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Abraham Heschel (1907-1972)
- Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
Paraphrased: Discipline is the price we must pay for self-respect.
Abraham Lincoln
- And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Most people are as happy as they want to be.
Abraham H. Maslow
- Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Dr. Adam
- A healthy man has a thousand wishes. An unhealthy man has only one.
Aesop (620 B.C.)
- No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
African Proverb
- Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
- When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Agnes de Mille
- No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Air Force Pilot (Oct 2004)
- The three best things in life for a pilot are: a great landing, a great orgasm, and a great bowel movement. Doing a night landing on a carrier allows you to enjoy all three at once.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
- The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
- When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Pine
- What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
- Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
- In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Aldous Huxley
- Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Alec Bourne
- It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alistair Cooke
- A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
Anais Nin
- We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Andrea Weisbrod
- It is always the right time for anything positive!
Andy Webster
- Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender, and race.
We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph.
Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I have ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh, and live more fully.
Anne Frank
- Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.
Anne Rice
- There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it.
Anne Sexton
- It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anthony Robbins
- I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
- The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Aristotle (384BC - 322BC)
- We make war that we may live in peace.
Arlene Blum
- As long as you believe what you�re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arthur Clarke
- The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Well done is better than well said.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and writer
- A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
- A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.
- War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Beverly Sills
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don�t try.
Billy Crystal
- By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.
Bill Gates
- Only when America proves that capitalism can cure social ills wihin its own borders should it look to prove so abroad. (Time Magazine - August 25, 2008 - Page 6)
Bob Dylan
- A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Ettinger
- Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one.
If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice.
There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp.
Bolivian Proverb
- A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Boyd K. Packer
- When people are able but unwilling to take care of themselves, we are responsible to employ the dictum of the Lord that the Idler shall not eat the bread of the Laborer.
Brian Tracy
- Do what you love to do and commit yourself to doing it in an excellent fashion.
- If you don�t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else.
- I�ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
- Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it.
- Worry is negative goal setting.
Buddha
- Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- The source of all pain is attachment.
Buddy Hackett
- Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guy's out dancing.
Celtic Saying
- When God made time, He made enough of it.
Charles Dana (1819-1897)
- Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Charles Darwin (1848-1925)
- In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Charles DeGaulle (1890-1970)
- Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles Dickens
- Reflect on your present blessings--of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)
- The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles M. de Talleyrand
- Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Charles F. Kettering
- You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is
of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles Louis de Secondat
Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
- Civility buys everything and costs nothing.
Charles Schwab
- Don�t limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
Chinese Proverb
- Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
- If you want happiness for an hour � take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day � go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year � inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime � help someone else.
- People in the West are always getting ready to live.
- The palest ink is better than the sharpest memory.
- When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.
C. J. Woods
- The best things in life are not things.
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)
- When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
Confucius
- Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
Christopher Reeve
- At first our dreams seem impossible, then they seem improbable, but when we summon the will, they become inevitable.
Clarence Daryl
- The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents, the last half is ruined by our children.
Dakota Proverb
- We will be known by the tracks we leave behind.
Dale Carnegie
- I shall pass this way but once, any good, therefore, that i can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Danny Kaye
- Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Dave Barry
- If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life,
she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.
David Sisler
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one,
an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. (See also: Edmund Burke)
Dick Morris - Political commentator for Fox News
- He observed the four leading GOP presidential contenders for 2008:
John McCain, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rudy Giuliani.
He noted: The only one of these guys who hasn't had multiple wives is the Mormon.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
- Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dr. Phil
Donald Kennedy
- A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
- Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.
Duke Ellington
- A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Earl Nightingale
- If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
- People with goals succeed because they know where they are going�It�s as simple as that.
Earl Warren (1891-1974)
- Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
E. H. Harriman
- It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
Ed Furgol
- My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
Ed Nadalin
- I've considered myself a loner when it comes to reasoning things out through my life
and trying to figure things out through a unique process that I can call my own,
but I have never been alone when it comes to enjoying everything once I figure
it out; and friends are the important pieces from the puzzle of life
that are rewarding.
- Every increment in the time of our lives is gaining on the inevitable moment when we say to ourselves
that we have wasted too much time in a vacuum of our own egocentricity.....
it's time to reach out and share the intensity of our deepest emotions of peace and love
to make our lives more meaningful and graceful in the transition to the unknown...
