The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in
setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." (Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564)
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479)
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." (Confucius, 551 BC-479)
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." (Dale Carnegie)
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb)
“Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself."
(John Luther)
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from
experience." (Archibald McLeish)
"I want to die like my grandfather; peacefully in my sleep. Not screaming like his passengers."
(Anonymous)
“Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas."
(Anonymous)
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." (
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half
of the time." (E. B. White)
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese
Proverb)
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow." (Chinese
Proverb)
"In the struggle between the stone and the water, in time, the water wins." (Chinese Proverb)
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel; and a comedy for those who think." (Chinese Proverb)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it." (Chinese Proverb)
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb)
"Simplicity of character is the most natural result of profound thought." (Chinese Proverb)
"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." (Chinese Proverb)
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain
that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig, author [Zen and the Art
of Motorcycle Maintenance]
The Adventurer: It's a much better character builder to walk to the North Pole than to be flown
there.
The Grain Trader: It's preferred to find and develop my own customers than to be told to write up
someone else's trade.
How's that for a comparison
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
“The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston
Churchill, 1874-1965)
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain)
"If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer." (Richard A. May)
"I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem." (Ashleigh Brilliant)
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." (Abraham
Maslow)
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost,
all is lost." (Billy Graham)
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams)
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr)
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi)
“I like a man who grins when he fights." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)
"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too."
(Henry Louis Mencken)
“Women who strive to be equal to men lack ambition." (Anonymous)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970)
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." (Bill Cosby)
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because
by it I see everything else." (Clive Staples Lewis 1898-1963)
"I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability." (Oscar Wilde)
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a
winning game." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832)
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure
than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they
live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat" (Theodore Roosevelt)
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." (Mario Andretti)
"If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room." (Jayne Howard)
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." (Wayne Gretzky)
"When you're hot, you're just on your way to being cold again." (Carrie Fisher)
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the
character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the
other." (Donald G. Smith)
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate."
(Addison Whithecomb)
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)
"Only dead fish go with the flow." (Anonymous)
“Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you'll never make history." (Ben Sobel)
"The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow
standing in the rain." (Colin Wilson)
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself." (Soren Kierkegaard)
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more
important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon)
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not
to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey)
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will
become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry
Paxton)
"Great spirits have always faced violent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein)
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrity. The latter cannot understand
it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and
courageously uses his intelligence." (Albert Einstein)
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores)
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?"
(Anonymous)
“If you are a Christian, there is no such thing as a purposeless trial, no such
thing as chance or a mistake. Those are all non-Christian terminology. God has a point for
everything He allows us to experience.” (Tony Evans)
“Anxiety is payment on a debt you may never owe.” (D.J. Kennedy)
"Do little things as if they were great because of the majesty of the Lord
Jesus Christ, who dwells in you; and do great things as if they were little
and easy, because of His omnipotence." (Blaise Pascal)
“Dear God, help me get up; I can fall down by myself.’ (Blaise Pascal)
“Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line." (Warren G. Bennis)
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." (Harold S. Geneen)
"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected
by it." (Marian Anderson)
"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of
providing a useful service." (Henry Ford)
“I am not young enough to know everything." (Oscar Wilde)
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but
about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with
what it is still possible for you to do." (Pope John XXIII)
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." (Napoleon Bonaparte)
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." (Henri Matisse)
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." (Henry David Thoreau)
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
(William James)
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a
function of power and not truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
"Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art." (Charles McCabe)
"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your
pulse. You may be dead." (Gelett Burgess)
"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts." (E. B.
White)
"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion." (Arnold Glasow)
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." (Anais Nin)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." (Thomas Alva Edison)
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth
time I am right." (Albert Einstein)
"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice ... I am in earnest, I will not
equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard." (William Lloyd
Garrison)
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." (Albert Einstein)
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they
gave up." (Thomas Alva Edison)
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common
than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost
a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination are omnipotent." (Calvin Coolidge)
"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress." (Thomas Alva Edison)
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." (Vince Lombardi)
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885)
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very
close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan , Former U.S. President
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan , Former U.S. President - Saturday Evening Post, 1965
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every
difficulty.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax
policies.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky
Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we'.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him
or her. (David Brinkley)
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. "A good plan, violently executed now, is
better than a perfect plan next week."Diligence is the mother of good luck. (Benjamin Franklin (17061790)
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. (Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they
are difficult.” (Seneca (3 B.C. - 65 A.D.)
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” (Sun Tzu)
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” (Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.” (John R. Wooden-Practical Modern
Basketball)
"The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to
thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul." (Solzhenitsyn)
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done. (Fred Allen (1894-1956)
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment. (Robert Benchley)
“The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must
be feasible.” --Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper
proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp)
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. (Henry J. Kaiser)
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and
those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less
competition." (Indira Nehru Gandhi)
"'Come to the edge,' He said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' He said. They came.
He pushed them … and they flew." (Guillaume Apollinaire)
"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the
foundation of morality." (Henry Ward Beecher)
"The man who attends strictly to his business usually has plenty of business to attend to."
(Anonymous)
Advice should be viewed from behind. (Swedish Proverb)
In spring no one thinks of the snow that fell last year. (Swedish Proverb)
One should choose one's bedfellow whilst it is daylight. (Swedish Proverb)
One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.(Swedish Proverb)
Who lives on the waves and makes his living from the wind? - a fisherman.(Swedish Proverb)
Age does not give sense it only makes one go slowly. (Finnish Proverb)
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath. (Jacob Braude)
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. (Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Don't look back - something might be gaining on you. (Satchel Paige)
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth
shut. (Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.” (Will Rogers (1879-1935)
“In the effort to be civil in conduct, many who know better actually dilute firmly held views to avoid
appearing "judgmental." They curb their tongues not only in form but also in substance. The
insistence on civility in the form of our debates has the perverse effect of cannibalizing our
principles, the very essence of a civil society.”
(Clarence Thomas)
“A pessimist is someone who has had to listen to too many optimists.” (Anonymous)
‘Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.” (Erica Jong)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
(Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. (Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. (Anonymous)
“A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.” (Zadok Rabinwitz)
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. (William Ellery Channing)
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
(James Arthur Baldwin 1924-1987)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. (Henry Ford
(1863-1947)
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. (Henry Ford (1863-1947)
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. (Sidney Goff)
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it. (Colin Powell)
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. (Brendan Hills)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain (1835-1910)
“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.” (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. (Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship. (John Renmerde)
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to
mankind is to bring up a family.” (George Bernard Shaw, dramatist, critic, novelist, and Nobel
laureate.)
“He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.” (Chinese
Proverb)
“How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful
who are not honest.” (Junius, pseudonym of the unknown author of a series of
letters published in a London newspaper during (1769-1772)
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. (Niels
Bohr 1885-1962)
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. (Anonymous)
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. (Oscar Wilde 1854-1900)
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. (Don Stanford)
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away
the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. -Corrie Ten
Boom, author and Holocaust survivor
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. (Mark Twain 18351910)
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.” (Margaret
Thatcher)
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. (Margaret
Thatcher)
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
(Margaret Thatcher)
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you
think it's going to rain, it will. (Clint Eastwood)
“We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.” (General Douglas McArthur,
1880-1964)
“You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some
kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.” (Frank
Zappa)
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. (General
George S. Patton 1885-1945)
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their
ingenuity. (General George S. Patton 1885-1945)
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.
- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, and author (1872-1970)
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve
my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our
anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions
by finding what we suspect. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author
(1817-1862)
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” (John F. Kennedy-1917-1963)
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. “(John F. Kennedy-1917-1963)
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. (Jackie
Gleason)
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. (Ralph Waldo Emerson-1803-1882)
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. (Ralph Waldo Emerson-1803-1882)
But if you live instead in the hope that there will be deeds in your life when the line between right
and wrong was presented to you and you decided, not because someone forced you or because
someone paid you or because someone threatened you, but simply because somewhere in your
heart you held true to a conviction of your spirit, you decided to do, at whatever the cost, just what
you thought was right. (Alan Keyes-Linn University Graduation Address)
It does not have to be a big thing, it does not have to be a thing on which the world depends, but
on that moment of choice when it comes and however often it comes may very well depend what
you become, and what you have to look back upon in those hours when everything else fades
into insignificance and all you have left to remember are the things that stand up to the test of
those standards that do not fade, those things that decide, not on our worth in the bank account
but on the worth of our souls and our characters
(Alan Keyes-Linn University Graduation Address)
“I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be
just as proud for half the money.” -Arthur Godfrey
“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)
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” (Sir
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” (Sir Winston Churchill,
1874-1965)
“If you're going through hell, keep going.” (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)
“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure
instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of
reality against which they are dashed to pieces.” (Sigmund Freud)
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
- Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
- Giovanni Ruffini, writer (1807-1881)
Some of Thomas Sowell’s favorite quotes:
”You can never be happy and dress yourself solely in the glass of other men's approval.”
(Nicholas Flood Davis)
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. (Lyndon B. Johnson )
“We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.” (F. A.
Hayek)
There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men. (Edmund Burke )
The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. (Joseph A. Schempeter)
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an
achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each
day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a
valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. (Eric Hoffer)
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? (Jean-Baptiste Say)
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their
neutrality. (Dante Alighieri, poet (1265-1321)
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm of his hand. (Irish Proverb)
Your own deeds will long be baptized on you. (Irish Proverb)
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth. (Irish Proverb)
Blessings do not come in pairs; misfortunes never come singly. (Chinese Proverb)
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. (Chinese Proverb)
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. (Chinese
Proverb)
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. (Chinese Proverb)
A Robin Red breast in a Cage / Puts all Heaven in a Rage. -William Blake, poet, engraver, and
painter (1757-1827)
Philosopher, mathematician, and writer, Bertrand Russell, once said, "The
whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great
teacher. -Japanese proverb
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Poverty is no sin, but terribly inconvenient. (Japanese Proverb)
A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses. (Japanese Proverb)
A little help is better than a lot of pity. (Celtic Proverb)
Say only a little but say it well. (Celtic Proverb)
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. (African Proverb)
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. (African Proverb)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from
him. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at
either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn,
and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm
and cheerful. -Thomas Arnold, educator (1795-1842)
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. (Henry Louis
Mencken 1880-1956)
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good
and hard. (Henry Louis Mencken 1880-1956)
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. (Will Rogers 1879-1935)
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. (Otto von Bismark)
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly,
and applying the wrong remedy. (Earnest Benn)
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies. (Groucho Marx 1895-1977)
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. (Will Rogers
1879-1935)
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer. (Will Rogers 1879-1935)
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. (Epictetus)
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of
his character. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
-Confucius (551-479 BC)
But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. (Benjamin Franklin)
A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but who doesn't have to take a civil
service examination. (Ronald Reagan)
The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money. (Revenue Auditor)
There is no art which one government sooner learns from another than that of draining money
from the pockets of the people. (Adam Smith)
In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice. (Voltaire)
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men
bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)
An icy May fills the granaries. (Russian Proverb)
An old loan repaid is like finding something new. (Russian Proverb)
Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. (Russian Proverb)
God wanted to chastise mankind, so he sent lawyers. (Russian Proverb)
It is easy to undress the naked. (Russian Proverb)
To run away is not glorious, but very healthy. (Russian Proverb)
When roubles falls from heaven there is no sack, when there is a sack roubles don't fall. (Russian
Proverb)
The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly. (Russian Proverb)
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin, author
A little too late, is much too late. (German Proverb)
It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten. (Danish Proverb)
A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. (Turkish Proverb)
Two captains will sink the ship. (Turkish Proverb)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president (1809-1865)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant,
historian (1885-1981)
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles
us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter
how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. -Mahatma
Gandhi (1869-1948)
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. (Paul Boese)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana 18631952)
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise
with other men's wisdom. -Michel Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
(Anonymous)
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. (Lyn Karol)
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift
with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. -Arnold Bennett, novelist (1867-1931)
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the
best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy
child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life
has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. (Oscar Wilde 1854-1900)
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
(Charles Evans Hughes)
In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth
practicing, the fifth -- teaching others.
- Ibn Gabirol, poet and philosopher (c. 1022-1058)
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. (John Galsworthy)
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. (Andre Gide)
It is better to be looked over than overlooked. (Mae West 1892-1980)
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. (Ralph
Marston)
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. (Thomas Dewar)
The individual's ability to perceive a problem is inversely proportional to his responsibility for the
fix. (Defensive Deafness Doctrine)
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
(Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965)
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
(George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950)
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. (Lucille S. Harper)
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. (Anonymous)
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read. (Oscar Wilde 1854-1900)
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science. (Linda Bolwes)
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. -John Vance Cheney,
poet (1848-1922)
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a
parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent
reliving childhood. -Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author (1903-1998)
Cursing the weather is never good farming. (Cheshire Proverb)
There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool. (Danish Proverb)
Don't hear one and judge two. (Greek Proverb)
It is your task to maintain your own heart peace in adverse circumstances. Harmony is always
yours when you strain your ear to catch Heaven's music."
