| Quote | Origin |
|---|
 "There’s no way to fool-proof the world. You cannot out-engineer crazy." |
Jon Stewart |
| "They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." |
Carl Sagan |
| "Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid." |
Goethe |
| "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." |
from "The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe" by Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| "Life will not provide what you expect or want. This is not a bad thing. Although Murphy's Law and its corollaries are true, they are the very reason that life is worth living. The beauty is in the randomness, the unpredictability, and the grace with which you accept it." |
Glen Phillips |
| Unix is user friendly, it just has a selective group of friends. |
Unknown |
| "When a distinguished and elderly scientist says something is possible, he is almost certainly correct; when he says something is impossible he is very probably wrong." |
Arthur C. Clarke |
| "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little past them." |
Arthur C. Clarke |
| "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." |
Arthur C. Clarke |
| Out of my mind. Back in five minutes. |
Unknown |
| "Nothing exists but atoms and empty space. All else is opinion." |
Max Planck |
| "Verbing weirds language." |
Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes |
| "The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open." |
Frank Zappa |
| "Not all who wander are lost" |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
| "Life is like toilet paper: Long and useful." |
Steve Vesely, who didn't get to finish his roll |
| "No matter where you go, there you are." |
from "Buckaroo Bonzai" |
| "Laugh it up, Fuzzball!" |
H. Solo |
| "We apologize for the inconvenience" |
God's Final Message to His creation |
| Time is an illusion, Lunchtime doubly so. |
Unknown |
| "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." |
Douglas Adams |
| The other day, we had a bomb scare here. Of course, the bomb squad had to be called out to investigate, which in turn brought the news crews. In the local paper the next day, there was a picture of a bomb squad member, wearing a shirt that read: "I am a bomb technician. If you see me running, try to keep up!" |
Unknown |
| I don't care if it rains or freezes long as I have my plastic Jesus riding on the dashboard of my car. Through my trials and tribulations and my travels through the nations, with my plastic Jesus I'll go far. |
Unknown |
| "If you pray hard enough, you can make water run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!" |
Robert A. Heinlein |
| We are Dan Quayle of Borg- U whill bea azzimileighted. |
Unknown |
| Chandler of Borg: "Could I _be_ more assimilated?" |
Unknown |
| Stroustrup of Borg: Functional programming is irrelevant. You will be instantiated. |
Unknown |
| We are Homer of Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimmm... Mmmmmm Donuts. |
Unknown |
| Yoda of Borg are we: Futile is resistance. Assimilate you, we will. |
Unknown |
| We are Fudd of Borg: Pwepawre to be aswimiwated. |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why is it that when you transport something by car it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why do people who know the least know it the loudest? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why is the word abbreviation so long? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why can't you tickle your self? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why do they report power outages on TV? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why do restaurants have signs that say, "Braille menus upon request"? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor but book publishers aren't afraid to have a Chapter 11? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injection? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: When companies ship styrofoam, what do they pack it in? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their picket signs? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: When it rains, why don't sheep shrink? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: When you choke a smurf, what color does it turn? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: What's another word for thesaurus? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Would a fly without wings be called a walk? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Will Kryptonite hurt a supermodel? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If nothing ever sticks to teflon, how do they make teflon stick to the pan? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their lights off? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If somoeone with multiple personalities threatens to kill themself, is it considered a hostage situation? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If you throw a cat out a car window, is that kitty litter? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Does the Postmaster General need a stamp of approval? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: How can there be self-help "groups"? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: You know how most packages say "Open here". What is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance? And why is it bright orange? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Is it possible to be totally partial? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Can you be a closet claustrophobic? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Can fat people go skinny-dipping? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Should vegetarians eat animal crackers? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow? Only to be troubled and insecure? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Is there another word for synonym? |
Unknown |
| Ponder This: Isn't is a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"? |
Unknown |
| A mystic is someone who wants to understand the universe, but is too lazy to study physics. |
Unknown |
| "Free your mind and your ass will follow." |
P-Funk |
| "I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details." |
Einstein |
| "When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another when your boss is away and you get twice as much done." |
Daniel B. Luten |
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Unknown |
| Cum homine de cano debeo congredi. (Gotta see a man about a dog.) |
Unknown |
| "Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic non-violents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that." |
John Lennon, September 1980 |
| It's good to have an open mind, as long as it's not so open your brain falls out and gets eaten by a pack of flesh-crazed rabbits. |
Unknown |
| "Imagination is more important than knowledge." |
Albert Einstein |
| "Oh no, not again." |
A bowl of petunias on it's way to certain death. |
| I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather did, not screaming like the rest of the people that were in his car. |
Unknown |
| There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are `Why are people born?' `Why do they die?' `Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?' |
Unknown |
| "Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." |
Arthur realising that he's in a certain death situation with a supernova bomb that is shaped like a cricket ball. |
| "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." |
One of the laws of computers and programming revealed. |
| "They are able because they think they are able." |
Virgil |
| "Those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything." |
George Bernard Shaw |
| "Believe those who are seeking the truth; Doubt those who find it." |
Andre Gide |
| "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." |
George Eliot |
| "Monkey see / monkey do / I'd rather be / dead than cool." |
Kurt Cobain, "Stay Away" |
| "If you can't find a partner use a wooden chair." |
Elvis Presley, "Jailhouse Rock" |
| "Know me before you kill what I want to be" |
Toad the Wet Sprocket, "Know Me" |
| "Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness, and cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty ... just like me." |
The Smashing Pumpkins, "Zero" |
| "Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove almost anything that's even remotely true. Facts, schmacts!" |
Homer J. Simpson |
| "It sucks me in when your aloof / It sucks me in, it sucks it works / I guess it's cool to be alone." |
Ben Folds Five, "Battle of Who Could Care Less" |
| My Go this amn keyboar oesn't have any 's. |
Unknown |
| Life is like a simile. |
Unknown |
| "I believe deeply in foolishness. But not exclusively." |
Actor, writer and comedian STEVE MARTIN. |
| "If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." |
Nietzsche |
| Ponder This: "What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?" |
Bertolt Brecht |
| "Put your hand inside the puppet head" |
They Might Be Giants, "Puppet Head" |
| "When you're following an angel, does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?" |
They Might Be Giants |
| Commonsense is not that common! |
Unknown |
| "Make a little birdhouse in your soul" |
They Might Be Giants, "Birdhouse In Your Soul" |
| "I'm your only friend, I'm not your only friend, but I'm a little glowing friend, but really I'm not actually your friend but I am" |
They Might Be Giants, "Birdhouse In Your Soul" |
| "Ah but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now" |
Bob Dylan |
| You may not get to win. The question is, 'Did you fight?' |
Unknown |
| "The one who is good at shooting does not hit the center of the target" |
Zen Saying |
| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." |
Pablo Picasso |
| 42 |
Unknown |
| "After everything is said and done . . . there's nothing left to say or do." |
Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins |
| How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? |
Unknown |
| "When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber" |
George Carlin |
| "I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars." |
George Carlin |
| "If the police never find it, is it still a clue?" |
George Carlin |
| "Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at that moment they're not actually dying." |
George Carlin |
| "So far, this is the oldest I've been" |
George Carlin |
| "Next time they give you all that civic bullsh!t about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election." |
George Carlin |
| "If there really are multiple universes, what do they call the thing they're all a part of?" |
George Carlin |
| "In the expression topsy-turvy, what exactly is meant by turvy?" |
George Carlin |
| "People on a diet should have a salad dressing called '250 Islands'" |
George Carlin |
| "If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?" |
George Carlin |
| "Everything beeps now." |
George Carlin |
| "Griddle cakes, pancakes, hotcakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?" |
George Carlin |
| "An art thief is a man who takes pictures" |
George Carlin |
| 'Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook the stuff?' |
George Carlin |
| 'The word "bipartisan" usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.' |
George Carlin |
| "It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges." |
John Maynard Keynes |
| "Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!" - translated: "If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!" |
Unknown |
| I do not look to rock musicians for moral and spiritual guidance for the same reason that I do not look to clergymen for three chords and a 4/4 beat. |
Unknown |
| If you drink, don't park. Accidents cause people. |
Unknown |
| Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings... They did it by killing all those who opposed them. |
Unknown |
| "Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself." |
Rita Mae Brown |
| "Once a child has experienced the central event on the child's calendar of bliss - Halloween - and learned that there is such a thing as a free lunch after all, and that it is 95 percent sugar, the sheer goodness of life becomes a given." |
George Will, 24 December 1995 |
| Purdum is the 25,201st most popular last name (surname) in the United States; frequency is 0.000%; percentile is 80.146 [SourceCBN] |
Unknown |
| "Now all restaurants are Taco Bell" |
from Demolition Man |
| "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." |
Charles Babbage |
| A television may insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer. |
Unknown |
| "Who is more foolish-the fool or the fool who follows him?" |
Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars" |
| "Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." |
Carl Zwanzig |
| "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." |
Albert Einstein |
| Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. |
Unknown |
| "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." |
Edward P. Tryon |
| "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." |
John Andrew Holmes |
| "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it." |
Max Frisch |
| "The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest." |
Kilgore Trout |
| "I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." |
Woody Allen |
| "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." |
Douglas Adams |
| "The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing." |
William J. Broad |
| "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." |
Rich Cook |
| "There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for." |
Fred Hoyle |
| "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." |
Ray Bradbury |
| "My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed." |
Christopher Morley |
| "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." |
Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes" |
| "Listen here, three eyes, don't try to out-weird me. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." |
Zaphod Beeblebrox (Douglas Adams) |
| "1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. / 2. From discord, find harmony. / 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." |
Albert Einstein, three rules of work |
| "The world is its own magic." |
Shunryu Suzuki |
| "The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." |
Carl Jung |
| 'The "silly question" is the first intimation of some totally new development.' |
Alfred North Whitehead |
| "I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be." |
Coretta Scott King |
| "Don't listen to what they say. Go see." |
Chinese Proverb |
| "Fear always springs from ignorance." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth." |
Thich Nhat Hanh |
| "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." |
Dan Quayle |
| "We are here, and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine." |
H. L. Mencken |
| Vegetarians eat vegetables - Beware of humanitarians! |
Unknown |
| Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars, and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint, and he has to touch it. |
Unknown |
| "Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs." |
Lily Tomlin |
| "All we are is the sum of all we have thought." |
Dhammapada |
| "The -Guide- is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate." |
Douglas Adams, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| "Change'll happen whether we are still or moving." |
Toad the Wet Sprocket |
| "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult." |
Seneca |
| "Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it...or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what you teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." |
the Buddha, ca. 6th cent BC |
| "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." |
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| "Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends." |
Woody Allen |
| "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again." |
F. P. Jones |
| 'Q. What do you get when you cross the "Atlantic" with the "Titanic?" / A. Halfway!' |
Fozzy Bear, The Muppet Show |
| "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." |
Groucho Marx |
| Atheism is a non-prophet organization. |
Unknown |
| Multitasking - screwing up several things at once. |
Unknown |
| Always remember to be like a duck... calm and collected on the top but paddling furiously underneath... |
Unknown |
| "Music requires thinking with your heart and feeling with your brain." |
George Szell |
| "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." |
Ronald Reagan |
| "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "History: An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." |
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
| "It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money" |
P.T. Barnum |
| MODEM: What landscapers do to dem lawns |
Unknown |
| "[I'm] off to save the world (with my shoelaces tied together)." |
Megan McDonald |
| "To respect others is to respect yourself. You choose the way you live, but you have to live with the choices you make." |
Dan Magnolia (Diagonal Man) |
| An easy life doesn't teach anything. |
Unknown |
| "We must have faith that the universe will unfold as it should." |
Spock, First Officer, USS Enterprise, NCC 1701-A |
| "with the time i waste on the life i never had i could've turned myself into a better man." |
from "Throw It All Away" by Toad the Wet Sprocket |
| "it's easy to stay unhappy in the present by convincing yourself that someday everything will be perfect, and of course, that day never comes. Maybe the secret to being more satisfied with the present is knowing that things will always be screwed up in some way." |
Dean Dinning, formerly of Toad the Wet Sprocket |
| "Our thoughts form the universe. They always matter." |
G'Kar from Babylon 5's 4th season premiere |
| "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." |
The Buddha |
| Res Ipsa Loquitor. Let the good times roll. |
Unknown |
| Help stamp out, eliminate, and abolish redundancy! |
Unknown |
| "However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest." |
Henry David Thoreau |
