idea that's really one's own/ that one can talk about. - Albert Camus
Once you have had the chance to love intensely/ your life is spent in search of the same light and the same ardor. - Albert Camus
Nothing is true that compels us to make it exclusive. - Albert Camus
To come back to life/ we need grace/ a homeland/ or to forget ourselves. - Albert Camus
There is a will to live without refusing anything life offers: the virtue I honor most in this world. - Albert Camus
It is certainly a great folly/ and one that is almost always punished/ to go back to the places of one's youth/ to relive at forty the things one loved or greatly enjoyed at twenty. - Albert Camus
There is no love without a little innocence. - Albert Camus
I do not like work even when someone else does it. - Mark Twain
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on Paul for support. - George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is insufficient temptation. - George Bernard Shaw
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde
Most people would die rather than think; in fact/ they do so. - Bertrand Russell
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. - William Penn
Every one desires to live long/ but no one to be old. - Jonathan Swift
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet/ Doctor Quiet/ and Doctor Merryman. - Jonathan Swift
How blessings brighten as they take their flight. - Edward Young
Like our shadows/ our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. - Edward Young
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. - Benjamin Franklin
It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. - Benjamin Franklin
Experience keeps a dear school/ but fools will learn in no other. - Benjamin Franklin
Life is not long/ and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation of how it shall be spend. - Samuel Johnson
Nothing is little to him who feels it with great sensibility. - Samuel Johnson
If we could say nothing against a character but what we can prove/ history could not be written. - Samuel Johnson
It is better to live rich than to die rich. - Samuel Johnson
We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. - Sydney Smith
Every reform/ however necessary/ will by weak minds be carried to an excess/ that itself will need reforming. - Samuel Coleridge
Experience tells us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate. - Samuel Coleridge
Everything nourishes what is strong already. - Jane Austen
Those who do not complain are never pitied. - Jane Austen
As we advance in life/ we acquire a keener sense of time. - William Hazlitt
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. - Daniel Webster
All greatness is unconscious or it is little and naught. - Thomas Carlyle
Wonder is the basis of worship. - Thomas Carlyle
When one has been threatened with a great injustice/ one accepts a smaller as a favor. - Jane Carlyle
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only gift is a portion of thyself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. - H. L. Menken
A bore is a man who is never unintentionally rude. - Oscar Wilde
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. - Honore de Balzac
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. - Oscar Wilde
One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. - Andrew Carnegie
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant/ and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. - Mark Twain
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Communism is like one big phone company. - Lenny Bruce
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. - Montaigne
Grub first/ then ethics. - Bertolt Brecht
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. - Mark Twain
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. - Marcel Proust
When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I have known that have gone to a better world/ I am sure that hell won't be so bad after all. - Mark Twain
It's better to be quotable than to be honest. - Tom Stoppard
Psychoanalysis is the disease it purports to cure. - Karl Kraus
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. - Horace
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. - Henri Amiel
Rob the average man of his life illusion and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. - Henrik Ibsen
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves/ and the less they work/ the more their poverty will increase. - Tolstoi
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. - Anatole France
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one type of labor by taking up another. - Anatole France
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. - Anatole France
Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover. - Nietzsche
This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love/ and keep modest as a giver. - Nietzsche
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. - Marcel Proust
Happiness is beneficial to the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. - Marcel Proust
One quickly gets readiness in an art where strong desire comes in play. - Thomas Mann
What perplexes the world is the disparity between the swiftness of the spirit and the sluggishness and inertia of matter. - Thomas Mann
Time cools/ time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered throughout the course of hours. - Thomas Mann
All they that take the sword shall perish by the sword. - Book of Matthew
Wherein thou judgest another/ thous condemnest thyself. - Romans II
The things which are seen are temporal/ but the things which are not seen are eternal. - 2 Corinthians
Faith is the substance of things hoped for/ the evidence of things not seen. - Book of Hebrews
Let not thine hand be stretched out to receive and shut when thou shouldest repay. - Eccliastes
Wheresoever ye be/ death will overtake you/ although ye be in lofty towers. - The Koran
But indeede/ a freind is never knowne till a man have neede. - John Heywood
