Laws

For every new law enacted, we should remove two out-dated or "silly" laws. (You know, those old laws where you can't kiss your wife on the lips after 7pm on a Thursday.)

Suggested Listening

Artist Recording

A Box of Funny Whacky Favorites 3 Disk Set
A Different Kind of Christmas Various
A Rock and Roll Christmas Various
ABBA Gold
AC/DC For Those About to Rock
AC/DC Back in Black
Accept Accept
Accept Metal Heart
Akkerman Jan The Noise of Art
Akkerman Jan Can’t Stand Noise
Albright Gerald Dream Come True
Alice in Chains Facelift
Alice in Chains SAP
Alice in Chains Dirt
Alice in Chains Jar Of Flies
Alligator Stomp, Vol. 4 Cajun Christmas
Amos Tori Little Earthquakes
Amos Tori Under The Pink
Amos Tori Boys For Pele
Amos Tori Caught A Little Sneeze
Amos Tori Cornflake Girl
Amos Tori Talula
Amos Tori Crucify
Amos Tori Winter
Amos Tori God
Amos Tori Hey Jupiter
Amos Tori From The Choirgirl Hotel
Tori Amos To Venus and Back
Anansie Skunk Paranoid and Sunburnt
Anansie Skunk Stoosh
Annihilator Alice in Hell
Apple Fiona Tidal
Art of Noise The Best of Art of Noise
Asia Alpha
Asia Asia
Austin Jane Songs of Jane Austin
Bah! Humbug! Various (Christmas Songs for Grouch and Grinch)
Bangles Greatest Hits
Basia Time and Tide
Beastie Boys Check Your Head
Beatles Abbey Road
Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Beck Jeff There and Back
Beck Jeff Guitar Shop
Beck Jeff Blow by Blow
Beck Jeff Wired
Beck Jeff Who Else!
Beck and Sanborn Beck and Sanborn
Benatar Pat Crimes of Passion
Benediction Monks of Santo Domingo Chant
Berlin Love Life
Berlin Pleasure Victim
Bernhardt Warren Hands On
Bewitched Brain Eraser
Bikales Eric Energy
Bjork Debut
Bjork Post
Black Sabbath Masters of Misery Tribute
Black Sabbath Mob Rules
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell
Black Sabbath Born Again
Black Sabbath We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll
Black Sabbath Never Say Die!
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath Sabotage
Black Sabbath Master of Reality
Blue Blues Christmas Various
Blue Oyster Cult Extraterrestrial Live
Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin
Blue Oyster Cult Workshop of the Telescopes
Bonham Tracy The Burdens of Being Upright
Boone Pat In a Metal Mood
Brown James Funky Christmas
Bugnon Alex Love Season
Bulletboys Freakshow
Bulletboys Bulletboys
Bulletboys Za Za
Byrne David David Byrne
Cardigans Life
Cardigans First Band on the Moon
Cardigans Gran Turismo
Carlton Larry On Solid Ground
Carlton Larry Alone/But Never Alone
Caroline On the Nineties tip...
Caroline’s Spine Monsoon
Caroline’s spine Attention Please
Carpenter John Halloween
Carpenter John/Alan Howarth Halloween IV
Cars Cars
Cartoon Classics Favourites From Cartoons
Celtic Legacy Sampler A Global Celtic Journey
Celtic Twilight Various
Chopin Masters No. 8
Christmas Medleys Various
Classical Christmas Various
Claypool Les & The Holy Mackerel Highball With the Devil
Cocktail Soundtrack
Collective Soul Disciplined Breakdown
Collective Soul Dosage
Collective Soul Collective Soul
Collective Soul Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid
Cooper Alice Welcome To My Nightmare
Corrosion of Conformity Blind
Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance
Corrosion of Conformity Wiseblood
Creed My Own Prison
Crimson Glory Transcendence
Crimson Glory Strange and Beautiful
Croce Jim Jim's Greatest Love Songs
Crosby Bing/Frank Sinatra That Christmas Feeling
Crow The Soundtrack
Curve Doppelganger
Curve Pubic Fruit
Curve Cuckoo
Curve Horror Head
Curve Chinese Burn
Curve Come Clean
Dag Righteous
Dag Apartment #635
Danzig Danzig II - Lucifuge
Danzig Danzig
DBC Universe
Death Angel Fall From Grace
Death Angel Frolic Through the Park
Death Angel Act III
Death Angel The Ultraviolence
Deep Forest Deep Forest
Deep Forest Boheme
Deep Purple Machine Head
Def Leppard High 'n' Dry
Deftones Adrenaline
Deftones Around the Fur
Delerium Euphoric
Delirium Karma
Depeche Mode The Singles 86<98
Devo Best of Devo
Diamond Head Behold the Beginning
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince And in this Corner
DMP A Taste of DMP
Doctor Death's Volume IV The Marvels of Insect Life
Doors Morrison Hotel
Doors Best of (2 CD set, remastered)
Doors L.A. Woman
Doubting Thomas Infidel
Downes Geoffrey New Dance Orchestra
Dr. Demento Greatest Novelty CD of all Time
Dr. Demento Greatest Christmas Novelty CD
Dr. Demento Dr. Demento Gooses Mother
Dr. Demento Holidays in Dementia
Dread Zeppelin Un-Led-Ed
Dread Zeppelin 5,000,000
Dread Zeppelin No Quarter Pounder
Dread Zeppelin The Fun Sessions
Dread Zeppelin Hot & Spicy Beanburger
Dread Zeppelin Live Front Yard BBQ
Dread Zeppelin Spam Bake
Dread Zeppelin Haunted Houses of the Holy
Dregs Dregs of the Earth
Dregs Unsung Heroes
Drew David Safety Love
Drown Hold On to the Hollow
Drown Product of a Two Faced World
Duran Duran Greatest Hits
E A Man Called (E)
E Broken Toy Shop
Eden Gateway to the Mysteries
Egypt Music of Upper & Lower Egypt
El Nino Pimiento Various
Electrifying Thunderstorms Electrifying Thunderstorms
Ellwood William Music or a Stress Free Day
Eminem The Slim Shady LP
Enigma MCMXC a. D.
Enya Shepard Moons
Enya Watermark
Escape Club Wild Wild West
Everything is Beautiful Various
Exodus Fabulous Disaster
Extreme Pornograffitti
Fabulous Baker Boys Soundtrack
Failure Magnified
Failure Comfort
Failure Fantastic Planet
Faith No More Real Thing
Faith No More Angel Dust
Faith No More Live at the Brixton Academy
Faith No More Easy
Faith No More King For A Day/Fool For A Lifetime
Fantasia Soundtrack (2 CD set)
Fantomas Amenaza al Mundo
Fates Warning Parallels
Fear Factory Obsolete
Ferenzik Wild Man of Borneo
Filter Short Bus
Finger Peter Colors of the Night
Firm Firm
Firm Mean Business
Fish Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
Fish Internal Exile
Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits
Flock of Seagulls Flock of Seagulls
Flotsam & Jetsam No Place for Disgrace
Flotsam & Jetsam Cuatro
Flotsam & Jetsam Doomsday for the Deceiver
Flotsam & Jetsam Drift
Flotsam & Jetsam High
Flotsam & Jetsam Unnatural Selection
Focus Moving Waves
Focus Focus III
Focus In and Out of Focus
Focus Focus Con Proby
Focus Best of Focus
Focus Akkerman & Thijs Van Leer
Focus Live at the Rainbow
Focus Mother Focus
Foreigner Records
Foreigner Double Vision
Foreigner Four
Frampton Peter Classics Vol. 12
Frankie Goes to Hollywood Liverpool
Frankie Goes to Hollywood Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Friesen David Departure
Friesen Eugene New Friend
Galway James Greatest Hits II
Galway James/Henry Mancini In The Pink
Genesis Genesis
Genesis Three Sides Live
Genitorturers Sin City
Gillian, Ian & Glover, Roger Accidentally on Purpose
Gilmour David About Face
Gilmour David David Gilmore
Glover Danny/Ladysmith Black Mambazo How the Leopard Got His Spots
Glover Danny/Taj Mahal Brer Rabbit & The Wonderful Tar Baby
God Machine Scenes From the Second Storey
Godflesh Pure
Godflesh Streetcleaner
Godflesh Streetcleaner 2
Godflesh Slavestate
Godflesh Cold War
Godflesh Merciless
Godflesh Selfless
Godsmack Godsmack
Goo Goo Dolls A Boy Named Goo
Grapefruit Dorkabilly Stew
Grapefruit A Study In Mumpishness
Grossman Stefan Love, Devils & the Blues
Grossman Stefan Guitar Landscapes
Grotus Brown
Grotus Luddite
Grotus Slow Motion Apocalypse
Grotus Mass
Grotus Handjob
Grusin Dave Migration
Guthrie Arlo Best of Arlo Guthrie
Gwar Scumdogs of the Universe
Gwar America Must be Destroyed
Hamm Stuart Kings of Sleep
Hamm Stuart Radio Free Albemuth
Hamm Stuart The Urge
Hammer Jan/Jeff Beck Drive
Hanrahan Kip Days & Nights of Blue Luck Inverted
Harris Don Abacas Moon
Harry Deborah Def, Dumb, and Blonde
Hater Hater
Healy Jeff Hell to Pay
Healy Jeff See the Light
Heavy Metal Soundtrack
Helmet Meantime
Hendrix Jimi Essential Hendrix Vols. 1 & 2 (2CD)
Hendrix Jimi Live at Winterland
Hendrix Jimi Electric Ladyland
Hill Rocky Rocky Hill
Himekami Moonwater Higher Octave Music
Hittman Hittman
Hockensmith Hadley Heartsongs
Hodgson Roger Hai Hai
Hodgson Roger The Eye of the Storm
Hootie & The Blowfish Cracked Rear View
Hooverphonic A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular
Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk
Howell Jeff Blues Dumps
Hunchback of Notre Dame Soundtrack
Hyman Dick Moog The Electric Electrics of Dick Hyman
Inclined Bright New Day
Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Infectious Grooves Plague That Makes Your Booty Move
Infectious Grooves Sarsippius’ Ark
Infectious Grooves Groove Family Cyco
Iron Maiden 2 Minutes to Midnight
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of the Seventh Son
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden Flight of Icarus
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden Killers
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind
Isaak Chris Heart Shaped World
Isaak Chris Chris Isaak
Isaak Chris Silvertone
Isaak Chris San Francisco Days
Isaak Chris Forever Blue
Jack Off Jill Sexless Demons and Scars
James Markus Season of Dread
Janes Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual
Janes Addiction Nothing Shocking
Jars of Clay If I Left the Zoo
Jethro Tull Aqualung
Jethro Tull Classic Case-London Symphony
Jethro Tull Crest of a Knave
Jewel Pieces of You
Joel Billy Greatest Hits Volume (2 CD set)
Journey Escape
Journey Frontiers
Journey Raised on Radio
Judas Priest Unleashed in the East
Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengence
Just Say Noel Various
Kidjo Anjelique Aye
Kilbey Steve Earthed
Kilzer John Memory in the Making
Kilzer John Busman's Holiday
King Diamond Abigail - Live
King Diamond Conspiracy
King Diamond The Dark Sides
King Diamond Abigail
King Diamond Fatal Portrait
King Diamond The Eye
King Diamond Them
King Diamond Spider’s Lullabye
King Diamond The Graveyard
King Missile Happy Hour
Kingdom Come In Your Face
Kingdom Come Kingdom Come
Kiss Double Platinum
Komotion International Vol.#2 #2
Korn Korn
Korn Life is Peachy
Korn Follow The Leader
Korn Family Values Extra Values CD
Krieger Robby No Habla
Krieger Robby Door Jams
Krokus Headhunter
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Gift of The Tortoise
Last Crack Sinister Funkhouse #17
Last Crack Burning Time
Laury Steve Passion
Led Zeppelin Zeppelin I
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti (2 CD set)
Led Zeppelin Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door
Led Zeppelin Encomium Tribute
Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y’all
Limp Bizkit Significant Other
Lion King Lion King Soundtrack
Live Throwing Copper
Live Secret Samadhi
London Symphony Orchestra Joyous Music for Christmas
Lynott Phillip Solo in Soho
Lynott Phillip The Phillip Lynott Album
Ma Yo Yo Inspired By Bach
Mack Lonnie Live - Attack of the Flying V
Madonna Bedtime Stories
Marillion Script for a Jester's Tear
Marillion Fugazi
Marillion Clutching at Straws
Marillion Misplaced Childhood
Marillion The Thieving Magpie (2 CD set)
Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family
Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children
Marilyn Manson Remix and Repent
Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals
Mathews Dave Band Crash
Mathews Dave Band Under the Table & Dreaming
MCA Master Series Guitar Stars
McFerrin Bobbie/Yo Yo Ma Hush
McKennitt Loreena The Visit
McKennitt Loreena The Mask and The Mirror
McKennitt Loreena The Book of Secrets
McKuen Rod La Mer/The Sea
McLachlan Sarah Fumbling Towards Ecstacy
McLachlan Sarah Surfacing
Men At Work Business As Usual
Men At Work Cargo
Mercyful Fate Mellissa
Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath
Mercyful Fate The Beginning
Mercyful Fate Return of the Vampire
Mercyfull Fate In The Shadows
Metal Church Metal Church
Metal Church The Dark
Metallica Harvester of Sorrow
Metallica Kill 'Em All (Megaforce)
Metallica And Justice For All
Metallica Metallica
Metallica Kill 'Em All (Elektra)
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Metallica No Life 'Till Power
Metallica Garage Days Re-revisited
Metallica One
Metallica Creeping Death/Jump in the Fire
Metallica Master of Puppets
Metallica Enter Sandman
Michael George Listen Without Prejudice
Michael George Older
Milk Cult Burn or Bury
Minimal Kids No Age
Ministry Psalm 69
Ministry Filth Pig
Ministry Dark Side of the Spoon
Misery Loves Company Need Another One
Misery Loves Company Not Like Them
Mixed Nuts Soundtrack
Molly Hatchet Greatest Hits
Monster Magnet Spine of God
Monster Magnet Powertrip
Monster Magnet Superjudge
Monster Magnet Dopes To Infinity
Montrose Ronnie The Speed of Sound
Montrose Ronnie The Diva Station
Morcheeba Big Calm
Moore Gary Still Got the Blues
Moore Gary We Want Moore
Moore Gary Corridors of Power
Moore Gary Victims of the Future
Moore Gary Run for Cover
Morisette Alanis Jagged Little Pill
Mortal Kombat Annihilation Soundtrack – Various
Motorhead No Sleep at All
Mountain The Best of Mountain
Mozart Le Nozze Di Figaro
Mr. Bungle Mr. Bungle
Mr. Bungle Disco Volante
Mr. Bungle California
Mullins Shawn Soul’s Core
Murphy Peter Deep
Murphy Peter Love Hysteria
Murphy Peter Holy Smoke
My Dying Bride As the Flower Withers
My Dying Bride Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera
My Dying Bride Trinity
My Sisters Machine Diva
Najee Day by Day
Nazareth Hair of the Dog
Neville Brothers Yellow Moon
New Acoustic Music New Acoustic Music
Nickelback The State
Niewood Gerry Share My Dream
Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails Broken
Nirvana Bleach
Nirvana Nevermind
No Speak Sampler Music too Good for Words
No Speak Sampler Music too Good for Words II
Northern Pikes Snow in June
O Come All Ye Faithful: Rock For Choice Various
O’Conner Sinead Lion and the Cobra
O’Conner Sinead Universal Mother
O’Conner Sinead I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
Oleander February Son
Oliver and Company Soundtrack
Orbital 2
Organization, The The Organization
Our Lady Peace Clumsy
Ozzy Osborne Blizzard of Ozz
Ozzy Osborne Tribute
Ozzy Osborne Diary of a Madman
Pantera Cowboys from Hell
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power
Pantera Far Beyond Driven
Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill
Papa Brittle Polemic Beat Poetry
Parsons Alan Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Parsons Alan The Turn of the Friendly Card
Parsons Alan The Instrumental Works
Parsons Alan Try Anything Once
Paycheck Johnny Take This Job and Shove It
Pearl Jam Pearl Jam
Pena & Falu Encnentro
Pig Wrecked
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Pink Floyd Animals
Pink Floyd The Wall (2 CD)
Pink Floyd Live Delicate Sound (2 CD)
Pink Floyd Objects of Fantasy
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd More
Pink Floyd Meddle (ultra disk 24k)
Pink Floyd Obscured By Clouds
Pink Floyd Learning to Fly
Pink Floyd The Final Cut
Pink Floyd Piper At the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd Ummagumma (2 CD)
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
Pitchshifter Industrial
Pitchshifter Submit
Pitchshifter Desensitized
Pitchshifter Infotainment?
Pitchshifter Pitchshifter.com
Pitchshifter Genius Single
Pitchshifter Genius (You Are Free & Floppy Disk)
Pitchshifter Genius (Rare Remixes)
Pitchshifter Microwaved (Lunatic Calm Remix)
Pitchshifter Microwaved (Screesaver & CDROM Video)
Pitchshifter W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G.
Pitchshifter Un-United Kingdom
Planet Hate Mother Are You Mad?
Police Zenyatta Mondatta
Police The Singles
Portishead Portishead
President Bring YR Camera
Presley Elvis Number 1 Hits
Primus Miscellaneous Debris
Primus Suck On This
Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Primus Frizzle Fry
Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese (compil)
Primus Pork Soda
Primus Tales From the Punchbowl
Primus Brown album
Private Parts Soundtrack
Prong Primitive Origins
Prong Beg To Differ
Prong Peel Sessions
Prong Prove You Wrong
Prong Force Fed
Queen A Kind of Magic
Queensryche Operation Livecrime
Queensryche The Warning
Queensryche Queensryche
Queensryche Operation Mindcrime
Queensryche Rage For Order
Queensryche Empire
Queensryche Promised Land
Rea Chris New Light Through Old Windows
Refused The State of Punk to Come
Relativity Hear And Now
REM Automatic For The People
Ren & Stimpy You Eediot!
Ride What You Want Various
Right Said Fred Up
Rippingtons Kilimanjaro
Rock and Roll Christmas Various
Roth David Lee Eat 'Em and Smile
Sacred Reich Ignorance
Sacred Reich The American Way
Sacred Reich Surf Nicaragua
Sade Stronger Than Pride
Sade Promise
Sade Diamond Life
Sade Love Deluxe
Samhain Final Descent
Sanborn David Voyeur
Sanborn David Close Up
Sanborn David Taking Off
Sanborn David Hideaway
Santana Milagro
Santana Carlos Blues for Salvador
Satriani Joe Surfing With the Alien
Satriani Joe Dreaming #11
Satriani Joe Not of This Earth
Satriani Joe Flying in a Blue Dream
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
Sausage Riddles Are Abound Tonight
Savage Garden Savage Garden
Savatage Hall of the Mountain King
Savatage Gutter Ballet
Savatage Sirens/The Dungeons are Calling
Scatterbrain Here Comes Trouble
Schindler’s List Soundtrack
Schon Neal Late Nite
Scooby-Doo Scooby-Doo’s Snack Time Tracks
Scorn Vae Solis
Scorpions Animal Magnetism
Scorpions Blackout
Scorpions Lovedrive
Screaming Trees Uncle Anesthesia
Seal Seal
Seal The Beginning
Seal Seal II
Second Self Mood Ring
Sect Telekinetic
Sepultura Dead Embryonic Cells
Sepultura Beneath the Remains
Sepultura Arise
Sepultura Chaos A.D.
Sepultura Roots
Sepultura Against
Serra Eric La Femme Nikita
Serra Eric Le Grand Bleu (2 CD)
Serra Eric The Professional
Serra Eric Golden Eye
Serra Eric The Fifth Element
Seven Mary Three American Standard
Sevendust Home
Sevendust Sevendust
Sexy Savannah Drive Me Crazy
Sharkbait Blowtorch Face-lift
Sheik Duncan Duncan Sheik
Simon Carly Best of Carly Simon
Simply Red A New Flame
Slayer Reign in Blood
Slayer South of Heaven
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss
Smash Mouth Fush Yu Mang
Smashing Pumpkins Gish
Smashing Pumpkins Lull
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Smith Michael W. Project
Smith Michael W. Go West Young Man
Smithereens Especially For You
Sneaker Pimps Becoming X
Snogging and Shagging Various
Song of the Whales Song of the Whales
Soulstorm Darkness Visible
Sound Effects Digital Encyclopedia
Soundgarden Flower
Soundgarden Ultramega OK
Soundgarden Louder Than Love
Soundgarden Screaming Life/Fopp
Soundgarden Jesus Christ Pose
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
Sounds of Horror Sounds of Horror
Sounds From A Night of Terror Sounds From A Night of Terror
Spawn Soundtrack Various
Spinal Tap Spinal Tap
Spooky Tunes Various
Stabbing Westward Ungod
Stabbing Westward Wither Burn Blister Peel
Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip
Sting Englishman In New York
Sting Nothing Like the Sun
Sting Ten Summoner’s tales
Stompbox Stress
Sugar Ray 14:59
Suicidal Tendencies Controlled by Hatred
Suicidal Tendencies How Will I Laugh Tomorrow...
Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
Sundays Blind
Sundays Static and Silence
Supertramp Breakfast in America
Supertramp Free As a Bird
Supertramp Live '88
Supertramp Supertramp
Supertramp Paris (2 CD set)
Supertramp Indelibly Stamped
Supertramp Crisis? What Crisis?
Supertramp Even in the Quietist Moments
Supertramp Famous Last Words
Supertramp Crime of the Century
Supertramp Brother Where You Bound
Swamp Terrorists Grow-Speed-Injection
Swervedriver Mezcal Head
Swervedriver Raise
Swervedriver 99th Dream
Talking Heads Sand In The Vaseline (2 CDs)
Telling Blue Solitaire
Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog
Ten Thousand Maniacs In My Tribe
Ten Thousand Maniacs MTV Unplugged
Tesla The Great Radio Controversy
Tesla Mechanical Resonance
Testament Practice What You Preach
Testament The Legacy
Testament Souls of Black
Testament The New Order
The The Mind Bomb
Thin Lizzy Thin Lizzy
Thin Lizzy Night Life
Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous
Thin Lizzy Thunder and Lightning
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy Life (2 CD set)
Thin Lizzy Shades of a Blue Orphanage
Thin Lizzy Johnny the Fox
Thin Lizzy Black Rose/A Rock Legend
Thin Lizzy Fighting
Thin Lizzy Renegade
Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation
This Picture A Violent Impression
This Picture City of Sin
This Picture Breathe Deeply Now
Thought Industry Songs For Insects
Thought Industry Assassins, Toads and God's Flesh
Thought Industry Outer Space is Just a Martini Away
Thought Industry Black Umbrella
Tool Opiate
Tool Undertow
Tool Aenima
Trappist Monks of the Abbey of Gethsemani A Child is Born; A Chant Christmas
Treponem Pal Excess & Overdrive
Triumph Thunder Seven
Tropea John Ny Cats Direct
Trouble Trouble
Trouble Manic Frustration
Trower Robin Bridge of Sighs
TV Prime Time TV Prime Time
U2 Joshua Tree
U2 Atchung Baby
Vai Steve Flex-able
Vai Steve Passion and Warfare
Vai Steve Fire Garden
Van Halen Fair Warning
Van Halen 1984
Van Halen Van Halen
Van Halen Women and Children First
Van Halen Diver Down
Van Halen Van Halen II
Van Leer Thijs Introspection
Varga Varga
Vaughn Stevie Ray Live Alive
Vaughn Brothers Family style
Vaughn Stevie Ray In Step
Vaughn Stevie Ray The Sky is Crying
Village People Best of the Village People
Wacky Favorites Vol. 1 Various
Wacky Favorites Vol. 2 Various
Wacky Favorites Vol. 3 Various
Walsh Joe The Confessor
Was (Not Was) What Up, Dog?
Waters Roger The Body
Waters Roger Radio K.A.O.S.
Waters Roger Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
WDIZ Classics Vol. I
Welch Gillian Revival
West Leslie Alligator
Whacky Favorites Crazy Hits
Whacky Favorites Weird & Wild
Whacky Favorites Crazy Classics
White Zombie Astro-Creep 2000
Whitesnake Slide it In
Will Pearl of Great Price
Wilson Bubba Whoop-Ass Eatin' Puddin'
Wings Greatest
Winston George December
Winston George Autumn
Winston George Plains
Wishbone Ash Nouveau Calls
XIO feat Tech Trance
Yankovic Weird Al UHF
Yankovic Weird Al Bad Hair Day
Yankovic Weird Al Peter and the Wolf
Yello One Second
Yello You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess
Yello Solid Pleasure
Yello Stella
Yello Flag
Yello Zebra
Yello Baby
Young Gods T.V. Sky
Young MC Stone Cold Rhymin
Zebra Zebra Live
Zebra Zebra
Zebra No Tellin' Lies
Zebra 3.V
Zebra A Different Stripe
Zombie Rob Hellbilly Deluxe
Zombies Greatest Hits

