"You can’t
build a reputation on what you are going to do."- Henry Ford
"Pay attention
to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your
mistakes." – Antisthenes
"Never tell
people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity." – George Patton, Jr.
"The best cure
for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go
deliberately forth and try to lift with one’s sympathy the gloom
of somebody else." – Arnold Bennett
"Not by age but
by capacity is wisdom acquired." – Titus Plautus
"Every day
holds the possibility of a miracle." – Elizabeth David
"Man will do
many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get
himself envied." – Mark Twain
"Men are what their mothers made them." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and
preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid
mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of
them. Thomas Paine
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit." – Aristotle
"It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a
generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own
experience in history." – Renata Adler
"Do well and you will have no need of ancestors." – Voltaire
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long
and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the
one which has opened." – Alexander Graham Bell
From this day
to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
Shakespeare—-Henry V (act 4, scene 3)
"Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of
thought." – Gilbert Chesterton
"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on
our side." – George Savile
"We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm
approval of men of intelligence." – Luc de Clapiers de
Vanvenargues
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more
light you pour upon it, the more it will contract." – Oliver W.
Holmes, Jr.
"A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping." –
Kenneth Tynan
“ Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may
not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage
me, and I may not forget you. ”
“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." –
William G. McAdoo
"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that
they should see twice as much as they say." – Charles Caleb
Colton
"You use a
glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your
soul.” George B. Shaw
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government." – Thomas Jefferson
"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other
364 days of the year." – Mark Twain
"Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. One can find it,
live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one
cannot communicate and teach it." – Herman Hesse
"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not,
when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves." –
Seneca
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." – Sir
Francis Bacon
You can’t live
a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never
be able to repay you. – John Wooden
"I can forgive
Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in
human form could have invented the Nobel Prize." –
George
Bernard Shaw
"It is a common experience that a
problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the
committee of sleep has worked on it." – John Steinbeck
"I and the public know, what all
schoolchildren learn, those to whom evil is done do evil in
return. – W.H. Auden
"Only when we are no longer afraid
do we begin to live." – Dorothy Thompson
"Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a
better man." – Benjamin Franklin
"Do not wait to strike till the iron
is hot; but make it hot by striking." – William Butler Yeats
"The democracy will cease to exist
when you take away from those who are willing to work and give
to those who would not." – Thomas Jefferson
"The strongest reason for the people
to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort,
to protect themselves against tyranny in government." – Thomas
Jefferson
"Nothing endures but personal
qualities." – Walt Whitman
"No one has a finer command of
language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." – Sam
Rayburn
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a
superficial appearance of being right." – Thomas Paine
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a
superficial appearance of being right." – Thomas Paine
"For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you
share it with someone else, it tends to disappear." – Marilyn C.
Barrick
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really
love; the more they give, the more they possess." – Rainer Maria
Rilke
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good
deed in a naughty world." – William Shakespeare
" …. Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to
mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, And days of old long
past…. " – Robert Burns
"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better man." – Benjamin
Franklin
"I and the public know, what all schoolchildren learn, those to
whom evil is done do evil in return. – W.H. Auden
"There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you
want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind
achieve the second." – Logan Pearsall Smith
"A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man.
In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many
compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes
indistinguishable from a streetwalker." – H.L. Mencken
"Time is the coin of your life. It
is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it
will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for
you." – Carl Sandburg
"Be who you are and say what you feel ’cause people who mind
don’t matter, and people who matter don’t mind." – Theodor Seuss
Geisel
"Words are loaded pistols." – Jean-Paul Sartre
"Take anything and everything seriously except yourselves." –
Rudyard Kipling
"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in
the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." –
Winston Churchill
"To choose what is difficult all one’s day, as if it were easy,
that is faith." – W.H. Auden
"The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be
what he is." – Desiderius Erasmus
“It has been said that democracy is
the worst form of government except all the others that have
been
tried.” Sir Winston Churchill
"I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more
positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in
human kind, than a well-contested American national election." –
Walt Whitman
‘A government big enough to give you everything you want, is
strong enough to take everything you have.’