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
- Ambition can creep as well as soar.
- Our patience will achieve more than our force.
- The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
Also - Dante: The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
- The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. (See also: David Sisler)
Also: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
- The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Eleanor Roosevelt
- Life has to be lived. That�s all there is to it.
Ellen O'Neal Deason
- The mind is energy. Regulate it.
- Where there is love, there is no question.
Elizabeth Harrison
- Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elmer Davis (1890-1958)
- The first and great commandment is: "Don't let them scare you."
Elvis Presley
- Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.
Emerson Andrews
- Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves.
English Proverb
- Use soft words and hard arguments.
Erastus Wiman
- Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
Eric (Neighbor)
- A Garage is the Colon of the House; it's where you keep all your crap.
Ernest Hemingway
- Never confuse movement with action.
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)
- Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eva Gabor
- Love is a game that two can play and both can win.
Evelyn Cameron
- I wish I could live a life worth looking back upon.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
- Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Francis Bacon
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Darwin (1848-1925)
- In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
- To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not at anchor - sail, not drift.
- We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Friedrich Nietzche
- No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
- Whenever I climb, I am followed by a dog named Ego.
G.C. Lichtenberg
- Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.
Galileo
- Mathematics is the language by which God wrote the universe.
- You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Gandhi
- Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
- He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
- The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- Liberty means responsibility.
- What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Carlin
- If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
- Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Georges Clemenceau
- A man�s life is interesting primarily when he had failed for it�s a sign that he had tried to surpass himself.
George Herbert (1593-1633)
- The best mirror is an old friend.
G. K. Chesterton
- An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
George S. Patton
- Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
- It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George Washington (1732-1799)
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Gloria Steinem
- A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
H.G. Wells
- The military mind is by necessity dull and unimaginaive.
Harper Lee �To Kill A Mockingbird�
- The one thing that doesn�t abide by majority rule is a person�s conscience.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
- Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
- The most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched, but felt within the heart.
- We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Henny Youngman
- What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
Henry Brooks Adams
- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Kissinger
- A problem ignored is a crisis invited.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present.
It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Ward Beecher
- Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Heraclitus (535-475 B.C.)
- Learning of many things does not teach intelligence.
Herman Hesse
- If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
What isn�t part of ourselves doesn�t disturb us.
Horace - Latin Poet - 30 B.C.
- Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the early generations of mankind,
works his ancestral acres, with oxen of his own breeding, from all usury free.
Hubert H. Humphrey
- The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hugo DeGroot (1583-1645)
- Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
- Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
- You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.
Irish Proverb
Italian Proverb
- He who lives by hope will die by hunger.
Ivy Baker Priest
- The world is round and the place which may seem like the end, may also be the beginning.
Jamaican Proverb
- A clear conscience sleeps during thunder.
James M. Barrie
- The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
James D. Miles
- You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
James Joyce
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Jane Curtain
- I can't have children. Nothing physically wrong, I just hate them.
Japanese Proverb
- Beginning is easy. Continuing is hard.
- He who would go a hundred miles should consider ninety-nine as halfway.
- We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Jean DeLa Fontaine (1621-1695)
- By the work one knows the workmen.
Jim Howell (Oct 2004)
- Man does not live by being bred alone.
- The one who loves the most, loses in the relationship.
- Time wounds all heals.
Jim Rohn
- Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life will turn out.
- Accuracy builds credibility.
- Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.
Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom.
- How long should you try? Until.
- If you don�t like how things are, change it!
- Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
- Pay attention. Don�t just stagger through the day.
- Success is a study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious I and Obvious II in school.
John Ciardi
- An ulcer is an unkissed imagination taking its revenge for having been jilted.
It is an undanced dance, an unpainted watercolor, an unwritten poem.
John Cotton Dana
- Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John W. Daniel (June 28, 1883)
Oration at the Dedication of the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Lexington
- The highest attributes of human nature are not disclosed in action, but in self-restraint and repose.
In action there is stimulus of excited physical faculties and of the moving passions - but in the composure of the calm mind that quietly devotes itself to hard life work - putting aside temptations - contemplating and rising superior to all surrounding of adversity, suffering, danger and death, man is revealed in his highest manifestation.