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. - William Shakespeare
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. - William Shakespeare
Some are born great/ some achieve greatness/ and some have greatness thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance ? - William Shakespeare
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. - William Shakespeare
No rule is so general which admits not some exception. - Robert Burton
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill. - Robert Burton
A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees further of the two. - George Hebert
The fox/ when he cannot reach the grapes/ says that they are not ripe. - George Hebert
The mill cannot grind with water that has passed. - George Hebert
For want of a nail/ the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe/ the horse is lost; for want of a horse/ the rider is lost. - George Hebert
Life is half spent before we know what it is. - George Hebert
It is the common wonder among men/ how among so many millions of faces/ there should be none alike. - Sir Thomas Browne
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. - Thomas Fuller
Noone is injured save by himself. - Desiderius Erasmus
Where the willingness is great/ the difficulties cannot be great. - Machiavelli
So much a man is worth as he esteems himself. - Rabelais
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we know least. - Montaigne
Saying is one thing/ and doing another. - Montaigne
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. - Montaigne
There's not the least thing can be said or done/ but people will talk and find fault. - Montaigne
There's a time for some things and a time for all things/ a time for great things/ and a time for small things. - Cervantes
He that proclaims the kindnesses that he has received/ shows his disposition to repay them if he could. - Cervantes
We easily believe that which we wish. - Corneille
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. - Francois/ Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. - Francois/ Duc de la Rochefoucauld
We are never so unhappy nor so happy as we imagine. Francois/ Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Everyone complains of his memory/ and no one of his judgement. - Francois/ Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Nothing is given so profusely as advice. - Francois/ Duc de la Rochefoucauld
The true way to be decieved is to think oneself more knowing than others. - Francois/ Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Most people judge others only by success or by fortune. - Francois/ Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. - Francois/ Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Nothing prevents our being natural so much as the desire to appear so. - Francois/ Duc de la Rochefoucauld
There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability. - Francois/ Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. - Moliere
When we are dead/ it's for a long time. - Desaugiers
To him who looks upon the world rationally/ the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation in mutual. - Hegel
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. - Hegel
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object. - Hegel
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want. - Hegel
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Shopenhauer
Great blunders are often made/ like large ropes/ of a multitude of fibers. - Victor Hugo
Thought is the labor of the intellect/ reverie is its pleasure. - Victor Hugo
How glorious it is/ and also how painful/ to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset
We know the truth/ not only by reason/ but also by the heart. - Pascal
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. - Spinoza
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud/ who wish to be the first and are not. - Spinoza
If there were no God/ it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire
Let us cultivate our garden. - Voltaire
Labor preserves us from three great wants: weariness/ vice/ and want. - Voltaire
If a tree dies/ plant another in its place. - Linnaeus
Never exceed your rights and they soon will be unlimited. - Rousseau
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? - Rousseau
People who know little are usually great talkers/ while those who know much say little. - Rousseau
Fate makes our relatives/ choice makes our friends. - DeLille
The most useless day of all is that in which we have not laughed. - Chamfort
Art is long/ life short; judgement difficult/ opportunity transient. - Goethe
To do two things at once is to do neither. - Publilius Syrus
Every one excels in something in which another fails. - Publilius Syrus
Learn to see in another's calamity that which you should avoid. - Publilius Syrus
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. - Publilius Syrus
It matters not how long you live/ but how well. - Publilius Syrus
The next day is never so good as the day before. - Publilius Syrus
It matters not what you are thought to be/ but what you are. - Publilius Syrus
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. - Publilius Syrus
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. - Publilius Syrus
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innoncence. - Publilius Syrus
It is not the man who has too little/ but the man who craves more/ who is poor. - Seneca
All art is but imitation of nature. - Seneca
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. - Seneca
Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example. - Phaedrus
He who reflects on another's want of breeding shows that he wants it as much himself. - Plutarch
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. - Plutarch
The whole of life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it/ therefore/ while it lasts/ and not spend it to no purpose. - Plutarch
We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. - Juvenal
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind. - Epictetus
