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Quotes:
Everything that can be invented has been invented."
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner,
U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage
coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit
of victory."
--Herbert Kaufman
"The best laid plans are compromised by the smallest,
STUPIDEST things!"
It's true! LOL
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."
- Malcolm Forbes
I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are
ndependent, they don't listen, they don't come in when
you call, they like to stay out all night, come home and
expect to be fed and stroked, then want to be left alone
and sleep. In other words, every quality that women
hate in a man, they love in a cat."- Unknown
The noble soul has reverence for itself.
-- Frederick Nietzsche
Yogi Berra on seeing a Steve McQueen movie:
"He must have made that before he died"
Phil Rizzuto - "Hey Yogi I think we're lost."
Yogi Berra - "Ya, but we're making great time!"
Men are like coffee....
The best ones are rich, warm,
and can keep you up all night!
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible."
- Doug Larson
After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden
and dangerous realm."
- Diane Ackerman, "A Natural History of the Senses"
In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but
the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's
generous utterances and the day's good deed.
-- Clare Booth Luce
"There are two kinds of people who never amount to much:
those who cannot do what they are told, and those who
can do nothing else."
--Cyrus Curtis
"When you have completed 95 percent of your journey,
you are halfway there."
- Japanese Proverb
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without
vision is a nightmare."
- Japanese Proverb
"If you believe everything you read, you better
not read."
- Japanese Proverb
"Every fish that escapes appears greater than it is."
- Japanese Proverb
"Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different
result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change."
- Jesse Jackson
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to
follow where they lead."
- Louisa May Alcott
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
--John Quincy Adams
A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must
hold his audience's attention. Then he can teach
the lesson."
- John Henrik Clarke
"Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself."
- Chinese Proverb
"The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires."
- William A. Ward
"Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover."
- Homer Simpson
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines
what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
- Lou Holtz
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity
not without many comforts and hopes."
- Francis Bacon
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the
illusion of knowledge."
--Daniel J Boorstin
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from
giving us worthy evidence of the fact."
--George Eliot
"Sex is God's joke on human beings."
- Bette Davis
The world is good-natured to people who are good-natured.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
- John Locke
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."
"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play
by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from
your heart."
We start with gifts. Merit comes from what
we make of them."
- Jean Toomer
"May you have the greatest two gifts of all on these
holidays; someone to love and someone who loves you."
- John Sinor
"Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great
if given with affection."
- Pindar
"Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a
misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts."
- Nan Robertson
"If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's okay. But
you've got to shoot for something."
- Robert Townsend
Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.
--Ovid
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has
ever been."
- Alan Ashley-Pitt
At the end of the game the king and the pawn
go back in the same box."
- Italian Proverb
"He who has health has hope; and he who has hope,
has everything."
- Arabian Proverb
"He who seeks a friend without fault remains without."
- Old Turkish Proverb
"Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper."
- Scottish Proverb
"I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can
beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find someone
you can beat."
- Harvey Penick
Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on."
- Tom Greening and Dick Hobson
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
"A dream is a microscope through which we look at the
hidden occurrences in our soul."
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."
- Robert H. Schuller
"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The
activist is the man who cleans up the river."
- Ross Perot
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
- Marie Curie
When the going gets rough, you are obviously in the wrong place."
--Miss Piggy
"True friendship comes when silence between two people
is comfortable."
--unknown
"When you hug someone, never be the first to let go."
"Smile all the time, even when you're sad. You never
know when someone could be falling in love with your
smile."
The dream begins with a teacher who believes
in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the
next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp
stick called 'truth.'"
- Dan Rather
"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow
where only one grew before."
- Elbert Hubbard
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill
you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and
the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and
you jump to the skies."
- Robert Frost
"We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy,
substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then
we expect them to educate our system."
- John Sculley
"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."
- Robert Frost
"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when
I really need it."
--Swedish proverb
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man/ We are made up of
thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for
us, or spoken one owrd of encouragement to us, has entered into
the makeup of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our
Success."
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much."
--Yogi Berra
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are
blessings given to us to learn from."
--Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"There are only two reasons to sit in the back row
of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're
anxious to meet people who do."
- Rich Jeni
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
- E. Joseph Cossman
"A baby sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the
adults are out acting like teenagers."
--unknown
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a
good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack
you because you are a vegetarian."
--Dennis Wholey
"It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it."
- Somerset Maugham
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true
nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?"- Edith Sitwell
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments
of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of
challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity.
