Skip's Collection of Quotes

[hemibee]

A former co-worker retired a few years ago and we keep in contact. Every now and then I get an email with some interesting info and other times it's some pretty good jokes. Here is some of the most recent email with some of the quotes he has collected over the years. Some you have probably heard, some not heard before. They are from multiple sources, actors, politicians, authors, some of our former co-workers and a host of others. I'll post more of them when I get the chance.

Skip’s Collection of Quotes


Excess, on occasion, is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the
deadening effect of habit.
W. Somerset Maugham

hardware [n] The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
From the “fortune†program in AIX

program [n] A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input
into error messages. (also software)
Anonymous

I’m just being cordially obnoxious.
Rod Zeller, CAC (A technique to use when dealing with troublesome help
desk callers.)

Friends come and go, but, enemies accumulate.
Jones’ Law

Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.
Kehlog Albran, “The Profitâ€

The man who smiles when things go wrong has already thought of someone to
blame it on.
Jones’ Law

Celibacy is not hereditary.
First law of Socio-Genetics

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Menchen

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman

There are only two ways to understand women and nobody knows either of
them.
Ed Ruggero, “Breaking Ranksâ€

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them
keeps paying for it.
Peggy Joyce

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. Williams

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like
worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.
Bruce Sterling

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Anonymous

Money is to be saved.
Wisdom is to be spent.
So, if you’re broke,
SHUT UP!
Sue Marino

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
Miguel de Servants

Encourage our customers toward long-term solutions with short-term assistance
and a plan.
Skip Hagan

mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambros Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionaryâ€

The word “robot†is derived from the Czech word for “forced labor.â€
Ken Hagius, IT

The three Cs are:
Conflict
Confusion
Chaos
“D†crew, River Bend Operations Department

Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some folks appear bright until they
speak.
Anonymous

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your
vocabulary: impossible.
H. Robert Schuller

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are
still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dale E. Turner

Some people are like blisters. They don’t show up until all the work is done.
Anonymous

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.
The character Annie Savoy, in the film “Bull Durhamâ€

The last election revealed a great truth: Politicians and diapers should be
changed often - and for the same reason.
Anonymous

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

Warranty and guaranty clauses are voided by payment of the invoice.
Anonymous

I think, therefore I am. I think.
Anonymous

If it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
Anonymous

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed
to me the most civilized music in the world.
Peter Ustinov

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
Anonymous

If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in
the other direction.
Detrich Bonhoeffer

Fear is a darkroom for developing negatives.
Anonymous

When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Marquis de la Grange

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in
the world.
Helen Keller

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way
down.
W. Migner

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will
do.
Thomas Jefferson

When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.
Griffin's Thought

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another
time.
Hebrew proverb

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am
not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard

A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.
Anonymous

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change
The courage to change the only one I can
And the wisdom to know that it is me
Anonymous

If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.
Anonymous

Laziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard

Two step formula for handling stress:
1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
2. Remember that it's all small stuff.
Anthony Robbins

You can lead a computer to the Superhighway but you can't make it think.
Des Waller

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Ron Wild

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't
particularly feel like it.
Alistair Cooke

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
Plato

Unless you have data, you are just another person with an opinion.
John Hamilton

If you don’t take change by the hand, change will take you by the throat.
Anonymous

SCOPE GROPE - Attempting to define a goal when you find that your project
has grown beyond your wildest imaginings.
Skip Hagan

Live fast!
Sleep more!
Leave no crumbs!
Snoopy (Charles Shultz)

P & A - Pain and Agony

There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
American Indian Proverb

If you consult enough experts, you can confirm any opinion.
Anonymous

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging; it is the skin of living thought
and changes from day to day as does the air around us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
Anonymous

 

[DaveM]

I think I will use some of these

 

[CarlS]

Some these are jewels; I will use them, too.

 

[hemibee]

This was just the first 5 pages of a 41 page document so be sure a pace yourself.


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[hemibee]

Second installment

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Anonymous

When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
Ancient Asian Proverb

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Doust thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made
of.
Benjamin Franklin

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they
should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry Thoreau

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give
possesses you.
Andre Gide

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of
men.
Benjamin Disraeli

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to
add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
Plato

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in
having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.
Anonymous

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
Anonymous

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness in misery.
Dante

If I let go a hammer on a planet having a positive gravity, I need not see it fall to
know that it has, in fact, fallen.
Mr. Spock, "Court Martial," star date 2948.9.

Formula for success: Underpromise and overdeliver.
Tom Peters

I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best
people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the
year.
The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 (!)