In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside. - Epictetus
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. - Pliny
A tranquil mind is a mind well ordered. - Marcus Aurelius
Time is a sort of river of passing events; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place. - Marcus Aurelius
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone/ it has to be made/ like brick: remade all the time/ made new. - Ursula K. LeGuin
Without discipline/ there's no life at all. - Katherine Hepburn
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. - Kahil Gibran
I have learned silence from the talkative/ toleration from the intolerant/ and kindness from the unkind. - Kahil Gilbran
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. - Kahil Gilbran
Sadness is a wall between two gardens. - Kahil Gilbran
A man should choose with a careful eye the things to be remembered by. - Robert Coffin
Slogans are both exciting and comforting/ but they are also powerful opiates for the conscience. - James Bryant Conant
Rags are royal raiment when worn for virtue's sake. - Bartley Campbell
In silence also there's a worth that brings no risk. - Plutarch
Beware lest you lose the substance by grabbing at the shadow. - Aesop
Be content with your lot. One cannot be first in everything. - Aesop
It is easy to despise what you cannot get. - Aesop
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. - Aesop
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. - Aesop
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. - Aesop
We often despise what is most useful to us. - Aesop
A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth. - Aesop
Please all/ and you will please none. - Aesop
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. - Aeschylus
A day can prostrate and upraise again all that is human. - Sophocles
No man loves life like he that is growing old. - Sophocles
A bad beginning makes a bad ending. - Euripides
Let thy speech be better than silence/ or be silent. - Dionysius
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. - Pilpay
Not by years/ but by disposition/ is wisdom acquired. - Plautus
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. - Plautus
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. - Plautus
No sooner said than done: so acts your man of worth. - Quintus Ennius
Let us never negotiate out of fear/ but let us never fear to negotiate. - John F. Kennedy
The real problem is what to do with the problem solvers after the problems are solved. - Gay Talese
If all else fails/ immortality can be assured by spectacular error. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Nobody will save us from us but us. - Jesse Jackson
You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'. - Lyndon Johnson
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties. - Barbara Walters
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. - Edward R. Murrow
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides. - Andre Malraux
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't. - Earl Wilson
One fifth of the people are against everything all of the time. - John F. Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor/ it canot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
There's no need to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do business from there. - Colonel Sanders
If you can count your money/ you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules/ while quietly playing by your own. - Michael Korda
A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take a civil service examination. - Ronald Reagan
Sooner or later I'm going to die/ but I'm not going to retire. - Margaret Mead
If you think that nobody cares if you're alive/ try missing a couple of car payments. - Flip Wilson
I have no money/ no resources/ no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. - Henry Miller
We can never have enough of that which we really do not want. - Eric Hoffer
To succeed/ it is necessary to accept the world as it is/ and to rise above it. - Michael Korda
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it rains. - Robert Frost
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity/ but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. - Earl Wilson
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. - Salvador Dali
Be awful nice to 'em going up/ because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down. - Jimmy Durante
Only a mediocre person is always at his best. - Laurence Peter
Pity those who search for wealth outside themselves when every bit of wealth worth having lies within.
Life is not a work of art; the moment can not last. - Norman Maclean
We can love completely without complete understanding. - Norman Maclean
A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feets in it. - Henry Ford
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. - Voltaire
If you understand everything/ you must be misinformed. - Japanese Proverb
The greater our knowledge increases/ the greater our ignorance unfolds. - John F. Kennedy
The mind is slow in unlearning what it has been long in learning. - Seneca
It is no profit to have learned well if you fail to do well. - Publilius Syrus
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self confidence. - Robert Frost
If a person deceives me once/ shame on him. If he deceives me twice/ shame on me.
The greater the contrast/ the greater the potential. Great energy comes only from a correspondingly great tension between opposites. - Carl Jung
I could prove God statistically. - George Gallup
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. - Will Rogers
We think in generalities/ but we live in detail. - Alfred North Whitehead
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. - Confucius
We trip not on mountains/ but on stones. - Hindustani Proverb
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
Thought is always in advance: it can see too far ahead/ outstripping our bodies which are in the present. - Albert Camus
Professionals built the Titanic/ amateurs the Ark.
