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People don't ask for facts in making up their
minds. They would
rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion
than a dozen facts.
-- Robert Keith Leavitt
There is a great difference between knowing
and understanding
you can know a lot about something and not
really understand it.
-- Charles F. Kettering
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand
the situation.
-- Edward R. Murrow
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
-- Helen Keller
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no
remedy for the worst of them all, the
apathy of human beings.
-- Helen Keller
Time is the great legalizer, even in the field
of morals.
-- H. L. Mencken
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse
to see it tried on him personally.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Good communication is as stimulating as black
coffee, and just as hard
to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
-- Herodotus
Men are like wine -- some turn to vinegar,
but the best improve
with age.
-- Pope John XXIII
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
-- John Junor
It is only when they go wrong that machines
remind you how
powerful they are.
-- Clive James
A great many people think they are thinking
when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
EDITOR'S NOTE: I almost left these next
five out, for obvious
reasons. But while I abhor what the
man stood for, and what he
wrought, there are some learnings here, so
I finally decided to
include them. Right or wrong?
You be the judge.
The victor will never be asked if he told the
truth.
-- Adolf Hitler
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler
Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
-- Adolf Hitler
Success is the sole earthly judge of right
and wrong.
-- Adolf Hitler
The great masses of the people... will more
easily fall victims
to a big lie than to a small one.
-- Adolf Hitler
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means
he uses to frighten you.
-- Eric Hoffer
People will accept your ideas much more readily
if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
-- Author Unknown
We never really grow up, we only learn how
to act in public.
-- Bryan White
Just remember, on the most exalted throne,
you are still sitting on nothing
but your ass.
-- Author Unknown
Remember that not getting what you want is
sometimes a wonderful
stroke of luck.
-- Author Unknown
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
-- Author Unknown
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not
so absolute in their
goodness that they do not know what human
frailty is.
-- Author Unknown
A good marriage would be between a blind wife
and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne
When you have a thing where you want it, it
is a good thing to leave
it where it is.
-- Winston Churchill
There's a difference between a philosophy and
a bumper sticker.
-- Charles M. Schulz
The most effective way to achieve right relations
with any living thing
is to look for the best in it, and then help
that best into the fullest
expression.
-- Allen J. Boone
Getting divorced just because you don't love
a man is almost as silly as
getting married just because you do.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor
The absent are always in the wrong.
-- Philippe Nericault Destouches
The world is full of people whose notion of
a satisfactory future is, in
fact a return to the idealized past.
-- Robertson Davies
History teaches us that men and nations behave
wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban
I never think of the future - it comes soon
enough.
-- Albert Einstein
He who falls on his face is at least moving
forward.
-- Author Unknown
Great things are not done by impulse, but by
a series of small
things brought together.
-- Vincent van Gogh
The refusal to choose is a form of choice;
disbelief is a form of belief.
-- Frank Barron
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the
soil, and let us see
what we are made of.
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I've never understood why women love cats.
Cats are independent,
they don't listen, they don't come in when
you call, they like to
stay out all night, come home and expect to
be fed and stroked,
then want to be left alone and sleep. In other
words, every quality
that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.
-- Author Unknown
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal
that stuck to their jobs.
-- Malcolm Forbes
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because
you are a good
person is a little like expecting the bull
not to attack you because
you are a vegetarian.
-- Dennis Wholey
America is the only nation in history which
miraculously has gone
directly from barbarism to degeneration without
the usual interval
of civilization.
-- Georges Clemenceau
Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly
signaling to be
let out.
-- Cyril Connolly
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime,
but middle class suburbs
are incubators of apathy and delirium.
-- Cyril Connolly
Always be nice to those younger than you, because
they are the ones
who will be writing about you.
-- Cyril Connolly
The past is the only dead thing that smells
sweet.
-- Cyril Connolly
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as
by his friends.
-- Joseph Conrad
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
-- Laurence Coughlin
A man feared that he might find an assassin;
Another that he might
find a victim. One was wiser than the other.