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours. (Richard Bach)
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. (Josh Billings)
Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases. Commenting on Congress and
the federal budget, 1981 (Ronald Reagan)
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't been taxed enough; we have a trilliondollar debt because we spend too much. Address to National Association of Realtors, March 28,
1982 (Ronald Reagan)
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you
tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Remarks in Arlington,
Virginia, September 25, 1987 (Ronald Reagan)
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)
Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual. (Thomas
Jefferson to James Madison)
Isn't it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool's Day and ends with cries of
'May Day!' (Robert Knauerhaus)
The time is always right to do what is right. (Dr. Martin Luther King)
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at
present. --English Proverb
“If God did not want us to make gender-based generalizations, She would not have given us
genders." (Dave Barry)
For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. (Sir Winston
Churchill)
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
(Sir Winston Churchill)
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. (Sir Winston
Churchill)
Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential. (Sir Winston
Churchill)
I am very much afraid that schools will prove to be great gates of hell unless they diligently labor
in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place
his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not
increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt. (Martin Luther, Father of the
Protestant Reformation)
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. -Aristotle,
philosopher (384-322 B.C.)
" Don't count the days; Make the days count." (Unknown)
" Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
" Perception is merely reality filtered through the prism of your soul." (Christopher A. Ray)
" Trying times does not mean stop trying." (Unknown)
" I cannot control what others think and what others do; I can only control what I think and what I
do." (Unknown)
" Never give up. This may be your moment for a miracle." (Greg Anderson)
" The Lord did not create this world to torture us but to test us. The purpose of this test is to see if,
in carrying on our material duties, we can still keep our minds centered on him. If we can learn to
be IN the world but not OF it, not absorbed or lost in its materiality then you will feel real
happiness and nothing will depress you." (Paramahansa Yogananda)
" Change your thoughts and you change your world." (Norman Vincent Peale)
"For when the way is rough, your patience has a chance to grow. So let it grow, and don't try to
squirm out of your problems." James 1:3-4
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart" Colossians 3:23
"So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere."
Hebrews 10-35-36
"a just man falleth seven times, and riseth upagain" Proverbs 24:16
"Make the most of every opportunity" Colossias 4:5
For with God nothing shall be impossible" Luke 1:37
"For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to
everyone who knocks." Luke 11:10
Much Madness is divinest Sense / To a discerning Eye / Much Sense--the
starkest Madness. -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)
Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse. (Nigerian Proverb)
Have the courage to act instead of react. (Earlene Larson Jenks)
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and
do it. (William Durant, founder of General Motors)
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. (Margaret Thatcher)
The average man... is always waiting for something to happen instead of setting to work to make
things happen. (A.A. Milne)
If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else. (Laurence
Johnston Peter)
Men never do so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
religious conviction. -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician
(1623-1662)
If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. (Walt Disney)
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. (E. E. Cummings)
Do what you can with what you have where you are. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. (Colin Powell)
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
(General H. Norman Schwarzkopf)
When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness
of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to
stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. (Barbara J. Winter)
Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. (Kathryn
Carpenter)
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. (Helen Keller)
Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. (Frank Tyger)
The best things in life aren’t things. (Art Buchwald)
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. (Tom Clancy)
One who makes no mistakes never makes anything. (Source Unknown)
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein 1879-1955)
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. (Tim
McMahon)
"Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a
society work, a civilization work." (Vince Lombardi)
"Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale." (Vince Lombardi)
"Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory.
They did it because they loved one another…" (Vince Lombardi)
"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the
problems of modern society." (Vince Lombardi)
"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."
(Vince Lombardi)
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." (Vince Lombardi)
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm." (Vince Lombardi)
"Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you
have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay
the price to stay there." (Vince Lombardi)
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the
other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing. (Bo Schembechler)
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to
the good of the team. (Bud Wilkinson)
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. (Helen Keller)
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. -Erma
Bombeck, author (1927-1996)
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith
Wharton, novelist (1862-1937)
"For many on the left who worship at the Altar of Man, politics is the means for which their
devotion is expressed. Their politics is their religion - and they impose it on us every day." (Rush
Limbaugh)
"The greatest concentration of wealth in America is not with big corporations or with private
citizens. It is in Washington, D.C. and the people that have it take it through the force of law."
(Rush Limbaugh)
"Nowhere in the Constitution will you find the phrase 'separation of church and state.' The
Constitution does, however, say "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any
office or public trust under the United States.” (Rush Limbaugh)
"We stigmatize the people who make this country work. We tell them that they're greedy if they
demand to keep more of what they earn." (Rush Limbaugh)
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were
necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good
and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his
own heart?” (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918- )
Lawyer Quotes:
“The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing." (Will Rogers)
"An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one
even longer." (Evelle Younger)
"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth." (Patrick Murray)
"Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty." (George Bernard
Shaw)
"The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road
is that there are skid marks around the skunk." (Patrick Murray)
"A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns." (Mario Puzo)
"A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it to
himself." (Henry Bougham)
“Frequently wrong, but never in doubt.” (John Fay)
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide)
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's
wrong. (Charles Wadsworth)
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? (Jenny
Weber)
If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.
(Haythum R. Khalid)
It takes less time to do a thing right than explain why you did it wrong. (Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow)
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. (Ross MacDonald
1915-1983)
Live truth instead of professing it. (Elbert Hubbard 1856-1915)
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. (Josh Billings)
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. (Clarence
Darrow)
The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist. (Dilbert)
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. (Oscar Wilde 1854-1900)
We can loan you enough money to get you completely out of debt. (Bank Sign)
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws. (Plato 427-347 BC)
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge, which anyone in search of justice must pass. (Jane
Bryant Quinn)
The minute you read something you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by
a lawyer. (Will Rogers 1879-1935)
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. (James H. Boren)
You sound reasonable...Time to up my medication. (Dilbert)
It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy. (Dilbert)
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
(Cousin Woodman)
Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to
the grave--but there's no need to be in the passing lane. (Robert Orben)
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. (Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe)
Destiny is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan(1860-1925) - American lawyer, speaker, polititian, presidential candidate
“The man who is denied the opportunity of making decisions of importance begins to regard as
important the decisions he is allowed to make.” (Northcote Parkinson, author and historian (19091993)
“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.” (Northcote Parkinson, author and historian (1909-1993)
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. (Aaron
Levenstein)
“Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but
they're unable to do it themselves.” (Brendan Behan)
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. -Marcus Tullius
Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative. (Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968)
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers 1879-1935)
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
(Thomas Paine)
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.” (Alfred Adler)
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its
success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things. Because the innovator
has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm (indifferent,
uninterested) defenders in those who may do well under the new. " (Niccolo Machiavelli 14691527)
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." (John F. Kennedy 1917-1963)
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiotproof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is winning. (Rich Cook)
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place.
(Vince Lombardi)
"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you
don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.
Unfortunately, so is losing.
(Vince Lombardi)
Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization-an army, a
political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win-to beat the other
guy. (Vince Lombardi)
It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most
competitive men. (Vince Lombardi)
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master,
since he cannot live without him. -George Bernard, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
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)
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. (John F. Kennedy)
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
(Mark Twain)
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. (Oscar Levant)
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it. (Russian Proverb)
He that is afraid of bad luck will never know good. (Russian Proverb)
Many who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside. (Russian Proverb)
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? (Jean
Cocteau 1889-1963)
Life is a long lesson in humility. (James M. Barrie)
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. (Dick Cavett)
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. (Laurence J. Peter—“The Peter Principle”)
"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings." (Laurence
J. Peter)
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
(Mark Twain)
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. -Rita Mae Brown, author (1944- )
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. (George
Bernard Shaw)
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to
adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” (George
Bernard Shaw)
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing. (George Bernard Shaw)
The basis for optimism is sheer terror. (Oscar Wilde)
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson)
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
(Louis Pasteur)
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. (George S. Patton)
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
(Jack Nicklaus)
The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same. -Heraclitus, philosopher (Ca. 540470 BCE)
When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end
they always fall. Think of it, always. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. (Scandinavian
Proverb)
Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either. (Jewish Proverb)
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. (Jewish Proverb)
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. (Ramsey
Clark)
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is
threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging
because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to
make things better. (King Whitney, Jr.)
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. (Laurence J. Peter)
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. (Oscar Wilde 1854-1900)
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. (Professor Irwin Corey)
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. (Suzanne Necker)
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to
change and others are not. (James Gordon M.D.)
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. (Andre Gide)
He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions. -Confucius,
philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect. (William Shakespeare
1564-1616 “The Tempest”)
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! (Amy
Tan)
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
(J. Arthur Thomson 1861-1933)
All general statements are false. (Unknown “The Ultimate Law”)
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the
heaviest odds. (Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948)
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. –Leo Tolstoy, novelist and
philosopher (1828-1910)
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously. (Thomas
Sowell)
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid.
suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in
proportion to your fear of being hurt. (Thomas Merton)
“Sometimes to remain silent is to lie.” -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)
What worries you masters you. (Haddon W. Robinson)
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
(Unknown)
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously
consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they
plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. (Dennis Watley)
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one
of the secrets of energy in our great men. (Captain J.A. Hadfield)
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong,
fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. (Mary Hemingway)
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty
nor safety. (Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs—jolted by every pebble in the
road. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in
prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. (Socrates)
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift
with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. (Arnold Bennett)
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble
problems. (John W. Gardner 1912-2002)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. (Will Rogers 1879-1935)
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. (Henny
Youngman)
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
(Charles de Gaulle 1890-1970)
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth.
Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' (Andre Gide 1869-1951)
It is a given fact that the Washington elite are the universe's sole source of intelligence and have
been bestowed with the exclusive knowledge of how the unwashed masses huddled outside the
beltway should conduct every aspect of our pedestrian lives. The populace hangs on every
syllable of wisdom departing their lips and then bows in utter amazement and gratitude that we
have been allowed to partake in a few crumbs of their greatness. The magnitude of their
compassion and keen insight into solving our every problem illuminates the unqualified and
absolute need for their work to continue unabated forever. Amen. (John W. Orr)
Sin is whatever obscures the soul. (Andre Gide 1869-1951)
Man is what he believes. (Anton Chekhov 1897)
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. (Confucious)
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never
be sure. (Alice Hoffman ‘Here On Earth’)
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your
estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
121AD-180AD)
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. (Margaret Fuller)
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. (Wilson Mizner 1876-1933)
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. (John Wayne)
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave
unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. (Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790)
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself
around your own. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him
run. (Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865)
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. (Elbert
Hubbard)
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. (Frank Leahy)
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
(Albert Einstein 1879-1955)
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality. . (Albert Einstein 1879-1955)
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them
and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets. -Mencius, philosopher (c.
380-289 BCE)
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been
deceived. (Rene Descartes ‘Meditations’)
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We
must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. (Alexis Carrel)
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. (Harry S. Truman
1884-1972)
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large
things break through and escape. -Solon, statesman (c. 638-c558 BCE)
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy
from a baby. (Unknown)
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. (Walter Bagehot 18261877)
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 18091894)
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the
greatest threat to liberty. (Eugene McCarthy)
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. (Dutch Proverb)
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. –Victor Hugo, poet, novelist,
and dramatist (1802-1885)
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. (Arab
Proverb)
Examine what is said, not him who speaks. (Arab Proverb)
Make your bargain before beginning to plow. (Arab Proverb)
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. (Will Rogers
1879-1935)
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. -Marie Ebner von
Eschenbach, writer (1830-1916)
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. (Katharine
Whitehorn)
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895)
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this
world by hesitation. (Thomas H. Huxley 1825-1895)
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone. (Thomas H. Huxley 1825-1895)
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. (Thomas H. Huxley 1825-1895)
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. (Lee Iacocca)
I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be
heard. (William Lloyd Garrison)
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
(Garry Marshall, ‘Wake Me When It’s Funny’)
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
(Albertvon Szent-Gyorgyi)
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons,
computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 to 2 tons.
(Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and
a gift of cooperation. (Woodrow Wilson 1856-1924)
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Helen Keller)
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work,
those that break down and those that get lost. (Russell Baker)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
(Albert Einstein 1879-1955)
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. (Nick Diamos)
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. (Ayn Rand ‘The Virtue
of Selfishness 1964’)
Use soft words and hard arguments. (English Proverb)
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats. (Marie De France, 12th Century)
Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through,
because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously. (Roy M. Cohn)
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. (Stuart’s Law of Retroaction)
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he
knows too little. -Mark Twain, author (1835-1910)
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who
already possess it. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. (Lily Tomlin)
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. (Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887)
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. -Marcus
Aurelius, philosopher and writer (121-180)
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law. (Japanese Proverb)
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. (Al Capone
1899-1947)
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. (W.C. Fields 1880-1946)
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know
that you trust him. -Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (1856-1915)
Our patience will achieve more than our force. (Edmund Burke)
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. (Joaquin Setanti)
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss. (Lazarus Long ‘Time
Enough for Love’)
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. (Aesop ~550 BC)
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. (Confucius 551-479 BC
‘The Confucian Analects)
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King 1929-1968)
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at
that very moment. (Andre Maurois)
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can.
Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving. (Ulysses S. Grant)
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. (Steven Wright)
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the
moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
(Ayn Rand)
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)
“When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel
in the butt" – (George W. Bush)
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective,
and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. (Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969)
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell 1872-1970)
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. (Carl Sandburg)
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. (Andy Rooney)
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. (Confucius 551-479 BC)
This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford)
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
(Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821)
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in
view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him
the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour
of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! -Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President (18091865)
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. (Amelia Earhart, ‘Courage’ 1927)
We make war that we may live in peace. (Aristotle 384-322 BC ‘Nichomachean Ethics’)
Let him who desires peace prepare for war. (Flavius Vegetius Renatus ~375 AD)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (John F.
Kennedy 1917-1963)
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. (Mark
Twain 1835-1910)
Live with men as if God saw you, and talk to God as if men were listening. (Athenodorus)
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and
social reformer (1819-1900)
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something
well is to enjoy it. (Pearl Buck)
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps
remedied. (Pearl Buck)
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. (Martin
Luther King, Jr.)
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. (Mark Twain 18351910)
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we
loved not enough. (Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898)
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is
to be honest with ourselves. (Walter Anderson)
"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the
result." (Vince Lombardi)
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. (Josh Billings
1818-1885)
Never confuse motion with action. (Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790)
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. -Robert Green
Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by
it. (John Ruskin 1819-1900)
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. (Norman Vincent Peale)
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And
don't ever apologize for anything. (Harry S. Truman 1884-1972)
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental
institution of the universe." (Johann von Goethe)
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
(Laurence J. Peter)
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. (Jim
Horning)
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
(Benjamin H. Brewster)
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the
strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. (Mahatma Ganhdi 1869-1948)
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take
us or spare us. (Marcl Proust 1871-1922)
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't
smart enough to get out of jury duty. (Norm Crosby)
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracian)
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can.
Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving. (Ulysses S. Grant)
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many. (Ausonius)
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. (Colette)
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Colette)
"The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to
convince." (Vince Lombardi)
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." (Vince Lombardi)
"Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize
both." (Vince Lombardi)
"If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the
competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price
for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." (Vince Lombardi)
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by
imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. -Confucius, philosopher
and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. (Chuck Norris)
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. (James A. Garfield)
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. (Elbert Hubbard)
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. (Epictetus 50-138 AD)
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (15641616)
He that is of the opinion money will do everything, may well be suspected of doing
everything for money. (Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790)
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 1885-1981)
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep
them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. -Karl Viktor von Bonstetten, author
(1745-1832)
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. (James Thurber)
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. (W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was
here first. (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. (Ayn Rand)
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream
by night. (Edgar Allan Poe)
We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? –Edward Young, poet (1683-1765)
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed. (Edward Young 1683-1765)
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
(Albert Camus 1913-1960)
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. (William Shakespeare 1564-1616)
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. (Thomas Jones)
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what
you've got to say, and say it hot. (D.H. Lawrence)
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. (Doug Larson)
Men willingly believe what they wish. (Julius Caesar)
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. (Ray Bradbury, advice to
writers)
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold
weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
-Leonardo Da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put
on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like
manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then
be powerless to vex your mind. (Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519)
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once
been deceived. (Rene Descartes 1596-1650)
There is no security on this earth there is only opportunity. (Gen. Douglas McArthur 18801964)
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Booth Luce 1903-1987)
Fall seven times stand up eight. (Japanese Proverb)
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. (Publilius Syrus ~100 BC)
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
(Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people. (Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860)
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. (Mark Twain 18351910)
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
(Martin Luther King 1929-1968)
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” (Voltaire16941778)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world, (Helen Keller
1880-1968)
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think
about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. (James Hilton)
When anger rises, think of the consequences. (Confucius)
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at
the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder." -Aldous
Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
(Aristotle 384BC-322BC)
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. (Anatole France 1844-1924)
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. -Voltaire, philosopher (16941778)
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood
of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. (Dwight David Eisenhower 1890 - 1969)
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. (H.L.
Mencken 1880-1956)
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. (Albert Camus)
Cynicism is knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde)
"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted." ~Jean Paul
Richter
“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." - Lily Tomlin
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A.D. 121-180)
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. (Johann Georg
von Zimmermann)
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The
hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. (Eric Hoffer)
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often
prompts us to rearrange the past. (Eric Hoffer)
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer
the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. (John Burroughs)
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. (Sidney J. Harris)
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. (Euripides 480-406 B.C.)
It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing
discovery of their exact value to your listener. (Ayn Rand 1905-1982)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. (Voltaire 1694-1778)
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
(Andre Gide 1869-1951)
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty. (Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948)
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. (Henry Ford 1863-1947)
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. (Henry
Ford 1863-1947)
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to
him his own. (Benjamin Disraeli)
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph. (Pierre Corneille 16061684)
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation,
how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. (George Sand 1804-1876)
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. (Sam Brown)
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to
oneself. (Abraham J. Heschel)
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed;
if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. (Michel de Montaigne 1533-1592)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one
extraordinary man. (Elbert Hubbard 1856-1915)
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people
from their sins. (Matthew: Chap 1, verse 21)
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. (Sir Winston
Churchill 1874-1965)
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. (C. Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) 86-34 BC)
"There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of
a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to
anyone except the bad guys" (Charleton Heston)
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you
move a body. (Unknown)
"It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every
citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence,
is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are
lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe,
seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for
withholding it from him." (H.L. Mencken 1880-1956)
"Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a
safer line of work." (Harry Browne)
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." (Tacitus 55-117 AD)
"People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing
it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men.
They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any
respect." (H.L. Mencken 1880-1956)
"The point to remember is that what the government gives, it must first take away." (John S.
Coleman)
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on
the labor of the industrious." (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
"Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered a
subject of the Governor of the Universe." (James Madison 1751-1836)
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious,
they have more need of masters." (Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790)
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. -Sean
O'Casey, playwright (1880-1964)
"All government is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the
implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man." (H. L. Mencken 1880-1956)
"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished
voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered." (Dorothy Thompson 1893-1962)
"We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died
for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's
missionaries in a doubting world." (Barry Goldwater 1909-1998)
"There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." Edmund Burke
1729-1797)
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear
is the beginning of wisdom.” (Bertrand Russell 1872-1970)
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. (George Sewell)
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
(Barry Goldwater 1909-1998)
"Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious
hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully that there are unchangeable
standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things." (Leo Strauss 1899-1973)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. (Abraham
Lincoln 1809-1865)
"There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt."
(John Adams-1735-1826)
“It is error alone which needs support of government. Truth can stand by itself." (Thomas
Jefferson 1743-1826)
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target. (Ashleigh Brilliant
1933-)
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. (Elbert Hubbard 18561915)
"Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has
been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the
nursery." (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881)
“The power to tax involves the power to destroy." (John Marshall 1755-1835)
"Giving government money and power is like giving car keys and whiskey to a teenage boy" (P.J.
O'Rourke 1947-)
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of
knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." (Vince Lombardi 1913-1970)
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. (George Eliot 1819-1880)
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect
yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. (Robert Fritz)
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. (Jean Nidetch)
“Justice is incidental to law and order.” (J. Edgar Hoover (1895 - 1972)
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. (Marie Ebner von
Eschenbach 1830-1916)
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. (Marie Ebner von Eschenbach 1830-1916)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and
suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (Helen
Keller 1880-1968)
The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or
disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens.
The time is come - it now is - when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our
citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.
(Reverend Peter Marshall 1902-1949)
Fortune does not change men it unmasks them. (Suzanne Necker 1737-1794)
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are
under the influence of imagination." (Edmund Burke 1729-1797)
"Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you
toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces
pushing you toward failure." (Joseph Sugarman)
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over.
The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept
failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce
back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces. (Joseph
Sugarman)
“The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.” (Vic
Gold)
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. (Aristotle 384-322 BC)
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems. (Anthony J.
D'Angelo)
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one. (Anthony J. D'Angelo)
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to
do something about it. (Anthony J. D'Angelo)
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. (Anthony J. D'Angelo)
You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. (Anthony J. D'Angelo)
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can
do amazing things. (Joe Namath)
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. (Howard
Newton)
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every
possession a duty. (John D. Rockefeller Jr. 1874-1961)
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for
nothing. (Joey Adams)
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. (Norman
Douglas 1868-1952)
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment. (Willis Player)
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to
pay off with your money. (G. Gordon Liddy)
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. (John
Maynard Keynes 1883-1946)
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. (George S. Patton 1885-1945)
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. (George S. Patton 1885-1945)
“You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.” (George S.
Patton 1885-1945)
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your
powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no
miracle, but you shall be the miracle.” (Phillips Brooks 1835-1893)
“Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have
persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of selfdenial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so
often erroneously attributed to good luck.” (Grenville Kleiser 1868-1953)
“Idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and
succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the
truth, his idealism creates nothing.” (Grenville Kleiser 1868-1953)
“By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.” (Grenville
Kleiser 1868-1953)
To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in
mathematics there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematician has found it or not.
(Grenville Kleiser 1868-1953)
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
(Francis Cardinal Spellman)
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. (Josh
Billings 1818-1885)
"The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power." (Douglass
MacArthur 1880-1964)
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot (1826 –
1877)
"To pursue the concept of racial entitlement even for the most admirable and benign of purposes
is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery,
race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is
American." (Antonin Scalia)
"Political correctness is just tyranny with manners." (Charlton Heston)
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680)
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. (John
Ruskin 1819-1900)
“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.” (George
S. Patton 1885-1945)
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. (Psalms 37:16)
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another
according to Christ Jesus: That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 15:5-6)
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." (Richard Bach)
"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice."
(Richard Bach)
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." (Richard
Bach)
Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. (The Law of Thumb)
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be
incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. (Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Strategic
Assessments)
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. (Dr.Daniel J.
Boorstin)
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. –Alfred Hitchcock, film-maker (18991980)
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. (Bob Wells)
“Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know
more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel
Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, ‘in government, the scum rises to the top.” (Walter E. Williams)
“We the people are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the
Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” (Abraham Lincoln 18091865)
"Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now we bleat like sheep for security." (Norman
Vincent Peale 1898-1993)
"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover
how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us noble and plausible, have been tested
before, not once but many times and in innumberable guises; and discovered to be, at great
human cost, wholly false." (Paul Johnson)
"When men get in the habit of helping themselves to the property of others, they cannot easily be
cured of it." (The New York Times, in a 1909 editorial opposing the very first income tax)
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things, which escape those who dream
only by night. (Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849)
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice
and wrong which will be imposed upon them; ... The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the
endurance of those whom they oppress." (Frederick Douglass 1818-1895)
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God,
and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny
commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of
Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made
free." (John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of
America, 1787)
Character is much easier kept than recovered. (Thomas Paine 1737-1809)
A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality. ("Scratch" Garrison)
Getting caught is the mother of invention. (Robert Byrne)
Where facts are few, experts are many. (Donald R. Gannon)
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. (Marcus Valerius Martialis 40-104
AD)
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively,
are more fatal than useful to mankind. (Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821)
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. (F. M. Hubbard)
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow colorblind. (Austin O'Malley)
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus,
that all the world should be taxed. (Luke 2:1)
There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
(Mortimer Caplin 1916-)
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because
you think it would be good for him. (Robert Heinlein)
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but
by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from
the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to
considerations of power. How naive the cliche that money is the root of evil! (Eric Hoffer 19021983)
“Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain- and since labor is pain in itself- it follows that
men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly.
And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder
stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then,
that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency
to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish
plunder. “ (Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850)
The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.
(Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850)
"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope
over experience." (Oscar Wilde 1854-1900)
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has
the biggest piece. (Ludwig Erhard 1897-1977)
James Madison wrote disapprovingly of a $15,000 appropriation for French refugees: "I cannot
undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of
expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." (James Madison 17511836)
Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods.
