More "Golden Real Estate Quotes" -- David Walker's collection of thoughts and quotes about Real Estate, Homes, Land, Money, and Other Things. Sorted with no rhyme or reason. Date showed is when the quote was first on this web site.
"Golden Real Estate Quotes?" ... well .. Ah ..they are in Gold print! and this is California "The Golden State"
DISCLAIMER: I do not agree with all of the quotations listed. I may have at one point, but that doesn't mean that I do, now. They were recorded for various reasons - they made me think, they made me laugh, they made me roll my eyes and groan... don't be sensitive about them...
David's Golden Quote of the Day 2011, 2010 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004:
December 2011
"Have a Safe and Happy New Years Eve" - David and Family
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broad swords, or canals, or statues, or songs." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Merry Christmas!" - David Lee Walker and Family
"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself." - Charles Dickens
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood." - John Burroughs
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." - attributed to Charles Galton Darwin
"Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." - Richard Mant
"Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope." - Aristotle
"Water is the only drink for a wise man." - Henry David Thoreau
"The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined will of a peasant." - Confucius
"Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat." - Fran Lebowitz
"December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
"He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein
November 2011
"What an enormous "camera-obscura" tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory, in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it; and in the darkness in the entire ignorance, without date or document, no book, no Arundel marble, only here and there some dull monumental cairn!" - Thomas Carlyle
"The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle." - Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
"May all your Family and Friends have a Happy and Joyous Thanksgiving!!!! - David Lee Walker and Family
"Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches in the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do; nay, which brings to view even the throne of God, and pierces that nebulous distance where are those eternal verities in which true life consists." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the loftiest kind thereof comes only of a religious stock,--from consciousness of obligation and dependence upon God." - Theodore Parker
"When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind." - Joseph Addison
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself." - Marlene Dietrich
"There are three kinds of praise,--that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude." - Charles Caleb Colton
"To meet at all, one must open one's eyes to another; and there is no true conversation, no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening open itself to the other." - Jessamyn West
"The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character." - Alexander Hamilton
"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." - Theodore Roosevelt
"But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age. - Henry Ward Beecher
"I would rather obey than work miracles." - Martin Luther
"Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through the narrow chinks of his cavern." - William Blake
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Unattributed Author, Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles
"Laziness is a good deal like money,--the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want." - Henry Wheeler Shaw
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"No park--no ring--no afternoon gentility--
No company--no nobility--
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease.
No comfortable feel in any member--
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!" - Thomas Hood
October 2011
"Neither current events nor history show that the majority rules, or ever did rule." - Jefferson Davis
"The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense; the last was the light of the reason: and His Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit." - Francis Bacon
"That jewel knowledge is great riches, which is not plundered by kinsmen, nor carried off by thieves, nor decreased by giving." - Bhavabhuti
"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice, but an accident alone, here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two; but it is sure as life, it is sure as death!" - Thomas Carlyle
"You are convinced by experience that very few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought." - Thucydides
"God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best." - Robert Collyer
"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise. It arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select friends." - Joseph Addison
"If you watch a game, it's fun. IF you play it, it's recreation. if you work at it, it's golf." - Bob Hope
"If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs." - Aesop
"As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it." - George Washington
"Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation." - Charles Dickens
"Error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase." - Charles Caleb Colton
"No amusement seems more to have a foundation in our nature. The animation of youth overflows spontaneously in harmonious movements. The true idea of dancing entitles it to favor. Its end is to realize perfect grace in motion; and who does not know that a sense of the graceful is one of the higher faculties of our nature?" - William Ellery Channing
"The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twin inextricably round the heart; producing good if moderately indulged; but certain destruction if suffered to become inordinate." - Robert Burton
"A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one." - Isaac D'Israeli
"All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction." - Adlai E. Stevenson
"There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance, and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word "good-breeding." For, if we examine thoroughly the idea of what we call so, we shall find it to be nothing else but an imitation and mimicry of good-nature, or, in other terms, affability, complaisance, and easiness of temper reduced into an art." - Joseph Addison
"A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me." - Thomas Carlyle
"Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse." - Joseph Roux
September 2011
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." - Henry David Thoreau
"There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck." - Louis Kossuth
"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed." - Benjamin Franklin
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau
"You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics." - Charles Bukowski
"To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary, - nature, study, and practice." - Aristotle
"What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle." - James Thomas Fields
"It is only for those to employ force who possess strength without judgment; but the well advised will have recourse to other means. Besides, he who pretends to carry his point by force hath need of many associates; but the man who can persuade knows that he is himself sufficient for the purpose; neither can such a one be supposed forward to shed blood; for, who is there would choose to destroy a fellow citizen rather than make a friend of him by mildness and persuasion?" - Xenophon
"There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question." - A. Lawrence Lowell
"To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling." - Barbara Walters
"All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain." - Seneca
"Extra interest signifies extra risk. - Arthur Wellesley
"Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated." - Ninon de L'Enclos
"Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind." - General Douglas MacArthur
"He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates." - Edmund Burke
Today 9/11 is Patriot Day. "To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them." - Bishop George Berkeley
"Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat." - Laurence Sterne
"The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty." - Napoleon Hill
"The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority--demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice,-- comes graceful and beloved as a bride." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." - Abraham Lincoln
"The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it." - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
"Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with." - Samuel Gompers
"By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed." - Lewis Mumford
"The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose." - Lord Edward Coke
"We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know." - Albert Einstein
"The morrow was a bright September morn;
The earth was beautiful as if new-born;
There was that nameless splendor everywhere,
That wild exhilaration in the air,
Which makes the passers in the city street
Congratulate each other as they meet."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
August 2011
"Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible." - Margaret Mead
"A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason." - Hugo Grotius
"A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another." - Charles Caleb Colton
"A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due." - Christian Nestell Bovee
Liberty, equality,--bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice, and justice towards the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
"Language was invented to ask questions." - Eric Hoffer
"Knowledge is power." - Francis Bacon
"It is dangerous to jest with God, death, or the devil; for the first neither can nor will be mocked; the second mocks all men at one time or another; and the third puts an eternal sarcasm on those that are too familiar with him." - J. Beaumont
"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world." - Aristotle
"There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scale the fall of an empire and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire." - Honore de Balzac
"A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page." - Hosea Ballou
"Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion." - Honore de Balzac
"I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?" - Henry Ward Beecher
"History is but a fable agreed upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty--let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learnt." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds he will all fast asleep." - Francis Bacon
"What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend." - Plautus
"Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The August cloud . . . suddenly
Melts into streams of rain." - William Cullen Bryant
July 2011
"Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light." - Charles Caleb Colton
"The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the
worker and the work." - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short." - Bertrand Arthur William Russell
"The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth." - Eric Sevareid
"Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so." - Sir Charles Pratt
"Socrates was pronounced by the Oracle of Delphos to be the wisest man in Greece, which he would turn from himself ironically, saying there could be nothing in him to verify the oracle, except this, that he was not wise and knew it, and others were not wise and knew it not." - Francis Bacon
"When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."" - Charles Caleb Colton
"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve centre of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." - Howard Thurman
"I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence." - Alice Walker
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death." - George Bernard Shaw
"The rules of conduct, the maxims of action, and the tactical instincts that serve to gain small victories may always be expanded into the winning of great ones with suitable opportunity; because in human affairs the sources of success are ever to be found in the fountains of quick resolve and swift stroke; and it seems to be a law inflexible and inexorable that he who will not risk cannot win." - John Paul Jones
"Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it." - William James
"Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong." - William Hazlitt
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." - Bertrand Arthur William Russell
"In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell. - Will Rogers
"When God will educate a man, He compels him to learn bitter lessons. He sends him to school to the Necessities rather than to the Graces, that by knowing all suffering he may know also the eternal consolations." - Celia Burleigh
"The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle." - Abraham Lincoln
"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit." - Aristotle
"Happy Birthday America" - David Lee Walker and Family
"A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves." - Edwin Hubbell Chapin
"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us." - Quentin Crisp
June 2011
"He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying." - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"That best portion of a good man's life,
His little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." - William Wordsworth
"I can prove anything by statistics except the truth." - George Canning
"At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us." - Alexander Pope
"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself." - Jessamyn West
"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants." - William Cobbett
"Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea." - Lord Alfred Tennyson
"In health there is liberty. Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health." - Henri-Frederic Amiel
"God Almighty first planted a garden." - Francis Bacon
"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence." - Joseph Conrad
"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma." - Marlene Dietrich
"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy." - Groucho Marx
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra
It's FLAG DAY "America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses." - Thomas Woodrow Wilson
"Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter." - Honore de Balzac
"A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever." - Thomas Carlyle
"Ants are good citizens they place group interests first." - Clarence Day
"Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul." - Charles Buxton
"The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." - Lucille Ball
"Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher." - Marshall McLuhan
"I paid too much for it, but its worth it." - Samuel Goldwyn
"Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path for every man,--a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do; which, could he but be led or driven to do, he were then doing like a man, as we phrase it. His success, in such a case, were complete, his felicity a maximum." - Thomas Carlyle
"As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see." - Julius Caesar
"Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean." - James Russell Lowell
"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds." - Albert Einstein
"And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays." - James Russell Lowell,
May 2011
"The first principle of contract negotiation is don't remind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do in the future." - Stan Musial
"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history." - Henry Ward Beecher
"The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far more truly the man's property, because they are accomplishing something for him, slothful and shameful though it be. And what is a lost soul? Is it not one that God cannot use, or one that cannot use God? Trustless, prayerless, fruitless, loveless--is it not so far lost? So may a man have a soul that is lost and be dead while he lives." - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
"All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell. - Will Rogers
