Quotations


My Quotes Collection: (duplicate clean-up in progress)
"It might be ok to shoot yourself in the foot, but it is not ok to reload the gun."
-Sen.Lindsey Graham (D-SC)


"The great tragedy of life is that too often we allow the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
 
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." 
 Sir Winston Spenser Churchill

"The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned."
-Confucius

 
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."
Alan Lakein

"A good Critic should challenge an artist to improve. Failing that, write or say nothing ill about him."
Ronald Fercken

Procrastinators: The Leaders of Tomorrow!
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Family is the feeling that your heart is home again...
Anonymous 

...said it wouldn't bring closure, saying that whoever came up with the concept was "an imbecile."   "It's a hole with jagged edges," he said, "Over time the edges may smooth  out a little bit, but the hole in your heart, the hole in your soul is always there."
Dr. William Petit , AJC, Nov.9, 2010, in response to the murder of his family via home invasion and the subsequent conviction of the murderers.

The essence of life is action, not reaction or compromise.
Ronald Fercken 

"No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken."
Danish proverb
"When you don't know what to do, do what you know to do."
Joey Ridgeway

"Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow;
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain;
I am the gentle summer's rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there: I did not die."
Anonymous

"Success is not final,
Failure is not fatal."
Winston Churchill

""He that lives on hope has but a slender diet.""

""One of these days is none of these days.""

""Castles in the air are all right until you try to move into them.""

""To most of us it would be very convenient if God were a rascal.""

""You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.""

""After learning the tricks of the trade many of us think we know the trade.""

 ""Everyone complains of memory, no one of his judgment.""


""One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.""

""No question is so difficult as that to which the answer is obvious.""

""The man who waits for things to turn up has his eyes fixed on his toes.""

""A man in passion rides a mad horse.""

""The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.""
- A ThousandWordsIsWorthaPicture©1978KennethHGrooms

"Success is the progressive realization of one's worthy goals.""
- Earl Nightingale(Nightingale-Conant Corp.)

"One can think a thing, and one can say a thing; but it is what he does that defines him. A person is known by his deeds."
- Earl Nightingale(Nightingale-Conant Corp.)

"If it is meant to be, it is up to thee."
-Anonymous

"The world pins no medals on you because of what you know, but it may crown you with glory and riches for what you do."
- Unknown

"The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them."
- Madame de Lambert

"There is no such thing as "Luck". So-called, it is when preparedness meets opportunity. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind."
- Earl Nightingale and others

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw

"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods."
- Maxine Hong Kingston

"I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses."
- Katherine Mansfield

"The time is always right to do what is right."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 "It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."
- Sydney J. Harris

"Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil."
- Vachel Lindsay

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."
- Ernest Dimnet

"Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others."
-  Frederick Saunders

     Native American Prayer
"Oh, Great Spirit
Whose voice is 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 let 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."
- Lakota Sioux Prayer -

"Wise men profit more from fools than fools do from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."
- Cato the Elder

"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."
- Sophocles

"Monotony is the awful reward of the careful."
- A. G. Buckham

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all people.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to all even to the dull and ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive people,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself to others you will become vain and bitter;
there will always 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 fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let not this blind you to the virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.

Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
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 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 trees and the stars;
you have the 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 your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

Desiderata Max Ehrmann 1927

Acknowledgements/History/Disclaimer: Although 1692 is often given as the date of this poem, this is incorrect. US Federal District Court Records (Bell v. Combined Registry Co., 397 F.Supp. 1241 (N.D. 111.1975))(with the court placing the poem in the public domain) reveal that Max Ehrmann (1872-1945), a lawyer from Terre Haute, Indiana, wrote this poem in 1927. With Ehrmann's permission, psychiatrist Merrill Moore used this poem in his private practice and then in the U.S. Army as part of the treatment for soldiers he took care of."
- Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)

"All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichmann chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows? To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
- Dr.MartinLutherKingJr.

"To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself."
- Sophy Burnham

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
- Dr.MartinLutherKingJr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life."
- Dr.MartinLutherKingJr.

