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In nature there are neither rewards
nor punishments -- there are consequences.
Robert G.Ingersoll
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Walt Kelly
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life.
I love it. I never want to die.
Dennis Trudell
The wind and waves are always on the side
of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
He is the best sailor who can steer within
fewest points of the wind, and exact a
motive power of the greatest obstacle.
Henry David Thoreau
The biggest things are always the easiest
to do because there is no competition.
William Van Horne
Only those who dare to fail greatly can
ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
Back of every achievement is a proud wife
and a suprised mother-in-law.
Brooks Hays
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has
merely laid an egg cackles as if she
had laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable
of doing, while others judge us by what we
have done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do what you can, with what you have, where
you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
He has half the deed done who has made
a beginning.
Horace
The only way round is through.
Robert Frost
Is there anything in life so disenchanting
as attainment?
Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
Out of the best and most productive years
of each man's life, he should carve a seg-
ment in which he puts his private career
aside to serve his community and his coun-
try, and thereby serve his children, his
neighbors, his fellow men, and the cause
of freedom.
David Lilenthal
Never look down to test the ground before
taking your next step; only he who keeps
his eye fixed on the far horizon will
find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjold
We promise according to our hopes and
perform according to our fears.
La Rochefoucald
For a man to achieve all that is demanded
of him he must regard himself as greater
than he is.
Johann von Goethe
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do
few things ill, but he will do very few
things.
George, Lord Halifax
When spider webs unite, they can tie up
a lion.
Ethiopian proverb
Everyone must row with the oars he has.
English proverb
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it
takes a good carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn
God gives the nuts, but he does not
crack them.
German proverb
Let me tell you the secret that has led
me to my goal. My strength lies solely
in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes it is more important to discover
what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one
is indicated. You can't cross a chasm
in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
There is nothing so useless as doing
efficiently that which should not be
done at all.
Peter F. Drucker
The reward of a thing well done, is to
have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who desires, but acts not, breeds
pestilence.
William Blake
There are two reasons for doing things--
a very good reason and the real reason.
Anon.
I shall tell you a great secret, my
friend. Do not wait for the last
judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert Camus
Do not show your wounded finger, for
everything will knock up against it.
Baltasar Gracian
They sicken of the calm that know
the storm.
Dorothy Parker
Trouble is only an opportunity in
work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
The man who is swimming against the
stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson
The ultimate measure of a man is not
where he stands in moments of comfort
and convenience, but where he stands
at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great occasions do not make heroes or
cowards; they simply unveil them to the
eyes of men. Silently and impercep-
tibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow
strong or weak; and at last some crisis
shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss Westcott
What does not destroy me,
makes me strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
Spanish proverb
They say a reasonable amount o' fleas
is good for a dog -- keeps him from
broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.
Edward Noyes Westcott
The burden is equal to the horses strength.
The Talmud
Nothing befalls a man except what is in
his nature to endure.
Marcus Aurelius
Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity
the great.
Pliny the Younger
When the world has once begun to use us
ill, it afterwards continues the same
treatment with less scruple or ceremony,
as men do to a whore.
Jonathan Swift
Thou hast shown thy people hard things:
thou hast made us to drink the wine
of astonishment.
Psalms 60:3
I advise you to go on living solely to
enrage those who are paying your
annuities. It is the only pleasure
I have left.
Voltaire
When men grow virtuous in their old age,
they only make a sacrifice to God of
the devil's leavings.
Jonathan Swift
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is
the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
Middle age is youth without it's levity.
And old age without decay.
Daniel Defoe
First you forget names, then you forget
faces, then you forget to pull your
zipper up, then you forget to pull your
zipper down.
Leo Rosenberg
What makes old age so sad is not that
our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter
Old age is not so bad when you consider
the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble
before it is due.
Dean Inge
Anxiety is fear of one's self.
Wilhelm Stekel
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am,
and psychotic means he's even worse than my
brother-in-law.
Karl Menninger
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling
through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts
a channel into which all other thoughts
are drained.
Arthur Somers Roche
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a
pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig
likes it.
George Bernard Shaw
Ask a toad what is beauty?...a female with
two great round eyes coming out of her
little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow
belly and a brown back.
Voltaire
Grace is the absence of everything that
indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation
or incongruity.
William Hazlitt
Though we travel the world over to find
the beautiful, we must carry it with us
or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is everlasting
And dust is for a time.