Thomas Jefferson
“It is never too late to be who you might have been.” George
Eliot
"The most important political office is that of the private
citizen." – Louis Brandeis
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." – George
Washington
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Seize the day, trust
not to the morrow." – Horace
"The heart of a fool is his mouth,
but the mouth of a wise man is his heart." – Benjamin Franklin
“God is a comedian playing to an
audience too afraid to laugh." – Voltaire
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon
loses both." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they
go." – Oscar Wilde
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from
giving us wordy evidence of the fact." – George Eliot
"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it
takes as the sign of virtue and intellect." – Lionel Trilling
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any
man I know." – Abraham Lincoln
"Human history becomes more and more
a race between education and catastrophe." – H. G. Wells
"There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action." –
Adlai E. Stevenson
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom
executed." – Benjamin Franklin
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do
him absolutely no good." – Samuel Johnson
"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe
unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather
than by any inherent instability of the private economy." –
Milton Friedman
"For the American people are a very generous people and will
forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of
stupidity." – Will Rogers
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any
man I know." – Abraham Lincoln
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." – Igor
Stravinsky
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,
while bad people will find a way around the laws." – Plato
"Moral indignation is jealousy with
a halo." – H. G. Wells
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains
unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
– Nelson Mandela
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served
afterwards to solve other problems." – Rene Descartes
"Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power." –
Abraham Lincoln
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of
grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer
you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear
fruit, then ripen." – Epictetus
"Well done is better than well said." – Benjamin Franklin
"I go by the great republican
principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence
to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of
government]." – James Madison
"The cemetery is filled with
indispensable men." – Charles de Gaulle
"We shall tax and tax, and spend and
spend, and elect and elect." – Harry Lloyd Hopkins
"Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the
right mate, but through being the right mate." – Barnett
Brickner
"Never bear more than one trouble at
a time. Some people bear three kinds – all they have had, all
they have now, and all they expect to have." – Edward Everett
Hale
"Men who seek happiness are like
drunkards who can never find their house but are sure that they
have one." – Voltaire
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest
you let other people spend it for you." – Carl Sandburg
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you
may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never
lost." – John Quincy Adams
"True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly
contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and
the motive which impels them – the desire to do right – is
precisely the same." – Robert Edward Lee
"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever
heal but by degrees." – William Shakespeare
"Men who seek happiness are like
drunkards who can never find their house but are sure that they
have one." – Voltaire
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the
only thing." – Albert Schweitzer
"What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as
much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as
from the upbuilding of one." – Margaret Mitchell
"We must take our friends as they are." – James Boswell
"Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath." – New
Testament, James I. 19
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
– Arthur Miller (Glenn Miller’s brother?)
"These are the times that try men’s
souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this
crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that
stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." –
Thomas Paine
"When you see a rattlesnake poised
to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him." –
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"God gave us memory so that we might
have roses in December." – J.M. Barrie
"We cannot play innocents abroad in
a world that is not innocent." – Ronald Reagan
"Conversation would be vastly
improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not
know." – Andre Maurois
"He who would acquire fame must not
show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the
death of genius." – William Gillmore Simms
“The discipline of the writer is to
learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell
him." – Rachel Carson
"For every minute you are angry you
lose sixty seconds of happiness." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You will soon break the bow if you
keep it always stretched." – Phaedrus
“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can
eliminate prejudices — just recognize them." – Edward R.
Murrow
"Losers spend time explaining why they lost. Losers spend their
lives thinking about what they’re going to do. They rarely enjoy
doing what they’re doing." – Dr. Eric Berne
"The only tyrant I accept in this
world is the ‘still small voice’ within me." – Mohandas K.
Gandhi
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in
love." – Albert Einstein
"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To
rise above the little things." – John Burroughs
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." –
Arthur Rubinstein
"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do
doesn’t mean it’s useless." – Thomas Alva Edison
"Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought." –
Henri Bergson
"Happiness is a how, not a what; a
talent, not an object." – Hermann Hesse
"It is not how old you are, but how
you are old." – Jules Renard
"The brain is a wonderful organ. It
starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office." – Robert Frost
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you
where there were only walls." – Joseph Campbell
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." –
Benjamin Franklin
"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own
fears." – Rudyard Kipling
"There is no personal charm so great
as the charm of a cheerful temperament." – Henry Van Dyke
(is this Dick’s brother or father?)
"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever
heal but by degrees." – William Shakespeare
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the
politicians." – Chester Bowles
"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into
his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more
than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few
and far between souls who devote 100%." – Andrew Carnegie
"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them
something to ignore." – Ogden Nash
"Beware of little expenses. A small
leak will sink a great ship." – Benjamin Franklin
"Mishaps are like knives, that
either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the
handle." – James Russell Lowell
"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act." – George Orwell
"There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful
temperament." – Henry Van Dyke
"Never was anything great achieved without danger." – Niccolo
Machiavelli
"Everybody sooner or later, sits
down to a banquet of consequences." – Robert Louis Stevenson
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind it only the slime
of bureaucracy." – Franz Kafka
"It may be necessary temporarily to
accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil
as good." – Margaret Mead
"It would now be technically
possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether,
if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their
enemies." – Bertrand Russell
"When a stupid man is doing
something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his
duty." – George Bernard Shaw
"Be not angry that you cannot make
others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as
you wish to be." – Thomas Kempis
"If A equals success, then the
formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is
keep your mouth shut." – Albert Einstein
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." – Winston
Churchill
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually
fearing you will make one." – Elbert Hubbard
"Scoundrels are always sociable." – Arthur Schopenhauer
"The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient amused
while nature heals the disease." – Voltaire
"Mediocrity is a hand-rail." – Charles Louis de Secondat
"Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them." – Suzanne Necker
"If Columbus had an advisory
committee he would probably still be at the dock." – Arthur
Goldberg
"A very popular error – having the courage of one’s convictions:
Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon
one’s convictions." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"Never mistake motion for action." –
Ernest Hemingway
"A diplomatist is a man who always
remembers a woman’s birthday, but never remembers her age." –
Robert Frost
"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long they
live, although it is in the reach of every man to live nobly,
but within no man’s power to live long." – Seneca
“A man may be so much of everything that his is nothing of
anything." – Samuel Johnson
"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who
forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in
interfering with the pleasures of others." – Bertrand Russell
“To fall into a habit is to begin to
cease to be." – Miguel de Unamuno
“A technical objection is the first
refuge of a scoundrel." – Heywood Broun
"Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects.
