Noise proves nothing.  Often a hen who has merely laid an
egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. ~ Mark Twain

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its
nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. ~
William E. Channing

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not
try. ~ David Viscott

Animals are such agreeable friends -- they ask no questions,
they pass no criticisms. ~ George Eliot

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you
have; what you are will show in what you do. ~ Thomas
Davidson

There will always be a multitude who are congenitally unable
to think straight. ~ Charles E. Hughes

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for
his opportunity when it comes. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining
money under false pretenses. ~ William A. Sunday

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
~ Robert Orben

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
~ Samuel Johnson

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but
takes the one before it and plays the game. ~ Wendell
Phillips

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day
out... ~ Robert Collier

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for. ~ Chalmers

A man with a sense of humor doesn't make jokes out of life,
he merely recognizes the ones that are there. ~ Nuggets

And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is often
lead by the nose with gold. ~ Shakespeare

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man
who will not laugh is a fool. ~ George Santayana

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking
places. ~ Unknown

It may be all right to be content with what you have; never
with what you are. ~ B. C. Forbes

The first step binds one to the second. ~ French proverb

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be
intolerant. ~ Shelley

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a
national blessing. ~ Alexander Hamilton

As the circle of light increases so does the circumference
of darkness. ~ Albert Einstein

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand
of time. ~ Voltaire

Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have. ~
Greek proverb

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ~ Sophocles

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have
gotten off the ship in a storm. ~ Charles F. Kettering

When a distinguished but elderly scientist says that
something is possible, he is almost certainly right.  When
he says that something is impossible, he is very probably
wrong. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an
equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion
to his contribution to the general stock. ~ Henry George

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it
was lived for. ~ David Starr Jordan

People with goals succeed because they know where they are
going. ~ Earl Nightingale

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to
appreciate and use it. ~ Goethe

We Americans have no permission from God to police the
world. ~ Benjamin Harrison

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen
to it. ~ C. C. Scott

Don't use time or words carelessly.  Neither can be
retrieved. ~ ~

The aim of education is to enable a man to continue his
education. ~ John Dewey

A bird in the hand may soil your sleeve, but as long as you
got the bird in there, you don't have to worry about where
your next meal is coming from. ~ Fred Allen

There's the toilet and the refrigerator -- what more is
there in life? ~ from the movie "Continental Divide""

Communications is one of our big problems around here, and
it's a problem we're going to have to start talking about. ~
Unknown business executive

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last
chapter. ~ Thomas Helm

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not
gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some
one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing. ~ Lord
Chesterfield

A stumble may prevent a fall. ~ Thomas Fall

I endeavor to be wise when I cannt be merry, easy when I
cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and
patient when there is no redress. ~ Elizabeth Montagu

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must
give up before you get it. ~ Sidney Howard

We learn from experience that not everything which is
incredible is untrue. ~ Cardinal De Retz

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and
folly of the people. ~ James Garfield

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~
Chinese proverb

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it
is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to
the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ~
Henry Thoreau

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. ~
John Foster

As I stand out here [in] the wonders of the unknown at
Hadley, I sort of realize there's a fundamental truth to our
nature.  Man must explore. ~ David R. Scott

Steady effort is the surest and sanest course to anything
worthwhile. ~ Unknown

The best gifts are tied with heartstrings. ~ Unknown

You've got to be careful choosing what you're going to do. 
Once you pick something you really care about, and it's a
worth wild thing to do, then you can kind of forget it and
just work at it.  The dedication comes naturally. ~ Steven
Jobs

Now is not the time to cling to what was, but to amend what
is. ~ Helen Hayes

In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it
should go first than last. ~ Walpole

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ~ Louis
Brandeis

Obstacles should be regarded merely as obstacles, not as
stopping-places. ~ Frederick William Nichol

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and
he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~ Unknown

We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we
used to lay on our backs and look at them, and discuss about
whether they was made, or only just happened. ~ Mark Twain

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the
stars. ~ Oscar Wilde

The business of government is to keep the government out of
business -- that is, unless business needs government aid. ~
Will Rogers