| "May we Never lack the courage to dream of heroes, nor the strength to make them real." |
Mikel L. Matthews (Ghoul) |
| "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." |
G.K. Chesterton |
| "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality they are not certain, as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality." |
Albert Einstein |
| "You're not going crazy ... you're going sane ... in a crazy world!" |
The Tick |
| "Not all who wander are lost" |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
| "When 900 years you reach, look as good, you will not!" |
Yoda |
| "Uh... I'm not quite dead, sir! " |
Concord in "Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail" |
| "The one who is good at shooting does not hit the center of the target" |
Zen saying |
| "God is in me or else not at all" |
Wallace Stevens |
| "Whoever knows himself knows God" |
Muhammad |
| "Ah but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now" |
Bob Dylan |
| "The Force will be with you.... always" |
B. Kenobi |
| Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings... They did it by killing everyone who opposed them. |
Unknown |
| If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos...then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation. |
Unknown |
| "Computers are like the God of the Old Testament: zillion rules about everything, zero tolerance, and ever so often they go nuts and destroy everything." |
Meir Pann |
| "hell is - other people!" |
Jean-Paul Sartre, "No Exit" |
| "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones." |
Proverbs 17:22 |
| "bebito ergo sum - I drink, therefore I am." |
Bryan Nolan McCoy |
| "I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here?" |
Bryan Nolan McCoy |
| "Nice is different than good." |
Stephen Sondheim from "Into the Woods". |
| "How do you documentary your life when real life's getting more like fiction each day?" |
Jonathan Larson, "Rent" |
| "You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older" |
They Might Be Giants, "Older" |
| The first person to say 'the customer was always right' was a customer. |
Unknown |
| "The grass is always greener over the septic tank." |
Erma Bombeck. |
| "Comedy is what happens to other people." |
Eric Idle, "The Road to Mars." |
| "that's one of those religions that doesn't like women or razors."..."Is that because they shave their legs?" |
Eric Idle, "The Road to Mars" |
| "either those curtains go, or I do." |
Last words of Oscar Wilde. |
| "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." |
Benjamin Franklin |
| "Como después de la noche brilla una nueva mañana. Como después de la lluvia llega de nuevo la calma." - tr: "As after the night a new morning shines. As after rain arrives again the calm" |
Gloria Estefan |
| "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy" |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| "out of the mouths of babes comes spit-up" |
B. Nolan McCoy |
| "I don't want to find another enemy. Why should I just because you've had a bad year?" |
Colin Powell |
| "The past is but the beginning of a beginning." |
H.G. Wells |
| "You should listen to your heart, not the voices in your head." |
Marge Simpson to Bart |
| "I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." |
Frank Herbert, Dune |
| "Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum." - tr: "A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down the pants." |
Unknown |
| "Reality programming is to television what fertilizer is to cows." |
B. Nolan McCoy |
| "God lets us live to be old for one reason: so that we can find fault with every one of his creations." |
Abraham "Grandpa" Simpson |
| "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." |
Dante, "The Inferno" |
| "Enter freely and of your own will, and leave some of your happiness at the door." |
Bram Stoker, "Dracula" |
| "Make it so." |
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard |
| "Love is the distance between reality and pain." |
Robyn Hitchcock |
| "If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times. Flying monkeys is funny." |
David Letterman |
| War doesn't decide who's right - it decides who's left. |
Unknown |
| "Let me correct you on a few things. Aristotle was not Belgian, the central message of Buddhism is not 'every man for himself', and the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes. I looked them up." |
Wanda, in "A Fish Called Wanda" |
| "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." |
William Shakespeare, "Henry VI", part II, act VI, scene II |
| AMAZING BUT TRUE: In 1988, Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs swung at 1032 pitches. He only missed 32 times (3.1% of the time). |
Unknown |
| "If you're goin' to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair." |
Scott McKenzie, 1967 |
| "Owwwww! Feel good!" |
James Brown, the Godfather of Soul. |
| "Fate - It protects fools, little children, and ships named 'Enterprise'." |
Cmdr. William Riker |
| "He who does not understand your silence will not understand your words." |
Elbert Hubbard |
| "You don't see the lies in your beliefs." |
Elvis Costello & The Attractions, "New Lace Sleeves" |
| "Good manners and bad breath get you nowhere." |
Elvis Costello & The Attractions, "New Lace Sleeves" |
| "Hey Norm, how's the world treating you?"... "Like a baby treats a diaper." |
from "Cheers" |
| "Fishing for a good time starts with throwing in your line." |
Tom Waits, "New Coat Of Paint" |
| "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." |
Tom Waits, "Singapore" |
| Want it done fast, good, and cheap? Pick two, and call me back. |
Unknown |
| "What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind. How true that is." |
Dan Quayle, in an address to the directors of the United Negro College Fund. |
| Vuja De : The feeling that you've never been here before. |
Unknown |
| "Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth." |
Samuel Clemens, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
| "We are all doomed, but some of us are more doomed than others" |
Robyn Hitchcock |
| "I ache, therefore I am. I am, therefore I ache." |
Marvin, the Paranoid Android |
| "I remember everything as if it happened years ago" |
Robyn Hitchcock, "The Devils Coachman" |
| "This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and winds up as a processing unit." |
the dedication on the back of The Soft Boys debut album, "A Can Of Bees" |
| "Women ... you can't live with 'em ... pass the beer nuts." |
Norm Peterson ("Cheers") |
| "Never trust a man in a blue trenchcoat. Never drive a car when you're dead." |
Tom Waits, "Hang On St. Christopher" |
| "This coupon is only redeemable Monday through Friday of next week." |
from an Oak Room coupon (CompuServe cafeteria) |
| "The wounds of time kill you, but the surgeon's knife only stings." |
Richard Thompson, "Jerusalem On The Jukebox" |
| "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." |
Inigo Montoya, to Count Rogan, the six-fingered man. ("The Princess Bride") |
| "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away." |
Tom Waits, "Step Right Up" |
| "The extremists on the right are Republicans in name only. What these people really are is fascists. Call a spade a spade." |
Frank Zappa |
| "Something Shakespeare never said was: 'You've got to be kidding'" |
Robyn Hitchcock, "Chinese Bones" |
| "Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?" |
Jules Feiffer |
| The difference between theory and practice in practice is greater than the difference between theory and practice in theory. |
Unknown |
| "Well I've always had a deep respect, and I mean that most sincerely. The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh by the way, which one's Pink?" |
Pink Floyd, "Have A Cigar" |
| "I agree with him. But talk is cheap. If he gets (to the November general election) I'll think about him. But I'll also consider others, like ... maybe I'll write in Frank Zappa." |
Denver resident Sean Perkins, 19, on 1992 Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown. |
| "My get up and go must of got up and went" |
Aerosmith, "Sweet Emotion" |
| "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt." |
Bertrand Russell |
| "I'd rather have my country die for me." |
Jefferson Airplane, "rejoyce" |
| "Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash." |
Winston Churchill on the Navy. |
| "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine" |
Patti Smith |
| "Copperfield is a nice man who does nice tricks. We are evil men who do evil tricks. That's progress." |
Teller |
| "It's interesting that, according to Genesis, God created the heaven and the earth before he created light. Some have held that this supports the Big Bang theory. Of course, if one wanted to be cynical, one could point out that apparently God created the Earth before He could see what the hell He was doing, which would certainly explain quite a lot." |
Peter David, "But I Digress", Comics Buyer's Guide #1020 |
| "He who possesses art and science has religion; He who does not possess them needs religion." |
Goethe |
| "Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate." |
Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| "Possession is nine tenths of the law. The other tenth was taken by the IRS." |
Unknown |
| "Life is like a box of chocolates... You never know what you're gonna get." |
Forrest Gump |
| The trouble with life is that there's no background music. |
Unknown |
| "Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes softly and sits on your shoulder." |
Anonymous |
| Why be born again, when you can just grow up? |
Unknown |
| "Negative feelings, such as violence, are damaging to life, whether we act upon them ourselves, or cause or condone them in others. They are born of greed, anger, or delusion, and may be slight, moderate, or intense. Their fruit is endless ignorance and suffering. To remember this is to cultivate the opposite." |
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 2:34 |
| "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." |
Robert Frost |
| "Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help." |
Thomas Fuller |
| "Having applied himself to what was not his own task, and not having applied himself to what was, having disregarded the goal to grasp at what he held dear, he now envies those who kept after themselves, took themselves to task." |
Dhammapada, 16, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. |
| "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." |
Jerome K. Jerome |
| "For those who are on the downside of advantage, and relying solely on courage - there is hope." |
Russell Crowe |
| "Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space." |
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 3:54 |
| The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. |
Unknown |
| "In that unitive state there is neither father Nor mother, neither worlds nor gods nor even Scriptures. In that state there is neither thief Nor slayer, neither low caste nor high, neither Monk nor ascetic. The Self is beyond good And evil, beyond all the suffering of the human Heart." |
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad |
| "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." |
David Viscott |
| "I have accepted fear as part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says turn back." |
Erica Jong |
| "Those who find Divine Truth in this world Follow a path which never comes back to this world. Those who think with certitude and ponder well that which is, Need never think of being born again." |
Tirukkural 36: 356-357 |
| "Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich." |
Sir Thomas Browne |
| "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." |
Coco Chanel |
| "And O my people! give just measure and weight, nor withhold from the people the things that are their due: commit not evil in the land with intent to do mischief." |
Qur'an, Hud, Surah 11:85 |
| "The practice of meditation frees one from all affliction. This is the path of yoga. Follow it with determination and sustained enthusiasm. Renouncing wholeheartedly all selfish desires and expectations, use your will to control the senses. Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self." |
Bhagavad Gita 6:23-25 |
| "If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace." |
Thich Nhat Hanh, "Being Peace" |
| "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." |
Goethe |
| "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." |
Gandalf |
| "Seeing error where there is none, & no error where there is, beings adopting wrong views go to a bad destination... But knowing error as error, and non-error as non-, beings adopting right views go to a good destination." |
Dhammapada, 22, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. |
| "Practice what you have learned, for theory without practice is like a spirit without a body. One who is content with learning alone is not learned, for the truly learned seeks more than mere words. Divine guidance entails self-mortification, without which contemplation is unattainable." |
Al-Hujwiri, "The Kashf al-Mahjub" |
| "When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union." |
Bhagavad Gita 6:32 |
| "Life's a dance. Put on your dancing shoes." |
Steve Winwood |
| "Grief can take care of itself: but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." |
Mark Twain |
| "For the one who has no inner, angry thoughts, Who has gone past being a someone, a this or a that, That one is free from fear and is blissful. Even the gods cannot win such serenity." |
Udana Sutta |
| "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." |
Hugh Downs |
| "No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm." |
Charles Kettering |
| "There is one thing about distance: that no matter how far away it is, it can be reached. It is over there -one can drive to it- it is north among the pines, or eastward to the sea. It is never yesterday or tomorrow. That is another and a crueller distance...there is no way to get there." |
Robert Nathan, Portrait of Jennie |
| "As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG." |
Donald Trump |
| "When ignorance is destroyed, the Self is liberated from its identification with the world. This liberation is Enlightenment." |
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 2:25 |
| "The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes." |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going." |
David S. Jordan |
| "Before, this mind went wandering however it pleased,wherever it wanted, by whatever way that it liked. Today I will hold it aptly in check - as one wielding a goad, an elephant in rut." |
Dhammapada, 23, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. |
| "Love has the innate ability to look past the human and see the godly." |
Colette Burnham |
| Sitting still and wishing makes no man great. The good Lord sends the fishing but You have to dig the bait. |
Unknown |
| Traditional Irish toast you can use when raising a pint with friends on St. Patrick's Day: "May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, but never catch up." |
Unknown |
| "In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles." |
David Ben Gurion |
| "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return." |
from Moulin Rouge |
| "All the delightful things of the world - sweet sounds, lovely forms, all the pleasant tastes and touches and thoughts - these are all agreed to bring happiness if they are not grasped and possessed... But if you regard them merely as pleasures for your own use and satisfaction and do not see them as passing wonders, they will bring suffering." |
Sutta Nipata |
| "There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly." |
Anne Sophie Swetchine |
| Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew that the earth was flat... Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. |
Unknown |
| "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet." |
James Openheim |
| "Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today." |
Mark Twain |
| "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." |
Earl Wilson |
| "Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." |
Grandma Moses |
| "The impulse "I want" and the impulse "I'll have" - lose them! That is where most people get stuck - without those, you can use your eyes to guide you through this suffering state." |
Sutta Nipata |
| "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." |
William Gladstone |
| "Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self." |
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 2:5 |
| "All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others." |
Michael Carr |
| "Mistakes are the portals for discovery." |
James Joyce |
| "On with dance; let joy be unconfined, whether there's any dance to dance, or any joy to unconfined." |
Mark Twain |
| "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." |
Elbert Hubbard |
| "Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God; for God is love." |
1 John 4:7-8 |
| "No human being, no hierarchy, and no church can ever tell anyone who God is or what God is. Let us be clear about that. All anyone can ever tell another person is how he or she or a particular institution believes it has experienced God. All God talk - including all scriptures, all creeds, all theology - is subjective, not objective. Human beings can only journey into the mystery of God. We cannot and do not possess God." |
Bishop John Shelby Spong |
| "Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level." |
Max L. Forman |
| "Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." |
Grace Hansen |
| "Our only security is our ability to change." |
John Lilly |
| "Without love in the heart, Life is like a sapless tree in a barren desert. What good is a body perfect in outer ways, If inwardly it is impaired by lack of love? With love enshrined in the heart, one lives. Without it, the body is but bone encased in skin." |
Tirukkural 8:78-80 |
| "Due to having faith one relies on the practices, Due to having wisdom one truly knows. Of these two wisdom is the chief, Faith is the prerequisite." |
Nagarjuna, "Precious Garland 5" |
| "Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave." |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
