"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity." - Karl Marx
"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." -Dan Quayle
"If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did." -"Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy"
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." -Albert Einstein
"What I would wish to be more than anything in the world is to be your tear, to be born in your eye, live on your cheek and die on your lips." -Juliet
"Accidents will happen-that's why there are so many different kinds of croquettes.
Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents." -Lord Russell
"The only thing some people do is grow older." -Ed Howe
"You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer." -Mark Twain
"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." -Mark Twain
"In giving advice I advise you, be short." -Horace
"One can give advice comfortably from a safe port." -Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
"It is well to open one's mind, but only as a preliminary to closing it . . . for the supreme act of judgement and selection." -Irving Babbitt
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." -George Orwell
"Men . . . employ speech only to conceal their thoughts." -Voltaire
"I want to do it because I want to do it." -Amelia Earhart
"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are." -Madeline L'Engle
"'Be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give to people." -Tom Masson
"When I was young I used to say good-natured things, and nobody listened to me. Now that I am old I say ill-natured things and everybody listens to me." -Samuel Rogers
"Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age." -Chinese Proverb
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." -Benjamin Disraeli
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." -Helen Keller
"There was a kid on the block who always wanted to be a pirate when he grew up. Today he is a doctor. He's lucky. Not every man realizes the ambitions of his youth."
"We are all alike, on the inside." -Mark Twain
"Between man and woman there is little difference, but vive la difference." -French Proverb
"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul." -Mark Twain
"First appearance deceives many." -Phaedrus
"A yawn is a silent shout." -G. K. Chesterton
"Art hath an enemy called ignorance." -Ben Jonson
"Every artist was first an amateur." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence." -Samuel Johnson
"The devil is the author of confusion." -Robert Burton
"He who looketh upon a woman loseth a fender." -Sign in an auto collision repair shop
"A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense." -American Proverb
"Any car will last a lifetime, if you're careless enough."
"Call no man unhappy until he is married." -Socrates
"Love is a great beautifier." -Louisa May Alcott
"No civilized person goes to bed the same day he gets up." -Richard Harding Davis
"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a ditch." -The Bible
"There's none so blind as they that won't see." -Jonathan Swift
"Books have led some to learning and others to madness." -Petrarch
"Classic: A book which people praise and don't read." -Mark Twain
"A room without books is a body without a soul." -Cicero
"Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day." -Polish Proverb
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." -Jean De La Breyere
"Pandemonium did not reign; it poured." -John Kendrick Bangs
"Expert: Someone who brings confusion to simplicity." -Gregory Nunn
"The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic." -William Gladstone
"Be good and you will be lonely." -Mark Twain
"Looks are deceiving. A man with a vacant look may have a full house."
"Love: A grave mental illness." -Plato
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." -H.L. Mencken
"The heart has its reasons which reason does not understand." -Blaise Pascal
"Decisions determine destiny." -Frederick Speakman
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." -Bernard Berenson
"The only completely consistent people are the dead." -Aldous Huxley
"Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through. Face it!" -Joseph Conrad
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck." -Katharine Hepburn
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." -Howard W. Newton
"There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world." -Oscar Hammerstein II
"The love you take / Is equal to the love you make." -John Lennon & Paul McCartney
"The first step is the hardest." -Madame De Vichy-Deffand
"Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein." -Proverbs, 26:27
"Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into." -Josh Billings
"We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior." -Henry Miller
"What one has to do usually can be done." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"How to succeed: try hard enough.