Last Updated: July 11, 2000

Quotes

Brevity of language gives width to thought. No other kind of writing engages us with such immediacy and such potency. The distillation of a great thought into a line of words is, without doubt, a mark of genius.

(Jean Paul)


Let’s Begin.

June 10, 2004

JDG



`God wove a web of loveliness
of clouds and stars and birds,
but made not anything at all
so beautiful as words.
(Anna H. Branch, Her Words)

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? (Voltaire)

A Rabbi said to a man, "Do you love me?"
He replied, "Why, yes I do, Rabbi. I do love you."
"Do you know what hurts me?"
"No", said the man.
"Then how can you love me?"

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. (Proverbs 25:11)

Three things you cannot retrieve:
A spent arrow.
Spoken words.
Opportunity.

Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof. (Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road)

Play is any activity that has meaning, but no purpose. (Mark Twain)

Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank what ever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. (W.E. Henley, Invictus)

There is no good or bad, it is thinking which makes it so.

What I hear, I forget.
What I see, I remember.
What I do, I know.
(Chinese proverb)

We are better than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives
we will be unwilling to settle for less. (Kurt Hahn)

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
(Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty)

The worst prison would be a closed heart. (Pope John Paul II)

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met! (Dwight L. Moody)

There are no dumb questions - only dumb answers. (Marshall Loeb, Marshall Loeb's Money Guide)

The human mind is as driven to understand as the body is to survive.
(Hugh Gilmore, Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine)


O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the evening listens. He who saddens
at thought of idleness cannot be idle and he's awake who thinks himself asleep. (Keats)

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. (Aristotle)

A friend must not be injured, even in jest. (Syrus)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein)

It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved, - is it not? But never so delightful
as when fresh tears are on them. (Candor)

Men are four:
He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool - shun him;
He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple - teach him;
He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep - wake him;
He who knows and knows he knows, follow him! (Arabic Apothegm)

Know thyself. (Socrates)

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise. (Lao-Tsze)

In a man's letters his soul lies naked. (Samuel Johnson)

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. (Samuel Johnson)

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. (Coleridge)

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. (Edgar Allen Poe)

Blessed are those that nought expect, for they shall not be disappointed. (Walcott Ode to Pitt)

Women are wiser than men because they can know less and understand more.
(James Stephens, The Crock of Gold)

A true poem is the poet's mind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Home is where the heart lies, but where is the home if the heart lies?

Here's a test to find out if your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.

Most people are on the world, not IN it.

Come live in my heart and pay no rent. (Samuel Lover)

The words in his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart;
his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. (Psalms LV.21)

The heart is wiser than the intellect. (J.G. Holland, Katrina)

Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves. (Mathew X.16)

It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others. (Montaigne)


Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting,
get understanding. (Proverbs VIII.1)

I never knew such young a body with such old a head. (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act IV Sc.I)

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. (Schiller - Don Carlos)

Leave a kiss but in the cup, and I'll not look for wine. (Ben Johnson, To Celia)

Give me kisses! Nay, 'tis true
I am just as rich as you;
And for every kiss I owe,
I can pay you back, you know.
Kiss me, then,
Every moment - and again!
(J.G. Saxe, To Lesbia)

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. (Tennyson, Locksley Hall)

See the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth,
If thou kiss not me?
(Shelly, Love's Philosophy)

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know,
that is true knowledge. (Confuscious)

Is life worth living? That depends on the liver. (Anon. c. 1855)

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call his day his own:
He who, secure within, can say:
"Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."
(Horace, Odes III 29, Dryden Trans)

Welcome O Life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. (James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal. (Longfellow, A Psalm of Life)

I have to live with myself, and so I want to be fit for myself to know; I want to be able as days
go by, always to look myself straight in the eye. (Edgar A. Guest, Myself)

Our ingress into the world was ahead and bare;
Our progress through the world is trouble and care;
Our egress from the world will be nobody knows where:
But if we do well here we shall do well there.
(Longfellow, Cobbler of Haqenau)


Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say; today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.
(Martial, Epigrams, Cowley trans)

Degenerate sons and daughters, life is too strong for you - it takes life to love life.
(E.L. Masters, Spoon River Anthology: Lucinda Matlock)

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
(James IV.14)

Life is adventure in experience, and when you are no longer greedy for the last drop of it, it means no more than that you have set your face...to the day when you shall depart...
(Donald C. Peattie, An Almanac for Moderns)

When other lips and other hearts their tales of woe shall tell,
In a language where excess imparts the power they feel so well,
There may, perhaps, in such a scene, some recollection be
od days that have as happy been, and you'll remember me.
(Alfred Moore, Farewell! But When Ever...)

O Music, sphere - descended maid,
Friend of pleasure, Wisdom's aid.
(William Collins, The Passions)

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. (Shelly, 1821)

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you. (Walt Whitman, Song to Myself)

O, Once in each man's life, at least,
Good luck knocks at his door;
And wit to seize the witting guest
Need never hunger any more. (L.J. Bates, Good Luck)

Master of human destinies am I!
Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late
I knock unbidden once at every gate.
(J.J. Ingalls, Opportunity)

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf than that I may not disappoint myself. (Thoreau, My Prayer)

Beware the fury of a patient man. (Dryden, Absalom and Architophel)

All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe'er disguised by art, pursue.
(T. Warton, Universal Love of Pleasure)

A poet is born, not made. (Old Latin Phrase)

Read from some humble poet, whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer, or tears from the eyelids start.
(Longfellow, The Day is Done)

Call it not vain: - they do not err
who say that when the poet dies
Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,
And celebrates his obsequies.
(Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, V)

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
(Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, V,1)

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
(Shelly, A Defense of Poetry)

Yawning is an orgasm for your face. (Gunver Ingeborg)

My definition of pure poetry, something that the poet creates outside of his own personality.
(George Moore, Introduction to Anthology of Pure Poetry)

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. (Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, Preface)

As I walk'd by myself, I talked to myself, and myself replied to me; And the questions myself then
put to myself, with their answers, I give to thee. (Bernard Barton, Colloquy With Myself)

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
(George Meredith, Modern Love)

He Ceas'd, but left so pleasing on the ear his voice, that listening still they seemed to hear.
(Homer, Odyssey, XIII)

Everybody makes errors. Not everybody forgives.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. (Bern Williams)

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
(Mark Twain)

If own life shine, the life next to it catches the light.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. (Herb Gardner)

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. (Max De Pree, Leadership is an Art)

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial. (Richard Ben Sapir, Quest)

Do not cut loose from your longings - for what are we without longings? (Amos Oz, In the Land of Israel)

You never know when you're making a memory. (Rickie Lee Jones)

Reason deceives us; conscience, never. (Jean Jacques Rousseau)

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes
what we read ours. (John Locke)

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. (Ivern Ball)

Wit penetrates; humour envelopes. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humour is
imagination operating on good nature. (Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution)

Who supplies another with constructive thought has enriched him forever.
(Alfred Armand Montapert, Words of Wisdom to Live By)

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.
(Bert Murray, The Wall Street Journal)

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. (Danny Kaye)

Marsupio: Love is not a science, love is art. Love is a masterpiece of emotion that soars and thrills with each beat of the heart. Love at first sight is but a visage of this wonderful thing and is definitely real.

I find the more I am at ease with me, the more I like you too!

One must have the right to choose, even if to choose wrong, if he is ever to learn to choose right.

Life entails exploration, risk, discipline, and the ability to feel ridiculously inadequate
without losing the will to soar.

Life is what happens to us while you're making plans. (William Gaddis)

The difference between a dream and a pipe dream is the act of doing it. (Carol Coleman)

Intelligence is not something you have. It's something you use. (Dr. Robert Sternberg)

Helping others is the best thing we can do for ourselves. (Dr. Julius Segal)

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal; it is courage that counts. (Winston Churchill)

In `discouragement' is the word `courage'.

Parents who let their kids grow up not telling them how special they are and end up
losing them to the first person who does. (JDG)

Confuscious say, He who longs for answer to situation's problems must wait and
see if answer changes question.

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. (Quoted by Alexandra Penny in "Self")

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. (Joseph Joubert)

Preconceived notions are the locks on the doors to wisdom. (Merry Browne)

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden, They Call Me Coach)


Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not
respond with a description of your own. (Andrew V. Mason, M.D.)

Discipline is remembering what you want. (David Campbell)

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. (Longfellow)

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces to their hearts. (Martin Buxbaum, The National Enquirer)

Good communication is as stimulation as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
(Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift From the Sea)

One reason a cat can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.

Change is such hard work. (Billy Crystal)

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. (Mark Twain)

You don't raise heroes; you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes,
even if it's just in your own eyes. (Walter Schirra, Sr.)

Out there where the forest brushes the sky, that's my kind of country. (Louis L'Amour, Ride the River)

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. (Mother Teresa)

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. (Merry Browne, The National Enquirer)

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes
sense, regardless how it turns out. (Va'clav Havel, Disturbing the Peace)

Many things are lost for the want of asking. (English proverb)

There's music in the sighting of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but an echo of the spheres.
(Byron, Don Juan, XV)

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot. (Haitian proverb)

If "dis-ease" is what we feel when we are sick inside, should we work for "IN-ease"??

Things are more like now than they have ever been. (Dwight Eisenhower)

Whoever resigned himself to fate, will find that fate accepts his resignation.

It is not the size of the ship that counts, but the ability to remain in port long
enough for all passengers to get off.

