Friday, April 04, 2008

Quotes Update

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Buddha


An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Robert Hall


The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example.

Marie Curie


Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Johann von Goethe


There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Samuel Johnson


We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Author Unknown


If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.

Napoleon


A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

This Is Spinal Tap


Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

J. R. Platt


It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

Edward Wallis Hoch


There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly behooves any of us To talk about the rest of us.

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Henry Kissinger


When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president

Norman R. Augustine


The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

Author Unknown


Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.

Betty Naomi Friedan


If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

Joey Bishop


Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

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Frances E. Willard


Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy


If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Author Unknown


Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

Eido Tai Shimano Roshi


If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.

Roger


Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

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Eric Lustbader


Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.

Lee Iacocca


Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Dodie Smith


I have found that sitting in a place that you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Elbert Hubbard


The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Satchel Paige


Dont look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Lawana Blackwell


Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Archie Bunker


God don't make no mistakes. That's how He got to be God.

Carl Van Vechten


There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

Isaac Asimov


You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

Rudyard Kipling


We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Friedrich Nietzsche


It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them

Lewis Thomas


Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

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Florence Nightingale


Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.

Thornton


The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

H. L. Mencken


Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Kahlil Gibran


The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800


There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.

Truman Capote


The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

Thomas Jefferson


The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

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Anonymous


Dare to be wise.
(Sapere Aude)

John F. Kennedy


The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Kevin R. Hutson


Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple.

William Blake


No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

H. L. Mencken


Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

George Bernard Shaw


I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

T. S. Eliot


Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

Senator Dianne Feinstein


Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit.

Holly Lisle


If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

Dr. Viktor E Frankl


What is to give light must endure burning.