Sayings and Quotes




"Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than 'tis to gain honor by taking them." -David Borenstein

"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.""

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." -Buddha

"We need more people who specialize in the impossible." -Unknown

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." -Rene Descartes

"Time goes you say? Ah no. Alas time stays. We go." -Japanese Proverb

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." -Richard Bach"

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead." -Unknown

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." -Oliver Wendel Holmes

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." -Ralph W. Sockman

"Wisdom begins in wonder." -Socrates

"Live out of your imagination, not your history." -Stephen Covey

"People only see what they are prepared to see." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself." -Plato

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." -George Bernard Shaw

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." -Anatole France

"You must do the things you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself." -Harry Firestone

"Real riches are the riches possessed inside." -B. C. Forbes

"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable." -Unknown

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -Mark Twain

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." -Henry VanDyke

"Where there is great love, there are always wishes." -Willa Cather

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." -Victor Hugo

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note." -Doug Floyd

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." -Lao-Tzu

"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." -Swedish Proverb

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." -Unknown

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be" -Abraham Lincoln

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." -William Shakespeare

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt

"He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead." -Unknown

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." -Henry David Thoreau

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress." -Frederick Douglass

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." -Henry Kaiser

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." -Maya Angelou

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." -Henry David Thoreau

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana

"May you live every day of your life." -Jonathan Swift

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." -Frank Herbert

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." -Richard Bach

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." -Buddha

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." -Betty Smith

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." -Buddha

"The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?" -Psalm

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." -David Lloyd George

"Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open." -Lord Thomas Dewar

"One thing you can't recycle is wasted time." -Anonymous

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." -Robert Byrne

"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." -Ursula K. LeGuin

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live." -Joan Borysenko

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from." -Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." -Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"You live through the darkness from what you learned in the light." -Hope MacDonald

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." -Anonymous

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." -Harvey Fierstein

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." -Albert Einstein

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost

"The journey is the reward." -Tao Saying

"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up." -Jesse Jackson

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -Goethe

"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers." -Deepak Chopra

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." -Unknown

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." -Leo Rosten

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." -David Grayson

"He who angers you conquers you." -Elizabeth Kenny"

"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." -Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes." -Victor Frank

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." -William Blake

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." -Voltaire

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." -Nelson Mendela

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts." -Benjamin Disraeli

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." -Chinese Proverb

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." -Maya Angelou

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -Les Brown

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." -William James

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." -Elbert Hubbard

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." -Abigail Van Buren

"Knowledge is power." -Francis Bacon

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every exit is an entry somewhere." -Tom Stoppard

"It's always too early to quit." -Norman Vincent Peale

"A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it." -Anonymous

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Confucius

"This above all; to thine own self be true." -William Shakespeare

"Friends are treasures." -Horace Bruns

"We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry." -English Proverb

"A thief believes everybody steals." -E.W. Howe

"It takes a great man to be a good listener." -Calvin Coolidge

"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place." -Unknown

"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." -Buddha

"Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by." -John Sales

"Live free or die." -New Hampshire

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese Proverb

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Gandhi

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." -Richard Bach

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." -Michael Pritchard

"All life is an experiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail." -Henry David Thoreau

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein

"The sweetest of all sounds is praise." -Xenophon

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." -William James

"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed." -Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -Helen Keller

"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." -Arabic Parable

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -John Powell

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." -Richard Bach

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision." -Gary Collins

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." -Nelson Mandela

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." -Woody Allen

"The harder you work, the luckier you get." -McAlexander

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." -Don Herold

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -Will Rogers

"The expert at anything was once a beginner." -Hayes

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -Carl Sagan

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -Victor Borge

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly." -Langston Hughes

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." -Buddha

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." -Alexander Hamilton

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made." -Jeffery Borenstein

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." -Jean-Paul Sartre

"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." -American Indian Proverb

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror." -Oscar Wilde

"If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it." -William Arthur Ward

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." -Jeseph Joubert

"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon." -E. M. Forster

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." -Albert Einstein

"One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel." -Jewish FolkSaying

"Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique." -Unknown

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." -Unknown

"Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven." -Yiddish Proverb

"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative." -Oscar Wilde

"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking

"He is able who thinks he is able." -Buddha

"If you want rainbows, you have to put up with the rain." -Dolly Parton

"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." -Unknown

"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman

"The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it." -Unknown

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

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." -Malcolm Forbes

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it." -John Lennon

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -William Jennings Bryan

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." -Plutarch

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." -Henry Drummond

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." -Baha'u'llah

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

"Common sense is not so common." -Unknown

"Only the educated are free." -Unknown

"Whosoever neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future." -Unknown

