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Quotations

By: Bryan Mayaen

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." Abba Eban

Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,
And when the storm of war was gone,
Enjoyed the peace your valor won.
Let independence be our boast,
Ever mindful what it cost;
Ever grateful for the prize,
Let its altar reach the skies!
Hail, Columbia!
Joseph Hopkins

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking as we used when we created them. -- Albert Einstein

William Butler Yeats:
"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

Henry Ford:
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

"If it works, it's obsolete" ~Marshall McLuhan

"Without writing...the idea of humanity does not exist."
Hermann Hesse

Jules Feiffer:
"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence."

Samuel Butler:
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."

"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."

1532 German reformer Martin Luther declared:
'For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.'

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

Voltaire (1694-1778):
"A witty saying proves nothing."

Robert Orben:
"Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away."

G. C. Lichtenberg:
"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."

Lily Tomlin:
"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs."

Suzanne Necker:
"Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them."

Old Chinese saying:
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Virgil:
"They can conquer who believe they can."

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

Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Robert Frost:
"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

Dame Rose Macaulay:
"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them."

James Bryant Conant:
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

Mark Twain:
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

Ronald Reagan (really... i'm not kidding.):
"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

Edith Sitwell:
"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."

Henry Ford:
"People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black."

James Magary:
"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up."

John Russell:
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."

Mark Twain:
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

Dan Rather :
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger."

Alfred Adler:
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952:
"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955):
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion."

Ann Landers:
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."

Charles de Montesquieu:
"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."

Franklin P. Jones:
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger."

Mignon McLaughlin:
"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth."

Robert Frost:
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."

Unknown:
"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it."

Mark Twain:
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845:
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Andy Warhol:
"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

Jean Nidetch:
"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."

Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887:
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

Walter Bagehot:
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862:
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. --A.A. Milne

Imagination rules the world. -Napoleon Bonaparte

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. -Francois Rene Chateaubriand

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful. -Niccolo Machiavelli

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -Bill Cosby

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living:
the other helps you make a life."
Sandra Carey

"My freedom of speech implies your freedom to be offended."
--Unknown

"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear an idiot than to open it and remove all doubt."
Mark Twain

Dandemis:
"Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."

Vilhjalmur Stefansson:
"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."

"We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. "
Evelyn Waugh

St. Augustine (A.D. 354-430):
"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."

"If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?"

Will Rogers (1879-1935):
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

John Andrew Holmes:
"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."

Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, "Life and Writings of Addison," 1943:
"The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it."

"But I surely think that it is better to be impetous than to be
cautious, for fortune is a woman and in order to be mastered she must
be jogged and beaten."
Niccolo Machiavelli

Dale Carnegie:
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."

Richard Rybolt:
"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be
getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and
wait for them to self destruct. It never fails."

Chinese Proverb:
"Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958:
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

Unknown:
"Fools rush in where fools have been before."

John Kenneth Galbraith:
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."

Fred Allen:
"Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."

The Peter Principle, Dr. Lawrence J. Peter:
"Everyone rises to their level of incompetence."

John Maynard Keynes:
"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward."

Robert Graves:
"Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them."

Colette:
"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts."

Thomas Pickering:
"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known."

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Thomas Jefferson

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. -- Malcolm X

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

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.
-- -Benjamin Franklin

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that
you didn't do than by the ones you did do...so...Explore. Dream.
Discover. -- Mark Twain

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -- Nietzsche

Well done is better than well said. -- Benjamin Franklin

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply
have their bright ideas closer together. -- G.C. Lichtenberg

Often times, the things you hate most in others are things you see in yourself. -- Anonymous

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining,
but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. -- Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. -- Unknown

640K ought to be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates, 1981

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. -- Daniel Boone

First they came for the hackers. But I never did anything illegal with my computer, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the pornographers. But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the anonymous remailers. But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the encryption users. But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for me. And by that time there was no one left to speak up. -- Alara Rogers, Aleph Press

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. -- Paul Valery

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on as though nothing had happened.
-- Winston Churchill

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. "
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. "
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. "
- Galileo Galilei

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. "
- e e cummings (1894-1962)

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "
Confucius

Anonymous:
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better."

Baltasar Gracian:
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."

Dorothy Nevill:
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing
at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the
tempting moment."

Charles DeGaulle:
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

Andre Mairaux:
"The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten."

William Congreve:
"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."

Thomas Edison:
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

H. L. Mencken:
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."

Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography, 1937:
"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

Helen Keller:
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

Walter Anderson:
"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

Bob Hope:
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."

H. L. Mencken:
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."

Baltasar Gracian:
"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier."

Calvin Coolidge:
"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say."

Thomas Fuller:
"Enquire not what boils in another's pot."

Italian Proverb:
"The best armor is to keep out of range."

Caskie Stinnett:
"A diplomat...is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip."

Unknown:
"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege."

Eleanor Roosevelt, "This Is My Story," 1937:
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Alec Bourne:
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

Scandinavian Proverb:
"Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path."

Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978:
"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."

John L. Motley:
"Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great."