| "but it's the pelvic thrusts that really drive them insane." |
Richard O'Brien, The Rocky Horror Show. |
| "Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." |
Mark Twain |
| "There is not an animal (that lives) on the earth, nor a being that flies on its wings, but (forms part of) communities like you. Nothing have we omitted from the Book, and they (all) shall be gathered to their Lord in the end." |
Qur'an, Al-An'am, Surah 6:38 |
| "Why would anyone speak cruel words, Having observed the happiness that kind words confer? To utter harsh words when sweet ones would serve Is like eating unripe fruits when ripe ones are at hand." |
Tirukkural 10: 99-100 |
| "Are you standing on a Whale, fishing for minnows?" |
Polynesian saying quoted by Joseph Campbell |
| Learn to write your hurts in sand. Learn to carve your blessings in stone! |
Unknown |
| "Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." |
Sally Koch |
| "Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief." |
Rumi, "Mathnawi" |
| "Patience is also a form of action." |
Auguste Rodin |
| "Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either." |
Golda Meir |
| "Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do." |
Gerry Sikorski |
| "By a single word of injury Do all a man's virtues lose their goodness. The wound caused by fire heals in its time; The burn inflicted by an inflamed tongue never heals." |
Tirukkural 13: 128-129 |
| "I gave my life to be the person I am. Was it worth it?" |
Richard Bach |
| "Knowledge has two wings. Conjecture is one wing. Conjecture alone is lacking and cuts short the flight. The one-winged bird continues to struggle, hoping to reach the nest somehow with one wing. And then wisdom shows his shining face. Delivered from conjecture, the bird now spreads both wings (and soars once again)." |
Rumi, "The Life and Thought of Rumi" |
| "The Self seems to move, but is ever still. He seems far away, but is ever near.He is within all, and he transcends all." |
Isha Upanishad |
| "Get rich quick! Count your blessings!" |
Anonymous |
| "What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible." |
Theodore Roethke |
| Abu Bakr al-Saddiq once said, "This world is transitory and our life therein but a moment borrowed, our breaths numbered, yet our indifference reckless." |
Al-Hujwiri, "The Kashf al-Mahjub" |
| "Angels fly because they take themselves lightly." |
Jean Cocteau |
| "I know how you feel. I mean it. I know. I know about the wet sticky thing inside your soul that you take out and caress when you think you are alone. I have seen you dancing badly to Michael Jackson on your mother's coffee table. I have smelled the breath of the doubting, taunting creature that hangs over your shoulder, and I have seen the cute smile you make in the mirror, running your tongue over your smooth teeth before you exit the bathroom and leave for an evening on the town." |
Glen Phillips |
| "And swell not thy cheek (for pride) at men, nor walk in insolence through the earth; for Allah loveth not any arrogant boaster." |
Qur'an, Luqman, Surah 31:18 |
| "The human race has one effective weapon - and that is laughter." |
Mark Twain |
| "If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake." |
F. Wilezek |
| "We have enough people who tell it like it is - now we could use a few who tell it like it can be." |
Robert Orben |
| "Glorified by heaven, O radiant Sun, illumine the earth forever and more that the hearts of its inhabitants unite and ascend and become one with the exalted Divine." |
Rumi, "Mathnawi" |
| "If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that God will not tie my shoes without me." |
Doug Boyd |
| "One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are." |
Gail Godwin |
| "The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf." |
Shakti Gawain |
| "Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art." |
Frank Tyger |
| "There is a law that man should love thy neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish." |
Alfred Adler |
| "We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." |
Mother Teresa |
| "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." |
Arnold Glasgow |
| "To commit no wrong, even against one's enemies, Is said to be supreme wisdom. Only the forgetful plot another's ruin; others remember That virtue itself devises a plotter's downfall." |
Tirukkural 21: 203-204 |
| "Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW." |
Mary C. Crowley |
| "Even a wise man acts within the limitations of his own nature...The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant. Do not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in your path." |
Bhagavad Gita 3:33-34 |
| "The marksman hitteth the mark partly by pulling, partly by letting go." |
Egyptian proverb |
| "Those whose hearts are drawn toward compassion Will never be drawn into the dark and woeful world. Evil deeds dreaded by the soul will not afflict The compassionate who foster and protect all life." |
Tirukkural 25: 243-244 |
| "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." |
Aristotle |
| "Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life." |
Kobi Yamada |
| "Hostilities aren't stilled through hostility, regardless. Hostilities are stilled through non-hostility: this, an unending truth." |
Dhammapada, 1, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. |
| "In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high." |
Henry David Thoreau |
| "The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, but in what direction we are moving." |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "The most precious wealth is the wealth acquired by the ear. Indeed, of all wealth that wealth is the crown. Only when no nourishment exists for the ear Is it time to offer the stomach a morsel." |
Tirukkural 42: 411-412 |
| "If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm." |
Frank Lane |
| "The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." |
Martha Washington |
| "Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go." |
Sylvia Robinson |
| "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." |
Dolly Parton |
| "There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't" |
(Joke Master) |
| "Creativity is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God." |
Bob Moawad |
| "Of slight account, monks, is the loss of such things as reputation. Miserable indeed among losses is the loss of wisdom. Of slight account, monks, is the increase of such things as reputation. Chief of all the increases is that of wisdom." |
Anguttara Nikaya |
| "Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't." |
Richard Bach |
| "Before undertaking a project, ponder what will be gained, Lost and ultimately achieved. There is nothing too difficult for a man who, before he acts, Deliberates with chosen friends and reflects privately." |
Tirukkural 47: 461-462 |
| "There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving." |
Henry Drummond |
| "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
| "When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own." |
Anonymous |
| "Write documentation as if whoever reads it is a violent psychopath who knows where you live." |
Steve English |
| "He who forgives ends the quarrel." |
African proverb |
| "My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds." |
Mel Weldon |
| "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." |
Albert Einstein |
| "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." |
Victor Hugo |
| "Lives based on having are less free than lives based on doing or being." |
E.Y. Harburg |
| "Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it." |
Soren Kierkegaard |
| "Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile." |
Paul Tornier |
| "Man is a Religious Animal. Man is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.... The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste." |
S. Clemens |
| "He who wants a rose must respect the thorn." |
Persian proverb |
| "I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." |
Pablo Picasso |
| "The sign of the friend of God is that he has three qualities: a generosity like that of the ocean, a compassion like that of the sun, and a humility like that of the earth." |
Bayazid in 'Attar, "Tadhkirat" |
| "If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world." |
Thomas Merton |
| "If swimming is good for your shape, then why do the whales look the way they do?" |
George Carlin |
| "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." |
Anais Nin |
| "The offering of wisdom is better than any material offering for the goal of all work is spiritual wisdom." |
Bhagavad Gita 4:33 |
| "If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs." |
Russian proverb |
| "To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are." |
Anonymous |
| "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; it is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other persons; which weighs their interests alongside its own, without bias ... ." |
Judge Learned Hand |
| "To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage." |
Henri Matisse |
| "He who is free from selfish attachments, who has mastered himself and his passions, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from action." |
Bhagavad Gita 18:49 |
| "To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakable perfect miracle." |
Walt Whitman |
| "He who does not long for joy in joy Will not suffer sorrow in sorrow. He who does not distinguish pain from pleasure Becomes so distinguished even enemies hope to pay homage." |
Tirukkural 63: 629-630 |
| "He who treads the Path in earnest Sees not the mistakes of the world; If we find fault with others We ourselves are also in the wrong." |
The Sutra of Hui Neng |
| "You will not be able to give anyone happiness by means of your wealth, so do it by means of a cheerful countenance and good humor." |
The Prophet Muhammad in Qushayri: al-Risalat al-Qushayriyya |
| "Do, or do not. There is no try." |
Yoda |
| "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give - which is everything." |
Anon. |
| "Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest...." |
C. S. Lewis |
| "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 |
| "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." |
Sir Winston Churchill |
| "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." |
Sir Winston Churchill |
| "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." |
David Dunham |
| "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." |
Mark Twain |
| "To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea." |
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 |
| "Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!" |
H.R. Haldeman |
| "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." |
Mother Teresa |
| "Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates." |
Gore Vidal |
| "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." |
Burton Hills |
| "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." |
Scottish Proverb |
| "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
| "Bill: Be excellent to each other. Ted: Party on, dudes!" |
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure |
| "Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, |
| "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." |
Thomas Fuller |
| "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth." |
Joseph Conrad, Chance |
| "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." |
Kim Hubbard |
| "When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it." |
Carl Sagan |
| "A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror." |
Ken Keys |
| "The computer is a moron." |
Peter Drucker |
| "I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them." |
Isaac Asimov |
| "O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention." |
William Shakespeare |
| "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." |
G. K. Chesterton |
| "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." |
William James |
| "When a man's effort to raise high his family is unremitting, His work will prosper of itself even if he makes no plans. The world will surround and wish to befriend the man Who, without wrongdoing, prospers in life to uplift loved ones." |
Tirukkural 103: 1024-1025 |
| "Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly." |
St. Francis de Sales |
| "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." |
Bertrand Russell |
| "Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of 10 things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these 10 things he has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry for ever and ever until the end of time...but he loves you." |
George Carlin |
| "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life." |
Baruch Spinoza |
| "If we single-pointedly practice great compassion, then, with little effort, we will be able to gain all other virtues." |
Geshe Namgyal Wangchen, "Awakening the Mind" |
| "The ocean is the same ocean as it has been of old; The events of today are its waves and its rivers." |
Sayyid Haydar Amuli (14th century) |
| "Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for." |
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov |
| "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." |
Mark Twain |
| "Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride." |
Sutta Nipata |
| "Everything has its own food, and music is the food of the spirit." |
Nasrabadi in 'Attar, "Tadhkirat" |
| "When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." |
Chinese Proverb |
| "The greatest carver does the least cutting." |
Tao Te Ching |
| "Half the spiritual life consists in remembering what we are up against and where we are going." |
Ayya Khema, "When the Iron Eagle Flies" |
| "Most persons would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions." |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "The bliss of a truth-seeking life is attainable for anyone who follows the path of unselfishness. If you cling to your wealth, it is better to throw it away than let it poison your heart. But if you don't cling to it but use it wisely, then you will be a blessing to people. It's not wealth and power that enslave men but the clinging to wealth and power." |
Majjhima Nikaya |
| "There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened." |
Jules Renard |
| "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few." |
Shunryu Suzuki, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" |
| "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." |
Walter Bagehot |
| "True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." |
Clarence Darrow |
| "The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." |
Henry Ward Beecher |
| "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." |
Lucy Larcom |
| "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." |
Richard L Evans |
| "Enlightenment - that magnificent escape from anguish and ignorance - never happens by accident. It results from the brave and sometimes lonely battle of one person against his own weaknesses." |
Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano, "Landscapes of Wonder" |
| "There is no baser folly than the infatuation That looks upon the transient as if it were everlasting." |
Tirukkural 34: 331 |
| "Faith is the bird that feels the light And sings when the dawn is still dark." |
Rabindranath Tagore |
| "In our journey towards God, we proceed like those small birds whose flight is in loops. They always seem to be about to drop, but the drop in their flight seems to urge them forward." |
Gerard W. Hughes |
| "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." |
Beverly Sills |
| "We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today." |
Sydney Smith |
| "Generosity begins with our recognition of our debt to others." |
Master Hsing Yun, "Describing the Indescribable" |
| "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." |
Lilly Tomlin |
| A poor devotee points to the sky and says, "God is up there." An average devotee says, "God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master." The best devotee says, "God alone is and everything I perceive is a form of God." |
Ramakrishna |
| "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings." |
Hodding Carter |
| "Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true." |
William Inge |
| "Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances." |
J.P. Greaves |
| "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." |
St. Francis of Assisi |
| "Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show." |
Mignon McLaughlin |
| "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." |
Edith Wharton |
| "Many are the men who piously bathe in purifying waters, While in their dark hearts impure conduct lies concealed. Neither shaven head nor long locks are required, Provided one refrains from conduct condemned by the world." |
Tirukkural 28: 278, 280 |
| "It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us...Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start." |
Mother Teresa |
| "When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package." |
John Ruskin |
| "Every exit is an entry somewhere else." |
Tom Stoppard |
| "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Be wary of malice, for malice consumes virtues, just as fire consumes fuel." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as reported by Abu Hurairah |
| "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." |
Christopher Morley |
| "One must care about a world one will never see." |
Bertrand Russell |
| "Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius." |
Comte de Buffon |
| "One who seeks delight in form seeks delight in suffering. One who seeks delight in suffering, I say, is not freed from suffering." |
Buddha, "The Connected Discourses of the Buddha" |
| 'What is stupidity? It is that vanity Which dares to declare, "I am wise." He who pretends to knowledge that he does not possess Raises doubts as to those things that he really knows.' |
Tirukkural 85: 844-845 |
| "We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust." |
Madame de Choiseul |
| "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" |
Vincent Van Gogh |
