Quotes: Misc. Part 1

Don't panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day. 
- 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 -

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. 
- John Quincy Adams -

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. 
- Mortimer J. Adler -

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be. 
- Aesop -

When an old man dies, a library burns down. 
- African proverb -

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If the ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. 
- Howard Aitken -

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. 
- George Allen -

Eighty percent of success is showing up. 
- Woody Allen -

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have and should have. 
- Anonymous -

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use. 
- Anonymous -

The word "crisis" in Chinese is composed of two characters: the first, the symbol of danger; the second, opportunity. 
- Anonymous -

The stock market is that creation of man which humbles him the most. 
- Anonymous -

One falsehood spoils a thousand truths. 
- Ashanti proverb -

A prudent question is one half of wisdom. 
- Francis Bacon -

Money is a good servant but a bad master. 
- Francis Bacon -

A great pleasure in life is doing what most people say you cannot do. 
- Walter Bagehot -

To grow and know what one is growing towards--that is the source of 
all strength and confidence in life. 
- James Baillie -

Whenever you have a group of people thinking the same thing at the same time, you have one of the hardest emotional causes in the world to control. 
- J.M. Barker -

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions. 
- Chester Barnard -

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. 
- Bernard Baruch -

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. 
- Bernard Baruch -

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade. 
- Henry Ward Beecher -

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. 
- Max Beerbohm -

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. 
- Sally Berger -

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. 
- Josh Billings -

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. 
- William Blake -

What is now proved was once only imagined. 
- William Blake -

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious than to be able to decide. 
- Napoleon Bonaparte -

Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle. 
- Napoleon Bonaparte -

Forecasting is difficult, especially about the future. 
- Victor Borge -

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. 
- Ludwig Borne -

To simplify complications is the first essential of success. 
- George Earle Buckle -

With enough inside information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year. 
- Warren Buffett -

You try to be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy. 
- Warren Buffett -

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture 
or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. 
- Samuel Butler -

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. 
- Cadet Maxim -

The true university these days is a collection of books. 
- Thomas Carlyle -

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. 
- Thomas Carlyle -

The whole past is the procession of the present. 
- Thomas Carlyle -

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 -

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. 
- M. Kathleen Casey -

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. 
- Lewis Cass -

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. 
- Jerry Chin -

A fool learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from history. 
- Chinese Proverb -

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain always a child. 
- Cicero -

Action makes more fortune than caution. 
- Luc de Clapiers -

We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't. 
- Frank A. Clark -

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't. 
- Frank A. Clark -

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. 
- Appius Claudius -

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more. 
- Robert Collier -

A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. 
- Confucius -

The nature of man is always the same, it is their habits that separate them. 
- Confucius -

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the inferior man seeks is in others. 
- Confucius -

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. 
- Confucius -

Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unrewarded talent. Education alone will not: the world is full of educated failures. 
Persistence alone is omnipotent. 
- Calvin Coolidge -

Begin with the end in mind. 
- Stephen Covey -

Education is the fire-proofer of emotions. 
- Frank Crane -

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. 
- Benedetto Croce -

The great discoveries are usually obvious. 
- Philip Crosby -

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something. 
- Trammell Crow -

The secret of getting things done is to act! 
- Benjamin O. David -

What a man wishes, he will believe. 
- Demosthenes -

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. 
- Benjamin Disraeli -

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. 
- Benjamin Disraeli -

There is no education like adversity. 
- Benjamin Disraeli -

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. 
- Benjamin Disraeli -

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. 
- Mack R. Douglas -

Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard. 
- Fritz R. S. Dressler -

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. 
- Peter Drucker -

In prosperity, caution; in adversity, patience. 
- Dutch Proverb -

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. 
- Albert Einstein -

It is the theory that decides what we can observe. 
- Albert Einstein -

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. 
- Albert Einstein -

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. 
- Duke Ellington -

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. 
- Walter Elliott -

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire. 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Shallow men believe in luck....Strong men believe in cause and effect. 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances. 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Only the educated are free. 
- Epictetus -

