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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
-- Lao-Tzu

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep
your mouth shut.
--Ernest Hemingway

Confrontation doesn't always bring a solution to the problem,
but until you confront the problem, there will be no solution.
-- James Baldwin

There is a key which, if properly used and understood,
will ensure your success in any endeavor, the key is desire.
--  Author Unknown

Positive thinking is the key to success in business,
education, pro football, anything that you can mention.
I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every
pass.
-- Ron Jaworski

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
-- e.e. Cummings

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you
ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.
-- Lawrence Bixby

Just because you find yourself at a dead end, does not prevent you
from reaching your destination.  There's another road that will take
you there.  Keep looking and you'll find it.
--Ralph S. Marston Jr.-

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with
what you see in experience.
-- Eric Butterworth

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life.  Don't let them scare
you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
-- R. I. Fitzhenry

To be persuasive, we must be believable.
To be believable, we must be credible.
To be credible, we must be truthful.
-- Hellmut Walters

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
-- Louis L'Amour

You have to hatch ideas and then hitch them.
-- Ray D. Everson

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
-- Benjamin Franklin

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.
-- Graeme Edwards

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson
afterwards.
--Vernon Law

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life
delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your
situation might be, you can survive it.
-- Bill Cosby

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex.  You thought of nothing
else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
-- James Baldwin

Be more concerned with your character than with your
reputation.  Your character is what you really are while
your reputation is merely what others think you are.
-- John Wooden

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world.
It beats money, power and influence.
-- Henry Chester

Nothing happens by itself. Success will all come your way,
once you understand that you have to make it come your
way by your own efforts.
-- Nina Brown

A good scare is worth more than good advice.
-- Horace

Life is a mystery to be lived....Not a problem to be solved.
--  Author Unknown

Knowledge is power...but power undirected is futile.....
imagination, will give you direction to use what you know...
it is the birth of the unknown...to which we apply the known
--  Author Unknown

Credentials on the wall don't make you a decent human being.
--  Author Unknown

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first,
and the lesson afterward.
--  Author Unknown

Life is too precious and too short to sit back and let it slip away.
--  Author Unknown

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
-- John Atkinson

Rage will not bring resolution.
--Kelli Gallagher

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
-- Napoleon Hill

If you've got to wear a sign 'round your neck saying
you is.....  you ain't.
-- Pearl Bailey

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the
whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the health.
You have never known a man who died from overwork,
but many who have died from doubt.
-- Charles W. Mayo, M.D

The truth is more important than the facts.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more
thieves and robbers there will be.
-- Lao-tzu (604-531 B.C.)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-- Mark Twain

In my opinion, we are in danger of developing a cult of the
Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
-- Herbert Hoover

Self-trust is the first secret to success.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly
and they will show themselves great.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted
but getting what you have, which once you have it you may
be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had
you known.
-- Garrison Keillor

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is
good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
-- Eric Johnston

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

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
-- Erma Bombeck

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.
-- Garrison Keillor

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
-- Al Neuharth

If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
-- Anatole France

The Great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon
of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing
more.  The things that have really made me miss my train have
always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not
in the least afraid.
-- Elbert Hubbard

The most important things in life aren't things.
--  Author Unknown

Life is what you make it, not what it makes you.  You can let problems become
boulders in your path, blocking your way, or you can use them as stepping stones
to a brighter tomorrow.  The choice is yours.  Lies and betrayal will eat at your
soul and bring you down.  The best thing to do when disappointment enters your
life is to pick up the pieces and go forwards.
--  Marie Arthur Glossop

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--  A. Lincoln

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
-- Friedrich Engels

Be careful what rut you choose, you may be in it the rest of your life.
--  Author Unknown

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
--  Author Unknown

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
-- W. Clement Stone

In every JOURNEY there is meaning.
In every CONFLICT there is growth.
In every ACTION there is purpose.
In every moment of DOUBT, remember to BELIEVE in yourself.
--  Sal Molinare

In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at half time.
--  Author Unknown

The extra mile is one stretch of the road that is never crowded.
--  Author Unknown

Remember the three R's:
Respect for yourself;
Respect for others;
Responsibility for all your actions.
--  Author Unknown

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
-- Doris Mortman

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do
from learning the answer itself.
-- Lloyd Alexander

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
-- Albert Einstein

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
-- Ellen Glasgow

No person has ever been honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
-- Calvin Coolidge

Holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
-- Buddha

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
-- Agnes Turnbull

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call
failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

The one important thing I have learned over the years
is the difference between taking one's work seriously
and taking one's self seriously.  The first is imperative
and the second is disastrous.
-- Margaret Fontey

What is done to our children will be done to our society.
-- Karl Menninger

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish
they are after.
-- Henry David Thoreau

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
-- Thomas Watson, Sr.
 