Technicolour Henfruit - Easter eggs (Bugs Bunny)

How do we know if the light really goes out when we close the door? Cause we eat the only witnesses.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
(Henry Youngman)

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. (Ray Bradbury)

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
(Louis L'Amour, Lonely On the Mountain)

Premonition; qualm before the storm. (V. Allen Harriman, Jr.)

Why can't we just spell it `orderves ? (Holly Thompson)

If you want to truly change something, try to change it. (Kurt Lewin)

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
(Gen. Colin L. Powell, The Black Collegian)

People with tact have less to retract. (Arnold H. Glascow)

Of course, there must be subtleties. Just make sure you make them obvious. (Billy Wilder)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (Al Bernstein)

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. (Chamfort)

In jealousy there is more self-love than love. (La Rochefouchauld)

Grey hair is the sign of old age, not wisdom. (Greek proverb)

He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. (Ecclesiastes 1.18)

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. (Aaron Burr, Letter to Pichon)

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. (Beethoven, Letter, 1811)

It is God who makes women beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
(Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table)

`An I learned about women from `er. (Kipling, The Ladies)

Let thy words be few. (Ecclesiastes 5.2)

Blue eyes say, "Love me or die."
Black eyes say, "Love me or I shall kill thee."
(Spanish proverb)

In much wisdom is much grief. (Ecclesiastes 1.18)

The price of wisdom is above rubies. (Job 28.18)

It is easier to be wise for others than ourselves. (La Roche)

When they call role in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer, "Present" or "Not guilty."
(Theodore Roosevelt)

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. (Doug Larson)

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. (Slovenian proverb)

Be bold in what you stand for and be careful what you fall for. (Ruth Boorstin in The Wall Street Journal)

I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat. (David Berry, The Whales of August)

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. (Jean de la Fontaine)

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour. (Robertson Davies in Our Living Tradition)

Pessimism never won any battle. (Dwight Eisenhower)

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. (Lane Olinghouse)

Some ladies now make pretty songs,
And some make pretty nurses;
Some men are good for righting wrongs,
And some for writing verses.
(F. Locker, Lampson, The Jester's Plea)

Just stand aside and watch yourself go by,
Think of yourself as "he" instead of "I".
(Strichland Gillilan, Watch Yourself Go By)

From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods there may be,
That no life lives forever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
(Swinburne, The Garden of Proserpine)

Take heed lest passion sway the judgment to do aught, which else free will would not admit.
(Milton, Paradise Lost)

Put something in
Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song.
Whistle through your comb.
Do a loony-goony dance
`cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.
(Shel Silverstein)

Bozo is nothing more than a thinly disguised Satan for children. (Chris Peterson's mom in "Get A Life")

She wants to hear from me what she can't tell herself. (JDG)


Listen to the MUSN'TS
Listen to the MUSN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The impossibles, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me -
ANYTHING can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
(Shel Silverstein)

The world is not black and white. It is grey.

A psychotic is someone more neurotic than his doctor.

Most men learn to love the women they are attracted to and women become more and
more attracted to the men they love.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. (Ancient Celt saying)

I walked to school against the earth's rotation. (Steven Wright)

Man, despite his pretensions, sophistication and myriad accomplishments, owes his existence
to a 6-inch layer of top soil and the fact that it rains. (Lynn L. Westville, ILL)

Don't think of me as old - just someone who has seen a lot. (Col. Potter, M.A.S.H.)

The road traveled by great men is dark and lonely and lit only at intervals by other great men -
and sometimes they're your enemies. (Theodore Roosevelt)

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it. (Jim Feibig, United Features Syndicate)

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Memo to the rich: Go first class or your children will. (Josh Feinberg)

Army day care - They'll be what you tell them to be!

Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!
(Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustis)

A tiny acrobat of hope somersaulted in his chest. (Gail Godwin)

He could hear the creaking, heavy sound of doubt flapping its wings slowly overhead. (Walt Schmidt)

She had a mania for orderliness; she would have straightened shadows if she could have. (Charles Higham)

If a six foot tall, 400 pound man who picks up cars with his hands to make
parking spots, asks you for a quarter...give him 30 cents.

You can't nail jello to a tree.

If you are in a car accident, are impaled by the windshield and you are bleeding profusely...
then maybe you shouldn't pull that three foot piece of scrap metal out of your stomach.

DAM - Mothers against dyslexia.

Life is a test. It is only a test. If it was real life, you would have been given better instructions.

I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, Cash 'N' Carry, Carry Me Back To Ol' Virgini', I'll even Hari Kiri if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun.
(Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, M.A.S.H.)

Even the best people in the world may go corrupt and fall, including priests, and even
moreso the people that are not.

To err is human, to forgive, divine. (Alexander Pope)

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. (Byron, Don Juan, I)

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
(Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman IV)

There is no art to find the mind's construction in the face. (Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1,4)

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life for which the first was made. (R. Browning)

As a white candlein of a holy place, so is the face of an aged face. (Joseph Campbell)

A fool hath said in heart, there is no God. (Psalms 15.1)

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness. (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)

Praise loudly. Blame softly.

Things do not change. We change. (Thoreau)

I once met a girl or should I say she once met me.

What you are stands over you, and thunders so, that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. (Emerson)

Conscience is God's presence in man. (Swedenborg)

True friendship is rare, special and irreplaceable.

A friend is someone who likes you in spite of yourself.

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind. (Prior)

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. (J.R. Lowell)

An honest man is the noblest work of God. (Pope)

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. (Plato)

Knowledge is power. (Hobbes)

He preaches well who lives well. (Cervantes)

Know thyself. (Thales)
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man reveals his true character. (Schopenhauer)

The habit of asking questions is a good one to cultivate. (Frank Crane)

Raising your voice is not more convincing in an argument.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. (Carlyle)

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
(La Rochefoucauld)

We do not learn the value of blessings until we have lost them. (Johann Harder)

The best things in life are appreciated after they are lost. (Roy L. Smith)

He who is afraid of asking is afraid of leaning.

The way to have a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

One can not be envious and happy at the same time.

Time ripens all things; no man was born wise. (Cervantes)

The one time you don't want to fail is the last time you try. (Charles F. Kettering)

We are not here to make a living; we are here to make a life. (W.E. Russell)

He who wants to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. (Samuel Johnson)

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy. (Greta Palmer)

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you can not convince. (H.W. Shaw)

A wise man is composed and happy. (Confucious)

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought into it.

True greatness has little to do with rank or power. (John Lubbock)

The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you. (R.J. Rehwinkle)

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. (Roger Babson)

Every day is a new day, with new possibilities and endless opportunities. (Earnest Reeves)

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. (Ellen Glasgow)

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and sweet sleep blesses the child who sleeps therein. (Victor Hugo)

If a dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what is close at hand, everything is possible. (Robert Fulghum)

Some of your hurts have cured, and the sharpest you still have survived, but what torments of
grief you endured from evils which never arrived. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A day for toil
An hour for sport,
But for a friend
Is life too short.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Every person passing through this life will, unknowingly, leave something and take something away. Most of this "something" cannot be seen or heard or numbered.
[It does not show up in a census. But nothing counts without it.] (Robert Fulghum)

It is better to choose what you say than to say what you choose. God has
given us the ability to do certain things well. (Romans 12:6)

It is in loving, not being loved the heart finds its quest; it is in giving, not getting our lives are blest.

A moment of closeness makes a lasting memory.

Friends are the link to our past. Best friends are our bridge to a better life.
New friends are our entrance to the future.

The thing that counts is not what we know, but the ability to use what we know. (Leo L. Spears)

I will not let you determine how I feel today.

Time spent in helping someone else is never wasted.

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

It is not who is right but what is right that is important. (Thomas Huxley)

No one can please a person who can't please himself.

As a man grows older and wiser he talks less and says more.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Words must be weighed, not counted.

To think is to differ. (Clarence Darrow)

A house is built of wood and nails; a home is built with love.

When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road. (Josh Billings)

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. (G.W. Lyon)

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality. (Daniel Webster)

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is knowledge of our own ignorance. (C.H. Spurgeon)

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain. (Henry Ford)

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. (Watterson)

Frank analysis and criticism of yourself are the best aids to progress. (E.C. Simmons)
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. (Frank M. Colby)

Life is a play! `Tis not its length but its performance that counts. (Seneca)

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. (G.K. Chesterton)

The only old person is he who no longer desires to learn. (Ugo Ojetti)

You can never have too much of a person's soul they've given to you.
The more they give, the more you want. The more you need. (ELP & JDG)

Who are you? What right have you to tell me what to think, or tell me what to do, or tell me what to say, or not to say? Did I ask you? Did you ask me if you could tell me, or should tell me, how to live, to think, to feel? You are not me, I am not you. (Sharon Podobnik)

Angels think things over before doing them. Fools do things without contemplation.

It's attitude, not aptitude that gives a person altitude.

The meaning of live: Try not to hurt people and try to fall in love.

Think of the talent lost to courage.

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by
trying to get them to be interested in you. (Charles L. Allen, Roads to Radiant Living)

The less you talk, the more you're listened to. (Abigail Van Buren, Universal Press Syndicate)

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
(Mary Tyler Moore)

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
(Frank A. Clark, Cowles Syndicate)

Where we love is home - Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
(Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven)

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness. (Han Suyin, A Many-Splendored Thing)

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. (Sir Thomas Browne)

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not
something one finds. It is something one creates. (Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin)

For of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest of these, "it might have been." (John Greenleaf Whittier)

When you want the dream to last, take a chance, forget the past. (GTR)

No success in life can compensate for failure at home.

Perfect love cancels out all fear. (I John)


There's a big difference in being good at what you do and being smart at what you know.
(Stephen King, Tommyknockers)

When a dreamer dreams, don't play with his vision cause it's the only thing he's got. And when a
dreamer dreams, he makes deep incisions into the world that we forgot. (John Kilzer)

I can let things happen or I can make things happen.

When you're at peace with yourself, anyplace is home.

True happiness comes when you can look at yourself and like what you see.

Celebrate your own uniqueness.

The whole world steps aside for the person who knows where he's going.

Our imaginations define our reality.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.

There's a ripple effect in all we do... What you do touches me; What I do touches you.

Love is an irresistible desire to become irresistibly desired.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with. (Giacomo Leopardi)

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness,
you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. (Emily Post, Such is Life)

Deep faith eliminates fear. (Lech Walesa, The Courage of Conviction)

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. (Norman Cousins in Saturday Review)

Nonchalance is the ability to remain calm when everything else is up in the air.
(Earl Wilson, North American Syndicate)

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path. (Phyllis McGinley, The Province of the Heart)

The greatest of all arts is the art of living together. (William Lyon Phelps, Marriage)

Throughout history, the most common debilitating human ailment has been cold feet. (Country)

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
(Arthur Koestler, The Art of Creation)

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. (Caroline Gordon, How to Read A Novel)

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
(Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals)

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than to live in a world so
small that my mind could comprehend it. (Harry Emerson Fosdick, Riverside Sermons)

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. (Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins)

My view is that to sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way
man was meant to operate. (Sen. John Glenn)

To live only for some frugal goal is shallow. It's the side of the mountain that sustains life, not the top.
(Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything. (Maxim Gorky, The Zykov's Yale University Press)

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. (Igor Sikorsky)

Thorough preparation makes its own luck. (Joe Poyer, The Contract)

Marriage should, I think, always be a little hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
(Doug Larson, United Features Syndicate)

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself.
It's what you do for others. (Danny Thomas)

You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.
(Michael Pritchard, The Power of Choice)

Everyone journeys through character as well as time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been. (Dick Francis, A Jocky's Life: The Biography of Lester Piggot)

When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in. (Aeschylus)

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. (C.S. Lewis)

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
(Robert L. Carter in Tennessee Farm Bureau News)

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
(Patricia Neal with Richard DeNeut, As I Am: An Autobiography)

Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild goose chase, and it is never attained. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you
have for which you would not accept money.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. (Franklin Roosevelt)

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
(Jan Glidewell in the St. Petersburg Times)

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
(Sandra Carey)

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were on one side only. (La Rochefoucauld)

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. (John Wayne)

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. (Elie Wiesel)

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
(William Feather, Sr. in The William Feather Magazine)

When things start going our way, it's usually because you stopped going the wrong
way down a one way street. (Los Angeles Times Syndicate)

A great teacher never strives to explain her vision - she simply invites you stand
beside her and see for yourself. (The Reverend R. Inman)

There is a difference between not thinking of a person and forgetting him.
(Werner Krause in Madame, Germany)

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they
will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity. (Herbert Miller)

Waiting's good for you. Waiting builds character. (Probably some parent)

Truce is better than friction. (Charles Herguth in Chicago Daily News)

Some things have to believed to be seen. (Ralph Hodgson, The Skylark and Other Poems)

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. (Arnold H. Glasow)

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. (Charles H. Prankhurst)

No man was ever wise by chance. (Seneca)

When you betray someone else, you also betray yourself. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road,
by trying the untried. (Frank Tyger in Forbes)

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. (O.A. Battista)

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. (Laurence Olivier)

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love
with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. (Judith Viorst in Redbook)

You can't test courage cautiously. (Annie Dillard, An American Childhood)

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the
reward for what he gave. (Calvin Coolodge)

A minute on the lips, a lifetime on the heart. (Character in Second Sight)

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras)

Most problems precisely defined are already partially solved. (Harry Lorayne, Memory Makes Money)

Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security.
(Merrit Malloy, Things I Meant to Say to You When We Were Old)

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
(Quoted by Michael O'Brien in Vince: A Personal Biography of Vince Lombardi)

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
(Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness)

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
(Mark Twain)

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. (Soren Kierkegaard)

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. (Plato)

Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships.
(Jeffry A. Timmons, The Entrepreneurial Mind)

Real love stories don't have endings. (Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever)

Far away is only far away if you don't go there. (O Povo, Fortaleza, Brazil)

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
(Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook)

What we do in our waking hours determines what we have; what we do in our
leisure hours determines what we are. (George Eastman)

The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift. (Pierre Corneille)

I still find each day to be too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to
take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. (John Burroughs)

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads,
which sew people together through the years. (Simon Signoret)

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. (Maya Angelou, The Heart of A Woman)

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you are.
(Marva Collins and Civia Tamarkin, Marva Collin's Way)

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. (Luciano Pavarotti)

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. (Mark Twain)

Ancestry is more important to those who have done nothing themselves. (Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum)

Climb up some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there.
(Robb Sagendorph, quoted by Judson Hale in The Education of A Yankee: An American Memoir)

One of the wonders of life is just that - the wonder of life. (Bill Copeland, The Herald-Tribune)

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
(Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution)

Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything. (Jean-Louis Etienne)

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds. (Robert Orben)

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. (Sam Rayburn)

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. (Joe Murray, Cox News Service)

Few wishes come true by themselves. (June Smith, Orlando Sentinel)

Opportunity's favourite disguise is trouble. (Frank Tyger in Graham, Texas, Rotary "Scandal Sheet")

Sometimes in the dark you see what you want to see. (Roger Ormerod, Still Life With a Pistol)

Silences make real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to
say that counts. (Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing)

To touch a child's face, a dog's smooth coat, a petaled flower, the rough surface of a rock is to set up
new orders of brain motion. To touch is to communicate. (James W. Angell, Yes is a World)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. (Malcolm S. Forbes in Forbes)

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. (Tommy Lasorda)

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
(Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)

There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going. (Beverly Sills)

Make no judgements where you have no compassion. (Anne McCaffrey, Dragonquest)

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures. (Gene Brown in Danbury, Conn., News Times)

Presence is more than just being there. (Malcolm S. Forbes, The Further Sayings of Chairman Malcolm)

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself. (Henry Winkler)

Pride makes some men ridiculous but prevents some men from becoming so. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you believe in, and it will come naturally. (David Frost)

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman wearing it. (Yves Saint Laurent)

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. (Arnold H. Glasow, Forbes)

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. (Lou Holtz)

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
(June Masters Bacher, Diary of a Loving Heart)

A wish is a desire without an attempt. (Farmer's Digest)

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit - and man is his own gardener. (James Allen)

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
(John Leonard in Friends and Friends of Friends by Bernard Pierre Wolff)

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the
ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. (Charles Schulz)

The particular charm of marriage is the duologue, the permanent conversation between
two people who talk over everything and everyone. (Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave)

Goals are dreams with deadlines. (Diana Scharf Hunt)

Ever notice that blunt people make the most pointed remarks? (Mary Waldrip)

Hearing a speaker say, "I hardly know where to begin," tempts one to suggest, "Somewhere near the end."
(Robert Orben in The Wall Street Journal)

Some speeches are a mile long and an inch deep. (Christian Word)

Is that an insinuendo? (Beverly Knebel)

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
(William Arthur Ward)

If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.
(Samuel P. Ginder in Washington Post)

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there
must never be a time when we fail to protest. (Elie Wiesel)

Problem or Inconvenience? (Robert Fulghum)

"What happens if I don't help you?"
"She dies. You die. Everybody dies."
(Scum in movie Heavy Metal)

The road won't be lonely if we can say at the end: We walked the way together, hand in hand.

Today's special moments become tomorrow's loving memories.