| "Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness." |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." |
Ann Landers |
| "Contrary to what some people might believe, there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction." |
Lama Thubten Yeshe, "Introduction to Tantra" |
| "All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait." |
Saint Vincent de Paul |
| "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." |
Erica Jong |
| "Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions." |
Mark Twain |
| "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| "The kids of today should defend themselves against the '70's" |
Mike Watt |
| "When everything is clean-clear in your own mind,nobody can create obstacles for you." |
Lama Thubten Yeshe, "The Bliss of Inner Fire" |
| "Unshared joy is an unlighted candle." |
Spanish Proverb |
| "The Almighty Allah judges you neither by your countenance nor your wealth, but by the purity of your hearts and your deeds." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as reported by Abu Hurairah |
| "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
| I implored the sage in earnest last night to unveil the mysteries of the universe. He whispered softly in my ear, "Silence! It is something to perceive but never to say." |
Rumi, "The Life and Thought of Rumi" |
| "The moon is one, but on agitated water it produces many reflections. Similarly ultimate reality is one, yet it appears to be many in a mind agitated by thoughts." |
Maharamayana |
| "One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged." |
Lord Samuel |
| "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." |
Pete Seeger |
| "As a man's shadow follows his footsteps wherever he goes, Even so will destruction pursue those who commit sinful deeds." |
Tirukkural 21: 208 |
| "There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend." |
Katharine Butler Hathaway |
| "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." |
Cicero |
| "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." |
Albert Pike |
| "Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them." |
Henry S. Haskins |
| "Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing." |
William Feather |
| "It is harmful to make a multitude of foes, but it is ten times worse To give up the friendship of the worthy." |
Tirukkural 45:450 |
| "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." |
Benjamin Disraeli |
| "A true believer loves for his brother what he loves for himself." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as reported by Anas bin Malik |
| "Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness." |
Sankara |
| "A lie has speed, but truth has endurance." |
Edgar J. Mohn |
| "Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true." |
William Inge |
| "The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have." |
Woody Allen |
| "Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." |
Dorothy Nevill |
| "A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken." |
James Dent |
| "By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind." |
The Sutra of Hui Neng |
| "Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.'" |
Anne Lamott |
| "Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." |
Elizabeth Stone |
| "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit." |
R.E. Shay |
| "The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." |
Muhammad Ali. "Or he was wise very young!" -- Chris Purdum |
| "And better than a hundred years lived apathetic & unenergetic, is one day lived energetic & firm." |
Dhammapada, 8, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. |
| "Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?" |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water. After enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water." |
Zen saying |
| "What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul." |
Yiddish proverb |
| "Good conjecture is a gift from divine grace." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as reported by Abu Hurairah |
| "If you are going through hell...keep going." |
Winston Churchill |
| "Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." |
Alexis Carrel |
| "One cannot but laugh and even be apparently irreverent when confronted by the fantastic super structure of superstition and mystery that has been built on and around the basic simplicity that TRUTH is!" |
Ramesh Balsekar |
| "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds along rocks." |
Charlotte Bronte |
| "It's never the end of the world. It's already tomorrow in Australia." |
Charles M. Schultz |
| "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." |
Epictetus |
| "The fire of anger only burns the angry." |
Chinese Proverb |
| "What can be gained by thinking about the scriptures? What fools! They think themselves to death with information about the path, but never take the plunge!" |
Ramakrishna |
| "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." |
Henri Bergson |
| "Always aim for achievement, and forget about success." |
Helen Hayes |
| "Friendship is a promise of future loyalty, loyalty no matter what comes. Promises are the bricks of life and trust is the mortar." |
Stephen Carter, "The Emperor of Ocean Park" |
| "Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness." |
May Sarton |
| "When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside." |
Lama Zopa Rinpoche, "The Door to Satisfaction" |
| "A superior being does not render evil for evil. Never harm the wicked or the good or even criminals meeting death. A noble soul is always compassionate, even toward those who enjoy injuring others or who are actually committing cruel deeds - for who is without fault?" |
Ramayana |
| "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" |
Abraham Lincoln |
| "Erroneous views keep us in defilement While right views remove us from it, But when we are in a position to discard both of them We are then absolutely pure." |
The Sutra of Hui Neng |
| "One can acquire everything in solitude - except character." |
Henri Stendhal |
| "Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work." |
Anna Quindlen |
| "All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble." |
William S. Halsey |
| "Within the limitations of the human form, we can't understand the nature of existence from the universal position of an All-Seeing God, with a macrocosmic view. What we can do is observe existence close-up, without judgment." |
Ajahn Sumedho, "The Mind and the Way" |
| "Investigate well, show favor to none, maintain impartiality, consult the law, then give judgment - that is the way of justice." |
Tirukkural 55:541 |
| "After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world." |
Bertha von Suttner |
| "The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?" |
Abhinavagupta |
| "Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are." |
Mark McGinnis |
| "All things arise, Suffer change, And pass away. This is their nature. When you know this, Nothing perturbs you, Nothing hurts you. You become still. It is easy." |
Ashtavakra Gita 11:1 |
| "Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may grow." |
Louise Driscoll |
| "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff," |
Mariah Carey |
| "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life," |
Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign. |
| "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body," |
Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward. |
| "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country," |
Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC. |
| "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president," |
Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents. |
| "That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it," |
A congressional candidate in Texas. |
| "I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." |
John Wayne |
| "Half this game is ninety percent mental." |
Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark |
| "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." |
Dan Quayle |
| "It's no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another" |
George Bush, US President |
| "We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" |
Lee Iacocca |
| "I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version," |
Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony. |
| "The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein," |
Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback &sports analyst. |
| "We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people." |
Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor. |
| "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." |
Bill Clinton, President |
| "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." |
Al Gore, VP |
| "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." |
Keppel Enderbery |
| "Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances." |
Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina |
| "If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record." |
Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman |
| "The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." |
George 'Dubya' Bush |
| "Normal is a myth. No one is normal." |
Chris Purdum |
| "People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves." |
Anton Chekhov |
| "Adulthood is a myth. Adults are really just older kids" |
Chris Purdum |
| "People now ask if Oasis are as good as the Beatles. I don't think they are as good as the Rutles." |
Douglas Adams |
| "The baseball owners and the baseball players must understand that if there is a stoppage, a work stoppage, a lot of fans are going to be furious, and I'm one of the fannage." |
George 'Dubya' Bush |
| "It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them." |
George Eliot |
| "Better than if there were thousands of meaningless words is one meaningful word that on hearing brings peace." |
Dhammapada, 8, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu |
| "The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page." |
Saint Augustine |
| "Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do." |
Bruce Crampton |
| "It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing." |
Oriah Mountain Dreamer |
| "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." |
Henry Ford |
| "DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form." |
Douglas Adams |
| "Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried." |
Henry David Thoreau |
| "Unless you enter the tiger's den, you cannot take the cubs." |
Japanese proverb |
| "Real peace will arise spontaneously When your mind becomes free Of attachments, When you know that the objects of the world Can never give you what you really want." |
Theragatha |
| "The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." |
George Bernard Shaw |
| "To describe happiness is to diminish it." |
Henri Stendhal |
| "When we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe." |
Pema Chodron |
| "To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." |
Johannes A. Gaertner |
| "Spontaneous, true action happens naturally when there is no "you" checking whether the action conforms to your idea of what is best for you." |
Ramesh Balsekar |
| "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end" |
Semisonic, "Closing Time" |
| "If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down." |
Mary Pickford |
| Patience, have 'em or be one. |
Unknown |
| "In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up." |
R.H. Grenville |
| "The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain." |
Kahlil Gibran |
| "A name is imposed on what is thought to be a thing or a state and this divides it from other things and other states. But when you pursue what lies behind the name, you find a greater and greater subtlety that has no divisions. Atoms of dust are not really atoms of dust but are merely called that. In the same way, a world is not a world but is merely called that." |
Visuddhi MaggaFrom "Buddha Speaks" |
| "To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight |
and never stop fighting." -- e.e. cummings |
| "If we're looking for outer conditions to bring us contentment, we're looking in vain." |
Ayya Khema, "Be an Island" |
| "Give up what appears to be doubtful for what is certain. Truth brings peace of mind, and deception doubt." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as reported by Hasan bin 'Ali |
| "Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall." |
Oliver Goldsmith |
| "Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people." |
Mother Teresa |
| "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself." |
Victor Hugo |
| I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either. |
Unknown |
| "I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by." |
Douglas Adams |
| Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. |
Unknown |
| Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue. |
Unknown |
| Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time, chances are you won't be needing him again. |
Unknown |
| I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem. |
Unknown |
| Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky, and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling? |
Unknown |
| My reality check bounced. |
Unknown |
| On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key. |
Unknown |
| I don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier. |
Unknown |
| You are slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter. |
Unknown |
| Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup. |
Unknown |
| Everybody is somebody else's weirdo. |
Unknown |
| Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. |
Unknown |
| A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the butt. |
Unknown |
| Don't be irreplaceable - if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted. |
Unknown |
| After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before. |
Unknown |
| The more junk you put up with, the more junk you are going to get. |
Unknown |
| You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard. |
Unknown |
| Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. |
Unknown |
| If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. |
Unknown |
| When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried. |
Unknown |
| Following the rules will not get the job done. |
Unknown |
| When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" |
Unknown |
| Due to the never-ending workload, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off until further notice. |
Unknown |
| "As a tree with strong uninjured roots, though cut down, grows up again, so, when deep craving is not rooted out, suffering arises again and again." |
Dhammapada |
| "If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?" |
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov |
| "Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway." |
John Wayne |
| "An intimate of any strength will never listen to faults said of friends; and on the day a friend offends, he is content to keep silent. The world cherishes faithful men who never forsake old friendships, worn by time but unbroken." |
Tirukkural 81: 808-809 |
| "Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve." |
Lillian Smith |
| "It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived." |
Helen Walton |
| "Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask." |
Billy Graham |
| "You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop." |
Eva Jessye |
| "As to those who believe and work righteousness, verily We shall not suffer to perish the reward of any who do a (single) righteous deed." |
Qur'an, Al-Kahf , Surah 18:30 |
| "Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams." |
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda |
| "Removing the incurable cancer called hatred Reveals one's undying, undiminishing radiance. The destruction of hatred, that sorrow of sorrows, Yields to man the joy of joys." |
Tirukkural 86: 853-54 |
| "When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left." |
Sufi epigram |
| "Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become." |
Bishop Westcott |
| 'I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means "put down." ' |
Bob Newhart |
| "Don't solve your problems, dissolve your problems - so that they should not recur again." |
Yogi Bhajan |
| "When someone asks you a question, answer him or her sincerely, and when you are not asked, do not force your teaching upon others." |
Jae Woong Kim, "Polishing the Diamond" |
| "A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered." |
C.S. Lewis |
| "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." |
Carl Bard |
| "Learn to look with an equal eye upon all things, seeing the one Self in all." |
Srimad Bhagavatam |
| "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." |
Harold Whitman |
| "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." |
Carl Rogers |
| "Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do." |
Elvis Presley |
| "Everything Right is Wrong Again" |
They Might Be Giants |
| "It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be." |
Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something." |
George Burns. |
| "Any American who is prepared to run for President should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." |
Gore Vidal. |
| "Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift" ... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git." |
Alexai Sayle. |
| "It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago." |
Dan Quayle. |
| "I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic." |
Woody Allen |
| "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." |
Woody Allen |
| "I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch." |
Woody Allen |
| "I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet." |
Rodney Dangerfield. |
| "Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac." |
George Carlin. |
| "The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney..." |
Steven Wright. |
| "The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with." |
Marty Feldman. |
| "If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?" |
