Quotation of the Day- Your Dose of Daily Wisdom

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein

Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
--Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
--Albert Einstein

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

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
--Albert Einstein

I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
--Albert Einstein

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

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
--Albert Einstein

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
--Albert Einstein

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
--Albert Einstein

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
--Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
--Albert Einstein

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Albert Guinon

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
--Albert Guinon

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Alexander Pope

Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
--Alexander Pope

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
--Alexander Pope

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Alexander Smith

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
--Alexander Smith

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Alfred Korzybski

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
--Alfred Korzybski

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Allard Lowenstein

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
--Allard Lowenstein

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Anonymous

Act as though it is impossible to fail.
--Anonymous

Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.
--Anonymous

Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.
--Anonymous

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
--Anonymous

No one can change another person
--Anonymous

It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline.
--Anonymous

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Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
--Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
--Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do.
--Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
--Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
--Aristotle

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
--Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
--Aristotle

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
--Aristotle

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
--Aristotle

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
--Aristotle

Nature does nothing uselessly.
--Aristotle

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
--Aristotle

A friend is a second self.
--Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
--Aristotle

Law is mind without reason.
--Aristotle

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
--Aristotle

t is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
--Aristotle

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Arthur C. Clarke

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
--Arthur C. Clarke

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Ayn Rand

Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
--Ayn Rand

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Ben Stein

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
--Ben Stein

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Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
--Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
--Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
--Benjamin Franklin

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
--Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
--Benjamin Franklin

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
--Benjamin Franklin

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
--Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security
--Benjamin Franklin

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
--Benjamin Franklin

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
--Benjamin Franklin

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
--Benjamin Franklin

He that can have patience can have what he will.
--Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
--Benjamin Franklin

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
--Benjamin Franklin

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
--Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not.
--Benjamin Franklin

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
--Benjamin Franklin

We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
--Benjamin Franklin

All would live long, but none would be old.
--Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
--Benjamin Franklin

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

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
--Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
--Benjamin Franklin

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
--Benjamin Franklin

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
--Benjamin Franklin

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Bertrand Russell

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
--Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
--Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
--Bertrand Russell

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Beverly Sills

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

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Bible

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
--Bible

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
--Bible

Am I my brother's keeper?
--Bible

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
--Bible

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Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
--Bill Gates

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
--Bill Gates

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
--Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
--Bill Gates

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Bill Nye

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
--Bill Nye

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Bob Dylan

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
--Bob Dylan

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Bob Moawad

Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.
--Bob Moawad

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Brendan Gill

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
--Brendan Gill

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Buddha

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
--Buddha

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Carl Jung

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
--Carl Jung

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
--Carl Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.
--Carl Jung

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
--Carl Jung

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
--Carl Jung

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
--Carl Jung

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Carrie Fisher

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
--Carrie Fisher

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Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
--Charles Darwin

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
--Charles Darwin

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Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears.
--Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
--Charles Dickens

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Charlotte Bronte

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
--Charlotte Bronte

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Chinese Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
--Chinese Proverb

Dig the well before you are thirsty.
--Chinese Proverb

He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
--Chinese Proverb

If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.
--Chinese Proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
--Chinese Proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.
--Chinese Proverb

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Christina Stead

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
--Christina Stead

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Chuck Palahniuk

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
--Chuck Palahniuk

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Cicero

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
--Cicero

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
--Cicero

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
--Cicero

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
--Cicero

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
--Cicero

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
--Cicero

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Confucius

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
--Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
--Confucius

Study the past if you would define the future.
--Confucius

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
--Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
--Confucius

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
--Confucius

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
--Confucius

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Dale Carnegie

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
--Dale Carnegie

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David Russell

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
--David Russell

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Diane Frolov

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
--Diane Frolov

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.
--Diane Frolov

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Dorothy Parker

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
--Dorothy Parker

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Doug Larson

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
--Doug Larson

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
--Doug Larson

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Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
--Douglas Adams

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Dr. Seuss

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
--Dr. Seuss

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
--Dr. Seuss

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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E. B. White

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
--E. B. White

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Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
--Eddie Rickenbacker

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Edgar Allan Poe

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
--Edgar Allan Poe

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Edsgar Dijkstra

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
--Edsgar Dijkstra

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Edward Gibbon

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .
--Edward Gibbon

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Elbert Hubbard

Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.
--Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
--Elbert Hubbard

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
--Elbert Hubbard

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
--Elbert Hubbard

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
--Elbert Hubbard

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

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Eric Hoffer

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
--Eric Hoffer

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
--Eric Hoffer

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
--Eric Hoffer

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Euripides

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
--Euripides

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
--Euripides

Your very silence shows you agree.
--Euripides

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Eurpides

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
--Eurpides

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Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
--Evelyn Waugh