-- Stephan Crane
Men willingly believe what they wish.
-- Julius Caesar
It is better to be defeated on principle than
to win on lies.
-- Arthur Calwell
No science is immune to the infection of politics
and the
corruption of power.
-- Jacob Bronowski
Never offend people with style when you can
offend them with
substance.
-- Sam Brown
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality,
the costs become
prohibitive.
-- William F. Buckley
Friendship is like money, easier made than
kept.
-- Samuel Butler
The man who lets himself be bored is even more
contemptible than
the bore.
-- Samuel Butler
Don't measure yourself by the problems you
face, measure yourself
by the problems you've faced up to!
-- Ziggy
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
-- Sally Berger
Teaching should be such that what is offered
is perceived as a
valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
-- Albert Einstein
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can
make people meaner.
-- Author Unknown
Oversleeping is a mighty poor way to make your
dreams come true.
-- Author Unknown
Wisdom begins in wonder.
-- Socrates
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
-- George W. Ball
Journal Entry #728: I had begun to think
I was going insane,
but the cat told me otherwise...
-- Tony Blaha
You can always tell a man who is a non-conformist,
because
he looks just like every other non-conformist.
-- Author Unknown
The problem is not that there are problems.
The problem is expecting otherwise
and thinking that having problems is a problem.
-- Theodore Rubin
Most of the important things in the world have
been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed
to be no hope at all.
-- Dale Carnegie
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
-- Francis Bacon
It is good to be without vices, but it is not
good to be without
temptations.
-- Walter Bagehot
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for
it will surely be yours.
-- James Baldwin
As you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping
others.
-- Audrey Hepburn
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive
evidence that you are wonderful.
-- Ann Landers
Don't be afraid of opposition;
Remember a kite rises against, not with the
wind.
-- Author Unknown
You don't need to take a person's advice to
make him feel good---
just ask for it.
-- Laurence J. Peter
A real man proves himself through his actions,
not his words.
-- Author Unknown
Excuses are tools of incompetence, used by
those who
build monuments of nothingness, and those
who use them
seldom amount to anything.
-- Author Unknown
He who is merely just is severe.
-- Voltaire
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly,
but we can't bring it to achievement.
-- Euripides
If you are not the lead sled dog, the world
looks pretty
much the same every day.
-- Author Unknown
A sack of flour makes a big biscuit.
-- "Bad Eye" Brown
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man
is king.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is
a smoke.
-- Rudyard Kipling
Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels
fastest who travels
alone.
-- Kipling
We should expect the best, and so live that
the best may
become a part of our experience.
-- Author Unknown
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in
riches
to conceive how others can be in want.
-- Jonathan Swift
You never really learn to swear until you learn
to drive.
-- Author Unknown
The time to relax is when you don't have time
for it.
-- Sidney J. Harris
You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities.
What
used to be called shame and humiliation is
now called publicity.
-- P.J.O'Rourke
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
If they say it can't be done, it doesn't always
work out that way.
-- Yogi Berra
The eye sees only what the mind
is prepared to comprehend.
-- Henri L. Bergson
The most distinguishing feature of winners
is their Intensity of purpose.
-- Alymer Letterman
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked,
and never mended well.
-- Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing stronger in the world than
gentleness.
--Han Suyin
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is
about creating
yourself.
--George Bernard Shaw
The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character.
-- Author Unknown
I find the great thing in this world is not
so much where we
stand, as in what direction we are moving:
To reach the port
of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the
wind and sometimes
against it, but we must sail, and not drift,
nor lie at anchor.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are only two ways of spreading light
- to be the candle or
the mirror that reflects it.
--Edith Wharton
Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in rising up every
time we fail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when
you give of yourself that you truly give.
--Kahlil Gibran
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment
a single man
contemplates it, bearing within him the image
of a cathedral.
--Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is easier to fight for one's principles
than to live up to them.
-- Alfred Adler
A few observation and much reasoning lead to
error;
many observations and a little reasoning to
truth.