(Henry Louis Mencken 1880-1956)
Act as if it were impossible to fail. (Dorothea Brande)
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but
perseverance. (Samuel Johnson 1709-1784)
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. (Henry Louis Mencken
1880-1956)
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” (Duke Ellington 1899-1974)
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. (Benjamin
Franklin 1706-1790)
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do. (Olin Miller)
Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength. (Corrie ten Boom 18921983)
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is
to be honest with ourselves. (Walter Anderson 1903-1965)
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30
years who makes a success of his life. (Edward B. Butler)
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its
mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. (Charles Caleb Colton 17801832)
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man,
really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. (Charles Caleb
Colton 1780-1832)
True friendship is like sound health -- the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. (Charles
Caleb Colton 1780-1832)
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless
of their chosen field of endeavor." (Vince Lombardi 1913-1970)
"When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means that we are ceasing to be afraid of
them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
Catherine Mansfield
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. (Albert Camus
1913-1960)
If you cannot convince them, confuse them. (Harry S Truman 1884-1972)
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes
and becoming superior. (Henry C. Link)
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
(Elbert Hubbard 1856-1915)
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt (1778 1830)
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't
start a conversation. Kin Hubbard (1868-1930)
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. (Al Batt )
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. (Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790)
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. (Doug Larson)
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and
from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no
longer flow into our souls. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902)
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had
been understood. -Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (1857-1938)
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent
historian. (Lee Simonson 1888-1967)
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. (Arnold Palmer
1929-)
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. (Samuel Johnson 1709-1784)
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. (Isaac
Asimov 1920-1992)
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. (Isaac Asimov 19201992)
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your
thoughts take you. (James Lane Allen 1849-1925)
“Never let the enemy pick the battle site.” (General George S. Patton 1885-1945)
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and
give to those who would not. (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested. (Robert J. Sawyer 1960-)
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. (Albert Camus 1913-1960)
The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue
him. -Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. (Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of
Defense 1932-)
Only the mediocre are always at their best. (Jean Giraudoux 1882-1944)
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. (Mignon
McLaughlin 1915-)
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. (Mignon McLaughlin 1915-)
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. (Lord Byron 1788 - 1824)
“Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.” (Baltasar
Gracian 1601-1658)
"The shortest road to being 'somebody' is knowing who to follow." (Baltasar Gracian 1601-1658)
"The man who will not listen is incurably the fool." (Baltasar Gracian 1601-1658)
"The world is in chaos. Honorable dealing is deteriorating, good friends are few, truth is held in disrepute,
good service is underpaid, poor service is overpaid. Whole nations are committed to evil dealings: With
one you fear insecurity, with another, inconsistency, with a third, betrayal. This being what it is, let the bad
faith of others serve not as an example, but as warning. The real danger of the situation lies in the
unhinging of your own integrity: accepting less than your best, being overly tolerant of stupidity, forgiving
incompetence, fraternizing with the nonspiritual. The man of principle never forgets what he is, because he
clearly sees what the others are." (Baltasar Gracian 1601-1658, Spanish Jesuit philosopher and writer)
"100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
"It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men." (C.S.
Lewis 1898-1963)
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were
aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether
we were being well governed?" (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment." (C.S. Lewis
1898-1963)
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His
megaphone to rouse a deaf world." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 1821)
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. (Georg Christoph
Lichtenberg1742 - 1799)
In a mad world only the mad are sane. (Akira Kurosawa 1910-1998)
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. (1877-1962)
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment
of charity. (John Mitchell Mason 1770-1829)
"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man
he is..." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
"Hatred obscures all distinctions." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
(Ron Nesen)
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United
States. (H.L. Mencken 1880-1956)
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. (Sam Ewing)
A man can please his wife with a box of candy, surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, and make
her suspicious with a gold bracelet. (Sam Ewing)
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may
not be long before we're paying somebody not to. (Franklin P. Jones 1887 – 1929)
"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function
of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error." (Robert Houghwout Jackson 18921954)
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases. (Robert J. Sawyer 1960-)
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. (Herb
Caen (1916-1997)
"Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience...without God
there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure...If
we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." (Ronald
Reagan, 1984)
"The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible
that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically
universal in our country." (Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933)
"We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in
heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come." (Samuel Adams at
the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 1776)
Men willingly believe what they wish. (Julius Caesar 100 BC - 44 BC)
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them. Margret
Mitchell 1900-1949)
The Internal Revenue Code is about 10 times the size of the Bible -- and unlike the Bible,
contains no good news. (Don Nickles 1949-)
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. (Eric Hoffer 1902-1983)
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. (Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881)
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. (Dale Carnegie 1888-1955)
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. (H. L. Mencken 1880 - 1956)
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
(Susan Jeffers)
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have
the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the
withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And
you don't have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best. (Alfred A. Montapert)
The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes
of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. (Alfred A. Montapert)
Few of us know what we are capable of doing . . . We have never pushed ourselves hard enough
to find out. (Alfred A. Montapert)
Begin and you are halfway there. (Alfred A. Montapert)
Achievements are the accomplishment of persistent individuals. (James Jones)
"Belief is so powerful in one's life, I am almost dumbfounded that so few people even know what they
believe" Montapert said, "In my experience if you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life.
Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon. You
must believe before you receive, that is faith. The only limit to the power of God lies within you. In fact
man is what he believes, for belief is the great force of the mind. To accomplish great things we must
dream - plan - act - believe." (Alfred A. Montapert)
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
(Samuel Johnson 1709-1784)
Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does tells us what he is. (Bishop F. D.
Huntington)
If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated. (Brenda Hammond)
Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden)
There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. (Steven Wright)
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought
is vicious. (Henry Adams 1838-1918)
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged. (John M. Ford 1957-)
To fight fear, act. To increase fear, wait, put off, postpone. (David Joseph Schwartz American
author)
Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to
aggravate the evils from which it would fly. = Edmund Burke (1729 - 97) English orator &
statesman)
A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right. (Anonymous)
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray
another. (William Law 1686-1761)
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man
deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From
His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source
of everything. (Aiden Wilson Tozer)
This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the
kind of behavior we expect from other people. (C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis)
God doesn't always smooth the path, but sometimes he puts springs in the wagon. (Marshall
Lucas)
When one door to happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the closed door
we do not see the one which has been opened to us. (Helen Keller 1880-1968)
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. (H.L. Mencken 1880-1956)
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
(Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881)
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. (Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900)
“Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is." (Vince Lombardi 1913-1970)
"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find
the same man going back on this a moment later." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
"For in a Republic, who is "the country”? Is it the Government, which is for the moment in the
saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant--merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its
prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who
isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them." (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
Washington is not America. It has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the
rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. (Richard Maybury)
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get. (William Lowe Bryan
1860-1955)
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. (Mark
Twain 1835-1910)
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle
difference between a dog and a man. (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.
(Dan Bennett)
"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal
rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained." (George Washington, 1732-1799)
You have to be oblivious to common sense to believe that taxing people who do work and paying
people who don't work results in more people working. That's just not the way the world works.
(Arthur B. Laffer)
"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or
restrained by human laws; right derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe." (John Adams
1735-1826)
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of
supporting it." (Thomas Paine, 1737 – 1809)
Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it
possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. (Editorial in the Boston Post-1865)
It is curious—curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral
courage so rare. (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons,
computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons.
(Popular Mechanics, March 1949).
“Good things, when short, are twice as good.” (Balthasar Gracián 1601-1658)
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away
and doing the exact opposite. (G.K. Chesterton 1874-1936)
I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. (Steven Wright)
What happens if you get scared half to death twice? (Steven Wright)
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. (Steven Wright)
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. (Steven Wright)
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. (Steven Wright)
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman;
only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. (Robertson Davies 1913-1995)
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. (Robertson Davies 1913-1995)
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. (Vidal Sassoon)
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. (Peter De Vries)
Every time this country . . . has cut tax rates across the board, revenues went up and the
economy grew. (Jack Kemp 1935-)
"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac." (George Carlin)
That which is not just is not law. (William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879)
The bigger the specification, the lower the profit. (Litzler's Law of Competitive Bidding)
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. (Norman Douglas 1868-1952)
"You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout
you out." (Andrew Jackson: To delegation of bankers discussing the Bank Renewal Bill, 1832)
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 1835-1910)
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole
experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a
daring adventure or nothing. (Helen Keller 1880-1968)
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. (Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964)
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
(Elie Wiesel 1928-)
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all. (Elie Wiesel 1928-)
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
(Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797)
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. (Wilson Mizner
1876 – 1933)
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. (Robert
Frost 1874-1963)
Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream of things that never were and
say why not? (Robert Frost 1874-1963)
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and
see more than we speak. (Socrates 469 BC- 399 BC)
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. (T. S. Eliot
1888 - 1965)
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
(Author Unknown)
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) (Sir
Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626)
A good listener is usually thinking about something else. (Kin Hubbard 1868 – 1930)
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680)
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
(Francois de La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680)
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats. (Marie De France, 12th Century)
risk
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for
evidence which could support this. (Bertrand Russell 1872-1970)
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods,
particularly if the goods are worthless. (Sinclair Lewis 1885 – 1951)
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. (George Bernard Shaw 1856 - 1950)
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. (Scott Adams)
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. (Thomas A. Edison
1847 - 1931)
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. (Henrik
Tikkanen 1924-1984)
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to
be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. (Margery Allingham
1904-1966)
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
(Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856)
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is
presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. (Kahlil
Gibran 1883-1931)
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. (Benjamin
Franklin 1706 - 1790)
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the
giver. (Eleanor Hamilton 1815-1868)
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything
you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
(Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value
depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power;
unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. (Ayn Rand 1905-1982)
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882)
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. (John Dryden 1631 – 1700)
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. (Paul Gauguin 1848 - 1903)
Education is too important to be left solely to educators. (Francis Keppel1916-1990)
“Education: The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as `free education' is the
least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education, just like socialized
medicine or the socialized post office and cannot possibly be separated from political control."
(Frank Chodorov, 1887-1966)
"Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has
been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in
nursery." (Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881)
"It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system
in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for incentives for
innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more
resembles the communist economy more than our own market economy." (Albert Shanker 19281997)
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. (David T. Wolf)
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. (Proverbs
12:15)
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
(Herbert Agar 1897-1980)
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. (William Feather 1908-1976)
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without
information. (John Erskine)
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it
and remove all doubt. (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters. (Solomon Short)
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. (Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955)
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. (Francois de La
Rochefoucauld 1613-1680)
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out
inside. (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
Never eat more than you can lift. (Miss Piggy)
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. (John Kenneth
Galbraith 1908-)
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of
thought. (John Kenneth Galbraith 1908-)
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. (Phillip K. Dick 1928-1982)
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. (Franklin P.
Jones 1887 – 1929)
Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an
acquaintance, or a stranger. (Franklin P. Jones 1887-1929)
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be
made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that
not all the performers are well trained. (Edward R. Murrow 1908-1965)
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than
when it reached only to the end of the bar. (Edward R. Murrow 1908-1965)
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. (Lily Tomlin)
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
Accept life, and you must accept regret. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1821-18816)
Beware the fury of a patient man. (John Dryden 1631-1700)
I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best. (Hakeem Olajuwon)
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are
doing, you will be successful. (Herman Cain)
Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps
remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves. (Herman Cain)
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. (Sally Kempton 1943-)
Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind. (John Sloan 1871-1951)
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job. (Malcolm Forbes 19191990)
Men who never get carried away should be. (Malcolm Forbes 1919-1990)
By the time we've made it, we've had it. (Malcolm Forbes 1919-1990)
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. (Brendan Francis)
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of
wrongdoing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. (Marcus
Tullius Cicero 106 AD - 43 AD)
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by
necessity; and brutes by instinct. (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 AD-43 AD)
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel 18211881)
Only one thing is necessary: to possess God—All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the
spirit, all the exterior resources are so many open outlets to the Divinity; so many ways of tasting
and of adoring God. We should be able to detach ourselves from all that is perishable and cling
absolutely to the eternal and the absolute and enjoy the all else as a loan, as a usufruct…. To
worship, to comprehend, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: this our law, our duty, our happiness,
our heaven. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1821-1881)
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget
everything except your refusal. (Pliny the Younger 62 AD - 114 AD)
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. (Pliny the
Younger 62 AD - 114 AD)
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle 1795 1881)
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to
discover they are not it. (Bernard Bailey)
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it. (Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860)
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather
than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. (Frederick Douglass 1818-1895)
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
(Harry Shearer)
The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
(Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)
If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of
others. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680)
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. (George Washington 1732 - 1799)
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. (H.H. Munro (Saki) 1870-1916)
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. (King Charles I, of England
1600-1649)
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can
put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. (C.S. Lewis
1898-1963)
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most
oppressive. (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers
her age. (Robert Frost 1874-1971)
A generation, which ignores history, has no past and no future. (Robert Heinlein (1907 1988)
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all
other alternatives. (Abba Eban 1915 - )
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
(Thomas Paine 1737-1809)
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his
duty. (George Bernard Shaw 1856 - 1950)
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. (Charlotte Bronte 1816 – 1855)
“You’re never beaten until you admit it.” (George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
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)
Anything too stupid to be said is sung. (Voltaire 1694 – 1778)
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. (Anne Tyler 1941-)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be
led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. (H.L
Mencken 1880-1956)
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of
moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The
person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing, which is more important
than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free
unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. (John Stuart Mill
1806-1873)
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. (Noel Coward
1899-1973)
Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it. (Noel
Coward 1899-1973)
No legacy is so rich as honesty. (William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616)
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still
more the man who is indifferent to everything. (Johann K. Lavater 1741-1801)
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a
certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?' (Johann K. Lavater 1741-1801)
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your
papers. (Johann K. Lavater 1741-1801)
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from
which self-respect springs. (Joan Didion (1934 - )
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their
character. (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into
habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it
spring from love Born out of concern for all beings. (The Buddha)
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by
originality, overcomes everything. (George Lois 1931-)
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her
to drink it. (Frank Muir 1920-1998)
The glances over cocktails that seem to be so sweet don't seem quite so amorous over Shredded
Wheat. (Frank Muir 1920-1998)
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's
venom poisons himself more than his victim. (Charles Buxton 1875-1942)
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not
starting. (Buddha B.C. 568-488)
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults
tends to balance out. (Raoul Vaneigem )
Common sense is the knack of seeing things are they are, and doing things as they
ought to be done. (C. E. Stowe 1889-1967)
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. (William Arthur Ward)
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
(William Arthur Ward)
The difference between young liars and old thieves is just a matter of time. (Roy English)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. (Henry
David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. (Titus
Livius 59 BC-17 AD)
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those
who are still undecided. (Casey Stengel 1890-1975)
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (J. D.