Don't be afraid of life.  Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help to
create the fact.
-- William James

He who laughs, lasts.
--  Author Unknown  (Thanks to File Måire Spillane)

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad
judgment.
--  Author Unknown

Home is the place where, most likely, the people who like you the most,
mostly like you.
--  Author Unknown  (Thanks to Anne Hillebrand)

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
-- Jonathan Kozel

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

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom
that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down
on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid
again---and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one
anymore.
-- Mark Twain

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.
-- F. P. Jones

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn
from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams

It is not so much our friend's help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
-- Epicurus

The most constant thing in the world, is change.
--  John Ruskin  (Thanks to "Bob of BLTBROWN96")

True friendship comes when silence between two friends is comfortable.
-- Dave Tyson Gentry

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him
with interest ten times compounded --and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
-- Arthur Helps

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
-- Anthony Trollope

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature,
volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn
well pleases.
 -- Harvard's Law

Never replicate a successful experiment.
 -- Fett's Law

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
 -- von Braun

It takes years to build up trust, but only seconds to destroy it.
 -- Author Unknown

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes.  After that, you'd better know something.
 -- Author Unknown

Don't compare yourself to the best others can do, but to the best you can do.
 -- Author Unknown

It's not what happens to people that's important.  It's what they do about it.
 -- Author Unknown

Always leave loved ones with loving words.  It may be the last time you see them.
 -- Author Unknown

You control your attitude or it controls you.
 -- Author Unknown

It isn't always enough to be forgiven by others.  Sometimes you have to learn to
forgive yourself.
 -- Author Unknown

Your background and circumstances may have influenced who you are, but you
are responsible for who you become.
 -- Author Unknown

Even if you do the right thing for the wrong reason, it's still the wrong thing to do.
 -- Author Unknown

A child's eagerness to assist in any project varies in inverse proportion to his ability to
actually do the work involved.
-- Jo Houser Haring

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff

A hundred times 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.
-- Albert Einstein

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

A lie never lives to be old.
-- Sophocles

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize
truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for
himself and for others.  When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love,
and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses,
indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal,
in satisfying his vices.  And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to
yourself.
-- Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky

A man whose axe was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief,
look like a thief, and spoke like a thief.  But the man found his axe while he was
digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked,
looked and spoke like any other child.
-- Traditional German and American Indian Quotations

A man with few friends is only half-developed, there are who sides of his nature which
are locked up and have never been expressed.  He can not unlock  them himself, he cannot
even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
-- Randolph Bournet
 

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
-- Doug Larson

Another flaw in human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do
maintenance.
--  Kurt Vonnegut

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

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
-- Ogden Nash

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed
to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
-- Will Rogers

Don't play for safety.  It's the most dangerous thing in the world.
-- Hugh Walpole

Education is a process that either never begins or never ends.
-- Parts Pups '94

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery
and triumph; a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
-- Author Unknown

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
-- G.C. Lichtenburg

Four things come not back:
the spoken word,
the spent arrow,
the past,
and the neglected opportunity.
-- Omar Idn Al-Halif

From childhood's hour I have not been as others were - I have not seen  as others saw -
I could not bring my passions from a common spring
-- E. A. Poe

Half the truth is often a great lie.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Home is a place where, when you go there, they have to take you in.
-- Parts Pups '94

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
-- Pablo Picasso

If you find yourself drawn
to play in a garden
of another's making,
So be it.

Garden well,
and give thanks for
the gardener who
went before you.
--Prembone

If you want to have a wonderful vacation, take half as many clothes and
twice as much money.
-- Author Unknown

If you want to know the true character of a person-- share an inheritance
with him.
-- Benjamin Franklin

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always
wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Infatuation is when you think he's as gorgeous as Robert Redford, as pure as
Solzhenitsyn, as funny as Woody Allen, as athletic as Jimmy Connors, and as
smart as Albert Einstein.
Love is when you realize he's as gorgeous as Woody Allen, as athletic as
Albert  Einstein, and nothing like Robert Redford in any category - but you'll
take him anyway.
--  Judith Viorst

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
--  W. Sommerset Maugham

It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things.
-- John Logue

It's better to be 0-for-20 than 0-for-0.
--  Michael Levine

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.
-- Warren Buffet

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's
self too cheap.
-- Goethe

