If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Bodmin "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Bodmin
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Bodmin The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Bodmin
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Bodmin "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Bodmin
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Bodmin Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Bodmin
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Bodmin "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Bodmin
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Bodmin "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Bodmin
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Bodmin The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Bodmin
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "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) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Bodmin I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Bodmin
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Bodmin Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Bodmin
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Bodmin He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Bodmin
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Bodmin 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 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Bodmin