Steven Wright |
| "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. |
| "For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off." |
Johnny Carson. |
| "USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population." |
David Letterman. |
| "I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets." |
Dave Edison. |
| "Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives." |
Sue Murphy. |
| "Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time." |
Steven Wright. |
| "You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest." |
Rowan Atkinson. |
| "When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off." |
Stephen King. |
| "I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me." |
Woody Allen. |
| "A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials." |
Ronald Knox. |
| "If there is no Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretences." |
William Sunday. |
| "In the begining there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it." |
Dave Thomas. |
| "If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?" |
George Deacon. |
| "I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear." |
Woody Allen. |
| "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me." |
Emo Philips. |
| "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." |
Terry Pratchett. |
| "When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself." |
Peter O'Toole |
| "The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible." |
George Burns. |
| "I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night." |
Woody Allen |
| "There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable." |
Mark Twain. |
| In reply to the question, What is the best that people can possess, what brings them truest happiness, what is the sweetest of the sweet, and what is the pleasantest life to live? The Buddha answered: "Trust is the best that people can possess; following the way brings happiness; truth is the sweetest of the sweet; and the practice of insight is the pleasantest way to live." |
Sutta Nipata |
| "Dread hatred from within and defend yourself against it. In calamitous times it will cut deeper than a potter's knife." |
Tirukkural 89: 883 |
| "The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our lives is toward happiness." |
Dalai Lama |
| "Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always practice rejoicing for others |
whether your friend or your enemy. If you cannot practice rejoicing, no matter how long you live, you will not be happy." -- Lama Zopa Rinpoche, "Transforming Problems Into Happiness" |
| "The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good." |
Ann Landers |
| "Just like a blossom, bright colored but scentless: a well-spoken word is fruitless when not carried out." |
Dhammapada, 4, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. |
| "People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else." |
Unknown |
| "If one is without kindness, how can one be called a human being?" |
Sarada Devi |
| "In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing." |
Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must also have freedom, sunshine, and a little flower." |
Hans Christian Anderson |
| "The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible." |
Arthur C. Clarke |
| "You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of the work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction." |
Bhagavad Gita 2:47 |
| "A true Muslim is the one who does not defame or abuse others; but the truly righteous becomes a refuge for humankind, their lives and their properties." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as narrated by Abd'Allah bin Amr |
| "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." |
Vincent Van Gogh |
| "Today is yesterday's pupil." |
Thomas Fuller |
| "When one comes to the Essence of Being, The shining Wisdom of Reality Illumines all like the cloudless sky." |
Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa |
| "He who has amassed great wealth but does not enjoy it is reckoned as dead, like his unused heap. Believing wealth is everything, yet giving away nothing, the miser himself will be possessed by a miserable birth." -Tirukkural 101:1001-1002 |
Unknown |
| "Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength." |
Sigmund Freud |
| "If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give." |
George MacDonald |
| "Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood." |
Henry Miller |
| When the shadow of the grasshopper falls across the trail of the field mouse on green and slimey grass as a red sun rises above the western horizon silhouetting a gaunt and tautly muscled Indian warrior perched with bow and arrow cocked and aimed straight at you it's time for another martini. |
A. O'S. (found on a mural on a wall on Jack Kerouac Street in San Francisco) |
| "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always." |
Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Conquer anger with lack of anger; bad, with good; stinginess, with generosity; a liar, with truth." |
Dhammapada, 17, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. |
| "The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." |
Robert M. Pirsig |
| "God is Consciousness that pervades the entire universe of the living and the non-living." |
Ramakrishna |
| "The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers." |
John Marks Templeton |
| "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." |
Matthew 7:1-5 |
| sona si latine loqueris (honk if you speak Latin) |
Unknown |
| Canis meus id comedit (my dog ate it) |
Unknown |
| Quantum materiae materietur mormota monax si mormota monax materiam possit materiari (how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood) |
Unknown |
| Braccae tuae sperinutur (your fly is open) |
Unknown |
| Quid agis, medice? (what's up, doc?) |
Unknown |
| Sic hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades (If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated, and much too close) |
Unknown |
| '"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh' |
R.E.M., "What's the frequency Kenneth?" from Monster |
| autem ist exsertus pelvi coegi nos demens ("but it's the pelvic thrusts that really drive them insane.") |
Unknown |
| Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to. |
Unknown |
| "Doubt limits you from what is already yours, but faith unlocks the door allowing you to walk in andreceive it." |
Jeannette Tyson Gregory |
| "When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves." |
Confucius |
| "Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." |
Maimonides |
| "Illness is not cured by saying the word "medicine," but by taking medicine. Enlightenment is not achieved by repeating the word "God" but by directly experiencing God." |
Sankara |
| "We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts." |
Madeleine L'Engle |
| "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian." |
Rabbi Harold Kushner, "When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough," paraphrasing Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan |
| "Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling." |
Margaret Lee Runbeck |
| "Human fallibility being what it is, victory and truth do not always go together. Therefore, if you have to always win, you can't always be true." |
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov |
| "The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all." |
Arthur H. Prince |
| "Attentiveness is the path to true life; Indifference is the path to death. The attentive do not die; The indifferent are as if they are dead already." |
DhammapadaFrom "Buddha Speaks |
| "Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold." |
Maurice Setter |
| "There simply is nothing to which we can attach ourselves, no matter how hard we try. In time, things will change and the conditions that produced our current desires will be gone. Why then cling to them now?" |
Master Hsing Yun, "The Indescribable" |
| A baby enters the world with hands clenched, as if to say, "The world is mine; I shall grab it." A man leaves with hands open, as if to say, "I can take nothing with me." |
Ecclesiastes Rabbah 5:14 |
| "Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." |
Douglas Jerrould |
| "A man should not act as a judge either for someone he loves or for someone he hates. For no man can see the guilt of someone he loves or the good qualities in someone he hates." |
Babylonian Talmud, tractate Ketubbot |
| "To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see." |
Helen Keller |
| "When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree." |
Vietnamese saying |
| "Who is rich? One who is happy with what he has." |
Ethics of the Fathers 4:1 |
| "You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly." |
Colette |
| " Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism and falsehood. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy, the promise, the hope, the vision." |
Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| "Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin." |
John Lubbock |
| "Attentiveness is the path to true life; Indifference is the path to death. The attentive do not die; The indifferent are as if they are dead already." |
Dhammapada |
| "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." |
Baruch Spinoza |
| "Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her." |
B.C. Forbes |
| "Spend your wealth in the way of Allah, and do not by your own hands cast yourselves to ruin. Grow in goodness, for Allah loves the beneficent." |
Qur'an, Al-Baqara, Surah 2:195 |
| "Be strong-willed and stubborn if you want to get closer to God. How else will you survive all the difficulties that are sure to come your way?" |
Reb Nachman of Breslov |
| "Happiness is the delicate balance between what one is and what one has." |
F. H. Denison |
| "The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence, these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my lucky stars I belong to it." |
Albert Einstein |
| "The more you prepare, the luckier you appear." |
Terry Josephson |
| "He who saves a single life saves the entire world." |
The Talmud |
| "It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace." |
Shenandoah proverb |
| "The best security for old age: respect your children." |
Sholem Asch |
| Does "WWJD?" mean "World Wide Jewish Domination?" |
Unknown |
| "One without a friend is like the right hand without the left." |
Bosnian proverb |
| "It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are." |
Elvis Presley |
| "It is not your obligation to complete the task [of perfecting the world], but neither are you free to desist [from doing all you can]." |
Ethics of the Fathers 2:16 |
| "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." |
Kahlil Gibran |
| "All my days I have been raised among the Sages, and I found nothing better for oneself than silence; not study, but practice is the main thing; and one who talks excessively brings on sin." |
Shimon ben Rabban Gamliel, Pirkei Avot 1:17 |
| "To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." |
Confucius |
| "The best charity is followed by contentment so begin with those related to you." |
The Prophet Muhammed, as reported by Abu Hurairah |
| "Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones." |
Hasidic saying attributed to the Belzer Rebbe, Shalom Rokeakh |
| "The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it." |
Gerard Groote |
| "All tremble when there is a weapon, Everyone fears death; Feeling for others as for oneself, One should neither kill nor cause to kill." |
Dhammapada |
| "It is good to make a habit of inspiring yourself with a melody For the loftiness of melody is beyond all measure." |
Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav |
| "Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day." |
William James |
| "The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts." |
His Holiness The Dalai Lama, "The Good Heart" |
| If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. |
Unknown |
| "All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin." |
Lord Byron |
| A man cannot say to the Angel of Death, "Wait till I make up my accounts." |
Ecclesiastes Rabbah 8 |
| "Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are notcaught by it." |
Dalai Lama |
| "What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul." |
Yiddish Proverb |
| "Every good deed is charity whether you come to your brother's assistance or just greet him with a smile." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as reported by Ja'bir bin Abd'Allah |
| "In pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up." |
R.H. Grenville |
| "If you do not let your son grow up as a Jew, you deprive him of those sources of energy which cannot be replaced by anything else. He will have to struggle as a Jew...Do not deprive him of that advantage." |
Sigmund Freud |
| "This is what the Holy One said to Israel: My children, what do I seek from you? I seek no more than that you love one another and honor one another." |
Tanna d'Bai Eliyahu, medieval rabbinic work |
| "We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through the fabric of illusion." |
Ansel Adams |
| "I have only one life, and it is short enough. Why waste it on the things I don't want most?" |
Justice Louis Brandeis |
| "If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure." |
Robert Hillyer |
| "Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free; Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." |
Chuang Tsu |
| "Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?" |
Sai Baba |
| "There is no true justice unless mercy is part of it." |
The Zohar |
| "I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way." |
Carl Sandburg |
| "The pure Tzaddikim (righteous people), do not complain against wickedness but add righteousness. They do not complain against disbelief but add faith. They do not complain against ignorance but add wisdom." |
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook |
| "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." |
Henry Ford |
| "Three things restore a person's good spirits: beautiful sounds, sights, and smells." |
Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 57b |
| "Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank." |
Christina Rossetti |
| "For, living with a fool, one grieves a long time. Painful is communion with fools, as with an enemy |
always. Happy is communion with the enlightened, as with a gathering of kin." -- Dhammapada, 15, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. |
| "The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us." |
Ashley Montagu |
| " This is what the Holy One said to Israel: My children, what do I seek from you? I seek no more than that you love one another and honor one another." |
Tanna d'Bai Eliyahu, medieval rabbinic work |
| "It is better to have less if it is with peace of mind than to have abundant wealth but with a tormented spirit." |
Ecclesiastes |
| "There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience." |
French Proverb |
| "Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is." |
Maxim Gorky |
| "Love is something, if you give it away, you'll end up having more." |
Unknown |
| "A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." |
Mark Twain |
| "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read." |
Mark Twain |
| "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." |
Mark Twain |
| "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." |
Mark Twain |
| "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." |
Mark Twain |
| "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." |
Mark Twain |
| "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live." |
Mark Twain |
| "Familiarity breeds contempt - and children." |
Mark Twain |
| "I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." |
Mark Twain |
| "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." |
Mark Twain |
| "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." |
Mark Twain |
| "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." |
Mark Twain |
| "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." |
Mark Twain |
| "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." |
Mark Twain |
| "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." |
Mark Twain |
| "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up." |
Mark Twain |
| "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." |
Mark Twain |
| "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." |
Douglas Adams |
| "In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri." |
Douglas Adams |
| "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" |
| "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." |
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless |
| "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." |
Aristotle |
| "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." |
Isaac Asimov |
| "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." |
Isaac Asimov |
| "Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest." |
Isaac Asimov |
| "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'" |
Isaac Asimov |
| One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. |
Isaac Asimov, Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950 |
| "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." |
Jeff Valdez |
| "In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it." |
Unknown |
| "The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'" |
Aaron Copland |
| "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." |
George Eliot (1819 - 1880) |
| "Music is essentially useless, as life is." |
George Santayana (1863 - 1952) |
| "Attention is living; inattention is dying. The attentive never stop; the inattentive are dead already." |
Dhammapada 21, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. |
| "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair." |
Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| "It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." |
Agatha Christie |
| "Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?" |
Elvis Presley |
| "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." |
Robert Frost |