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Gagehot

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a
critic.
Jean Sibelius

Silence is the voice of complicity.
Anonymous

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what
direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce, the inimitable author of Devil's Dictionary

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I
didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
J. Danforth Quayle, US Vice President (This is NOT a quote, but a joke.
Quayle did NOT actually utter these words.)

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who
cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
Peter Cochrane

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Anonymous

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus

The charlatans, whether they deal in moral or in physical wonders, form a race
which is never extinct.
Martin Brewster

Make promises sparingly and keep them faithfully, no matter what it costs you.
Anonymous

Preserve an open mind on all debatable questions. Discuss but don't argue. It is
the mark of a superior mind to disagree and yet be friendly.
Anonymous

Praise good work done, regardless of who did it. If criticism is merited, criticize
helpfully, never spitefully.
Anonymous

Keep skid chains on your tongue; always say less than you think; cultivate a low
persuasive voice
Anonymous

If a train station is where a train STOPS, what is a workstation?
A point to ponder from Kevin (Bubba) Banes

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not
dare that they are difficult.
Seneca

Don't you hate it when life doesn't follow the manuals?
Anonymous

Frisbeetarianism, n.: The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof
and gets stuck.
Anonymous

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns
have roses.
Ziggy

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth
knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits,
supplies their demands.
Oscar Wilde

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already
have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
Abraham Maslow

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy ? I don't know and I don't
care.
William Safire

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
H.W. Dodds

ELBONICS: Two people maneuvering for one armrest in a theater.
Anonymous

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter
than they are.
R. H. Grant

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing
is.
Thomas Szasz

My favorite malapropism is a "mute point", i.e. one that cannot speak for itself.

Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
Anonymous

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments
of its opposers.
William Penn

ELECELLERATION: Pressing an elevator button a lot to speed it up.
Anonymous

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to
distinguish what is worth reading.
G.M. Trevelyan

Journalism is merely history's first draft.
Geoffrey C. Ward

We seldom allow logic to cloud any issue.
Skip Hagan

The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
Anonymous

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Ralph Sockman

Ah, France! The world would be alone without you.
Victor Hugo

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in
the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right
but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz

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

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise.
Anonymous

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
Lewis Grizzard

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing
nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein

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 [Last Chance to See]

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Anonymous

disconfect (dis kon fekt’) verb: To sterilize the piece of candy you dropped on the
floor by blowing on it, somehow assuming this will “remove” all the germs.
Rich Hall [Sniglets]

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way.
Anonymous

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler

If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
Anonymous

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
Libbie Fudim

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous Huxley

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order,
method, and discipline.
Montaigne

Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
John Rogers (Comedian who holds a graduate degree in physics)

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield

If you judge, investigate.
Seneca

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to
death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
Charles Brower

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless
means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Anonymous

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
Duke Snider

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
Anonymous

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog.
Josh Billings

There is one thing stronger that all the armies in the world; and that is an idea
whose time has come.
Anonymous

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the
killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the
riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are
to blame.
J. Danforth Quayle - US Vice President

Journalism is merely history's first draft.
Geoffrey C. Ward

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of
mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.
Charles Richet, Nobel Laureate in Physiology

It's not a matter of where you stand but in what direction you're headed.
Anonymous

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard

People don't care how you win, until you start losing.
Anonymous

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
Heinrich Heine Almansor

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.
William Strong

If you go into a situation with nothing planned, sometimes wonderful stuff
happens.
Jerry Garcia

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Anonymous

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because
you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear
giants and ethical infants.
Gen. Omar Bradley

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson

When professors want your opinion, they'll give it to you.
Anonymous

 

[CarlS]

A whole lot of truth in those.

 

[Bonnie79D]

A whole lot of truth in those.

Amen.

 

[hemibee]

Next installment . . .

No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
Yogi Berra

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave
a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The louder he talks of honour, the faster we count our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs
and cutting hair.
George Burns

You know the oxygen masks on airplanes ? I don't think there's really any
oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams.
Rita Rudner

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
Charles Dickens

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the
ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela [A Long Walk to Freedom]

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
Richard Bach

God respects us when we work and loves us when we sing.
The Holy Bible

Conscience is the inner voice warning us that someone may be looking.
H.L. Mencken

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the
vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later
she'll have to keep it.
Mark Beltaire

We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.
Anonymous

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a
means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Western Union internal memo, 1876

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
Anonymous

Consultant: n. One who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is and then
keeps the watch.
Anonymous

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)

Reputation: what others are not thinking about you.
Anonymous

The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.
Anonymous

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Anonymous

Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped.
Purported to be the last words of Groucho Marx