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. (G.K. Chesterton, More Quotable Chesterton)

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends
and the amount it has the nerve to collect. (Sam Ewing)

For many, life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence. (Carla B. James)

You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. (John Ciardi)

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. (Bill Cosby)

A government is the only vessel known to leak from the top. (James Reston in New York Times)
Hindsight is an exact science. (Guy Bellamy, The Sinner's Congregation)

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks most deeply
and draws more blood. (Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes)

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of the trail of memories, a dozen trails
that each have their own association. (Louis L'Amour, Ride the River)

The knowledge that a secret exists is half of the secret. (Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place)

We love those people who give with humility, or accept with ease. (Freya Stark, Perseus in the Wind)

I'd never try to learn from someone I didn't envy just a little. If I never envied, I'd never learn.
(Betsy Cohen, The Snow White Syndrome)

What's right with America is a willingness to discuss what's wrong with America. (Harry C. Bauer)

We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same horizon. (Konrad Adanauer)

Seconds flicker and twitch by. (Peter Hathaway Capstick)

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
(Henry S. Haskins, Meditations on Wall Street)

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

Damnation: Beaver country. (Howard Richler in National Lampoon)

Metronome: City elf. (Linda Dimit)

Supersedes: What you need to grow very powerful plants. (Rocky Martucci)

Standardize: The kind of eyes most of us have. (Jean M. Burgos)

Armadillo: Possum on the half-shell. (Lewis Grizzard)

If you outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall. (Quoted by Ron Logan)

She had that come-on look and that not-yet smile. (Bonnie May Malody)

The gossip of the future may not be a backbiting, nosy, tongue-wagging two-face but a
super-megabyte, random access, digital interface. (Ronald B. Zeh)

Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings
of guilt about things they should feel guilty about. (Sydney J. Harris, Hall Syndicate)

Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure. (Quoted in Dell Crossword Puzzles)

we find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. (Frank A. Clark)

Always laugh at yourself first - before others do. (Elsa Maxwell, R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story)

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. (St. Augustine)

We're living in an era where sex and horror are the new gods. (Holly Johnson, Welcome to the Pleasuredome)
IN SEARCH of P.P.R. - Permanent Perfect Relationship. (Unknown, t-shirt worn on Doogie Howser, M.D.)

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. (Tim McCarver)

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified - if he does it right. (Bill Cosby)

It doesn't pay to rub a magic lamp the wrong way.

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times more than a person who hasn't. (Mark Twain)

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire which is Truth. (E.B. White, Essays of E.B. White)

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but want a different one.
(Ivern Ball in National Enquirer)

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. (William H. Walton)

While forbidden fruit is often said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
(Abigail Van Buren, Universal Press Syndicate)

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
(Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate)

To obtain maximum attention, it's hard to beat a good, big mistake. (David D. Hewitt)

It always hurts a bit when you strike you funny bone. That's the essence of humour.
(Jim Friebig, United Feature Syndicate)

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. (Frank Sheed)

Sometimes the littlest things in life are hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more
comfortably than on a tack. (Trinity Lutheran Church Newsletter)

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. (Dorothy Parker in The Paris Review)

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he's leaping.
(Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare)

For-rent ad in the Hopkinsville Kentucky New Era: "Christian lady - has large bedroom with privileges."

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
(Robert C. Gallagher in The American Legion Magazine)

Eternity is hard to conceive of unless you've ever sat through a grand opera.
(Mike Nichols in Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

The surest way to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good. (Sid Ascher)

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade. (Noel Coward)

I will say this about being an optimist - even when things don't turn out well,
you are certain they will get better. (Frank Hughs)

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in. (Farmer's Almanac)
You can close you eyes to reality, but not to memories. (Stanislaw J. Lec, The Unkempt Thoughts)

Man creates culture and through culture creates himself. (Pope John Paul II in Osservator Romano)

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars. (Benjamin Disraeli)

If I decide I want to be an idiot, then I'll decide to be an idiot on my own accord. (Slash)

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. (Mark Twain)

The best cure for insomnia is Monday morning. (Sandy Cooly, reporter in New Holstein, Wisconsin)

There is nothing worse than being a doer with nothing to do. (Elizabeth Layton)

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. We make discoveries about ourselves. (Gail Lumet Buckley, The Hornes: An American Family)

Good sense is easier to have than to use. (James Grady, Runner in the Street)

"Well-adjusted" means you can make the same mistakes over and over again, and keep smiling.
(George Bergman in The American Legion Magazine)

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Bagel: Doughnut with rigor mortis. (Beatrice and Ira Freeman in N.Y. Times)

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. (Graffiti)

Enjoy your kids while they're young and still on your side. (Doug Larson)

Suddenly the talking ceased and the clock took over the conversation. (Edward J. Robinson)

Abortion is Satanism.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. (Cynthia Oznick in The Paris Review)

The Grand Illusion: When you're young you think it'll make you a man. When you're old you think it'll make you young.

Frog legs on the plate are better than a frog in the throat.

Sometimes the anteater gets the tongue-lashing.

A cheerful earful is sometimes fearful.

It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts. (H. Truman)

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crisis.
(Andre' Maurois, The Art of Living)

Etiquette is getting sleepy in company and not showing it. (Hyman Maxwell Berston)

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
(Isaac Bashevis Singer on "The Dick Cavett Show")

A shortcut is often the quickest way to get to some place where you weren't going.
(Classic Crossword Puzzles)

Elegance is good taste with a dash of daring. (Carmel Snow with Mary Aswell, The World of Carmel Snow)

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
(H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy)

Take it easy. Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.

An act of immaculate excretion.

The more you complain, the longer God let's you live.

A hard man is good to find.

I wouldn't let my kid hear what I do on stage. (Eddie Murphy)

Make the windows blind.

Taking a dirt nap.

Technicolour yawn.

(Lewis Cifer) Lucifer

Don't let that girl get the best of you. That's exactly what she's going to get. (JDG)

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. (John Churton Collins)

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. (Greg Easterbrook in The New Republican)

Love quickens all senses except the common. (Sunshine Magazine)

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. (The Maxims of Marcel Proust)

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, not between political parties either -
but right through every human heart. (Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago)

Each of us is the accumulation of our own memories. (Alan Loy Mcginnis, The Romance Factor)

Fubar: Fucked up beyond all recognition. (Kurt Russel in Tango and Cash)

The deepest principle in human nature is the desire to be appreciated. (Professor William James)

Nature has given to man one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice
as much as we speak. (Epictetus)

Every man I meet is in some way my superior: and in that I can learn of him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. (Georg Lichenberg)

Yeah, you had me once, or once and maybe twice... (Cheap Trick)


There is magic all around you, if I do say so myself, but I have known this much longer
than I have known you. (Stevie Nicks)

When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth. (George A. Romero)

Art consists of the persistence of memory.

I need something for the girl who wants everything.

I'm not trying to steal your heart, just borrow it a while.

The mystery of what lies ahead is a strange and wonderful question waiting for an answer.

The real secret to patience is finding something to so in the meantime.

Dreams can take you anyplace you want to go.

Sometimes I go to my own little world. But that's okay. They know me there.

I don't require much sleep. Just five minutes more.

Real winners are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.

Some days I lose everything except my sense of humour.

Be yourself! No one can tell you you're doing it wrong.

Since the beginning each generation has fought nature. Now, in the life-span of a single generation, we must turn 180 degrees and become the protector of nature. (Jacques-Yves Cousteau)

Anytime you think you have influence, try ordering someone else's dog. (The Cockle Bur)

There is something terrible, yet soothing, about returning to a place where you have once lived.
You are one of your own memories. (Mary Morris, Crossroads)

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science
crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. (Barbara W. Tuchman)

Admiration is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. (Ambrose Bierce)

If youth knew what age can tell... (Ann Landers)

The devil is a dumb spirit. All the devil knows is what you tell him with your own fat mouth.
(Frederick K. Price)

Life begins as a quest of the child for a man and ends as a journey by the man to
rediscover the child. (Laurens van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari)

Freedom never yet was given to nations as a gift, but only as a reward, bravely
earned by one's own exertions. (Lajos Kossuth)

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. (Iara Gassen)

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
(North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon)
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Fall in with it and turn it your way. (Robert Frost)

I understand, but ripping the faces off people may not be in your best interest. (Old lady in "Basket Case II")

Treat the whores like queens and the queens like whores and you won't have no problems.
(Mr. Death in Tales From the Crypt)

we never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves. (Henry Ward Beecher)

He who helps early helps twice. (Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Prime Minister of Poland)

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. (Barry M. Goldwater with Jack Casserly, Goldwater)

Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out. (Libbie Fudium)

If you want to be sure you never forget your wife's birthday, just try forgetting it once.
(Aldo Cammarota in La Opinion, Buenos Aires)

Any concern too small not to be turned into a prayer is too small to be turned into a burden.
(Corrie ten Boom, Clippings From My Notebook)

Everything starts as somebody's daydream. (Larry Niven, Niven's Laws)

We ought to be careful not to do for a fellow what we only intended to help him do.
(Frank A. Clark, Al Smith Feature Service)

Income is something you cannot live without or within. (Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games)

Nothing makes your sense of humour disappear faster than having somebody ask where it is.
(Ivern Ball, The Saturday Evening Post)

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
(Abraham Lincoln)

Advice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.
(Walt Schmidt in Los Angeles Parklabrea News)

Mediokra: Second rate vegetable. (Keneth C. Snelling)

Fast as a lottery winner making new friends. (Leda Silver)

Old truckers never die; they just semi-retire. (Arthur J. George)

I'm so broke that if a pickpocket went through my clothes all he'd get would be practice. (Blanche Cifreo)

Old philosophers never die; they Kant. (Janet L. Kragen)

Old insurance agents never die; it's against their policy. (Marian S. Schwartz)

Spermicidal Tendencies

Tattoo on my mind

Obesity: A surplus gone to waist

Poisoned by my own memories

Memory-go-round

Dream Stealer

May a weird holy man suck on your towel rack

Being apart ain't easy on this love affair, two strangers learn to fall in love again.
I get the joy of rediscovering you. (Johnathan Cain)

"Bill of Rights" - Pursuit of weirdness

Every time you go away, you take a little piece of me.

Joke 'em if they can't take a fuck. (Robin Williams)

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. (Bob Seger)

God favours drunks, small children and the caticlismically stoned. (Summed from Stephen King's IT)

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not following you.

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure
you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Her eyes betrayed what she felt in her heart. (Pumpboys and Dinettes)

It's hard to believe God made men and women smart enough to land on the moon but stupid enough to have
to learn there is no such thing as forever over and over again. (Jim Gardner inTommyknockers)

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.
(Compton MacKenzie, Cat's Company)

Judge to defendant, "It's `guilty' or `not guilty' - you can't plead `I gotta be me'" (Bob Thaves)

Attorney to defendant on witness stand, "Now, Mr. Figby, I want you to tell the
court, in my own words, exactly what happened."

Newborn making a fist at the world. (William McIlvanney)

Child asleep in his usual elaborate abandon, like an accident. (William McIlvanney)

Secluded hideaway: Impossible to find
Old world charm: No bath
Quaint: Run-down
Standard: Substandard
Deluxe: Standard
...And much, much more: That's about all there is

The optimist is the kind of person who believes a housefly is looking for a way out. (George Jean Nathan)

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
(Frank A. Clark, Al Smith Feature Service)

Question authority, but raise your hand first. (Bob Thaves, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. (Louis Kronenberger, The Cart and the Horse)

By night an atheist half-believes a God. (Edward young)

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. (Peter Ustinov)

Everything should be within arms reach with plenty of room to sit down.

And remember, wherever you go, there you are.

It's too hard to say, "au revoir" so I'll just say, "augraten." (Harry's father on Night Court)

Some people know where they're headed. (Magazine ad)

Poise: The art of making others feel as much at ease as they think you are. (Kitte Turmell)

Maturity: Acting your age instead of your urge. (Frank Tyger)

Why are narrow-minded people so thick headed? (Farmer's Almanac)

He's the kind of man you take home to your parents and leave there. (Bridget Daly and Janet Skeels)

She's so self-centered she occupies a special place in her heart. (Arnot L. Shepherd, Jr.)

What do butterflies get in their stomachs when they're nervous?
(Mary H. Waldrip in Dawson County, GA, Advertiser)

Ever notice how a minute contains 60 seconds unless it's preceded by "Just a," ? (Gloria Calentine Hoover)

The truth stood quite still in a corner of her mind. (Margaret Miller)

She was accustomed to the irritating texture of doubt. (Gloria Naylor)

Memories sat like lonely men on a park bench of his mind. (Mark McKirdy in The Bulletin)

Your pane is our pleasure. (Window cleaner's vehicle identification quoted by Karen A. Waters)

Those who know the least know it the loudest. (Joan Tosti)

He who fishes for compliments can expect to be handed a line. (Ivern Ball in The American Legion Magazine)

The future isn't what it used to be. (Paul Valery)

The restaurant is so crowded, nobody goes there anymore. (Yogi Berra)

It's understood that the most creative moment is the moment of laughter. (Unknown, Eastern Philosophy)

Open yourself up - `cause when we're all closed up... we all look the same. (JDG)

The sanity of a brilliant mind is not measured by ordinary standards. (The Shadow)

One sure way to spoil creativity is to try to organize it. (JDG)
By letting go, it all gets done; The world is won by those who let it go. (The Tao Te Ching)

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. (Paul Engle)

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most
important product of his effort is his own personality. (Erich Fromm)

Get in, get into the place that's your nature, whether it's running a corporation or picking daisies in the field, get in there and live to it, live to the fullest of it, become what you are, and I'll say to you, you've done more than most men. Most men... most of them don't ever do that. They'll work at a job and not know why. They'll marry a woman and not know why. They'll go to their graves and not know why. (E.L. Doctorow)

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that was worth mentioning? (Coleman Cox)

If you don't get everything you want, thing of the things you don't get that you don't want. (Oscar Wilde)

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. (William James)

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. (Richard Bach)

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long
as you have in your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? (Henry James)

For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquillity. (Bhagavad Gita)

What we love to do we find time to do. (John Lancaster Spalding)

Personal relations are the important things for ever and ever... (E. M. Forster)

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Whose life is it anyway? (Brian Clark)

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. (Joseph Heller)

I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no other man can ever know. (Joseph Conrad)

It is easy... terribly easy... to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that,
to break a man's spirit, is devil's work. (George Bernard Shaw)

Better to write for yourself and have no public at all than to write for the public and have no self.
(Cyril Connolly)

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never
failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models. (James Baldwin)

A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. (Navajo saying)

There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking. (Mary Lowry)

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat. (Lily Tomlin)

Men who never get carried away should be. (Malcolm Forbes)

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? (George Price)

WARNING TO ALL PERSONNEL: Firings will continue until morale improves.

Mencken's Observation: Those who can't teach, administrate. Those who
can't administrate, run for public office.

Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Government: No person’s life, liberty or
property are safe while legislature is in session.

Parkinson's 5th Law: If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. (Tallulah Bankhead)

For people who like peace and quiet: A phoneless cord.

Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65, I still had pimples. (George Burns)

People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't
seem to be leading anywhere. (Charles M. Mathias, JR.)

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. (An Wang)

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once the
hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with the pain. (James Baldwin)

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their
unused minutes into it. (Bernard Berenson)

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)

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone. (Coco Chanel)

The day will happen whether or not you get up. (John Ciardi)

Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.
(Scott Joplin; Today I will not deny my body's rhythm, added by Jonathon Lazear)

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or
wishes rather than with their minds. (Will Durant)

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. (Dame Margot Fonteyn)

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot
find footing, cannot go forward. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)

Cannibals prefer those with no spines. (Stanislaw Lew)

It takes great courage to be alone... (Jonathon Lazear)

We do not remember days, we remember moments. (Cesare Pavese)

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror; conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. (Andy Rooney)

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very
little wisdom from success, you know. (William Saroyan)

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
(William Saroyan)

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humour; it is a sign that he wants all the truth.
(Mark Van Doren)

I think anything like that - which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone - people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone? (Andrew Wyeth)

Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. (Doug Kling)

We are all in this together - by ourselves. (Lily Tomlin)

Have courage to act instead of react. (Earlene Larson Jenke)

Your goal should be just out of reach, but not out of site. (Denis Waitley and Reni L. Witt)

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially
on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents. (Carl Jung)

Few great men could pass personnel. (Paul Goodman)

Anxiety is fear of one's self. (Wilhelm Stekel)

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who
loves you a chance to love you enough. (Dinah Shore)

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. (Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, SR.)

Not seeing your father when you are small, never being with him, having a remote
father, a workaholic father, is an injury. (Robert Bly)

In the 19th century the problem was that God was dead. In the 20th century the
problem is that man is dead. (Erich Fromm)

When we can't dream any longer we die. (Emma Goldman)

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. (A. H. Weiler)

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all. (Theodore Isaac Rubin)

True nobility is being superior to your previous self. (Samuel Johnson)

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than
the thing that must be endured. (Dean Acheson)
Why are you feeling ashamed? Who have you disappointed? Whose rules are
you breaking? Someone else's, or you own? (Melody Beattie)

If there's no dancing, count me out. (Emma Goldman)

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. (William Butler Yeats)

Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love. (Antiphanes)

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. (Gelett Burgess)

No, when the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something... (Robert Browning)

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. (Thomas Hardy)

Silence does not mean inactivity. (Jonathon Lazear)

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into the torturers. (Carl Jung)

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and
self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. (Theodore Roosevelt)

If you look up a dictionary of quotations you will find few reasons for a sensible
man to desire to become wealthy. (Robert Lynd)

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
(John W. Gardner)

Sometimes it is better to listen to feelings than reason. (JDG)

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. (Thomas H. Huxley)

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. (Sir Edmund Hillary)

A man must learn to forgive himself. (Arthur Davison Ficke)

You can’t read the writing on the wall if your eyes are closed. (JDG)

All complicated questions have but simple answers. (JDG)

I’m a cat, and I stay in my place( Up there on your chair, on your bed or your face.
I’m only a cat, and I don’t finick much( I’m happy with cream and anchovies and such.
I’m only a cat, and we’ll get along fine (As long as you know I’m not yours. You’re all mine.)

