QUOTES

"Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come".
Japanese Proverb

Complaining is good for you
as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
Lynn Johnston

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."
Jesse Jackson

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
Dave Barry

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William G. McAdoo

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. Chesterton

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
Chinese Proverb

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it.
What another would have said as well as you, do not say it.
What another would have written as well, do not write it.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself -
and thus make yourself indispensible.
Andre Gide

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished;
and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Henry David Thoreau

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal

Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans.
It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then - we elected them.
Lily Tomlin

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. Mencken

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Dan Rather

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals.
We know now that it is bad economics."
FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

"There is no way in which birds differ more from man than the way
they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."
Robert Lynd

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Bobcat Goldthwaite

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch

The young have aspirations that never come to pass,
the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
Saki

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness,
is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over,
that things can be made better.
Anthony Walton

"Science is built with facts as a house is with stones —
but a collection of facts is no more science than a heap of stones is a house."
Jules Henri Poincare

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
Marshall McLuhan

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII

In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch enemy sorrow,
one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration
if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity,
interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
Edith Wharton

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publilius Syrus

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles.
It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford II

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room.
Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Toynbee

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

People who ask our advice almost never take it.
Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request,
for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
Brendan Francis

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Salma Hayek

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
Noah Porter

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
John Cage

No matter what side of the argument you are on,
you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Louis D. Brandeis

A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY -
Take time to work, it is the price of success.
Take time to think, it is the source of power.
Take time to play, it is the secret of perpetual youth.
Take time to read, it is the foundation of wisdom.
Take time to be friendly, it is the road to happiness.
Take time to love and be loved, it is the privilege of the gods.
Take time to share, life is too short to be selfish.
Take time to laugh, laughter is the music of the soul.
(An Irish saying)

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas H. Huxley

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on.
It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry;
for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
Demosthenes

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising?
Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public;
ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
English Proverb

Why did the woman go outdoors with her purse open?
Because she expected some change in the weather.

What happens when it rains cats and dogs?
You have to watch out or you'll step in a poodle.

"The great question is now at issue, whether man shall henceforth start forwards
with accelerated velocity toward illimitable, and hitherto unconceived improvement,
or be condemned to a perpetual oscillation between happiness and misery?"
Thomas Malthus

"I can't believe it," said the tourist. "I've been here an entire week
and it's done nothing but rain. When do you have summer here?"
"Well, that's hard to say," replied the local.
"Last year, it was on a Wednesday."

What did the tornado say to the sports car?
Let's go for a spin!

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch

What happened when the cow barn was hit by a tornado?
Udder disaster!

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table;
luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
John Hay

What did the cloud say when the lightning bolt exposed itself?
Your behavior is shocking.

A newcomer to Seattle arrives on a rainy day.
He gets up the next day and it's raining.
It also rains the day after that, and the day after that.
He goes out to lunch and sees a young kid and asks out of despair,
"Hey kid, does it ever stop raining around here?"
The kid says, "How do I know? I'm only 8."

Today's global weather forecast calls for variable conditions.
And here is the extended forecast: "Foooorrrcaaaaaaaaasssstt".

What's worse than raining cats and dogs?
Hailing taxis.

There's a technical term for a sunny, warm day
which follows two rainy days. It's called 'Monday'.

What do a tornado, a hurricane, and a redneck marriage have in common?
By the time they're over, someone will have lost a house trailer.

Why is hurricane season like Christmas?
You know you're going to have a tree in your house at some point.

We must believe in luck.
For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau

First cave man to second cave man: "I don't care what you say.
We never had such unusual weather patterns BEFORE we started using bows and arrows."

What’s the difference between weather and climate?
You can't weather a tree, but you can climate.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney

Rumor has it that a new Miami baseball team will be called "Humidity".
Fans in Florida will be able to say, "It's not the Heat that's so bad, it's the Humidity."

"Thunder is a rich source of loudness."