Pessimism is a waste of time." – Norman Cousins
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." – Sir
Winston Churchill
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is true." – James Branch Cabell
"The man who complains about the way
the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it." – Lou Holtz
“All who call on God in true faith,
earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will
receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the
hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask. Yet
they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they
had dared to ask.” Martin Luther quote
"Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears
not, gives advantage to the danger." – Francis Quarles
"Chance makes our parents, but
choice makes our friends." – Jacques Delille
"It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in
your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your
decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and
what you’re going to do about them that will determine your
ultimate destiny." – Anthony Robbins
"Patriotism is easy to understand in
America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for
your country." – Calvin Coolidge
"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one
foot on the ground." – Marcel Proust
"If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in
one’s own power." – Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Liberals claim to want to give a
hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to
discover that there are other views.” – William F. Buckley, Jr.
“I get satisfaction of three kinds.
One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is
the feeling that I haven’t just been sitting on my ass all
afternoon.” – William F. Buckley, Jr. quote
"He who gives when he is asked has
waited too long." – Seneca
"Nothing is so contagious as
enthusiasm." – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does
not become a monster in the process. And when you stare
persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you." –
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that
we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change
in too short a time."
– Alvin Toffler
"We will bankrupt ourselves in the
vain search for absolute security." – Dwight David Eisenhower
"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and
women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It
is] when they are in love and reading a love letter." – Mortimer
Adler
"The best is yet to be." – Robert
Browning
"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of." –
Blaise Pascal
"History does not entrust the care
of freedom to the weak or timid." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Courage is what it takes to stand
up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and
listen." – Sir Winston Churchill
“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better." – Albert
Camus
"The right moment for starting on your next job is not tomorrow
or next week; it is instanter, or in the American idiom, ‘right
now.’ " – Arnold Toynbee
"You don’t stop laughing because you
grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." – Michael
Pritchard
"The past is never dead – it is not
even past." – William Faulkner
"New Year’s Day is every man’s
birthday." – Charles Lamb
"New Year’s eve is like every other
night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no
breathless moment of silence among created things that the
passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man
has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the
coming of darkness on other nights." – Hamilton Wright Mabie
"Reality is that which, when you
stop believing in it, doesn’t go away." – Philip K. Dick
"At Christmas play and make good
cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." – Thomas Tusser
"People often say that this or that
person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something
that one finds. It is something that one creates." – Thomas
Szasz
"It is the formidable character of
the species to routinely seek the improbable, the difficult,
even the impossible, as a source of pleasure and
self-justification. Who would try to write poems, or novels, or
paint pictures unless he is an optimist?" – Lionel Tiger
"Astonishment is the root of
philosophy." – Paul Tillich
"I’ve never been poor, only broke.
Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary
situation." – Mike Todd I’ve told this to my boys a
thousand times……PP
"History is a vast early warning
system." – Norman Cousins
"Americans never quit." – Douglas MacArthur
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own
teeth." – Alan Watts
"A young man’s ambition [is] to get along in the world and make
a place for himself – half your life goes that way, till you’re
45 or 50. Then, if you’re lucky, you make terms with life, you
get released." – Robert Penn Warren
"More common sense can be induced by
observation of the diversity of human beings in a small town
than can be learned in academia." – Louis B. Wright
"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." – Norman
Cousins
"The greatest obstacle to discovery
is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge." – Daniel J.
Boorstin
"Life – the way it really is – is a
battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse." –
Joseph Brodsky
"God made the world round so we
would never be able to see too far down the road." – Isak
Dinesen
"Don’t wait for the last judgment –
it takes place every day." – Albert Camus
"Life is an adventure in
forgiveness." – Norman Cousins
"Our consciences are littered like
an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction." – Wilford O.
