﻿Twitter Patter 1000 Tweet-ready Assorted Quotes - Volumes 1-10 Bill Dyer Twitter Patter - 1000 Tweet-ready Assorted Quotes Volumes 1-10 This collection is Copyright © 2012, Bill Dyer. All rights reserved. Intellectual property rights of each contributor belong to them, nor do I claim any right for individual quotations. Twitter and the Twitter logo are trademarks of Twitter, Inc. Bill Dyer is not affiliated with Twitter, Inc. Discover other titles by Bill Dyer at Smashwords.com: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/bdyer61 Smashwords Edition, License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Dedication You, the reader Table of Contents Introduction Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8 Volume 9 Volume 10 About the Author Introduction I enjoy quotes. They encompass complex concepts in compact statements. Sometimes, it is not easy to find quotes that fit on Twitter so I've made an effort to find as many as I can. These quotes will fit inside of Twitter's 140-character limit: quote symbols, the phrase and the contributor - it all fits. I often post the quotes I collect; I love to share them. When I share a quote, there is no theme that I follow, it's always random and readers of my posts never know what to expect. I have chosen the same randomness / assortment angle in this book. Surprise can be a good thing. I like the words - I don't care where they came from; I have no agenda. I study ideas from any source. If you like or hate the words - research. The person credited with the quote is cited, so look them up. Study the context in which they use the quote and look over their other work as well. Then decide to embrace or reject. Propagate the words. Here, they are bite sized with purpose, but you can add to them on a personal level; make them yours. Of course, you could just kick back and enjoy these quotes as they are. Volume 1 "Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'" - Lao Tzu "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." - Norman Douglas "It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life." - Terry Pratchett "Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends." - Epicurus "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov "I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." - Albert Einstein "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!" - Dr. Seuss "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." - Babe Ruth "Politics is the entertainment branch of industry." - Frank Zappa "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank "There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." - Samuel Johnson "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." - Dr. Seuss "The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side." - Scott Westerfeld "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do." - Terry Pratchett "Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self." - Franz Kafka "Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend." - Sarah Dessen "It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath." - Aeschylus "To belittle, you have to be little." - Khalil Gibran "Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers." - Lewis Mumford "He who stands for nothing will fall for anything." - Alexander Hamilton "Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?" - Justina Chen Headley "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." - C.S. Lewis "Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams." - Patch Adams "People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around." - Terry Pratchett "Plans are nothing; planning is everything." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." - Carl R. Rogers "A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery." - Steve Maraboli "When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead." - Robin Hobb "Any fool can know. The point is to understand." - Albert Einstein "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel "Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too." - Marcus Aurelius "Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another." - Lemony Snicket "When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back." - Bill Watterson "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." - Paulo Coelho "Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway." - Eleanor Roosevelt "To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man." - Aristotle "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." - Bob Marley "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw "Happiness is a warm puppy." - Charles M. Schulz "How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others." - June Ahern "Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." - Michel de Montaigne "On the night of the murder I was at home, asleep. The characters in my dream can vouch for me." - Jarod Kintz "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." - Friedrich Nietzsche "We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." - Douglas Adams "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation." - Walter Cronkite "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." - Robert Frost "Never laugh at live dragons." - J.R.R. Tolkien "Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?" - Marilyn Monroe "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." - Oscar Wilde "So many books, so little time." - Frank Zappa "Laughter is an instant vacation." - Milton Berle "Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be." - Robert Brault "Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well" - Peter Ustinov "Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong." - Dandemis "Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world." - Lauren Bacall "Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words." - Alfred Adler "Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." - Bill Cosby "Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy." - proverb "Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners." - Unknown "There aren't enough days in the weekend." - Rod Schmidt "Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation." - Unknown "The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." - Joseph Joubert "Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness." - J. Parker "Envy is thin because it bites but never eats." - Spanish proverb "To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon." - Unknown "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Allen "It’s not the first mistake; it’s the cover-up that gets you in trouble." - Michel de Montaigne "What I am looking for is not out there; it is in me." - Helen Keller "Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi "We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light." - Earl Nightingale "A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world." - Albert Camus "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." - G.K. Chesterton "The years teach much which the days never knew." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley "The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius." - Rebecca Pepper Sinkler "Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?" - Michael Torke "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." - Thucydides "Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push." - Joann Thomas "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can." - Sydney Smith "We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them." - Pierre Charron "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Berthold Auerbach "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives." - Albert Schweitzer "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." - Bill Watterson "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." - Donald G. Smith "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan "One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb." - Marcel Pagnol "People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo." - Max Eastman "Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." - John Adams "Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus "Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own." - Unknown "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." - Woodrow Wilson "Be content to act, and leave the talking to others." - Baltasar Gracian "We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier." - Mignon McLaughlin "Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume." - Jean de Boufflers "The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." - John Ruskin "Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." - Jacques Barzun "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein "There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure." - Unknown Volume 2 "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." - Ambrose Bierce "Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!" - Miguel de Cervantes "Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot." - Dutch proverb "Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose." - Christine Comaford "The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values." - William S. Boroughs "In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible." - Cicero "A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become." - W. H. Auden "The wise man reads both books and life itself." - Lin Yutang "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige "Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold." - Edmund Spenser "The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." - Aristotle "Men show their superiority outside, animals inside." - Russian proverb "I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves." - Lord Chesterfield "Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater." - Epictetus "Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience." - George Washington "All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why." - James Thurber "You learn something every day if you pay attention." - Ray LeBlond "Opposites are cures for opposites." - Hippocrates "I’m never going to be a Meryl Streep. But then, she’ll never be a Dolly Parton either. Be true to you!" - Dolly Parton "Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly." - Jonathan Swift "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring." - Francis H. Bradley "If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport." - George Winters "Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary." - Ashleigh Brilliant "You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives." - Viktor Frankl "Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one." - Robert E. Lee "I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice." - Clint Eastwood "Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect." - Marcus Aurelius "To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power." - Ayn Rand "Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda." - Homer Simpson "Coffee makes me invincible. But when the cup is empty, I return to mere mortal." - Terri Guillemets "Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it." - L.M. Montgomery "Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit." - Hosea Ballou "Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore." - Hindu proverb "You can't trust dogs to watch your food." - Unknown "I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween." - Unknown "Boredom is the root of all evil -- the despairing refusal to be oneself." - Soren Kierkegaard "A good book has no ending." - R.D. Cumming "Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one." - Benjamin Franklin "Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words: mine and thine, were taken away." - Anaxagoras "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die." - Klingon proverb "Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart." - Countess of Blessington "There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies." - Robert Brault "Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one." - Augustine Birrell "There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed." - Mohandas K. Gandhi "It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it." - Unknown "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." - Frederick Douglass "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." - Alfred Hitchcock "When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback." - Bill Copeland "When a cow laughs, does milk come out her nose?" - Unknown "A sister smiles when one tells one's stories - for she knows where the decoration has been added." - Chris Montaigne "We turn not older with years, but newer every day." - Emily Dickinson "There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror." - Orson Welles "As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it." - Buddy Hackett "A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence." - Barbara Walters "Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored." - Alice Walker "If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it." - Domenico Cieri Estrada "Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow." - Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." - Booker T. Washington "For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." - Vincent Van Gogh "Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes." - Lewis Grizzard "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." - John Donne "When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing." - Unknown "We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot." - Abraham Lincoln "Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional." - Robert Brault "Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." - Kin Hubbard "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." - Wilson Mizner "As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see." - Julius Caesar "If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree." - Jim Rohn "A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing and the lawn mower is broken." - James Dent "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare "Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme." - Daniel Defoe "Middle age: When you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you." - Ogden Nash "Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." - Ralph Marston "Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him." - Lord Chesterfield "If the King loves music, it is well with the land." - Mencius "Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority." - William Arthur Ward "Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful." - Charles Osgood "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." - Washington Irving "The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue." - Antisthenes "On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers." - Adlai E. Stevenson "Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart." - Unknown "Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment." - Iara Gassen "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." - Albert Einstein "Hate cages all the good things about you." - Terri Guillemets "Journalism largely consists in saying, "Lord Jones is dead," to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive." - G.K. Chesterton "One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball." - Don Carter "Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." - Doug Larson "There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it." - Diana Trilling "The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible." - Judith Regan "I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering." - Steven Wright "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." - Kahlil Gibran "From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors." - proverb "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy." - Goldie Hawn "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." - Malcolm S. Forbes "Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability." - Roy L. Smith "It takes a long time to grow an old friend." - John Leonard "The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway." - Henry Boye "One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute." - William Lyon Phelps Volume 3 "I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once." - Jennifer Yane "True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach "A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking." - attributed to Arthur McBride Bloch "Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." - William Hazlitt "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." - William Morris "Action is the antidote to despair." - Joan Baez "Love is not singular except in syllable." - Marvin Taylor "Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories." - Felix Cohen "Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of 'what-if.'" - Dodinsky "Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken." - Aristotle "Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens." - Michel de Montaigne "Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet." - Colette "If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi "When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves." - Anthony J. D'Angelo "Doing things is not the same as getting things done." - Jared Silver "If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon." - Doug Rader "I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here." - Unknown "There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time." - Napoleon I "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination." - Bertrand Russell "There's no thief like a bad movie." - Sam Ewing "It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins." - Chinese proverb "Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay." - William Styron "Talk doesn't cook rice." - Chinese proverb "Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today." - Seneca "One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." - John Burroughs "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one." - Neil Gaiman "If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum." - Chinese proverb "You can't have everything... where would you put it?" - Steven Wright "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." - Victor Hugo "The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go." - Steve Maraboli "Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of the immortals." - David Ogilvy "Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!" - Alice Childress "What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea." - Robert Brault "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory." - G. Behn "Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks." - Dr. SunWolf "Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes." - Panchatantra "Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will." - Jawaharlal Nehru "Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience." - Michel de Montaigne "Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do." - Jean de la Bruyere "Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them." - Unknown "If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." - Toni Morrison "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa "The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow." - H. G. Wells "If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?" - Neale Donald Walsch "The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." - Colin Wilson "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." - Gordon R. Dickson "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore "Caffeine isn't a drug, it's a vitamin!" - Unknown "The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers." - Arthur Koestler "The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons." - G.T. Hewitt "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Chinese proverb "Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment." - Montaigne "Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding." - Mohandas Gandhi "Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." - Jim Rohn "Do noble things, do not dream them all day long." - Charles Kingsley "I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." - Phyllis Diller "Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children." - Native American proverb "You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility." - Zig Ziglar "Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night." - Terri Guillemets "Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart." - Seneca "Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart." - Henry Clay "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." - Jean de La Fontaine "Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance." - Robert Brault "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Richard Steele "Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened." - Jennifer Yane "I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee." - Flash Rosenberg "Books are a uniquely portable magic." - Stephen King "The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog." - Ambrose Bierce "An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit." - Pliny the Younger "Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn." - Miguel de Cervantes "I am a rich man as long as I don't pay my creditors." - Plautus "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution." - Bertrand Russell "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die." - G.K. Chesterton "To observe a Marine, is inspirational. To be a Marine, is exceptional." - GySgt Charles F. Wolf, Jr. (Happy birthday, Marines!) "Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you." is a greeting, not a question." - Arthur Guiterman "To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution." - Joe Cordare "We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies." - Roderick Thorp "Nothing is worth more than this day." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long." - Unknown "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." - W.T. Purkiser "There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen." - Christopher Morley "Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors." - Rudyard Kipling "I like the word 'indolence.' It makes my laziness seem classy." - Bern Williams "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." - Robert Frost "Neither gods, men nor booksellers tolerate second-rate poets." - Horace "Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor." - Ulysses S. Grant "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." - Erma Bombeck "There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it." - Monta Crane "Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you." - Elbert Hubbard "It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward." - Baltasar Gracian "If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th birthday, you can get out of bed." - E. Jean Carroll "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." - Pablo Picasso "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore "I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles." - G.K. Chesterton Volume 4 "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." - W.C. Fields "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - e.e. cummings "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho "What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!" - Victor Hugo "It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others." - Lewis Carroll "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." - Cicero "Hope never abandons you, you abandon it." - George Weinberg "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." - Bertrand Russell "A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." - Carl Reiner "It's never too late to have a happy childhood." - Berke Breathed "There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision." - William James "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Arthur Conan Doyle "The more you read and learn, the less your adversary will know." - Sun Tzu "Never fight an inanimate object." - P.J. O'Rourke "Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain." - Marcus Aurelius "There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move." - Felicity Kendall "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot "The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it." - Joan Collins "Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice." - William Jennings Bryan "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden "There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." - Bertrand Russell "Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days." - Doug Larson "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James "Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you." - Yassir Arafat "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber "Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it." - Spanish proverb "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit." - R.E. Shay "Don't turn a small problem into a big one. Just say yes to your mother." - Sally Berger "After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box." - Italian proverb "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln "Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift." - Miss Piggy "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." - Redd Foxx "The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next." - Mignon McLaughlin "Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of." - Charles Richards "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up." - Muhammad Ali "There comes a time in the affairs of man when he's got to take the bull by the tail and face the situation." - W.C. Fields "Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way." - Dr. Seuss "Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." - Bern Williams "Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself." - Michel de Montaigne "When the world says, 'Give up,' Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'" - Unknown "Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." - Samuel Johnson "Any adult who still philosophizes ought to get a good beating. Philosophy is only something for young lads." - Callicles "Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change." - Unknown "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo DaVinci "Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left." - Hubert Humphrey "Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway." - Emory Austin "A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak." - Michael Garrett Marino "If you're not programming your mind...who is?" - I.M. Slade "Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up." - Unknown "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." - Marcus Tullius Cicero "A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it." - Unknown "Start every day with a smile and get it over with." - W.C. Fields "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." - Lewis B. Smedes "If things go wrong, don't go with them." - Roger Babson "What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!" - Logan Pearsall Smith "Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips." - John Wagner "The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable." - Lane Olinghouse "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Kahlil Gibran "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." - Guilaume Apollinaire "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault "Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one." - Jane Howard "It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." - Unknown "Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully." - Stu Krieger "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." - Irish proverb "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." - Billy Wilder "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing." - Phyllis Diller "Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things." - Unknown "If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you." - Unknown "The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff." - Ambrose Bierce "Life is the sum of all your choices." - Albert Camus "Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love." - Terri Guillemets "Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important." - Janet Lane "One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind." - Malayan proverb "If you want to be happy, be." - Leo Tolstoy "Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." - Janis Joplin "It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons." - Friedrich von Schiller "Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things." - Samuel M. Shoemaker "I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?" - Henry Moore "If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." - Bob Hope "Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still." - Chinese proverb "Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own." - Harold Coffin "False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis." - William Alger "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." - Robert Byrne "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." - Lorraine Hansberry "Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there." - Virginia Burden "If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." - Toni Morrison "These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves." - Gilbert Highet "The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read." - Oscar Wilde "Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional." - Roger Crawford "Often our duty is to be just and reputed infamous." - Seneca "In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also." - Robert Brault "Aimlessness is a vice." - James Allen "Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." - Thomas Szasz "Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working." - Pablo Picasso "When you are through changing, you are through." - Bruce Barton "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." - Victor Frankl "What is to give light must endure burning." - Viktor Frankl "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw "If we are anxious about the future, it is because we do not use the present." - Seneca "'Solvitur ambulando,' St. Jerome was fond of saying. To solve a problem, walk around." - Gregory McNamee Volume 5 "Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons." - Ruth Ann Schabacker "Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all." - Ovid "Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice." - Cicero "Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." - Epictetus "I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!" - Unknown "Easy tears show treachery, not grief." - Syrus "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - e.e. cummings "There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something." - John Dewey "Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something." - Jim Rohn "A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations." - Patricia Neal "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." - Baltasar Gracian "If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names." - Elbert Hubbard "Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together." - Carl Zwanzig "Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children." - Marilyn Penland "For fast acting relief, try slowing down." - Lily Tomlin "Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." - Michael Leunig "If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched." - Terri Guillemets "Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused." - King Charles I "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." - Charles Wadsworth "Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being." - Michel de Montaigne "How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms." - Aristotle "Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book." - Unknown "They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." - Francis Bacon "If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!" - Jonathan Winters "The only limits are, as always, those of vision." - James Broughton "I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end." - Larry Bird "To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation." - E.W. Howe "What luck for rulers, that men do not think." - Adolph Hitler "Take care that no one hates you justly." - Publilius Syrus "How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks." - Marcus Aurelius "Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart." - Michel de Montaigne "Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen" - Samuel Paterson "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." - Lewis Carroll "If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter." - Jack Fyock "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself." - Tom Wilson "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble." - Rudyard Kipling "Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you." - Dodinsky "We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them." - Francis A. Walker "Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything." - John Kenneth Galbraith "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." - Will Rogers "Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets." - Terri Guillemets "Never loan your car to someone to whom you have given birth." - Erma Bombeck "We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?" - Robert Penn Warren "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie "Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player." - Unknown "It's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it. Not me, of course. Someone though, definitely." - Christine Michel "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B.F. Skinner "The present is the point of power" -Carlos Casteneda "One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others." - Moliere "Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once." - Norman Vincent Peale "Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein." - proverb "If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?" - Dogen "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer "We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed." - Michel de Montaigne "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." - Benjamin Disraeli "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon "In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information." - Anthony J. D'Angelo "Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind." - Charles Dudley Warner "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." - Harriet Braiker "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." - Oprah Winfrey "Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak." - John Donne "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?" - Maurice Freehill "Know first who you are, then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus "Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects." - Thomas Carlyle "Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." - Ludwig Börne "There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament." - Henry Van Dyke "It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor." - Max Eastman "I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive." - Gilda Radner "We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house." - Robert Brault "A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time." - Francis Bacon "Treat everyone as if they'll one day win the lotto." -Unknown "Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare." - Japanese proverb "My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper." - Amy Sedaris "I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself." - Jules Renard "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." - Logan Pearsall Smith "Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable." - Wendy Wasserstein "Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal." - Israel Zangwill "I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine." - Kurt Vonnegut "It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line." - Ashleigh Brilliant "The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart." - Elisabeth Foley "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh "It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to." - W.C. Fields "Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry." - Dr. Seuss "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." - Leo Tolstoy "People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." - Earl Nightingale "There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly." - Publius Terentius Afer "We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate." - Thomas Jefferson "What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement." - Søren Kierkegaard "An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied." - Arnold H. Glasgow "Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number." - Author Unknown "If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought." - Dennis Roth "To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop." - Mozart "I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other." - Stephen Chbosky "Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge." - Alfred North Whitehead "I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes." - Richard Steele "Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens." - Maria von Trapp "I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you." - Dr. Seuss "Man does not live by coffee alone. Have a danish." - Unknown "Whatever is fair in love and war is also fair in crimefighting." - Batman "The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales." - Aesop Volume 6 "Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame." - Stephen King "There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying." - Josh Billings "Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common." - Satchel Paige "Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave." - Winnie the Pooh "Nothing is more valid than a man I meet who has tried to succeed on his own. Everything else is just a lie." - Nick Longo "When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time." - George Boas "If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." - Gerald Good "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." - Lesley P. Hartley "Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." - Roger Lewin "The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it." - William James "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." - G.K. Chesterton "Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together" - Marilyn Monroe "Life has a funny way of giving us answers when we haven't even asked the questions." - Jennifer Olds "I'm at the age where I'm grateful to anyone who can tell me my whereabouts." - Robert Brault "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy "Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere." - Albert Einstein "Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one." - Bill Gates "I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific." - Steven Wright "A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange." - Unknown "You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it." - Sarah Dessen "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat." - Edgar Allan Poe "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'" - C.S. Lewis "Memory is what tells a man that his wife's birthday was yesterday." - Mario Rocco "If you're a Boy Scout on Mars with a compass, you're lost." - Jack Connerney "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass "The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love." - W. Somerset Maugham "I get to go to overseas places, like Canada." - Britney Spears "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde "I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong." - Lemony Snicket "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." - Oscar Wilde "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." - Thomas Jefferson "I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train." - Oscar Wilde "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." - Yogi Berra "Good books don't give up all their secrets at once." - Stephen King "In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this." - Terry Pratchett "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." - Albert Einstein "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut "Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde "The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept." - George Carlin "The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate." - Charles Dickens "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." - J.K. Rowling "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe "It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken." - Robert Brault "The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person." - Norman Vincent Peale "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." - Albert Einstein "Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm." - Sidney J. Phillips "A problem is a chance for you to do your best." - Duke Ellington "Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living." - Tom O'Connor "If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang." - Charley Reese "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs." - Torvald Gahlin "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." - William Blake "Endurance is frequently a form of indecision." - Elizabeth Bibesco "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why." - Bernard Baruch "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." - Muhammad Ali "A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless." - May Sarton "You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself." - Gene Mauch "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." - Franklin P. Jones "If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead." - Gelett Burgess "The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball." - Doug Larson "Decaf? No, it's dangerous to dilute my caffeine stream." - Author Unknown "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss "Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." - Native American Indian Proverb "Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about." - George Allen, Sr. "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge "The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom." - Viktor Frankl "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." - Warren Buffett "Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant." - George Burns "'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you." - Timothy Ferriss "I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that." - Lauren Bacall "If you can't forgive and forget, pick one." - Robert Brault "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." - Ray Bradbury "An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it." - Robert Brault "A champion is someone who gets up when he can't." - Jack Dempsey "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Coloring outside the lines is a fine art." - Kim Nance "Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised." - Star Trek: Voyager "He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold." - Baltasar Gracian "Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." - Henry Moore "Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." - John Cotton Dana "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." - Oprah Winfrey "Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go." - Brooks Atkinson "Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, save perhaps two." - Fredric Chopin "Your best chance to get a Royal Flush in a casino is in the bathroom." - V.P. Pappy "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." - Victor Hugo "Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most." - American proverb "Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever." - David Letterman "It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself." - Charles Dickens "This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone." - Taylor Caldwell "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James "Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree." - Marian Wright Edelman Volume 7 "What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call." - Liz Carpenter "Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun." - George Scialabra "Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." - Charles Schulz "In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." - Blaise Pascal "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso "Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides." - Frank Tyger "He conquers who endures." - Persius "They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds." - Wilt Chamberlain "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." "Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around." - Frank A. Clark "No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett "What is a home without children? Quiet." - Henny Youngman "How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." - Abraham Lincoln "One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." - Henry Miller "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Oscar Wilde "Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?" - Cicero "Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about." - Sam Ewing "Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos." - Don Kardong "Seize the (holi)day." - Dr. Richard Rose "The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive." - Robert Frost "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Nietzsche "The one charm of the past is that it is the past." - Oscar Wilde "Charity sees the need, not the cause." - German proverb "Never underestimate the power of a simple tool." - Craig Bruce "A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it." - Samuel Johnson "Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids." - Sam Levenson "Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working." - Unknown "Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that." - Erich Heller "There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house." - Joe Ryan "Any idiot can be liked. It takes talent to scare the crap out of people." - Alison Arngrim "Stand up to the blow that fate has struck upon you; make the most of all you still have coming to you." - Anthony Banks "Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action." - W.J. Cameron "We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." - Harrison Ford "Assumptions are the termites of relationships." - Henry Winkler "Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance." - Epicurus "Don't find fault. Find a remedy." - Henry Ford "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke "I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx "Absorb what is useful. Reject what is useless." - Bruce Lee "An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." - Buddha "Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." - Jim Rohn "Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up." - Bill Vaughn "Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you." - Frank Crane "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anaïs Nin "Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you." - Richard Brinsley Sheridan "There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'" - Carrie Fisher "Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." - Michel de Montaigne "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese "Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it." - Joe Clark "Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest." - Larry Lorenzoni "What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth." - Jewish proverb "Make the workmanship surpass the materials." - Ovid "A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name." - Evan Esar "The problem with political jokes is they get elected." - Henry Cate "Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." - Doug Larson "I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids." - Robert Brault "If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance." - Andrea Boydston "Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.'" - Virgil "The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau "Without music life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche "Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird." - Paul Eldridge "Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?" - Coleman Cox "Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day." - Gene Perret "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission." - Grace Hopper "Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is." - William E. Barrett "He who angers you conquers you." - Elizabeth Kenny "My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is." - Ron Olson "The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus." - Bruce Lee "Several excuses are always less convincing than one." - Aldous Huxley "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William A. Ward "Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves." - Italian proverb "The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you." - Robert Brault "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams "We need not destroy the past. It is gone." - John Cage "Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." - H. Jackson Browne "Don't expect anything original from an echo." - Unknown "The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public." - Phyllis Diller "Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important." - Carl Reiner "Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it." - Honore de Balzac "A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult." - Plutarch "The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France "Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies." - Edward Abbey "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - David Brinkley "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." - Edmund Hillary "What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds." - Will Rogers "If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would." - Baltasar Gracian "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." - Plutarch "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." - Doug Larson "If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise." - Unknown "Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people." - Martina Navratilova "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it." - Robert Brault "Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?" - Unknown "How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away." - Bill Copeland "Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures." - Mark Scharenbroich "A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years." - Wendell L. Willkie "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted." - Fred Allen "Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat." - Henry Emerson Fosdick "Are you guys ready? Let's roll!" - Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer Volume 8 "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell "To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius "Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution." - Robert Zend "Without labor nothing prospers." - Sophocles "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill "Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was." - Will Rogers "Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother." - Beverly Jones "God has entrusted me with myself." - Epictetus "Today is the last day of some of your life." - Unknown "The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor." - Unknown "The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it." -Mal Pancoast "People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing." - Will Rogers "It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." - Andrew Jackson "Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it." -Cullen Hightower "Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets." - Baltasar Gracian "By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach." - Winston Churchill "Live everyday as if it were your last, because one of these days you will be right." -Unknown "The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen" -Sarah Brown "One joy scatters a hundred griefs." - Chinese proverb "If you want your children to listen, try talking softly" -to someone else." -Ann Landers "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness." - Seneca "A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are." - Baltasar Gracian "If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want." - Oscar Wilde "My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." -Jimmy Durante "Even nectar is poison if taken to excess." - Hindu Proverb "Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." - Chinese proverb "Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation." ~D. Elton Trueblood "I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future." - David Gerrold "Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets." -Ogden Nash "All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear." -Unknown "When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood." - Sam Ewing "Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers." -Socrates. "A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver." - Thomas á Kempis "Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty." - Sicilian proverb "Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence." - Leo Stein "God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'" - William A. Ward "The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability." - Edgar Allan Poe "You were born an original. Don't die a copy." - John Mason "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." - Carl G. Jung "When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you." - Proverb "The phrase 'working mother' is redundant." - Jane Sellman "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin Proverb "I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance." - Reuben Blades "An unwatched pot boils immediately." - H.F. Ellis "Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action." - Brendan Francis "Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." - Alexander Pope "A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works." - Bill Vaughan "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." - Robert Fripp "Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair." - Sam Ewing "Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein "It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read." - Thomas Jefferson "No one wants advice - only corroboration." - John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent) "There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen." - Alexandre Dumas "Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat." - Ben Hecht "One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us." - Michael Cibenko "Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning." - Eugene S. Wilson "Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime." - Red Skelton "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer "A great library contains the diary of the human race. - George Mercer Dawson "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein "The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way." - Henry Miller "Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks." - Henri Bergson "Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." - Anthony J. D'Angelo "The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor." - Hubert H. Humphrey "Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it." - Gene Perret "Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others." - Confucius "Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention." - Robert Brault "In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current." - Thomas Jefferson "It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is." - Desiderius Erasmus "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." - Kin Hubbard "Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work." - Unknown "No road is long with good company." - Turkish Proverb "You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." - Stephen King "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford "Never ruin an apology with an excuse." - Kimberly Johnson "Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one." - Chinese Proverb "Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly." - George MacDonald "The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one." - Erma Bombeck "If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly." - Saint Vincent de Paul "Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson "The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m." - Unknown "He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." - Harold Wilson "Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps." - Lemony Snicket "Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach "One man's crappy software is another man's full time job." - Jessica Gaston "If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." - Mary Engelbreit "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G.K. Chesterton "Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown." - Unknown "A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." - Unknown "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." - Clarence Budington Kelland "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges "I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." - Sylvia Plath "Leadership is action, not position." - Donald H. McGannon "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." - Jules Renard "Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand." - Emily Kimbrough "Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne." - Quentin Crisp "There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me." - John Erskine Volume 9 "In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine." - Unknown "Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book." - John Ruskin "Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers." - Erik Pepke "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." - Unknown "There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year." - Unknown "The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity." - Seneca "Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream; not theirs." - Dan Zadra "A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." - Edgar Watson Howe "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." - Alexander the Great "It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes." - Sally Field "The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree." - Thomas Campbell "People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped." - Unknown "Proofread carefully to see if you any words out." - Unknown "No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows." - J. Robert Oppenheimer "To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions." - William James "The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence." - Ayn Rand "If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning." - Griff Niblack "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke "To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning." - John W. Gardner "If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." - Henry J. Kaiser "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." - Mark Twain "What our age lacks is not reflection but passion." - Soren Kierkegaard "Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met." - Unknown "When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old." - Mark Twain "Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering. This is Primal Virtue." - Lao Tzu "By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity - another man's I mean." - Mark Twain "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand "Your anxiety is directly proportional to your forgetfulness of nature, for you bring on yourself unlimited fears and desires." - Epicurus "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Buddha "Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy "There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers." - William James "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett "An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy." - Spanish proverb "You live and learn. At any rate, you live." - Douglas Adams "While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln "A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." - Sir Winston Churchill "When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, then sit back and let the world wonder how you did it." - Unknown "Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness." - Marshall McLuhan "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." - Unknown "When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time." - Stephen King "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking." - H. L. Mencken "The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." - Oscar Wilde "A cup of coffee shared with a friend is happiness tasted and time well spent." - Unknown "Your life is an occasion. Rise to it." - Mr. Magorium "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision" - Helen Keller "Now, be yourself; no more hiding!" - Patrick Stewart (PBS' Tavis Smiley show, 4/23/2010) "Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day." - Winnie the Pooh "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 am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food." - Erma Bombeck "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein "A true friend stabs you in the front." - Oscar Wilde "Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art." - Miguel de Cervantes "There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity." - General Douglas MacArthur "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." - W. Edwards Deming "Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." - Herman Wouk "Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; gather the roses of life today." - Pierre de Ronsard "Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste." - Brecht "Home is having a large, loving close-knit family in another city." - George Burns "The average person thinks he isn't." - Father Larry Lorenzoni "Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period." - Lou Holtz "Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." - Paul Valery "A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk." - O.A. Battista "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" - Groucho Marx "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side." - Zig Ziglar "With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back." - Russian proverb "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain "Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." - Rachel Carson "If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." - Benjamin Franklin "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters "Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy." - Russian proverb "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - Mark Twain "Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees." - Boris Marshalov "There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds." - G.K. Chesterton "The north wind made the Vikings." - Scandinavian proverb "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." Soren Kierkegaard "Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens "Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age." - Napoleon Bonaparte "Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too." - Lionel Kauffman "Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." - G.B. Stern "Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss." - Unknown "Put a grain of boldness into everything you do." - Baltasar Gracian "A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip." - Unknown "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln "I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time." - Drew Barrymore "Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad." - P.D. East "People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women." - Unknown "I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing." - Michel de Montaigne "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." - Judy Garland "Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." - Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin] "A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." - Ogden Nash "Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray." - Unknown "A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence." - George Washington "Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself." - Lao-tsu Volume 10 "Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word." - Lord Chesterfield "The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose." - Michel de Montaigne "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." - General George S. Patton "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard "Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity." - Arabian Proverb "This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it." - Elmer Davis "If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer." - Ben Stein "A leader is a dealer in hope." - Napoleon Bonaparte "If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see." - Leonardo da Vinci "Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances." - Benjamin Franklin "Insist on yourself. Never imitate." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fortune assists the bold." - Virgil "Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein "A man's wife has more power over him than the state has." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind." - William James "Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." - Winston Churchill "Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer." - Macy's Motto "Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging." - Marcus Aurelius "Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before." - G. K. Chesterton "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." - Emo Philips "Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin." - Robert A. Heinlein "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." - Dr Seuss "It's never too late to become what you might have been." - attributed to Mary Ann Evans (under the pen name, 'George Eliot') "I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday." - Abraham Lincoln "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses "Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read." - Francis Bacon "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - George Bernard Shaw "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein "When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. " - Plato "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship." - Saint Thomas Aquinas "Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it." - Baltasar Gracian "Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." - Soren Kierkegaard "Change is inevitable, except from vending machines." - Anonymous "There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding that limit." - Elbert Hubbard "More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm." - Buddha "Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received." - Seneca "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson "Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction." - Baltasar Gracian "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." - Andrew Carnegie "Life is change... Growth is optional... Choose wisely..." - Karen Kaiser Clark "I don't know whether I'll make progress or not, but I should prefer to lack progress than to lack faith." - Seneca "Golf is a good walk spoiled." - Mark Twain "The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere." - Michel de Montaigne "Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly." - I saw this on a bumper sticker "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw "What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then?" - Seneca "Great performers are, by definition, abnormal." - John Eliot "I dream my painting and paint my dream." - Vincent van Gogh "He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year." - Leonardo da Vinci "No one who was normal ever made history." - James Arthur Ray "The child, through stumbling, learns to walk erect. Every fall is a fall upward." - Theodore Parker "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde "Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts." - Janice Maeditere "Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year." - Victor Borge "Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." - Charles Schulz "Helping your friends and getting revenge on your enemies. Isn’t this what Christmas is about?" - Pepe the King Prawn "I criticize by creation - not by finding fault." - Cicero "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run." - Rudyard Kipling "Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man." - Thomas Fuller "Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." - G. Gordon Liddy "Don’t worry about making something out of your life – worry about making someone out of your life." - Coco Chanel "The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything." - Oscar Wilde "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Life is long if you know how to use it." - Seneca "Arrogance is the banal mask for cowardice; but far more importantly, it is the most potent impediment to the flourishing life." - Epictetus "It's a very short trip. While alive, live." - Malcolm Forbes "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr. "Love is friendship set on fire." - Jeremy Taylor "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Emile Zola "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln "Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." - Mark Twain "Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese proverb "Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - Saint Francis of Assisi "A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner." - English Proverb "Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." - Igor Stravinsky "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy "There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American." - O. Henry "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun "If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton "Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street." - Elbert Hubbard "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ### About the Author Bill Dyer is a web programmer by day, a student by night and a quote collector on the sly. With coffee running through his veins, no time of day or night is safe for the unwary writer or speaker. 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