Keep the porch light on until all the family is in for the night.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Learn as if you would live forever, Live as if you would die tomorrow.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal
that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they
ought to be.
-- William Hazlitt

Marriage is like a three-speed gear-box:  affection, friendship, love.
It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love
straight away.  You need to ease your way through.  The basis of love is
respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.
-- Peter Ustinov

Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons
of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn't go into the mine
looking for dirt-- one goes in looking for the gold.
--  Andrew Carnegie

Mid-life crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your
clothes are about the same age.
-- Bill Tammeus

No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.
-- Mandy Small

Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we chose to ignore.
-- Sandor Minab

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is
no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
--  George Soros

One of the worst mistakes you can make as a gardener is to think you're in charge.
-- Janet Gillespie

One should never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
-- Helen Keller

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security
to be found.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
-- Josh Billings

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
-- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart
enough to know they were impossible.
-- Doug Larson

Some people change their ways when they see the light;
others when they  feel the heat.
-- Caroline Schoeder

Sports do not build character, they reveal it.
--  Heywood Hale Brown

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
-- Parts Pups '94

Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by
the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.
-- Booker T. Washington

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of
the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service
into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things
education can produce.
-- Virginia Gildersleeve

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away  from you.
--  B. B. King

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
-- Jan Blaustone

The capacity of any hot-water heater is equal to one and one-half sibling showers.
-- Jo Houser Haring

The cautious seldom err.
-- Confucius

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps;
an acquaintance merely advises.
-- "Calgary Bob" Edwards

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what
to say, and a wise man knows whether or not to say it.
-- Frank M. Garafola

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility
and the wings of independence.
--  Denis Waitley

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.
-- John Lyly

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it.
Whether he's got an abscess on his knee, or in his soul.
-- Rona Barrett

The lies we tell ourselves are more pernicious than the lies we tell others:
"I'm too busy to exercise" ...
"I'm nothing like my mother" ...
"I don't need therapy" ...
--  Michael Levine

The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person.
-- Ira Progoff

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
-- Arthur Koestler

The number of doors left open varies inversely with the outdoor temperature.
-- Jo Houser Haring

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young
know everything.
--  Oscar Wilde

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

The potential for disaster is in direct proportion to the number of TV remote
controls divided by the number of viewers.
-- Jo Houser Haring

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
-- George Will

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
-- Parts Pups '94

The trouble with life is you're halfway through before you realize it's a
do-it-yourself project.
-- Author Unknown

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
-- Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the
impossible--and achieve it, generation after generation.
-- Pearl S. Buck

There's nothing like a valedictorian in the family to reinforce your belief
in heredity.
-- Doug Larson

There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 a.m.
It could be a right number.
-- Doug Larson

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few
engage in it.
--  Henry Ford

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
-- William Shakespeare

Three children plus two cookies equals a fight.
-- Jo Houser Haring

Three things in life are hard to do:
climb a forward-leaning fence,
kiss a backward-leaning woman, and
say something clever when accepting a trophy.
-- Josh Pons

Three things that all children  must know:
who's the boss,
what the rules are, and
who is going to enforce them.
--  Michael Levine

Trust yourself.  You know more than you think you do.
-- Benjamin Spock

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our
whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.
-- Dale E. Turner

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
-- Goethe

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.  As in filling
a vessel drop by drop, there is a last drop which makes it run over.  So in
a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
-- James Boswell

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is
someone today.
-- Stacia Tauscher

What isn't tried won't work.
-- Claude McDonald

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
-- Aristotle

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
-- Thomas Jefferson

When guests stay too long, try treating them like members of the family.
If they don't leave then, they never will.
-- Martin Ragaway

When you stop spending time with real friends, you lose your balance.
--  Michael Levine

While we are postponing, life speeds by.
-- Seneca

Wisdom comes more from living than from studying.
-- Author Unknown

Wise are they who have learned these truths:
Trouble is temporary.
Time is tonic.
Tribulation is a test tube.
-- William Arthur Ward

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
-- Parts Pups '94

You know technology has passed you by when you have a power outage and
nothing you own is blinking.
-- Hart

"It could never happen here" - is that falsely comforting mantra people
start mumbling when it becomes impossible to ignore that it is indeed
happening here.
-- Author Unknown

"Today I'm giving two examinations.  One in trigonometry and the other in
honesty,"  Dr. Madison Sarratt used to tell his class at Vanderbilt University
each year.  I  hope you will pass them both. If you must fail one, fail
trigonometry.  There are  many good people in the world who can't pass trig, but
there are no good people in the world who cannot pass a test of honesty.
-- Dr. Madison Sarrat