How to fail: Try too hard." -Malcolm Forbes
"If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." -Guiseppi di Lampedusa
"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change." -Mignon McLaughlin
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." -George C. Scott
"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice." -Confucius
"When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly." -Sappho
"Thar ain't no sense / In gittin' riled." -Bret Harte
"It usually takes two people to make one of them angry." -Laurence Peter
"We only do well the things we like doing." -Colette
"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope." -Dr. Bernie Siegel
"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt." -Henrik Ibsen
"Be not made a beggar by banqueting on borrowing." -Bible, Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 18:13
"Who goeth a borrowing / Goeth a sorrowing." -Thomas Tusser
"It's never too late -in fiction or in life - to revise." -Nancy Thayer
"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation." -Oscar Wilde
"Distance doesn't matter; it's only the first step that is difficult." -Marquise du Delfand
"The first blow is half the battle." -Oliver Goldsmith
"He who has begun is half done." -Horace
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -Helen Keller
"A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense." -Jenkin Lloyd Jones
"My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere . . . be brief . . . be seated." -James Roosevelt
"If you count all your assets, you always show a profit." -Robert Quillen
"And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily." -Col. 3:23
"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds." -Aesop
"Judge not according to the appearance." -John 7: 24
"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself." -Axel Munthe
"The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent." -Edgar Watson Howe
"It's going to be a long hard drag, but we'll make it." -Janis Joplin
"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath." -The Bible, James I: 19
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." -Ingrid Bergman
"Lost time is never found again." -Benjamin Franklin
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it, and not be smashed by it." -Ernest Hemingway
"To be somebody you must last." -Ruth Gordon
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve you work." -Bette Davis
"Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied." -Millicent G. Fawcett
"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see." - Winston Churchill
"You cannot plan the future by the past." -Edmund Burke
"The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do." -Leontyne Price
"Learning is discovering that something is possible." -Fritz Perls
"There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them." -Mark Rutherford
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." -Anuerin Bevan
"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life." -Theodore Roosevelt
"You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go." -Jeannette Rankin
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." -Earl of Chesterfield
"Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath." -John Updike
"Let us, then, be up and doing. / With a heart for any fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing. / Learn to labor and to wait." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"There is always room at the top." -Daniel Webster
"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest." -John Keats
"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." -Charles O. Finley
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions." -Confucius
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"The ability to concentrate and use your time well is everything." -Lee Iacocca
"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." -Lady Bird Johnson
"Don't be humble. You're not that great." -Golda Meir
"A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do." -Vladimir Voinovich
"To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent." -Robert Copeland
"You'll find in no park or city/A monument to a committee." -Victoria Pasternack
"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you." -Horace
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening." -Marge Piercy
"The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end." -Baroness Orczy
"The morning is wiser than the evening." -Russian proverb
"A danger foreseen is half avoided." -Thomas Fuller
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -Erica Jong
"I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist." -Tammy Faye Baker
"When you blame others you give up your power to hange." -Anon.
"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously lanned, nights left open to chance." -Mignon McLaughlin
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The reatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." -Henry Ford
"The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from speaking." -Louis Vermeil
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." -Helen Keller
"There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear." -Jawaharlal Nehru
"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene." -Arthur Christopher Benson
"There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change." -Rollo May
"Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves." -Thomas L. Monson
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." -Aldous Huxley
"The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so." -David Hume
"Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind." -Alice Meynell
"Boldness be my friend." -William Shakespeare (from Cymbeline)
"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority." -Napoleon Bonaparte
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." -Henry David Thoreau
"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects." -Arnold Glasow
"Laughter is by definition healthy." -Doris Lessing
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." -Don Herold
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." -Mignon McLaughlin
"Speak when you're angry ? and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret." -Laurence Peter
"Pain is the root of knowledge." -Simone Weil
"However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us." -Eric Hoffer
"Difficulties exist to be surmounted." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Luck is largely a matter of paying attention." -Susan M. Dodd
"I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish." -Martha Stewart
"This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude." -Jean De La Bruyere
"There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right." -Bill Cosby
"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." -Turkish proverb
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." -Oscar Wilde
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." -Miguel de Cervantes
"I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it." -Erica Jong
"The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance." -Baltasar Gracian
"He is poor who does not feel content." -Japanese proverb
"I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them." -Eleonora Duse
"Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment." -Blaise Pascal
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." -Charles Mingus
"Hope is a risk that must be run." -Georges Bernanos
"When thinking won't cure fear, action will." -W. Clement Stone
"Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion." -Francis Bacon
"On the human chessboard, all moves are possible." -Miriam Schiff
"It's never too late -- in fiction or in life -- to revise." -Nancy Thayer
"Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and powerful speech." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill." -Lord Mancroft
"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." -Lady Bird Johnson
"Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it." -Mark Twain
"Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen." -Jerry Brown
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." -Thomas La Mance
"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their nees up and pass a very comfortable night." -Marion Howard
"The world belongs to the energetic." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life." -Antoinette Bosco
"Nothing can be done except little by little." -Charles Baudelaire
"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." -Charles O. Finley
"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all: This, too, shall pass." -Ann Landers
"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure and stop to smell the flowers." -Walter Hagen
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." -Doris Lessing
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." -Raymond Linquist
"To change and to improve are two different things." -German proverb
"If we all told what we know of one another, there would not be four friends in the world." -Blaise Pascal
"It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them." -Joanna Field
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." -Jean Rostand
"The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant." -Lord David Cecil
"Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it." -David Guy Powers
"One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom." -Muriel Spark
"[Notre Dame football coach Knute] Rockne wanted nothing but 'Bad Losers.' Good losers get into the habit of sing." -George E. Allen
"What is now proved was once imagined." -William Blake
"No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you till have to get out of it." -Grace Slick
"Do whatever you do intensely." -Robert Henri
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." -Jonathan Winters
"The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude." -John DePasquale
"We are not all capable of everything." -Virgil
"Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath." -John Updike
"Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any old words in any old order." -Anon.
"Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true." -Arnold Bennett
"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect." -Margaret Mitchell
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second" -Logan Pearsall Smith
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self- sufficient." -Michel de Montaigne
"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well- neing is always ahead." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness." -Thomas Jefferson
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." -Kin Hubbard
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get -- only with what you are expecting to give -- which is everything." -Katharine Hepburn
"The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing." -Anon.
"A laugh is a terrible weapon." -Kate O'Brien
"Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills." -Miguel de Cervantes (from Don Quixote)
"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow" -Aesop
"That white horse you see in the park could be a zebra synchronized with the railings." -Ann Jellicoe (from The Knack)
"Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy ? if not less of it ? doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do." -Terry McMillan
"Live in the past, but don't remember too much." -Roger Rosenblatt
"The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." -Helen Rowland
"A man is more complex, infinitely more so, than his thoughts." -Paul Valery
"Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream." -Reinhold Niebuhr
"It's like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!" -Merrill Markoe
"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." -Victor Kiam
"If you want to do something, do it!" -Plautus
"When everything has to be right, something isn't." -Stanislaw Lec
"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had." -Erica Jong
"Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are." -Julius Charles Hare
"You are all you will ever have for certain." -June Havoc
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting." -Benjamin Franklin
People are not going to love you unless you love them. - Pat Carroll
He who has choice has trouble. - Dutch Proverb
There are no rules. Just follow your heart. - Robin Williams
"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." -William James
"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." -Maya Angelou
"You must change in order to survive." -Pearl Bailey
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. - Anonymous
The purpose of life is life. - Karl Lagerfeld
All forms of fear produce fatigue. - Bertrand Russell
"Not seeing is half-believing." -Vita Sackville-West
"Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry." -John Wesley
"Wisely and slow: they stumble that run fast." -William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
"Time flies, but you shouldn't." -Anon.
The future comes one day at a time. - Dean Acheson
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come. - Joan Baez
"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ibbons." -Ruth Ann Schabaker
"Greed lessens what is gathered." -Arab proverb
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise." -Colette
"If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny." -Woody Allen
"Everything is funny as long as it's happening to someone else." -Will Rogers
"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money." -Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)
Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball. - Mitzi Chandler
Rule No. 1 is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff. - Robert Eliot
"Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing." -Josh Billings
"The essence of man is imperfection." -Norman Cousins
"What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean." -Christopher Fry
"The 'C' students run the world." -Harry Truman
Life without a friend is death without a witness. - Spanish Proverb
It is enough that I am of value to somebody today. - Hugh Prather
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. - Herbert Gasser
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest. - Thomas Fuller
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein
"To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory." -Pierre Corneille
"Circumstances alter faces." -Carolyn Wells
God gave burdens, also shoulders. - Yiddish proverb
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes." -Sara Teasdale
"A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows." -John Powell
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that this new world is born." -Anais Nin
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. - Eva Young
He who limps still walks. - Stanislaw Lec
The mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily Dickinson
"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." -Swedish proverb
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn." -Agatha Christie
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. - Golda Meir
Never let yesterday use up today. - Richard H. Nelson
"There is no data on the future. - Laurel Cutler
"When you can't solve the problem, manage it." -Dr. Robert H. Schuller
"The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously." -Helen Gurley Brown
"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred-this is the law ternal." -Buddha
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. - Corita Kent
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities." -John Wicker
"All that is necessary is to accept the unacceptable, do without the indispensable, and bear the unbearable." -Kathleen Norris
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. - Henry L. Stimson
Some folks never exaggerate--they just remember big. - Audrey Snead
"Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either." -Sir Archibald McIndoe
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." -Theodore Roosevelt
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is. - Catfish Hunter
"Failure is usually the line of least persistence." -Wilfred Beaver
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. - Jacob A. Riis
Every path has its puddle. - English Proverb
"He's no failure. He's not dead yet." -W. L. George
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. - Hosea Ballou
"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post." -L. Thomas Holdcroft
"Good is not good, where better is expected." -Thomas Fuller
"Once you say you are going to settle for second, that's what happens to you." -John F. Kennedy
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. - Menclus
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings
"The best time to make friends is before you need them." -Ethel Barrymore
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank
Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to. - Arnold Glasow
Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests. - George Matthew Adams
You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose. - Benjamin Lipson