"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze." - Thomas Carlyle
"Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear." - Christopher Darlington Morley
"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere." - Ronald Reagan
"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." - Henry David Thoreau
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas." - Godfrey Harold Hardy
"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up." - Orson Welles
"Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for,--studied for,--thought for,--and, more than all, it must be prayed for." - Thomas Arnold
"It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances." - Hosea Ballou
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." - Francis Bacon
"I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy." - Oscar Wilde
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Cicero
"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment." - Dale Carnegie
"Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged animal a man without it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Happy MOTHER'S Day" - David Walker
"The waters deluge man with rain, oppress him with hail, and drown him with inundations; the air rushes in storms, prepares the tempest, or lights up the volcano; but the earth, gentle and indulgent, ever subservient to the wants of man, spreads his walks with flowers and his table with plenty; returns with interest every good committed to her care, and though she produces the poison, she still supplies the antidote; though constantly teased more to furnish the luxuries of man than his necessities, yet, even to the last, she continues her kind indulgence, and when life is over she piously covers his remains in her bosom." - Pliny the Elder
"The demands of modern living are so exacting that men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely." - Robert Grant
"Happy Cinco de Mayo" - David Lee Walker
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question." - Albert Camus
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer
"Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God." - Nathaniel Emmons
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry S. Truman
April 2011
"Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully." - Albert Einstein
"A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second; for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in ages; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely." - Francis Bacon
"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. We are bought by the enemy with the treasure in our own coffers." - Edmund Burke
"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion." - George Bernard Shaw
"You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year." - William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
"As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; the one we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld
"The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it." - Joseph Addison
"Never inquire into another man's secret; but conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it." - Horace
"It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers." - James Thurber
"We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket." - George Carlin
"I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool." - William Shakespeare
"Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole." - Aristotle
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Nelson Mandela
"A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself." - Lord Henry Peter Brougham
"Good and bad luck is but a synonyme, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment." - Paul Chatfield
"We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others: and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring." - Jeremy Bentham
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." - Mary Kay Ash
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"The first of April, some do say is set apart for All Fools' day; But why the people call it so, Nor I, nor they themselves, do know." - Poor Robin's Almanac
March 2011
Cesar Estrada Chavez (March 31 1927 - April 23 1993) "one of the heroic figures of our time." - Senator Robert Kennedy
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." - Thomas Henry Huxley
"You can get much farther with a smile, a kind word, and a gun than you can with a smile and a kind word." - Alphonse (Al) Capone
"How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten." - Washington Irving
"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane. I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at
my back." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to ten additional years to a man's life." - Philip Doddridge
"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers." - Henri-Frederic Amiel
"The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing." - James Brown
"Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great." - Johann Georg von Zimmermann
"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs." - Andrew Carnegie
"Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things." - Henry Ward Beecher
"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive." - Lee A. Iacocca
"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." - Louis D. Brandeis
"HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY" - David Walker
"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it." - Lytton Bulwer
"Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years." - Ovid
"Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how." - Samuel Johnson
"Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud: and, after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound,
as seasons fleet." - William Shakespeare
"I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species." - Joseph Addison
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." - Albert Einstein
"Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw
"Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal." - Aristotle
"The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase." - Joseph Hall
"The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power." - Wilhelm von Humboldt
"There is always something new out of Libya." - Aristotle
"When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their
communities." - Jack Kemp
"Beware the ides of March." - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
February 2011
"In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed." - John Tillotson
"To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home." - Hal Borland
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Cicero
"Farming is a most senseless pursuit, a mere laboring in a circle. You sow that you may reap, and then you reap that you may sow. Nothing ever comes of it." - Joannes Stobaeus
"Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice." - Edmund Burke
"Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors." - Joey Adams
"But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." - Buddha
"Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper." - Hugh Blair
"Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America." - Edmund Burke
"Talent is something, but tact is everything. Talent is serious, sober, grave, and respectable; tact is all that, and more, too. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles." - William Pitt Scargill
"When you stop talking, you've lost your customer." - Estee Lauder
"A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal." - Honore de Balzac
"Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature." - Cicero
"Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting." - Seneca
"Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life." - Elie Wiesel
"We don't have to turn to our history books for heroes. They're all around us. Don't let anyone tell that America's best days are behind her that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now." - Ronald Reagan
"The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping." - Sydney Smith
"We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition." - Cyrus Augustus Bartol
January 2011
"You'ld be so lean that blasts of January
Would blow you through and through."
- William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
"Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what do we truly know, or what can we clearly affirm, of any one of those important things upon which all our reasonings must of necessity be built--time and space, life and death, matter and mind?" - Charles Caleb Colton
"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left." - Aldo Leopold
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and difficult." - Heraclitus of Ephesus
"Fortune is like a market where many times if you wait a little the price will fall." - Francis Bacon
"Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Paying of debts is, next to the grace of God, the best means in the world to deliver you from a thousand temptations to sin and vanity." - Patrick Delany
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." - Albert Einstein
"Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the ornament and pride of man, the sweetest charm of woman, the scorn of rascals and the rarest virtue of sociability." - Christian Ernst Graf von Bentzel-Sternau
"Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter." - Honore de Balzac
"In abundance prepare for scarcity." - Mencius
"There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall." - Thomas Adams
"It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age." - Cicero
"Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield." - Aesop
"The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession." - Henry Theodore Tuckerman
"As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; the one we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld
"Have a Happy New Year and a Prosperous 2011" - David Lee Walker and Family
December 2010
"The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it." - Joseph Addison
"To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible." - Earl Wilson
"I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability." - Cicero
"No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale." - Honore de Balzac
"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters." - Aesop
"A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like a summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the joyous day of the whole week." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb." - Hosea Ballou
"Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature. Reason is the mistress and queen of all things." - Cicero
November 2010
"Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves." - Willa Sibert Cather
"Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years." - Ovid
"All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen." - Mark Twain
"Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment." - Henri-Frederic Amiel
"When you ask for it back again, you find a friend made an enemy by your own kindness. If yon begin to press still further--either you must part with that which you have entrusted, or else you must lose that friend." - Plautus (184 BC)
"Vote, I have." - David
"Sports and gaming, whether pursued from a desire of gain or love of pleasure, are as ruinous to the temper and disposition of the party addicted to them, as they are to his fame and fortune." - Robert Burton
October 2010
"Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. Man may be civilized in some degree without great progress in manufactures and with little commerce with his distant neighbors. But without the cultivation of the earth, he is, in all countries, a savage. Until he gives up the chase and fixes himself in some place, and seeks a living from the earth, he is a roaming barbarian. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization." - Daniel Webster
"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody." - Franklin Pierce Adams
"Paying of debts is, next to the grace of God, the best means in the world to deliver you from a thousand temptations to sin and vanity." - Patrick Delany
"When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it." - Robert Anthony
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau
"There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country." - Joseph Addison
"Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors." - Joey Adams
"Abundance changes the value of things." - Terence
"I told him it was law logic--an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else." - John Quincy Adams
"A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves." - Edwin Hubbell Chapin
"We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition." - Cyrus Augustus Bartol
September 2010
"Manhood begins when we have, in a way, made truce with necessity; begins, at all events, when we have surrendered to necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to necessity, and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in necessity we are free." - Thomas Carlyle
"The Recession Over" - The White House's economic team
"We content ourselves to present to thinking minds the original seeds from whence spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged." - Andrew Michael Ramsay
"Adversity, if for no, other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. Men see clearer at such time. Storms purify the atmosphere." - Henry Ward Beecher
"I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another." - Homer
"All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen." - Mark Twain
"I would rather be
the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge
than the man who sold it." - Will Rogers
"Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used." - Carl Sagan
August 2010
"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience." - Doug Larson
"The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"A wound from a tongue is worse than a wound from the sword; the latter affects only the body--the former, the spirit, the soul." - Pythagoras
"Go West, young man! Go West." - John L.B. Soule
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates." - Thomas Szasz
July 2010
"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die." - Edward Kennedy
"We meet ourselves time and again
in a thousand disguises on the path of life." - Carl Jung
"We must deal with the world as we find it, not as we would like it to be." - Lee Balkum
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." - Walt Disney
"Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming." - J. P. McEvoy
"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream." - Harry Kemp
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world,
and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first" - Ronald Reagan
"The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith for rather than reason." - Hal Borland
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it." - Lord Acton
"Freedom is not free" - Anonymous, Have a happy and safe 4th of July - - David Walker
"It is so much easier to tell others what to do with their problems than to stand with them in their pain." - David Augsburger
"There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age." - Oswald Mosley
June 2010
"Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming." - J. P. McEvoy
"The best mind-altering drug is truth." - Lily Tomlin
"We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." - Henry David Thoreau
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." - Igor Stravinsky
"We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind." - Jacob Bronowski
"It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool." - Og Mandino
"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have." - John D. Rockefeller, III
"The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine." — Aristotle
"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less." - Nicholas M Butler
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together." - G. C. Lichtenberg
May 2010
"I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary." - Nathan Hale
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain
"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country
is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities." - John Dalberg Acton
"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited." - Earl Nightengale
Subject: Hello from 150 NM above the Earrth
Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth. The perspective is truly awe-inspiring. This is a terrific mission and we are very busy doing science round the clock. Just getting a moment to type e-mail is precious so this will be short, and distributed to many who I know and love.
