| There is no conversation more boring than the one where everyone agrees. ~Michel de Montaigne Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought. ~John Charles Salak For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest of those is, "It might have been." ~John Greenleaf Whittier Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot, American critic and writer Courage is not the absense of fear, but rather the judgement that there is something more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. ~Emiliano Zapata Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie, Polish Nobe Prize winning chemist (1867-1934) There's only one thing worse than being talked about, and that's not being talked about. ~Oscar Wilde He who only seeks applause from without has all his happiness in another's keeping. ~Oliver Goldsmith Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. ~Vernon Law Ward A life making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing ~George Bernard Shaw Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love) ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish dramatist (1600-1681) A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off you. ~Francois Sagan If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave. ~Cato, Roman statesman and historian (234-149 BC) I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Voltaire God grants liberty only to those who live it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. ~Daniel Webster The early worm gets eaten by the bird. ~Ron E. Lunde Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more. ~William Couper Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. ~Bulwer Lytton Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine perspiration. ~Thomas Edison Far better is it to dare mighty things, even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much. ~Theodore Roosevelt Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. ~Anonymous It is not length of life but depth of life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not be too squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ~George Bernard Shaw Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can only describe it from the vantage point of distance. ~Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) Everything has been figured out except how to live. ~Jean Paul-Satre Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself. ~Gothold Lessing, German dramatist, critic (1729-81) The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge fo the mind. ~Jacob Bronowski, Polish born mathematician and humorist (1908-1974) We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known. ~Francois Sagan Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ~Ambrose Bierce Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. ~George Bernard Shaw Adam was human; he didn't want the apple for the apples sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden. ~Mark Twain Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ~Chapman Cohen 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 (1860~1925) You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Mahanta Ghandi It is amazing how complete the delusion is that beauty is goodness. ~Leo Tolstoy If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. ~George Bernard Shaw At a touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato We call that person who has lost his father an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds his impotence. ~Joseph Roux Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~ Henry Ford What does not kill me makes me stronger. ~Johann Wolfgang van Goethe The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ~Alan Kay The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. ~Henry David Theoreau (1817~1862) Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ~Aldous Huxely (1894~1963) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies ~Voltaire (on his deathbed in responce to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.) To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. ~Jorge Louis Borges, Argentine author (1899~1986) Precious things are without value to those who cannot prize them. ~Aesop We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. ~Francois Fenelon The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superiour teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Sir Winston Churchill If man hasn't discovered a thing he would die for, he isn't fit to live. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929~1968), Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963 Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ~Anonymous To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. ~Oscar Wilde Not all who wander are lost. ~J. R. R. Tolkien To repeat what others have said requires education; to challenge it requires brains. ~Mary Pettibone Poole [A Glass Eye at Keyhole, 1938] I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ~William Mizner (1876~1933) God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I? ~Samuel Johnson (1709~1784) English author Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. ~Thomas Jefferson (1743~1826) 3rd President of the United States If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Derek Bok (1930- ) American educator, University president We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? ~Jean Cocteau (1889~1963) French writer, visual artist, film maker |
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