These are the dog days of summer.
“That’s Hot!”
Paris Hilton

“If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?”
Steven Wright

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler

It is the province of knowledge to speak
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
Wilson Mizner

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
Otto Von Bismarck

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
General George Patton

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as the tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those that differ from us in opinion.
Elbert Hubbard

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
Plato

“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.”
Mahatma Gandhi

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Aaron Rose

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hypocrites

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself
and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.
Kal Menninger

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Brown

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
Seneca

"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts' desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by an outright moron."
H. L. Mencken (1920)

"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
-Voltaire-

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albrig

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Levenstein

First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure.
Mark Twain

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

No man is a complete mystery, except to himself
Marcel Proust

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a darn fool about it.
W.C. Fields

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Charles Darwin

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
Earl Wilson

That men do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Unknown

The important thing is this: to be able to sacrifice at any moment what we are for what we could become.
Chinese Proverb

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Unknown

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese Proverb

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Josef Stalin

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

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
-Voltaire-

“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”
Charlotte Bronte

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
John Muir

"The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.”[just ask Paris Hilton]
James Fenimore Cooper

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
-Voltaire-

“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.”
James Fenimore Cooper  

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi

As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence
to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is.
Albert Einstein

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Anais Nin

I may disapprove of what you say,
but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

Political languange ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become 'better organized.'
Lydia Davis

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucious

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi

The only useful answers are those that pose new questions.
Vittorio foe

Aim at nothing and you will hit it every time.
"What luck for rulers that men do not think...By the skilful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. "
Adolf Hitler

"What is the city but the people?"
William Shakespeare

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Voltaire

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Mark Twain

The only difference between a weed and a flower is a judgment.
Wayne Dyer

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the
recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.

Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequences of today's decisions.
Gary Ryan Blair

"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't
start a conversation if it didn't change once in awhile."
K. Hubbard

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom

We could certainly slow the aging process down
if it had to work its way through Congress.
Will Rogers

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
- Æschylus

Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
- Lee Iacocca

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the spring when it is gone.
- Roy R. Gilson

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare

It is not enough to know how to ride. You must also know how to fall.
Mexican Proverb

If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a terrible warning.
Catherine Aird

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Medical Progress -
2000 BC: Eat this root, it will heal you.
1000 AD: That root is heathen; say this prayer, it will heal you.
1850 AD: That prayer is superstition; drink this potion, it will heal you.
1940 AD: That potion is snake oil; swallow this pill, it will heal you.
1985 AD: That pill is ineffective; take this antibiotic, it will heal you.
2000 AD: That antibiotic is artificial; eat this root, it will heal you.

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

Most people would rather die than think; in fact they do so.
Bernard Russell

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we're not.
In both cases the thought is equally shocking.
Arthur C. Clarke

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
Unknown

The difference between what the most and least learned people know is inexpressably trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Albert Einstein

If you rush in this life......you will arrive early in the next.

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished
unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
Voltaire

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
Hodding Carter

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
From "Taxi"

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."
M. Scott Peck

"To do things in this world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning in your life."
- Paula P. Brownlee

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."
Rod Serling

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
Thomas Paine

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.
Maya Angelou

"The belief in the possibility of a short, decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions."
Robert Lynd (1879-1949)

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
Alan Corenk

Make your own 100% accurate Weather Center - crumple up a piece of newspaper and place it on your windowsill before you go to bed. In the morning, bring your 'Weather Ball' inside. If ball is hot: It's sunny. If ball is wet: It's raining. If ball is covered in white fluffy stuff: It's snowing. If ball is gone: Hurricane.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer

"Knowing who you are helps you appreciate what you are. It's our wacky society that defines you by all the other things, like gender, job and age - things over which you have no control.
Mac, a Trappist monk

Seeing a murder on television...can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock

"Free speech is not a simple thing and is subject to and directed by policy."
- Representative Chris Cannon (R-Utah), disputing a NASA scientist's contention that taxpayer-funded scientists are entitled to free speech.