I have seen some incredible sights: lightning spreading over the Pacific, the Aurora Australis lighting up the entire visible horizon with the cityglow of Australia below, the crescent moon setting over the limb of the Earth, the vast plains of Africa and the dunes on Cape Horn, rivers breaking through tall mountain passes, the scars of humanity, the continuous line of life extending from North America, through Central America and into South America, a crescent moon setting over the limb of our blue planet. Mount Fuji looks like a small bump from up here, but it does stand out as a very distinct landmark.
Magically, the very first day we flew over Lake Michigan and I saw Wind Point (Racine, WI) clearly. Haven't been so lucky since. Every orbit we go over a slightly different part of the Earth. Of course, much of the time I'm working back in Spacehab and don't see any of it. Whenever I do get to look out , it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness. I have seen my "friend" Orion several times.
Taking photos of the earth is a real challenge, but a steep learning curve. I think I have finally gotten some beautiful shots the last 2 days. Keeping my fingers crossed that they're in sharp focus. My near vision has gotten a little worse up here so you may have seen pics/video of me wearing glasses. I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out the research of scientists around the world. All of the experiments have accomplished most of their goals despite the inevitable hiccups that occur when such a complicated undertaking is undertaken. Some experiments have even done extra science. A few are finished and one is just getting started today.
The food is great and I am feeling very comfortable in this new, totally different environment. It still takes a while to eat as gravity doesn't help pull food down your esophagus. It is also a constant challenge to stay adequately hydrated. Since our body fluids are shifted toward our heads our sense of thirst is almost non-existent.
Thanks to many of you who have supported me and my adventures throughout the years. This was definitely one to beat all. I hope you could feel the positive energy that I beamed to the whole planet as we glided over our shared planet.
Love to all,
Laurel
Last email received from Laurel Clark, astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle 'Columbia' which disentegrated as it re-entered the atmosphere on February 1, 2003. All 7 crew members were lost.
At the time of re-entry, the space vehicle was at an altitude of approximately 200,000 feet and moving about 12,500 mph.
"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your initiation. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself." - Alan Alda
"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness." - George Sand
April 2010
"The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films." - Paul Newman
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." - Abraham Lincoln
"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have a very special use for two highly trained certified public accountants." - Elvis Presley
"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius." - Joshua Reynolds
"In order to succeed it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to do is be one day ahead of them." - Leó Szilárd
"Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits." - Edward de Bono
"Happy April Fools Day the only day dedicated to everbody" - David Lee Walker
March 2010
"The time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free." - Nikos Kazantzakis
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” - Mahatma Gandhi
"When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it." - Thomas Jefferson
"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." - Johann Sebastian Bach
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson
"Indecision may, or may not, be my problem" - Jimmy Buffett
"It's Time to Spring Forward" - David Lee Walker
"Perservance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another!" - Walter Elliott
"People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices." - Brad Warner
"The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality." - Douglas Porter
"Equal opportunity means everybody will have a fair chance at being incompetent." - Laurence J. Peter
"Chasing after fantasies is always a bad idea. Stick with reality. Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: It's enough." - Brad Warner
"People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw
February 2010
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of
advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an
inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look
it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot
defeat me.' - Ann Landers
"One always envied Sissy Spacek her telekinetic abilities in Carrie, not because they enabled her to burn all her nasty classmates to death (though there is that too), but because she could make boys who shouted rude comments at her fall off their bikes. Men have no idea how annoying they can be." - Anne Billson
"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
"The Single Best Way to Be Happy: Choose To!" - Colleen Saidman
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstien
"When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." - Anatole France
"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine." - Elvis Presley
"I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of
principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't." - Mark Twain
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"Experience of the world may be looked upon as a kind of text, to which reflection and knowledge form the commentary." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 2010
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." - Napoleon Hill
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson
"The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values." - Steven Pinker
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." - Mark Twain
"Have a Happy New Year and a Prosperous 2010" - David Lee Walker and Family
December 2009
"Happy Holidays" - from David Lee Walker and Family
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." - Sacha Guitry
"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime." - Mark Twain
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” - Charles Darwin
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate" – Thomas Jefferson
"He who knows not but knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him. He who knows not, but knows he knows not is a wise man; follow him." - Plato
"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't." - Frank A. Clark
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right." - Hannah Whitall Smith
"There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it and the rest of us." - Lawrence J. Peter
November 2009
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." - John F. Kennedy
"Happy Thanksgiving" - David Walker and Family
"The time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
"All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are." - Alphonse Karr
"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." - Mary Tyler Moore
"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life." - Anatole France
"I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers." - Paul Getty
"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change." - Mignon McLaughlin
"Some things are better off kept secret" -Jennifer Ramirez
"Your mountain is waiting so......get on your way!"
---All from "Oh the places you'll go!" - Dr Seuss
"I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was." – Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts." – Ernest Hemingway
"Love - If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have." - Sir James M. Barrie
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A. Heinlein
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain
October 2009
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein
“As long as we pursue this materialistic kind of lifestyle where we make money, and possessions [are] the only ambition in life, we are going to go downhill and eventually destroy ourselves.” - Rani Ghandi
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher--and that is good for any man. " - Socrates
The big-type giveth, and the small-type taketh away.
"In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy and the market economy. For those of us who grew up believing that capitalism is the foundation of democracy and market freedom, it has been a rude awakening to realize that under capitalism, democracy is for sale to the highest bidder and the market economy is centrally planned by global megacorporations larger than most states." - David C. Korten
"Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." - Bruce Lee
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." - P. J.O'Rourke
"Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." - Herbert Hoover
September 2009
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
– Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams
"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." - Bill Gates
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Winston Churchill
August 2009
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." – Jimi Hendrix
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Sir Cecil Beaton
"This is not Burger King, Federal Express of the Library of Congress. Therefore I do not do it your way, deliver overnight, or know everything"
"Slavery came into being because of the desire to have someone toil so that the owner wouldn’t. All economic systems came into being for the same purpose, but in these cases the newer systems get the slaves to volunteer." - Walt Haskins
"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target." - Geoffrey F. Fisher
July 2009
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." - William Arthur Ward
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Forgiveness for ourselves is the journey from guilt over what we have done or not done to the celebration of what we have become." - Dr. Joan Borysenko
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
June 2009
"Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not." - Elias Root Beadle
"Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryon
"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is, for so long, void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast." – William Penn
"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it." - Irving Berlin
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you
will never pay attention to their limitations again." - James R. Cook
"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny." - Carl Sagan
May 2009
"Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems." - Billy Joel
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." - Charlie McCarthy
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Leonardo Da Vinci
"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." - Walter Elliott
On the supposed perils of exposing information: "The problem is not that people might steal your ideas and secrets. The problem is that nobody cares about your ideas and secrets." - Anil Menon
"I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism, and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits." - Edward de Bono
"It is better to be lucky than to be good!" - Louis H. Albert
April 2009
"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ... they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!" - Warren G. Harding
"In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love." - Diego Marchi
"Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it." - Jane Wagner
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one." - John Galsworthy
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"Good judgment comes from experience... and a lot of that comes from bad judgment!" - Will Rogers
"It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - Elinor Smith
"Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends." - Charles De Gaulle
"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves." - Lane Joseph Kirkland
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
March 2009
"The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore." - Dale Carnegie
"Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore." - Dorothy Bryant
"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?" - Mary Manin Morrissey
"Every really new idea looks crazy at first." - Alfred North Whitehead
"History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future." - Miguel de Cervantes
"Being truthful, when you know it will cost you, is the true test of honesty." - Dave Weinbaum
"The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities." - Frank Barron
"You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough." - Joseph E. Levine, Hollywood producer
"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water." - Kate Chopin
"If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance." - James Gorman
February 2009
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see the land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." - Aldo Leopold
"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort."
– Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
"Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." - David Cronenberg
"Success in life comes not from having the right cards, but from playing bad ones properly." - Joshua Dool
"If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are." - T. S. Elliot
"One of the most serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligations to follow their doctrine." - from a Russian document
"People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw
"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." - Simeon Strunsky
January 2009
"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece." - Claude Monet
"Life is like a camel. You can make it do anything except back up." - Marcelene Cox
"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"That's a universal translator. We're not even supposed to have it, and I'll tell you why: Human thought is so primitive it's looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies. That kinda makes you feel proud, doesn't it?" - "Agent K", Men in Black
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." - Dick Cavett
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness." - Aristotle
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." - Victoria Holt
Happy New Year to You and Yours - - - David Lee Walker
December 2008
"All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen." - Mark Twain
"The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man." - Albert Einstein
"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac." - George Carlin
"If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: one is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone have to deal with crazy." - Alan Dean Foster
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Bard
"I have often regretted my speech,
never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information." - Heinz R. Pagels
November 2008
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." - Andrew Carnegie
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments." - Flip Wilson
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." - Dr. Seuss
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." - Daniel Webster
"Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." - David Cronenberg
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those are dumber." - Plato
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Sir Cecil Beaton
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." - Albert Einstein
"Success in life comes not from having the right cards, but from playing bad ones properly." - Joshua Dool.
"Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool." - Og Mandino
October 2008
"There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway." - J. Z. Knight
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." - Euripides
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” - Douglas Adams
"The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films." - Paul Newman
"We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous." - Carl Sagan
"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile." - Vince Lombardi
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting
for our wits to grow sharper." - Eden Phillpotts
"We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally." - Nguyen Co Thatch
"We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness." - Ellen Goodman
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
September 2008
"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet." - Rodney Dangerfield
"I want to be able to sit down with anyone who may have a new idea and not be afraid of contamination by association. In a democracy you must be able to meet with people and argue your point of view--people whom you have not screened beforehand. That must be part of the freedom of people in the United States." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of." - Burt Bacharach
"He who knows not but knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him. He who knows not, but knows he knows not is a wise man; follow him." - Plato
"Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was." - Will Rogers
"I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close." - Henry J. Kaiser
"No, I'm from Iowa. I just work in outer space." - James T Kirk
"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has." - Henry Ward Beecher
"You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning somersaults. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities." - William J. H. Boetcker
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." - Ziggy
August 2008
"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark." – Thomas Hobbes, last words
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." - John F. Kennedy
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to lose it." - Warren Buffett
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." - Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC.
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time." - Milton Friedman
"A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man." - J. Robert Oppenheimer
"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone,
but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars." - Martin Luther
"I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose." - Montgomery Clift
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." - Amelia Earhart
"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes." - Oscar Wilde
July 2008
"The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior." - Earl Warren
"By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed." - Adolf Hitler
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." - Andrew Carnegie
"Happiness isn't something you experience;
it's something you remember." - Oscar Levant
"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die." - Bill Watterson from "Calvin and Hobbes"
"Now everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it." - Will Rogers
"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters." - Aesop
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman
"That which distinguishes this day (Fourth of July)from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges." - John Burroughs
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams
June 2008
"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck." - George Carlin
"Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings." - George F. Will
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." - Jane Austen
"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain
"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need." ~Vernon Howard
"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." - John Burroughs
"How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but by how well we are understood." - Andy Grove
"He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Winston Churchill
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." - W. Somerset Maugham
May 2008
"Force always attracts men of low morality." - Albert Einstein
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Winston Churchill
"Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire
"Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair." - George Burns
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." - Lucille Ball
"I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation." - Mike Todd
"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world." - Thomas Carlyle
"All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen." - Mark Twain
"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." - Edward Everett Hale
"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do." - Cicero
April 2008
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly—because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.
Michael Caine
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." - Eric Hoffer
"Don't try to explain it, just sell it." - Colonel Tom Parker
"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death" - James F. Bymes
March 2008
"Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore." - Dorothy Bryant
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat." - Albert Einstein
February 2008
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." - Miss Piggy
"To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam, To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistencies." - Kahlil Gibran
"The important thing is never to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
"I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them." - Jimmy Hoffa
"Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words." - Eric Hoffer
"Love and electricity are one in the same my dear, if you do not feel the jolt in your soul, every time a kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt, then you're not really in love." - C. J. Franks
"A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason." - Thomas Carlyle
"Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be." - Anne Byrhhe
"Money All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." - Samuel Butler
January 2008
"Love comeforteth like sunshine after rain." - William Shakespeare
"The trouble with an income-tax reduction is that it will stimulate business just enough to put everybody in a higher tax bracket." - Harold Coffin
"What experience and history teach us is this that people and governments have never learnt anything from history or acted on principles deduced from it." - George Hegel
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself." - Sir John Vanbrugh
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - John Lennon
"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination -- and taxes." - H.E. Martz
"Does anyone else ever get the distinct impression that some day a group of people in suits are going to walk into your office or your home and say, 'We've got you now! You had everyone *thinking* you were a grown up, but you're not. Now get your things. Your mother's got supper on the table and you have to be in bed by 7:30.' Or is it just me?" - Cynthia Melcher
"We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can." - Will Rogers
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." - Laurence J. Peter
"Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them." - Curtis Grant
December 2007
"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." - Richard Moss
"Everything worth doing starts with fear." - Art Garfunkel
"Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along." - Confucius
"I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond." - May West
"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" - Will Rogers
"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life— and one is as good as the other." - Ernest Hemingway
"A lie can travel half-way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes" - Mark Twain
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." - Henry David Thoreau
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly (via his cartoon character Pogo)
"You can fool half of the people all of the time and that's enough to make a good living." - W.C. Fields
"All the Constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it by yourself." -Benjamin Franklin
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The day I say, 'This is good enough for me,' is the day I begin to die, Poilar. I want to know what I am. After that I want to know what I'm capable of becoming. And then I want to become it. I want to keep reaching higher all the time." - Robert Silverberg, Kingdoms of the Wall
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise." - Alden Nowlen
"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment." - T. H. White
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln
"A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was." - Joseph Hall
"An optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell
"A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils." - Daniel Webster
November 2007
"You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows - and has always known - that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival." - Anthony Robbins
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill
October 2007
"A prudent question is one half of wisdom." - Francis Bacon
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus
"If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
"I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close."
- Henry J. Kaiser
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." - Will Rogers
"I had the ambition to not only go farther than man had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go." - James Cook, Captain, HMS Endeavor
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money." - Louis Agassiz
"And what is it to know what one wants but to listen quietly to the silent voices from within and to yield to their guidance over the clamorous objections of fear and pride of consistency and custom and of greed and hate." - Bradford Shank
"Goals are dreams with deadlines." - Diana Scharf Hunt
It is always the best policy to speak the truth unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome
“Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.” - Winston Churchill
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in.' - Ronald Reagan
"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it." - William Faulkner
How much of our lives is spent in reverie, in wishing for what cannot be, in regretting what might have been avoided. These obsessions steal from us the moments of the now. - David K. Reynolds
September 2007
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. - Leo Tolstoy
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. - Ben Hecht
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence
"First they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win" - Ghandi
"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top." - Robert M. Pirsig
"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." - Carl Schurz
"I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money." - Hetty Green
August 2007
"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience." - Doug Larson
"Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them." - Margaret Mitchell
"After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations." - H. L. Mencken (on Shakespeare)
"The race may not be to the swift nor victory to the strong, but that's how you bet." - Damon Runyon
"Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before." - Sebastien Roch Nicholas de Chamfort
"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world." - George Santayana
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus
"Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage." - Lazarus Long
"There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever." - Alfred Hitchcock
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Abraham Lincoln
"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. (There is no easy road from the earth to the stars.)" - Seneca
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less." - Lazlo 's Chinese Relativity Axiom
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A Heinlein
"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ... they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!" - Warren G. Harding
"Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty
"The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make a difference that you lived at all." - Leo Rosten
"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it." - Al Capone
July 2007
"Never hesitate to steal a good idea." - Al Neuharth
"Most of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing." - Alexander Woollcott
"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
"Luck is largely a matter of paying attention." - Susan M. Dodd
"The trick is to grow up without growing old." - Frank Lloyd Wright
“A progressive believes that society can be made better, that it can be made better by informed people
acting in concert, and that it can be called 'better' only when it is better for everyone.” - Garrett Keizer
"I always loved running...it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs." - Jesse Owens
"Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry,
especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered." - Marilyn Monroe
"Business is the salt of life." - Thomas Fuller
"The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly—because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them." - Michael Caine
“Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy!” - John Jacob Astor
"Inspiration comes of working every day." - Charles Pierre Baudelaire
"The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities." - Frank Barron
"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement." - George Matthew Adams
"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone." - Albert Einstein
"The West is the best, get here and we'll do the rest." - J. D. Morrison
"Wishing you a Happy 4th of July" - David Walker and Family
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." - Yogi Berra
"Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care." - Jimmy Buffett
"When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'" - Sydney Harri
"Ends and means are inseperable. There is no way in which a person can truly accomplish a worthy end by using unworthy means." - Stephen Covey
June 2007
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
"I don't believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis." - Benjamin Franklin
"Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies . . ." - John Q.
"If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education." - Thomas Jefferson
"Old age is the most unexpected of all thngs to happen to a man." - Leon Trotsky
"There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as a gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards, or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you." - Merle Shain
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." - Bruce Feirstein
"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up." - Tom Stoppard
"Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property." - Maria Edgeworth
"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players." - Knute Rockne
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. - Galili Galileo
"Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty." - James Russell Lowell
"When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money." - Artemus Ward
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
May 2007
“In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” - Mortimer J. Adler
George Carlin's Views on Aging
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
"How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!"You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key
You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. !
"How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . you become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony . YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!
But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?
! You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.
But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!
So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.
You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
You get into your 80's and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN it is 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; "I Was JUST 92."
Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!"
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!! - George Carlin
"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them" - Mark Twain
"Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." - Carl Sandburg
"I think Americans in general are bad cooks and dont know how to eat" - Boris Yeltsin
"The wages of sin are death, but after taxes are taken out, it's just a tired feeling." - Paula Poundstone
"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep." - Denis Waitley
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." Graham Greene
"Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is no if you don't ask." - Patricia Fripp
"Principles don't change with circumstances. That's what makes them principles." - George Colombo
"The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." - Harlan Ellison
"Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated." - Robert C. Savage
"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church." - Fedinand Magellan
"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
"Quotations are like statistics: You can prove almost anything with them." - Rubin Rabinovitz
"A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools." - Edmund Ware Sinnott
April 2007
"Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information." - Heinz R. Pagels
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar
"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." - M. Cartmill
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."- Jack Kerouac
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - Edward Estlin Cummings
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine
The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films. - Paul Newman
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? - La Rochefoucauld
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. - Elie Wiesel
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller
"Yes. I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punnishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde
A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking> foes for friends. - (Arabian proverb)
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain
Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. - Scott Adams
March 2007
"There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect
and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed
long ago, before anyone knew it was happening." - Theodosius Dobzansky
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." - J. Lubbock
"Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience." - Pam Brown
"Every man has a sane spot somewhere." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." - Bill Beattie
"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame." - MG Siriam
"So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries." - Romain Rolland
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw
"Women are adaptable to what the man presents to her. If he presents affection she presents affection. If he presents anger then that is what she gives back. And if he present stupidity, then she adapts to the fact that she has to do the thinking for the both of them." - Tina Cleland
"Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems." - Billy Joel
February 2007
"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set." - Adlai Stevenson
"If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough." - Edward Everett Hale
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain of success than to take a lead in the introduction of new things, because the innovation has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and only luke-warm defenders in those who may do well under the new." - Machiavelli
We part more easily with what we possess then with our expectations of what we hope for: expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. - Homer
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." - Sacha Guitry
"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us." - John Steinbeck
"When you cease to dream you cease to live." - Malcolm S. Forbes
"Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free." - Tom Robbins
"Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free." - Tom Robbins
"There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody -- one that nobody but the other guy has to pay." - Earl Wilson
"Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?" - Alan King
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Alexander Pope
"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous." — Margaret Fontey
"I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'. It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward." - Ayn Rand
"I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth." - Jesse H. Jones
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France
"The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer." - John Madden
January 2007
"No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere." - Grover Cleveland
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." - Aesop
"Creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies." - Steven Pinker
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats." - Henry David Thoreau
"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true."