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the sky.
(Jack Kerouac, On the Road)

Manual labour to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but, as he was given to saying,
it straightened out one’s thoughts. (Mary ellen Chase, A Goodly Fellowship)

It’s when you run away that you’re most likely to stumble. (Casey Robinson, The Snows of Kilimanjaro)

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. (Julie Andrews)
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in
the headlines. (Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt)

We will gladly feast on those who would devour us. (Adams Family Credo)

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that is the stuff life is made of. (Benjamin Franklin)

A four-year-old was in church when the wine and wafers were passed out. His mother leaned over and told him that he was not old enough to partake in the communion. Later, when the collection plate came by his mother again leaned over and tried to coax the nickel out of his clenched fist. He held firm and shouted, “If I can’t eat, I won’t pay.” (Erma Bombeck)

A mother knows what to do when she doesn’t see it, what to say when she doesn’t hear it,
and what you mean when you don’t say it. (Erma Bombeck)

Enjoy life... this is not a rehearsal. (Bumper sticker)

Every person is worth understanding. (Clyde M. Narramore)

According to a computer expert, if the automobile industry had made the same advances in the past 30 years that the computer industry has, a Rolls Royce would cost $ 2.60 and would get 300 miles to the gallon.

Making a baby is one of the great non-skilled acts in the world. It requires virtually no
experience, no talent, and no expertise. (Erma Bombeck)

Today has a whole new set of opportunities.

God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through. (Horace Moody)

Every man must live with the man he makes of himself. (James A. Lawson)

Kindness is a language which the deaf man can hear and the blind man can read. (Mark Twain)

Truth is, many times, stranger than fiction.

No man’s suffering is ever larger than nature intended.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get full benefit of joy you must have someone to share it with.
(Samuel Clements)

Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once. (Heilson)

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. (William Newton Clarke)

The wise man carries his possessions with him. (Bias of Priene)

Great works are performed, not by strength but by perseverance. (Samuel Johnson)

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. (Henry Home)

Of all earthly music that reaches the farthest into Heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.
(Henry Ward Beecher)

Happiness is the legal tender of the soul. (Robert Green Ingersoll)

A good spirit attracts friends.

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much of the
greatest is the possession of friendship. (Epicurus)

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand. (Thomas Brooks)

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others as by
self-examination thoroughly to know our own. (Fenelon)

Give to faith the things which belong to faith. (Sir Francis Bacon)

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
To be is the great thing. (E. H. Chapin)

A good name is a sound inheritance.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope. (Helen Keller)

An honest man’s word is as good as his bond. (Miguel de Cervantes)

The most useful virtue is patience. (John Dewey)

It is not the disease but the neglect of the remedy which generally destroys life.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks so is he. (Publius Syrus)

As long as our minds are stayed on our dear selves, we shall never have peace. (D. L. Moody)

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. (St. Augustine)

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it. (Madame Swetchine)

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. (Joseph Fort Newton)

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. (John Ruskin)

A promise should be given with caution and kept with care.

We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves. (Joseph Francois Eduard Desmahis)

Nothing is so strong as gentleness: nothing so gentle as real strength. (St. Francis de Sales)

To be loved, love. (Decimus Magnus Ausonius)

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. (Benjamin Franklin)

They can conquer who believe they can. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. (Henry George)

Every day we ought to renew our purpose. (Thomas a Kempis)

Actions, not words, are the characteristic marks of the attachment friends. (George Washington)

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. (George Washington)

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are. (Syrus)

Train up a child in the way he should go and walk there yourself once in a while. (Josh Billings)

There is nothing so costly as ignorance. (Horace Mann)

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Everybody loves a relief pitcher. He comes into the game when the team is in trouble, the bases are loaded, and someone is needed desperately to buck up the morale and make them feel they can win. A stepfather does the same thing and is accused of interfering. (Erma Bombeck)

You can’t hate me like I do. I know me better. (Pitch Shifter)

Flexibility with oneself and with others leads to maximum effectiveness. (Jonathon Lazear)

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. (Joseph Heller)

I have never seen a stronger faith than what I have seen in a child.

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. (Abraham Lincoln)

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. (Charles Dickens)

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope. (Helen Keller)

A vision without a task is a dream; a task without a vision is drudgery;
a vision and a task is the hope of the world.

Time wasted is existence; time used is life. (Young)

A Sunday school teacher asked her class if anyone knew where God is. One girl said, “He’s in the bathroom in the back of the church. My mother is always knocking on the door saying `God, are you still in there’?”
(Erma Bombeck)

Potter’s Paradox: A rumour doesn’t gain credence until it’s officially denied.

Finagle’s Second Law: No matter what the anticipated result, there will always be someone eager to:
(a) Misinterpret it; (b) Fake it; or (c) Believe it happened due to their own pet theory.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. (Albert Einstein)

Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it. (Benjamin Franklin)

Solitude is not the same as loneliness.

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. (Erich Fromm)

It is not that we suffer, but how we suffer that changes us.
Meskimen’s Law: There’s never seems to be enough time to do it right, but there’s always time to do it over.
Procrastination is a case of disorganized priorities.

Today’s misfortune can turn out to be tomorrow’s blessing.

There was a time when people lived by their values, rather than just talked about them.

Thanksgiving is an opportunity to reflect and be thankful that all of you were... and still are. (Erma Bombeck)

Hold your children with open arms; that way, they will know that they can always come home.

Be careful in judging others; they also may be judging you.

There are two approaches to the future: anxiety and optimism. One will make
you dread tomorrow, the other welcome it.

Everyone has 24 hours a day; it’s up to you how you use it. (RKH)

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it.
Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. (Richard Bach)

The simplest questions are the most profound. (Richard Bach)

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your
acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. (Richard Bach)

First Law of Debate: Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.

Kinard’s Law of Whistle-blowing: The truth will get you fired.

Sarte’s concept of Time: Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

the Office Maxim: The phone never rings when you have nothing to do.

The Student’s Tautology: The teacher is never absent the day of the exam.

Lamner’s Law of Employment: When leaving for work late, you will go unnoticed.
When leaving for work early, you will meet your boss in the parking lot.

Impatience erodes strength.

Eccentricity is overly criticized; people who are different also tend to be interesting.

Imagination is one of the greatest gifts of all.

Keep your promises.

Remember other people’s birthdays.

By letting go, it all gets done; the world is won by those who let it go! (Tao Te Ching)

One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness; not to be a mere rushing on. (D. H. Lawrence)

Chisolm’s Third Corollary: If you explain something so clearly that nobody can
misunderstand, somebody will.

Get in, get into that place that’s your nature, whether it’s running a corporation or picking daisies in the field, get in there and live to it, live to the fullness of it, become what you are, and I’ll say to you, you’ve done more than most men. Most men... most of them don’t ever do that. They’ll work at a job and not know why. They’ll marry a woman and not know why. They’ll go to their graves and not know why. (E. L. Doctorow)

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time. (Robert Grudin)

John’s Collateral Corollary: In order to get a loan you must first prove you don’t need it.

Murphy’s Asymmetry Principal: Things go wrong all at once, but things go right gradually.

When the sun shines all the time, the result is a desert.

Think before you speak. Then think again.

Fowler’s Note: The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race.

Truman’s Law: If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

People who are comfortable with silence are comfortable with themselves.

Be wary of those who speak one belief and act another.

Perseverance, not always talent, is the key to success.

Little debt leaves a light heart.

When one door closes, another opens; but we paten look so long and so regretfully upon the
closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. (Alexander Graham Bell)

The greatest gift, is the gift of life. The greatest sin, is to return it unopened.

To die is easy, to live takes ingenuity.

Character shows itself best in small actions.

I’ve got the memory of a dead elephant. (JDG)

He who laughs last... usually tells silent jokes. (JDG)

You can go a long way with a smile, you can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. (Al Capone)

Assume nothing, take no one’s word for anything, establish your own truths.
(Bucky McMahon, Scuba Diving Magazine)

The longer we live the more we learn it is not who has the most, it is who makes the most of what he has.
The aging process is a lot like grapes, some turn to vinegar, but the best turn to wine.

Wrinkles are only the by-paths of many smiles.

Only when your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism do you grow old.

Peace is when time doesn’t matter as it passes by.

As we grow older and wiser, we talk less and say more.
We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

May you have:
Enough happiness... to keep you sweet,
Enough trials... to keep you strong,
Enough sorrows... to keep you human,
Enough hope... to keep you happy,
Enough failure ... to keep you humble,
Enough Success... to keep you eager,
Enough friends... to give you comfort,
Enough wealth... to meet your needs,
Enough enthusiasm... to look forward,
Enough faith... to banish depression,
And enough determination to make each day a better day than yesterday.

Give Her A Day
What shall you give to one small girl?
A glamorous game, a baton whirl?
A baby doll, a puzzle pack?
A carriage holding her playtime grocery sack?
A fairy popup book, a real live pet?
No, there’s plenty of time for such things yet.
Give her a day for her very own.
Just one small girl and her Dad alone.
A walk in the wood, a romp in the park,
A fishing trip from dawn to dark.
Give her the gift that only you can,
The companionship of her “Old Man.”
Games are outgrown and toys decay,
But she’ll never forget
If you give her a day.

Give Him A Day
What shall you give to one small boy?
A glamorous game, a tinseled toy?
A Boy Scout knife, a puzzle pack?
A train that runs on some curving track?
A picture book, a real live pet?
No, there’s plenty of time for such things yet.
Give him a day for his very own.
Just one small boy and his Dad alone.
A walk in the wood, a romp in the park,
A fishing trip from dawn to dark.
Give him the gift that only you can,
The companionship of his “Old Man.”
Games are outgrown and toys decay,
But he’ll never forget
If you give him a day.

It’s up to us whether age brings wisdom or age comes alone.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Growing old wisely means making more opportunities than we find.

Just remember, in the end we all end up being people. (ELG)

There is a wonder in reading Braille the sighted will never know: to touch words and have
them touch you back.

Neither endings nor beginnings...only forks in the road...

There’s no future in time travel.

It’s a safe bet a woman can have any man - Almost any man is or will be attracted to any woman who is attracted to him. (JDG)

Unknown forces rule more absolutely than the truth. (Mel Prophet, Wiseguy)

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of the alternatives.

The more complex the mind, the more the need for simplicity of play. (Dr. Leonard McCoy)

A great mountain cannot be moved, but a giant wave can be broken by the prow of a canoe. (Maori Saying)

Genius is superlative attention to minute details. (Albert Einstein)

Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.

You can learn a lot just by watching. (JDG)

Kiss me twice. I’m a schizophrenic.

Everyone hates me because I’m paranoid.

If your feet smell and your nose runs - you’re built upside down.

Can you imagine the silence if everyone said only what he knows? (Karel Capek)

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. (Charles Lamb)

Ancient Chinese Curse: May all your wishes be granted.

Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

Crittendon’s 14th application of Murphy’s First law: You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.

Professionals are people who do their job well even when they don’t feel like it.

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.

It’s always easy to see both sides of an issue we are not particularly concerned about.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Life is complex; it consists of real and imaginary parts.

The true test of intelligence is not how much we know, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do. (John Holt)

Murphy’s seventh corollary: every solution breeds new problems.

Gillenson’s Law of Expectation: Never get excited over how people look from behind.

An unbreakable toy can be used to break other toys.

God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.

A guy has to get fresh once in a while so the girl doesn’t lose her confidence.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise.

If some people didn’t tell you, you’d never know they’d been away on vacation.

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think they’ll hate you.

Never call a man a fool, borrow from him.

Never say you know a man, until you divide an inheritance with him.

Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go to Hell to get it.

Murphy’s Corollary: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Murphy’s constant: Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to it’s value.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the soul of genius.

A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time, never.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance.

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” (Mae West)

Katz’s Law: Men and women will act rationally when all other possibilities are exhausted.

You can lead a man to slaughter, but you can’t make him think.

If you can’t understand it, it is intuitively obvious.

Handy Guide to Modern Science:
1) If it’s green or it wiggles, it’s biology.
2) If it stinks, it’s chemistry.
3) If it doesn’t work, it’s physics.

Law of Reruns: If you have watched a TV series only once, and you watch it again, it will be a rerun of the same episode.

Love is a matter of chemistry; sex is a matter of physics.

Korman’s Conclusion: The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.
Harver’s Law: A drunken man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. (Jean Rosseau)

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry. (William Sydney Porter)

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. (Norman Douglas)

If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called upon to repeat it. (Calvin Coolidge)

You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he’ll have to touch it to be sure.

A hunter who knows how to hunt hunts without his dog.

A thing not worth doing is a thing not worth doing well.

Interchangeable devices won’t.

In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.

Bye’s First law of Model Railroading: Anytime you wish to demonstrate something, the number of faults encountered is proportional to the number of viewers.

If you put your supper dish to your ear you can hear the sounds of a restaurant. (Snoopy)

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. (Tom Robbins)

Murphy’s Fourth Law: If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one causing the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Murphy’s Fifth Law: If anything just can’t go wrong, it will anyway.

Chisolm’s Third Law: If you explain so clearly that no one can misunderstand, somebody will.

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.

Law of Communications: The result of improved and enlarged communications is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.

Murphy’s Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Cole’s Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.

The Peter Principle: In every hierarchy, each employee tends to rise to his level incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to execute his duties.

Parkinson’s First Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

Internal consistency is more highly valued than efficiency.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

Sevareid’s Law: The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Any given program, once running, is obsolete.

If a program is useful, it will have to be changed. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back you’ve got something.

The first myth of management is that it exists.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. (Rudyard Kipling)

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Thomas Alva Edison)

Schmidt’s Law: If you mess with a thing long enough, it’ll break.

Law of research: Enough research will tend to support your theory.

Mair’s Law: If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.

Peter’s Placebo: An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Cole’s Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Eat a live toad the first in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Langsam’s Law: Everything depends.

First Law of Laboratory Work: Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass.

MacDonald’s Second Law: Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number
and give it back to them.

Conway’s Law: In every organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on.
This person must be fired.

Nothing motivates a man more than seeing his boss putting in an honest days work.

After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

First Law of Revision: Information necessitating a change of design will be conveyed to the designer after - and only after - the plans are complete. (Also known as the `Now They Tell Us Law’)

Second Law of Revision: The more innocuous the modification appears to be, the further its influence will extend and the more plans will have to be redrawn.

Corollary to the First Law of Revision: In simple cases, presenting one obvious right way versus on obvious wrong way, it is often wiser to choose the wrong way, so as to expedite subsequent revision.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can atop a mountain.

(The New OCCC Motto)
The six steps in a project:
1) Unbound enthusiasm
2) Total disillusionment
3) PANIC!!
4) frantic search for the guilty
5) Punishment of the innocent
6) Promotion of the uninvolved

Kill a few people... they call you a murderer. Kill a million... they call you a conqueror.
(Bad guy in Cliffhanger)

If God made anything more beautiful than a woman He kept it in Heaven for Himself.
(Doorman at Sam’s Club)

Foolishly held consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. (Emerson)

You will know she’s the one for you, when you don’t have to ask if she is the one for you. (JDG)

A man’s actions don’t always equal the sum of his psychological parts. (Bad guy in In The Line Of Fire)

There’s no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

You could spend more and get less, but let’s leave that up to the government. (Equalizer ad)

If you’re in an elevator, wait until the door is fully shut before scratching your butt
or picking your nose. (JDG)

You don’t have to deny the past to make yourself a future.

No need to ask me to speak her name, a silent candle does the same.

And the poet lifts his pen while the soldier sheaths his sword.

Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves for they will always be amused.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.
It is pleasant & Proper to be foolish once in a while.

Immature love says, ”I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.”
The soul of a woman lives in love.

1. Be kind to one another
2. Agree beforehand how money is to be handled.
3. When problems arise, don’t hesitate to discuss all areas of disagreement frankly and without rancor.
You MUST communicate if you want a marriage to work.

Love and marriage are like a circle. The more you do for a man, the more he loves you. The more he loves you the more he tries to do for you. The more he tries to do for you, the more you love him. And so it goes. It’s so simple. Why don’t more people figure it out?

A happy marriage is simply when mates treat each other as friends.

Chinese Proverb: All a parent can do is give a child roots and wings.

Love never makes demands. Love is unconditional acceptance of his and her feelings.

Love is trust - a place to rest, where comfort is provided by tender hands, where each is secure because each is cherished.

A person needs to be loved the most when he deserves to be loved the least.

There is no limitation to forgiveness; no injury so gross it ought not be forgiven.