A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it. - Alastair Cooke
The stock market has called nine of the last five recessions. - Paul Samuelson
In Wall Street/ the only thing that is hard to explain is next week. - Louis Rukeyser
Science does not discover in order to know/ it knows in order to discover. - Alfred N. Whitehead
The golden age never was the present age. - Benjamin Franklin
There are two kinds of fools. One says/ "This is old/ therefore it is good." The other says/ "This is new/ therefore if is better". - Dean W. R. Inge
A little rebellion now and again is a good thing. - Thomas Jefferson
Everything is connected to everything else. - Barry Commoner
He that will not apply new remedies must accept new evils: for time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon
The very essence of the creative is its novelty/ and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. - Carl Rogers
An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. - Oscar Wilde
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
New ideas can be good or bad/ just the same as old ones. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
If I have seen further/ it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Sir Isaac Newton
What one has to do usually can be done. - Eleanor Roosevelt
No one is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln
Every truth has two sides. It is well to look at both before we commit ourselves to either. - Aesop
In every affair/ consider what precedes and what follows and then undertake it. - Epictetus
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. - Henrik Ibsen
Power is much more easily manifested in destroying than in creating. - Willaim Wordsworth
If you would rule the world quietly/ you must keep it amused. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who requires much from himself and little from others will keep himself from being the object of resentment. - Confucius
Work is not the curse/ but drudgery is. - Henry Ward Beecher
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies. - Rudyard Kipling
After I am dead/ I would rather have people ask why Cato has no monument than why he has one. - Cato
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be good and you will be lonesome. - Mark Twain
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. - Edward Teller
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. - Ambrose Bierce
Character is what you know you are/ not what others think you have. - Marva Collins
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum: I think that I think/ therefore I think that I am - Ambrose Bierce
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - Peter Ustinov
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. - George Bernard Shaw
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. - Lillian Hellman
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive/ and the true success is to labor. - R. L. Stevenson
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. - Robert Smith Surtees
Of those to whom much is given/ much is required. - John F. Kennedy
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Confucius
It's not whether you get knocked down/ it's whether you get up. - Vince Lombardi
Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
A little experience upsets a lot of theory. - S. Parkes Cadman
Get your facts first/ and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain
If at first you don't succeed/ try/ try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. - W. C. Fields
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford
Our greatest glory is not in never failing/ but in rising every time that we fail. - Confucius
All the darkness of the world can't put out the light of one candle. - Confucius
He that has no fools/ knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller
Let's be thankful for the fools. But for them/ the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain
If fifty million people say a foolish thing/ it's still a foolish thing. - Anatole France
Fools make feasts/ and wise men eat them. - Benjamin Franklin
Death and taxes may always be with us/ but death at least doesn't get any worse. - Los Angeles Times Syndicate
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. - Henry Ford
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln
If you give what you do not need/ it's not giving. - Mother Theresa
Some people will believe anything if it is whispered to them.
Be thankful that we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's bad habits. - Mark Twain
Excellence is not an act/ but a habit. - Aristotle
Start every day with a smile and get it over with. - W. C. Fields
Between the ages of twelve and seventeen/ a parent can age thirty years. - Sam Levenson
The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was to lose their baby teeth. - Phyllis Diller
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain
It is so simple to be smart. Just think of something stupid to say/ and then say the opposite. - Sam Levenson
I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people. - Jackie Mason
I have a feeling there's a correlation between getting up in the morning and getting up in the world. - Milton Berle
If you look like your passport photo/ you're too ill to travel. - Will Kommen
When I was born/ I was so surprised that I couldn't talk for a year and a half. - Gracie Allen
You know you're old when everything hurts/ and what doesn't hurt/ doesn't work. - George Burns
Life begins at forty/ but so does arthritis and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. - Sam Levenson
An acquaintance is someone we know well enough borrow from but not well enough to lend to. - Ambrose Bierce
Admiration is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. - Ambrose Bierce
A bore is a person who talks when you wish him to listen. - Ambrose Bierce
A bore is a person who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. - Laurence J. Peter
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. - Oscar Wilde
A sign of celebrity is that the name is worth more than the services. - Daniel J. Boorstein
By the time the youngest children have learned to keep the house tidy/ the oldest grandchildren are on hand to tear it to pieces. - Christopher Morley
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. - Eric Berne
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. - Horace Smith
A cynic in a person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy: give one and take ten. - Mark Twain
If all economists were laid end to end/ they would not reach a conclusion. - George Bernard Shaw
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. - Delmore Schwartz
We learn from experience that we never learn anything from experience. - George Bernard Shaw
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. - Robert W. Sarnoff
When people are free to do as they please/ they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. - A. J. Liebling
It takes your enemy and your friend to hurt you: the one to slander you/ the other to bring the news to you. - Mark Twain
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us/ but for ours to amuse them. - Evelyn Waugh
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - Paul Valery
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. - John Ciardi
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. - George Bernard Shaw
On the whole/ human beings want to be good/ but not too good/ and not quite all the time. - George Orwell
Grief is a species of idleness. - Samuel Johnson
Hindsight is always 20:20. - Billy Wilder
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars. - Fred Allen
It is human nature to think wisely and to act foolishly. - Anatole France
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. - Don Marquis
Idealism is fine/ but as it approaches reality/ the cost becomes prohibitive. - William F. Buckley Jr.
