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ART"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." -T. S. Eliot "An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it." -Paul Valery "The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers." -James Baldwin [top] CHILDREN"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." -Harry S. Truman "The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." -M. Grundler "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings." -Hodding Carter, Jr. "Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term problems will remain fundamental long-term problems." -UNICEF, "The State of the World's Children (1995) [top] EDUCATION"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do for themselves." -Abraham Lincoln "Good questions outrank easy answers." -Paul A. Samuelson "I respect faith, but doubt it is what gets you an education." -Wilson Mizner "Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity." -Horace Mann "I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like to be taught." -Winston Churchill "Only the inquiring mind solves problems." -Edward Hodnett "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!" -Peter Drucker "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -Will Durant "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats "He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach." -Unknown "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." -Chinese proverb "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing." -Socrates "A prudent question is one half of wisdom." -Francis Bacon "And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all." -Socrates "...children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out." -Unknown "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." -H.G. Wells "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle "It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity." -Mahatma Gandhi "It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas." -Unknown "Learning is not compulsory...neither is survival." -W. Edwards Deming "Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes "Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months." -Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book "No day in which you learn something is a complete loss," -David Eddings, King of the Murgos "No improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. Conquest of illiteracy comes first." -John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958) "Practice is the best of all instructors." -Publilius Syrus "Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity." -Nancy Astor "Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand." -Chinese Proverb "That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. -Unknown "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." -Bill Beattie "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -Ellen Parr "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. -Alvin Toffler "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." -William A. Ward "The more you know, the less you need to show." -Anonymous "The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things." -Plato "The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." -Unknown "The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity." -Maria Montessori "The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena." -Maria Montessori "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." -Anatole France "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." -Carl W. Buechner "Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything." -Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well." -Aristotle "True knowledge exits in knowing that you know nothing." -Socrates "When the student is ready...the lesson appears." -Gene Oliver "Arrogance and ignorance are twins joined at the brain." -G.E.D. "A creative teacher, like a creative architect, must begin with a firm foundation and apply principles of construction with fidelity." -G.E.D. "Eclectic teaching is knowing what you are doing not doing what you know." -G.E.D. "The only discovery I have made in my search for knowledge is an ever greater awareness of the vastness of my ignorance." -G.E.D. "In any group the most informed is he who is most aware of what he doesn't know." -G.E.D. "You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I - you can never be, for I had a mother that read to me." -Strickland Gillilan [top] EXPERIENCE"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. -Unknown "Experience achieves more with less energy and time." -Bernard Baruch "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." -Olivier "He only profits from praise who values criticism." -Heinrich Heine "Time moves with such speed that friends can get lost in the Doppler Effect." -G.E.D. [top] FANATICS, WAR & POLITICS"The problem with power is that people that have it think they deserve it."-G.E.D. "Beware the man of one book."-St. Thomas Aquinas "...the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose."--Bhagavad Gita "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."-Winston S. Churchill "Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."-Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1952) "Hatred is toxic water in the river of life."-Mcron "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928) "In time of war the first casualty is truth." -Boake Carter "I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill." -Mahatma Gandhi "The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed." -Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf "Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose." -J.S. Habgood "Without imminent threat, we should feed and educate rather than starve and isolate our potential enemies. If bellies are full and children have potential born of a good education, dictators have no misery upon which to feed." -G.E.D. "No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons." -Croesus of Lydia "Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation." -Martin Luther King, Jr. (December 11, 1964) "Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term problems will remain fundamental long-term problems." -UNICEF, "The State of the World's Children (1995) "Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind." -Henry James "Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace." -Albert Schweitzer "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." -David Friedman "The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." -Joseph Heller, Catch-22 "The first casualty when war comes is truth." -Hiram Johnson "The great danger...in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen." -Bishop John Shelby Spong "The great masses of the people...will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. -Adolph Hitler "The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." -George Hyman Rickover "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. " -Edmond Burke "The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky." -Solomon Short "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." -Thomas Jefferson "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -H.L. Mencken "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -Bertrand Ruseell "There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all other." -Milton R, Sapirstein "There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is." -Isaac Bashevis Singer "Threats don't work with the person who's got nothing to lose." -Maduro Ash "To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? -W. H. Auden, Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier "War is based on deception." -Sun Tzu "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 "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." -George Bernard Shaw "Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much." -Walter Lippman "The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood." -Arthur Powell Davies "Only the ignorant are sure they are right and only the fearful lack humility." -G.E.D. [top] HUMANITY"All man can betray is his conscience." -Joseph Conrad "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." -Galileo Galilei "Every man I meet is in some way my superior." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."-William James "A person who trusts no one can't be trusted." -Jerome Blattner "Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." -John G. Diefendbaker "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." -Margaret Thatcher "Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost." -Arthur Shopenhauer "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." -Marcus Aurelius "All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin." -Lord Byron "Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." -Nathaniel Hawthorne "Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." -Oscar Levant "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see." -John Burroughs "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." -John Galsworthy "If you can't return a favor, pass it on." -Louise Brown "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -Thomas Paine "Hatred is toxic water in the river of life."-Mcron "Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven." -Yiddish proverb "Give more than take." -Anthony J. D'Engelo, The College Blue Book "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!" -Patrick Henry "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." -Samuel Johnson "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." -Albert Schweitzer "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." -Abraham Lincoln "Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person." -Mark Twain "Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners." -H. Jackson Browne, P.S. I Love You "It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help." -Judith S. Marin "Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both." - Eleanor Roosevelt "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness is thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." -Lao Tzu "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience." -George Washington "Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by." -Carl Sandburg "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." -John F. Kennedy "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." -Helen Keller "Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." -Alexander Hamilton "Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead "One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence." -Diogene Laertius, Zeno "Real knowledge is to know the extend of one's ignorance." -Confucius "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." -Mark Twain "The most important things in life aren't things." -Anthony J. D'Angel0, The College Blue Book "The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind." -John Allston "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." -Unknown "The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth." -Mohammed Ali "The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention." -Anonymous "The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play." -Arnold Toynbee "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." -H. L. Mencken "There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes." -William Bennett "There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "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, Hamlet "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." -Sir James Barrie "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." -Bertrand Russell "Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind." -Henry James "Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace." -Albert Schweitzer "When it's all over, it's not who you were...it's whether you made a difference." -Bob Dole "When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side." -Francis Cardinal Spellman "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." -Old Indian saying "For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others." -Beauty Tips by Audrey Hepburn [top] LOVE"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire." -La Rochefoucald "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind Sand and Stars (1939) "Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice." -Nora Roberts "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give - which is everything." -Unknown "Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them." -Ogden Nash "Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." -Dinah Shore "You are what you love, not what loves you." -Adam Dubowsky [top] MOTIVATION"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do for themselves." -Abraham Lincoln "Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."-Vanilla Sky (movie) 2002 "Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." -David Lloyd George "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." -James B. Conant "A good rest is half the work." -Yugoslav Proverb "I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution." -Werner von Braun "If you get up more times than you fall you will make it through." -Chinese proverb "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -Lao-Tsu, The Way of Lao-Tsu "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz "Action is the antidote to despair." -Joan Baez "There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work." -Calvin Coolidge "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor des the body." -Seneca "The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." -Louis E. Boone "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -Will Rogers "Failure to prepare is preparing to fail," -Unknown "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." -George Bernard Shaw "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." -Confucius "He who has never failed somewhere...that man cannot be great." -Herman Melville "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes." -Scott Adams "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Sir Winston Churchill "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been!'" -John Greenleaf Whittier "Fortune favors the bold," -Virgil "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience," -Dr. Laurence J. Peter "A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it." - Unknown "As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do." -Zachary Scott "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln "If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed." -Chinese proverb "It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has one, compared to what he might have done." -Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life (1770) "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." -G. C. Lichtenberg "I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." -Abraham Lincoln "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them." -Mark Twain "Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking." -J.C. Watts "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." -Bernard Berenson "I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Stephen Leacock "I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." -Oliver W. Holmes "Adversity makes men..."