It is what makes nations great and marriages happy."
--Phyllis McGinley
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on
change, you will get results."
- Jack Dixon
"Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does
not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with
the time he gains; except kill it."
--Erich Fromm
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
--Lucille S. Harper
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."
- W. Clement Stone
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
- William Blake
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got
to keep on being a success."
- Irving Berlin
"A successful person is one who went ahead and did
the thing the rest of us never quite got around to."
- Anonymous
"Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance."
- Anonymous
"Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?"
- Anonymous
"The goal of science is to build better mousetraps.
The goal of nature is to build better mice."
- Anonymous
"All scientific discoveries are first recorded on
napkins or tablecloths. Engineering advances are
drawn inside matchbook covers. Keep supplies of
them handy at all times."
- Anonymous
"Scientists are the pinheads upon which angels dance."
- Anonymous
"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a
courageous decision."
- Peter Drucker
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition."
- William Arthur Ward
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, _Essays_
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life."
- Paula P. Brownlee
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some
turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and
some don't turn up at all."
- Sam Ewig
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
--Confucius
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
--Confucius
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty
made 'em to match the men.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude
towards them.
"People are more violently opposed to fur than
leather because it's safer to harass rich women
than motorcycle gangs."- Unknown
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
- Wayne Gretzky
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
--Aristotle Onassis
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
--John F. Kennedy
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
- William G. McAdoo
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
- William G. McAdoo
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the
one I've never tried before."
--Mae West
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert F. Kennedy
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test
first, the lesson afterwards."- Vernon Sanders Law
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
- Thomas Carlyle
Lord, help me to remember: nothing can happen to me today
that you and I can not handle together.
"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word
'crisis.' - One brush stroke stands for danger; the
other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the
danger - but recognize the pportunity."
- Richard M. Nixon
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
--Thomas Jefferson
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself."
- Plato (427?-347? B.C.)
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the
ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
- Josh Billings
"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
- Publilius Syrus, _Maxims_
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at
work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them
become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Life consists of problems, living is solving those problems.
You should live life to its fullest and never look back on the past."
--Unknown
"Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams."
- Anzia Yezierska
"Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it
only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to
understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it."
- Jean Toomer
You find that you have piece of mind and can enjoy yourself, get
ore sleep, and rest when you know that it was a 100 percent
effort that you gave - win or lose."
- Gordie Howe
"It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."
- Peter Marshall
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
-Dolly Parton
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight
cats to pull a sled through snow."
Take time to laugh; it is the music of the soul.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why
the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
-Evan Esar
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."
- Ben Johnson
"If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?"
- Oscar Hammerstein
"When we know to read our own hearts,
we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others."
- Denis Diderot
"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."
- Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives
more satisfaction.
We have to cut on expenses, no matter how much it costs."
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; great minds
rise above them."
- Washington Irving
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."
- G. K. Chesterton
"I'll know I'm getting better at golf because
I'm hitting fewer spectators."
- Gerald Ford
"It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits, but I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."
- Hank Aaron
"How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control
a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose."
- Woodrow Wilson
Pain is temporary, pride is forever.
"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret
reveries that you were born to control affairs."
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you
must first create the universe."
--Carl Sagan
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be the true."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, _The_Scarlet_Letter_
Keep smiling! It's contagious!
LadyHawke
Anyone Without a Sense of Humor
Is At The Mercy of The Rest of Us.
"A positive attitude won't let you do anything. But it will let you
do everything better than a negative attitude will."
--Zig Ziglar
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by
time; it is regret for the things we did not do
that is inconsolable."
"Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control,
then you have no control."
If you have made mistakes there is always another chance. You may have a
fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call œfailure” is not
the falling down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford, American actress
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."
-- General Douglas MacArthur
"People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within."
-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
You can't control the length of you life...
but you can control the width and depth.
--Anonymous
Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in
human behavior.
If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton
He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over
which he must pass himself. For every man has a need
to be forgiven."
--From a book about Galileo.
Motto taken by Saint John Gaulberto
Support Bacteria. They're the only culture some
people have."
--Bumpersticker
"God is dead, Marx is dead, and I'm not doing all
that well myself."
--Michel leBris
"Anger is one letter away from danger."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
"The easiest way for your children to learn about money
is for you not to have any."Katharine Whitehorn
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 been opened for us.
-Helen Keller
I've discovered that what we in England call drafts
you in America call cross-ventilation."
"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated
but not signed."
- Christopher Morley
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