Words of Wisdom and then Some

Words of Wisdom and then Some

  • "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
    -- H. H. Munroe

  • The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.

  • "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world."
    Albert Einstein

  • "Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change."

  • "No man is a failure who is enjoying life."

  • "If you want to feel secure, do what you already know what to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow...go to the cutting edge of your competence which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing"
    Madeline Hunter

  • "Life is a sexually transmitted disease."
    Anonymous

  • "Do not use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved."
    H.Jackson

  • "The fates lead him who will - him who won't they drag."
    Seneca

  • The other day I put my wrists in front of my eyes. I had Carpal Tunnel Vision Syndrome.

  • "We are so vain that we even care for the opinions of those we don't care for."
    Marie Egner von Eschenbach

  • "Reverence for one's own sacred things - parents, religion, flag, laws, and respect for one's own beliefs - these are feelings which we cannot even help. They come natural to us; they are invol- untary, like breathing. There is no personal merit in breathing."
    Mark Twain

  • "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe"
    Carl Sagan

  • "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
    Diane Ackerman

  • "Every man dies, Not every man really lives."
    William Wallace

  • "There are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe -- but bored. Or you can care greatly, and live greatly -- 'til life breaks you on its wheel."
    Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  • "I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
    H. D. Thoreau

  • "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
    General Colin Powell

  • Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in it's petty pace to the last syllable of recorded time. All of our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
    -- Shakespeare, _Macbeth_

  • "Love is not something you feel. It's something you do." David Wilkerson

  • "Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it." John Henry Newman

  • If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music...and of aviation. -- Tom Stoppard

  • "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." Albert Einstein

  • "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." Reinhold Niebuhr

  • "Sometimes I need what only you can provide - Your absence." -- Ashleigh Brilliant

  • Be happy and give those that you may not agree with that same courtesy--let people be who they are and not who you want them to be. Matt Hassemeier

  • "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill

  • "You cannot get ahead while you are getting even." Dick Armey

  • "The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation." George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

  • "Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it." Russell Baker

  • It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.(Personally, I think it is good just to KNOW some of the questions.) James Thurber

  • "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Nick Diamos

  • "A man woud do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault." John Henry Cardinal Newman

  • "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."

  • "The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it."

  • "How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?" Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

  • "Failure isn't falling down, Failure is staying down"

  • To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. - Epictetus (c.55-c.135

  • "Too much of a good thing is wonderful." Mae West

  • Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends, tell me where to get more wax.

  • "Of course, kick a man when he's down. It's the best time. If you're not willing to kick him when he's down, then don't kick him when he's up either." --Solomon Short

  • "There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on." -- Robert Byrne

  • Don't worry about what people are thinking about you, they are to busy worrying about what you are thinking about them.

  • "A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. Bovee

  • "The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.'" -- Aaron Copland

  • "Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified." Samuel Johnson

  • Douglas Adams: "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

  • When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something kind to somebody or other. John Keble 1792-1896

  • "To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." Elbert Hubbard

  • "When you stop dreaming you stop growing."

  • "Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words." Calvin and Hobbes

  • "Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: take a good idea and run it into the ground or take a bad idea and run it into the ground." George Carlin

  • Lie, n.: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.

  • A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James

  • "I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." Dudley Field Malone

  • Winston Churchill: "I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
  • "People love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science." --Emerson

  • Dream Team member Charles Barkley summed up the American basketball team's unbeaten record succinctly: "You're only a virgin one time in your life. You can't go back there."

  • "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate." - Steven Wright

  • If you don't have a leg to stand on, it's best not to kick

  • Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle

  • I wanted a perfect ending...Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. -------Gilda Radner

  • I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad....Jack Handy

  • "Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex." Karl Marx (1818-1883)

  • "If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred." - George Burns

  • "Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." - H. Walpole

  • "Computers are useless; they can only give answers." - Picasso

  • "A life with neither misery nor pleasure is an empty, neutral existance...to actively seek nothingness is worse than defeat...how can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointments can bring?" -Tom Robbins

  • Like a fine wine I've matured with age. We love our beer bellies and you will too." Sid Vicious

  • True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable." - Dave Gentry

  • Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift, that's why we call it the present." - Unknown

  • "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller

  • "Congratulate yourself if you've done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "I beleive I have found the link between the animals and civilized man. It is us." - Karl Lorentz

  • There's a level on which life might be perceived as a joke, on which it literally is a joke, and this bothers a lot of people. The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom." ¨ Tom Robbins

  • "I'm half alive, but I feel mostly dead." ¨ Jewel

  • "You wanna survive? Well, here's what you do. Get yourself a good fast bike, learn to ride like a bat out of hell, and pray it's not raining on Doomsday." ¨ anonymous biker, 1978

  • Psychopathic killers, however, are not mad, according to accepted legal and psychiatric standards. Their acts result not from a deranged mind but from a cold, calculating rationality combined with a chilling inability to treat others as thinking, feeling human beings. Such morally incomprehensible behavior, exhibited by a seemingly normal person, leaves us feeling bewildered and helpless. Dr. Robert D. Hare

  • "We may live without poetry, music, art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks." Lucile [1860]

  • "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." Publilius Syrus, First century B.C., Maxim 1070

  • An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case. God has written all the books. Samuel Butler

  • A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James

  • "God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself." Proverb

  • Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he." Publilius Syrus, First century B.C., Maxim 1073

  • The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter -- it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." Mark Twain, 1835-1910

  • Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship. Kenneth Tynan

  • Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. - George Bernard Shaw

  • "If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." - Stone Temple Pilots

  • "With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world." - Helen Keller

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