-Victor Marie Hugo "It matters not what goal you seek its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week to get results or roses." -Edgar Guest "It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong." -Abraham Lincoln "It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." -Unknown "It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop have ideas." -Unknown "It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts." -Millard Fuller "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience." -George Washington "Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability." -Flower A. Newhouse "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present." -Roger Babson "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself." -Alfred Sheinwold "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." -Soren Kierkegaard "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." -Josh Billings "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." -Danny Kaye "Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." -Lillian Dickson "Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up." -Unknown "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." -Seneca "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood....Make big plans...aim high in hope and work." -Daniel H. Burnham "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 "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent." -Calvin Coolidge "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." -Henry Ford "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." -Hannah Moore "One man scorned and covered with scars will strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this." -Cervantes, The Impossible Dream "One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." -Thomas Fuller "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -Robert F. Kennedy "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison "People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it." -Howard W. Newton "Practice is the best of all instructors." -Publilius Syrus "Procrastination is the thief of time." -Edward Young "Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." -Pamela Vaull Starr "Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it." -Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book "Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down." -Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book "Someday is not a day of the week." -Anonymous "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent," -Napoleon "The beginning is the most important part of the work." -Plato, The Republic "The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm." -Fred Dehner "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." -Abraham Lincoln "The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others." -Anonymous "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." -Vince Lombardi "The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." -Flora Whittemore "The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed." -Nelson Boswell "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -William James "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." -Robert G. Ingersoll "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." -David Russell "The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet." -Lao Tzu "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." -E. J. Phelps "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." -Chinese Proverb "The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed." -Lloyd Jones "The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass." -Unknown "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." -Nike advertisement "The only one who can tell you "you can't" is you. And you don't have to listen." -Nike advertisement "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." -Vidal Sassoon "The only real failure in life is one not learned from." -Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book "The only real failure in life is the failure to try." -Unknown "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." -George Bernard Shaw "The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves." -Garth Henrichs "The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." -Harold Taylor "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." -Unknown "The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going." -Unknown "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." -Franklin D, Roosevelt "There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile." -Anonymous "There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment." -Norman Vincent Peale "Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." -Art Linkletter "Think you can, think you can't, you are RIGHT!!!" -Rodolfo Tellez "Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way." -Dr Seuss "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken "Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that san best." -Henry VanDyke "Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically." -Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality "We can spend our whole lives underachieving." -Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality "We have forty million reasons for failure, not a single excuse." -Rudyard Kipling "What does not destroy me, makes me strong." -Friedrich Nietzsche "Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows." -Michael Landon "What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as we can. We should take pride in that." -Victor Kiam "When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." -Alexander Graham Bell "While we are postponing, life speeds by." -Seneca "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." -Beverly Sills "You may delay, but time will not." -Benjamin Franklin [top] PHILOSOPHY"When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth." -George Bernard Shaw "A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise." -Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928) "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers." -William James "To philosophize is to doubt." -Montaigne "Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier." -Charles F. Kettering [top] PROBLEM SOLVING"The finger of blame doesn't point to solutions."-G. E. D "It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses." -William Arthur Ward "It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe." -Unknown "The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better." -Robert P. Vanderpoel "Whatever advice you give, be brief." -Horace "There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." -Ansel Adams "Thought is a friend that only visits when mind is not otherwise occupied. Media is jealous of Thought, knows he is shy, and does its best to monopolize all of mind's free time." -G.E.D. [top] QUIPS"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -Douglas Adams "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." -Harry S. Truman "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "I am not young enough to know everything." -Oscar Wilde "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of." -Burt Bacharach "After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done." - Unknown "He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot." -Unknown "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." -Marshall McLuhan "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." -Ashleigh "If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say." -Unknown "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." -Peter Benchley "A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." -Howard Scott "A single fact can spoil a good argument." -Anonymous "An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out." -Will Rogers "Gray hair is God's graffiti." -Bill Cosby "I used to be Snow White - but I drifted." -Mae West "If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong land." -Anonymous "Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision? -Marilyn Monroe "Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused." -Unknown "In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take." -Adlai E. Stevenson "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing." -Redd Foxx "It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way." -Anonymous "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." -Groucho Marx "Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain." -Lily Tomlin "Many a man's tongue broke his nose." -Samus MacManus "Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it." -Seymore