- Woodrow Wilson
"The West is the best, get here and we'll do the rest." - J. D. Morrison
"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility." - William Cobbett
"When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin." - Mae West
"All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own." - Henry Ford
"Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel." - Bella Abzug
"The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame; it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land." - Scott Russell Sanders
"Wishing you a peaceful, prosperous and healthy NEW YEAR!!!" - David Walker and Family
December 2006
"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves: not to march alone, but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us." - Hubert H. Humphrey
"Merry Christmas to You and Yours" - David Walker and Family
"In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence." - Rosanne Amberson
"Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools" - Truman Capote
"If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing." - William A. Ward
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong
"Inspiration and passion usually go together. If you are going to persuade others to go with you, it certainly doesn't hurt that you've got very strong convictions about where you are going. Like Columbus did, for instance, to discover the New World. And, if you've got passion and conviction, you're more likely to be inspiring. If you're inspired yourself and you're passionate about something, you're more likely to succeed at it, and you've more likely to get others to come with you." - Ted Turner
"There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last." - Jules Renard
"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made." - Jean Giraudoux
"Income tax returns: the most imaginative fiction written today." - Herman Wouk
"Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - A.A. Milne, Winne the Pooh
"I am dying with the help of too many physicians." — Alexander the Great
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
"There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure." - Dan Bennett
"A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow." - William Shakespeare
November 2006
"Money is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted." - Samuel Butler
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
"The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose." - William E. Simon
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." - Dennis Wholey
"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it." - Will Rogers
"Everything worth doing starts with fear." - Art Garfunkel
"I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth." - Jesse H. Jones
"The more success one achieves, the more pressure there is that goes with it. I'd rather have the pressure of success than the lack of pressure that goes with anonymity." - Roger Clemons
"A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason." - Thomas Carlyle
"The best investment on Earth is earth." - Louis Glickman
"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." -Alan Ashley-Pitt
"The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future." - John Keynes
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close up, but a comedy in long shot." - Charles Chaplin
“Temples are to be dedicated to the gods, and books to good men.” - Aristedes (140 A.D.)
"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." - Cynthia Nelms
"There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies." - Wendell Phillips
"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain." - Mildred W. Struven
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars." - Henry Van Dyke
"The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off." — William Golding
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." - John Quincy Adams
October 2006
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those are dumber." - Plato
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're still alive, it isn't." — Richard Bach
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." - Jack Dixon
“Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security.” - Russell Sage
"Don't ever let anyone steal your dreams." - Dexter Yager
"Buy land. They've stopped making it." - Mark Twain
"It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it." - Blues Brothers
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso
September 2006
"A dinner lubricates business." - Lord William Stowell
History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. - Ambrose Bierce
"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers." - Marina Horner
"If as you grow older, you feel you are also growing stupider, do not worry. This is normal, and usually occurs around the time your children, now grown, are discovering the opposite - they now see that you aren't nearly as stupid as they had believed when they were teenagers." - Margaret Laurence
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." - Samuel Johnson
"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." - Will Rogers
"Nuclear physics is much easier than tax law. It's rational and always works the same way." - Jerold Rochwald
"Make your money work hard for you, and you'll not have to work so hard for it." - Napoleon Hill
"Luck is where opportunity meets preparation." - Robert Evans
"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
"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax." - Charles F. Kettering
"Just because I'm evil doesn't mean I'm not nice." - Charlie Fulton
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." - Will Rogers
"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires." - Marcelene Cox
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every oppurtunity. An optimist sees the oppurtunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill
"The love of money as a possession— as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life— will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities" - John Keynes
"American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off." - Will Rogers
"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries." - Will Rogers
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. - Ernest Benn
"There is only one way to kill capitalism -- by taxes, taxes, and more taxes." - Karl Marx
"Never ask of money spent where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent." - Robert Frost
August 2006
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum strong enough and single-handed I can move the world." - Archimedes
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
"People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black." - Henry Ford
"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman." - Marian Anderson
"Buy real estate in areas where the path exists...and buy more real estate where there is no path, but you can create your own." - David Waronker
"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." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There is a difference between a tax collector and
a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide." - Mortimer Caplan
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler
"Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have." - Will Rogers
"A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils." - Daniel Webster
"Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments." - Euripides
"It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling." - Bert Murray
"It is a luxury to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” - William Arthur Ward
"And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said before, but I shall say it again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." - President Roosevelt
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it." - Malcolm X
“Knowledge itself is power.” - Francis Bacon
"What lies behind us, and what lies before us,
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan
"No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority." - Mahatma Ghandi
"Confusion is mightier than the sword." - Abbie Hoffman
"I like this place, and willingly could waste my time in it." - William Shakespeare
"What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us." - Robertson Davies
July 2006
"In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want." - Alice Foote MacDougall
"You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows - and has always known - that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival." - Anthony Robbins
"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted." - Aeschylus
"I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes." - W.C. Fields
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." - Lucille Ball
"I don't need the security of marriage - what I need is a romantic attachment." - Hugh Hefner
"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching, but also without attempting to play God." - Henry Kissinger
“In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” - Mortimer J. Adler
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it." — Samuel Johnson
"Business first; pleasure afterwards." - William Makepeace Thackeray
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"If you can't be kind, at least be vague." - Judith Manners
"Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate." - Andrew Carnegie
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain
"Advertising is legalized lying." - Herbert George Wells
"Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth --to see it like it is, and tell it like it is --to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth." - Richard M. Nixon
"Advertising is legalized lying." - Herbert George Wells
June 2006
“Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.” - Marshall Field
"Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression." - Mark Helprin
"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it." - Gracian Baltasar
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." - Oscar Wilde
"If you do not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow." - Isaac Mophatlane
"Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation." - Anwar al-Sadat
"It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away." - Anthony Trollope
"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." - Samuel Johnson
"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be." — Rita Rudner
"We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there." - Will Rogers
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." - Abraham Lincoln
"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness." - Havelock Ellis
"Landlords grow rich in their sleep." - John Stuart Mill
"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck
"If you cannot do great deeds, then faithfully carry out the smallest" - Johann Kaspar Lavater
"Land increases more rapidly in value at the centers and about the circumference of cities." - William E. Harmon
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor
"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." - John F. Kennedy
May 2006
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." - Clarence Darrow
"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves." - Dorothy Parker
"Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away." - Gerald R. Ford
"Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant." - Henri Queuille
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity." - Harvey Ullman
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect" - Leonardo Da Vinci
"He that is of Opinion Money will do every Thing, may well be suspected of doing every Thing for Money." - Benjamin Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;
the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain of success than to take a lead in the introduction of new things, because the innovation has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and only luke-warm defenders in those who may do well under the new. - Machiavelli
"Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.” - Theodore Roosevelt
“When we lost I couldn’t sleep at night. When we win I can’t sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better.” – Joe Torre
"You can shave a monkey, but at the end of the day it's still a monkey" - Keith Dover
"Confidence is the hinge on the door to success." - Mary O'Hare Dumas
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. - Barbara Kingsolver
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and it looks like work." - Tomas Edison
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. - Robert Wilensky
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism;
copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner
"Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark" - Orison Swett Marden
Quotations are like statistics: You can prove almost anything with them. - Rubin Rabinovitz
April 2006
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative. - John Keynes
"Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen
"Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there." - Will Rogers
"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them." - Aldous Huxley
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell
"In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows." - Woody Allen
Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. Therefore, they are humble. - John Ruskin
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. - Martina Navratilova
"I would be most happy if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists of building enough bookshelves." - Anna Quindlen
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." - Henry Kissinger
Our president has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children. – Eva Peron
Today Europe tomorrow the world - Adolf Hitler
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use?" - Dale Carnegie
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we wait for a moment when everything is absolutely right, then we will never begin. - Ivan Turgenev
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.
- Crazy Horse
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanore Roosevelt
March 2006
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop
Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? - Robert Pirsig
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand. - Cardinal De Retz
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson
"Procrastination is the thief of time." - Edward Young
"I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living
on to love and laugh through it all." - Carl Sandburg
“The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again’.” - Elvis
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"That I'm not quite tall enough to peer over the fences of distraction" - Aaron Thomson
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
- Laurence J. Peter
You're planning to make a ship sail against wind and tide by lighting a fire below deck?? I don't have time to listen to that kind of nonsense!"