Everything is difficult to predict -- especially the future.
~ Oskar Morgenstern

Expect victory and you make victory. ~ Preston Bradley

Most young people think they are natural when they are only
unpolished and rude. ~ La Rochefoucauld

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes
right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge
instantly and without reservation that he is in error. ~
Peyton C. March

It's a good thing beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten
to the core. ~ Phyllis Diller

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of
freedom, intelligence, and the energy of her citizens cannot
cure. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, be agreeable if
it kills you. ~ Elsie De Wolfe

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. ~
Shelly

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with
immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a
man in whom good work has become habit. ~ Henry L. Doherty

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that
assures the prosperous voyage. ~ George William Curtis

The decision to have a child is the decision to forever have
one's heart walking around outside our bodies. ~ Jewish
philosopher

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content
with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other
talents. ~ Andrew Carnegie

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. ~
Solomon Ibn Gabriol

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission
of ideas, there are some which produce such violent
disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the
transmission of ideas is lost in the background. ~ Albert
Einstein

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is:
hit the line hard. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. ~ Napoleon
Bonaparte

True greatness consists in being great in little things. ~
Charles Simmons

Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone. ~
Kenneth Minogue

o act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous
circumstances is the test of a man and also a nation. ~
Adlai Stevenson

No good dead ever goes unpunished. ~ Unknown

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job. ~
Unknown

Life -- all life -- has tended to be adventurous, whether
consciously or not. ~ Isaac Asimov

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing
good you do much. ~ Goethe

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take
the risk of standing by their own convictions. ~ James A.
Garfield

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. ~
Washington Irving

Mistakes are stepping stones to success. ~ Charles E.
Popplestone

I always try to turn  every disaster into an opportunity. ~
John D. Rockefeller

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang
separately. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Most of life is routine--dull and grubby, but routine is the
momentum that keeps a man going.  If you wait for
insperation you'll be standing on the corner after the
parade is a mile down the street. ~ Ben Nicholas

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists
readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends
courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~ William
Penn

An actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today,
forgotten tomorrow. ~ Edwin Forrest

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
~ Unknown

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing
so minuet or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it
than not. ~ Dr. Johnson

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under
foot.  Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of
race or color.  They are superior who have the best heart --
the best brain. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

A simple fact that is difficult to learn is that the time to
save money is when you have some. ~ Unknown

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out -- it's the
grain of sand in your shoes. ~ Unknown

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is
the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color
and content according to the circumstances and the time in
which it is used. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Always do right.  This will gratify some people and astonish
the rest. ~ Mark Twain

An engineer is said to be a man who knows a great deal about
very little and who goes along knowing more and more about
less and less until finally he knows practically everything
about nothing... ~ Unknown

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. ~
Richard P. Feynman

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
~ Albert Einstein

To none will we sell, to none deny or delay, right or
justice. ~ The Magna Carta

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and
ask for truth, and he will find both. ~ Horace Mann

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are
willing to give it to others. ~ William White

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows
slowly endures. ~ Josiah Holland

Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here. ~
Douglas Adams

It is better to wear out than to rust out. ~ Bishop
Cumberland

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that
he always has good company. ~ Charles Evans Hughes

Where there is doubt, there is freedom. ~ Latin Proverb

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could
get a little more from those who have more.  How much more
would it benefit them if they would learn a little from
those who know more. ~ Wm. J. H. Boetcker

No man can become rich without himself enriching others. ~
Andrew Carnegieÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ@ i:@ i:

cIt is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisify
all that follow it. ~ Benjamin Franklin

To improve is to change.  To be perfect is to have changed a
lot. ~ Winston Churchill

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of
my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ~ Thomas
Edison

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all
countries everywhere is in danger. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good
life enables us to disregard them. ~ Cato

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in
people. ~ David Sarnoff

Always behave like a duck -- keep calm and unruffled on the
surface, but paddle like the devil underneath. ~ Unknown

Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be
understood. ~ Marie Curie

The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. ~ Unknown

Do not pray for easy lives.  Pray to be stronger men!  Do
not pray for tasks equal to your powers.  Pray for powers
equal to your tasks. ~ Phillips Brooks

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its
completion. ~ Parkinson's Law