"Teach your children what we have taught ours: that the Earth is our mother. Whatsoever befalls the Earth befalls the children of the Earth. If they spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know: The Earth does not belong to humans; humans belong to the Earth. All things are connected."
Chief Seattle

If you haven't failed in the last six months, you're not setting high enough goals.
Anonymous

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries,
is not "Eureka!" but "...that's funny..."
Isaac Asimov

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. - Gallagher

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Corita Kent

"The budget should be balanced. The Treasury should be refilled. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officials should be tempered and controlled. And the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest the country go bankrupt."
Cicero, a famous Roman statesman, 63 BC. His warning was ignored and his country did go bankrupt.

"He who does not learn from history is doomed to repeat it."


Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else. Peyton Conway March

A JOKE FOR THE DAY - Why is a hurricane like an ex-wife?
Interaction with her is heated and stormy, and when she leaves, she takes the house with her.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could instead spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems." - Phyllis McGinley

Sorrow is the bowl life carves out of us so that we may hold joy and know its meaning.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. - Groucho Marx

Do not look into laser with remaining good eye.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx

“He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.” - Henry Fielding

“Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.” -Henry Fielding

"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts." - Aldo Leopold
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live." - Albert Einstein (?)


The nice thing about egoists is that they don't talk about other people. -Lucille S. Harp
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a commodity to which we belong, we may use it with love and respect." - Aldo Leopold

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde
The harder you work, the luckier you get.

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory” — Ingrid Bergman


"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." ~ Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

“The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.” - Henry Fielding

“What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.” - Mahatma Gandhi

"The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.” -  Voltaire

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” - VOLTAIRE

Warriors begin with scruples, but scruples can never withstand the need to win. - David Duncan

Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.
The enemy of 'good', is 'better'.

With the mud of the earth, make a cup from which your brother can drink. - Antonio Machado

Excuse me while I do the boogaloo.

Ancient wisdom: "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men (or women) of old; seek what they sought."

"I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors' tragedies and declare triumph, and know that they are cheering me on." - Gary de Rodriguez

Hate is like drinking poison and hoping someone else will die.

The power of accurate observation is generally called cynicism, by those who haven't got it.
...everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Wisdom has two parts:
1) Having a lot to say. 2) Not saying it.

Everything can be understood, and forgiven.

The act itself is not as important as the spirit in which you do it.

When life is approached as a journey of discovery rather than of expectation, it can produce adventurous and sometimes magical results.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

Do not equate money with success. There are many successful moneymakers who are miserable failures as human beings.

Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible.

"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson

The whole earth becomes a host to the caring person and pays homage to his presence because it brings peace. All of nature longs, yearns, and waits for such a person. That person is you.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

"Whenever you decline to act on your convictions, you leave it up to time and fate and other people to act on them for you. And you can't assume that time and fate and other people won't steer your life into a tree. Take the reins."

"Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house upon it."

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest." - Gandhi

Live in each season as it passes, breathe the air, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." - Henry David Thoreau.

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin

Do not feel lonely. The disappearing world longs for you to touch it. - Jim Moore

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

Rock is dead. Long live Paper and Scissors!

"The secret to success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made." - Jean Giraudoux

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain

Pray for the dead, and fight like heck for the living. - Mother Jones

Life is everyone walking along together. If one person falls, you help that person up, and then everyone walks just a little bit slower. - the Popul Vuh

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides.

Sometimes you ride on top of the horse, sometimes you ride underneath it. The only difference is the view.
Thought for The Day - "Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you‘re lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love." — Adela Rogers St. Johns

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin

If not now, when?

Most people take what is given them and assume it is their destiny. Great spirits take what is given them and make their own destiny.

"Almost every war ever fought and most of today's wars and civil wars derive from the idea that the strong are entitled to the resources of the weak because the weak don't know how to use their resources appropriately...As one American comic has said: "What is OUR oil doing underneath Iraq and Venezuela?" More

"In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed. - Japanese proverb

"The more joy we have, the more nearly perfect we are." - Spinoza

“Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it.” - Mahatma Gandhi
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, also.” -Voltaire
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” - Voltaire

In every child the world begins anew. - Margaret Drummond

"Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

POLITICAL BUMPER STICKER - My Other President is a Democrat.