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."
- Margaret Thatcher

"It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- J. K. Rowling

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln

"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."
- Thomas Merton

"Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character."
- James Bridie

"This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford

"Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing."
- Peter Gabriel

"Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost."
- M. Scott Peck

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
- Bible, HEB. 11-1

"Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."
- Aung San Suu Kyi

"There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life."
- Frederika Bremer

"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind."
- William Shakespeare

"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
- Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

"Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement."
- Fred Brooks

"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
- Martha Washington

"Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice."
- Dag Hammarskjld

"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."
- G.K. Chesterton

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."
- Thomas Edison

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
- Louis Hector Berlioz

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
- Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
- Alan W. Watts

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."
- Dag Hammarskjold

"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
- Isocrates

"Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean."
- Laurence J. Peter

"A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so."
- Aristotle

"There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself."
- Roscoe Snowden

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
- Charlie Chaplin

"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
- Grace Hopper

"I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly."
- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

"The sweetness of low price is forgotten long after the bitterness of poor quality remains."
- anonymous

"There are many paths around and about the same mountain; he who looks for a new path is not climbing."
- Ananda Koomaraswamy

"Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me you cannot play upon me."
- William Shakespeare...Hamlet, Act III, Scene II.

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half."
- Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156-160.

"Travel only with thy equals or thy betters if there are none, travel alone."
- The Dhammapada

"The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape."
- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

 "If you show someone their future, they have no future".Ben Affleck, as Michael Jennings in the movie, "Paycheck"2003, director John Woo

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
Anna Quindlen (b. 1953), U.S. author. New York Times, section 4, p. 17 (November 14, 1993).

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance."
- H. Jackson Browne

  The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.
Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. The New York Times. Living Out Loud, p. 4, Fawcett Columbine (1988).

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. Living Out Loud, p. xx, Fawcett Columbine (1988).

What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.
Anna Quindlen (20th century), U.S. journalist, novelist. Living Out Loud, "The Second Child," (1988).

I am aghast to find myself in such a position of power over two other people. Their father and I have them in thrall simply by having produced them. We have the power to make them feel good or bad about themselves, which is the greatest power in the world. Ours will not be the only influence, but it is the earliest, the most ubiquitous, and potentially the most pernicious. Lovers and friends will make them blossom and bleed, but they may move on to other lovers and friends. We are the only parents they will have.
Anna Quindlen (20th century), U.S. journalist, novelist. Living Out Loud, "Power," (1988).

 The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible—that is, that one is male and the other female.
Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. The New York Times. Living Out Loud, p. 78, Fawcett Columbine (1988).

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous, involving and utterly tedious, all at the same time. The world is full of women made to feel strange because what everyone assumes comes naturally is so difficult to do—never mind to do well.
Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. (May 10, 1992). Thinking Out Loud, p. 113, Random House (1993)

"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried."
Author unknown...

"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action."
- William Shakespeare... Hamlet, Act III Scene I

 "And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice:
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower or a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!"
- William Shakespeare... Hamlet, Act I Scene III

"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
- Aristotle
 "Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
- Kahlil Gibran

"Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy."
- Maitri Upanishads

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
- Harry S. Truman
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
- Albert Einstein
"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."
- The Dhammapada
"Never give up. If you want to be something, be conceited about it, give yourself a chance. Never say you are not good, that will never get you anywhere. Set goals, That's what life is made of."
- Mike McLaren
 "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
-Stevie Wonder

 "Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost."
- M. Scott Peck
"The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented."
- John Calvin
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
- Buddha
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
- Frank Herbert
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
- Calvin Coolidge
"Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly."
- Carl Polloi

"An unexpected invitation to travel is like a dancing lesson from God."
- Jules Verne, "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
 "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
- Aristotle