Then, and then alone, he seems to have redeemed his fallen state, and to be recreated in God's image.
At the bottom of all true heroism is unselfishness. It's crowning expression is sacrifice.
The world is suspicious of vaunted (boast, brag) heroes. They are easily manufactured.
John F. Kennedy
- And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- Let every Nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardships, support any friend, oppose any foe to ensure the survival and success of liberty. This much we pledge.
- Our fears must never hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
John Lubbock
- What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Maxwell
- Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
- One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
John Wooden
- Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Josh Billings
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Julia Cameron
- Anger is a fuel. It is meant to be acted on, not acted out.
Julius Caesar
- I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet - 1923
- Work is love made visible.
- You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Karl Marx
- From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.
Karl Wallenda
- Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
King Solomon (970-928 B.C.)
- Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by crime feel as indignant as those who are.
(Definition-Indignant: feeling anger at unjust mean, or ungrateful action or treatment)
Knute Rockne
- One player practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.
Kobi Yamada
- Be good to yourself. If you don�t take care of your body, where will you live?
Kristen Stendahl
- Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
- There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Lao Tzu
- Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to'.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
- As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a well used life brings happy death.
- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
Les Brown
- It is in the rocky early moments of bringing change to your life that you discover who you are.
In the prosperous times, you build what is in your pocket. In the tough times,
you strengthen what is in your heart.
Liz Ashe
- Don't try to be great at all things. Pick a few things to be good at and be the best you can.
Lou Erickso
- Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
Lou Holtz
- Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Louis L'Amour
- The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship
I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow,
and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.
Love Thoughts
- Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements.
Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken;
it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
- Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness,
of witherings, of tarnishings.
- Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.
- You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms
can only come later, when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
Lyndon B. Johnson
- Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
- The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Mae West
- I dance with my left leg and I dance with my right leg. Between the two of them, I make a lot of money.
- It's not the men in my life, but rather the life in my men.
- Sex is a misdemeanor. The more sex I miss, the meaner I get.
- Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Margaret Fuller
- If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Marilyn Monroe
- Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Pittman
- What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
- I am opposed to millionaires... but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- 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 practise either of them.
- 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.
- Suppose you were an idiot . . . And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler-and less trouble.
Mark Victor Hansen
- Focused mind power is one of the strongest forces on earth.
- You don't become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems.
Martha Washington
- I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
- I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition
and not on our circumstances.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged
by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. (1963)
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Mary Reid (1950-)
- A project will expand to fill the time alloted to it.
Matt Burt (1954- )
- You cannot expect to find matters of higher virtue in people or money.
Maxwell Maltz
- When you believe you can-you can.
Melody Beattie
- Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Mexican Proverb
- He who doesn't look ahead remains behind.
Michael Angelo
- Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
Mike Adamson
- Stress does not exist except for where people create it themselves.
Montaigne
- In solitude alone can man find his own freedom.
Montel Williams
- Speak without offending; Listen without defending.
Moshe Dayan (1915-1981)
- If you want to make peace you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Mother Teresa
- The first step to becoming is to will it.
- Be kind to each other in your homes. Be kind to those who surround you.
I prefer that you make mistakes in kindness rather than that you work miracles in unkindness.
Often just for one word, one look, one quick action, and darkness fills the heart of the one we love.
- Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God
to judge us, He will not ask, "How many good things have you done in your life?," rather He will ask,
"How much love did you put into what you did?
- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
- I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself.
Is it not a beautiful experience?
- I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that,
but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
- If we have no peace, it is because we forget we belong to each other.
- If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
- It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give,
but how much love we put in the giving.
- It's not how much you do but how much love you put into what you are doing.
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes,
and because it can, it must.
- Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
- Men do no great things, only small things with great love.
- Peace begins with a smile.
- People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.
- Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -
it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
- The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved they are Jesus in disguise.
- The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
- The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
- The success of love is in the loving � it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
- We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.
But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
- When I see waste here, I feel angry on the inside. I don't approve of myself getting angry.
But it's something you can't help after seeing Ethiopia.
- When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons.
I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.
- Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
- We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
Alternately: We the willing, led by the unknowing, have done so much, with so little, for so long,
that we are now qualified to make anything out of nothing.
