Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
December 29, 2009
December 1, 2009
Quotes 12/1/09
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
George Bernard Shaw
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
November 2, 2009
Quotes 11/2/09
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
Covert Bailey
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
Niels Bohr
Covert Bailey
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
Niels Bohr
October 17, 2009
Quotes 10/17/09
"There are not yet any obvious signs of extraterrestrial intelligence and this makes us wonder whether civilizations like ours always rush implacably, headlong, toward self-destruction. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars."
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
October 8, 2009
Quotes 10/8/09
Stealing is the new Pirate Bay
Jacob Steffen
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. Milne
Jacob Steffen
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. Milne
September 19, 2009
Quotes 9/19/09
When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke
Mark Twain
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke
September 14, 2009
Quotes 9/14/09
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
Napoleon
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray
Mark Twain
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
Napoleon
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray
September 12, 2009
Quotes 9/12/09
I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.
Roy M. Cohn
Juries scare me. I don't want to put my faith in 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Monica Piper
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Mahatma Gandhi
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Aldous Huxley
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
Roy M. Cohn
Juries scare me. I don't want to put my faith in 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Monica Piper
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Mahatma Gandhi
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Aldous Huxley
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
September 6, 2009
Quotes 9/6/09
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
Winston Churchill
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Lady Nancy Astor
Albert Einstein
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
Winston Churchill
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Lady Nancy Astor
August 27, 2009
Quotes 8/27/09
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
Muhammad Ali
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
Ambrose Bierce
Steven Wright
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
Muhammad Ali
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
Ambrose Bierce
August 23, 2009
Quotes 8/23/09
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
Mark Twain
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
August 22, 2009
Quotes 8/22/09
Hating me wont make you pretty.
Nathan Astle
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
Johnny Carson
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams
Nathan Astle
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
Johnny Carson
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams
August 11, 2009
Quotes 8/11/09
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
Oscar Wilde
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
July 28, 2009
Quotes 7/28/09
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
Jack Handey
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford
Jack Handey
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford
July 25, 2009
Quotes 7/25/09
The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
July 18, 2009
Quotes 7/18/09
No-one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
Kin Hubbard
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
Rodney Dangerfield
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Kin Hubbard
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
Rodney Dangerfield
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
July 1, 2009
Quotes 7/1/09
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw
Minds, like parachutes, only work when open.
Anonymous
Nothing is wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Ross MacDonald
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
George Bernard Shaw
Minds, like parachutes, only work when open.
Anonymous
Nothing is wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Ross MacDonald
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
June 20, 2009
Quotes 6/20/09
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Winston Churchill
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. Truman
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
Winston Churchill
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. Truman
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
June 9, 2009
Quotes 6/9/09
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
Steve Martin
Arthur C. Clarke
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
Steve Martin
June 7, 2009
Quotes 6/7/09
Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Karl Marx
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
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems!
Homer Simpson
Karl Marx
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
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems!
Homer Simpson
June 1, 2009
Quotes 6/1/09
Those who aren't fascinated by life aren't living it.
Justin Hernandez
Comprehending life is like trying to interpret an entire painting through a microscope.
Justin Hernandez
Ok i have to go.
My sister is getting married or something.
Winston Wagner
Justin Hernandez
Comprehending life is like trying to interpret an entire painting through a microscope.
Justin Hernandez
Ok i have to go.
My sister is getting married or something.
Winston Wagner
May 24, 2009
Quotes 5/24/09
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
Mark Twain
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
May 21, 2009
Quotes 5/21/09
I find the process of filmmaking a truly magical one. The way shots fit together to create the illusion of things happening that never did. Sculpting time and space to tell cinematic lies. It’s thrilling.
John Erick Dowdle
John Erick Dowdle
May 17, 2009
Quotes 5/17/09
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
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
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
Mark Twain
Aristotle
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
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
Mark Twain
April 23, 2009
Quotes 4/23/09
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
James Randolph Adams
Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it’s invisible.
John D. Berry
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
James Randolph Adams
Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it’s invisible.
John D. Berry
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
April 18, 2009
Quotes 4/18/09
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
Clint Eastwood
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
April 8, 2009
Quotes 4/8/09
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
Lynn Johnston
Napoleon Bonaparte
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
Lynn Johnston
April 6, 2009
Quotes 4/6/09
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.