- Napoleon, about Robert Fultons plans to make a Steamboat.
"The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice." - Bruce Lee
"My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years." - Margaret Anderson
"Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies." - J. T. Towbridge
"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." - Tallulah Bankhead
Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. — Spike Milligan
"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions." - James Russell Lowell
"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered Prayers" - Garth Brooks
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant
"The time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nina
"Dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown
"There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police." - Franklin Pierce Adams
"We hang the petty thieves, but appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
February 2006
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Alva Edison
"I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose." - Montgomery Clift
"I don't mind coming to work -- I just don't want to stay when I get there." - Louis H. Albert
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schultz
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. - Voltaire
There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
"You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give and possess the light as the lens does... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means." - Dag Hammarskjold
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Sir Cecil Beaton
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
A hard thing about business is minding your own. - Tom Clancy
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. - Hesketh Pearson
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge. - Will Rogers
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?/ Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. - Abraham Lincoln
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton
"The United States is the only country where it takes
more brains to figure your tax than to earn the money to pay it." - Edward J. Gurney
January 2006
"Women like silent men. They think they're listening." - Marcel Archard
"Nothing can prevent you from learning the truth so much as the belief that you already know it. " - Jon K. Hart.
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds." - Will Rogers
"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any." - Katharine Whitehorn
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. - Eddie Carter
"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - Groucho Marx
A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
- Thomas Edison
We part more easily with what we possess then with our expectations of what we hope for: expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. - Homer
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy
"Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." - Liz Smith
"All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." - John Adams
You must spend money, if you wish to make money. - Plautus
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney J. Harris
When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson. - Will Rogers
It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money. - P.J. O'Rourke
December 2005
Happy New Year - David Lee Walker and Family
"I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back." - Zsa Zsa Gabor
Make your money work hard for you, and you'll not have to work so hard for it. - Napoleon Hill
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. - Oscar Wilde
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. - Voltaire
"Merry Christmas" - David Walker and Family
"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." - Walt Disney
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. - Samuel Goldwyn
Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir
"I often quote myself. It adds spice
to my conversation." - George Bernard Shaw
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan
A poem . . . begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. . . . It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. - Robert Frost
"In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed." - Abraham Lincoln
"I may despise what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott
I can give you a six-word formula for success:
Think things through - then follow through. - Edward Rickenbacker
A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a 300 Dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green caterpillar. - Bill Vaughan
"Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take OFF! But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you." - Amelia Earhart
November 2005
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. - George Burns
This is my rule of married life: it's better to be happy than to be right. - Tom Magliozzi
Beware of ambition for wealth; for there is nothing so characteristic of narrowness and littleness of soul as the love of riches; and there is nothing more honorable or noble than indifference to money. - Marcus Cicero
I am thankful ---- David Walker
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. — Socrates (470 BC–399 BC)
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." - Aristotle Onassis
'Tis is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship. — Richard Fuller
"Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company." - Scott Adams
Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world. - Charles Hanson Towne
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it...Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? - Abraham Lincoln
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action." - Henry David Thoreau
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." - Alan Ashley-Pitt
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. - Ovid
Life is a sum of all your choices. - Albert Camus
October 2005
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon
The force will be with you...always. - Star Wars
While there is snow on the roof, it doesn't mean the fire has gone out in the furnace. - John G Diefenbaker
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. - Erich Fromm
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie
"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on." - Beryl Pfizer
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. - David M. Ogilvy
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. - Abraham Lincoln
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. - Carl Jung
"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzshe
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business. - Will Rogers
People spend money when and where they feel good. - Walt Disney
"I discovered that I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot." - Kevin James
"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." - Abigail Adams
"It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." - Noel Coward
"We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps." - Nelson Demille
September 2005
“Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the ‘right stuff’ to turn our dreams into reality.” - James Womack
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. - Will Rogers
A prudent question is one half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Peale
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." - Frank Outlaw
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. - Will Rogers
Gaming, that direst felon of the breast,
Steals more than fortune from it's wretched thrall,
Spreads o'er the soul the inert devouring pest
And gnaws, and rots, and taints, and ruins all. - Petronius
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former – Albert Einstein
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves. - Zig Ziglar
"Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough." - Wess Roberts
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
"He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin." - Horace
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." - Jane Austen
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain
"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen
A wagonload of money will scarcely purchase a wagonload of provisions. - George Washington
Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer. - Margaret Getchell
All I know is what I read in the papers. - Will Rogers
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -J.F.K.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. - Will Rogers
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. - John Keynes
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
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane, and the pessimist the parachute. - Gil Stern
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcomb Forbes
August 2005
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. - Johnny Carson
"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." - Dan Quayle
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. - Yogi Berra
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." - G. C. Lichtenberg
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth
"There's no business like show business." - Irving Berlin
Tis against some Mens Principle to pay Interest, and seems against others Interest to pay the Principal. - Benjamin Franklin
And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense. - Niccolo Machiavelli
In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell. - Will Rogers
Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. - Russell Conwell
"Never confuse motion with action." - Ben Franklin
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. — Plato
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. - John Ruskin
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. - Woody Allen
Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by
a few scratches on your car - Will Stanton
I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it. - Charles Dickens
Beware of ambition for wealth; for there is nothing so characteristic of narrowness and littleness of soul as the love of riches; and there is nothing more honorable or noble than indifference to money. - Marcus Cicero
"My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait.'" - Judy Tenuda
July 2005
"Even a fool knows he can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying." - Harry Andersen
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. - Henry Fielding
“Stop spending dollar time on penny jobs.” - Mary Kay Ash
Me gusta vivir pobre... pero con mucho dinero. Translation: I like to live poor.. but with a lot of money - Pablo Picasso
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. - W.C.Fields
"I like a man who grins when he fights." - Winston Churchill
Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money. - Francois Rabelais
"Always make new mistakes." - Esther Dyson
"In that giddy whirl of noise and confusion, the men were delirious. Who thought of money, ruin, or the morrow, in the savage intoxication of the moment?" - Dickens Charles
"Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them." - Jean Baudrillard
"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous." - Wayne Dyer
Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." - Walt Disney
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Erma Bombeck
We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing! — Benjamin Franklin
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. - Martin Luther King
"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless." - Calvin and Hobbes
Eeeevil! It's everywhere! The galaxy reeks of it, I can fight it, but I can't fight it alone. - Buzz Lightyear
Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse. - Don Addis
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. - Bill Copeland
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly..." - Robert A. Heinlein
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. - Ovid
Having more money does not ensure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. — Hobart Brown
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." - Joe Ancis
June 2005
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. - John Naisbitt
"A thing is complete when you can let it be" - Gita Bellin
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later." - Harold Geneen
It is better to be wrong than to be vague - Freeman Dyson
We can dispense with the pleasantries, Commander. I am here to get you back on schedule. - "Darth Vader"
"Not all who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien.
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." - Gail Sheehy
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." - G. C. Lichtenberg
That man is richest whose pleasures are the simplest. - Thoreau
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Sir Cecil Beaton
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. - Marie Corelli
A man can make up his mind quickly, if he has only a little to make up. - Aristotle
To act is easy . . . to think is hard. - Goethe
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."- Joseph Heller
"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers." - Helen Keller
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor
You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen
"Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently." - Dave Liniger
Luck is where preparation and opportunity meet. - Henry David Thoreau
"At the beginning of a marriage, ask yourself whether this person will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory; most of the time is spent in conversation." - Friedrich Nietzsche
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” - William James
Learn to enjoy the little things in life, because the big ones don't come around very often. - Andy Rooney
Freedom means nothing left to lose. - Janis Joplin
Banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Mark Twain
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Elinor Smith
Dance is wonderful training for girls. Its the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it
May 2005
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Say what you mean and act how you feel, because those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. - Dr. Seuss
"I once complained to my father that I didn’t seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad’s advice? “Margo, don’t be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.” - Margo Kaufman
What we call results are beginnings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone." - Napoleon
"Take your work seriously, but never yourself." - Dame Margot Fonteyn.
Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. - Yeats
There should be nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful - William Moris
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. - Sam Ewing
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me. - Winnie the Pooh
Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future. - Melanie Gustafson
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. - Will Durant
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta be willing to put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. - Franklin Pierce Adams
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. - Groucho Marx
"If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably to the belief that the present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible." - George Orwell
We think in generalities, but we live in details. - Alfred North Whitehead
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes
"Wisdom is knowing what you don't know." - Socrates
"Thousand of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be stoned.Happiness never decreases by being shared" - Buddha
Only you can give others the impression that you’re an idiot.
April 2005
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Helen Keller
"You are the sum total of all of your choices up to now."