 "If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains."
- William Penn
"If it is meant to be, it is up to thee."
- unknown
"Where did you put it?"
"Put what?"
"You know."
"Where do you think?"
"Oh.""
- Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the MIT Media Lab, stating his ideal model of human-computer interaction
 "The world pins no medals on you because of what you know, but it may crown you with glory and riches for what you do."
- Unknown
"There is many a slip 'twixt cup and the lip."
- unknown
 "Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.""
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
"The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them."
- Madame de Lambert
"There is no such thing as "Luck". So-called, it is when preparedness meets opportunity. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind."
- Earl Nightingale and others
"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you."
- Mark Twain

"A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were."
- Jean de la Bruyere
"When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."
- E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
 "If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave."
- Cato, Roman statesman and historian
"The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all."
- Jean-Francois Rameau
 "A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic."
- Aldous Huxley
 "If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books."
- Alan King
"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
- St. Jerome
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw
 "The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods."
- Maxine Hong Kingston
 "Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
- Stephen King
 "It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost...."
- Richard Bach
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
- Aldous Huxley
"I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses."
- Katherine Mansfield
 
"For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice."
- Joseph Dunninger, Mentalist
 "Once, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his taxes as a protest against slavery. He was thrown into jail. A friend came to see him. "Why are you in jail?" the friend asked. "Why are you out of jail?" Thoreau answered."
- The Life and Words of Martin Luther King Jr., Scholastic Inc 1968
 "But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
- William Butler Yeats

"Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us."
-Leonard Nimoy
 
 "Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor."
- Laurence J. Peter
"We have the power to mold the world exactly how we'd like it to be, and sadly, instead of building playgrounds, we're making battlefields. We're doing so many things that makes life completely unnecessarily hard to live through, above all the perverse exploitation of power, as in religion and consumerism; two things that have done nearly nothing, other than deceiving people into living unfulfilled lives. All in all, these, and most other cruel aspects about life, can be narrowed down to one thing, which is greed, and not just the good old natural greed necessary for survival, no, I'm talking about human greed.

Listen, it's very simple:

In order to be good, you have to be so to another being. In other words, not greedy.

A four year old kid can tell you that, so why ...is it so hard for adults to understand that?!!

Then again, sometimes, I just think the meaning of life is not to think about the meaning of life."
Lasse Gjertsen

"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
Chinese Proverb 

"Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people."
- Heinrich Heine

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."
- Houssaye

"Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts."
- Martin Buxbaum
"A Cherokee Blessing...May the Warm Winds of Heaven blow softly on your home, and the Great Spirit bless all who enter there. May your moccasins make many tracks in many snows, and may the Rainbow always touch your shoulder."
- fallinstar
"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."
- Cato the Elder
"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."
- Russell Hoban
 "Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."
- Sophocles

"Treat the Earth well: it was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.♥"
- Ancient Native-American proverb
"It's not what happens to you it's what you do about it that makes the difference."
- Wilson Mitchell
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
""No one ever won a war by dying for his country; he won by making the other poor bastard die for his country!""
- George C. Scott "Patton" the movie

A Lesson in Time Management:
"One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students and
to drive home a point used an illustration those students will never forget.
As he stood in front of the group of high-powered over-achievers he said, “Okay, time
for a quiz.” Then he pulled out a one-gallon wide-mouthed jar and set it on the table in front of
him. Then he produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them one at a time
into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, “Is
the jar full?”
Everone in the class said, “Yes.” Then he said, “Really?” He reached under the table and
pulled out a bucket of gravel. Then he dumped some gravel in and shook the jar causing pieces
of gravel to work themselves down into the space between the big rocks. Then he asked to group
once more, “Is the jar full?”
By this time the class was on to him. “Probably not,” one of them answered. “Good!” he
replied.
He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the
sand in the jar and it went into all the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel.
Once more he asked the question, “Is the jar full?” “No!” the class shouted. Once again
he said, “Good!” Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was
filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, “What is the point of this illustration?”
One eager student raised his hand and said, “The point is, no matter how full your
schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit more in!”
“No,” the speaker replied, “that’s not the point. The truth this illustration teaches us is: If
you don’t get the big rocks in first, you’ll never get them in at all. What are the big rocks in your
life?
Your children…your loved ones…your education…your dreams…a worthy
cause…teaching or mentoring others…doing things that you love…time for yourself…your
health…your significant other.”
“Remember to put these BIG ROCKS in first or you will never get them in at all. If you
sweat the little stuff (the gravel, the sand) then you’ll fill your life with little things to worry
about that don’t really matter, and you’ll never have the real quality time you need to spend on
the big, important stuff (the big rocks). So, tonight or in the morning, when you are reflecting on
this short story, ask yourself this question: “What are the ‘big rocks’ in my life? Then, put those
in your jar first.”"
- unknown
"War is a continuation of politics by other means."
- Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide"
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
- Laurence J. Peter
"All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red'. We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women. When we arise in the morning, we go to the bathroom where we reach for a sponge which is provided for us by a Pacific islander. We reach for soap that is created for us by a European. Then at the table we drink coffee which is provided for us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African. Before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half of the world."
- Dr. MartinLutherKing, Jr.
"The only friend of a skunk is another skunk."
- "HEE-HAW" TV show