Spanish Proverb
... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
Bob Monkhouse
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
Spanish Proverb
... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?
Bob Monkhouse
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
April 5, 2009
Quotes 4/5/09
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
I often quote myself. I find it adds spice to the conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
I often quote myself. I find it adds spice to the conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
March 22, 2009
Quotes 3/22/09
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle
Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment; you must also be right.
Robert L. Park
Mahatma Gandhi
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle
Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment; you must also be right.
Robert L. Park
March 21, 2009
Quotes 3/21/09
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brow
Albert Einstein
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brow
March 16, 2009
Quotes 3/16/09
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
Isaac Newton
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Martin Luther King, Jr
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
Isaac Newton
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
March 15, 2009
Quotes 3/15/09
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
Cory Doctorow
Thomas A. Edison
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
Cory Doctorow
March 5, 2009
Quotes 3/5/09
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einsten
Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
William James
Albert Einsten
Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
William James
March 3, 2009
Quotes 3/3/09
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby
That's why you gotta learn to help those in the dark, but keep yourself in the light. That's essential.
Mitch Hawk
Albert Guinon
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby
That's why you gotta learn to help those in the dark, but keep yourself in the light. That's essential.
Mitch Hawk
March 1, 2009
Quotes 3/1/09
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al Batt
If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
P. G. Wodehouse
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell Baker
Aldous Huxley
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al Batt
If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
P. G. Wodehouse
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt Groening
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell Baker
February 28, 2009
Quotes 2/28/09
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Alfred North Whitehead
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.
Albert Einstein
Alfred North Whitehead
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.
Albert Einstein
February 25, 2009
February 23, 2009
Quotes 2/23/09
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
Steve Pavlina
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
To lead others, embody their ideals!
Leonid S. Sukhorukov
Nikita Khrushchev
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
Steve Pavlina
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
To lead others, embody their ideals!
Leonid S. Sukhorukov
February 19, 2009
Quotes 2/19/09
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
Putt's Law
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben
Putt's Law
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben
February 17, 2009
Quotes 2/17/09
It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.
Randy K. Milholland
Randy K. Milholland
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Marquis de la Grange
Marquis de la Grange
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
Dan McKinnon
Tom Stoppard
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
Dan McKinnon
February 16, 2009
Quotes 2/16/09
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
Isaac Newton
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
William Shakespeare
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
Isaac Newton
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
February 13, 2009
Quotes 2/13/09
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Socrates
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Lord Herbert
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Ingersoll
Socrates
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Lord Herbert
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Ingersoll
February 10, 2009
Quotes 2/10/09
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
Mahatma Gandhi
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
James Thurber
Mahatma Gandhi
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
James Thurber
February 8, 2009
Quotes 2/8/09
A poem is no place for an idea.
Edgar Watson Howe
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Watson Howe
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
February 6, 2009
Quotes 2/6/09
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope
Socrates
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope
February 5, 2009
Quotes 2/5/09
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates
Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.
Muriel Fox
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman
Socrates
Character is higher than intellect...A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.
Muriel Fox
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman
February 4, 2009
Quote 2/4/09
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom.!
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson
February 3, 2009
Quotes 2/3/09
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Jack Handey
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mahatma Gandhi
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Jack Handey
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
February 2, 2009
Quotes 2/2/09
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
Emerson Pugh
Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
Mickey Rooney
Managers think about today. Leaders think about tomorrow.
Dan McCreary
I think turning off tabbed browsing would make me more productive - 12 tabs open, one is a cats w/lasers video, no idea how I got here..
Kevin Rose
Emerson Pugh
Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
Mickey Rooney
Managers think about today. Leaders think about tomorrow.
Dan McCreary
I think turning off tabbed browsing would make me more productive - 12 tabs open, one is a cats w/lasers video, no idea how I got here..
Kevin Rose
February 1, 2009
Quotes 2/1/09
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Abraham Lincoln
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Julian Jaynes
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
Abraham Lincoln
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Julian Jaynes
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
January 31, 2009
Quotes 1/31/09
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
Paul Saffo
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.
Albert Einstein
If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Eric Hoffer
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
Paul Saffo
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.
Albert Einstein
If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.