| Student: "How can I become enlightened?" Neem Karoli Baba: "Feed people." |
Unknown |
| "A man is only as good as what he loves." |
Saul Bellow, "Seize the Day" |
| "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." |
Confucius |
| "Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach." |
Sydney Smith |
| "Hatred makes the straight crooked." |
Hebrew proverb |
| "Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out." |
Frank A. Clark |
| "If I try to be like him, who will be like me?" |
Yiddish Proverb |
| "It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world." |
William Cobbett |
| "Always remember: Joy is not merely incidental to your spiritual quest. It is vital." |
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov |
| "Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights." |
Henry David Thoreau |
| "Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives." |
Viktor Frankl |
| "Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot." |
The Hausa of Nigeria |
| "When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." |
Elie Wiesel |
| "No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you." |
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness In Plain English" |
| "Religion is not, at the outset, a refuge of grace and mercy for the despondent and desperate, an enchanted stream for crushed spirits, but a raging, clamorous torrent of man's consciousness, with all its crises, pangs, and torments." |
Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik |
| "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." |
Meister Eckhart |
| "If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat." |
Proverbs 25:21 |
| Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. |
Unknown |
| "Just as a reservoir is of little use when the whole countryside is flooded, scriptures are of little use to the illumined man or woman who sees the Lord everywhere." |
Bhagavad Gita 2:46 |
| "I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Give of yourself... you can always give something, even if it is only kindness... No one has ever become poor from giving." |
Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl" |
| "Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, and I'll understand." |
Chinese Proverb |
| Those who believe they can do something are probably right - and so are those who believe they can't. |
Unknown |
| "Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done." |
Sam Ewing |
| "If you want to get rid of your enemy, the true way is to realize that your enemy is delusion." |
Kegon Sutra |
| "Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby." |
Ruth E. Renkel |
| "It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." |
e.e. cummings |
| "Choices are the hinges of destiny." |
Edwin Markham |
| "Woe to him who is alone and falls with no companion to raise him." |
Ecclesiastes 4:10 |
| "A good friend will come bail you out of jail................... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn we #%*#&ed up!!!!." |
Unknown |
| "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." |
Thich Nhat Hanh |
| "You don't just luck into things...You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities." |
Barbara Bush |
| "A man is what he is, not what he used to be." |
Yiddish proverb |
| "There are men who hate me; Let me love them. There are men I have wronged; Let them forgive me." |
Saying of the Dinka Tribe |
| "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." |
Erica Jong |
| "Don't worry that children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you." |
Robert Fulghum |
| "Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." |
Oscar Wilde |
| "If you think you are free, You are free. If you think you are bound, You are bound. For the saying is true: You are what you think." |
Ashtavakra Gita 1:11 |
| "Who finds a faithful friend finds a treasure." |
Ben Sira 6:14 |
| "Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer." |
Sir Walter Scott |
| "Nothing is as liberating as joy. It frees the mind and fills it with tranquility." |
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov |
| "The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it." |
Alex Haley |
| "What you do may seem insignificant, but it's important that you do it." |
Mahatma Gandhi |
| Once a person asked the Prophet, "What is true faith?" The Prophet replied, "When your good endeavors bring you pleasure and your transgressions cause you anguish, you know that you are a person of faith." |
Reported by Abu Umamah |
| "Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day." |
Herman Hesse |
| "People were given two ears and one tongue so that they may listen more than speak." |
Jewish folk saying |
| "Conquer your foe by force, you increase his enmity; conquer by love, and you will reap no after-sorrow." |
Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King |
| "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one." |
Benjamin Franklin |
| "The fairest graciousness, they say, is a kindly look.Wherever it thrives, the whole world flourishes." |
Tirukkural 58:571 |
| "The righteous among the nations of the world will have a share in the World-to-Come." |
Tosefta Sanhedrin 13:2 |
| "Compassion is the willingness to play in the field of dreams even though you are awake." |
Matthew Flickstein, "Swallowing the River Ganges" |
| "Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself." |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "Love is as strong as death." |
Song of Songs 8:6 |
| "Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." |
Elvis Presley |
| "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." |
Chinese Proverb |
| "It is better for my enemy to see good in me than for me to see evil in him." |
Yiddish proverb |
| "Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting." |
Robert Frost |
| "If you add to the truth, you subtract from it." |
The Talmud |
| "If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?" |
Stephen King |
| "He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all." |
Miguel de Cervantes |
| "What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth." |
Jewish proverb |
| "In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." |
Dag Hammarskjold |
| "If I have seen farther than other men it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." |
Isaac Newton |
| "Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards." |
Soren Kierkegaard |
| "There is no sweet companion like pure charity." |
Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King |
| "The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill." |
W. Clement Stone |
| "Life continues to create itself and fall away, and suffering returns, and delight arrives, if even for a moment |
agony, peace, rapture." -- Sandy Boucher, "Hidden Spring" |
| "That which you see and hear, you cannot help; but that which you say depends on you alone." |
Zohar |
| "Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." |
Neil Armstrong |
| "If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves." |
Thomas Edison |
| "Knowledge is hidden by selfish desire |
hidden by this unquenchable fire for self-satisfaction." -- Bhagavad Gita 3:38-39 |
| "Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing." |
Randolph Bourne |
| "Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues." |
Confucius |
| "The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice. They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith. They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom." |
Rav Kook |
| "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song." |
Maya Angelou |
| "A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint." |
Albert Schweitzer |
| "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." |
George W. Bush, May 14 |
| "Self-trust is the first secret of success." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai...used to say: If you have a sapling in your hand, and someone should say to you that the Messiah has come, stay and complete the planting, and then go to greet the Messiah. |
Avot de Rabbi Nathan, 31b |
| "Salvation is not putting a man into Heaven, but putting Heaven into man." |
Maltbie D. Babcock |
| A poor devotee points to the sky and says, "God is up there." An average devotee says, "God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master." The best devotee says, "God alone is and everything I perceive is a form of God." |
Ramakrishna |
| "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "The highest form of grace is silence." |
Swami Chinmayananda |
| "You have always been one with the Buddha, so do not pretend you can ATTAIN to this oneness by various practices." |
Huang Po, "Zen Teaching of Huang Po" |
| "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. |
Nelson Mandela |
| "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." |
Mohandas Gandhi |
| "That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally." |
William Feather |
| "Nine Gigs for the Secretaries fair, Seven Gigs for the hackers scarce, Five Gigs for the Grads in smoky lairs, Three Gigs for system source; One Disk to rule them all, One Disk to bind them, One Disk to hold the files, and in the darkness grind 'em, in Redmond, where the Shadows lie." |
apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien |
| "If the chimney is full of smoke, how can the light be seen? If the mind is full of dirt, how can the soul shine?" |
Yogaswami of Jaffna |
| "Selfishness may be sweet only for oneself, but no harmony of the whole can come from it." |
Tenrikyo Osashizu |
| "Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress." |
Nicholas Murray Butler |
| "Love unaccompanied by criticism is not love....Peace unaccompanied by reproof is not peace." |
Genesis Rabbah 54:3 |
| "Our freedom is not in being saved troubles, but is the freedom to take trouble for our own good, and make the trouble an element in our joy." |
Rabindranath Tagore |
| "Love consists in looking together in the same direction." |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| "Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has." |
Alphonse Karr |
| "Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity." |
Maimonides |
| "Dreams are but thoughts until their effects be tried." |
William Shakespeare |
| "Reshape yourself through the power of your will; never let yourself be degraded by self-will. The will is the only friend of the Self, and the will is the only enemy of the Self." |
Bhagavad Gita 6:5 |
| "The saving of life supersedes the Sabbath." |
Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 132a |
| "He who wants to expand the field of happiness, let him lay the foundation of it on the bottom of his heart." |
Tao saying |
| "No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living." |
Marie Beynon Ray |
| "A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway to life." |
Celia Luce |
| "If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the present, for that is the past's effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the present, for that is the cause of the future." |
Majjhima Nikaya |
| "You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow." |
Anonymous |
| "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." |
William James |
| "We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same." |
Carlos Castaneda |
| "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A sorrow shared is half a sorrow, a joy shared is twice a joy. |
Unknown |
| "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 |
| "The deeper a sand-well is dug the freer is its flow of water. Even so, the deeper a man's learning the greater is his wisdom." |
Tirukkural 40:396 |
| "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." |
Aldous Huxley |
| "I have gotten somewhat nervous at some of the pronouncements Rumsfeld has made......It's scary, " |
General Norman Schwarzkopf, speaking on Iraq |
| "Fulfillment of desire is an illusion; desire leads to more desire, not satisfaction." |
Kathleen McDonald, "How to Meditate" |
| "There exists something that cannot be described." |
Maharamayana |
| "Words are the guides to acts; the mouth makes the first move." |
Rabbi Leon da Modena |
| "We can do no great things - only small things with great love." |
Mother Teresa |
| "In seeking wisdom the first step is silence, the second: listening, the third: remembering, the fourth: practicing, the fifth: teaching others." |
Solomon Ibn Gabirol |
| "Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." |
Emily Dickinson |
| "A half-truth is a whole lie." |
Yiddish proverb |
| "Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." |
William Sloane Coffin, Jr. |
| "All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it." |
Syrus |
| "Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors." |
Jewish proverb |
| "A person should be more concerned with spiritual than with material matters, but another person's material welfare is his own spiritual concern." |
Rabbi Israel Salanter |
| "How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." |
William Shakespeare |
| "Great souls are not those which have less passion and more virtue than common souls, but only those which have greater designs." |
Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "Where there is great love, there are always miracles." |
Willa Cather |
| "You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take." |
Wayne Gretzky |
| "There are years that ask questions, and years that answer." |
Zora Neale Hurston |
| "While practicing generosity, we should always remember how very fortunate we are to have this opportunity." |
Gomo Tulku, "Becoming a Child of the Buddhas" |
| "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them." |
John Stuart Mill |
| "Even a poor man who himself survives on charity should give charity." |
Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 7b |
| "All those who walk with God reach their destination." |
Sai Baba |
| What do you call a sleepwalking priest? A Roamin' Catholic. |
Unknown |
| If Necessity is the mother of invention, who's the father? (Accident?) |
Unknown |
| "The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed." |
Roger Houseden |
| There was an orangutan who was found in his cage at the local zoo with 2 books, one in each hand. He appeared to be reading them both. One was the Bible. The other was Darwin's Origin of Species. When asked, he said he was trying to determine if he was his brother's keeper or his keeper's brother. |
Unknown |
| "Nobody sees a flower, really |
it is so small we haven't time, and to see takes time." -- Georgia O'Keefe |
| "The best charity is to satisfy a hungry person." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as reported by Anas bin Malik |
| "Perfection has one grave defect; it is apt to be dull." |
Somerset Maugham |
| "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together." |
Vesta M. Kelly |
| "First improve yourself, then improve others." |
Babylonian Talmud |
| "There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me." |
Thomas Jefferson |
| "Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer." |
Rita May Brown. |
| "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." |
Paul Ehrlich. |
| "The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again." |
Al Goodman. |
| "The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit." |
Eric Porterfield. |
| "I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison." |
WC Fields |
| "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." |
Socrates. |
| "An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex." |
Edgar Wallace. |
| "Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones." |
Mike Barfield. |
| "The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." |
Albert Einstein. |
| "Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are." |
Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show |
| "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." |
Lou Holtz |
| "When I die I'm going to leave my body to science fiction." |
Steven Wright. |
| "Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost." |
Russell Baker |
| "A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." |
Howard Scott. |
| "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." |
Will Rogers |
| "I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it." |
George Burns |
| "Coffee isn't my cup of tea." |
Samuel Goldwyn |
| "I do benefits for all religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality." |
Bob Hope |
| "Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing." |
Robert Benchley |
| "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." |
G. K. Chesterton |
| Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here." |
Steven Wright |
| "I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn't have to wait for it to age." |
Steven Wright |
| "I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done." |
Steven Wright |
| "If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?" |
Steven Wright |
| "My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere." |
Steven Wright |
| "(Referring to a glass of water) I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody!" |
Steven Wright |
| "I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically." |
Steven Wright |
| "It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous." |
Robert Benchley |
| "Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much." |
Oscar Wilde |
| "I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth." |
Christopher Hampton |
| "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." |
Robert Orben |
| "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her." |
Agatha Christie |
| "Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet." |
Robert Order |
| "The trouble with political jokes is that very often they get elected." |
Will Rogers |
| "The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech." |
George Bernard Shaw |
| "Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!" |
Mark Twain |
| "If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?" |
Robin Williams |
| "Carpe per diem - seize the check." |
Robin Williams |
| "Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe." |
Tao Te Ching |