Cross
"Fanaticism is … overcompensation
for doubt." – Robertson Davies
“Our memories are card indexes –
consulted, and then put back in disorder, by authorities whom we
do not control." – Cyril Connolly
"If you have an important point to
make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit
the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a
third time – a tremendous whack." – Winston Churchill
"History may be divided into three movements: what moves
rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all."
– Fernand Braudel
"For me, a hearty ‘belly laugh’ is
one of the beautiful sounds in the world." – Bennett Cerf
"A wise and frugal government, which
shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave
them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry
and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the
bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." –
Thomas Jefferson
"You have a lifetime to work, but
children are only young once." – Polish Proverb
"The difference between a rut and a
grave is the depth." – Gerald Burril
"What makes a river so restful to
people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get
where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else." –
Hal Boyle
"Knowing trees, I understand the
meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate
persistence." – Hal Borland
"Liars share with those they deceive
the desire not to be deceived." -Sissela Bok
"Nostalgia is a seductive liar." –
George Ball
"To do all the talking and not be
willing to listen is a form of greed." – Democritus of Abdera
"We can become anything. That is why
injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of
birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to
remain what we were." – John Berger
"Life has taught me that it is not
for our faults that we are disliked and even hated but for our
qualities." – Bernard Berenson
"History, despite its wrenching pain,
cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived
again." – Maya Angelou
"Ours is the age of substitutes:
Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles,
slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions." –
Eric Bentley
"If you let other people do it for
you, they will do it to you." – Robert Anthony
"When everyone is somebody, then no
one’s anybody. “ – W.S. Gilbert (1836 – 1911)
"Keep thy hook always baited, for a
fish lurks ever in the most unlikely swim." – Ovid
"Tell me to what you pay attention
and I will tell you who you are." – Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Since nothing we intend is ever
faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and
nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and
fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness." –
David Augsburger
"I have always felt that the moment
when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of
the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you
possess the certainty that …. absolutely anything may happen.
And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not one
jot. The possibility is always there." – Monica Baldwin
"We neither get better or worse as
we get older, but more like ourselves." – Robert Anthony
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will
not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and
a man."
-Mark Twain
"Books are quiet. They do not
dissolve into wavy lines or snowstorm effects. They do not pause
to deliver commercials. They are three-dimensional, having
length, breadth and depth. They are convenient to handle and
completely portable." – Anonymous
"You can discover more about a
person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." –
Plato
"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."
– Susan B. Anthony
"I have noted that persons with bad
judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best." –
Lionel Abel
"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the
mirror distracts one’s attention from the problem." – Dean
Acheson
"It’s never too late to be what you might have been." – George
Eliot
"The short words are best, and the
old words are the best of all." – Winston Churchill
"So many people tiptoe through life,
so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death." – Jermaine Evans
"A professional writer is an amateur
who didn’t quit." – Richard Bach
"The mind is not a vessel to be
filled, but a fire to be kindled." – Plutarch
"Loneliness is never more cruel than
when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased
to communicate." – Germaine Greer
“People, like nails, lose their
effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend." –
Walter Savage Landor:
"Success is going from failure to
failure without losing your enthusiasm." – Abraham Lincoln
"It is an ironic habit of human
beings to run faster when we have lost our way." – Rollo May
"You owe it to us all to get on with
what you’re good at." – W.H. Auden
"I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my
way." – Carl Sandburg
"There are three ingredients in the
good life: learning, earning and yearning." – Christopher Morley
"It is impossible to imagine Goethe
or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf". – H. L. Mencken
(1880 – 1956)
"Behind the phony tinsel of
Hollywood lies the real tinsel." – Oscar Levant (1906 – 1972)
"If you have built castles in the
air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them." – Henry David Thoreau
"Do all the good you can, By all the
means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you
can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As
long as ever you can." – John Wesley
"An appeaser is one who feeds a
crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. I like pigs. Dogs look
up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." – Sir
Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
“A fine quotation is a diamond on
the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
– Joseph Roux
"As an individual who undertakes to
live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by
interest, and next no one left to borrow from – so must it be
with a government." – Abraham Lincoln
"There is nothing so useless as
doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." – Peter
F. Drucker
“If
you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory." –
Benjamin Disraeli
"I
have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the
animosities he excites among his opponents." –
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
"Today
you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and
the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more
than money." –
Joey Bishop (1918 – )
"I am prepared
to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great
ordeal of meeting me is another matter." – Sir Winston Churchill
(1874 – 1965), on the eve of his 75th birthday.
"Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the
intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets
burned." – Gotama Buddha
"Money doesn’t
always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no
happier than people with nine million dollars." – Hobart Brown
"For of all sad
words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have
been!’ " –
John Greenleaf Whittier
"Be ashamed to die until you have
won some victory for humanity." –
Horace Mann