Salinger 1919-)
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he
is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. (Alec Waugh 1917-1980)
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take
indecent advantage of them. (Walter Kerr 1913-1996)
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and
unruffled under all circumstances. (Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826)
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. (Psalm 118:8)
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and
find out how to do it. (Theodore Roosevelt 1858 – 1919)
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. (Barbara S. Tober)
Enquire not what boils in another's pot. (Thomas Fuller 1608-1661)
All things are difficult before they are easy. (Thomas Fuller 1608-1661)
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the
world. (Helen Keller 1880-1968)
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything selfconscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. (Ray Bradbury
1920-)
Haste in every business brings failures. (Herodotus 484 BC – 430 BC)
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. (Darrin
Weinberg)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
(Elbert Hubbard 1856-1915)
Why does a small tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and s substantial tax cut save you
thirty cents? (Peg Bracken)
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. (William F. Buckley Jr.
1925-)
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. (Dame Rose
Macaulay 1881-1958)
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do
not forget. (Thomas Szasz 1920-)
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the
right or wrong end of the gun. (P. G. Wodehouse 1881-1975)
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as
you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving. (Ulysses S. Grant 1822 1885)
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to
make it worth the effort. (Herm Albright 1876 - 1944)
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we
created them. (Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955)
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved
replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education,
housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were
put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither
discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them. (Thomas Sowell, Is Reality
Optional?, 1993)
Do not consider painful what is good for you. (Euripides 484 BC – 406)
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.
(Clarence Darrow 1857 – 1938)
What does not kill me makes me stronger. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 - 1832)
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
(James Oppenheim 1882-1932)
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. (Barry
Switzer 1937 - )
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. (Demosthenes 384 BC 322 BC)
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. (Leo
Rosten 1908-)
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask
more than the wisest man can answer. (Charles Caleb Colton 1780 – 1832)
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do
that is inconsolable." (Sidney J. Harris 1917-1986)
"Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble." (Sidney J. Harris 19171986)
"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?’”
(Sidney J. Harris 1917-1986)
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is
prematurely disappointed in the future. (Sidney J. Harris 1917-1986)
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." (General George
S. Patton 1885-1945)
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms
with everything. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1742-1799)
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude
determines how well you do it. (Lou Holtz 1937-)
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift -- is taxes. (William Feather 1908-1976)
Avoid falsehoods like the plague except in matters of taxation, which do not count, since here you
are not lying to take someone else's goods, but to prevent your own from being unjustly seized.
(Giovanni Morelli 1816-1891)
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens
unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. (William E. Borah 1865-1940)
When a self-governing people confer upon their government the power to take from some and
give to others, the process will not stop until the last bone of the last taxpayer is picked bare.
(Howard Kershner)
Freedom from want supposedly results from government taking away what a person owns so that
it can give him back what it thinks he deserves. (James Bovard)
There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure. (Dan
Bennett)
The nation ought to have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. )William
E. Simon 1927-2000)
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because
you think it would be good for him. (Robert Heinlein 1907-1988)
Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you
would not think up yourself in a million years. (Dave Barry)
To steal from one person is theft. To steal from many is taxation. (Jeff Daiell)
When Barbary Pirates demand a fee for allowing you to do business, it's called 'tribute money.'
When the Mafia demands a fee for allowing you to do business, it's called 'the protection racket.'
When the state demands a fee for allowing you to do business, it's called 'sales tax.' (Jeff Daiell)
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions
often have the fewest facts. (Bethania McKenstry)
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check
mark about three inches away. (Tom Lehrer 1928-)
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as
slaves. (Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965)
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
(Jean Rostand 1894 - 1977)
A contented mind is the best source for trouble. (Titus Maccius Plautus 254– 184 BC)
If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way. (Lois McMaster Bujold
1949-)
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little
more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. (John Ruskin 18191900)
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article. (Philip Armour 1832 - 1901)
American industrialist
There are two times in the man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and
when he can. (Mark Twain 1835 - 1910)
To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work, is as impossible as
it is to live without being born. (A. P. Gouthey)
The most glorious thing in life is to be a Christian. The most exalted privilege in life is to have
intimate daily, hourly fellowship with God. (A. P. Gouthey)
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome. (Anne Bradstreet 1612 - 1672) American poet
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted
with himself, then, especially, being free from flatterers. (Francis Johnson 1562 - 1618) English Dutch theologian
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John Churton
Collins 1848-1908)
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. (M. Kathleen Casey)
We have met the enemy and he is us! (Walt Kelly 1913-1973)
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. (Aldous Huxley 1894-1963)
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. (Hindu Proverb)
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. (George S.
Patton 1885-1945)
It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall. (Mexican Proverb)
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise. (Proverbs
12:15)
The LORD detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him. (Proverbs 20:23)
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
(Arthur Wellesley 1769-1852)
Eat one live toad first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the
day. (Scott Adams)
"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies." (J. Hudson Taylor 1832-1905)
"Prepare for the worst, expect the best, and take what comes." (Robert E. Speer)
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
(Doug Larson)
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. (Anonymous)
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults
and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that
which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? (Thomas a
Kempis 1380-1471)
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot
make yourself as you wish to be. (Thomas a Kempis 1380-1471)
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the United States, unless you count the
increasing popularity of the 9-millimeter bullet. (Dave Barry)
"One man working with you is worth a dozen men working for you." (Herman M. Koelliker)
"With your mouth, you provide information. With the way you live your life, you influence." (Mark
Deavall)
"We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of
industry, and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish
new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to
escape without a tribute." (Thomas Paine 1737-1809)
"A wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them
otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from
the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
(Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801)
Bankers are the assassins of hope. (Anonymous)
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of
circumstances. (Aristotle 384 - 322 B. C.)
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
(Henry Fielding 1707 - 1754)
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. (Henry Fielding 1707 - 1754)
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890-1969)
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. (P. J.
O'Rourke 1947-)
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. (Samuel
Butler 1835 – 1902)
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. (Paul Beatty 1962-)
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats
thistles. (Richard Burton 1925-1984)
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. (Author Unknown)
“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and
disappointments."(Joseph Addison 1672-1719)
" No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with
friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the
future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it."
(Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887)
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will
receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. (James 1:12) NIV
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of
life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. (James 1:12) KJV
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities
are so much more important than the events that occur. (Vince Lombardi 1913-1970)
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 18731954)
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. (Walter Bagehot
1826-1877)
Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular,
so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? (Henry James
1843-1916)
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
(Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948)
He, who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
(Michel de Montaigne 1533 - 1592)
Life is too important to take seriously. (Corky Siegel)
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on
trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” (Dale Carnegie 1888-1955)
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one
realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be
looking outside himself for guidance. (Sidney Madwed)
The term "agnostic" is only the Greek equivalent of the Latin and English "Ignoramus," a name
one would think scientists would be slow to apply to themselves. (Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1836
- 1903) American Clergyman & Philosopher)
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. (Scott Adams-Dilbert)
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous the sensible man hardly anything.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 - 1832)
LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. (Ambrose
Bierce 1842-1914, The Devil’s Dictionary)
PRICE, n Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.
(Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, The Devil’s Dictionary)
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to
fool. (Richard Feynman 1918-1988)
There are some remedies worse than the disease. (Publilius Syrus ~100BC)
"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines." (Satchel Paige19061982)
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favors you have received.
(Seneca 5 BC – 65 AD)
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrongdoing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. (Cicero 106
BC - 43 BC)
Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. (John Milton 1608 - 1674)
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
(Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC)
Focus on remedies, not faults. (Jack Nicklaus 1940 - )
Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit. (Diane
Westlake)
He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses
faith loses all. (Henry H. Haskins)
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of
the fact. (George Eliot 1819 - 1880)
You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No
one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have
been taught and accept as true. (Sidney Madwed)
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also
miss the sense of where you are going and why. (Eddie Cantor 1892-1964)
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your
own self. (Aldous Huxley 1894 - 1963)
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straightforward and
simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but
he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by
management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is
neither to be bamboozled nor bribed. (C. C. Colton 1780-1832)
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when
we are in the majority. (Ralph W. Sockman)
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either
case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. (John Stuart Mill 1806-1873)
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when
you meet him he will win. (Ed Macauley 1928- Hall of Fame Basketball Player & Coach)
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. (Arthur Ashe
1943-1993)
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually
attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. (Thomas Szasz 1920-)
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not
forget. (Thomas Szasz 1920-)
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by
religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!" (Patrick Henry
1736-1799)
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me
liberty or give me death! (Patrick Henry 1736-1799)
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. (George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950)
"The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down
by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get
more of both." (James Dale Davidson)
Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. (The Law of Thumb)
Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value. (Robert A. Heinlein 19071988)
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. (Thomas Fuller 1608-1661)
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. (Jim Horning)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of
genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. (E. F. Schumacher 1911-1977)
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is
suicide. (Marva N. Collins 1936-)
"Success doesn't come to you, you go to it." (Marva N. Collins 1936-)
"I don't want anything from the government! Because my people never could have failed so
miserably without the government's help!" (Marva N. Collins 1936-)
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred
to the great God who made him. (Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1865)
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or
miserable. (Roger L'Estrange 1616-1704)
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. (John
Ciardi 1916-1986)
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. (Joseph Conrad 1857 1924)
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient
when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
(Francois de La Rochefoucauld 1613 - 1680)
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is
the rule. (Friedrich Nietzsche 1844 - 1900)
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? (Ursula K. LeGuin 1929-)
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we
have already done. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882)
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the
seed sown will be the harvest. (Ellen G. White 1827-1915)
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and
set sail once more toward your coveted goal. (Napolean Hill 1883-1970)
"Success requires no explanations, failure permits no alibis." (Napolean Hill 1883-1970)
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
(Tenessee Williams 1911 - 1983)
In prosperity prepare for a change, in adversity hope for one. (James Burgh 1714-1775)
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. (William Hazlitt 1778 - 1830)
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the
republic. (Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790)
I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the
end. (Larry Bird 1956-)
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. (William H. Mauldin 1921-2003)
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. (Ecclesiastes
7:5)
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in
other people's patience. (John Updike 1932-)
"Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!" (Tommy Smothers)
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. (Louis Adamic 1899-1951)
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. (Aesop ~550 BC)
If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he
gives. (Robert South)
No human thing is of serious importance. (Plato 427BC-347BC)
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. (Plato 427BC347BC)
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are
dumber. (Plato 427BC-347BC)
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. (Demosthenes 384BC322BC)
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares. (Hebrews 13:2)
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;
indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be
foolish than sensible. (Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as
your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. (Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964)
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape. (Proverbs
19:5)
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay
him again. (Proverbs 19:17)
An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to
the wicked. (Proverbs 29:27)
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be
insipid. (Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900)
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the
seed sown will be the harvest. (Ellen G. White 1827-1915)
There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us
unafraid. (Frederick W. Cropp)
To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear. (T. Sachs)
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you
less than you are. (Malcolm Forbes 1919 – 1990)
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is. (John Lancaster Spalding 1840-1916)
"Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it." (C.S.