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one. ~
Mother Teresa

The whole life of man is but a point in time; let us enjoy
it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no
purpose. ~ Plutarch

If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make
him like and believe you. ~ Alfred E. Smith

The surest way to lose a friend is to tell hime something
for his own good. ~ Sid Ascher

Conceit wouldn't be so terrible if only the right people had
it. ~ Unknown

Radio was a tragedy for the deaf.  Television is a tragedy
for the blind.  It is also, on occasion, a tragedy for the
sensitive viewer to whom the contemplation of mediocrity is
a painful experience. ~ Steve Allen

The power of the imagination makes us infinite. ~ John Muir

God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into
the nest. ~ J. G. Holland

Life is like a ladder.  Every step is either up or down. ~
Unknown

A friend is a gift you give yourself. ~ Robert Louis
Stevenson

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson

No good deed ever goes unpunished. ~ Unknown

There has been a great deal said about a three-thousand-mile
rocket.  In my opion such a thing is impossible for many
years.  I think we can leave that out of our thinking. ~
Vannevar Bush

Tell a man he is brave, and you will help make him so. ~
Thomas Carlyle

There is innocence in admiration; it is found in those to
whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be
admired some day. ~ Friedrich Nietzche

Carelessness and overconfidence are usually more dangerous
than deliberately accepted risks. ~ Wilbur Wright

Every great advance in science has issued from a new
audacity of imagination. ~ John Dewey

Confidence and enthusiasm are the greatest sales producers
in any kind of economy. ~ O. B. Smith

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a
well-educated family. ~ Harry S. Truman

Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of
bad training. ~ Anna Freud

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does
this -- one dog does not change a bone with another. ~ Adam
Smith

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get
him off the thing he was educated in. ~ Will Rogers

By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by
convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and
space. ~ Democritus

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember
that virtue is not hereditary. ~ Thomas Paine

And as we leave the Moon at Taurus Littrow, we leave it as
we came and God willing as we shall return, with peace and
hope for all mankind. ~ Gene Cernan

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting
to be important. ~ T. S. Eliot

If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints. ~
Unknown

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to
furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers,
rather than fill it with the accumulations of others. ~
Tryon Edwards

In the United States there is more space where nobody is
than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it
is. ~ Gertrude Stein

The law and the stage -- both are a form of exhibition. ~
Orson Welles

Science is simply common sense at its best -- that is,
rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in
logic. ~ T. H. Huxley

I have never met or heard of anyone who could out-smart
honesty. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
~ Jules Renard

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear
twice as much as we speak. ~ Epictetus

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. ~ Unknown

You can't fool all the people all the time, but it isn't
necessary.  A majority will do. ~ Unknown

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. ~
Vladimir Nabokov

A optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a
pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. ~ Winston
Churchill

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us.  What we
have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
~ Albert Pine

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and
makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. ~ Quarles

Few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they
are lacking in application. ~ Calvin Coolidge

Robots cannot be human, and landing a robot is not the same
as landing a human being.  And boy, oh boy, when men landed
on the Moon, it was diferent than landing cameras up there. 
We need heroes. ~ Ray Bradbury

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ~ Vince
Lombardi

The diligent farmer plants trees of which he himself will
never see the fruit. ~ Cicero

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for
themselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never
wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there's no
annihilation, the essence remains -- matter is eternal. ~
Horace Binney

The better the book the more room for the reader. ~ Holbrook
Jackson

When people suddenly become prosperous, they also become
preposterous. ~ Laurence Peter

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to
knowledge. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

All great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
~ Winston Churchill

Teach me your mood, O patient stars! Who climb each night in
the ancient sky, \ Leaving on space no shade, no scars, \ 
No trace of age, no fear to die. ~ Emerson

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare. ~ John Burroughs

Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and
shortens life. ~ John L. Spalding

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~ John
Lubbock

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a
committee working on it. ~ C. F. Kettering

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are
hardly possible.  Friendship needs a certain parallelism of
life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. ~ Henry
Adams

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree.
\ Indeed, unless the billboards fall, \ I'll never see a
tree at all. ~ Ogden Nash