| "Hasten with your charity, because disaster does not trample it." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as reported by 'Ali bin Abi Talib |
| "Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures." |
Horace Greeley |
| "It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside." |
Fred Rogers |
| "Teach your tongue to say, "I do not know," lest you be led to lie." |
Babylonian Talmud, "Berakhot 4a" |
| Comment made from an anonymous Quality Engineer about some software he/she tested: "my cat would have better luck producing good code by running back and forth across the keyboard" |
Unknown |
| "I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self." |
Fred Rogers, 1928-2003 |
| "Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs." |
Fred Rogers, 1928-2003 |
| "You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable." |
Fred Rogers, 1928-2003 |
| "When the shadow of the grasshopper falls across the trail of the field mouse on green and slimey grass as a red sun rises aboves the western horizon silhouetting a gaunt and tautly muscled Indian warrior perched with bow and arrow cocked and aimed straight at you, it's time for another martini" |
A.O'S. |
| "What is a friend? A single soul shared by two people." |
Aristotle |
| "Life isn't a matter of milestones, but moments." |
Rose Kennedy |
| "It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray." |
Aesop |
| "A woman is like a tea bag: you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." |
Nancy Reagan |
| "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 people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to live in stationary one, and do without change." |
George Bernard Shaw |
| "Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world." |
Helen Keller |
| "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for." |
Epicurus |
| "I am happy and content because I think I am." |
Alain-Rene Lesage |
| "We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to." |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it. |
Unknown |
| "Those who show compassion to the weak, treat parents gently, and pardon the enslaved shall be granted an easy death and the delights of Paradise." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as reported by Ja'bir bin Abd'Allah |
| "Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace." |
Ronald Reagan |
| "If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock at your door, you will not be able to open the door and accept it." |
Udana Sutta |
| "When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope." |
Hal Lindsey |
| "Fear builds walls to bar the light." |
Baal Shem Tov |
| "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." |
from "Dune" by Frank Herbert |
| "It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion" |
from "Dune" by Frank Herbert |
| "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." |
Abraham Lincoln |
| "There ain't no cloud so thick that the sun ain't shinin' on t'other side." |
Rattlesnake, an 1870s mountain man |
| "We cannot hold a torch to light another person's path without brightening our own." |
Ben Sweetland |
| "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." |
Mark Twain |
| "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 'The intense desire for God-realization is itself the way to it." |
Sri Anadamayi MM |
| "Our first priority should be to prepare a long-term strategy for improving the state of the world that focuses on the coming generations." |
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, "Imagine All the People" |
| "Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking." |
J.C. Watts |
| "If a man inflicts sorrow on another in the morning,Sorrow will come to him unbidden in the afternoon." |
Tirukkural 32:319 |
| "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." |
T.S. Eliot |
| Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." |
Ann Landers |
| "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." |
Basil King |
| "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." |
Albert Einstein |
| "Self-control will place a man among the Gods,While lack of it will lead him into deepest darkness." |
Tirukkural 13:121 |
| "Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'" |
Maya Angelou |
| "In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." |
Sir Francis Bacon |
| "If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back." |
Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "I've got my faults, but living in the past isn't one of them. There's no future in it." |
Sparky Anderson |
| Rubber bands last longer when refigerated. |
Unknown |
| Peanuts are one ingredient of dynamite. |
Unknown |
| There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar |
Unknown |
| The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. |
Unknown |
| A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. |
Unknown |
| There are more chickens than people in the world. |
Unknown |
| The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched" |
Unknown |
| On a Canadian $2 bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag. |
Unknown |
| All the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. |
Unknown |
| No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple. |
Unknown |
| "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends with "mt" |
Unknown |
| All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. |
Unknown |
| Almonds are a member of the peach family. |
Unknown |
| Winston Churchill was born in the ladies' room during a dance. |
Unknown |
| Maine is the only state whose name is one syllable. |
Unknown |
| There are only 4 words in the English language ending in "dous" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous. |
Unknown |
| A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. |
Unknown |
| An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. |
Unknown |
| Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. |
Unknown |
| In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. |
Unknown |
| A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. |
Unknown |
| It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. |
Unknown |
| In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. |
Unknown |
| The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes. |
Unknown |
| "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. |
Unknown |
| Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister. |
Unknown |
| The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. |
Unknown |
| "Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong." |
James Leo Herlihy |
| "Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself." |
Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant |
| "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." |
Sam Ewing |
| "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." |
Indira Gandhi |
| "The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it." |
Paul Scherer |
| Girls are like internet domain names, the ones I like are already taken. |
Unknown |
| "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." |
Will Rogers |
| "Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them." |
Lady Bird Johnson |
| "What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" |
Robert Schuller |
| "Sometimes you have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down." |
Kobi Yamada |
| "Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." |
Thomas Jefferson |
| "Not killing is the first and foremost good. The virtue of not lying comes next." |
Tirukkural 323 |
| "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." |
Helen Keller |
| "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up." |
Jesse Jackson |
| "Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it." |
Master Hsing Yun, "Describing the Indescribable" |
| Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. |
Unknown |
| "When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" |
Sydney J. Harris |
| "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." |
Daniel L. Reardon |
| "Good cannot come without opposition." |
Shalom Shakna, quoted in Buber's "Tales of the Hasidim" |
| "Defendants distribute and support software, the users of which can and do choose to employ it for both lawful and unlawful ends. Grokster and StreamCast are not significantly different from companies that sell home video recorders or copy machines, both of which can be and are used to infringe copyrights." |
Federal Court Judge Stephen Wilson |
| "Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things." |
Frank A. Clark |
| "Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." |
Winston Churchill |
| "One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks." |
Jack Penn |
| "Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less." |
Ken Blanchard |
| "Wise men think out their thoughts; fools proclaim them." |
Heine, "Gendanken und Einfalle" |
| "It's never crowded along the extra mile." |
Wayne Dyer |
| "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." |
Vernon Law |
| "When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people." |
Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." |
Erin Majors |
| "For I desire kindness, not sacrifice." |
Hosea 6:6, speaking in the name of God |
| "When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." |
Leo Burnett |
| "No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." |
Agnes DeMille |
| "The artist is one to whom all experience is revelation." |
Lewisohn, 'Creative Life' |
| 'Never say in weakness, "This task is too difficult," For perseverance will give the ability to accomplish it.' |
Tirukkural 611 |
| "Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out." |
James Bryant Conant |
| "Say little but do much." |
Pirkei Avot 1:15 |
| "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." |
Thomas Jefferson |
| "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." |
Janos Arany |
| "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells." |
Dr. Seuss |
| "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." |
Victor Borge |
| "Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship." |
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov |
| "The only way to pass any test is to take the test." |
Unknown |
| "It is never too late to give up your prejudices." |
Henry David Thoreau |
| The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. |
Unknown |
| "You should make your observations yourself, You should not be the man of someone else, Not in the dependence on another should you live, Nor go about making a trade out of holiness." |
Udana Sutta |
| "I want to sing like the birds sing not worrying about who hears or what they think." |
Rumi |
| Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground. |
Unknown |
| "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." |
Emily Dickinson |
| "Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape." |
Anonymous |
| "Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." |
Lou Brock |
| "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." |
Satchel Paige |
| "Be the miracle" |
Bruce Almighty |
| "Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well." |
Josh Billings |
| "If you are good, be better." |
Anonymous |
| "However prosperous it may seem, all wealth gained By loss of rightness must be relinquished that very day." |
Tirukkural 113 |
| "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." |
William A. Ward |
| "Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." |
Josh Billings |
| "What we see depends mainly on what we look for." |
John Lubbock |
| "If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero." |
Mahatma Gandhi |
| "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." |
Zig Ziglar |
| If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten. |
Unknown |
| "Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." |
Henry Van Dyke |
| "It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure." |
Emilio James Trujillo |
| "Come to the edge." "We can't. We're afraid." "Come to the edge." "We can't. We will fall!" "Come to the edge." And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. |
Guillaume Apollinaire |
| "And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." |
Anais Nin |
| "All beginnings require that you unlock a new door." |
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov |
| "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." |
Alexander Woollcott |
| The best way to predict your future is to create it. |
Unknown |
| "california is always three hours behind the times." |
Sir Laurence Olivier |
| "Who runs after honor comes behind him who flees from it." |
Talmud Jerushalmi: Aboda Zara, 3:1 |
| "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." |
Ambrose Redmoon |
| "Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." |
Chinese Proverb |
| "Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine." |
Buddha |
| "What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience." |
St. Francis de Sales |
| "Better than a gift given with a joyous heart Are sweet words spoken with a cheerful smile." |
Tirukkural 92 |
| "Your own practice can show you the truth. Your own experience is all that counts." |
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Mindfulness in Plain English" |
| "Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time." |
Mark Twain |
| "Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit." |
Henry David Thoreau |
| "No tongue speaks as much ill of us as our own." |
Sholom Aleichem, "Olom Habo" |
| "All great art comes from a sense of outrage." |
Glenn Close |
| "All beginnings require that you unlock a new door." |
Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav |
| "Money is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master." |
P.T. Barnum |
| "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose." |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Learning must be sought; it will not come of itself." |
Simeon b. Lakish, Midrash Mishle |
| "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." |
Bill Gates |
| "Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want." |
Robert Bringle |
| "To please all is an impossible aim, and to escape some criticism is an unattainable goal." |
M. Ibn Ezra, "Shirat Yisrael" |
| "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." |
Arthur Schopenhauer |
| "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." |
Carol Burnett |
| "An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness." |
Elbert Hubbard |
| "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." |
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi |
| "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." |
Henry Ford |
| "When in doubt, tell the truth." |
Mark Twain |
| "Nature has no particular goal in view, and final causes are mere human figments." |
Spinoza, "Ethics" |
| "He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh." |
The Qur'an |
| "Prompted by love is greater than prompted by fear." |
Simeon b. Eleazar, Talmud: Sota, 31a |
| "We must be the change we wish to see in the world" |
Ghandi |
| "Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| "A Religion is as much a progressive unlearning of false ideas concerning God as it is the learning of the true ideas concerning God." |
Mordecai Kaplan |
| "And now for something completely different." - Monty Python |
Unknown |
| "Just like a blossom, bright colored and full of scent: a well-spoken word is fruitful when well carried out." |
Dhammapada 52, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu |
| "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." |
Carl Jung |
| "No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you." |
Althea Gibson |
| "Regard as trifling the great good you did to others, and as enormous the little good others did to you." |
Talmud |
| "Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks." |
Charles Dickens |
| "Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength." |
Eric Hoffer |
| "We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." |
Abraham Lincoln |
| "Perhaps a human being does not die until he no longer sees anything but the past and the present moment." |
Leo Baeck, "The Pharisees" |
| "If you return kindness for injuries received and forget both, Those who harmed you will be punished by their own shame." |
Tirukkural 314 |
| "In my own experience, the period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. ...Through a difficult period, you can learn, you can develop inner strength, determination, and courage to face the problem. Who gives you this chance? Your enemy." |
His Holiness the Dalai Lama |
| "It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." |
Lena Horne |
| Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow. |
Unknown |
| "Rather suffer an injustice than commit one." |
Yiddish proverb |
| "and there was much rejoicing." "Yaaaay..." |
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Gr |
| "Of all the major team games, baseball is the most leisurely by nature. It's often attacked for this by people who, I am convinced, must be incredibly obtuse or selling some other product." |
Leonard Koppett, "The Thinking Fan's Guide To Baseball" |
| To admit you were wrong is to declare you are wiser now than before. |
Unknown |
| "If I knew God, I would be God." |
Medieval Jewish proverb |
| "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." |
George Bernard Shaw |
| "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." |
W.M. Lewis |
| "The thoughtless glutton who gorges himself beyond His digestive fire's limits will be consumed by limitless ills." |
Tirukkural 947Excerpted from the Tirukkural |
| "It's always too early to quit." |
Norman Vincent Peale |
| "He is great who is not ashamed to admit he does not know." |
Judah HaNasi, Talmud Jerushalmi: Hagiga |
| "If you don't run your own life, someone else will." |
John Atkinson |
| "Help thy brother's boat across and thine own has reached the shore." |
Hindu proverb |
| "Love is selflessness - self is lovelessness." |
Sai Baba |
| "You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be." |
Dr. Wayne Dyer |
| "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." |
Samuel Johnson |
| "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." |
Coco Chanel |