A person who does not understand another’s silences will not understand his words either.

There is nothing so bad that it could not be worse. There‘s little that time will not mend and troubles, no matter how quickly they come, eventually will come to an end.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of LIFE’S longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

“How to handle a woman? Mark me well, and I’ll tell you, Sir. The way to handle a woman - is to love her, simply love her, merely love her, love her, love her.” (King Arthur, Camelot)

There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.
(Things you’ll learn if you live long enough so you might as well know now.)

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning handsprings, or eating with chopsticks.
It looks easy until you try it. (Things you’ll learn if you live long enough so you might as well know now)

An Indian Prayer: O’ Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds, and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me! I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears sharp to hear your voice. Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people. Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock. I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy - myself. Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes. So when life fades, as the fading sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame.
(Sioux Tribe)

Whatever you do - somebody will find it evil. (JDG)

Before this day is out you will be begging for me to kill you. (Doubting Thomas, Father Says,)

With your permission, Sir, I will enlighten you. (Doubting Thomas, Father Says,)

Featherkile’s Law: Whatever you did, that’s what you planned.

While byrographic plants are typically encountered in substrata of earthly or mineral matter in concreted state, discrete substrata elements occasionally display a rough spherical configuration which, in the presence of sufficient gravitational and other effects, lends itself to combined translatory and rotational motion. One notices in such cases, the absence of otherwise typical accretion of byrophyta. We can therefore conclude; a rolling stone gathers no moss. (Professor Gordon’s Rule)

Buster thanked the mice for a wonderful party and then he ate them. (Kat Caverlly)

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

Bumper Sticker: Support mental health or I’ll kill you. (Stephen King, Insomnia)

Youth is a gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Age is a matter of mind; if you don't mind, it doesn’t matter.

The aging process is a lot like grapes, some turn to vinegar but the best turn to wine.

Smart enough to know better, old enough not to care.

You have to climb the mountain to appreciate the beauty of the view.

Age stiffens the joints but softens the heart.

The tomorrow I worried about is better than the yesterday.

I'm old enough to know the rules and smart enough to break them.

Young at heart, slightly older in other places.

So long as the heart receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage you will be young.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Growing older means realizing that our life is what our thoughts make it.

Because you see someone’s printed criticism or opinion doesn’t mean they’re correct in their assumption. (JDG)

Do not merely believe in miracles - rely on them. (JDG)

The DREA Law: Under the most rigorously controlled conditions, the experimental apparatus will do exactly as it pleases.

A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will disappear.

A drunken man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Forgive, remember. (JDG)

When you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

People will accept you idea much more readily if you tell them Bejamin Franklin said it first.

In America, it’s not how much an item costs that matters, it’s how much you save.

The difference between a politician and a snail is that a snail leaves its slime behind.

I only like two kinds of women: domestic and foreign.
All requests for sick leave must be approved two weeks in advance.

Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.

The devil finds work for idle glands.

If it works, don’t fix it.

Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.

Archbishop: A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that obtained by Christ.

Thoreau’s Law: If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intention of doing you good, you should run for your life.

de la Lastra’s Law: After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.

de la Lastra’s Corollary: After and access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.

Many a family tree needs trimming.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

One family builds a wall, two families enjoy it.

One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Reputation: What others are not thinking of you.

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains because the average man can see better than he can think.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep.

The plural of spouse is spice.

There’s so much to say but you eyes keep interrupting me.

To keep you friends treat them kindly; to kill them, treat them often.

To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.

A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. (Paul Erlich)

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Software suppliers are trying to make their packages more `user-friendly’... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words `user-friendly’ on the cover. (Bill Gates)

Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy!

The probability of someone watching you is directly related to the stupidity of your actions.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. (George B. Shaw)

Mr. Watson, come here. I need you. (Alexander Graham Bell)

It’s a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat. (Wilson Mizner, comment about Hollywood)

There are truths which can kill a nation. (Jean Giraudoux)

What passes for woman’s intuition is often nothing more than man’s transparency.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.

The biggest mistake you can make is to believe you are working for someone else.

Running a business is about 95% people and 5% economics.

It’s easier to make true enemies than true friends.

A crisis is when you can’t say, “Let’s forget the whole thing.”

Never get excited over how people look from behind.

Never test for an error condition you don’t know how to handle.

Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.

All great discoveries are made by mistake.

A meeting is where minutes are kept and hours are lost.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Some people manage by the book; even though they don’t know who wrote the book or even what book.

Finagle’s Second Law: no matter what the experiment’s result, there will always be someone eager to:
A) Misinterpret it. B) Fake it. C) Believe it supports his own pet theory.

Chinese Proverb: The more you know, the more luck you will have.

Train your child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)

No temptation has overtaken you that is uncommon to man. God is faithful and He will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (I Corinthians 10:13)

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

The race is not always to the swift... but to those who keep on running.

The race for quality has no finish line.

You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Leaders are like eagles; they don’t flock, you find them one at a time.

Energy and persistence will conquer all things.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching out and lifting people up.

Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel than allows common people to attain uncommon results.

If it is to be, it is up to me.

Opportunity always involves some risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.

A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprint of your ultimate achievements.

The key to happiness is having dreams... The key to success is making dreams come true.

You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Excellence can be attained if you... Care more than others think is wise. Risk more than others think is safe.
Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Attitude is everything: Attitude is the way you think. Your attitude is something other people can actually see. They can hear it in your voice, see it in the way you move, feel it when they are with you. Your attitude expressing itself in everything you do, all the time, wherever you are. Positive attitudes always invite positive results. Negative attitudes always invite negative results. Attitude makes a difference every hour, every day, in everything you do for your entire life. What you get out of each thing you do will equal the attitude you have when you do it. Anything you do with a positive attitude will work for you. Anything done with a negative attitude will work against you. If you have a positive attitude, you are looking for ways to solve the problems you can solve, and you are letting go of the things over which you have no control. You can develop a positive attitude by emphasizing the good, by being tough-minded, and by refusing defeat.
What disgusts me about people who tell you what’s wrong or right - is their own ignorance. (JDG)

If I had influence with the good fair, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. (Rachel Carson)

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. (Marie Beynon Ray)

If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
(Admiral Grace Murray Hopper)

It takes just as much energy to wish as it does to plan. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of want to try it. (Margaret Chase Smith)

What the hell - you might be right, you might be wrong... but don’t just avoid. (Katharine Hepburn)

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. (Beverly Sills)

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only was we can leave our future open. (Lillian Smith)

Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded. (Anita Roddick)

And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. (Erica Jong)

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. (Helen Keller)

My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been. (Diane Arbus)

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love passion. (Nadia Boulanger)

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, “I’m with you kid. Let’s go.” (Maya Angelou)

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. (Helen Keller)

For the sake of making a living we forget to live. (Margaret Fuller)

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. (Amelia Earhart)

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. (Diane Ackerman)

Never compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. (Betty Ford)

He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints. (Helen Ottway)

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. (Helen Hayes)

Some of the most important things in life aren’t things. (Linda Ellerbee)

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. (Helen Keller)

It’s amazing how many cares one loses when one decides not to be something,
but to be someone. (Coco Chanel)

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. (Annie Dillard)

It doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. (Lucille Ball)

You may have a fight to battle more than once to win it. (Margaret Thatcher)

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. ((Ella Fitzgerald)

Success doesn’t come to you. You go to it. (Marva Collins)

Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. (Oprah Winfrey)

The person who knows `how’ will always have a job. The person who knows `why’ will always be his boss. (Diane Ravitch)

I was born to shiver in the draft from an open mind. (Phyllis McGinley)

Innovators are inevitably controversial. (Eva Le Gallienne)

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Anna Freud)

Excellence makes people nervous. (Shana Alexander)

Imagination is the highest kite you can fly. (Lauren Bacall)

No man or woman who tries to pursue and idea in his or her own way is without enemies. (Daisy Bates)

If I’m too strong for some people, that’s their problem. (Glenda Jackson)

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. (Margaret Thatcher)

Self-reliance is the answer to the question, “Who can I turn to?” (Patricia Sampson)

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back. (Elizabeth David)

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
(Elizabeth Harrison)

The best index to a person’ character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good - and how he treats people who can’t fight back. (Abigail Van Buren)

Appreciation in any form any time brightens anyone’s existence. (Ruth Stafford Peale)

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. (Mary Kay Ash)

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don’t be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. (Merry Browne)
Ideas are a dime a dozen, but the men and women who implement them are priceless. (Mary Kay Ash)

You cannot manage men into battle. You manage things; you lead people. (Admiral Grace Murray Hopper)

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead)

I don’t think you should ever manage something that you don't care passionately about. (Deborah Coleman)

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked-out systems or traditional blueprints from the past. (Margaret Mead)

you have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. (Ruth Smeltzer)

The human heart, at whatever age, opens the heart that opens in return. (Marie Edgeworth)

The heart that gives - gathers. (Hannah Moore)

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. (Elizabeth Bibesco)

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. (Edith Wharton)

Worry is a misuse of the imagination. (Audrey Woodhall)

If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
(Mary Hemingway)

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. (Katharine Hepburn)

The perception of a problem is always relative. Your headache feels fine to the druggist.
(Ramona E. F. Arnett)

A little of what you fancy does you good. (Marie Lloyd)

Too much of a good thing is wonderful. (Mae West)

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

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.
(Rose Lane)

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Colette)

Love doesn’t make the world go `round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. (Audrey Woodhall)

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. (Elizabeth Bowen)

Love is like fresh bread. It has to be re-made all the time. (Ursula K. LeGuin)

If you love someone, then hurry up and show it. (Rose Zadra, age 6)

Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone’s heart and to feel it in your own. (Ruth Stafford Peale)

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. (Phyllis Diller)

Trouble is part of life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. (Dinah Shore)

Go ahead and cry. I’ll catch your tears. (Jileen Russell)

Love your enemies - it will drive them nuts. (Eleanor Doan)

My friends are my estate. (Emily Dickenson)

You are loved. If so, what else matters? (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. (Oprah Winfrey)

It is never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot)

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford)

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. (Anne Frank)

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.
(Lily Tomlin)

Every human being on this earth is born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don’t have the courage to do it. (Helen Hayes)

Do you know why grown-ups are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up? It’s because they’re looking for ideas. (Paula Poundstone)

You can have the results you say you want, or you can have the all the reasons why you can’t have them. But you can’t have both. Reasons or results. You get to choose. (Susan Carlson)

In a word, I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
(Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

you never grow old until you’ve lost all your marvels. (Merry Browne)

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t say much. (Germain Glidden)

I shall not grow conservative with age. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

If you rest, you rust. (Helen Hayes)

Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.
(Katherine Mansfield)

I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say. (Ingrid Bergman)

you can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing. (Marie Stopes)

Beauty is not caused. It is. (Emily Dickenson)

If I had my life to live over, I’d like to make more mistakes next time. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more troubles, but fewer imaginary ones. (Nadine Stair, age 81)

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. (George Eliot)

640K ought to be enough for anybody. (Bill Gates)

"Beam me aboard, Scotty!" "A 2x4, sir?"

Hobbes did it , Mom!

“How to Budget Your Money" by I.R.S.

Illiterate? ... Write for FREE help.

“Maytag" is my middle name; I'm an agitator.

The dummy is the one who doesn't ask questions.

(((((YOU)))))((((ARE))))(((((FEELING)))))(((((SLEEPY)))))

**FLASH** Energizer bunny arrested, charged with battery.

113 grams, 10 milliliters ... he's lead, Jim.

586, 32MB 40ns RAM, 4GB 2ms HD, now Windows will beat DOS.

640k = 4 Megs In Dog Bytes.

667: Satan's neighbor...

77.43% of all statistics are made up.

8 of 10 people suffer hemorrhoids. Two enjoy them.

A BANDAID!? Damn it Jim, I’m a doctor, not a - oh, never mind.

A day without sunshine is like night.

A few more questions, Mr. Computer. (Moriarty)

A library serves no purpose unless someone is using it.

A lottery is just a tax on people who are bad at math.

A mutated, superior man could also be a wonderful thing.

A room should reflect its occupant.
A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior.

Advertising is legalized lying. (H.G. Wells)

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Anything you say will be misquoted & used against you.

As you think, so will you be.

Borg Burgers. We do it our way. Your way is irrelevant.

Call it a hunch. (Quasimodo)

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Common sense is the least common of all senses.

Compassion ( that's the one thing no machine ever had.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Do not disturb. Already disturbed.

Do not look in laser with remaining eye.

First study the enemy. Seek weakness.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

He has a train of thought. You have a tricycle...

HICK: A person who goes to a family reunion to meet girls.

I like a person who operates at a 90ø angle to reality.

I played poker with tarot cards; got a flush & 5 people died.

I wouldn't be caught dead with a necrophiliac. (BOREALIS)

I'm having an old friend for dinner. ( H. Lecter)

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

If I buy the steel wool, would you knit me a Porsche?

If this is tourist season, why can't I shoot any?

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Irony: God gave the tortoise a drag factor of .03.

It was like the time I stapled balogna to my face...

Jesus saves ... Passes to Moses ... Shoots ... Scores!

Jesus saves sinners and redeems them for valuable prizes.

Make yourself necessary to somebody. (Emerson)

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. (Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes)

If we refunded your money and if we gave you your next one free and shot the manager,
THEN would you be happy? (Pizza Shoppe Sign)

The discipline of prayer, though mysterious, is the unquestioned avenue to spiritual depth and vibrance throughout Christian history. Even Jesus prayed - and called us to pray. Prayer is the door to vision, passion, courage, and calling for life. (Keith Mannes)

Why ?!!? - because on Thursday the grass is always greener next to the eggshells.

Why ?!!? - because there aren’t any bones in ice cream.

It’s not the people who die that miss us, it’s the people left behind. (Chip Hanaur)

Sometimes those who are most worthy of love are not always made happy by it.
(Grandmother, Dangerous Liasons)

Pride is what makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all-time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. (Vince Lombardi)

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (James B. Conant)

The secret is to become wise before you get old. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down. (Leo Rosenburg)

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. (Old Indian saying)

When an old person dies, a library is lost. (Tommy Swann)

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive. (Sir James Jeans)

Regardless of what company you work for, never forget the most important product you’re selling is yourself. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It’s just a matter of how you view them. (Unknown)

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do. (Helen Keller)

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson)

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of your. Never excuse yourself. (Henry Ward Beecher)
If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail, or would it go for a bargain-basement price?
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. (Mark Twain)

Don’t be afraid to take big steps. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George)

What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. (Coach Bear Bryant)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. (Mother Teresa)

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or something to be enthusiastic about. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

A group of two hundred executives were asked what makes a person successful. Eighty percent listed enthusiasm as the most important quality. (Unknown)

Oh the difference between nearly right and exactly right. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. (Vince Lombardi)

A friend is a gift you give yourself. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

To have a friend, be a friend. (Old saying)

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln)

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Happiness is an inside job. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. (Chilton)

Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

No legacy is so rich as honesty. (William Shakespeare)

When you tell the truth, you never have to worry about your lousy memory. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. (Thomas Jefferson)

You see things that are and say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”
(George Bernard Shaw)

There are no important jobs, no unimportant people, no unimportant acts of kindness.
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again. (William Penn)


This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
(William Lyon Phelps)

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who’ll never find it out. (Frank A. Clark)

We don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything. (Thomas Edison)

The manager administers, the leader innovates. The manager maintains, the leader develops. The manager relies on systems, the leader relies on people. The manager counts on controls, the leader counts on trust. The manager does things right, the leader does the right thing. (Fortune Magazine)

Treasure the love your receive above all. It will suffice long after your gold and good health have vanished.
(Og Mandino)

Who, being loved, is poor? (Oscar Wilde)

you will find as your look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. (Henry Drummond)

Men always want to be a woman’s first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man’s last romance. (Unknown)

We two form a multitude. (Ovid)

Marriage is an empty box. It remains empty unless you put in more than you take out.
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. (Socrates)

If you’re looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. (Francis Bacon)

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. (George Crane)

Don’t wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. (Chinese Proverb)

Father’s are pals nowadays because they don’t have the guts to be fathers. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)

In the game of life even the 50-yard line seats don’t interest me. I came to play! (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Do it! Move it! Make it happen! No one ever sat their way to success. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge)

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

We do not see things as they are. We see things as they are. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Always consider yourself a first-class citizen of the world. no one deserves better treatment than you.
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Be good to yourself. be patient. Be kind. Be forgiving. After all, you’re all you’ve got.
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Self-reliance is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Self-reliance is like a flashlight; no matter how dark it gets, it will help you find your way.
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

you are free the moment you do not look outside yourself for someone to solve your problems.
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Not in time, place, or circumstance, but in the man lies success. Charles Rouce)

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. (Bessie Anderson Stanley)

Behind every successful man stands a proud wife and surprised mother-in-law. (Brooks Hays)

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. (Norman MacEwan)

The true measure of success is not what you have, but what you can do without.
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

there is never a wrong time to do the right thing. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. (Roy Disney)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. (Confucius)

More people rust than wear out. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

95% of all people are asleep between the ears. (Richard K. Hill)

The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you work for someone else. (Unknown)

Work well done is art. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

How To Make A Speech:
Be sincere.
Be Brief.
Be seated.
(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

The man with imagination is never alone. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Life doesn’t come with an instruction book - that’s why we have fathers. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.s’ Dad)

Life is a cookie jar, keep it full of home grown treats and it attracts all who enter your kitchen.
(Erika L. Gomer)

Life is our washing machine, you have to load the clothes evenly or it’ll shake violently. (Erika L. Gomer)

Life is a quilt, each tiny, tedious, careful stitch creates a thing of beauty to help keep you warm
on cold nights. (Erika L. Gomer)

Life is a mirror, no matter what measures you take to conceal, play up or imagine yourself to be... when faced, it reflects honestly what you are. (Erika L. Gomer)

“Gee.” - A binkie is all you need. - (Maximillian Alexander Gomer)

If you do not know your design,
You will try to be something you cannot achieve.
If you do not know your fate,
You will become reckless and wild.
This will lead you into danger. (Carl Japikse, The Tao of Meow)

To see the Way in others is the first step to wisdom.
To see the Way in yourself is an omen of good to come.
To rule by invoking the Way withing others
Takes you many miles.
To let the Way rule yourself completes the journey.