Lewis 1898-1963)
"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man
he is..." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
"If you have courage, you will influence people based on your convictions. If you lack courage,
you will influence people based on your comfort zones. Courage will take you anywhere you
believe God is leading you. Without courage, you will go where you are comfortable." (Wayne
Schmidt)
"Failure to embrace and act upon truth will always result in deception." (Tom Drout)
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. (Johann von Goethe
1749 – 1832)
Experience, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old
acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. (Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914)
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. (Beverly Sills 1929-)
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. (Dorothy Day 1897 - 1980)
A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches. (Proverbs 11:16)
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires. (William A. Ward)
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. (Alex Karras 1935-)
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, which is the most common; by
philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual. = Charles
Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
I am no more humble than my talents require. (Oscar Levant 1906-1972)
All movements go too far. (Bertrand Russell 1872-1970)
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate
governmental action. (Bertrand Russell 1872-1970)
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
(Herbert Spencer 1820-1903)
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.
(Frank Crane)
To forgive is to set the prisoner free, and then discover the prisoner was you. (Author Unknown)
The least of learning is done in the classrooms. (Thomas Merton 1915-1968)
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to
avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin
to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. (Thomas Merton 1915-1968)
"He means well" is useless unless he does well. (Titus Maccius Plautus 254-184 BC)
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
(Peter F. Drucker 1909-)
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the
wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. (Philip Caldwell)
Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. (Mike Ditka 1939-)
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. (Anais Nin 1903 – 1977)
A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.
(Elmer G. Letterman)
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to
overcome bad luck. (Channing Pollock)
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a
fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (George Washington
1732 - 1799)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. (Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle 1850-1930)
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and
accomplishment. (Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With
God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there
to worry about. (Henry Ford 1863 - 1947)
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
(Benjamin Disraeli 1804 – 1881)
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops
snowing. (Phyllis Diller 1917-)
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. (H. G. Wells 1866 –
1946)
Every great and commanding moment in the annuls of the world is the triumph of some
enthusiasm. (Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882)
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with
firmness. (Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832)
It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong. (Brother Theodore 1906-2001)
Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
(Arcesilaus 315-240 BC)
The way to become boring is to say everything. (Voltaire 1694-1778)
Enough is as good as a feast. ~English Proverb
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. (Paul Beatty 1962-)
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening. (Seneca 5BC65AD)
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable. (Seneca 5 BC-65 AD)
He who spares the wicked injures the good. (Seneca 5 BC- 65 AD)
A half truth is a whole lie. (Yiddish Proverb)
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it
itches. (Alice Roosevelt Longworth 1887-1980)
Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250
(Harper's Index, October 1989)
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. (John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937)
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head.
(Anonymous)
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. (John Tudor 1954-)
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865)
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. (Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790)
"If there is equality it is in His love, not in us." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
"History is a story written by the finger of God." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have
found out that it has no meaning..." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the
old year leaves. (Bill Vaughan 1915-1977)
California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange. (Fred Allen 1894-1956)
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly
reprove thy faults. (Socrates 469 BC - 399 BC)
Launegayer's Observation: Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their
colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in
battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to
change a world which yields most painfully to change. (John F. Kennedy 1925-1968)
"The more obstacles you have, the more opportunities there are for God to do something."
(Clarence W. Jones 1900-1986)
Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?"
(Author Unknown)
Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength,
determination, and hard work. (Indian Proverb)
"Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder." (George Washington 1732-1799)
No man's credit is as good as his money. (E.W. Howe 1853-1937)
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll,
there's a good chance the transmission is shot. (Larry Lujack 1940-)
"The right to be armed is the security without which every other is insufficient." (Thomas
Babington Macauley 1800-1859)
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." (George
Washington 1732-1799)
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details. William Feather (1908-1976)
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. (Leonard Brandwein)
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two
faces. (Maureen Murphy)
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. (Lois McMaster Bujold
1949-)
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. (Robert Orben
1927-)
There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your
neighbor's. (Clyde Moore)
"The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked." (Napolean Hill 18831970)
"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a
greater Benefit." (Napolean Hill 1883-1970)
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do
they get smart just in time to ask questions? (Scott Adams 1957-)
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic.
We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and
motivated by pride and vanity. (Dale Carnegie 1888-1955)
...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher,
but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man
who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral
teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached
egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man
was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him
up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and
call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His
being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. (C.S.
Lewis 1898-1963)
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. (Bob
Edwards)
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by
these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. (David Rockefeller
(1915 - )
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing. (Michael Iapoce)
"Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it." (Charles Swindoll 1934-)
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase
themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a
dark frivolity, but still frivolity. (Robertson Davies 1913-1995)
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and
defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. (Robertson Davies 1913-1995)
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
(Agnes Repplier 1858-1950)
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. (Agnes
Repplier 1858-1950)
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks
and costs of comfortable inaction. (John F. Kennedy 1917-1963)
It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when
we take risks, when we challenge and question. (Magdalena Abakanowicz 1930-)
There is no such thing as a good tax. (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)
" Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." (Martin Luther King
Jr. 1929-1968)
“When in doubt, do it." (Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894)
"English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England." (Homer Simpson 1990-)
"Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Santa
Claus." (Bart Simpson 1990-)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid."
(Soren Aabye Kierkegaard 1813-1855)
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and
the reality of tomorrow. (Robert H. Goddard 1882-1945)
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. (William G. McAdoo 1863-1941)
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have
room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. (Fred Allen 1894-1956)
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the
blow from the iron to give forth sparks. (Henri Frédéric Amiel 1821-1881)
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
(Henri Frédéric Amiel 1821-1881)
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools. (Charles Simmons)
Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the
hope of reward. (Kreeshna)
Victory belongs to the most persevering." (Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821)
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory." (Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948)
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be
because we destroyed ourselves." (Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865)
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away." (Ronald
Reagan 1911-)
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not
give up. (Galatians 6:9)
"Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around you in awareness." (Ross Hersey)
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right
degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within
everybody's power and is not easy." (Aristotle 384-322 BC)
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. (Epictetus 55
AD - 135 AD)
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately." (Henry Kissinger 1923-)
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others." ( Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1894)
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Chinese
Proverb)
In crises the most daring course is often safest." (Henry Kissinger 1923-)
"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." (Will Rogers 1879-1935)
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." (Muhammad Ali
1942-)
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. (Malcolm Forbes 1919 - 1990)
Creditors have better memories than debtors." (Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790)
Don't find fault. Find a remedy. (Henry Ford 1863-1947)
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so
much. (Mother Teresa 1910 - 1997)
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will
bring you lasting remorse. (Chilo of Sparta c 560 BC)
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble
us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us
despair in losing them. (Madame de Lambert 1647-1733)
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends on your own ingenuity, selfsufficiency and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply them
satisfaction usually find boredom instead. (Dr. Karl Menninger 1893 - 1990)
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. (Dr. Karl
Menninger 1893 - 1990)
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery. (Lawana
Blackwell)
"There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the
other how to live." (John Adams 1735-1826)
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most
oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral
busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some
point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end,
for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
"It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough
good men to curse them." (G.K. Chesterton 1874 – 1936)
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
(Lois McMaster Bujold 1949-)
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any
national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. (Abraham Lincoln 1809 – 1865)
The weaker the man in authority….the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be
acknowledged. (Austin O'Malley 1858-1932)
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. (Peter
Drucker 1909-)
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in
your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. (Will Rogers 1879-1935)
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. (Pliny the Elder 23 AD-79 AD)
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." (Plato 427 BC347 BC)
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons of history." (Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
appearance of solidity to pure wind." (George Orwell 1903-1950)
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually
without effort, and effort means work.” (Calvin Coolidge 1872 - 1933)
"Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy." (GK
Chesterton 1874-1936)
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking
of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. (Sydney
Smith 1771-1845)
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you
necessarily wise because you are grave. (Sydney Smith 1771-1845)
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. (Publius Ovidius Naso 43 BC–17
AD)
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least
expect it, there will be a fish. (Publius Ovidius Naso 43 BC–17AD)
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. (Samuel
Johnson 1709–1784)
"When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of
school children.” (Albert Shanker 1928-1997, longtime American Federation of Teachers
president)
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. (Jean Nidetch)
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the
government of any other." (John Adams 1735-1826)
"The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible
that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically
universal in our country." (Calvin Coolidge 1872 - 1933)
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
(George Washington Carver 1865-1943)
'The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible', "In all thy ways acknowledge Him
and He shall direct thy paths." (George Washington Carver 1865-1943)
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure but reserve thy
judgement. (William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616)
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
(Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1821-1881)
Where there is no truth there is no grace. (Nachman of Bratslav 1772-1810)
Thinking is more precious than all five senses. (Nachman of Bratslav 1772-1810)
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
(Henry Kissinger 1923-)
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. (Russell
Baker 1925-)
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is
a car that can be shot when it breaks down. (Russell Baker 1925-)
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
(Ann Landers 1918 - 2002)
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. (Sudie Back)
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with
courageous patience. (Hyman Rickover 1900 - 1986)
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. (Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797)
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have
accomplished with your ability. (John Wooden 1910-)
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. (Jiddu
Krishnamurti 1895-1986)
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding,
Understanding is not wisdom. (Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert)
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. (William
Clement Stone 1902-2003)
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They
helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the
time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. (William
Clement Stone 1902-2003)
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. (A. J. Liebling 1904-1963)
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. (A. J. Liebling 1904-1963)
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. )Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 1832)
"Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased." (C.S. Lewis
1898-1963)
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. (Herbert
Agar 1897-1980)
"The government's view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves,
tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." (Ronald Reagan 19112004)
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if
only we had a little more money and a little more power." But the truth is that outside of its
legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
(Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
(Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
The Founding Fathers knew a government couldn't control the economy without controlling
people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to
achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing. (Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
“Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to
your best hopes, not your worst fears....“May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic
origins, never fail to seek divine guidance and never lose your natural, God-given optimism.” —
Speech to Republican National Convention, Aug. 17, 1992 (Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the
person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up." (Dave Barry 1947-)
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.... William James, (1842-1910)
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or
suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art,
or evolved philosophic systems. (Anna Garlin Spencer 1851-1931)
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as
if they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its
heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. (Helen Keller 18801968)
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. (Vince Lombardi 19131970)
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. (Lowell Thomas 1892-1981)
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being
willing is not enough; we must do. (Russell C. Taylor 1925-)
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and
achieve it, generation after generation. (Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973)
Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. (Whitney M. Young,
Jr. 1921-1971)
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. (Jerry M.
Wright)
"Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you
don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help" (Thomas Sowell 1930-)
"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism"
(Thomas Sowell 1930-)
"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best" (Thomas Sowell
1930-)
"If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is
hateful." (Dr. Laura Schlessinger 1947-)
A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue
to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people
who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives."
(James Madison 1751-1836)
Justice renders to every one his due. (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC)
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. (Harry S Truman
1884-1972)
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. (Marcus Valerius Martialis 40 AD103 AD)
The society that scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in
philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good
philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002 )
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot
make yourself as you wish to be. (Thomas a Kempis 1380-1471)
The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.
(John Romano)
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice." (Thomas
Paine 1737-1809)
"One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until
you try." (Sophocles 496-406 BC)
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. (Aristotle 384
BC - 322 BC)
"Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be
bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world" (Samuel Butler 1835–1902)
"What we learn to do, we learn by doing." (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when
candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote
for them. (Franklin P. Adams 1881-1960)
"Be just before you are generous” (Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816)
"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed" (Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816)
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. (Fritz Kunkel)
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil
tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery
from their future and crimes from society." (Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790)
“What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.”
(Matthew Arnold 1822-1888)
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. (Joseph Chilton Pearce)
"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile." (Roger Staubach 1942-)
"You'll never have a product or price advantage again. They can be easily duplicated, but a
strong customer service culture can't be copied." (Jerry Fritz)
The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary. (Sam
Walton 1918-1992)
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting." (Napoleon Hill 1883-1970)
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. (William
Penn 1644-1718)
Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will
be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes
society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead
him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his
personal life. (Shelby Steele 1946-)
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before. (Shelby
Steele 1946-)
Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself. (Tommy John
1943-)
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps. (John Capuzzi)
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out
the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody
rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting on his life jacket. (Lou Holtz 1937-)
Football is like life; it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and
respect for authority. (Vince Lombardi 1913-1970)
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. (Joe
Paterno 1926-)
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. (Joe Paterno 1926-)
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination. (Tommy
Lasorda 1927-)
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. (Lou
Brock 1939-)
"Every day you have to test yourself. If you don't, it's a wasted day." (Terry Butts, Marine Corps
Male Athlete of the Year)
"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to
hide." (Mickey Mantle 1931-2000)
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. (Knute Rockne
1888-1931)
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. (John Wooden 1910-)
I am a big believer in the 'mirror test.' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly
tell the person you see there, that you've done your best. (John McKay 1923-1991)
“Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities” (Terry Josephson)
”Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.” (Terry Josephson)
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. (Arthur Golden 1922-)
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
(Robert J. Shiller 1947-)
Trust everybody, but cut the cards. (Finley Peter Dunne 1867-1936)
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture,
give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling
them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom. (Alan Keyes 1950-)
The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on
the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well. (Alan Keyes 1950-)
"Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty."