Immorality is the morality of those who are having a better time. - H. L. Mencken
A dollar saved is a quarter earned. - John Ciardi
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw
I figure that you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. - Fran Lebowitz
Now when I bore people at a party/ they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger
Power is the ability not to have to please. - Elizabeth Janeway
Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon. - Tommy Lasorda
Once you accept an idea/ it's an idea whose time has come. - Dr. Robert Anthony
Lead me not into temptation: I can find the way myself. - Rita Mae Brown
Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties. - Paul Monash
Listening/ not imitation/ may be the sincerest form of flattery. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
Why do they call it the rush hour when nothing moves? - Mork
If you have a job without aggravation/ you don't have a job. - Malcolm Forbes
The old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Many are called/ but few are called back.
Rich people are just poor people with money.
You can't expect to hit the jackpot unless you put a few nickels in the machine. - Flip Wilson
Security is a kind of death. - Tennessee Williams
I don't know the key to success/ but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost
Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayefsky
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. - Ann Landers
The future is much like the present/ only longer.
Get even. Live long enough to be a problem to your kids.
You always pass failure on the way to success. - Mickey Rooney
The only Zen you find on mountaintops is the Zen you bring up there. - Robert Persig
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. - John F. Kennedy
As we acquire knowledge/ things do not become more comprehensible/ but more mysterious. - Will Durant
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. - Bishop Fulton Sheen
Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans. - John Lennon
Everything has been figured out except how to live. - Jean Paul Sartre
Birds sing after a storm/ why shouldn't we? - Rose Kennedy
Showing up is eighty percent of life. - Woody Allen
You can't have everything. Where would you put it? - Stephen Wright
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube/ it's hard to get it back in. - H. R. Haldeman
If you're lonely when you're alone/ you're in bad company. - Jean Paul Sartre
I was always taught to respect my elders. Now I've reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. - George Burns
One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.
The richer your friends/ the more they will cost you. - Elizabeth Marbury
Nature bats last.
A paranoid is a person who knows a little of what's going on. - William Burroughs
If there is any peace/ it will come through being/ not knowing. - Henry Miller
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - Kenny Rogers
It's a small world/ but I wouldn't want to paint it. - Stephen Wright
I always wanted to get into politics/ but I was never light enough to make the team. - Art Buchwald
If your project doesn't work/ look for the part that you didn't think was important. - Arthur Bloch
Experience is not what happens to a person/ it's what a person does with what happens to him. - Aldous Huxley
Some things have to be believed to be seen. - Ralph Hodgson
Happiness is having a large/ loving/ caring/ close knit family in another city. - George Burns
Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. - Alvin Toffler
Fear is faith that it won't work out.
Free speech is a right/ not an obligation.
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. - Mary Richards
A friend is a present you give yourself.
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. - Alan Alda
Happy people plan actions/ they don't plan results. - Dennis Wholey
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept. - Ken Keyes
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills. - Earl Wilson
Humility is no substitute for a good personality. - Jon Winokur
Humorists always sit at the children's table. - Woody Allen
Humor is the shortest distance between two people. - Victor Borge
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by not dying. - Woody Allen
Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all.
As long as you're going to think anyway/ think big. - Donald Trump
You never really lose until you quit trying. - Mike Ditka
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi
The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up. - Bob Mandel
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win/ you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck
You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. - Liz Smith
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up. - Rev. Jesse Jackson
By the time we've made it/ we've had it. - Malcolm Forbes
The secret of staying young is to live honestly/ eat slowly/ and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. - Helen Hayes
There are few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking. - Mary Lowry
You're only young once ... once.
Progress may have been right once/ but it's gone on too long. - Ogden Nash
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. - Dick Cavett
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. - George Will
Never have children/ only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal
Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Rev. Jesse Jackson
Pick battles big enough to matter/ small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol
In not making the decision/ you've made one. - Ivan Bloch
What you can't get out of/ get into wholeheartedly. - Mignon McLaughlin
If you want to catch trout/ don't fish in a herring barrel. - Ann Landers
What you can't communicate runs your life. - Dr. Robert Anthony
Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. - Leo Buscaglia
Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk with them. - Leo Buscaglia
There's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence. - Edmund Muskie
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Death is a distant rumor to the young. - Andy Rooney
You may be disappointed if you fail/ but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. - Marty Allen
The secret of patience: to do something else in the meantime.