"You can't soar with the eagles in the morning if you hoot with the owls all night." -Unknown

"The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules." -Unknown

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." -Unknown

"If YOU aren't in control of your life, you can be assured that someone else is." -Unknown

"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail." -Unknow

"Dost though love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff that life is made of." -Unknown

"The trouble with life is you're halfway through it before you realize it's one of those do-it-yourself deals!." -Unknown

"Some are concerned with who is right; others with what is right." -Unknown

"Every experience is a learning experience -- even if it is that you never do it again." -Unknown

"Never reason with what you don't know." -Unknown

"It is wise to remember that no success or failure is necessarily final." -Unknown

"There are two things to aim for in life. First is to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." -Unknown

"God protect us? No. He gave us something much better -- a brain to protect ourselves." -Unknown

"Some call accomplishment working with their paws; others just wiggling their jaws." -Unknown

"Give some people an inch, they want another inch, and before you know it they have become rulers." -Unknown

"The best discipline -- maybe the only discipline that really works, -- is self discipline." -Unknown

"Believing is not knowing." -Unknown

"My interest is in the future. I'll be spending the rest of my life there." -Unknown

" Statistics are used as a drunk man uses lamp posts -- for support rather than illumination." -Unknown

"A billion here, a couple billion there -- first thing you know it adds up to be real money!" -Unknown

"The only mistake I ever made was once when I thought I made a mistake but was mistaken." -Unknown

"Sitting on top of the mountain is nowhere near the fun as climbing the mountain." -Unknown

"Hunter's Credo: If it can't shoot back, it's fair game." -Unknown

"If first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." -Unknown

"I diet between meals." -Unknown

"Some things have to be believeed to be seen." -Unknown

"It's better to have one person working with you than three people working for you." -Unknown

"Do not adjust your mind, ... the fault is with reality." -Unknown

"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself!" -Unknown

"Accomplishment is finding a solution, not looking for an excuse." -Unknown

"GIGO -- Garbage in, garbage out." -Unknown

"Crime does not pay as well as politics." -Unknown

"Dime, n : A U.S. dollar with all the taxes taken out." -Unknown

"Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving System Dynamics -- Once you open a can of worms, the only way you can re-can them is to use a larger can." -Zymurgy

"Optimist -- an accordian player with a pager." -Unknown

"Do Not Disturb -- already disturbed." -Unknown

"AMPOJ: American marketed piece of junk." -Unknown

"Joy is in giving ... not receiving (Just got to convince everybody else this is true)." -Unknown

"Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional." -Unknown

"When you try to make an impression, chances are that, that is the impression you make." -Unknown

"Which are you? The Keeper or the Kept?" -Unknown

"All I ask in life is a consistent and exaggerated sense of my own importance." -Unknown

"Fifth Law of Procrastination: procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that there is nothing to do." -Unknown

"Duct tape is like the -force-. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together." -Unknown

"Justice, n.: a decision in your favor." -Unknown

"Fifth law of Applied Terror: if you are given an open book exam, you will forget your book. Corollary: if you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live." -Unknown

"Kinkler's First Law: responsibility always exceeds authority. Second Law: all easy problems have been solved." -Kinkler

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." -Unknown

"Sweater, n.: A garment worn by a child when it's mother feels chilly." -Unknown

"Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem close enough, you recognize yourself as part of the problem." -Ducharm

"Pay in this organization is in logarithmic, inverse proportion to the amount of work one does." -Unknown

"Government loves the working man. They love to see him work." -Unknown

"Swipple's Rule of Order: He who shouts the loudest has the floor." -Swipple

"Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful." -Unknown

"The meek shall inherit the earth ... they are too weak to refuse." -Unknown

"Iron Law of Distribution: Them that has, gets." -Unknown

"Scott's First Law: No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right." -Great Scott

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." -Unknown

"Some leave little white space in their lives." -Unknown

"Quality Control, n.: The process of testing one out of every , units coming off the production line to make sure that at least one out of works." -Unknown

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." -Unknown

"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." -Unknown

"Sterility is hereditary: If your parents didn't have children, neither will you." -Unknown

"A penny saved is a congressional oversight." -Unknown

"Disneyland: A people trap operated by a mouse." -Unknown

"Do you want me to be sincere or tell the truth?" -Unknown

"There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want." -Unknown

"The goal of science is to build a better mouse trap. The goal of nature is to build better mice." -Unknown

"Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation." -Unknown

"Faith, n: That quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue." -Unknown

"Wise is the man who chooses the path, not because all others chose it; but because he has the vision to see where it leads." -Unknown

"Money isn't everything .... just the most important thing." -Unknown

"You have the capacity to learn from your mistakes ... You'll learn a lot today." -Unknown

"Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all you can do to put up with constructive praise." -Unknown

"All I ask is a chance to PROVE that money can't make me happy." -Unknown

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it." -Unknown

"There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing." -Unknown

"All good bugs live in the wilderness... All bad bugs live in your garden." -Unknown

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid altogether." -Unknown

"Humans don't argue for a reason ... They simply argue." -Unknown

"All big things are made of tiny things; so the most important things in life ARE the tiny things." -Unknown

"Innocence is no protection from the law." -Unknown

"A good man gone wrong is usually a bad man found out." -Unknown

"Lottery, n.: A tax on people who are bad at math." -Unknown

"Every silver lining has a cloud within it." -Unknown

"Lost interest? It's so bad I've lost apathy." -Unknown

"Go ahead ... JUMP! 1,000,000 Lemmings can't be wrong." -Unknown

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top." -Unknown

"If your goal is to grow, discuss science.... if it is to argue, discuss religion." -Unknown

"It's not hard to meet expenses. They're everywhere!" -Unknown

"He who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else." -Unknown

"Oxymoron: Victim of O2 poisoning." -Unknown

"90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation." -Unknown

"A liberal is a man too broad minded to take his own side in a quarrel." -Unknown

"English are cool. Grammar am stupid." -Unknown

"I couldn't see the forest. There were trees in the way." -Unknown

"Success has made failures of many men." -Unknown

"All my life I wanted to be somebody, but I can see now, I should have been more specific." -Unknown

"Find God? Why is he missing?" -Unknown

"If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average." -Unknown

"It's impossible to enjoy idle time thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." -Unknown

"90% of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at." -Unknown

"Problem with political jokes? They get elected." -Unknown

"I have a dynamic memory. Please refresh me." -Unknown

"A treasure lies not always where one is told." -Unknown

"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through Hell to get it." -Unknown

"Put not your trust in money, but your money in trust." -Unknown

"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves." -Unknown

"An optimist is a guy without much experience." -Unknown

"Never say -Ooops!-; always say, -Ah interesting-." -Unknown

"The first myth of management is that it exists." -Unknown

"It is nice to do nothing, then rest afterwards." -Unknown

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." -Unknown

"The best prophet of the future is the past." -Unknown

"No amount of evidence will convince one who knows." -Unknown

"The hardest thing to disguise are your feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home." -Unknown

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all." -Unknown

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." -Unknown

"I'm at the corner of walk and don't walk." -Unknown

"Don't question authority. It doesn't know either." -Unknown

"Censor: A man who knows more than he thinks you should." -Unknown

"The more times you run over a cat, the flatter he gets." -Unknown

"Where there's a will there's a bevy of lawyers." -Unknown

"Programmer's cheer: Shift to the left; Shift to the right; Pop up, push down; BYTE, Byte, Byte, Byte." -Unknown

"WIN.INI : Horse with a speech impediment." -Unknown

"32% of all statistics are made up. No make that 67%." -Unknown

"The difference between doing it and not doing it, is doing it." -Unknown

"Money is the root of all evil. Send $100 for information." -Unknown

"MacIntosh: Computer with training wheels you can't remove." -Unknown

"Bugs come through open Windows." -Unknown

"An authority is someone who can tell you more about something than you really care to know." -Unknown

"You're only young once. You can be immature forever." -Unknown

"Graveyards are full of indispensable people." -Unknown

"Atheism is a non-prophet organization." -Unknown

"Life's a Ferrari... It's too expensive and goes too fast." -Unknown

"The problem with the future is it turns into the present." -Unknown

"If it's tourist season, why can't I shoot one?" -Unknown

"If you can't elucidate, obfuscate." -Unknown

"Ancient Chinese curse: May all your wishes be granted." -Unknown

"Great minds discuss ideas... small ones, people." -Unknown

"Illiterate? Write for a free brochure." -Unknown

"Thesaurus: Ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary." -Unknown

"Two wrongs do not make a right. It usually takes three or more." -Unknown

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." -Unknown

"Life is complex -- part real and part imaginary." -Unknown

"I've already told you more than I know." -Unknown

"Ritz cracker found in drive A: Delete Children? (Y/n)." -Unknown

"In case of atomic attack, the Federal ruling against prayer in schools will be temporarily cancelled." -Unknown

"Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head." -Unknown

"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up." -Unknown

"The difference between science and the social sciences is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship." -Unknown

"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." -Blaise Pascal

"Military intelligence is a contradiction of terms." -Unknown

"Doubt is the root of all education." -Unknown

"Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl." -Unknown

"Don't be humble. You're not that great." -Unknown

"According to my best recollection, I don't remember." -Unknown

"Insanity is hereditary. ... You get it from your children." -Unknown

"I'll believe in heaven when they give it a zip code and send my Social Security checks there." -Unknown

"Maturity is when you learn the volume goes counterclockwise." -Unknown

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." -Unknown

"Reasoning, circular: See circular reasoning." -Unknown

"A thing not worth doing isn't worth doing well." -Unknown

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it." -Unknown

"Success is 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration." -Unknown

"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius." -Unknown

"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance." -Unknown

"Always draw your curves and plot the readings." -Unknown

"It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth." -Unknown

"There are only two ways to achieve happiness on earth -- That is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all." -Unknown

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." -Unknown

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Unknown

"No one ever gossips about other peoples' virutes." -Unknown

"What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are." -Unknown

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." -Unknown

"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift." -Unknown

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living." -Unknown

"Statistics seemingly mean nothing until you're one of them." -Unknown

"Time is nature's way of making sure everything doesn't happen all at once." -Unknown

"The rosier the news, the higher ranking the official who announces it." -Unknown

"Cats smarter than dogs? You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow." -Unknown

"Plumber on the phone: Sure, Ill be glad to look at your sink, Dr. Wimball. Bring it in two weeks from Thursday at :." -Unknown

"People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do." -Unknown

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." -Unknown

"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the U.S. Ask any Indian." -Unknown

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember everything." -Mark Twain

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." -Elvis Presley

"To get back on your feet, miss two car payments." -Unknown

"Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised how little you have." -Unknown

"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life -- unless I buy something." -Unknown

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." -Ogden Nash

"Hard work never killed anybody -- But why take a chance?." -Edgar Bergan - (Charlie McCarthy)

"The most labor saving device today is a husband with money." -Unknown

"Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years." -George Burns

"The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them be good at taking orders." -Unknown

"If it weren't for the 'last minute,' nothing would get done." -Unknown

"What's right with America is a willingness to discuss what's wrong with America." -Unknown

"When arguing, 'tis better to bounce ideas instead of objects off a person." -Unknown

"One of life's big mistakes may not be whether we have questioned, but whether we have not questioned." -Unknown

"In earthly life, it's survival of the fittest. In after life, it's survival of the faithful." -Unknown

"The best gift you will ever receive will be one you give to yourself ... an education." -Wayne Simister

"This, too, shall pass." -Unknown

"Most problems are solved by ... time." -Unknown

"If you don't have time to finish it correctly now, when will you find the time to start from the beginning and do it right?" -Unknown

"A loan seems a good deal at the present, but becomes a rotten deal in the end." -Unknown

"It is better to be able to say 'No' now than have to say 'No' later." -Unknown

"I'm working on my second million! I gave up on the first."

"When in doubt, tell the truth." -Mark Twain

"The only constant in life is change." -Unknown

"Born free..... Taxed to death." -Unknown

"A mistake it is, managing your life by using someone else's perspective." -Unknown

"To keep from hurting anyone's feelings, always talk like a preacher --- in all encompassing generalities." -Unknown

"You can't keep trouble from visitin' but you don't have to offer it a chair. - Texas Bix Bender and Gladiola Montana"

"Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance." -Texas Bix Bender and Gladiola Montana"

"Good judgement comes from experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgement." -Texas Bix Bender and Gladiola Montana

"When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson." -Texas Bix Bender and Gladiola Montana

"Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points." -Texas Bix Bender and Gladiola Montana

"The supreme end of education is the power to tell .... the genuine from the counterfeit." - Samual Johnson

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

"A window of opportunity won't open itself." - Dave Weinbaum

"Change is not merely necessary for life. It is life." - Unknown

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." - Unknown

"Just when the world is in the palms of your hands, your nose begins to itch." - Dave Weinbaum

"Be an oasis, not a mirage." - Dave Weinbaum

"I have an alter ego, but only every other day." - Dave Weinbaum

"I wanted to be a psychic, but there's no future in it." - Dave Weinbaum






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