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. 
- Euripides -

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. 
- Johann G. Fichte -

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty. 
- John Finley -

Patience and time do more than strength or passion. 
- Jean de La Fontaine -

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. 
- Henry Ford -

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence. 
- Henry Ford II -

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. 
- Anatole France -

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. 
- Benjamin Franklin -

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance. 
- Benjamin Franklin -

Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. 
- Benjamin Franklin -

The less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must be his judgment of the future. 
- Sigmund Freud -

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins to rain. 
- Robert Frost -

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. 
- John Kenneth Galbraith -

There are two types of forecasters. Those who don't know, and those who don't know they don't know. 
- John Kenneth Galbraith -

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool. 
- Frank Garbutt -

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it for himself. 
- Galileo Galilei -

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. 
- James A. Garfield -

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings. 
- Harold S. Geneen -

Facts are power. 
- Harold S. Geneen -

I buy when other people are selling. 
- J. Paul Getty -

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist. 
- J. Paul Getty -

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. 
- Andre Gide -

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all. 
- Johann von Goethe -

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance. 
- Johann von Goethe -

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. 
- Johann von Goethe -

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time. 
- Johann von Goethe -

Art is long, life short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. 
- Johann von Goethe -

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. 
- Johann von Goethe -

Don't mistake activity with effectiveness. 
- Bennett Goodspeed -

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. 
- Herber J. Grant -

Fame is vapour, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. 
- Horace Greeley -

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. 
- Wayne Gretzky -

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. 
- Lord Halifax -

Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns. 
- Gary Hamel -

The greatest truths are the simplest. 
- Augustus Hare -

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. 
- Augustus Hare -

It isn't what you make...it's what you do with what you make. 
- Ralph A. Hayward -

All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little. 
- Lafcadio Hearn -

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. 
- Georg Wilhelm F. Hegel -

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. 
- Heinrich Heine -

Never confuse motion with action. 
- Ernest Hemingway -

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. 
- Patrick Henry -

Without discipline, there is no life at all. 
- Katharine Hepburn -

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge. 
- Abraham Joshua Heschel -

If you only keep adding little by little, it will soon become a big heap. 
- Hesiod -

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. 
- Napoleon Hill -

Your emotions are often a reverse indicator of what you ought to be doing. 
- John F. Hindelong -

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. 
- Eric Hoffer -

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. 
- Hans Hoffman -

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. 
- Oliver Wendell Holmes -

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and this is an idea whose time has come. 
- Victor Hugo -

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important. 
- Thomas Huxley -

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. 
- Aldous Huxley -

When a man has learned inside his heart what fear and trembling mean, he is safeguarded against any terror produced by outside influences. 
- I Ching -

Those heroes of finance are like beads on a string, when one slips off, the rest follow. 
- Henrik Ibsen -

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. 
- Henry James -

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter 
their lives by altering their attitudes. 
- William James -

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. 
- William James -

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. 
- William James -

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. 
- Thomas Jefferson -

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. 
- Erica Jong -

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. 
- Samuel Johnson -

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. 
- Samuel Johnson -

The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours. 
- Jules Jusserand -

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. 
- John F. Kennedy -

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. 
- Charles F. Kettering -

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputations to fail conventionally than succeed unconventionally. 
- John Maynard Keynes -

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. 
- John Maynard Keynes -

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. 
- Soren Kierkegaard -

During the first period of a man's life, the greatest danger is: not to take the risk. 
- Soren Kierkegaard -

It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it? 
- Soren Kierkegaard -

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. 
- Jack Kinder -

History is a better guide than good intentions. 
- Jeane Kirkpatrick -

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward. 
- Arthur Koestler -

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. 
- Charles Kuralt -

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense. 
- Pierre-Simon de Laplace -

The greatest gift of all is the power to estimate things at their true worth. 
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -

Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid. 
- Latin Proverb -

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. 
- Fran Lebowitz -

For me the greatest beauty always lay in the greatest clarity. 
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -

You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. 
- Abraham Lincoln -

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. 
- Abraham Lincoln -

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. 
- Abraham Lincoln -

Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks. 
- Arthur D. Little -

The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is 
responsible for many losses on Wall Street. 
- Jesse Livermore -

Money is made by sitting, not trading. 
- Jesse Livermore -

There is only one side in the stock market: Not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. 
- Jesse Livermore -

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. 
- Vince Lombardi -

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, 
But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

There is no security on earth; there is only opportunity. 
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur -

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. 
- Thomas Mann -

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. 
- W. Somerset Maugham -

People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan. 
- Mark McCormack -

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity. 
- Marshall McLuhan -

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially. 
- Marshall McLuhan -

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing. 
- H. L. Mencken -

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. 
- James Michener -

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. 
- Cecil B. de Mille -

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? 
- Henry Mintzberg -

The difference is whether you are capable of taking your chances. We are all presented with them. 
- Sophie Mirman -

The fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. 
- Walter Mizner -

In the battle for existence, talent is the punch, and tact is the fancy footwork. 
- Walter Mizner -

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. 
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. 
- Hannah More -

In investing, the return you want should depend on whether you want to eat well or sleep well. 
- J. Kenfield Morley -

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them. 
- Nick Murray -

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. 
- Jawaharlal Nehru -

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. 
- Charles C. Noble -

Educated risks are the key to success. 
- William Olsten -

To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. 
- George Orwell -

You know you're right when the other side starts to shout. 
- I. A. O'Shaughnessy -

History depends on who is telling the story. 
- James O'Shaughnessy -

Action without knowledge is foolish; knowledge without action is futile. 
- James O'Shaughnessy -

The truth seems to love the small print. 
- James O'Shaughnessy -

It is the contest that delights us, not the victory. 
- Blaise Pascal -

It's not what you don't know that will hurt you. It's what you think you know that just ain't so. 
- Satchel Paige -

Chance favors the prepared mind. 
- Louis Pasteur -

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. 
- General George S. Patton -

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. 
- General George S. Patton -

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. 
- Norman Vincent Peale -

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots. 
- Cesar Pelli -

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. 
Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk. 
- JC Penney -

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time. 
- Pericles -

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. 
They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. 
- H. Ross Perot -

Powerless is a state of mind. If you think you're powerless, you are. 
- Thomas Peters -

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life 
is when adults are afraid of the light. 
- Plato -

The displacement of a little sand can change occasionally the course of a deep river. 
- Manuel Gonzales Prada -

The worst mistake investors make is taking their profits too soon, and their losses too long. 
- Michael Price -

Progress means taking risks, for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base. 
- Herbert V. Prochnow -

Where there is no vision, the people will perish. 
- Proverbs: 29:18 -

Unless your ideas are ridiculed by experts they are worth nothing. 
- Reg Revans -

It's a good thing that we don't get all the government that we pay for. 
- Will Rogers -

Follow the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. 
- Jean Jacques Rousseau -

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet. 
- Damon Runyon -

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts--the less you know, the hotter you get. 
- Bertrand Russell -

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow. 
- Sa'di -

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. 
- Sa'di -

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances. 
- Alberto Salazar -

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps. 
- Helmut Schmidt -

While we are postponing, life speeds by. 
- Lucius Seneca -

There is nothing good or bad, only thinking makes it so. 
- William Shakespeare -

All great truths begin as blasphemies. 
- George Bernard Shaw -

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money. 
- George Bernard Shaw -

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. 
- George Bernard Shaw -

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little. 
- Socrates -

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. 
- Herbert Spencer -

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. 
- Herbert Spencer -

Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. 
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished. 
- The Talmud -

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplify, simplify. 
- Henry David Thoreau -