No one can make you fell inferior without your consent. ~
Eleanor Roosevelt

Publicity is good.  Good publicity is even better. ~ Sam
Goldwyn (attributed)

Faith and doubt are both needed... not as antagonists... but
working side-by-side to take us around the unknown curves. ~
Lillian Smith

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we
have to borrer [sic] the money to do it with. ~ Artemus Ward

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not
always the most agreeable nor the best to love with. ~ Henry
Van Dyke

One can never predict the outcome of any scientific
investigation, and the greatest discoveries of all -- the
ones which will most influence human life -- may come from
sciences as yet unborn. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress
what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is
good. ~ Calvin Coolidge

Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant. ~ P.
T. Barnum

A house that has echoed a baby's laugh and held up his
stumbling feet, \ Is the saddest sight, when it's left
alone, that ever \ your eyes could meet. ~ Joyce Kilmer

Never walk away from failure.  On the contrary, study it
carefully -- for its hidden assets. ~ Michael Korda

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as
you please. ~ Mark Twain

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing
it, than we to consume wealth without producing it. ~ George
Bernard Shaw

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you
help them to become what they are capable of being. ~ Johann
von Goethe

Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired. ~ Platus

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. ~ Confucius

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have
this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the
more glorious the triumph. ~ Thomas Paine

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow
will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level
with yourself. ~ J. Hawes

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we
cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~ Michel de
Montaigne

It is better to ask some questions than know all the
answers. ~ James Thurber

Be true to your own highest convictions. ~ William E.
Channing

The way of a superior man is threefold: virtuous, he is free
from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he
is free from fear. ~ Confucius

Years of research tell us that an expert is a person who
will know tomorrow why the things they predicted yesterday
didn't happen. ~ Unknown

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. ~ Brisbane

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is
sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

We drew a circle that took him in. ~ Edwin Markham

Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded
in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex
programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles
quite well without fuss of fanfare. ~ Lane Olinghouse

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight;
indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves
ragged edges behind it. ~ Gordon Graham

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our
exploring \Will be to arrive where we started \ And know the
place for the first time ~ T.S. Eliot

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning, and the rest
of the day will take care of itself. ~ Unknown

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to
do it solemnly. ~ Montaigne

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the
human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~
Stephen Leacock

Error can often be fertile, but perfection is always
sterile. ~ A. J. P. Taylor

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be
so. ~ Hume

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work
the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind
than in the one where they sprang up. ~ Oliver Wendell
Holmes

Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits,
that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ~
Alphonse Karr

The power of accurate observation is commonly called
cynicism by those who have not got it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life,
the clearer we should see through it. ~ Jean Paul

We cannot control crime without controlling the random and
wanton distribution of guns. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for
anything else. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The gift you give another needn't be a costly thing, if
inside you've place a little love before you tied the
string. ~ Unknown

It [money] frees you from things you dislike.  Since I
dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~ Groucho
Marx

Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate
capacity when once raised to power. ~ Wessenburg

In each of us there is a little of all of us. ~ Lichtenberg

If is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you
are safe in doing it.  But if you take the slightest
pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue. ~
Alice Miller

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was
was that they escaped teething. ~ Mark Twain

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody
who did not discover it. ~ Whitehead

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to
overlook. ~ William James

We hope the Professor from Clark College [Robert H. Goddard]
is only pretending to be ignorant in elementary physics if
he thinks that a rocket can work in a vacuum. ~ The New York
Times, 1920

The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious
stone. ~ Unknown

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. ~ Cadman

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder
and awe -- the starry heavens above me and the moral law
within me. ~ Kant

In music the passions enjoy themselves. ~ Friedrich
Nietzsche

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily
based on a mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police. ~ Albert Einstein

There are no limitations in what you can do except the
limitations in your own mind as to what you cannot do. 
Don't think you cannot.  Think you can. ~ Darwin P. Kingsley

Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly,
and they will show themselves great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

How silent the woods would be if only the best birds sang. ~
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vThe recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with
your opions and content with you knowledge. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Nothing is too wonderful to be true. ~ Michael Faraday
(attributed)