- Dr. Wayne Dyer
I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner. - W. C. Fields
Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. — Carl Sandburg
One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. - G M Weilacher
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltalre
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." - Bill Beattie
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean
“I expect to pass through this life but once. Therefore, if there be any kindess I can show, or any good thing I can do for another human being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again." - William Penn
Consequences, shmonsequences, as long as I'm rich. - Daffy Duck
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." - Bill Gates
I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got. - Walter Cronkite
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. - Michael Caine
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. - Bill Cosby
O, I am fortune's fool! - William Shakespeare
March 2005
"Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them." - Chaim Weizmann
When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky. - Armmand Hammer
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Henry Ford
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
“It’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.” –Hubert Humphrey
No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse. - Richard Sasurly
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. - Albert Einstein
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis
"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." - Mark Twain
Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it. - Fulton J. Sheen
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already. - Soren Kierkegaard
Life is an endless series of experiments. — Mohandas K Gandi
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C.S. Lewis
February 2005
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young. - Russell Banks
Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will. - Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation - George Washington
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Einstein
"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." -Anonymous
No man can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work." - John G. Pollard
It never occurs to me that there are things that I can't do. - Whoopi Goldberg
*We must believe in luck. For how else do we explain the success of those we don't like? - Jean Cocteau
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. - Shakespeare
"No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied." - L.L. Bean
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. - Ken Keyes, Jr
Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become. - Mary McGrory
"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated." - Paul Anderson
"Win one for the Gipper!" - George Gipp
*"If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business." - William J.H. Boetecker
"I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees." - Heinrich Heine
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master. - Khalil Gibran
"Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do." - George Burns
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you." - Heather Williams
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan
Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. - Will Rogers
January 2005
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't know. — Mark Twain
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato (429-347 BC)
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror." - Oscar Wilde
Silence is more eloquent than words. - Thomas Carlyle
Time is a great Healer but a lousy Beautician
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. - Aldous Huxley
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men? - Natalie Clifford Barney
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows" - Dwight Eisenhower
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." - Malcolm Muggeridge
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. - Diane Ackerman
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin L. King, Jr.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. - Martin L. King, Jr.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. - Martin L. King, Jr.
Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. - Martin L. King, Jr. - I've Been to the Mountaintop, - a speech made the day before his assassination
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. - Martin L. King, Jr.
"Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France
"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde
"You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours." -Colin Powell
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments." - Napoleon Hill
One small step for a man ~ One giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
December 2004
"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Holidays have no pity. - Eugenio Montale
When we fail we call it experience; when we succeed, we call it genius
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." - Mignon McLaughlin
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill
*"When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly." - Sappho
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - D. P. Barron
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have not stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin. - Benjamin E. Mayes
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Ghandi
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. - Guy Almes
If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances. - Julia Soul
Wealth flows from energy and ideas. - William Feather
Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoléon Bonaparte
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday. - Gladys Tabor
Forgiveness for ourselves is the journey from guilt over what we have done or not done to the celebration of what we have become. - Dr. Joan Borysenko
You can always spot a well-informed man -- his views are the same as yours. - Ilka Chase
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. - Everett Dirksen
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the
government, and then hand it over to the government in
taxes to keep it going. - George Bernard Shaw
The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality. - Douglas Porter
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero
Just because you have a computer, doesn't mean you can't be stupid. - Beavis and Butthead
"He who knows not but knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him. He who knows not, but knows he knows not is a wise man; follow him." - Plato
I began to look forward with delight to the approaching winter with its wondrous storms, when I would be warmly snow-bound in my Yosemite cabin with plenty of bread and books. - John Muir
Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. - Oiver Wendell Holmes Sr.
November 2004
"The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our lives is toward happiness." - Dalai Lama
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church. - Fedinand Magellan
"The best part about telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said." Mark Twain
Suffering is overated. - Bill Veeck
"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that." - Alan Alda
The Snow Goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. - Lao-Tse
Only the mediocre are always at their best. - Jean Giraudoux
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
A dog will show his love by jumping on you at the front door. A cat will show his love by ignoring you, and then curling up next to you when you need it most. - Danielle Asson
I do dumb things sometimes. - Bob Knight
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. - Edward F. Halifax
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. - Henry Spencer
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. - Maya Angelou
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto Von Bismarck
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. - John C Dvorak
All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. - Oscar Wilde
"How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?" - Logan Pearsall Smith
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"If we fail to anticipate the unforseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized, or easily referenced."
-The X-Files: Fight the Future
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher
Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - Pancho Villa Last words
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
October 2004
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.
It's not something you learn in school.
But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. - Samuel Goldwyn
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. - Sir Arthur Helps
"I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon
Consider the postage stamp: its usefullness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. - Josh Billings
You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin
"...Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third. " - Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men. - Abraham Lincoln
The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome. - Peter L. Bernstein
Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do--or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice. - Walter Anderson
"If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: I'm cheap!" - Delta Burke
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce
What I love the most about deadlines is the whooshing sound they make as they go by. - Douglas Adams
Dollars have never been known to produce character, and character will never be produced by money. - W.K. Kellogg
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." - Earl of Chesterfield
"A wise man knows his ignorance; a fool thinks he knows everything." - C. Simmons
"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." Wernher von Braun
If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. - John Paul Getty
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. - Oscar Wilde
"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." - Jacob M. Braude
The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. - Atlanta Journal
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare
A wop bop a lu bop a wop bam boom! - Little Richard
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I become that person. Or he became me. - Cary Grant
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
September 2004
"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
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. -Christopher Morley
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan
Cultivation to the mind, is as necessary as food to the body. - Cicero
He is the richest who is content with the least. -Socrates
If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. - Harry Banks
"I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde." - Dolly Parton
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. - Omar Bradley
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. - Joseph Gallivan
The really nice thing about NOT planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of worry and depression. - Sir John Harvey-Jones
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - Edward Estlin Cummings
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine
The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films. - Paul Newman
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? - La Rochefoucauld
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. - Elie Wiesel
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller
"Yes. I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punnishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde
A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking> foes for friends. - (Arabian proverb)
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain
Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. - Scott Adams
August 2004
This "telephone" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Western Union internal memo c.1876
Equal opportunity means everybody will have a fair chance at being incompetent. - Laurence J. Peter
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." - Gloria Steinem
"A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about." - Douglas Noel Adams
"A nickel isn't worth a dime today" - Yogi Berra
"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." - Carl Schurz
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it shall surely be yours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. - Napoleon Hill
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody, but ourselves. - Brian Tracy
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. - Ernest Benn
"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. - Albert Einstein
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling. — Geronimo
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry Kaiser
It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. - Lee Segall
The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer. - Edward R. Murrow
If you expect to succeed, you'll succeed. - Nikita Koloff
I don't know why everyone makes such a fuss about Fred Astaire's dancing. I did all the same steps, only backwards. And in heels! - Ginger Rogers
"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
- Joseph Conrad
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. — Milton Friedman
"Oh, I don't drink these days, I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics.
I break out in handcuffs." - Robert Downey Jr
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." - Albert Einstein
"Never explain- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyways." - Elbert Hubbard
"It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating." - Jack Handey
Try not! Do, or do not. There is no try. — Yoda
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. - Michael Caine
Debts and lies are generally mixed together. - Francois Rabelais
100 Dollars placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than 100,000,000 Dollars, by which time it will be worth nothing. - Lazarus Long
"Pick battles important enough to fight and small enough to win." - Johnathan Kozol
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
July 2004
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience. - Admiral Hyman Rickover
*"You are the sum total of all of your choices up to now." - Dr. Wayne Dyer
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. - Peter Drucker
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. - General George S. Patton
"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices." - Frederick II, the Great
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.
- Weston H. Agor
"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words." – Theodore Roosevelt, 1916
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. - Burt Bacharach
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies." - Honore de Balzac
"That on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California," which was "an earthly paradise." - Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo, Spanish author about 1510
"Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking" - J.C. Watts
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln
You have to learn to appreciate the little things in life, because the big things may never get here and then you've sat around for nothing. - Paul Reiser
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore." - Dorothy Bryant
*Living well is the best revenge. - George Herbert
"I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation." - Mike Todd
December 2004
"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Holidays have no pity. - Eugenio Montale
When we fail we call it experience; when we succeed, we call it genius
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." - Mignon McLaughlin
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill
*"When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly." - Sappho
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - D. P. Barron
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have not stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin. - Benjamin E. Mayes
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Ghandi
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. - Guy Almes
If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances. - Julia Soul
Wealth flows from energy and ideas. - William Feather
Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoléon Bonaparte
Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday. - Gladys Tabor
Forgiveness for ourselves is the journey from guilt over what we have done or not done to the celebration of what we have become. - Dr. Joan Borysenko
You can always spot a well-informed man -- his views are the same as yours. - Ilka Chase
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. - Everett Dirksen
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the
government, and then hand it over to the government in
taxes to keep it going. - George Bernard Shaw
The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality. - Douglas Porter
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero
Just because you have a computer, doesn't mean you can't be stupid. - Beavis and Butthead
"He who knows not but knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him. He who knows not, but knows he knows not is a wise man; follow him." - Plato
I began to look forward with delight to the approaching winter with its wondrous storms, when I would be warmly snow-bound in my Yosemite cabin with plenty of bread and books. - John Muir
Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. - Oiver Wendell Holmes Sr.
November 2004
"The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our lives is toward happiness." - Dalai Lama
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church. - Fedinand Magellan
"The best part about telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said." Mark Twain
Suffering is overated. - Bill Veeck
"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that." - Alan Alda
The Snow Goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. - Lao-Tse
Only the mediocre are always at their best. - Jean Giraudoux
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
A dog will show his love by jumping on you at the front door. A cat will show his love by ignoring you, and then curling up next to you when you need it most. - Danielle Asson
I do dumb things sometimes. - Bob Knight
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. - Edward F. Halifax
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. - Henry Spencer
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. - Maya Angelou
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto Von Bismarck
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. - John C Dvorak
All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. - Oscar Wilde
"How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?" - Logan Pearsall Smith
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"If we fail to anticipate the unforseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized, or easily referenced."
-The X-Files: Fight the Future
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher
Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - Pancho Villa Last words
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
October 2004
"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.
It's not something you learn in school.