(Alan Keyes 1950-)
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of
voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that time
on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public
treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always
followed by a dictatorship. (Alexander Tytler 1742-1813)
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have
progressed through this sequence:
from bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependency;
from dependency back again to bondage." (Alexander Tytler 1742-1813)
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of
knowing what to do. (Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881)
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
(Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881)
"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." (George Halas 1895-1983)
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get
there." (Yogi Berra 1925-)
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. (J.B. Priestley
1894 - 1984)
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. (Titus
Livius 59 BC – 17 AD)
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. (Titus Livius 59 BC – 17 AD)
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action" Meister
Eckhart (1260-1328)
Knowledge is power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est) Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position
of defense. (Holly Lisle 1960-)
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything
you do affects not only you but others. (Holly Lisle 1960-)
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of
tyranny at home." (James Madison 1751-1836)
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and
absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it
well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.” (Ralph
Waldo Emerson 1803-1882)
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat
them. (Dr. Martin Henry Fischer)
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade. (Henry Ward Beecher 18131887)
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. (David
Bly 1926-)
“As government expands, liberty contracts." (Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
(William Arthur Ward)
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. (Havelock Ellis
1859 - 1939)
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action. (Andre Godin)
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. (Josh Billings (1818
- 1885)
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. (Edgar Allan Poe 1809 - 1849)
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively
fortifies it. (Stephen Vizinczey 1933-)
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is
unafraid of failure, will succeed. (Gordon Parks 1912-)
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life
contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. (Louis E. Boone 1941-)
Self-discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
(Joseph Addison 1672-1719)
He who spares the wicked injures the good. (Seneca 5 BC - 65 AD)
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. (Henry Kissinger 1923 - )
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. It is
worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein."
(George Washington 1732-1799)
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of
action. (Frank Herbert 1920 - 1986)
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. (L.A. Safian)
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. (Bertolt Brecht 1898 - 1956)
“The world’s shortest sales course: #1-Know their business. #2-Know your stuff.”
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. (H. L. Mencken 1880 - 1956)
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. (W. C. Fields 1880 - 1946)
If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. (Nadine Stair)
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. (Wendell
Phillips 1811 - 1884)
One on God's side is a majority. (Wendell Phillips 1811 - 1884)
Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong;
traitor to every government that oppresses the people. (Wendell Phillips 1811 - 1884)
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and
ostentation. (William Hutton 1723-1815)
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of
philosophy. (Margret Thatcher 1925-)
Fortune favors the brave. (Virgil 70 BC - 19 BC)
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. (Antisthenes 445 BC - 365 BC)
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. (Scott
Adams 1957 - )
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest
reflection that your vote is never lost. (John Quincy Adams 1767-1848)
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for
without victory there is no survival. (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. (Thomas Paine 1737-1809)
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern
themselves without a master. (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual
human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs."
(Friedrich A. Hayek 1899-1992)
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or
evade it." (Thomas Sowell )
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their
noses, and some don't turn up at all. (Sam Ewing 1949-)
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. (Edith Sitwell 1887 - 1964)
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
(Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784)
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a
test tube. (William Arthur Ward 1921-1994)
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't
mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it
because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. (T. S. Eliot 18881965)
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people." (George W. Bush
1946-)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan 1963-)
"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect." (W.
Clement Stone 1902-2003)
Do every act of your life as if it were your last. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 121AD-180AD)
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. (Lois
McMaster Bujold 1949-)
"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices,
instead of supplying goods and services". (Henry Ford 1863-1947)
Risk is what separates the good part of life from the tedium." (John D. Foley)
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. (Henry
Louis Mencken 1880-1956)
It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. (Publilius Syrus ~100 BC)
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you
don't have to try. (Peggy Noonan 1950-)
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to
forgo an advantage. (Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881)
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
1547 - 1616)
Procrastination is the thief of time. (Edward Young 1683 - 1765)
“Television is the triumph of machine over people.” (Fred Allen 1894-1956)
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. (Jules Renard
1864-1910)
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
(Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
By the work one knows the workmen. (Jean De La Fontaine 1621-1695)
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. (Jean De La
Fontaine 1621-1695)
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. (Jose
Ortega y Gasset 1883-1955)
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. (Aesop 620 BC – 560 BC)
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. (Vicomte de
Chateaubriand 1768 - 1848)
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. (Abraham Lincoln 1809 1865)
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with
my life. (Miles Davis 1926-1991)
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882)
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. (Mark Twain 1835 1910)
Drive thy business or it will drive thee. (Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790)
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which
self-respect springs. (Joan Didion 1934-)
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run
them through the U.S. Congress. (Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat
myself. (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
If you never try anything new, you’ll miss out on many of life’s great disappointments. (Ashleigh
Brilliant 1933- )
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. (H.H. Munro 1870-1916)
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? (Sidney Madwed)
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are
useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory
only." (Samuel Smiles 1812-1904)
"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed
through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as
failure has done." (Samuel Smiles 1812-1904)
The reason why so little is done is generally because so little is attempted. (Samuel Smiles 18121904)
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can
accomplish in your lives.” (Vince Lombardi 1913-1970)
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do
something. (Robert Heinlein 1907-1988)
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be
done. (C.E. Stowe 1889-1967)
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
(Horace Walpole 1717-1797)
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. (Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773)
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
(Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965)
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 1885-1981)
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. (Robert Louis
Stevenson 1850-1894)
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. (John Updike
1932-)
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place. (Hal
Lancaster )
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. (Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. (Peter
F. Drucker 1909-)
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. (Michael Korda 1919-1973)
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. (Michael Korda 19191973)
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo 18021885)
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. (Margret Thatcher 1925-)
Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities
and starve problems. (Stephen Covey 1932-)
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does. (Harvey Mackay 1932-)
The search for someone to blame is always successful. (Robert Half)
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth. (Robert Half)
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
(Robert Half)
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know
them for what they are. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 121AD-180AD)
How hard you try is rooted to how often you try. (Doug Hall)
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
(George Eliot 1819-1880)
This life in us. . . however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare
presume to put out, be his motives ever so humane and enlightened. To suppose otherwise is to
countenance a death-wish. Either life is always in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no
account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.
(Malcolm Muggeridge 1903-1990)
Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words
do, but the danger is there, nevertheless. (Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973)
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your
self-respect. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 121 AD – 180 AD)
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. (John Wooden
1910- )
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay
you. (John Wooden 1910- )
"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be
careful." (John Wooden 1910- )
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental
capacities. (Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832)
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover
how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested
before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great
human cost, wholly false. (Paul Johnson)
The only disability in life is a bad attitude" (Scott Hamilton 1958- )
"Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a
woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money." (Satchel Paige 1906-1982)
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's
watching." (Satchel Paige 1906-1982)
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. (Marie Ebner von Eschenbach 1830-1916)
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to
be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to
have made some difference that you lived at all. (Leo Rosten 1908- )
The worst thing about the week before tax returns are due may not be the taxes themselves, but
the commiserating rhetoric of the politicians who, having created the present tax system will
spend the next few days deploring it as if it were the handiwork of strangers. (The Washington
Post)
The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for
government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of
the pillage. (Walter E. Williams 1936- )
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away
quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly. (Thomas Sowell 1930- )
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of
the citizens to give to the other (Voltaire1694-1778)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything
you have. (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. (Swedish proverb)
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with
what he had done. (John Henry Newman 1801 - 90)
"The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to
the Bill of Rights." (Henry Louis Mencken 1880-1956)
"To disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." (George
Mason 1725-1792)
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution,
we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us.
When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless. (Antonin
Scalia 1936-)
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. (Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919)
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. (Adam Smith 1723-1790)
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary
evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries
by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is
heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." (Thomas Paine 17371809)
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and
which most men throw away. (Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832)
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex-but Congress can.
(Cullen Hightower)
To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize
failure as one of the pathways to attainment. (James Allen 1864-1912)
To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks
of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make
all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
(James Allen 1864-1912)
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the
fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
(Lee Iacocca 1924- )
It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path
at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference. (Michael Dell 1965- )
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as
gambling. (Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914)
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience
first; the cash will come later. (Harold S. Geneen 1910-1997)
You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And
the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. (Steve Ross 1927-1992)
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. (Charles Kettering
1876-1958)
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or
service, and that bring friends with them. (W. Edwards Deming 1900-1993)
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 121AD-180AD)
Forget about style; worry about results. (Bobby Orr 1948 - )
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know
when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. (George Allen 1922-1990)
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. (Bernard Baruch 1870-1965)
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. (Lou Holtz
1937 - )
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever
be liable to abuse. (James Madison 1751-1836)
most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. (Milton
Friedman 1912 - )
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work. (Milton Friedman 1912)
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. (Milton Friedman 1912 - )
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to
protect the consumer from the government. (Milton Friedman 1912 - )
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason,
whenever it's possible. (Milton Friedman 1912 - )
"When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder." (James H. Boren
1925-)
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle
of faith. (Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887)
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's
problem. (J. Paul Getty 1892-1976)
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. (Ayn Rand 19051982)
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day,
and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon
overtakes him. (Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790)
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. (Josh Billings 18181885)
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. (Edward Appleton 1892-1965)
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon
the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. (Alexander Graham Bell 18471922)
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. (Edward Gibbon 1737-1794)
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be
spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. (Carl Sandburg 1878-1967)
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. (Edgar R.
Fiedler 1929-2003)
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. (Isadora Duncan 1877-1927)
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. (Hermann Hesse 1877-1962)
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having
trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. (Hank Aaron 1934-)
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. (Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964)
He whom many fear, has himself many to fear. (Publilius Syrus 85 BC – 43 BC)
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. (John Paul
Jones 1747-1792)
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or
guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. (David Seabury)
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. (Henry
Ward Beecher 1813-1887)
"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his
rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe
in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions." (James Madison 1751-1836)
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of
inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every
true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the
confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is
a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer 1902-1983)
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become
increasingly powerless or more powerful. (Blaine Lee)
This is the way of the most wise and useful people - the more they know, the more they long to
know. (Dale Dauten)
"It is one of the unhappy incidents of the federal system that a self-righteous Supreme Court,
acting on its Members' personal view of what would make a 'more perfect Union' (a criterion only
slightly more restrictive than a 'more perfect world') can impose its own favored social and
economic dispositions nationwide." (Antonin Scalia 1936-)
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms
and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse
them, which would include their own government." (George Washington 1732-1799)
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living. The other should
teach us how to live. (James Truslow Adams 1878-1949)
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A.D. 121-180)
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now. (Steven Wright 1955-)
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable
in you." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. (Samuel Rutherford
1660-1661)
A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.
(Alexander Hamilton 1755-1804)
"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they
deserve a place of honor with all that is good." (George Washington 1732-1799)
"I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not
making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more
public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course
became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for
themselves, and became richer." (Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790)
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. (G.K. Chesterton
1874-1936)
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to
underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Douglas Adams 1952-2001)
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. (Douglas Adams 1952-2001)
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically
enumerated. (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can
in two years by trying to get people interested in you. (Dale Carnegie 1888-1955)
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to
answer each one. (Colossians 4:6)
Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. (Charles F. Abbott 1876 1936)
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while
wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. (Bob Riley 1944-)
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons
of men is fully set in them to do evil. (Ecclesiastes 8:11)
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your
fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later. (Dr. Laura Schlessinger 1947-)
"Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that
is, in our deepest reality." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favor of the
facts as they are." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their
convention. (Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947-)
"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence." (Vince
Lombardi 1913-1970)
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. (William
Hazlitt 1778-1830)
“There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of
a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to
anyone except the bad guys." (Charlton Heston 1923-)
“The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility" (Admiral of the British Fleet, Lord
John Fisher 1841-1920)
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. (Elbert Hubbard 18591915)
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. (Bill
Cosby 1937-)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
My favorite animal is steak. (Fran Lebowitz 1950 - )
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you
quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. (P.J. O’Rourke 1947 - )
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole
country participates in it. (R.W. Apple, Jr. 1934 - )
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a
sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the
sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
(Robert Heinlein 1907-1988)
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence
before the judgment-seat of God. (Seneca 5 BC – 65 AD)
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. (Titus Livius
59BC – 17 AD)
Responsibility by definition means answerable or accountable for. And what is a person
responsible for? Everything he thinks, says or does. Why? Because no matter what or whom one
can blame for the circumstances of his life, he is still stuck with the consequences of everything
he thinks, says or does. People can be terribly unreliable but never irresponsible. Thus there is no
way a person can be irresponsible because everyone is answerable or accountable for everything
he thinks, say or does, does not do or neglects to do. Until people fully realize that they are totally
responsible for their lives, we as a society collectively will be operating under a false and distorted
assumption of what responsibility means. (Sidney Madwed)
"It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the
consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application."