Muhammad Ali
- Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Napolean Hill
- When your desires are strong enough you will possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Native American Proverb
- It is easy to be brave from a distance.
Nido Qubein
- Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.
Norman Vincent Peale
- Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems,
you don't get any seeds.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
- It is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time,
at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Omar Bradley
- I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.
Orison Sweet Marden
- Many a one has succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts.
If he had never met defeat, he would never have known any great victory.
Orrin Hatch
- There is honor in doing your best.
Oscar Wilde
- Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
- Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pat Riley
- Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Patrick Moynihan (Senator)
- Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
Paul Erdos
- A mathematician is a device for converting coffee into theorems.
Paula Poundstone
- My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake
and threw her off the boat. I said, "Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim."
Peggy Owen (1953-)
- A peaceful life allows more tolerance for frustration.
- (Saipan) People here don't have real careers; they have real lives.
Penny Dreadful
- Love many, trust few, learn to paddle your own canoe. And I could probably now add that
it's best to be kinda selective about who you tell where you dock that canoe when you aren't using it.
There are folks out there who will take your canoe, paint their own name on it,
and try to sell it for a profit before you even notice it's missing.
Peter F. Drucker
- Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
Phyllis Bottome
- There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Diller
- Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty... but everything else starts to wear out, fall out,
or spread out.
Pierre Corneile
- To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Plato (c.428-348 B.C.)
- It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel
and know where it is rough and difficult, and where it is level and easy.
- Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Poverty is not the diminishing of one's possessions, rather it is the increase of one's greed.
- The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- The true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Q
Ralph Sherbondy (1933-)
- The only thing I can count on nowadays are my fingers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- A great man is always willing to be little.
- A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
- As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
- As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Common sense is as rare as genius.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years, how many would marvel and adore.
- It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Knowledge exists to be imparted.
- Money often costs too much.
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
- The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
- There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more;
that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here.
- To be great is to be misunderstood.
- To different minds, the same world is a hell and a heaven.
Ramona L. Anderson
- People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace.
They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill
the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is that the only place they ever needed to search was within.
Ray Bradbury
- You can make yourself happy or miserable � it's the same amount of effort.
Reginald B. Mansell
- A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities;
an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Religion
- A four-year-old praying the Lord's Prayer:
And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.
Richard Lovelace - (1618 - 1657) English poet
- Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
from "To Althea. From Prison".
Roadside Church Sign
- Words can�t break bones, but they can break hearts.
Robert T. Allen
- It's more fun to throw a rock through a window than to put in a pane of glass.
Robert Fripp
- Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Robert Green Ingersoll
- One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.
Robin Williams
- Ah, yes, divorce . . . from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Rodin (1840-1917)
- Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodney Dangerfield
- I never drink water. Fish do terrible things it.
- If it wasn't for pick-pockets, I wouldn't have any sex life at all.
Roger Crawford
- Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Ronald Reagan
- Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility
at the other.
- Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.
- I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through
the U.S. Congress.
- If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
- It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.
I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
- I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens:
no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
- No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage
of free men and women.
- Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
- Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards,
if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
- The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
- The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.
- The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take
the civil service examination.
- The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant:
It's just that they know so much that isn't so.
Ross Howell
- Life is filled with good things when you fill your head with good decisions.
- Marriage is a wonderful institution for those who belong in an institution.
- Part of the fun is living on the edge. It pays to insure that you stay on the right side of the edge.
- We are more limited by what we believe than what we don't know.
- You will know the level to which you are committed to something by the results of your actions.
Russ Howell
- A person's stature, in the eyes of God, is not measured by the distance of their head to the ground,
but rather the closeness of their heart to heaven.
- A realistic sensitivity to the pain of others can quickly sober a complaining tongue. (7-23-08)
- Being known by many strangers is not as important as being important to a few friends.
- Control is the foundation of all conflict.
- Death is the final destination for all of us. I therefore refuse to adopt a hurried pace
through any endeavor of Life.
- Disappointment requires a foundation of expecation. I refuse to give it a platform to build on.
- Every tragedy will always offer opportunity.
- I would hate to live as if everything I did was calculated according to wise logic
and I missed out on the benefits of foolish folly.