John, I'm looking out the window and I see a beautiful
sunrise.  Is that going to be the case through out the day?
~ radio DJ speaking to the station's meteorologist

Nature is no friend of man's, and the most he can hope for
is her neutrality. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves
practically nothing unsaid. ~ Unknown

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to
influence. ~ Carl G. Jung

A sharp tongue and a dull mind can generally be found in the
same head. ~ Unknown

In the old days it was two chickens in every pot, and now
it's two government employees for every taxpayer. ~ Unknown

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied
later a thousandfold. ~ Aristotle

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of
places it's prepared to put up with living. ~ Douglas Adams

No statement should be believed merely because it has been
made by an authority. ~ Hans Reichenbach

If we do not make common cause to save the good ship of the
Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her
on another voyage. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of
value. ~ Albert Einstein

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault. ~ Cicero

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is
committing another mistake. ~ Confucius

Old age is not a hindrance to men chasing women; they just
have trouble remembering why. ~ Unknown

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your
lips. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

I never did as day's work in my life.  It was all fun. ~
Thomas A. Edison

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our
doubts of today.  Let us move forward with strong and active
faith. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow
and be led. ~ Tiorio

The most effective labor-saving device is still money. ~
Franklin P. Jones

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. ~ Libbie
Fudim

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them
with your hands.  But like the seafaring man on the desert
of waters, you choose them as your guides, and follow them
you will reach your destiny. ~ Carl Schurz

Discipline yourself so others won't have to. ~ Unknown

A light heart lives long. ~ Shakespeare

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but
confront them.  Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you;
grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. ~ William S. Halsey

"There is a homely adage which runs, "Speak softly and carry
a big stick; you will go far." " ~ Thodore Roosevelt

Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. 
Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth -- rain or
shine.  To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.
~ Maltbie Babcock

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go
about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. ~
Norman Douglas

Learning is like a great house that requires a great charge
to keep it in constant repair. ~ Samuel Butler

The easiest faults to notice are those you don't have. ~
Unknown

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA
appropriations, I say not one penny for this nutty fantasy
[the colonization of space]. ~ William Proxmire

People have one thing in common; they are all different. ~
Robert Zend

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener
unjust than just.  It is no friend to virtue, and always an
enemy to happiness. ~ Hosea Ballou

Worry is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do
but it doesn't get you anywhere. ~ Evan Esar

If someone paid you ten cents for every kind word you ever
spoke and collected five cents for every unkind word, would
be rich or poor? ~ Unknown

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When
fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the
meadow the deep-tangled wildwood, \ And every loved spot
which by infancy knew. ~ Samuel Woodworth

You always need committees, because that's where people
share their knowledge and intentions.  But when committees
replace individuals...then productivity begins to decline. ~
Lee Iacocca

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are
sure of each other.  It is the place of confidence.  It is
the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without
any dread of ridicule. ~ Frederick W. Robertson

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every
opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. ~ John
D. Rockefeller Jr.

The least of man's original emanation is better than the
best of a borrowed thought. ~ Albert Pinkham Ryder

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if
you don't try. ~ Beverly Sills

There never was a good war or a bad peace. ~ Benjamin
Franklin

When we all think alike, no one thinks very much. ~ Unknown

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of
ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ~ Henry
Adams

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.  No
machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~ Elbert
Hubbard

The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying. ~
Paul C. Roud

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the
future better...because we will spend the rest of our lives
there. ~ Charles F. Kettering

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to
earn money as to spend it well. ~ Spurgeon

The quality of a civilization is not measured by what it has
to do, but by what it wants to do. ~ Bruce Murray
(attributed)

If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, \ And
the crier rung his bell, \ What would you buy? ~ Thomas
Lovell

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one
should appear like a fool but be wise. ~ Montesquieu

Lives for the meanest mortal known. ~ Cincinnatus H. Miller

Nobody understands quantum theory. ~ Richard Feynman

The world, which took but six days to make, is likely to
take us six thousand years to make out. ~ Thomas Browne

[I]gnorance more frequently begets confidence than does
knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who
know much, who so positively assert that this or that
problem will never be solved by science. ~ Charles Darwin