Aristotle:
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
Myra572758

"Popularity is a socially transmitted disease"- Unknown

"Ignorance is the most dangerous thing in society"- Unknown

*We adore the ones who ignore us and ignore the ones who adore us.
*Light travels faster than sound, so people often appear bright until they speak.
*Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
*If you say love is just a word, how come it hurts so much when it's not there?
GoldDstGrl

"Hate has a reason for everything, But love is unreasonable."

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
-Maurice Maeterlinck

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
-Karl Marx

If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it, it would have been much better.
-Karl Marx's Mother

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-Karl Marx's last words to his housekeeper

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
-H. L. Mencken

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-John Stuart Mill

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
-Montaigne

The pessimistic says: there is a cloud in front of the sun
The optimistic says: there is a sun behind the cloud
Unknown

The one who tries to please everyone is nobody's friend
Queen Kristina of Sweden

God helps those who helps themselves and the government helps the rest
Sahlon Galin

God is dead Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead God
Unknown

F. Scott Fitzgerald:
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

"Pessimists are never disappointed."
Mark A. Carter

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
George Bernard Shaw

"The way to become boring is to say everything."
Voltaire

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
- Francis Bacon, "Of Revenge"

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
- Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son

Knowledge is the only instrument of power that is not subject to diminishing returns.
- J.M. Clark, "Journal of Political Economy"

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- Dennis Diderot, "Le Neveu de Rameau"

All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven his own way.
- Frederick the Great, remark, 1740

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
- Cardinal Gibbons, address, 1909

The generality of mankind are contented to be estimated by what they possess instead of what they are.
- William Hazlitt, "On Personal Identity"

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
- Hegel, "Philosophy of History"

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy, speech, 1959

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it.
- Theodore Roosevelt, speech, 1904

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw, "The Doctor's Dilemma"

The nearest way to glory is to be what you wish to be thought to be.
- Socrates, quoted by Cicero

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, "An Apology for Idlers"

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
- Jonathan Swift, letter to a young clergyman

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds"

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"

Francious de la Rochefoucauld:
"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."

Alfred Adler:
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

Bertrand Russell:
"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."

Gore Vidal:
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or
books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."

Art Spander:
"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably
desirable. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of
ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain, "Notebooks"

Aldous Huxley:
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
-Charles Darwin

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
-Bette Davis

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
-Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

The fog is rising.
-Emily Dickinson's last words

We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men. We owe most of what we have suffered to another hundred or so.
-R.W. Dickson

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
-Phyllis Diller

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-Paul Dirac

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

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
-Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucald

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
-Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-Will Durant

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

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
-Richard Bach

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
-Richard Bach

Silence is the virtue of fools.
-Francis Bacon

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
-Francis Bacon

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
-Walter Bagehot (Biographical Studies)

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.
-James Baldwin (Nobody Knows My Name)

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
-Honoré de Balzac

A life without cause is a life without effect.
-Barbarella

" It is far better to be deceived than to be undeceived by those we love. "
Unknown

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900):
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

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

Bill Vaughan:
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."

Arthur Schopenhauer:
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

W. R. Inge:
"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors."

David Friedman:
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."

Don Marquis:
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

Roy M. Goodman:
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."

Lord Chesterfield:
"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."

Sean O'Faolain:
"There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen."

Lyndon B. Johnson, address to the nation, November 28, 1963:
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."

Sir Winston S. Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944:
"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward."

John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963:
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

M. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", 1915:
"Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner."

Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789:
"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country.""

Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977):
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-Lord Acton

A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell, where his influence stops.
-Henry B. Adams

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
-Henry Adams

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-Henry B. Adams

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
-Joey Adams

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
-Stella Adler

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
-Aesop

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-Aesop

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-Aesop

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
-Emma Albani

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
-Woody Allen

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
-Woody Allen

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads todespair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
-Woody Allen

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
-Woody Allen

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
-Woody Allen

Bill Vaughan:
"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity."

Alan Alda:
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."

Robert Browning:
"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

Arab Proverb:
"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire."

Adlai Stevenson:
"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular."

1744 Colonial missionary to the American Indians, David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'In the morning, spent an hour in prayer. Prayer was so sweet an exercise to me that I knew not how to cease, lest I lose the spirit of prayer.'

1931 American linguistic pioneer Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'If we only let God have his full chance he will break our hearts with the glory of his revelation. That is the privilege which the preacher can have. It is his business to look into the very face of God until he aches with bliss.'

1950 Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in "Sign of Jonas": 'The Christian life...is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places. And these discoveries are sometimes most profitable when you find him in something you had tended to overlook or even despise.'

Clarence Darrow:
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it."

Francis Bacon:
"Houses are built to live in, more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had."

John Wayne:
"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble."

Andy Rooney:
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

Alfred Hitchcock:
"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."

Carl Sandburg:
"...Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

William Congreve:
"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."

Rene Descartes, "Le Discours de la Methode," 1637:
"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."

Robert Louis Stevenson:
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

Albert Schweitzer:
"Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity."

" If you make a mistake, immediately fix it to the best of your ability. "

Dame Edna Everage:
"My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia."

Theodore Roosevelt:
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.'"

A. Whitney Brown:
"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."

Mark Twain:
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."

Jose Ortega y Gasset:
"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."

Eleanor Roosevelt:
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Jean Houston:
"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released."

Golda Meir:
"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."