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Florence Shinn

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
--Florence Shinn

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Frank A. Clark

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
--Frank A. Clark

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Frank Wilczek

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
--Frank Wilczek

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is the cruelest animal.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no facts, only interpretations.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

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Galileo Galilei

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
--Galileo Galilei

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George Bernard Shaw

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.
--George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
--George Bernard Shaw

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George Burns

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
--George Burns

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George Carlin

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
--George Carlin

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George Eliot

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
--George Eliot

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
--George Eliot

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George Orwell

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
--George Orwell

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George Santayana

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
--George Santayana

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Goethe

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
--Goethe

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Golda Meir

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
--Golda Meir

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Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
--Helen Keller

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Henri Matisse

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
--Henri Matisse

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Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
--Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
--Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
--Henry David Thoreau

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
--Henry David Thoreau

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
--Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
--Henry David Thoreau

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

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
--Henry David Thoreau

To regret deeply is to live afresh.
--Henry David Thoreau

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
--Henry David Thoreau

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
--Henry David Thoreau

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Henry Ford

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
--Henry Ford

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
--Henry Ford

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Herbert Bayard Swope

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
--Herbert Bayard Swope

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Herodotus

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
--Herodotus

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Homer

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
--Homer

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
--Homer

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Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
--Horace

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Horace Walpole

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
--Horace Walpole

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Italian Proverb

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
--Italian Proverb

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J. K. Rowling

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
--J. K. Rowling

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
--J. K. Rowling

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Jack Penn

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
--Jack Penn

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James Branch Cabell

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
--James Branch Cabell

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Jane Austen

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
--Jane Austen

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Jane Goodall

If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.
--Jane Goodall

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Jawaharlal Nehru

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
--Jawaharlal Nehru

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Jerry Chin

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
--Jerry Chin

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Jimmy Durante

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
--Jimmy Durante

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Jimmy Wales

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.
--Jimmy Wales

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John C. Dvorak

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
--John C. Dvorak

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John F. Kennedy

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
--John F. Kennedy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
--John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
--John F. Kennedy

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
--John F. Kennedy

We need men who can dream of things that never were.
--John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
--John F. Kennedy

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John le Carre

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
--John le Carre

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John Lennon

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
--John Lennon

Love is wanting to be free, love is knowing we will be.
--John Lennon

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John Wooden

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
--John Wooden

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Jules Renard

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
--Jules Renard

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Julia Sorel

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
--Julia Sorel

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Katherine Mansfield

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
--Katherine Mansfield

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Kent Nerburn

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
--Kent Nerburn

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Kin Hubbard

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
--Kin Hubbard

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Kurt Cobain

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
--Kurt Cobain

Id rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
--Kurt Cobain

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
--Kurt Cobain

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
--Kurt Cobain

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Kurt Vonnegut

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
--Kurt Vonnegut

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
--Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
--Kurt Vonnegut

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Lao-tzu

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
--Lao-tzu

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
--Lao-tzu

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
--Lao-tzu

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Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
--Leo Tolstoy

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Leon Trotsky

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
--Leon Trotsky

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Lewis Carroll

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
--Lewis Carroll

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Liberace

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
--Liberace

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Lillian Carter

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
--Lillian Carter

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Mahatma Gandhi

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
--Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
--Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Hate the sin, love the sinner.
--Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
--Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
--Mahatma Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
--Mahatma Gandhi

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

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Malcolm Forbes

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
--Malcolm Forbes

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Marcus Aurelius

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
--Marcus Aurelius

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
--Marcus Aurelius

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Margaret Bonnano

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
--Margaret Bonnano

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Margot Fonteyn

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
--Margot Fonteyn

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Marie Curie

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
--Marie Curie

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Mark Heath

Even the best of friends need time apart.
--Mark Heath

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Mark Twain

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
--Mark Twain

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
--Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
--Mark Twain

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

It is easier to stay out than get out.
--Mark Twain

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
--Mark Twain

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
--Mark Twain

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

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
--Mark Twain

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
--Mark Twain

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
--Mark Twain

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
--Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
--Mark Twain

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
--Mark Twain

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
--Mark Twain

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Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
--Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Martin Luther King Jr

The time is always right to do what is right.
--Martin Luther King Jr

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
--Martin Luther King Jr

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
--Martin Luther King Jr

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Maurice Sendak

There must be more to life than having everything.
--Maurice Sendak

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Mickey Rooney

You always pass failure on the way to success.
--Mickey Rooney

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Mike Ditka

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
--Mike Ditka

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Mitch Hedberg

I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.
--Mitch Hedberg

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Moliere

One must eat to live, not live to eat.
--Moliere

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Nadine Stair

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
--Nadine Stair

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Nancy Astor

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
--Nancy Astor

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

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Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.
--Nelson Mandela