But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. - Samuel Goldwyn
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. - Sir Arthur Helps
"I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon
Consider the postage stamp: its usefullness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. - Josh Billings
You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin
"...Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third. " - Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men. - Abraham Lincoln
The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome. - Peter L. Bernstein
Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do--or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice. - Walter Anderson
"If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: I'm cheap!" - Delta Burke
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce
What I love the most about deadlines is the whooshing sound they make as they go by. - Douglas Adams
Dollars have never been known to produce character, and character will never be produced by money. - W.K. Kellogg
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." - Earl of Chesterfield
"A wise man knows his ignorance; a fool thinks he knows everything." - C. Simmons
"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." Wernher von Braun
If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. - John Paul Getty
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. - Oscar Wilde
"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." - Jacob M. Braude
The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. - Atlanta Journal
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare
A wop bop a lu bop a wop bam boom! - Little Richard
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I become that person. Or he became me. - Cary Grant
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
September 2004
"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
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. -Christopher Morley
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan
Cultivation to the mind, is as necessary as food to the body. - Cicero
He is the richest who is content with the least. -Socrates
If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. - Harry Banks
"I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde." - Dolly Parton
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. - Omar Bradley
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. - Joseph Gallivan
The really nice thing about NOT planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of worry and depression. - Sir John Harvey-Jones
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - Edward Estlin Cummings
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine
The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films. - Paul Newman
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? - La Rochefoucauld
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. - Elie Wiesel
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller
"Yes. I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punnishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde
A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking> foes for friends. - (Arabian proverb)
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain
Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. - Scott Adams
August 2004
This "telephone" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Western Union internal memo c.1876
Equal opportunity means everybody will have a fair chance at being incompetent. - Laurence J. Peter
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." - Gloria Steinem
"A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about." - Douglas Noel Adams
"A nickel isn't worth a dime today" - Yogi Berra
"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." - Carl Schurz
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it shall surely be yours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. - Napoleon Hill
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody, but ourselves. - Brian Tracy
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. - Ernest Benn
"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. - Albert Einstein
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling. — Geronimo
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry Kaiser
It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. - Lee Segall
The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer. - Edward R. Murrow
If you expect to succeed, you'll succeed. - Nikita Koloff
I don't know why everyone makes such a fuss about Fred Astaire's dancing. I did all the same steps, only backwards. And in heels! - Ginger Rogers
"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
- Joseph Conrad
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. — Milton Friedman
"Oh, I don't drink these days, I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics.
I break out in handcuffs." - Robert Downey Jr
"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." - Albert Einstein
"Never explain- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyways." - Elbert Hubbard
"It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating." - Jack Handey
Try not! Do, or do not. There is no try. — Yoda
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. - Michael Caine
Debts and lies are generally mixed together. - Francois Rabelais
100 Dollars placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than 100,000,000 Dollars, by which time it will be worth nothing. - Lazarus Long
"Pick battles important enough to fight and small enough to win." - Johnathan Kozol
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
July 2004
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience. - Admiral Hyman Rickover
*"You are the sum total of all of your choices up to now." - Dr. Wayne Dyer
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. - Peter Drucker
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. - General George S. Patton
"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices." - Frederick II, the Great
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.
- Weston H. Agor
"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words." – Theodore Roosevelt, 1916
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. - Burt Bacharach
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies." - Honore de Balzac
"That on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California," which was "an earthly paradise." - Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo, Spanish author about 1510
"Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking" - J.C. Watts
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln
You have to learn to appreciate the little things in life, because the big things may never get here and then you've sat around for nothing. - Paul Reiser
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore." - Dorothy Bryant
*Living well is the best revenge. - George Herbert
"I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation." - Mike Todd
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky
"An eye for an eye leads only to more blindness.” - Margaret Atwood
"No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have." - Latin proverb
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 (1732 - 1802)
"Let him that would move the world, first move himself." - Socrates
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. --Roger Caras
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
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." -- ?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. - Donald Trump
June 2004
"The truth must dazzle gradually......" -Emily Dickenson
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication as to talk well. - Chief Justice John Marshall
Only those who also feel fear are truly courageous. The others are merely foolhardy. - Willy Brandt
*There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." - Mary Tyler Moore TV Show
Once Time was Money. Now it is More Valuable than Money. - Charles House
It's a wonder we don't dissolve in our own bath water.
- Pablo Picasso
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." - Leonardo da Vinci
I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. . . There have [just] been some tremendous lessons. - Oprah Winfrey
In Germany, they came first for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists but I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time nobody was left to speak up.
- Martin Niemoeller, Dachau, 1944
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Ann Landers
Good night, and God bless. - Red Skelton
*The problem with the global village is all the global village idiots. - P. Ginsparg
"If you can't convince them, confuse them." - Harry S. Truman
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland
"All you need is love." - John Lennon
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." - John F. Kennedy
Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.
- William Shakespeare
Because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. - Ronald Reagan
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
- John Naisbitt
*The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. - J. Paul Getty
Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right. - Henry Ford
"How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but by how well we are understood." - Andy Grove
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need." - The Rolling Stones
Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out. - Unknown
May 2004
Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -
Albert Einstein
"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." - Mark Russell
"I liked things better when I didn't understand them" - Calvin and Hobbes
*We are what we repeatedly do. - Aristotle
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King Jr
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. — Helen Keller
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Winston Churchill
Don't let your tongue cut your throat. - Irish Proverb
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one which he has had some fun,some joy,some real satisfaction,that day is a loss - Dwight Eisenhower
Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant. - Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC
My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I 'should' be doing. – Lonzo Idolswine
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings. - Hodding Carter, Jr
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. -Thornton Wilder
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. - Alan Alda
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin
*A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you're going to be thinking anyway,
think big. - Donald Trump
"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings." - Frank Lloyd Wright
Oh you can walk the straight and narrow, But with a little bit of luck, you’ll run amuck! --- The Lord is throwing goodness at you, But with a little bit of luck a man can duck. - Stanley Doolittle, My Fair Lady
*Foolproof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools. - Gene Brown
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. — Ayn Rand
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. — Muhammad Ali
"It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." - Norm Peterson, (Cheers, TV show)
I think, therefore I am. Descartes
*A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. - Senator Everett Dirksen
April 2004
*We can do no great things - only small things with great care. - Mother Teresa
Life is like a B-Grade movie. You don't want to leave in the middle, but you don't want to see it again. - Ted Turner
"All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future
could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their
distant vision, that goal or purpose." - Brian Tracy
*The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC
'True wisdom lies in knowing that you know nothing.' Hey, that's us dude. - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (movie)
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. -Muhammed Ali
*"You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same."- John Davis
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, i go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satifactions. - Billy Joel
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. - William H. Walton
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau
* *I have nothing but contempt for the person who can only find one way to spell a word. —Thomas Jefferson
"640K ought to be enough for anybody"(1981 speech) - Bill Gates
"Life is truly a ride. We’re all strapped in, and no one can stop it. ¶When the doctor slaps your behind, he’s ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to the bar in front of you. ¶But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair’s messed up, you’re out of breath, and you didn’t throw up." —Jerry Seinfeld, SeinLanguage
"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting." - Karl Wallenda
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. -Harry Truman
*Every exit is an entry somewhere else. -Tom Stoppard
March 2004
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. -Richard Moss
*Everything worth doing starts with fear. -Art Garfunkel
"Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along." - Confucius
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond. -May West
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? -Will Rogers
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life— and one is as good as the other.
- Ernest Hemingway
"Be good. If you can't be good, be careful. If you can't be careful, be spectacular."
A lie can travel half-way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes -- Mark Twain
*The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. -- Henry David Thoreau
*We have met the enemy and he is us.
Walt Kelly (via his cartoon character Pogo), 1971
*"You can fool half of the people all of the time and that's
enough to make a good living." --W.C. Fields
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
All the Constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it by yourself. --Benjamin Franklin
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The day I say, "This is good enough for me," is the day I begin to die, Poilar. I want to know what I am. After that I want to know what I'm capable of becoming. And then I want to become it. I want to keep reaching higher all the time. -Robert Silverberg, Kingdoms of the Wall
Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlen
One of the biggest troubles with success is that its recipe is often the same as that for a nervous breakdown.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment. -- T. H. White
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. --- Abraham Lincoln
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. ---Joseph Hall (1574-1656) English clergyman and satirist
Great men never regard themselves as great - insignificant men never feel insignificant. -Chinese proverb
February 2004
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. -- Confucius
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"Please provide the date of your death." -from an IRS letter
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. --Peppermint Patty, "Peanuts"
Minds are like Parachutes... they only function when open.
The road to ruin is wide, straight, smooth, and downhill; while the road to success is narrow, winding, bumpy, and uphill. This is why so few are successful.
*People who think they know everything greatly annoy those of us who do.
I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line--Ray Charles
'Home' is any four walls that enclose the right person.
-- Helen Rowland
Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff, we are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective. -- Delenn, "Babylon 5"
"Air travel: Breakfast in London, dinner in New York, luggage in Brazil."
“‘Tis better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all.”-Alfred Lord Tennyson
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
Joseph Addison
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. --Mae West(1892-1980)
*The direction we are facing has a lot to do with our destination.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power". --Abraham Lincoln
An idea is useless until the first step is taken to try it out
It is not whether you get knocked down, it is whether you get up. --Vince Lombardi
Deeds are Greater than Knowladge and Intentions Combined
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." -Will Rogers
*"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, former President of the United States of America
A BOY ..."Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. -- Plato "
* Be careful what you wish for, you may just get it.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter the least -Goethe
*"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." --Will Rogers
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