Statistics are used as a drunk uses lampposts--for support, not illumination.
Anonymous

There is no point in doing well, that which you should not be doing at all.
Thomas K. Connellan

There never was night that had no morn.
Dinah Mulock Craik

Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to
gather flowers.
Anonymous

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Wayne Gretzky

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own
despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Miller

If you are having trouble keeping your head above water, you probably aren't on
your toes.
Liguorian

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at
their own jokes.
Bob Edwards

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn
the opposed.
Whitney M. Young

Some people would not recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head.
Anonymous

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

The impossible is often the untried.
Jim Goodwin

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

Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will
remember about you.
Anonymous

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness that precedes the dawning of
the day of success.
Anonymous

Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
Anonymous

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Yiddish proverb

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock
and key.
Paul Valery

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe.
Cullen Hightower

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

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way
down.
W. Migner

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if
it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Goethe

It's not that I'm afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to
the caterpillar.
Bradley Miller

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Irma Bombeck

It's easy to tell when a politician is lying. Watch his lips. If they move, he's lying.
Charles Lyall

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means
just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
Lewis Carroll [Through the Looking Glass] (Should have been a Clinton
speech writer??? - Skip)

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Seneca

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to
their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
J. Bronowski [The Ascent of Man]

Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
Orson Rega Card

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I
am not able to appreciate.
Elbert Hubbard

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining
his bones.
Ambrose Bierce

Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy?
H. Jackson Browne [P.S. I Love You]

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.
G.K. Chesterton

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things
quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains --- except kill it.
Erich Fromm

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

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.
Edward Eggleston

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

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it
permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

You are not paranoid if they really are after you...
Anonymous

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
Anonymous

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. They can’t see the problem.
Chesterton

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner,
you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang

Don't count the days, make the days count.
Anonymous

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of
maturity.
Albert Einstein

Don't vote--it only encourages them!
Anonymous

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to
be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
Abraham Maslow

When nations grow old, the arts grow cold, and commerce settles on every tree.
William Blake

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take
him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.
Karl Kraus

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be
the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from
which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Mary Catherine Bateson

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring
when it is gone.
Roy R. Gilson

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
Dan Quayle referring to Latin America

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they
become by it.
John Ruskin

First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Talmudic Saying

You must allow people to be right, because it consoles them for not being
anything else.
Andre' Gide

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day.
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Shakespeare

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise
you with their ingenuity.
General George S. Patton, Jr.

Statisticians know that if you put a man's head in a sauna and his feet in a deep
freeze, he will feel pretty good - on the average.
Anonymous

Someday you will get your big chance -- or have you already had it?
Anonymous

This is the final test of the gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no
possible service to him.
William Lyon Phelps

Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
Hasidic saying

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough,
you fight one more round.
James Corbett (Boxer)

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be
undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues,
And there are words not made with lungs.
Crashaw

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
Francoise Sagan

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and
water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own
despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Miller

If I listen, I have the advantage. If I speak, the others have it.
Anonymous

 

[hemibee]

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are
incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.
Everett Dirksen

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate
enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it
is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
Max L. Forman

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had
got.
Josh Billings

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Anonymous

Never explain - your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you
anyhow.
Elbert Hubbard

Law...begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not
like.
Karl Llewellyn

How come wrong numbers are never busy?
Anonymous

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a
means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Western Union internal memo, 1876

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the
white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
Mildred Stouven

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Anonymous

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel
important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them.
T.S. Eliot

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do
not do.
Moliere

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to
labour.
Robert L. Stevenson

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow
sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than
any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

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

If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
Anonymous

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
Anonymous

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic
fringe.
Frank Armstrong [Preparing for Tomorrow's Challenges]

Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.
Anonymous

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
Japanese proverb

Abeunt studia in mores
(Practices zelously persued pass into habit.)
Anonymous

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Anonymous

Mr. Bullfrog sez: Time is fun when you're having flies.
Anonymous

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

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past,
wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Cooper

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
Herbert V. Prochnow

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you.
Security is the denial of life.
Germaine Greer

I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake.
Bob Hudson

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie

We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The
result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a
person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.
Robert M. Pirsig [Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok Rabinwitz

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain

Never explain - your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you
anyhow.
Elbert Hubbard

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his
feet.
James Oppenheim

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
H. Jackson Browne [P.S. I Love You]

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should
be, then maturity is letting go again.
Mary Beth Danielson

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do
what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus Curtis

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

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is
easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs [Time and Change]

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.
Anonymous

 

[CarlS]

Excellent!!