No
man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
What
we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark Twain
Home
is not where you live, but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern
Our
destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to
become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds
with our desire.
Orison S. Marden
Emotions
are naught to be tormented, for they can kill a person in more ways
than one.
David Garrison
Animals
are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable
in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people
to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert
Example
is always more effacious than precept.
Samuel Johnson [letter, 1859]
Anger
blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Ingersoll
The
art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James ['Principles of Psychology', 1890]
Several
excuses are always less convincing than one.
Aldous Huxley 1928
True
and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech
is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
Thoms Hobbes ['Leviathan', 1651]
Happiness
is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
If
you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself.
What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse ['Demian', 1919]
An
expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can
be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them.
William Heisenberg
If
you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in
the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill
Patience
and perseverence have a magical effect before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
Iron
rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather
becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
George Allen
Three
grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for.
Addison
If
you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that
money can't buy.
Time
invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving
of others.
Knowledge
becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
Time
spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.
He
who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who never
asks a question remains a fool forever.
Tom J. Connelly
I
count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers
his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Aristotle
The
grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to
love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
You
cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for
himself.
Galileo Galilei
He
that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
C.C. Colton
The
pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we
are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
Anger
is never without a reason but seldom a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
The
best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light
in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path
of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do
life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties
and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Whatever
you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power
and magic in it.
Goethe
To
love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William M. Thackeray
The
optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares
at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
Argument
is the worst sort of conversation.
Jonathan Swift
Work
and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing
conditions.
Mark Twain
Beware
the fury of a patient man.
Publius Syrus
The
man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Punctuality
is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
Wrinkles
should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
Judge
a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire
If
you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.
Benjamin Disraeli
The
ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of
finding the answer.
Thomas J. Watson
Associate
with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; it
is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
We
shape our buildings, and then our buildings shape us.
Winston Churchill
Everything
important has been said before by somebody who did not discover
it.
Alfred North Whitehead
I
count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn
and learn as they write
Augustine of Hippo
Don't
worry .... Be happy!
Bobby
McFerrin click here to listen
I
will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
There
are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
All
generalizations are false, including this one.
Why
isn't phonetic spelt the way it sounds?
Some
drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Everyone
has a photographic memory. Some people don't have film.
Puritanism:
The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
Experience
is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
Borrow
money from a pessimist, they don't expect it back.
42.7
percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Never
argue with small minded people that have positions of power.
When
everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane and going
the wrong way.
Never
underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Enjoy
life today, yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come
Nobody
can take away what you already know
The
farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own
character
consequences
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