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. 
- Henry David Thoreau -

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. 
- Henry David Thoreau -

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. 
- Henry David Thoreau -

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. 
- Alvin Toffler -

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. 
- Atwood H. Townsend -

Fear fades when facts are faced. 
- Frank Tyger -

In achieving success, backbone is more important than wishbone. 
- Frank Tyger -

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small. 
- Lao Tzu -

The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature. 
- Lao Tzu -

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial. 
- Lao Tzu -

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. 
- Lao Tzu -

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. 
- Sun-Tzu -

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? 
- Vincent Van Gogh -

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. 
- Vincent Van Gogh -

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. 
- Leonardo da Vinci -

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. 
- Leonardo da Vinci -

Fortune favors the bold. 
- Virgil -

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. 
- Voltaire -

Bulls make money; 
Bears make money; 
Pigs get slaughtered. 
- Wall Street Saying -

All the holidays are being switched around this year except one -- April Fool's Day. That'll still be on April 15th.
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. 

- Ben Franklin
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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about one hundred years before his / she is born. 

- Dean Inge
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Children never put off till tomorrow what will keep them from going to bed tonight.
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The hardest thing in the world to raise is a child -- especially in the mornings.
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Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
- Red Skelton
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Before I was married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children -- and no theories. 

- Earl of Rochester
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I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.
- George Benard Shaw
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If he drinks your brand, smokes your cigars, lets you pay the dinner check and flirts with your wife ... he's your pal. But -- if he also wears your clothes, borrows your car and sleeps in your bed ... then he's a relative.
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. 

- Reverend Theodore Hesburgh
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Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 

-  Proverbs 22:6
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. 

- Josh Billings
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A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father. 

- Richard Steele, 1710
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The suspicious parent makes the artful child.
- Thomas G. Halliburton

The best years of a man's life are when the kids are old enough to shovel the snow but too young to drive the car.
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Give a little love to a child and you will get a great deal back.
- John Ruskin
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If you have never been hated by your children, you have never been a parent. 

- Bette Davis
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... A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions. 

- Samuel Johnson, 1759
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When I was a child my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll become the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
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There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

- Picasso
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If I Like it, I say it's mine. If I don't, I say it's a fake. 

- Picasso
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We know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

- Picasso
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His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.

- Thomas Babington Macaulay
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His mind is so open that the wind whistles through it.
- Heywood Broun
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Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.
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Personally, I have a diversified portfolio. That's when your money goes down the drain in six different sinks.
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Remember the good old days, when it was people who ran amuck -- not faucets ???
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Even the ocean is polluted. Last week I pulled a six - pound flounder out of the Atlantic. Today I received a thank - you note from his parents.
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We've got to do something about water pollution. My kid has a water pistol that Jams !!!
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A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

- Henry Ford
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..... Getting ready is the secret of success.

- Henry Ford
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but not one thinks of changing himself.

- Tolstoy
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Wealth can certainly be a curse -- especially if your neighbors have it.
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I took one of those job - assessment test at work the other day. The report said my aptitudes and abilities were best suited to some form of early retirement.
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Words: They sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.

- Leo Rosten
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. 

- Bertrand Russell
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Idle hands do mischief make. But they don't get dirty either !!!
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If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.
- Milton Berle
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My brother applied for work, but was told by the company that it had more employees than it needed. My brother said, "Don't worry. The little bit of work I do won't be noticed !!!" 

- Milton Berle
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I wasn't affected by the crash of 1929. I went broke in '28.
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A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips. 

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Opportunity doesn't necessarily knock on the door; it may be leaning against the wall waiting to be noticed.
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The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty. 

- L.P. Jacks
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

- Helen Keller
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The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

- Patrick Henry
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the
nest. ( J.G. Holland )
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It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living.

Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.

Laughing stock - cattle with a sense of humor.

You can't have everything, where would you put it?

Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.

If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.

Eat right. Stay fit. Die anyway.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat drinking beer all day.

Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.