| "You only live once-but if you work it right, once is enough." |
Joe E. Lewis |
| If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. |
Unknown |
| "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience." |
George Washington |
| "It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices." |
Professor Dumbledore to Harry in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," by J.K. Rowling |
| "Those who are free from arrogance, anger, and lust Will prosper in great dignity." |
Tirukkural 431 |
| "To be loved, be lovable." |
Ovid |
| "It is the lot of man to suffer, it is also his fortune to forget." |
Disraeli, "Vivian Grey" |
| "It's easy to make a buck, but hard to make a difference." |
Tom Brokaw |
| "Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world in the eye." |
Helen Keller |
| "Common sense is strengthened by joy." |
Nahman of Bratzlav |
| "Don't let other people tell you what you want." |
Pat Riley |
| "First a person should put his house together, then his town, then the world." |
Rabbi Israel Salanter |
| "Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." |
Katherine Mansfield |
| "The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear." |
Maya Angelou |
| "God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known." |
Maimonides, "Eight Chapters" |
| "Let all thoughts be thoughts of noble progress,For then even failing cannot be called a failure." |
Tirukkural 596 |
| "I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point." |
Susan Sarandon |
| "That which cannot be comprehended by the mind, but by which the mind comprehends; the which encompasses the mind |
know that to be Brahman." -- Kena Upanishad |
| "Take time every day to do something silly." |
Philipa Walker |
| "If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun." |
Katherine Hepburn |
| "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." |
Will Rogers |
| "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." |
G.K. Chesterton |
| "It is not your obligation to complete the task [of perfecting the world], but neither are you free to desist [from doing all you can]." |
Ethics of the Fathers 2:16 |
| Life is not measured by how many breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. |
Unknown |
| "Saints are sinners who kept going." |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
| "You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left." |
Yogi Berra |
| "If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "Elbow grease is the best polish." |
English Proverb |
| "The best way to attain happiness is not to seek it." |
Montefiore, "Liberal Judaism" |
| "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for remaining ashore." |
Vincent Van Gogh |
| "Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there." |
Anonymous |
| "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." |
John Steinbeck |
| "A gentle hand may lead an elephant with a single hair." |
Persian proverb |
| "What is in your heart about your fellow man is most likely in his heart about you." |
Sifre Deuteronomy |
| "Miracles occur, but food is rarely provided by them." |
Nahman b. Jacob, Talmud: Sabbath, 53b |
| "The fly cannot be driven away by getting angry at it." |
African proverb |
| AND THE # 1 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: You read about all these Terrorists ~ most of them came here legally, but they hung around on these expired visas ~ some for as long as 10 to 15 years. Now, compare that to Blockbuster; you are 2 days late with a video and those people are all over you. Let's put Blockbuster in charge of immigration. |
Unknown |
| Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. |
Unknown |
| The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. |
Unknown |
| Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. |
Unknown |
| There are two kinds of pedestrians ~ the quick and the dead. |
Unknown |
| An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys. |
Unknown |
| If quitters never win, and winners never quit, then who is the fool who said, "Quit while you're ahead?" |
Unknown |
| Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. |
Unknown |
| The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. |
Unknown |
| Get the last word in: Apologize! |
Unknown |
| Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. |
Unknown |
| Some people are like Slinkies ~~ not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs. |
Unknown |
| Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. |
Unknown |
| Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they use to? |
Unknown |
| Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. |
Unknown |
| All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. |
Unknown |
| Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents? |
Unknown |
| In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. |
Unknown |
| How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? |
Unknown |
| "Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God." |
Karl Barth |
| "Religion is not, at the outset, a refuge of grace and mercy for the despondent and desperate, an enchanted stream for crushed spirits, but a raging, clamorous torrent of man's consciousness, with all its crises, pangs, and torments." |
Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik |
| "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." |
Pablo Picasso |
| "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." |
Leonard Cohen |
| "Never has a man who has made himself crooked been able to make others straight." |
Menicus |
| "If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat." |
Proverbs 25:21 |
| "When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." |
Ethiopian proverb |
| "There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope." |
Spinoza, "Ethics" |
| "It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it." |
Somerset Maugham |
| "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." |
G.K. Chesterton |
| "The only way to have a friend is to be one." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Who is rich? One who is happy with what he has." |
Ethics of the Fathers 4:1 |
| "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig." |
Mark Twain |
| "The Creator...is revealed to the heart, not to the eye...Thou wilt find thy God within thy bosom, Walking gently in thine heart." |
Judah Halevi, "Selected Poems" |
| "Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness, of a belief." |
Schnitzler, "Buch der Spruche & Bedenken" |
| "Keep a green tree alive in your heart and a songbird may come to sing there." |
Chinese Proverb |
| "Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself." |
St. Francis de Sales |
| "One should not promise a child something, and then not give it to him, because as a result, the child will learn to lie." |
Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 46b |
| 'One of my colleagues at work has been under a lot of pressure recently, and all her sentences have been starting with "God", "Jesus" or "Sh1t"... Clearly we have much to learn about the Holy Trinity' |
unknown |
| "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." |
Margaret Mead |
| One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. |
Unknown |
| "Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." |
Les Brown |
| "We wonder why the dogs always drink out of our toilets, but look at it from their point of view: why do humans keep peeing into their water bowls?" |
Douglas Helsel |
| "When one teaches, two learn." |
Robert Half |
| "Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur." |
Muriel Spark |
| "I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate." |
George Burns |
| "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." |
Mark Twain |
| "Who finds a faithful friend finds a treasure." |
Ben Sira 6:14 |
| 'credo quia absurdum' - 'I believe because it is absurd.' |
Unknown |
| "For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe." |
Anonymous |
| "Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger." |
Lou Holtz |
| "It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." |
Elizabeth Kenny |
| "Tomorrow hopes that we have learned something from yesterday." |
John Wayne |
| "Anger deprives a sage of his wisdom, a prophet of his vision." |
Simeon b. Lakish, Talmud: Pesahim, 66b |
| "Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues." |
Moshe ibn Ezra, "Shirat Yisrael" |
| "The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour." |
Anonymous |
| "We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come." |
George Gershwin |
| "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." |
Thomas A. Edison |
| "I cannot tell anyone who God is or what God is. That is not within the capacity of any human being, no matter how pretentious a title that person may have." |
John Shelby Spong |
| "Give your ear to all, your hand to a friend, but your mouth only to your wife." |
Yiddish Proverb |
| "Be happy! / For you are joy, unbounded joy. / You are awareness itself. / Just as a coil of rope / Is mistaken for a snake, / So you are mistaken for the world." |
Ashtavakra Gita 1:10 |
| "A man without comrades is like the left without the right." |
Ibn Gabirol, "Mibhar HaPeninim" |
| "Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles." |
George Eliot |
| "The continuous and unbroken awareness of the indwelling presence, the inner light of consciousness, is the supreme meditation and devotion." |
Maharamayana |
| "Standing in the middle of the road is dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides." |
Margaret Thatcher |
| "Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite." |
Dan Quayle |
| "Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them." |
Brendan Francis |
| Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow". |
Unknown |
| "I never cease to be amazed at the number of people who apparently believe that freedom of speech and freedom of thought are so precious that they must on no account actually be used." |
Roy Gillett |
| "Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do." |
Albert Gray |
| "Fulfill all your duties; action is better than inaction. Even to maintain your body, Arjuna, you are obliged to act. Selfish action imprisons the world. Act selflessly, without any thought of personal profit." |
Bhagavad Gita 3:8-9 |
| "You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing." |
Lewis Freedman |
| "Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." |
Will Rogers |
| "Remove the rock from your shoe rather than learn to limp comfortably." |
"Inneractions" by Stephen C. Paul and Gary Max Collins |
| "The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." |
Helen Keller |
| History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it merely shouts, "Weren't you listening the first time!" and lets fly with a club. |
Terry Pratchett |
| "Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?" |
A Course in Miracles |
| "The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp." |
John Berry |
| "For have you not heard? You are pure awareness, And your beauty is infinite! So why let lust mislead you?" |
Ashtavakra Gita 3:4 |
| "There is a key for everything, and the key to Paradise is to love the poor." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as reported by Ibn Umar |
| "On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean." |
Aldous Huxley |
| "Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow is wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly." |
Old Eskimo proverb |
| "Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds." |
Grenville Kleiser |
| "One's little miseries make one realize the more the greater miseries of others." |
L. Stein, "Journey into the Self" |
| "Your nature is pure awareness. You are flowing in all things, And all things are flowing in you. But beware The narrowness of the mind!" |
Ashtavakra Gita 1:16 |
| "Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you." |
Frank Tyger |
| "When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature." |
Sydney Smith |
| "If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to keep standing on top and reaching down to him a helping hand.... You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself into the light." |
Solomon ben Meir ha-Levi of Karlin |
| "He who is outside the door has already got a good part of his journey behind him." |
Dutch proverb |
| "Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." |
Winston Churchill |
| "The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration." |
Kurt Vonnegut |
| "If you can't accept losing, you can't win." |
Vince Lombardi |
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Unknown |
| "Wisdom is a weapon with which a man may ward off destruction; It is an inner fortress which no enemy can assail. Wisdom will harness the mind, diverting it From wrong and directing it toward right." |
Tirukkural 43: 421-422 |
| "Great moments are always outside of time." |
S. Zweig, "World of Yesterday" |
| "The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling." |
Lucretius |
| "Beware the leader who bangs the drum of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor. For patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind." |
Julius Caesar |
| "He who spares a tree is apt to spare a man." |
Blau, "The Wonder of Life" |
| "Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel." |
G.K. Chesterton |
| "We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "Remember the virtues you lack and the faults you have; forget the good you did and the wrong you received." |
Orhot Tzaddikim, 15C |
| "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." |
Auguste Rodin |
| "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." |
Lucille Ball |
| Some people asked a Sufi master, "Which is better, courage or generosity?" The Sufi master replied, "Those who are generous, have no need for courage." |
Sadi, "Gulistan" |
| "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.' |
Grace Murray Hopper |
| "I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all." |
Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| "There's an important difference between giving up and letting go." |
Jessica Hatchigan |
| "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." |
George Bernard Shaw |
| "Just as we love ourselves despite the faults we know we have, so should we love our neighbors despite the faults we see in them." |
Israel Baal Shem Tov |
| "The man who has no imagination has no wings." |
Muhammad Ali |
| "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." |
Christopher Morley |
| "To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face." |
James Whitcomb Riley |
| Ducharme's Axiom: "If you view your problem closely enough, you will recognize yourself as part of the problem" |
Unknown |
| "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." |
Nelson Mandela |
| "You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on." |
Heraclitus |
| "We comprehend only that He exists, not His essence." |
Maimonides, "Guide for the Perplexed" |
| "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." |
Samuel Johnson |
| "Your three best doctors are faith, time, and patience." |
From a fortune cookie |
| "He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six." |
Chinese Proverb |
| "Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot." |
Malay proverb |
| "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." |
Chinese Proverb |
| "We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory." |
Bern Williams |
| "A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life." |
William A. Ward |
| "Hatred makes the straight crooked." |
Hebrew proverb |
| "When you see the misfortune of your brother, do not rejoice, for Allah may save him and afflict you with the same misfortune." |
The Prophet Muhammad, as reported by Wa'silah bin al-Asqa'a |
| "Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back. If you smile at it, it returns the greeting." |
Herbert Samuels |
| "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." |
Benjamin Franklin |
| "Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?" |
David Halberstam |
| "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." |
Malcolm Forbes |
| "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." |
Lauren Bacall |
| "The morning is wiser than the evening." |
Russian proverb |
| "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." |
William Allen White |
| "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." |
Motto of the Special Olympics |
| "Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." |
Henry J. Kaiser |
| "Your daily life is your temple and your religion." |
Kahlil Gibran |
| "Getting angry is like worshipping idols." |
Midrash LeOlam |
| "i thank You God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes." |
e.e. cummings |
| "Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." |
Maori proverb |
| "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." |
Joseph Campbell |
| "There once was an artclarkeasaurus / Which lived when the Earth was all porous / But it fainted with shame / When it heard of its name / And departed long ages before us." |
Arthur C. Clarke |
| "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it" |
Ancient Chinese Proverb |
| "There is a chasm of carbon and silicon the software can't bridge" |
Rahul Sonnad |
| Sometimes seventeen syllables aren't enough to express a complete |
Unknown |
| Today your driver is |
Unknown |
| "Now it's over I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want; or I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do." |
They Might Be Giants |
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Unknown |
| "Beware the leader who bangs the drum of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor. For patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind." |
Julius Caesar |
| "It seems to me this is not the real world." |
The Stragglyrs, from "Not the Real World" |
| "Don't let the past drag you down from behind" |
The Stragglyrs, "Drag You Down |
| "Last night I shot an elephant in my Pajamas and how he got in my pajamas I'll never know." |
Groucho Marx |
| "How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol Hordes got bored?" |
Calvin from "Calvin & Hobbes" |