Cray "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." -Woody Allen "My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car." -Larry Hagman "My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said." -Anonymous "Natives who beat drums of drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to brake up traffic jams." -Mary Ellen Kelly "Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference." -Anonymous "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level." -Quentin Crisp "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -Mark Twain "Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some." -Alfred Hitchcock "Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant." -Anonymous "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." -W. C. Fields "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." -Winston Churchill "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." -Robert Frost "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." -Casey Stengal "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life "The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well," -Joe Ancis "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." -Oscar Wilde "The problem with political jokes is they get elected." -Henry Cate, VII "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 "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." -Hubert H. Humphrey "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." -Rita Mae Brown "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." -Franklin P. Jones "The words you speak today should be soft and tender...for tomorrow you may have to eat them." -Unknown "There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting." -Mark Twain "'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt." -Samuel Johnson "To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so." -Unknown "Too often we...enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -John F, Kennedy "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." -Jeff Marder "When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth." -George Bernard Shaw "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." -P. J. O'Rourke "When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty." -Theodore Roosevelt "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour." That's relativity. -Albert Einstein "When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. -Harry S. Truman "Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried." -Mae West "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." -Mark Twain "While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass." -President Lyndon Johnson "Why is it when we talk to God we're praying - but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?" -Lily Tomlin "Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially the legal kind." -Kay Ingram "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." -Timothy Leary "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." -"Ziggy" "You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. " -Rita Mae Brown "Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts." -Wayne H "Advice to a golfer - "The most important club in your bag is humility. If you don't carry it in your bag you will certainly stumble over it on the course." -G.E.D. "Easy reading is damned hard writing." -Nathaniel Hawthorne "Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." -P.J. O'Rourke "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." -Alvin Toffler "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." -John Locke "These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves." -Gilbert Highet "You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I - you can never be, for I had a mother that read to me." -Strickland Gillilan "Easy reading is damned hard writing." -Nathaniel Hawthorne [top] READING"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." -P.J. O'Rourke "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." -Alvin Toffler "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." -John Locke "These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves." -Gilbert Highet "You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I - you can never be, for I had a mother that read to me." -Strickland Gillilan "Easy reading is damned hard writing." -Nathaniel Hawthorne [top] RESEARCH"It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect." -Jacob Bigelow "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." -Wilson Mizner "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." -Albert Szent-Gyorgi "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." -Albert Einstein "If we know what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -Albert Einstein "Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." -Werner von Braun "It is the theory that decides what we can observe." -Albert Einstein "It is all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory. -French management saying "No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated." -Ellen Glasgow "The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." -Arthur Koestler "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." -Oscar Wilde "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -Albert Einstein "The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -Marcel Proust "There are but a few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity." -George Sarton, History of Science "There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tealeaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as 'a complete waste of time.'" -Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future "There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge...observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination." -Denis Diderot "Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind." -Louis Pasteur "Within the problem lies the solution." -Milton Katselas "You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment." -Alvin Toffler [top] SPEECHES"Be sincere; be brief; be seated." -Franklin D. Roosevelt [top] TRUISM"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."-Vanilla Sky (movie) 2002 "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -Howard Aiken "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -Arthur Shopenhauer "Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain "Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much." -Robert Greenleaf "No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." -Sam Rayburn "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." -H. G. Wells "Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." -Samuel Ullman "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." -Anonymous "Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about." -Sam Ewing "One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering." -Ida Scott Taylor "One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop." -G. Weilacher "People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it." -Howard W. Newton "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -Ronald Reagan "Prejudice is the child of ignorance." -Hazlitt "Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart." -Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." Herman Cain "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent," -Napoleon "That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly." -Unknown "To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have." -Unknown "To generalize is to be an idiot." -William Blake "To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart." -Bob Allisat "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Sometimes it takes something small to let you know you have arrived, like the salty smell before the ocean comes into sight or the patter of little feet that announces the grandchildren at your front door." -G.E.D. "Quotables are simply articulate observations of the obvious." -G.E.D. [top] |