Shin: A device for finding furniture in the dark.

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.

When you're swimming in the creek, and an eel bites your cheek, that's a moray!

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

The only cure for insomnia is to get more sleep.

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.

I wished the buck stopped here, as I could use a few.

I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

When you go into court you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people 
that weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Light travels faster than sound.
This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

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The amendment says Freedom OF Religion, 
not Freedom FROM Religion.

Jesus does not show the way, he is the Way.
Jesus does not tell us the truth, he is the Truth.
Jesus does not give us life, he is the Life.
"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me."

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

I'm not going to change the world, but I know who can.

Torture: Cut off someone's eyelids and feed them nothing but sleeping pills.

Let not power come before control.

Make decisions knowing that 20% will be wrong.
If something is 80% good, it is perfect!

If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Because of the evil you did to me my life unfolded as it did. For that, I thank you.

- Caine, Kung Fu (rip-off from Bible)

I will love you my whole life. You and no other.

- Braveheart, wedding vow

Someone running around like a chicken with its head cut off: "Poultry in motion"

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before any one of them came to be. Ps. 139

If a chicken and a half laid and egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a grasshopper with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?

In Zimbabwe, 1995, the average wait for installation of a telephone is 5 years.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "To boldly sit where no man has sat before"

They don't grade here on the curve,
We both know what we deserve.
Jesus is for losers.

- Steve Taylor, "Jesus is for Losers"

Failure is to succeed in a way that doesn't really matter.

A fool can talk. A wise man speaks.

Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
- The Dread Pirate Roberts, Princess Bride

Jesus was perfect and they ridiculed and killed him. What do you think they're going to think about you.

The prudent see danger and take refuge from it.

You can't be a leader unless you have convictions.

Everyone that God has used mightily, he has broken.

It's easier to sell a lie than give the truth away.

snails pace, papers chase, socks hop, lemons drop, butter flies, pips squeak, widows peek

Response to a telephone salesman: 
"Now isn't a good time for me, but if you give me
YOUR HOME phone number, I'll get back to you"

We need separation of race and state.

Don't put a sign in front of the church that says "Surfers welcome." Go to the beach.

You say you pray to the sky? Why? When you're afraid to take a stand down here.

Conflict has two parts: burning and giving light

Double lives take half as long.

I have seen the light by Braille.

I wound and I heal. - Deut.

Statistically, old people live longer than those who die when they are young.

If you are mud wrestling and you take your towel in with you, when you
get out and try to clean off, you just smear it around. You need someone
outside of you, not covered with mud, to clean you off.

If I didn't believe it with my own mind, I never would have seen it.

The only thing I contribute to my salvation is the sin that makes it necessary.

Love at first sight is easy to understand.
Love after years of being together -- that's hard.

"Religious Cleansing" is the equivalent of ethnic cleansing in the United States today.

If you place a low value on yourself, the world will not raise your price.

If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.

Don't ask for a life with few problems, ask to be a strong person.

At a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

It is said a man becomes what he thinks about all day long. If that were true, most guys would be women by the time they were 21.

I complained that I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.

The secret to becoming a good manager is keeping the five men who hate you away from the four who haven't made up there mind.

When you come to the fork in the road, take it. -Yogi Berra

Did it ever occur to you that nothing ever occurs to God.

Everyone is given a different genetic hand but he is responsible for how he plays it.

What is difficult is not impossible.

Trade in your nothing for his everything.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. But you can salt his oats to make him thirsty.

I promise, I'll be brief no matter how long it takes.

The things that you do that you don't like to do determine who you are when you can't do anything
about it.

The Truth will set you free.

Jesus went where he was celebrated, not tolerated. Don't stick around where you're not wanted.

Prov 19:19 If you rescue an angry man, you will have to do it again. The more you help, the less the person has to change.

How can a black cow eat green grass 
that turns to white milk
that is churned into yellow butter
that puts red hair on a freckle-faced boy?
- Walter Wilson

Abortion is not safe. It has a 50% mortality rate.