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ~ James A. Gargield

The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends. ~ Unknown

Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much
good as hurt.  Their duration is always short; the mind soon
grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before.
~ Thomas Paine

Oversimplifying outrageously, we state Brooks's Law: Adding
manpower to a late software project makes it later. ~ Fred
Brooks

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm
to ask for what you want. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

Were is left to me to decide whether we should have a
government without a newspaper, or a newspaper without a
government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the
latter. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater
privilege, than the raising of the next generation. ~ Dr. C.
Everett Koop

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are
extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ~ Harry E.
Fosdick

The truly educated individual refuses to be guided by
prejudice. ~ Glenn Frank

To create a little flower is the labour of ages. ~ Blake

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could
have if we didn't spend so much time wishing for them. ~
Unknown

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating
all of your energies on a limited set of targets. ~ Nido
Qubein

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to
improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. ~
Sterne

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may
weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little
gold. ~ William McFee

We figure we've got about 15 minutes worth of power in the
Command Module.  So we want you to start getting over in the
LM and getting some power on that. ~ NASA's Capsule
Communicator speaking to the crew of Apollo 13 en route to
the moon

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when
you have said it, cease. ~ Witherspoon

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being
stubborn; to refute without argument, and to clothe great
matters in a motley garb. ~ Disraeli

No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much
dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ~ Booker T.
Washington

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the
same time saddled with a responsibility. ~ Gerald W. Johnson

The world should be a better place when we turn it over to
the next generation than when we inherited it from the last
generation. ~ Robert F. Kennedy

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel
that crushed it. ~ Unknown

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside. ~ Earl
Nightingale

There is no fire like passions, there is no shark like
hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent
like greed. ~ Buddha

Old age is like everything else.  To make a success of it,
you've got to start young. ~ Fred Astaire

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we
stand, as in what direction we are moving. ~ Oliver W.
Holmes

What's important is not the years in your life but the life
in your years. ~ Unknown

If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

Slow and steady wins the race. ~ Robert Lloyd

It is better to deserve honors and not to have them than to
have them and not deserve them. ~ Mark Twain

"The man who has not learned to say "No" will be a weak if
not a wretched man as long as he lives. " ~ A. Maclaren

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ~
Francis Bacon

Words are the voice of the heart. ~ Confucius

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is
a foundation stone of American liberty. ~ Herbert Hoover

Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat it. ~
George Santayana

Anyone not shocked by quantum theory does not understand it.
~ Neils Bohr

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win
without proving that you are unworthy of winning. ~ Adlai E.
Stevenson

Today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday. ~
Unknown

Loyalty to a petrified option never yet broke a chain or
freed a human soul. ~ Mark Twain

Good things, when short, are twice as good. ~ Gracian

Nuclear War: See one and you've seen them all. ~ bumper
sticker

No favor can win gratitude from a cat. ~ La Fontaine

Give what you have.  To some one it may be better than you
dare to think. ~ Longfellow

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. ~
Unknown

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for
a nectar that I can make into my own honey. ~ John Barroughs

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to
win or lose. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choices. ~
Vauvenargues

The man that make a character, makes foes. ~ Young

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can
the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject
of health. ~ Mary Baker Eddy

Our job is not to see through one another, but to see one
another through. ~ Unknown

A single conversation over the table with a wise person is
worth a month's study of books. ~ Chinese proverb

[M]atter is frozen energy. ~ Timothy Ferris

Of course, sometimes it is not possible to prepare an
address fully, but it is much better to do so even is you
intend to speak extemporaneously. ~ Robert A. Taft

All my possessions for a moment of time. ~ Queen Elizabeth
O's last words

The greater philosopher a man is, the more difficult it is
for him to answer the foolish questions of common people. ~
Henryk Sienkiewicz

There is nothing but ill-fortune in a habit of grumbling,
which requires no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no
character. ~ O. S. Martin

The urge to explore, to discover, to 'follow knowledge like
a sinking star', is a primary human impulse which needs, and
can recieve, no further justification than its own
existence. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the
income-tax form than it does to make the income. ~ Alfred E.
Neuman

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. ~
Publius Syrus

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. 
He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there,
and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with
himself. ~ Confucius