Martin Luther King Jr.
January 30, 2009
Quotes 1/30/09
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
H. L. Mencken
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
Doctor Who
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Georges Clemenceau
H. L. Mencken
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
Doctor Who
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Georges Clemenceau
January 29, 2009
Quotes 1/29/09
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
All things have sprung from nothing and are borne forward to infinity. Who can follow out such an astonishing career? The Author of these wonders, and He alone, can comprehend them.
Blaise Pascal
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
All things have sprung from nothing and are borne forward to infinity. Who can follow out such an astonishing career? The Author of these wonders, and He alone, can comprehend them.
Blaise Pascal
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
Lois McMaster Bujold
January 28, 2009
Quotes 1/28/09
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Socrates
Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
Scott Adams
Socrates
Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
Scott Adams
January 26, 2009
Quotes 1/26/09
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
John Adams
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Randall Jarrell
We can only handle you in doses.
Jacob Waite
John Adams
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
Hansell B. Duckett
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Randall Jarrell
We can only handle you in doses.
Jacob Waite
January 25, 2009
Quotes 1/25/09
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
Dr. Seuss
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates
Samuel Johnson
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates
January 23, 2009
Quotes 1/23/09
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
Henry Ford
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
January 22, 2009
Quotes 1/22/09
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
Kin Hubbard
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
Richard Feynman
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Goethe
Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.
Hugh Macleod
Kin Hubbard
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
Richard Feynman
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Goethe
Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.
Hugh Macleod
January 21, 2009
January 20, 2009
Quotes 1/20/09
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
Henri Poincare
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
Malcolm Gladwell
Lead, follow or get out of the way!
George S. Patton
Henri Poincare
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
Malcolm Gladwell
Lead, follow or get out of the way!
George S. Patton
January 19, 2009
Quotes 1/19/09
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates (From Plato's Apology)
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.
Ken Rockwell
D.I. [A thrift store], The only place where you wash your hands before and after you go to the bathroom.
Mitch Hawk
Socrates (From Plato's Apology)
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.
Ken Rockwell
D.I. [A thrift store], The only place where you wash your hands before and after you go to the bathroom.
Mitch Hawk
January 18, 2009
Quotes 1/18/09
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys."
Gail Pool
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Benjamin Franklin
Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
Abraham Lincoln
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. White
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard
Check out two other worthy blogs
http://tithestomana.blogspot.com
http://holmslice.blogspot.com
Gail Pool
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Benjamin Franklin
Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
Abraham Lincoln
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. White
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard
Check out two other worthy blogs
http://tithestomana.blogspot.com
http://holmslice.blogspot.com
January 17, 2009
Quotes 1/17/09
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Gandhi
Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.
Wilhelm Bode
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
Abraham Lincoln
Peter De Vries
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Gandhi
Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.
Wilhelm Bode
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
Abraham Lincoln
January 15, 2009
Quotes 1/15/09
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
Orson Welles
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
January 14, 2009
Quotes 1/14/09
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Benjamin Franklin
I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible.
Abraham Lincoln
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce
guilt - i swear- is a horrible sickness
Jennifer Smulo
Fred Allen
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Benjamin Franklin
I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible.
Abraham Lincoln
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce
guilt - i swear- is a horrible sickness
Jennifer Smulo
January 13, 2009
Quotes 1/13/09
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
Jean Paul Getty
Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.
Amber Deckers
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
Susan Partnow
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say
Charles Caleb Colton
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrate
Benjamin Franklin
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
Jean Paul Getty
Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.
Amber Deckers
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
Susan Partnow
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say
Charles Caleb Colton
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrate
January 12, 2009
Quotes 1/12/09
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Buddha
Jack London
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact, - see how it could and must be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
Buddha
January 6, 2009
Quotes 1/6/09
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
January 5, 2009
Quotes 1/5/09
It gives you the impetus to try…you define yourself at age 17 or 18 and it’s with you the rest of your life. You never get over it; I mean I’m still 17 years old in my mind.
Philip Pearlstein
I write a lot. Probably as often as I breathe.
Sasha Wolff
Philip Pearlstein
I write a lot. Probably as often as I breathe.
Sasha Wolff
January 4, 2009
Quotes 1/4/09
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman
Henry Ford
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman
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