Marianne Moore
There is no excellent beauty that hath not
some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it,
you can't expect an apostle to look out.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Ordinary people know little of the time and
effort it takes to learn to read. I have
been eighty years at it, and have not
reached my goal.
Johann von Goethe
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is
better than none, and the best cannot be
expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson
Some people can stay longer in an hour than
others can in a week.
William Dean Howells
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how
he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude
without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of
life. Don't let them scare you unduly,
for they keep boredom at bay and spark
creativity.
R. I. Fitzhenry
Patience is a most necessary quality for
business; many a man would rather you
heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield
A holding company is the people you give
your money to while you're being searched.
Will Rogers
A man isn't a man until he has to meet a
payroll.
Ivan Shaffer
A company is judged by the president it
keeps.
James Hulbert
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook
be always cast. In the pool where you
least expect it, will be a fish.
Ovid
I think we consider too much the good luck
of the early bird, and not enough the bad
luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will
come up with a fish in his mouth.
Arabic proverb
If fortune turns against you, even jelly
breaks your tooth.
Persian proverb
As one gets older, one discovers every-
thing is going to be exactly the same
with different hats on.
Noel Coward
I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day,
but no change at all ivry fifty years.
Finley Peter Dunne
'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical;
change is indubitable, whereas progress is a
matter of controversy.
Bertrand Russell
Character is what God and the angels know of
us; reputation is what men and women think
of us.
Horace Mann
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Don Herold
There are only two things a child will share
willingly--communicable diseases and his
mother's age.
Benjamin Spock
If Columbus had had an advisory committee he
would probably still be at the dock.
Justice Arthur Goldberg
She had lost the art of conversation, but
not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to
my conversation.
George Benard Shaw
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the
food.
William Hazlitt
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart
to help.
Abraham Lincoln
Two and two continue to make four, in spite
of the whine of the amateur for three, or
the cry of the critic for five.
James McNeill Whistler
In judging others, folks will work overtime
for no pay.
Charles Edwin Carruthers
To escape criticism -- do nothing,
say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
I am sitting in the smallest room in my
house. I have your review in front of
me. Soon it will be behind me.
Max Reger
When a hundred men stand together, each
of them loses his mind and gets another
one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
Soren Kierkegaard
Cynicism -- the intellectual cripple's
substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
A cynic is a man who, when he smells
flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what
they lack.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Do not go gentle into that good night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Emily Dickinsom
The reports of my death are greatly
exaggerated.
Mark Twain
We die only once, and for such a long time.
Moliere
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want
to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
Life is a great suprise. I do not see why
death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nobokov
If life must not be taken too seriously--
then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
The crash of the whole solar and stellar
systems could only kill you once.
Thomas Carlyle
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann von Goethe
Half the work that is done in the world is
to make things appear what they are not.
E. R. Beadle
I give you bitter pills in sugar coating.
The pills are harmless: the poison is in
the sugar.
Stanislaw Lec
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense
talked about bad men not looking you in the
face. Don't trust that conventional idea.
Dishonesty will outstare honesty out of
countenance, any day in the week, if there
is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
To lose
Is to learn.
Anon.
What is defeat? Nothing but education,
nothing but the first step toward
something better.
Wendell Phillips
The schools ain't what they used to be
and never was.
Will Rogers
The things taught in school are not an
education but the means of an education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intelligence appears to be the thing that
enables a man to get along without an
education. Education appears to be the
thing that enables a man to get along
without the use of his intelligence.
A. E. Wiggan
A university is what a college becomes when
the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi
Education with inert ideas is not only
useless; it is above all things harmful.
Alfred North Whitehead
A child educated only at school is an
uneducated child.
George Santayana
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
The ultimate goal of the educational system
is to shift to the individual the burden of
pursuing his education.
John W. Gardner
A wise man gets more use from his enemies
than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten
you.
Eric Hoffer
[Man's fate] contains the root and the sum of
all creation's drive, and this it is that makes
it so entrancing, exhilarating and perilous.
And such is Man: he would rather balance on the
tightrope of his own creation, razorthin and
sagging in the middle, over the abysmal valley
of his own folly, than walk in safety starting
meadowlarks. It is in danger and in the times
that most try his soul that he flourishes.
William Ready
There is nothing I'm afraid of like
scared people.
Robert Frost
The scalded cat fears even cold water.
Thomas Fuller
Fear has a smell, as
Love does.
Margaret Atwood