As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer S "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein S
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein S "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) S
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine S Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich S
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler S Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa S
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl S Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life S
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) S Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland S
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual S No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth S
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot S "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) S
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) S When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington S
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) S "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer S
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson S "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe S