"It is still one of the tragedies of life that the 'children of darkness' are frequently more determined and zealous than the 'children of light.'"

- Dr.MartinLutherKingJr.
"Mammoth productive facilities with computer minds, cities that engulf the landscape and pierce the clouds, planes that almost outrace time--these are awesome, but they cannot be spiritually inspiring. Nothing in our glittering technology can raise man to new heights, because material growth has been made an end in itself, and, in the absence of moral purpose, man himself becomes smaller as the works of man become bigger. Gargantuan industry and government, woven into an intricate computerized mechanism, leave the person outside. The sense of participation is lost, the feeling that ordinary individuals influence important decisions vanishes, and man becomes separated and diminished."
- Dr.MartinLutherKingJr.
"Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different."
- Dr.MartinLutherKingJr.
"When an individual is no longer a true participant, when he no longer feels a sense of responsibility to his society, the content of democracy is emptied. When culture is degraded and vulgarity enthroned,when the social system does not build security but induces peril, inexorably the individual is impelled to pull away from a soulless society. This process produces alienation--perhaps the most pervasive and insidious development in contemporary society."
- DrMartinLutherKingJr.

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
- Benjamin Franklin
 "Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing. Right and wrong are relative to likes and dislikes and the customs of a particular community. We have unconsciously applied Einstein's theory of relativity, which properly described the physical universe, to the moral and ethical realm." 
 - Dr.MartinLutherKingJr

 "It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- J. K. Rowling
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln

 "Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them."
- Thomas Fuller
 "Learn from the mistakes of others, because you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
- Unknown Author
 "It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know."
- Harry S Truman

"The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character."
- James Bridie
"There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third."
- John F. Kennedy

"Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice."
- Dag Hammarskojld
"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain."
- Titus Maccius Plautus
"Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing."
- Peter Gabriel
"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
- Frederic Bastiat
"I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him."
- Abraham Lincoln
"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
- Stacia Tauscher

 "People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled."
- Norman Mailer
"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
- Clifton Paul Fadiman

"Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
- William Congreve
"The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it."
- Eric Hoffer
"Religions change; beer and wine remain."
- Harvey Allen
 "The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
- Wilson Mizner
"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
 - Abigail Van Buren
 "We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind."
- William Shakespeare
 "The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
- Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005

"The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed."
- Mark Morrison-Reed

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
- Kahlil Gibran
"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe."
- Peter De Vries
"Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement."
- Fred Brooks
"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
- Martha Washington
"Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong."
- Tyron Edwards
  "Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin."
- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom."
- Chinese Proverb
"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
-- Robert Orben 
"There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men."
- Edmund Burke
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
- Alan W. Watts
"It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow."
- Josh Billings

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
- Will Rogers
"Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean."
- Laurence J. Peter
"A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so."
- Aristotle
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a
coincidence."
- Jeremy S. Anderson
"There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself."
- Roscoe Snowden
"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
-Josef Stalin

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