You don't realize how good your memory is until you try to forget something.

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

LEARNED THE HARD WAY - when you take a dog on a car ride, he loves to stick his head out the window, but if you blow in his face, he gets very mad at you.

Why is it a bad idea to write a letter on an empty stomach?
Because it's much better to write on paper.

"Change is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be." - Isaac Asimov
Why was Santa's little helper depressed?

Because he had low elf esteem.
Where does a bird go when it loses it's tail?
To a retail store.

Worst joke ever -
What did Tarzan say when he heard the elephants coming?
"Here come the elephants!"

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the Nation and gentler the face of the world." - George Bush, inaugural address - 1989.
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Why did the parrot wear a raincoat?
So he could be Polyunsaturated.

What do you call 20 rabbits moving backwards?
A receding hare line.

Try not.
DO...
Or do not.
There is no TRY.
- Yoda

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

Why isn't your nose 12 inches long?
Because then it would be a foot.

It takes long hours of practice to become a good chess player - maybe that's why they always seem so happy when they get to take a knight off.

DID YOU KNOW? There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

LEARNED THE HARD WAY - When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

Is it hard to spot a leopard in the wild?
No, they come that way.

Why did the baby cookie cry?
Because its mother was a wafer so long.

DID YOU KNOW? The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

LEARNED THE HARD WAY - Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said he would plant a tree today.

What did the bug say when it hit the windshield?
I don't think I have the guts to do that again.

What does a grape say when it gets stepped on?
Nothing, it just lets out a little whine.

DID YOU KNOW? In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping, you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

"To paraphrase Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung - what we cannot imagine, we are condemned to live out. The point of telling stories about the end of the world is that we are then less likely to let this terrible scenario unfold around us, just because we couldn't bear to think about it."

What did the judge say when the skunk went into the court room?
Odor in the court.

GETTING OLD - I don't eat health food, I need all the preservatives I can get.

GAINING WEIGHT? I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.

Why do seagulls fly over the sea?
Because if they flew over the bay they would be bagels.

Did you hear about the two silkworms who had a race? It ended in a tie.

If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a very small country.

Why is it that if you hang something in your closet for a while, it shrinks two sizes?

If you can remain calm, you probably don't have all the facts.

LIVE HAPPILY EVER NOW.

What if the hokey-pokey really IS what it's all about?

"We live in the present,we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past."
- Madame Chiang Kai-shek

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
- Will Durant

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost

Experience is what you get just after you need it.

"Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality, for it increases hatred."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."
-Denis Diderot, French philosopher

Hate is like drinking poison and hoping someone else will die.

"It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, then it transforms itself of its own accord."
- Maurice Maeterlinck

We have enough youth. How about a fountain of smart?

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
- Linus Pauling

"Always do right. That will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain

"The man with a new idea is a crank, until the idea succeeds."
- Mark Twain

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
- Henry Ford

"Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance." - Henri Matisse "Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and its about the only thing a person can have as much of as he's willing to haul away." - George Lorimer

The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.

"Saints engage in introspection, while burly sinners run the world." - John Dewey

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is awaiting us... The old skin has to be shed before the new one is to come."
- Joseph Campbell

"We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side." - Thomas Mann

"Whenever you decline to act on your convictions, you leave it up to time and fate and other people to act on them for you. And you can't assume that time and fate and other people won't steer your life into a tree. Take responsibility and take the reins."

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. "
- Helen Keller

"Once integrity is lost, the rest is a piece of cake."
- J.R. Ewing

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
- Henry David Thoreau

"The future is coming. It always does."
- William Shatner

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child."
- Ron Wild

Often science advances when recognized experts are proven wrong.