God is more concerned about your character than your circumstances. He will use your
circumstances, whatever they are.

The problem with Christianity is not that it has been tried and found wanting, but that it has been found difficult and not tried. 

- Chesterton

If your hands are already full, you don't have room to hold onto what God has to give you.

The trouble with life is that it's so daily.

There is a difference between problems and facts of life. A fact of life you just have to learn to live with.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. - Charles Spurgeon

God's power + my power = God's power

We live longer these days, but the mortality rate is still 100%.

Life is terminal.

You are only as big as the smallest thing it takes to keep you from doing what you are supposed to be doing.

You are only as big as the smallest thing that stops you.

When you say something is a disease, you admit you have no control of it, then you have no hope.

People only change when they hurt enough. If someone is not changing, he has to hurt some more.

Forgive your enemies.
Never forget their names. - JFK

If we had all the facts to make a decision, it
would not be a decision, it would be a conclusion.

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it is a commitment:
1. Not use it against that person
2. Not to tell others
3. Not to dwell on it yourself

Forget the past, Do not dwell, It is a new thing.

Is. 43 

Knowing God's will
Scriptural test - has God already revealed the answer?
Secrecy test - would it bother me if others knew it was my choice?
Survey test - what if everyone followed my example?
Spirit test - am I being spirit led or satan driven?
Serenity test - do I have peace in my heart about it?
Sanctification test - will this keep me from being more Christ-like?
Stumbling test - could this cause another to stumble?
Supreme test - does this glorify God?

Depression comes from loss. Dwell on praising not the loss.

Psalm 47 

Sarcasm is the weapon of the weak man. - Oswald Chambers

You have to be little to belittle.

To reward evil for good is beastly.
To reward good for good is manly.
To reward good for evil is godly.

When in Rome, do as the Christians do.

At one point, Andrew Carnegie had 43 millionaires working for him. Someone asked him how he was able to afford to hire so many millionaires. He said none of them were millionaires when he hired them. Carnegie's philosophy was: You develop a man the same way you mine for gold. You go in expecting to find a ton of dirt for every once of gold. You have to clear the dirt away, but you don't go in looking for the dirt.

Sympathy is your pain in my heart.

We should be sharing Christ constantly. 
We should even use words if necessary.

- St. Francis of Assissi

Some of God's most precious gifts come in packages that make you bleed when you open them.

I can't see that I'm not blind.

Our job as Christians is to:
Comfort the afflicted.
Afflict the comforted.

Isn't it ironic that brilliant men spend their entire lives in a lab trying to create life in order to prove that there was no intelligence necessary to create it in the first place.

Television "programming" is not programming the TV. It is programming the viewers.

"Fetus" is Latin for "baby"

Feces occurs

Success is just a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Money makes a wonderful servant but a ruthless master.

God will reveal his will to someone that is willing to do it.

The caterpillar must give up caterpillar living and get into a cocoon where it is dark for a time. He cannot see what he will become. He must accept it in faith. Unless he does, he can never become a butterfly.

Love is a commitment to the highest good of another.

It may be that only the good die young, but only the bad really die.

Born twice, die once. 
Born once, die twice.

Being temperamental is 95% temper and 5% mental.

A young executive wanted to avoid making bad decisions, so he went to a senior executive to ask for advice.
"How do avoid making bad decisions?" He asked.
"You make good decisions."
"How do you make good decisions?"
"It's just something you learn."
"How do you learn to make good decisions?"
"You make bad decisions."

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If I don't have the right to take one of your two cars and give it to someone who needs one, I have no right to elect someone to do that same thing. I cannot transfer a right that I do not have.

God can only guide your steps if you are stepping.

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Living out your hopes and dreams is like skydiving. Nothing happens until you step out.
"Lord, if it is you," Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water."
"Come," said Jesus.
Then Peter got down out of the boat and walked on the water to Jesus.
Matt. 14:28,29
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