To know that the Way satisfies your needs
Is the first step to wealth.
To persevere in meeting your goals is an omen of spring.
To sustain your efforts no matter the obstacle
Will give you good fortune.

And if you can take it with you when you die,
You truly have found the Way.
(Carl Japikse, The Tao of Meow, #33)

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains because the average man can see better than he can think. (Unknown)

If you’re going to kill time, use a bazooka. (Unknown)

Due to recent cutbacks the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. (Bumber Sticker)

An honest politician is one who, when bought, stays bought.


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Take absurdity to its limit: It becomes philosophy. (Carl Japikse, The Tao of Meow)

Be content to let greatness be great:
Have the common sense to be common.
(Carl Japikse, The Tao of Meow,)


You cannot move mountains,
If you believe them to be mountains.
You must think of them as collections of small stones,
Which can be moved one at a time,
And then reassembled.

Make work difficult, and it cannot be done.
Make it simple, and even a simpleton can do it.
There is great virtue in hard work,
As long as someone else is doing it.
(Carl Japikse, The Tao of Meow, #63)

How much truth can a cliche convey?
Cliches are dull, worn out, overused.
Truth is full of light and vigir. It sparkles.
Take truth and twist it - you get a cliche.
It hides the truth.
Behind conundrums, paradoxes, and puzzles.
But then, when you untwist again,
The truth falls out all over you.
This is the virtue of a twisted mind.
For this reason, the Wise Cat develops a twisted mind -
A mind that can endure
The contortions of logic and rhetoric
And still grasp the simple, whole truth
Within cliches and contradictions
Of those who think themselves wise.
The Wise Cat claims to know little;
Therefore, he knows much.
The Wise Cat does not strut on railings;
Therefore he never falls off.
The Wise Cat does not brag;
Therefore he is thought to be perfect.
The Wise Cat does not praise his own acts;
He knows this is the duty of humans.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. (Georges Braque)

To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.

Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.When you have a twisted mind,
You never have to worry
About people misunderstanding you-
It goes without saying.
You will never be accused of being dull,
Because you will always be coming up with a new twist!
If this doesn’t make sense,
Don’t blame me.
It’s just your own twisted mind that is confusing you.
I know exactly what I am saying.
It’s up to you to untwist your own preconceptions,
If you hope to understand
These brilliant triths.
Meow.
(Carl Japikse, The Tao of Meow, #23)

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair. (John Boyle O'reilly)

Computers are black holes for one’s time. (JDG)

Chisolm's Third Law, Corollary 3: Procedures designed to implement the purpose won't quite work.

No matter how small,
Every household should have cats.
A house without cats
Is an empty shell,
Devoid of purpose,
Useless in function.
The people who live in such a house
Will constantly fight with each other
And have no understanding of life.
Let the neighbors have dogs-
What do they know?
You can only know the Meow
If you have cats.
(Carl Japikse, The Tao of Meow,)

Let's just be friends and make no special effort to ever see each other again.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

Most men are fond of giving bad advice to console themselves for their inability to give good examples. (JDG)

Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

The luck that is ordained for you will be coveted by others.

The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn't.

To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult to criticize the competent.

Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.

Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File".

If nobody uses it, there's a reason.

Bicycle Law: All bicycles weigh 50 pounds: A 30 pound bicycle needs a 20 pound lock. A 40 pound bicycle needs a 10 pound lock. A 50 pound bicycle doesn't need a lock.

People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues

Experience varies directly with the amount of equipment ruined.

Confession is good for the soul, but bad for your career.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?...The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature. To think is to act. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Art is the path of the creator to his work. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays)
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. (Thomas A. Edison)

Art hath an enemy called ignorance. (Ben Jonson)

Art never expresses anything but itself. (Oscar Wilde)

Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

One science only will one genius fit: So vast is art, so narrow human wit. (Alexander Pope)

So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

Let each man exercise the art he knows. (Aristophanes)

The man who never in his mind and thought traveled to heaven, is no artist....Mere enthusiasm is the all in all....Passion and expression are beauty itself. (William Blake)

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or fiend, by prayer or by wine.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. (William Blake)

Beauty is not caused, It is. (Emily Dickinson)

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. (O. W. Holmes)

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. (W. S. Maugham)

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. (Benjamin Franklin)

Everything may happen. (Seneca, Epistuloe ad Lucilium)

I shall show the cinders of my spiritsThrough the ashes of my chance. (William Shakespeare)

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. (Confucius)

Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Change in all things is sweet. (Aristotle, Rhetoric)

Presume not that I am the thing I was. (William Shakespeare)

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. (Samuel Johnson)

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of becoming. (Carlyle, Essays)

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. (Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. (Addison, The Spectator)

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. (Bertrand Russell)

What is now proven was once only imagined. (William Blake)

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
(Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius)

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth (more than ruin more even than death)....Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. (Bertrand Russell)

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit. (Henry Adams)

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. (Samuel Butler)

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
(Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus)

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. (Samuel Clemens)

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. (Confucious)

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse
himself, he kills for the sake of killing. (Josef de Maistre, Considerations sur la France)

Only the passions, only great passions, can elevate the mind to great things. (Denis Diderot)

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. (Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
(Albert Einstein)

Every man alone is sincere. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Life is a festival only to the wise. (Ralph Waldo Emerson.)

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. (Robert Frost)

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

We will either find a way or make one. (Hannibal)

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. (Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes)

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. (Sir Isaac Newton)

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the whole world.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. (Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation)

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul. (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace)

To hold a pen is to be at war. (Voltaire)

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde)

All great ideas are dangerous. (Oscar Wilde)

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost? (Samuel Beckett)

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. (A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner)

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing; the rest is mere sheep-herding.
(Ezra Pound, ABC of Learning)

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
(Ezra Pound, ABC of Learning)

Philosophy is the battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince)

Life is nothing until it is lived. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

I do not pretend to understand the universe. It is a great deal bigger than I am.
(Tom Stoppard, Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon)

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown, and I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. (Tom Stoppard)

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying. (John Updike)

Less is more, in prose as in architecture. (Donald Hall)

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. (Amiel, Journal, 13 Aug 1865)

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

They know enough who know how to learn. (Henry Adams, Education of Henry Adams)

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality. (Aldous Huxley)

The strongest man on earth is he who stands most alone. (Henrik Ibsen)

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. (Oscar Wilde)

Your body is the harp of your soul. (Kahlil Gibran)

Character is long-standing habit. (Plutarch)

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. (Joseph Conrad)

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. (Mark Twain)

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture. (Epicurus)

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him. (Lord Halifax)

We boil at different degrees. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (George Santayana)

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's emotions. (E. M. Forster)

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. (Kahlil Gibran)

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. (E. M. Forster)

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. (Lionel Trilling)

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. (Robert Frost)

Character and intelligence are the poles your talent spins on, displaying your gifts.
(Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom)

The absurd is clear reason recognizing its limits. (Albert Camus, Le Suicide Philosophique)

The morality of art is in its very beauty. (Gustave Flaubert)

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. (Edmond de Goncourt, Journal, 3 Sep 1855)

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.
(Barbey d'Aurevilly)

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you create the fact.
(William James)

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written. (Oscar Wilde)

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. (Eric Hoffer)

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. (Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954)

Neither intelligence nor judgment are creative. If a sculptor is nothing but science and intelligence, his hands will have no talent. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. (Martin Luther King, Jr)

All the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features. (Joseph Joubert, Pensees, 1842)

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

I have no idea what the mind of a low-life scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like: it is terrifying. (Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906)

Wild animals never kill for sport. (James A. Froude, Oceana)

Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James A. Froude, Oceana)

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter. (John Keats)

The true, strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally things great and small.
(Samuel Johnson)

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. (Henry Miller, Reunion in Brooklyn)

Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets. (George Eliot)
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better. (Emile Zola)

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (George Santayana, Little Essays)

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars. (Andre Gide, Journals, 4 Aug 1930)

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. (Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country)

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. (Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1508)

The direction is the mind is more important than its progress. (Joseph Joubert, Pensees, 1842)

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity. (Maurice Barres)

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The true poem is the poet's mind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I can promise to be frank, I cannot promise to be impartial. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. (Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain)

Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions. (Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, 1844)

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. (William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's. (Dean W. R. Inge)

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (George Santayana, Little Essays, 1920)

Every situation(nay, every moment(is of infinite worth, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. (Albert Camus, The Rebel, 1951)

There's no one so transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep. (Somerset Maugham)

There can be no progress, real moral progress, except in the individual and by the individual himself.
(Charles Baudelaire)

It is easier to judge a person's mental capacity by his questions than by his answers. (Le Duc de Levis)

Man is the cruelest animal. (Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra)

One may understand the cosmos, be ut never thego; the self is more distant than any star.
(G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908)

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing. (David Letterman)

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.
(Sam Ewing, Mature Living)

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth your effort. (Herm Albright)

Why do I write? Because I find life unsatisfactory. (Tennessee Williams)

Words are a lense to focus one’s mind. (Ayn Rand)

One’s mind needs constant fertilization or it will die. (JDG)

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
(Albert Einstein)

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. (Aeschylus)

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. (Robert Burton)

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. (Herbert Hoover)

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity, she finally began to enjoy being a woman. (Betty Friedan)

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. (G. K. Chesterton)

You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty. (Sacha Guiltry)

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. (Jim Backus)

What you cannot understand you cannot possess. (Goethe)

He who does not understand your silence probably does not understand your words. (Elbert Hubbard)

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. (Carl Jung)

I’ve known countless people who were reservoirs of learning yet never had a thought. (Wilson Mizner)

Whoever is delighted in solitude is either a beast or a god. (Francis Bacon)

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. (Henry David Thoreau)

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. (Josh Billings)

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. (Charles De Gaulle)

Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish. (Cecile M. Springer)

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illuminations of forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. (August Wilson)

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
(Marya Mannes)

Cheap sex and precious love; you can’t have one if you have the other. (Jim Conway)

Do not confuse sex, love and intimacy. One does not necessarily imply the other. Experiencing one does not necessarily satisfy our need for the other. While all three ideally come together at certain moments, each of them must be attended to and appreciated. And finally, do not forsake one for the other. You can have them all. (Dr. Aaron Hass)

Modern man speaks of intercourse as “having sex.” However, the scriptures never speak this way. In biblical language a man “knows” his wife. It is not an act; it is a relationship. (Paul Bubna)

To rules one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better. (Tyron Edwards)

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. (Sophia Loren)

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five. (Joel Hildebrand)

God is dead. (Nietzsche)

Nietzsche is dead. (God)

I’ve learned that any kid will run an errand for you, if you ask at bedtime. (Red Skelton)

He who hesitates misses the green light, gets bumped in the rear, and loses his parking space. (Unknown)

The best way to keep children home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere - and let the air out of the tires. (Dorothy Parker)

Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad. (Unknown)

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. (Erma Bombeck)

If no one dropped out of school, who would hire the college graduates? (Unknown)

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. (Charles Kuralt)

How can I die? I’m booked. (George Burns)

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror. (Al Boliska)

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to play the game and dumb enough to think it’s important. (Eugene McCarthy)

Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger, you may rest assured that he was abnormal.
(Will Cuppy)

Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die. (Mel Brooks)

I’ve developed an eye problem - I can’t see going to work today. (JDG)

A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one. (Unknown)

I think people should go into public office for a term or two, and then get back into their business and live under the laws that they passed. (Mike Curb)

One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends - if they seem okay, then you’re the one. (Ann Landers)

The first requisite for immortality is death. (Stanislaw Lec)

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. (Martin Mull)

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. (Mark Twain)

Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there. (Thomas Berger)

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. (Andre Gide)

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and endure much. (William Hazlitt)

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it mearly to show that you have one. (Lord Chesterfield)

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Soul meets soul on lover’s lips. (Percy Bysshe Shelly)

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. (Nicolas Chamfort)

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

The voice of intelligence... is drowned out by the roar of fear... Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
(Karl Menninger)

The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. (Blaise Pascal)

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. (Andre Gide)

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. (Lord Byron)

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. (Abraham Lincoln)

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter... It’s the way friends make love to one another.
(Annie Gottlieb)

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Theodore Hesburgh)

A man can’t get rich if he takes proper care of his family. (Navajo proverb)

Parenthood; that state of being better chaperoned than you were before you were married. (Marcelene Cox)

Some things have to be believed to be seen. (Ralph Hodgson)

If you know what you are doing, you can be daring. (Gerald P. Finnerman)

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. (Aldous Huxley)

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

The belief in a supernatural of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
(Joseph Conrad)

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Mark Twain)

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde)

One man with courage makes a majority. (Andrew Jackson)

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
(Eddie Rickenbacker)

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. (Mark Twain)

Don’t think! Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them. (Ray Bradbury)

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. (Thomas Carlyle)

The best way to make children good is to make them happy. (Oscar Wilde)

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. (Samuel Butler)

If Christian nations were nations of Christians, there would be no wars. (Soame Jenyns)

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world. (Richard Le Gallienne)

Goiung to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you a car.
(Laurence J. Peter)

I have cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. (Jean Cocteau)

He who takes a stand is often wrong, but he who never takes a stand is always wrong. (Unknown)

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. (Katherine Hepburn)

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. (Mark Twain)

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. (Francis Bacon)

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. (Edgar Allan Poe)

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. (Cyril Connolly)

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. (Edmund Burke)

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. (T. S. Eliot)

So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in and what kind of car we drive. If you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self. (Linda Henley)

The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves. (Shirley MacLaine)

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. (Doris Mortman)

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not want to help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. (Andrew Carnegie)

Keep company with those who may make you better. (English proverb)

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. (Oliver Goldsmith)

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answer. (Voltaire)

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. (Benjamin Disraeli)

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. (Juvenal)

In politics there is no honor. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted. (David Broder)

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. (Samuel Johnson)

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. (Ovid)

The past always looks better than it was; it’s only pleasant because it isn’t here. (Finley Peter Dunne)

Lord, grant me patience, and I want it right now. (Unknown)

Possess your soul with patience. (John Dryden)

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think their children are naive. (Ogden Nash)

A man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. (Mark Twain)

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. (Unknown)

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. (Norman Cousins)

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
(Geoffrey Francis Fisher)

Who seeks, and will not take when once `tis offer`d,
Shall never find it more. (William Shakespeare)

As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man. (J. M. Barrie)
Originality is simple a fresh pair of eyes. (Thomas Wentworth Higgenson)

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men do when they don’t have to. (Walter Linn)

One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help. (Dennis Wholey)

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. (Marlene Dietrich)

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. (Don Marguis)

Opinions cannot survive if no one has a chance to fight for them. (Thomas Mann)

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. (John Milton)

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. (Herbert Spencer)

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. (Francis Bacon)

Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. (Josh Billings)

You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time you must make it. (Charles Buxton)

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
(Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. (Louis K. Anspacher)

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash. (Dr. Joyce Brothers)

Only choose in marriage a woman who you would choose as a friend if she were a man. (Joseph Joubert)

Go climb a gravity well. (Unknown)

Animal lovers make better people lovers. (JDG)

The light at the end of the tunnel is a train. (Uknown)

Be direct with people; let them know exactly how you feel by piddling on their shoe. (Unknown)

If it’s not wet and sloppy, it’s not a real kiss. (JDG)

When you do something wrong, always take responsibility (as soon as you’re dragged out from under the bed. (Unknown)

The healthiest relationships are those that breathe - that move out and then move back together again.
(Film, Turn your Heart Toward Home)

Shildren need adults who can go for casual walks and talk about fishing and stuff like that... and slow down to look at pretty leaves and caterpillars... and answer questions about God and the nature of the world as it is. (Book, What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women)

Give a teenager time to find himself, even if he appears not to be searching. (Book, Parenting Isn’t For Cowards)

My son, how I will rejoice if you become a man of common sense. Yes, my heart will thrill to your thoughtful, wise words. (Proverbs 23:15,16)

You child’s strong feelings and requests, even if foolish, should be given an honest appraisal. He should feel that his parents “really do care about me.” (Book, Dare To Discipline)

A woman’s willingness to accept the loving leadership of her husband is significantly influenced by the way she perceived the authority of her father. (Book, Parenting Isn’t For Cowards)

For since a man and his wife are now one, a man is really doing himself a favour and loving himself when he loves his wife! (Ephesians 5:28)

Grandmothers and Grandfathers can be invaluable to the world of little people. In today’s world, they are often the only grown-ups who have time. (Book, What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women)

Add to your faith, goodness; to your goodness, knowledge and to knowledge, self-control. (2 Peter 1:5,6)

Happiness is a marvelous magnet to the human personality. (Book, Love Must Be Tough)

The Lord preserveth the faithful. (Psalm 31:23)

The truth is impossible to suppress forever. (Unknown)

Your child will conform to the image he thinks you hold of him. (Dr. James dobson)

If a woman is to have the contentment and self-satisfaction necessary to produce a successful family, she needs the constant support and respect of the man she loves.
(Book, What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women)

And you husbands, show the same kind of love to your wives as Christ showed to the church when he died for her. (Ephesians 5:25)

The days flow into weeks, the weeks into months, months into years, and the years into a lifetime, yet we don’t even know the children who grew up around our feet. (Film, TurnYour Heart Toward Home)

We should remember that children do not build fortresses around strengths - they construct them to protect weakness. (Dr. James Dobson, The Strong-Willed Child)

In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. (Isaiah 30:15)

Husbands and wives should constantly guard against overcommitment. Even worthwhile and enjoyable activities become damaging when they consume the last ounce of energy or the remaining free moments of the day. (Book, What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women)

A workable system of checks and balances... helps a couple keep their marriage on course for a marathon rather than a sprint. (Book, Love Must Be Tough)

That ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together. (Philippians 1:27b)

Be careful and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen... teach them to your children and to their children after them. (Deuteronomy 4:9)

Those children who have learned to conquer their problems are more secure than those who have never faced them. Our task as parents, therefore, is not to eliminate every challenge for our children; it is to serve as a confident ally to help them through them. (Book, Hide or Seek)

Children are a gift from God; they are his reward. (Psalm 127:3)

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death. (Song of Songs 8:6)

The parent-child relationship is the first and most important social interaction and infant will have, and the flaws and knots in that interaction can often be seen in later relationships.
(Dr. James Dobson, Dare to Discipline)

Children and adults of all ages seek constant satisfaction of their emotional needs, including the desire for love, social acceptance and self-respect. (Dr. James Dobson, Dare to Discipline)

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

A school is a building with four walls and a tomorrow inside.