- Keep your free spirit flying high. Let the others who are content to walk with their heads down do so at their
own loss. It's much better to look up and realize that Heaven constantly smiles down at you.
- Never give advice to anyone. Wise people don't need it and fools won't listen to it.
- Our priorities are best shown by our actions and we mimick what we love most.
- Shortcuts are often times the longest road to success.
- Skateboarding has always been a magical territory where an individual can walk without stepping
on the footprints of others. Individuals who rejected the control of typical organized sport
found sanctuary without the boundaries of predetermined coaching.
- The confines of the mind can never imagine the boundaries of the heart.
- The joys of today are largely founded upon the wise choices of yesterday
- The longest distance between two points of understanding in a conversation is a shortcut in communication.
- There are many more dimensions to victory than winning alone.
- There are only two people who don't understand the English language; any two people.
- Today is the foundation for our tomorrows.
- Too much thought can slow down accomplishment.
- We don't appreciate advice until we have made all the mistakes ourselves.
- What good does it do to walk into a forest, unless upon your return, you can take another person with you
by your words alone.
- When a man contemplates sex with a woman, why is he so surprised when he gets screwed?
- Words are the building blocks by which we build our perceptions of the Universe.
It is important to enlarge our vocabulary of words, and thoughts, in order to expand the horizons
of our understandings.
M. Russell Ballard
- Like those who were alive at the time of His mortal ministry,
there are some among us who look for physical peace and prosperity
as signs of the Savior's wondrous power.
We sometimes fail to understand that the everlasting peace
Jesus promises is an inner peace, born in faith, anchored by testimony,
nurtured with love, and expressed through continual obedience and repentance.
It is a peace of spirit that echoes through the heart and the soul.
If one truly knows and experiences this inner peace, there is no fear
from worldly disharmony or discord. One knows deep down inside that
all is well as far as the things that really matter are concerned.
Russian Proverb
- It's easier to tear a hole than to mend one.
Salina
- Everyone has a photographic memory, some of us just don't have any film.
Samuel Butler
- All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson
- It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Goldwyn
- When someone does something well, applaud. You will make two people happy.
Scott Adams
- Remember there is no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Reed
- This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Shari R. Barr
- Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
Sir Francis Darwin (1848-1925)
- In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.
- When someone does something well, applaud. You will make two people happy.
Socrates (469BC-399BC
- By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one,
you'll become a philosopher.
- The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Sophocles
- The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Soren Kierkegaard - Danish philosopher (1813-1855)
- I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations�one can either do this or that.
My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it�you will regret both.
Paraphrased: There is regret attached to every decision we make.
- It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards.
But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived�forwards.
The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence
never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet
to take the backward-looking position.
- Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth�look at the dying man's struggle
at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus
could be intended for enjoyment.
- There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization.
So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
- This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness ...
they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away,
and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated
before they die.
Spike Milligan
- Money can't buy you happiness... but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Stanislaus I
- To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.
Steven Seagal
- Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
Steven Coallier
- Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway
Sun Tzu (~400BC)
- If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
- So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.
- The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...
It is best to win without fighting.
- Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first
and then seek to win.
- War is based on deception.
Sydney J. Harris
- When I hear someone sigh "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?
The Talmud
- You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.
Ted Koppell
- Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe that they can overcome them.
Tennesee Williams
- Kill all my demons and my angels might die too. (Used in the movie TransSiberia 2008)
Thomas Campbell
- Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Thomas Edison
- Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists -
proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact.
It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas Fuller - 1608-1661
- Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas L. Holdcroft
- Life is a grindstone, whether it polishes you, or wears you down; it depends on what you're made of.
Thomas Jefferson
- A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
- 'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'
- I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
- It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
- My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
- No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
- The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
- The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Those that give up their freedom for security deserve neither.
- To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Merton
- To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us and He has given us everything.
Every breath we draw is a gift of His love.
Unknown
- A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go, and the living where they need to be.
- A man is not known by what he says, but rather by what he does. (Batman Movie)
- A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.
- A person who pursues goodness ends up with greatness. A person who pursues greatness ends up in ruin.
- Ah, being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
- All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness.
- All the happiness you ever find lies in you.
- An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness.
