Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle By Region "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) By Region
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg By Region Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins By Region
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull By Region "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) By Region
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. By Region America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra By Region
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) By Region Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) By Region
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show By Region In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous By Region
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet By Region blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau By Region
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford By Region It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married By Region
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner By Region "Your children are not your children. They are 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 gi Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) By Region
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) By Region If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying By Region
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) 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 "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) By Region "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost By Region