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Noel Coward

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
--Noel Coward

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Norman Vincent Peale

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
--Norman Vincent Peale

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Og Mandino

Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.
--Og Mandino

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Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
--Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple Truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
--Oscar Wilde

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
--Oscar Wilde

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
--Oscar Wilde

Genius is born--not paid.
--Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
--Oscar Wilde

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
--Oscar Wilde

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
--Oscar Wilde

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Ovid

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
--Ovid

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
--Ovid

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Pablo Picasso

Youth has no age.
--Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
--Pablo Picasso

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Paul Erdos

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
--Paul Erdos

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
--Paul Erdos

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Paul Theroux

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
--Paul Theroux

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Peter McWilliams

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
--Peter McWilliams

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
--Peter McWilliams

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
--Peter McWilliams

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
--Peter McWilliams

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
--Peter McWilliams

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Peter Ustinov

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
--Peter Ustinov

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Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
--Plato

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
--Plato

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
--Plato

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
--Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of war.
--Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
--Plato

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
--Plato

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
--Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
--Plato

No human thing is of serious importance.
--Plato

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
--Plato

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Plutarch

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

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
--Plutarch

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Pope John Paul II

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
--Pope John Paul II

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
--Pope John Paul II

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Pythagoras

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
--Pythagoras

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Queen Elizabeth

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
--Queen Elizabeth

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Rene Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
--Rene Descartes

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Rex Stout

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
--Rex Stout

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Richard Feynman

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
--Richard Feynman

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
--Richard Feynman

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Rita Mae Brown

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
--Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
--Rita Mae Brown

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Robert A. Cook

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.
--Robert A. Cook

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Robert Francis Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
--Robert Francis Kennedy

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Robert Frost

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

The best way out is always through.
--Robert Frost

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Robert J. Sawyer

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
--Robert J. Sawyer

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Robert Louis Stevenson

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Townsend

Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.
--Robert Townsend

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Rod Steiger

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
--Rod Steiger

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Saint Thomas Moore

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
--Saint Thomas Moore

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Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
--Salvador Dali

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Samuel Beckett

Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.
--Samuel Beckett

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Saul Bellow

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
--Saul Bellow

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Scott Adams

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
--Scott Adams

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Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
--Seneca

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
--Seneca

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Sidney J. Harris

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
--Sidney J. Harris

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Sigmund Freud

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humannes.
--Sigmund Freud

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Socrates

Be as you wish to seem.
--Socrates

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
--Socrates

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
--Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.
--Socrates

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Sophia Loren

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
--Sophia Loren

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Sophocles

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
--Sophocles

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
--Sophocles

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Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
--Soren Kierkegaard

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Steve Jobs

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
--Steve Jobs

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Sven Goran Eriksson

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
--Sven Goran Eriksson

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Tallulah Bankhead

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
--Tallulah Bankhead

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Thich Nhat Hanh

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
--Thich Nhat Hanh

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Thomas A. Edison

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
--Thomas A. Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
--Thomas A. Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
--Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
--Thomas A. Edison

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
--Thomas A. Edison

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Thomas Alva Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
--Thomas Alva Edison

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Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
--Thomas Jefferson

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

Never spend your money before you have it.
--Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
--Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books.
--Thomas Jefferson

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
--Thomas Jefferson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances
--Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
--Thomas Jefferson

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
--Thomas Jefferson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
--Thomas Jefferson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
--Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
--Thomas Jefferson

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
--Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jones

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
--Thomas Jones

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Unknown

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
--Unknown

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

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
--Unknown

Fools rush in where fools have been before.
--Unknown

An act against my will is not my act.
--Unknown

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Vince Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
--Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
--Vince Lombardi

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
--Vince Lombardi

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
--Vince Lombardi

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Virgil

Fortune favors the brave.
--Virgil

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
--Virgil

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
--Virgil

Trust one who has gone through it.
--Virgil

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Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing.
--Voltaire

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
--Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
--Voltaire

God is always on the side of the big battalions.
--Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
--Voltaire

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
--Voltaire

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
--Voltaire

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
--Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
--Voltaire

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
--Voltaire

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
--Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
--Voltaire

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
--Voltaire

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William Arthur Wood

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
--William Arthur Wood

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William H. Sheldon

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
--William H. Sheldon

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William James

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
--William James

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William Osler

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
--William Osler

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William Shakespeare

Love all, trust few, do wrong to no one.
--William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.
--William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
--William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
--William Shakespeare

The better part of valor is discretion.
--William Shakespeare

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
--William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
--William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
--William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
--William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but not what we may be.
--William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
--William Shakespeare

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Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
--Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
--Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.
--Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
--Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
--Winston Churchill

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
--Winston Churchill

To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.
--Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
--Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
--Winston Churchill

Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk. Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.
--Winston Churchill

The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.
--Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.
--Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.
--Winston Churchill

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Yoda

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
--Yoda

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Yogi Berra

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
--Yogi Berra