- An eye for an eye soon leaves the whole world blind.
- Anyone can hit bottom. But the true test is--how far can you bounce back up?
- Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well.
- A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
- Be debt free and the universe will conspire to keep you that way.
- Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.
- Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those that matter don't mind.
And those that mind don't matter.
- Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
- Criticism should always leave people with the feeling that they have been helped.
- Depression is anger internalized.
- Did you ever wonder why women are called the "Opposite Sex?"
It's because Men like sex and women like the opposite.
- Don't ask God to guide your steps if you're not willing to move your feet.
- Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
- Enjoy the little things in Life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.
- Eventually, all of us must give up any hope of having a better past.
- Every decent man should be ashamed of the government he lives under.
- Every excess becomes a vice..
- For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
- Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
- God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
- Happiness is a journey not a place.
- Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.
- How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
- I could be a really good liar if I tried, and that's why I don't lie.
- I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
- I don't want to walk around dead to save funeral expenses.
- I wouldn't take a million dollars for one of my kids, and I wouldn't give you a penny for another one.
- If you don't get it up front, you will get in in the rear.
- If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything.
If you look at what you have in life, you have everything.
- If you want to claim the victory, you need to show up for the battle.
- I told you a million times, do not exaggerate. (Rik from the Young Ones TV Show)
- In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.
- In the end, it will be OK. If it is not OK, it's not the end.
- It is often easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- It is unwise to tell a man that something is impossible while watching him do it.
- Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
- Life is like a game of tennis. The player who serves well seldom loses.
- Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly screaming:
"Wow..what a ride!!!
- Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably,
And never regret anything that made you smile.
- Life may not be the party we hoped for... But while we are here we might as well dance!
- Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft........
Today, it's called Golf.
- Love isn't put in your heart to stay, love isn't love until you give it away.
- Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.
- Many a false step is made standing still.
- Music is what feelings sound like.
- Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways.
- Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car
that you are still paying for, in order to get the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car
and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
- Not all who wander are lost.
- Nothing in the world is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
- Of all the paths you choose in life, make sure some of them are dirt. (Arizonz Outback Adventures)
- One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young.
- Only dead fish go with the flow.
- Opportunity makes itself available only to those who show up for it.
- Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion, but still enjoys the scenery.
- Passion can never purchase what true love desires: true intimacy, self-giving, and commitment.
- People will not always remember what you said, People will not always remember what you did,
But people will always remember how you made them feel.
- Reality is shared hallucination.
- Remember: The book would be called "Automatic" if you could understand it. That is why it is called "Manual.
- Society is judged by how it treats it's least fortunate amongst them.
- Success - SMART: (S) Specific, (M) Measurable, (A)Attainable, (R) Realistic, (T) Time-Based
- Take a day this month to turn off the cell phone, the pager and all thoughts of your working life.
Wake up with the enthusiasm of a child and play hard until the sun goes down.
- The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good spit it out.
- The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast:
the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- The door to opportunity is marked, 'PUSH'
- The essential sadness is to go through life without loving.
But it would be almost equally sad to go through life and leave this world without ever telling
those you loved that you had loved them.
- The Indian scalps his enemy, but the white man skins his friend.
- The price of love is pain.
Also: http://www.mgr.org/redempt2.html
God sends the heaviest crosses to those He calls His own,
And the bitterest drops of the chalice are reserved for His friends alone.
But the blood red drops are precious, and the crosses are all gain,
For Joy is bought with Sacrifice, and the price of love is Pain.
Also: If the price of love is pain, please torture me some more!
Also: All meetings end in partings.
Also: The more you love someone the more you will suffer in that love one way or another.
- The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
- The strength of the pack lies with its leader, and the strength of the leader lies with its pack.
- The sun always rises, even if the clouds may hide it's rays.
- The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
- The true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
- The way to keep a trail alive is to walk upon it.
- There is a difference between happy people and cheerful people; happy people have few worries,
cheerful people have many cares and worries, but remain cheerful in spite of them.
- There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things that we crave most in life--happiness,
freedom and peace of mind--are always attained by giving them to someone else.
- There is no wisdom greater than kindness.
- They call it a family tree because, if you look hard enough, you'll always find some sap in it.