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the
most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example. ~ John
Ruskin

Every product of genius must be the product of enthusiasm. ~
Benjamin Disraeli

A hero is one who hangs on one minute longer. ~ Unknown

Adam was but human -- this explains it all.  He did not want
the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it
was forbidden. ~ Mark Twain

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest
you may not see. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I did but she her passing by, And yet I love her till I die.
~ Barnabe Googe

Hell would be a small universe that we could explore
thoroughly and fully comprehend. ~ Timothy Ferris

The budget should be balanced; the treasury should be
refilled; public debt should be reduced; and the arrogance
of public officials should be controlled. ~ Cicero. 106-43
B. C.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship,
communion or company than a good marriage. ~ Martin Luther

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't
been asleep. ~ Wilson Mizner

My political ideal is democracy.  Everyone should be
respected as an individual, but no one idolized. ~ Albert
Einstein

You will never stub your toe standing still.  The faster you
go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the
more chance you have of getting somewhere. ~ Charles F.
Kettering

We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not
just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos... from which we
spring. ~ Carl Sagan

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not
worry about who gets the credit. ~ Sandra Swinney

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased
with the effect he produces on other people.  A conceited
man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. ~
Max Beerbohm

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change
observed is mostly soft times going. ~ Groucho Marx

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you
home. ~ Chacter of Jim Lovel

A man who is contented with what he has done will never
become famous for what he will do. ~ Fred Estabrook

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than
the promotion of science and literature.  Knowledge is in
every country the surest basis of public happiness. ~ George
Washington

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find
men disgrace labor. ~ Ulysses S. Grant

The world will beat a path to your door if you make a better
mousetrap.  It will do the same thing if you balance the
federal budget. ~ Unknown

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income
tax. ~ Albert Einstein

A modest man is usually admired -- if people ever hear of
him. ~ Ed Howe

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next
time. ~ Malcolm Forbes

Read every day something no one else is reading.  Think
every day something no one else is thinking.  It is bad for
the mind to be always a part of unanimity. ~ Christopher
Morley

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your
hopes. ~ St. Clement of AlexandriaÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÀ É;À É;

¥No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may
seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that
will lead us to better things. ~ Channing Pollock

The report of my death was an exaggeration. ~ Mark Twain

No amount of energy will take the place of thought.  A
strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild
insanity. ~ Henry Van Dyke

The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines
speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumberable
passengers in a way analogous to our modern steamships.  It
seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary. ~
William H. Pickering

The manner of speaking is full as important as the matter,
as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings
to judge. ~ Chesterfield

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~ Novalis

If I had to sum up in one word the qualities that make a
good manager, I'd say it all comes down to decisiveness. ~
Lee Iacocca

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.  My
strength lies solely in my tenacity. ~ Louis Pasteur

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another
profound truth. ~ Niels Bohr

I contradict myself?  Very well, I contradict myself.  I am
large.  I contain multitudes. ~ Walt Whitman

A vacation is something you take when you can't take what
you're taking. ~ Unknown

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things
appear what they are not. ~ E.R. Beadle

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly
grows unconsciously into genius. ~ Bulwer-Lytton

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for
its counterfeit. ~ Hosea Ballou

I am tired and sick of war.  Its glory is all moonshine.  It
is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the
shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood,
more vengeance, more desolation.  War is hell. ~ William T.
Sherman

Time was when a person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has
to pay as he comes and goes. ~ O.A. Battista

Half the world does not know how the other half lives. ~
Rabelais

nd so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do
for you; ask what you can do for your country. ~ John F.
Kennedy

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who
distrusts them. ~ Cavour

PRIORITIES.  A hundred years from now it will not matter
what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or
the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different
because I was important in the life of a child. ~ Unknown

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like
eating the seed corn.  We may have a little more to eat next
winter, but what will we plant so we and our children will
have enough to get through the winters to come? ~ Carl Sagan

It is not the function of our government to keep the
citizens from falling into error; it is the function of the
citizens to keep the government from falling into error. ~
Robert H. Jackson

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has
sight but has no vision. ~ Helen Keller