No one knows what he can do until he tries. - Publilius Syrus
"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile." -Bertrand Russell
"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do." -Bruce Crampton
The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do. - John Holt
"Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward." -Harry S. Truman
"What's important is finding out what works for you." -Henry Moore
"All acts performed in the world begin in the magination." -Barbara Grizutti Harrison
"Reach high, for stars hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." -Pamela Star
"Nothing happens unless first a dream." -Carl Sandburg
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything. - Lee Iacocca
"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk or running for office." -Shirley McLaine
"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom known until it be lost." -Charles Caleb Colton
"A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through." -Laurence J. Peter
"There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother." -Proverbs 18:24
"Delay not to seize the hour!" -Aeschylus
"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor." -Jennifer Jones
"What do you experience with your first mouthful of hot fudge sundae? Its not surprising that we carry it over to describe the intensity of love and sex." -Dr. S. Mintz
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. - Colette
Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost
If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. - Paula A. Bendry
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain. - Plautus
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." -Doris Lessing
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." -Pericles
Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause. - Phillip Gribble
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
A man is literally what he thinks. - James Lane Allen
"Never believe in mirrors or newspapers." -John Osborne
"Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel." -Elias L, Magoon
Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight. - Scottish Proverb
We only do well the things we like doing. - Colette
Love teaches even asses to dance. - French Proverb
"Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot / That it do singe yourself." -William Shakespeare (Henry VIII)
"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content'." -Lauren Bacall
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Erma Bombeck
"Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come." -Janet Erskine Stuart
"He who would have fruit must climb the tree." -Thomas Fuller
Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends. - William A. Irwin
Pain is never permanent. - Saint Theresa of Avila
"You are the one who must choose your place." -James Lane Allen
"The most popular labor-saving device is still money." -Phyllis George
"If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore." -Shirley Hufstedler
"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third." -Marge Piercy
"Happiness is a function of accepting what is." -Werner Erhard
"It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires." -Rebecca West
"He who laughs, lasts." -Mary Pettibone Poole
"The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there." -Gene Brown
"Money often costs too much." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Dreading that climax of all human ills, / The inflammation of his weekly bills." -Lord Byron (from Don Juan)
"I did it my way." -Frank Sinatra
"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader." -Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. " -Mother Teresa
"A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not." -Anon.
"He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened." -Lao-Tzu
"Enthusiasm moves the world." -J. Balfour
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." -Lauren Bacall
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge." -Abraham Joshua Heschel
"When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!" -Rabbi Harold Kushner
"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive." -John Cassavetes
"Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell." -Lillian Smith
"Discipline and focused awareness . . . contribute to the act of creation." -John Poppy
"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. " -H. T. Leslie
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work." -Carl Sandburg
"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." -Bern Williams
"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched." -George Jean Nathan
"When you win, nothing hurts." -Joe Namath
"Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything." -Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)
"False modesty is better than none." -Vilhjalmur Steffanson
"Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius." -Georges de Buffon
"Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time." -Isabelle Adfani
"One man with courage makes a majority." -Andrew Jackson
"The trouble with being punctual is that there's nobody there to appreciate it. " -Franklin P. Jones
"When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods." -Elbert Hubbard
"Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution." -Raymond E. Feist
"There's a mighty big difference between good sound reasons, and reasons that sound good." -Burton Hillis
"Somebody's boring me; I think it's me." -Dylan Thomas
"Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." -Bette Davis, in the film, "Now, Voyager"
"Money is like an arm or a leg - use it or lose it." -Henry Ford
"We are new every day." -Irene Claremont de Castillego
"A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him." -Mae West
"Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed." -Vincent van Gogh
"Nobody, but nobody / Can make it out here alone." -Maya Angelou
"Happiness is a way station between too little and too much." -Channing Pollock
"If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?" -Basil S. Walsh
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." -James Thurber
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap." -Carrie Snow
"Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done." -Melvin Peebles
"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time." -Norman Ford
"You write to me that it's impossible; the word is not French." -Napoleon, writing to one of his generals
"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter." -Beverly Sills
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things." -Katharine Graham
"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it." -Col. Michael Friedsman
"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive." -Federico Fellini
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." -Thomas Jefferson
"Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done." -Julia Louise Woodruff
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." -Richard Steele
"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." -Anon.