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. - Edmund Burke
Ethics is about what is right/ not who is right.
Every problem was once a solution to a previous problem. - Bob Mandel
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. - Emily Dickinson
Our best successes come after our disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher
The worst part of having success is to try to find someone who is happy for you. - Bette Midler
Becoming number one is easier than staying number one. - Sen. Bill Bradley
Victory has a hundred fathers/ and defeat is an orphan. - John F. Kennedy
When angry/ count a hundred. When very angry/ swear. - Mark Twain
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Chinese proverb
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren
Time is the most valuable thing that one can spend. - Diogenes
If you tell the truth/ you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain
Anyone can do any amount of work/ provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. - Robert Benchley
If your ship doesn't come in/ swim out to it. - Jonathan Winters
For everything that you have lost/ you have gained something else/ and for everything you gain/ you lose something. - Ralph W. Emerson
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus
Creditors have better memories that debtors. - Benjamin Franklin
Thousands are brought into a state of real poverty by their anxiety not to be thought poor. - William Cobbett
I used to be Snow White/ but I drifted. - Mae West
A pessimist is one who has the choice of two evils and chooses both. - Oscar Wilde
When it is dark enough/ you can see the stars. - Charles Beard
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train. - Lou Holtz
Things may come to those who wait/ but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln
Adopt the secret of nature; her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. - Voltaire
You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. - Mabel Newcomber
The last thing one knows is what to put first. - Blaise Pascal
To err is human/ but it feels divine. - Mae West
One who can't dance says the band can't play. - Yiddish proverb
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray. - Robert Ingersoll
Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made. - Robert Schuller
There is nothing so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.
The way I look at it/ if you want the rainbow/ you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
I walk slowly/ but I never walk backwards. - Abraham Lincoln
I like long walks/ especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. - Fred Allen
Forgive your enemies/ but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them as much. - Oscar Wilde
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mohandas Gandhi
Noone is fit to command another who cannot command himself. - William Penn
Everyone thinks of changing humanity/ but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy
All the wonders you seek are within yourself. - Sir Thomas Browne
If ignorance is bliss/ why aren't more people happy?
He who permits himself to tell a lie once/ finds it much easier to do it a second time. - Thomas Jefferson
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. - Abraham Lincoln
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. - Albert Einstein
The aim of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James
We are always getting ready to live/ but never living. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life can be understood by looking backward/ but it must be lived by looking forward. - Soren Kierkegaard
There is no cure for birth and death/ save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana
Love sought is good/ but given unsought is better. - William Shakespeare
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority/ it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. - Mark Twain
If man could have half his wishes/ he would double his troubles. - Benjamin Franklin
To disagree/ one doesn't have to be disagreeable. - Barry Goldwater
Man is the only animal that blushes/ or needs to. - Mark Twain
There are two way's of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down/ the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. - Booker T. Washington
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. - Chinese proverb
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
The only thing of value that we can give our kids is what we are/ not what we have.
One must change one's tactics at least every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. - Napoleon Bonaparte
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. - Noel Coward
Never stand begging for which you have the power to earn.
Old accountants never die/ they just lose their balance.
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better/ not bitter.
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer/ but want a different one.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry Truman
Good example has twice the value of good advice.
Maturity is acting your age instead of your urge.
You know that your're getting old when you start riding a bike and your kids take the car.
When you are aspiring to the highest place/ it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. - Cicero
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. - Marcus Aurelius
It is not the employer who pays wages: he only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages. - Henry Ford
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
Children have more need of models than of critics. - Joseph Joubert
We always carry out by committee anything which any of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. - Frank Moore Colby
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools/ because they have to say something. - Plato
`Automatic' simply means that you can't repair it yourself. - Mary H. Waldrip
`It can't happen here' is Number 1 on the list of famous last words. - David Crosby
The easier it is to do/ the harder it is to change.
In matters of conscience/ the law of majority has no place. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
Conscience is an inner voice that warns us that someone is watching. - H. L Mencken
The only completely consistent people are dead. - Aldous Huxley
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Henry Ford
Courage is resistance to fear/ master of fear/ not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic on both sides. - Margaret Thatcher
If everyone is thinking alike/ then someone isn't thinking. - General George Patton
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln
Blessed are the young/ for they shall inherit the national debt. - Herbert Hoover