Truth is such a rare thing, it is a delight to tell it. ~
Emily Dickinson

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he
will not bite you. That is the principal difference between
a dog and a man. ~ Mark Twain

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of
their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy
meditations on the past. ~ Andre Maurois

Aerial flight isone of that class of problems with which man
will never be able to cope. ~ Simon Newcomb

The mind is like the stomach.  It is not how much you put
into it that counts, but how much it digests. ~ A. J. Nock

The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a
crowd. ~ Donnell

Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
~ William E. Channing

A decent and manly examination of the acts of Government
should not only be tolerated, but encouraged. ~ William H.
Harrison

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are
these: "It might have been." " ~ Whittier

"In Boston they ask, "How much does he know?"  In New York,
"How much is he worth?"  In Philadelphia, "Who were his
parents?" " ~ Paul Bourget

Silence is one of the hardest things to refute. ~ Unknown

[I]t may be that to old astrologers had the truth exactly
reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the
destinies of men.  The time may come when men control the
destinies of stars. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians are the same all over.  They promise to build a
bridge even where there is no river. ~ Nikita Khrushchev

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his
influence stops. ~ Henry Adams

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people
ought to be educatied, but we should rather believe the
philosophers who say that only the educated are free. ~
Epictetus

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what
we give. ~ Winston Churchill

Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. ~
Groucho Marx

Love truth, but pardon error. ~ Voltaire

Successful collaborative negotiation lies in finding out
what the other side really wants and showing them a way to
get it -- while you get what you want. ~ Herb Cohen

The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new
respectability to uninformed opinion. ~ John Lawton

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and
less. ~ Nicholas Butler

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this
world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake
off old prejudices. ~ Frederick the Great

Because life is short, it's wise to make it broad. ~ Unknown

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors,
after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in
discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is
only then that the cause triumphs. ~ Guizot

Fleas can be taught nearly everything that a Congressman
can. ~ Mark Twain

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~
James Stephens

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing
what is impossible for talent is genius. ~ Unknown

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or
make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he builds
his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to
his door. ~ EmersonÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÀ› <À› <

bLet the other fellow talk occasionally. You can't learn
much listening to yourself. ~ Coleman Cox

The strenght of a nation derives from the integrity of the
home. ~ Confucius

The planet and mankind are in grave danger of irreversible
catastrophe...wars of mass destruction, overpopulation,
pollution, and the depletion of resources. ~ Richard A. Falk

We never know how high we are Till we are called to
rise;\And then, is we are true to plan,\Our statures touch
the skies. ~ Emily Dickinson

usiness is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must
do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets. ~ Henry
Ford

Always do more than is required of you. ~ George S. Patton

In memory yet green, in joy still felt, The scenes of life
rise sharply into view. \ We triumph; Life's disasters are
undealt, \ And while all else is old, the world is new. ~
Issac Asimov

You may delay, but time will not. ~ Ben Franklin

Some people strengthen society just by being the kind of
people they are. ~ John W. Gardener

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay. ~ Alfred
North Whitehead

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are
doing. ~ Dale Carnegie

Man builds no structure which outlives a book. ~ Eugene
Fitch Ware

People are where they are because that's exactly where they
want to be. ~ Earl Nightingale

You can never get rid of what is part of you, even if you
throw it away. ~ Goethe

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. ~
Edwin H. Stuart

We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a
little short of good men to place our Confidence in. ~ Will
Rogers

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where
we are right, make us easy to live with. ~ Rev. Peter
Marshall

When you get an answer you couldn't formulate the question
for, that's exploration. ~ Merton E. Davies

We would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
~ Unknown

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become
generally incapable of great ones. ~ La Rochefoucauld

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they
mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~ Henry
Adams

No one grows old by living -- only by losing interest in
living. ~ Marie Ray

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any
country; emotionally I know she is better than every other
country. ~ Sinclair Lewis

Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which
differ, and the difference between things which are alike. ~
Madame Destael

The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any
ocean. ~ Mark Twain

That's all there is; there isn't any more. ~ Ethel Barrymore

When you are dog-tired at night, could it be that you've
been growling all day long? ~ Unknown

If you sow kindness, you will reap a crop of friends. ~
Unknown