"If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission." -Grace M. Hopper
"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's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." -Marlene Dietrich
"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again." -Goethe
"Strong people don't need strong leaders." -Ella Baker
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." -James B. Conant
"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." - Charles A. Beard
"Success is a journey, not a destination." -Ben Sweetland
"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." -Edward Simmons
"The computer is a moron." -Peter Drucker
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." -Abraham Maslow
"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing." -Anais Nin
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." -Edward Gibbon
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead
"So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell." -Anon.
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." -Thomas Jefferson
"Let the past drift away with the water." -Japanese saying
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." -William James
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." -Marie Curie
"One can never consent to creep when one has the impulse to soar." -Helen Keller
"Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time." -Cher
"The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too." -Herbert Samuels
"Not all those who wander are lost." -J.R.R. Tolkien
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical." -Niels Bohr
"Enjoy yourself. These are the 'good old days' you're going to miss in the years ahead." -Anon.
"'But' is a fence over which few leap." -German proverb
"The shortest answer is doing." -English proverb
"This is not a dress rehearsal. This is *It*. -Tom Cunningham
" Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy." -Saul Alinsky
"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't." -Frank A. Clark
"He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time." -Duc de la Rochefoucald
"It is never too late to give up your prejudices." -Henry David Thoreau
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." -Frank M. Hubbard
"Work hard at several projects. That way, no matter what is going wrong, something will be going right." - Donna Hanover
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." -Dolly Parton
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." -Moliere
"Little drops of water, little grains of sand/Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land." -Julia Carney
"The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss." -Diane Ravitch
"One of these days is none of these days." -H. G. Bohn
"Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." -Michelangelo
"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world." -Grace Paley
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward." -Ellen Glasgow
"What else are we gonna live by if not dreams?" -Jill Robinson
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." -Douglas Everett
"Inches make a champion." -Vince Lombardi
"We will either find a way, or make one." -Hannibal
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." -Jean-Paul Sartre
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." -Mark Twain
"Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down." -Olive Schreiner
"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom." -Scottish proverb
"I don't want to be a passenger in my own life." -Diane Ackerman
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." -William Blake
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." -Mark Twain
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. " -Sophia Loren
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." -Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull
"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person." -Ethel Watts Mumford
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either." -Leo Burnett
"Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do." -Quintus Ennius
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." -Sally Kempton
"The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself." -Charles W. Eliot
"Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit." -German proverb
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something." -Anon.
"You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"an empty pocket is easy on the hand, but an empty thought is easier on the mind" -Brian Lewis
"I am not lazy........i just dont do a lot" Brian and Jason
"Why give a damn if you can't afford one?" -Jason Link
"If you took all the stuff you have ever owned or got, and put it in your pocket, you would have very full pockets" -Jason Link
"I'm not the brightest crayon in the box, but im in there." -Jason Link
"stupid people do stupid things but when your a genious like me its a talent." -Jason Link
"If my life were a train... I'd say that the trees are chugging by and the train's standing still." -Gary Yee
"That's the problem... I've got an entire hotel full of 3-walled rooms."
Jesse's favorite quote:
"One to be born from a dragon, Hoisting the light and the dark, Arises high up in the sky to the still land. Veiling the moon with the light of eterinty, It brings another promise to mother earth with a bounty and mercy." -FF4/2