-- Alexis Carrel
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another
for 30 days,
but it is the man who has it for 30 years
who makes a success
of his life.
-- Edward B. Butler
Everything is funny as long as it's happening
to someone else.
-- Will Rogers
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but
most of them
pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing
had happened.
-- Winston Churchill
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what
people say you cannot do.
--Walter Bagehot
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something
stupid
to say and then don't say it.
--Sam Levenson
In a controversy the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Many people take no care of their money till
they come nearly
to the end of it, and others do just the same
with their time.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A conscience does not prevent sin. It only
prevents you from
enjoying it.
-- Author Unknown
You will become as small as your controlling
desire, or as
great as your dominant aspiration.
-- Author Unknown
The strength of a nation derives from
the integrity
of the home.
-- Confucius
One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
-- James T. Mccay
Forgive or relive.
-- Author Unknown
The man with a new idea is a crank, until the
idea succeeds.
-- Mark Twain
Love is a fire. But whether it is going
to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
-- Joan Crawford
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he
will pick himself up and continue on as though
nothing had happened.
--Winston Churchill
It is not your environment, it is you -- the
quality of your minds, the
integrity of your souls, and the determination
of your wills -- that will
decide your future and shape your lives.
-- Dr. Benjamin Mays, President Emeritus,
Morehouse College
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand
rapt in awe is as
good as dead; his eyes are closed.
-- Albert Einstein
Ever notice that people never say "It's only
a game"
when they're winning?
-- Ivern Ball
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid
of doing wrong
that they seldom venture to do anything.
-- Vauvenagrues
In any contest between power and patience,
bet on patience.
-- W. B. Prescott
It takes a real storm in the average person's
life
to make him realize how much worrying
he has done over the squalls.
-- Heartland Advisor
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity
of your own mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't run through life so fast that you forget
not only where
you've been, but also where you are going.
-- Author Unknown
'Tis very certain that each man carries in
his eye the exact
indication of his rank in the immense scale
of men, and we are
always learning to read it. A complete man
should need no
auxiliaries to his personal presence.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People see the world not as it is, but as they
are.
-- Al Lee
The refusal to choose is a form of choice;
disbelief is a form of belief.
-- Frank Barron
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the opportunity in every
difficulty.
-- Winston Churchill
It's how you deal with failure that determines
how you
achieve success.
-- David Feherty
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never
tried
anything new.
-- Albert Einstein
A man who stands for nothing will fall for
anything.
-- Malcolm X
A few observation and much reasoning lead to
error;
many observations and a little reasoning to
truth.
-- Alexis Carrel
A halo has to fall only a few inches to become
a noose.
-- Farmers Almanac
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men weary as much of not doing the things they
want to do
as of doing the things they do not want to
do.
-- Eric Hoffer
It takes a real storm in the average person's
life
to make him realize how much worrying he has
done
over the squalls.
-- Author Unknown
Imitation is suicide.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance
of a second person,
hypocrisy begins.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when
he is really selling
himself to it.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits
are objects of scorn
to smart Americans who blow horns to break
up traffic jams.
-- Mary Ellen Kelly
I reckon there's as much human nature in some
folks as there is in
others, if not more.
-- Edwards Noyes Wescott
It is the mark of the cultured man that he
is aware of the fact that
equality is an ethical and not a biological
principle.
-- Ashley Montagu
There is only one thing that can keep growing
without nourishment:
The human ego.
-- Marshall Lumsden
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a
matter of choice; it is not a
thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be
achieved.
-- William Jennings Bryan
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except
by those who dared
believe that something inside then was superior
to circumstances.
-- Bruce Barton
If people really liked to work, we'd still
be plowing the land with sticks
and transporting goods on our backs.
-- William Feather
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although
I do not always like
being taught.
-- Winston Churchill
You and I do not see things as they are. We
see things as we are.
-- Herb Cohen
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't
run home when trouble
arrives, you can only win.
-- Shelley Long
Minds are like Parachutes. They work
best when open. Just make
sure the strings are still attached.