- Time is not something we should take, it is something we should make.
- Tolerance is the last virtue of a completely corrupt society.
Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying nation.
- We never have to repent for having eaten too little.
- When I die, I want to die like my grandmother who died peacefully in her sleep.
Not screaming like all the passengers in her car.
- You are never too old to gain wisdom or act like a fool.
- You can afford to lose more good deals than you can afford to make bad ones.
- You can't control everything that happens to you, but you can control how you respond to it.
- You know what you are committed to by the results.
- You know you are getting old, when everything either dries up, or leaks.
- You look like menopause hit you hard, and then dragged you another 50 yards.
- You should only speak if you can improve upon the silence.
- Your breath is so bad that I don't know whether to give you gum or toilet paper.
Thoughts On Marriage
- A foolish husband says to his wife, "Honey, you stick to the washin', ironin', cookin', and scrubbin'.
No wife of mine is gonna work."
- A wife is someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
- Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
- How are women like a hurricane? They come in wet and wild and when they leave, they take your house and car.
- I have had a month of wedded bliss. Problem is that I have been married for 20 years.
- I never knew what happiness was until I got married. Then it was too late.
- I think, therefore I'm single.
- If a man has enough horse sense to treat his wife like a thoroughbred, she will never turn into an old nag.
- If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
- In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
- Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener!
- Many girls like to marry a military man - he can cook, sew, and make beds, and is in good health,
and he's already used to taking orders.
- Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
- Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.
- Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of person your spouse would have really preferred.
- Marriage is where one person is always right and the other person is the husband.
- Men always have the last word, and it's "Yes, Dear."
- On anniversaries, the wise husband always forgets the past - but never the present.
- The bonds of matrimony are a good investment, only when the interest is kept up.
- Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married;
by then it was too late."
- Too many couples marry for better or for worse, but not for good.
- Trouble in marriage often starts when a man gets so busy earnin' his salt, that he forgets his sugar.
- When a man marries a woman, they become one; but the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
- When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing:
either the car is new or the wife is.
- When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.
- Whether a man winds up with a nest egg, or a goose egg, depends a lot on the kind of chick he marries.
- Why is divorce so expensive? Because it's worth it.
- Albert Einstein - Men marry women with the hope they will never change.
Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
- Ambrose Bierce - Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
- Coleridge - The most happy marriage I can picture would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
- David Bissonette - I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry.
That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
- George Burns - Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love,
a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
- George Burns - Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close knit family in another city.
- Jimmy Durante - My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
- Milton Berle - A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
- Patrick Murray - I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
- Rodney Dangerfield - My wife and I were happy for 20 years - then we met.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor - A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
Vergil (70-19 B.C.)
- They can conquer who believe they can.
Vermont Proverb
- You can sheer a sheep many times, but you can only skin him once.
Vince Lombardi
- The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
Viscount Melbourne
- I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
Voltaire
- The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
W.C. Fields
- I never drink water, fish fornicate in it.
Wally "Famous" Amos
- Success comes in a can...I can!
Walt Disney
- It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
- Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.
Walter Bagehot
- The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Warren Hutcherson
- In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single
file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?
Whitney Young, Jr.
- It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity
and not be prepared.
William James (1842-1910)
- Do at least two things every day that you don't want to do, for the very reason that you don't want to do them.
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- The greatest discovery of my generation is finding that human beings can alter their lives by altering
their attitudes of mind.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
William E. Simon
- Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves --
our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
Winnie the Poo
- If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket
and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
- We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Wise Sayings from the Orient
- By much falling the child learns to walk.
- Culture in a man is better than gold.
- For much wood a little fire suffices.
- For the blind in mind there is no physician.
- He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.
- Love takes no advice.
- Speak in the night where there is no owl.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame, I simply follow my own feelings.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
- The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woody Allen
- I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Wyatt Earp
- Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
Wyatt Webb
- You are 100 percent responsible for 50 percent of any relationship.
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Yiddish Proverb
- He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Yogi Berra
- When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Zig Ziglar
- I'm so optimistic I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat and take the tartar sauce with me.
- Most of us would be upset If we were accussed of being 'silly' comes from the old English word 'seilig' and it's literal definition is 'to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous.'
- The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now.
- You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations.
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