How do I love thee? Madly! Deeply! Faster! (JDG)

What you concentrate on, you become. (W. Mitchell)

The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart. (Chinese Proverb)

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence. (Marianne Moore)

How heads and cold hearts never solved anything. (Billy Graham)

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. (Herbert V. Prochnow)

Slow down, simplify and be kind. (Naomi Judd)

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. (Bern Williams)

Words are plentiful, but deeds are precious. (Lech Walesa)

Through evolution I think the females’ jaw bone replaced their ear bone. (Woody Powell)

Curling smoke from a chimney low,
Andonly a few more steps to go.
Faces pressed at a window pane
Watching for someone to come again.
And I am the someone they want to see -
These are the joys life gives to me.
(Edgar Guest, Leaves of Gold - Note by JDG: given to me by my mom. 11/96)

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
(Mary Anne Hershey)

How to really love a child.
Be there. Say yes as often as possible. Let them bang on pots and pans. If they’re crabby, put them in water. If they’re unlovable, love yourself. Realize how important it is to be a child. Go to a movie theatre in your pajamas. Read books out loud with joy. Invent pleasures together. Remember how really small they are. Giggle a lot. Surprise them. Say no when necessary. Teach feelings. Heal you own inner child. Learn about parenting. Hug trees together. Make loving safe. Bake a cake and eat it with no hands. Go find elephoants and kiss them. Plan to build a rocketship. Imagine yourself magic. Make lots of forts with blankets. Let you angel fly. Reveal your own dreams. Search out the positive. Keep the gleam in your eye. Mail letters to God. Encourage silly. Plant licorice in your garden. Open up. Stop yelling. Express your love a lot. Speak kinfly. Paint their tennis shoes. Handle with caring. Children are miraculous. (Sark!)

Your life is a sacred journey and it is about to change. Growth, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible. Stretching your soul, learning to see clearly & deeply, listening to your intuition, taking couragious risks, embracing challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path, exactly where you are meant to be right now. And from here you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificient tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, beauty, wisdom, power, dignity & love… (Caroline Adams)

Knowledge of being hanged in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully. (Johnson)

Every man is fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding that limit.
(Elbert Hubbard)

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. (Jerry Seinfeld)

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.
(C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew)

Children are the most expensive form of entertainment. (Mihaela Iosof)

The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
(A. J. Cronin)

We are all pilgrims on the same journey – but some pilgrims have better maps.
(Nelson DeMille, The Talbot Odyssey)



Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit.. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble, it is a real possession in the changing forunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is, many persons strive for high ideals, everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment; it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the tress and the stars, you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever you labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all it’s sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. (Max Ehrmann)

Friendship should not just be a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, and only one in foul. (JDG)

Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.

I’m as confused as a baby in a topless bar.

The gene pool could use a little chlorine.

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else.

There’s too much blood in my caffeine system.

Learn from your parent’s mistakes – use birth control.

If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

I don’t suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

When there’s a will, I want to be in it.

Okay, who put a “stop payment” on my reality check?

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?

“Crimnal Lawyer” is a redundancy.

You don't get FOR yourself unless you give OF yourself. (Joel D. Gomer)

Today is the last day of the rest of your life.

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
(Angela Schwindt)

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working on the engines.
(Gary Sinise)

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. (Michael Landon)

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. (Norman Douglas)

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. (Ann Landers)

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
(Cullen Hightower)

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
(Paul E. Gray)

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
(Colin Powell)

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. (Michael Levine)

The rules are easy, but they are also as hard as you make them (JDG to my Children)

If you're gonna dish out of a big bowl, you better have a big eatin' spoon! (JDG)

Stare and compare. (Unknown)

“If you can’t follow a simple instruction, you sure can’t follow a more complex instruction.” (Joel D. Gomer)

Roadside diner - Squat & Eat (Unknown)

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. Roosevelt)

I am the boss of my house and I have my wife’s permission to say so. (Unknown)

I am Dr. Remulack. (O.C.D. Caller on The Howard Stern Show)

The best preparation for responsible adulthood is derived from training in responsibility during childhood. (Unknown)

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. (Proverbs 22:6)

Respectful and responsible children result from families where the proper combination of love and discipline is present. Both must be applied in the necessary quantities. (Dare to Descipline)

My children, our love should not be only words and talk. Our love must be true love. (1 John 3:18)

Create the best marriage possible from the raw materials brought by two imperfect human beings with two distinctly unique personalities. (Love for a Lifetime)

Conflict bewteen an adolescent and his parents may have a positive effect, since it furthers independence. (Unknown)

Honor your father and your mother. Then you will live a long time in the land. (Exodus 20:12)

Every child is different and every stage is unique. Parenthood does keep you on your toes. (Turn Your Heart Toward Home)

I’m suggesting that we stop and consider the brevity of our years on earth, perhaps finding new motivation to perserve the values that will endure. (Straight Talk to Men and Their Wives)

For we are here but for a moment, strangers in the land; our days on earth are like a shadow, gone so soon, without a trace.
(Chronicles 29:15)

Feelings of inferiority can either crush and paralyze an individual, or it can provide tremendous emotional energy which powers every kind of success and achievement. (Hide or Seek)

Children must be valued as our most priceless possession. (Unknown)

Screaming, accusing, and berating are rarely successful in changing the behavior of human beings at any age. (Love Must Be Tough)

A good father will leave his imprint on his daughter for the rest of her life. (Parenting Isn’t For Cowards)

The most successful parents are those who have the skill to get behind the eyes of the child, seeing what she sees, thinking what she thinks, feeling what she feels. (Dare to Discipline)

All future romantic relationships to occur in a gril’s life will be influenced positively or negatively by the way she perceives and interacts with her dad. (Parenting Isn’t For Cowards)

Kids can frustrate and irritate their parents… but the rewards of raising them far outweigh the cost. Besides, nothing worth having ever comes cheap. (What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women)

Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows to defend him. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. (Psalm 127:4,5)

Perhaps the Tamagotchi is nothing more than an invention by computers that’s intended to teach us to nurture them as they become more sophisticated. (Ashton Perry)

A man searches the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. (George Moore)

My life is too simple. I want to complicate the hell out of it.

If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you will always have enough money to feed your stomach.
(Albert Einstein)

There isn’t any genius in strategy. The only genius is in execution. (William Schrader, PSI Net Founder)

Use every letter you write, every conversation you have, every meeting you attend, to express your fundamental beliefs and dreams. Affirm to others the vision of the world you want, you are a free, Immensely powerful source of life and goodness. Affirm it, spread it, radiate it. Think day and night about it, and you will see a miracle happen: the greatness of your own life.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. (Bertrand Russell)

Since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; (E.E. Cummings)

It often shows an excellent command of language to say nothing. (Karol Newlin)

A young mind is like gelatin. The idea is to put in lots of good stuff before it sets. (Unknown)
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. (Mark Twain)

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought and changes from day to day as does the air around
(Oliver Wendell Holmes.)

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. (Annie Dillard)

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. (John Ruskin)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)

Chiropractic is not a `cure all’ and it should never be claimed as such, but it reaches successfully a larger number of so-called chronic diseases than any other known mechanical method and is so much superior to the drug method that it is truly laughable to compare them. (Alfred Walton, M. D.)

The cause of most disease is in the poisonous drugs physicians supersticiously give in order to effect a cure. (Charles Page, M. D.)

If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity.
(O. W. Holmes, M. D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard University)

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause of disease. (Thomas A. Edison)

Every drug increases and complicates a patient’s condition. (Robert Henderson, M. D.)

The person who takes medicine must recover twice; once from the disease and once from the medicine. (William Osler, M. D.)

What hope if there for medical science to ever become a true science when the entire structure of medical knowledge is built around the idea that there is an entity called disease which can be expelled when the right drug is found. (John H. Tilden, M. D.)

We are prone to thinking of drug abuse in terms of the male population and illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine and marajuana. It may surprise you to learn that a greater problem exists with millions of women dependent on legal prescription drugs.
(Robert Mendelsohn, M. D.)

There’s nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who think for themselves. (Meg Greenfield, Newsweek)

Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not. (Susan Spano, New York Times)

Morality is truth in full bloom. (Victor Hugo, Les Miserables)

You have to be first, best or different. (Loretta Lynn)

Today is always here. Tomorrow, never. (Toni Morrison, Beloved)

What is a vision? It is a compelling image of an ahievable future. (Laura Berman Fortang, Take Yourself to the Top)

The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages. (Richard Bach, Illusions)

Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. (Richard Bach, Illusions)

We are the painters of our own self-portraits and who we become, next week, next year, fiver years from now, will be determined by our attitudes, our actions and what we learn. Mary Ellen Drummond

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find the out the truth, whatever it may be. Charles Sanders Pierce

If you cannot win, help the one ahead of you break the record. Babe Ruth

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, bot are transformed. Carl Jung

Love is life… and if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia

Love doesn’t make the world go `round. Love is what it makes the ride worth while. Franklin P. Jones

Money can build a house, but it takes love to make it a home. Franklin P. Jones

To love others makes us happy; to love only ourselves makes us lonely. Franklin P. Jones

To measure a man, measure his heart. Malcolm S. Forbes

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubenstein

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers

It is what we are that gets across, not what we try to teach. Thomas Carlyle

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

The expert in anything was once a beginner. Beverly Sills

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. Beverly Sills

The best way to become a conversationalist is to learn how to ask good questions. Mary Ellen Drummond

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now! Joan Baez

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Henry Ford

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets up a record of successful experiences behind him. Eleanor Roosevelt.

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. Chinese proverb

To make headway, improve your head. B. C. Forbes

A winner knows how much he still has to learn even when he is considered an expert by others. Linus Pauling

The best way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do. Unknown

What you don’t know, you can lear. Sir Richard Stelle

Every man who knows how to read has in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley

The person who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the person who can’t read. Mark Twain

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes. Steve Allen

A smile happens in a flash, but the memory of it can last a lifetime. Steve Allen

Nothing is quite as funny as the unintended humor of reality. Steve Allen

If you are too busy to laugh you are entirely too busy. Steve Allen

Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life. Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot just by watching. Yogi Berra

Better to wear out than rust out. Bishop Richard Cumberland

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong

There is nothing wrong with change in the right direction. To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often. Winston Churchill

The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous but to become more human and more tolerant. Ida Lupino

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Change is the only thing that offers new opportunity. Ross Shafer

The biggest change we can ever make is change within ourselves. Heraclitus

Appreciative words are the most powerful force fro good on earth. George W. Crane

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Walt Disney

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage – and indeed perhaps more. Pearl S. Buck

No man fails who does is best. Orison Swett Marden

The very difficulty of a problem evokes abilities or talents which would otherwise, in happy times, never emerge or shine. Horace

Your attitude is more important than your aptitude. Zig Ziglar

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson

A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness. Yoggi Bera

Dreams are touchstones of our characters. Henry David Thoreau

If it is to be, it is up to me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Frankiln

One way to cut down on paperwork is to learn to say things in fewer words. Joe Griffith

Nothing gives us away more to others than the way we speak. Earl Nightingale

Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare

Don’t wait for moods. You can accomplish nothing if you do that. Pearl S. Buck

Eighty percent of success is just showing up. Woody Allen

Success stops when you do. Kathy Griffith

Formula for success: When you start a project, finish it.

Small changes can alter our destination. George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of only standing still. Chinese Proverb

Those are a success who have lived well, laughed often and loved much; who have gained the respect of intelligent people and the love of children; who have filled their niche and accomplished their task; who leave the world better than they found it, whether by a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of the earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best they had. Emerson

Striving for excellence is what it is all about. Charles Schwab

I have yet to find the man who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. Charles Schwab

Always do right. This will surprise some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain

You are the only person who can motivate you to use your mind, talents and abilities. Mary Ellen Drummond.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino

The secret of success and happiness lies not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do. Irving Berlin

Success is the result of backbone, not wishbone. J. W. Marriott, Sr.

Failure is never final and success is never ending. Robert Schuller

In order to succeed, we must first try believe that we can. Michael Korda

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great people and people are great only when they are determined to be so. Charles de Gaulle

Success in life ought to be determined, not by accumulations, but by contributions.

No one is ever so powerful or successful that they don’t appreciate a sincere compliment. Noel Coward

It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the games even starts. Noel Coward

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but rather what he becomes by it. Noel Coward

Success is getting what you want… happiness is wanting what you get.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa

Being in the right does not depend on having a loud voice. Chinese Proverb

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain

To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow

Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life. John Gale

If you do not think about the future You cannot have one. John Gale.

Goal setting is the strongest human force for self-motivation. Paul Myer

When people aim for what they want out of life, most aim too low. Charles Kettering

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. John F. Kennedy

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures. Charles C. Noble

Life is what happens when you’re making other plans. BettyTalmadge

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall

Some things have to be believed to be seen. Ralph Hodgson

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. Ted Turner

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A strong positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life. Joyce Brothers

When rejecting the ideas of another, make sure you reject only the idea and not the person.

We are what we think about.

Dress shabbily and people will remember the outfit. Dress elegantly and people will remember the person.

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. Tom Robbins

Be yourself, and be the person you hope to be. Robert Louis Stevenson

We are the hero of our own story. Mary McCarthy

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined. Leo Rosten

Happiness comes not from exterior situations but form the peace within you. Joy is never in things, it is in us. Zig Ziglar

There is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. Hindu Proverb

How people treat me is more a reflection of how they see themselves than how they see me. William Channing

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do. William Channing

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece – by thought, choice, courage and determination. John Luther

The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves. Shirley MacLaine

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right. Henry Ford

If you want to be happy, be happy. Will Rogers

I have noticed that folks are generally about a s happy as they make up their minds to be. Will Rogers

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. Janet Lane

Years wrinkle the skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

People can alter lives by altering their attitudes. William James

Optimism supplies the basic energy of civilization. Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. Norman Cousins

Work enjoyed is as much fun as leisure.

You are in total control of your attitude, which in turn shapes your life.

He likes to like people; therefore people liked him. Mark Twain

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of. Horace Traubel

If the world is cold, build fires. Horace Traubel

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Mark Twain

Every job is a self-portrait of the one who did it. Vince Lombardi

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. Vince Lombardi

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. William M. Thackery

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. Thomas Morell

A professional is a person who does a good job even when he doesn’t feel like it.

If there is a way to do it better… find it. Thomas Edison

Character and ideals are catching. When you associate with people who aspire to the highest and best, you expose yourself to the qualities that make people great. (Tomas J. Frye)

Nobody gets to run the mill by doing run-of-the-mill work. (Thomas J. Frye)

The difference between ordinarily and extraordinary is that little extra. (Mary Ellen Drummond)

Here is a simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get. (Nelson Boswell)

Worry about what is best for the customer and what is best for the company will follow.

When you’re through changing you’re through. (Bruce Barton)

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!
(Mother Teresa)

Some people spread happiness everywhere they go. Some people spread happiness when they go. (Oscar Wilde)

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- A.W. Pinero