-- Author Unknown
There is nothing more exhilarating than to
be shot at without result.
-- Winston Churchill
As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always
been in excess of the demand.
-- Josh Billings
It is impossible to feel the equal of someone
who's been awake longer than you.
-- Mary Gordon ("Final Payments")
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that is there very
little about which one can be certain.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination
is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain
It is more fun contemplating someone else's
navel than your own.
-- Arthur Hoppe
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't
have to do it himself.
-- A.H. Weiler
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
-- Kin Hubbard
Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser.
-- Author Unknown
Not one shred of evidence exists in favor of
the idea that life is serious.
-- Author Unknown
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at a
rock, perhaps a hundred times without
as much as a crack showing in it. Yet
at the hundred and first blow it will split in two,
and I know that it was not the last blow that
did it, but all that had gone before.
-- Jacob A. Riis
Fortune and love favor the brave.
-- Ovid
How often the fear of one evil leads into a
worse.
-- Nicolas Bouleau-Despreaux
I've found that it is much easier to make a
success in life than to make a success of one's life.
-- G.W. Follin
Always aim for achievement, and forget about
success.
-- Helen Hayes
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it
a day too late.
-- Charles Kingsley
Every once in a while, take the scenic route.
-- Jackson Brown Jr.
Even a wise man may look ridiculous in the
company of fools.
-- Thomas Fuller
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience;
this is the ideal life.
-- Mark Twain
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charlie Brown
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
-- Salvador Dali
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence
of the
child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
-- Sigmund Freud
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone,
but they've always worked for me. -- Hunter S. Thompson
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble
a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow
I think that the team that wins game five will win the series.
Unless we lose game five.
-- Charles Barkley
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat,
and wrong.
-- H. L. Mencken
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions
by finding what we suspect.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different
breed of dog.
-- Josh Billings
Success is not greedy, as some people think, but insignificant.
That's why it satisfies nobody.
-- Marcus Annaeus Seneca
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
-- Stewart's Law of Retro-action
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
-- Charles M. Schwab
All men like to think they can do it alone, but a real man knows
there's
no substitute for support, encouragement or a pit crew.
-- Tim Allen
All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention
to
criticism. -- North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon
Ever notice that as soon as you make your mark on the world, someone
shows up
with an eraser?
-- LA Times Syndicate
Ever notice that people who think nothing of walking or jogging for
miles
expect to park their cars within ten feet of their destination?
-- M.H. Parks
It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong.
-- Warren Buffett
It may be lonely at the top, but it's sure a lot more interesting
than being
stuck in the middle or, heaven forbid, lower down the line.
-- Ann Landers
Man does not live by bread alone. He has to handle some hot
potatoes, know his
onions, and be worth his salt. Little wonder man is in a stew.
-- Gil Stern
Man is the only kind of varmint (that) sets his own trap, baits it,
then steps
in it.
-- John Steinbeck
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
-- Bern Williams
No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.
-- Lonny Starr
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that
you said
couldn't be done.
-- Sam Ewing
One of life's most pleasant moments is when your children get to
the age
where you don't have to pretend you know everything.
-- Carolyn Stewart
One of the quickest ways to meet new people is to pick up the wrong
ball
on a golf course.
-- Author Unknown
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
-- Bits & Pieces
Television is an invention whereby you can be entertained in your
living
room by people you wouldn't have in your house.
-- David Frost
The average time between throwing something away and needing it badly
is about two weeks.
-- Norman Bell
The same clutter that will fill a one-car garage will fill a two-car
garage.
-- Jo Houser Haring
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like
an idiot.
-- Steven Wright
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
-- John F. Kennedy
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
-- Charles A. Beard
Why is it that opportunity always knocks, but temptation feels free
to walk
right in?
-- Current Comedy
You can lean over backward so far that you will fall flat on your
face.
-- Ben H. Bagdikin
(Remember) 100% of the shots you don't take don't go in.
-- Wayne Gresky