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
- Niels Bohr

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
- Michael de Montaigne

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H.G. Wells

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller

"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."
- Jacob Braude

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
- Kahlil Gibran

"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back."
-Turkish proverb

Now and then it's good to pause in our PURSUIT of happiness and just BE happy.
- Guillaume Apollinaire

"Hope always involves the breaking open of new possibilities from seemingly hopeless circumstances".

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." -
Aesop

"The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains."
- Brahmnanda, Hindu philosopher

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." -
Aesop

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.

"Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries."
Everett Dirksen

"No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it."
- John Adams

"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow."
- Swedish proverb

"You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung

"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."
- Shakespeare in Henry VIII Vision connects us to the past and points us toward the future, which is what gives the present its truest significance.

"The prophet is one who understands that change is inevitable and tries to rally others to meet the new challenges the future will soon present."
- Mark Bryan, author

"The human mind has an astonishing capability to adapt; after a while, even the incredible becomes commonplace."
- Arthur C. Clarke

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

"Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money."
- Groucho Marx

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."
- Henry Ford

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."
- Aristotle, Greek philosopher

"Perserverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
- Plutarch, Greek essayist

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

"Too many people go through life running from something that isn't after them."
- Anonymous

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. "
- Groucho Marx

"I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day."
- Albert Camus

"Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all."
- Ovid, Roman poet

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
- Voltaire

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Sir Winston Churchill

"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do."
B.F. Skinner

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." - Zora Neale Hurston

"Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in the morrow." - Horace, philosopher

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King

What is the meaning of life? - All evidence to date suggests it's chocolate.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. - Henry Ford, Sr.

Every Dark Cloud Has a Silver Lining, but Lightning Kills Hundreds of People Each Year Who Are Trying to Find It!

"Right is still right even if no one is doing it, and wrong is still wrong even if everyone is doing it."

If it is true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

"A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about."

"Luck always seems to be against the person who DEPENDS on it."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Confidence is the ability to be more interested than afraid."

"Concern should drive us into action and not into depression."
- Karen Horney, psychoanalyst

"To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic."
-Albert Schweitzer

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear but around in awareness."
- James Thurber

"The smallest invisible reality is, to my mind, intelligent, and is waiting there to be used by human spirits if we reach out and call them in."- Henry Ford

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
- James Thurber

"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."
- Joseph Campbell

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."
- Isaac Singer, author

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come!"
- Victor Hugo

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Relish the moment It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad, it is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tommorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today."

"To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give."
- Taisen Deshimaru

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist

What you do may seem insignificant, but it's important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi

"We all dwell in a house of one room - the world with its firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track."
- John Muir

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"...everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
- Helen Keller

"With the mud of the earth, make a cup from which your brother can drink."
- Antonio Machado

"While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or international affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems."
- Phylllis McGinley

"Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts."

"It is the touch of the hand, a word spoken and the contact of the eyes which open the heart of the man, not the knowledge of all the libraries of the world." –Yogi Bhajan

"The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone." - Primo Levi

"Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead."
- Aristotle

"God has obviously blessed America. So the way for America to feel safe is for God to start blessing other parts of the world. You're always going to be at war with people who have less than you. They're never gonna be happy till they're where you are and you're where they are." - Chris Rock

"Many cultural ideas are based on ignorance and fear and a dread of what might happen if we lose the tight grasp that keeps everything in what we perceive to be a secure state of equilibrium."
- O'Murchu, 'Reclaiming Spirituality'

"...if we once start thinking, no one can guarantee where we shall come out; except that many ends, objects and institutions are doomed. Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril, and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place."
- Karl Albrecht

"Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it."
- Indian proverb

Honesty without compassion is brutality.

The answer to how is yes.

"We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen."
- Judy Grahn

"The purpose of life is to watch and experience living, to enjoy every moment of it."
- Yogi Bhajan




INFAMOUS QUOTES -
"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them.There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves." - John Wayne

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?" - Lee Iacocca

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." - Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign.

"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record." - Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." - Al Gore, while VP

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." - Mariah Carey

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.

"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another." - George Bush