(Samuel Smiles 1812-1904)
"Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives
momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality." (John W. Gardner 1912-2002)
"The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves" (Edmund Burke 17291797)
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. (Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826)
"It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself"
(Casey Percell)
“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. “ (Edith Sitwell 1887-1964)
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie
can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political,
economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State
to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by
extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." (Joseph Goebbels 1897-1945)
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The
sane are usually attracted by other things than power. (David Brin 1950-)
The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The
sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs
finds voice. (Linda Bowles)
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. (Chad A.
Gamble)
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress
one species of property and reward another species. (James Madison 1751-1836)
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property
away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not. (Neal Boortz 1945-)
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually
approach eighteen. (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
"Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the
Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him." (T. Coleman Andrews
1899-1983)
The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support
the idea of lowering the tax burden by using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the
relief. (Dick Morris 1948-)
Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut. (Larry Elder
1952-)
"Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches
all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the
difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and
servitude." (Alexis de Tocqueville 1805-1859)
This business about strict separation of church and state is nowhere to be found in the history of
the First Amendment. (Robert Bork 1927-)
The Constitution has nothing in it that would prevent a state from allowing homosexual sodomy,
from allowing abortion or from disallowing homosexual sodomy and disallowing abortion. Those
are topics simply not addressed by the Constitution. (Robert Bork 1927-)
We are increasingly governed not by law or elected representatives but by an unelected,
unrepresentative, unaccountable committee of lawyers applying no will but their own." (Robert
Bork 1927-)
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say
something. (Plato 427 – 347 BC)
"I believe all these things because freedom is not America's gift to the world; it is the Almighty
God's gift to every man and woman in this world." (George W. Bush 1946-)
"If the end of a life is determined by a heartbeat- then the beginning of life should also be
determined by a heartbeat." (Thomas N. George)
"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group
rights." (Clarence Thomas 1948-)
"[T]he job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a
difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker.... Judging requires a certain
impartiality." (Clarence Thomas 1948-)
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. (Victor Hugo 1802-1885)
Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been
describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has
nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of
and who do not feel that they need forgiveness. (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that
neither of their husbands work. (Lee Trevino 1939-)
"The U.N. is a place where governments opposed to free speech demand to be heard!" (Alfred E.
Neuman)
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. (Alfred E. Neuman)
A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive
laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty. (George Baumler)
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the
further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. (Albert Camus 1913-1960)
"I firmly believe that when any territory outside the present territorial limits of the United States
becomes necessary for our defense or essential for our commercial development, we ought to
lose no time in acquiring it." (Orville Platt 1827-1905)
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the
labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
"The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and
abandoned for some new novelty." (Thomas Griffith 1962-)
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity." (General Douglas MacArthur 18801964)
“I don’t know of anybody’s political bias at CBS News....We try very hard to get any opinion that
we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.” (Leslie Stahl 1941-)
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use
coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil." (Friedrich A. Hayek 18991992)
"If guns kill people, I can blame misspelled words on my pencil." (Dan Whitney 1963-)
There can be no taxation without misrepresentation. (J.B. Handelsman)
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals. (Ann
Coulter 1961-)
"All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States
created the Federal Government." (President Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what
you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." (John Wooden 1910-)
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. (Jonathan
Swift 1667-1745)
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. (G.K. Chesterton 18741936)
Judges and Justices are servants of the law, not the other way around. Judges are like umpires.
Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical.
They make sure everybody plays by the rules, but it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ball
game to see the umpire. (John G. Roberts 1955-)
“I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control of
those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal." (Roger Baldwin-Founder ACLU 1884-1981)
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. (Winston
Churchill 1874-1965)
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. (Will Rogers 1879-1935)
Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
(Ted Nugent 1948-)
My idea of fast food is a mallard. (Ted Nugent 1948-)
"Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending." (Anne Bradstreet
1612-1672)
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. (Plutarch 46-120 AD)
Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to
ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend. (Samuel Johnson 1709-1784)
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he
disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical; even forcing him to support this or that teacher of
his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions
to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern." (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
"Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them?
Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?" (Isabel Paterson
1886-1961)
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. (Terence 185 BC
– 159 BC)
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. (Gordie Howe 1928-)
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his
roots. (Frank A. Clark)
Commonly they whose tongue is their weapon, use their feet for defense. (Sir Philip Sidney (1554
- 86)
"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake
of defending those that do." (William Blake 1757-1827)
Always drink upstream from the herd. (Will Rogers1879-1935)
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” (Peter F.
Drucker 1909-2005)
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many: not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some. (Charles Dickens 1812-1870)
“It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one
must also accomplish.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832)
“You can motivate by fear. And you can motivate by reward. But both of these methods are only
temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation.” (Dr. Homer Rice)
“We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very
significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of
obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting
process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience
to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.” (Albert Bandura 1925-)
Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of
doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these
things themselves; they just get on and do them. (Steve Ibbotson)
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth
can help the man with the wrong mental attitude (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals
consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” (Gary
Ryan Blair)
“Money grows on the tree of persistence” (Japanese proverb)
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success” (Napolean
Hill 1883-1970)
“Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of
your very best effort.” (Elgin Baylor 1934 - )
“Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. (Lou Holtz 1937 - )
“If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you
don't have enough goals.” (Lou Holtz 1937 - )
“Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision
looks upward and becomes faith.” (Stephen S. Wise 1874-1949)
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” (Benjamin Franklin 17061790)
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions.
His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. (Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924)
“If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes
mistakes.” (John Wooden 1910 - )
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” (Albert Einstein 1879-1955)
“Apathy - If we don't take care of the customer, maybe they'll stop bugging us.” (Larry Kersten)
“The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of
you will always be the far greater value than what you get.” (Jim Rohn)
“Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with
supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms,
carry out your plan.” (Paul J. Meyer 1928 - )
“Teamwork - A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.”
(Larry Kersten)
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how
impressive their other talents.” (Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919)
“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.”
(Wilfred Peterson)
“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest,
investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you
retire, save. Before you die, give.” (William Arthur Ward 1921-1994)
“No crime is so great as daring to excel.” (Winston Churchill 1874-1965)
"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid." (Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized
those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain” (Thomas Sowell 1930-)
“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly
dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them” (Thomas Sowell
1930-)
“It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to
contribute.” (C. William Pollard 1938 - )
"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand
that my players do." (Vince Lombardi 1913-1970)
“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will
be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.” (Nathaniel Branden 1930-)
“If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.” (Edward de Bono 1933-)
“Like China, the Internet is a huge new market. It's up to you to figure out what to do with it. Use it
as a prospecting tool, make connections with people, add value for your existing customers.”
(Larry Chase)
“No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the
amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of
ultimate distinction” (Charles Kendall Adams 1835-1902)
“No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him” (Charles Kendall Adams
1835-1902)
“Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.” (William Clement Stone
1902-2002)
"They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want
to come here?" (Paul Harvey 1918-)
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured
by legislation. – Thomas B. Reed (1839-1902)
“We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us” (Virginia Satir 1916-1988)
The best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone.
(Thomas Rudmose-Brown)
“Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says
anything back, that is an outrage.” (Winston Churchill 1874-1965)
“Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.” (Pat Riley 1945- )
“An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't
help but take responsibility.” (Jan Carlzon 1941 - )
“Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success” (Albert
Einstein 1879-1955)
“A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.” (Francis Bacon, Sr. 1561-1626)
“Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable” (Phyllis McGinley 1905-1978)
“The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the
members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will
achieve its goals.” (Rensis Leikert 1903-1981)
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if
we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to,
everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in
the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if
faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize
it as such.” (Henry Miller 1891-1980)
“Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed” (Henry Miller 1891-1980)
“Make business decisions with your heart and you end up with heart disease.” (Anonymous)“
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and then they get elected and prove it.” (P.J. O’Rourke 1947 -)
“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves.
What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.” (Denis Waitley 1933 -)
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. (Orison Swett Marden 18501924)
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. (John Powell)
“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.” (Samuel Beckett 1906-1989)
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to
help.” (Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
“The current tax code is a daily mugging” (Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the
responsibility for changing them.” (Dennis Waitley 1933-)
“The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself,
and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.” (Russell
D. Hitchcock 1817-1887)
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” (Rollo May 1909-1994)
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength,
the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” (Harriet Tubman 18201913)
“Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things” (George Carlin 1937 - )
“You must remember to compare benefits versus costs. For the foreseeable future, the only
affordable alternatives are coal, natural gas, oil or nuclear. Renewable sources - solar, wind, etc.
- so favored by the left remain prohibitively expensive. A nation becomes weaker, not stronger, by
artificially overspending on costly, inefficient alternatives to fossil fuels.” (Larry Elder 1952 - )
“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave
the country.” (Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919)
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing
everything unique to the level of the herd.” (Henry Miller 1891-1980)
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk
of doing nothing.” (Dennis Waitley 1933 - )
“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must
pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.” (Vince
Lombardi 1913 – 1970)
“Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.” (James Matthew Barrie 1860 - 1937)
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to
please everybody all the time. (Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
“No one goes there anymore - it's too crowded” (Yogi Berra 1925 - )
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates
inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. (Frank Tibolt)
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." (Thomas Paine 1737-1809)
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they
are told and those who can do nothing else. (Cyrus H. Curtis 1850-1933)
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law
firm, and three or more is a congress. (John Adams 1735-1826)
“One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success
depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune” (William Edward Hartpole
Lecky 1838-1903)
The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.”
(Norma Vincent Peale 1898-1993)
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least
expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. (Charles F.
Kettering 1876-1958)
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” (Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919)
“Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason” (William R. Alger 1822-1905)
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. (Seneca 5 BC – 65 AD)
“Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.” (George Eliot 1819-1880)
“If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.” (Donald H. Rumsfeld 1932 - )
“The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest
of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as
you can do it.” (Lloyd Dobens)
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must
be truthful.” (Edward R. Murrow 1908-1965)
“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who
initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.” (William
Pollard 1938 - )
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to
glorious success.” (Elbert Hubbard 1856-1915)
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. (P.J.
O’Rourke 1947 - )
“Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the
untried.” (Frank Tyger)
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.” (Will Durant 1885-1981)
“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most
sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.” (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 BC – 43 BC)
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.” (Winston Churchill
1874-1965)
“Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt
the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and
the thing is easily done.” (P.T. Barnum 1810-1891)
"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed
to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and
patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. (John Stuart Mill 1806-1873)
A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a
miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions
of better men than himself." (John Stuart Mill 1806-1873)
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the
transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be
savages again. (Will and Ariel Durant 1885-1981)
“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much
that isn't so.” (Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
“Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face.” (Ronald
Reagan 1911-2004)
“Experience hath shown that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with
power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny” (Thomas Jefferson 17621826)
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of
sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard
times bravely and cheerfully. (Charles Victor Cherbuliez 1799-1899)
When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do, so long as what
they want isn't dangerously unlawful, stupidly unsociable or obviously impossible. Doing what
they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't. (James G.
Cozzens 1903-1978)
“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no
theories.” (John Wilmot 1647-1680)
“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 throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” (Mark Twain 1835-1910)
Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
(Jay Leno 1950 - )
"Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and ability to control
our own destiny atrophies. One result of this is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral
depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." (Judge Janice Rogers Brown 1949 - )
"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should
be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated
state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom." (Patrick Henry
1736-1799)
"I readily and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all, as men and citizens,
and as among the highest and holiest of duties, to provide for those who, in the mysterious order
of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority
in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity
throughout the United States. This is, in the end, prejudicial rather than beneficial in the noble
offices of charity." (Franklin Pierce 1804-1869)
"...welcome to our tolerant times. Let us all salute (and be sensitive to the needs of) the shiftless,
the feckless, the senseless, the worthwhileness-impaired, the decency-challenged, and the
differently moraled. And hello to their leaders and celebrity role models-progressive, committed,
and filled to the nose holes with enormous self-esteem." (P.J. O'Rourke 1947 - )
The railroad, they said, was a natural monopoly; no private citizen could hope ever to own one; it
was thus a kind of monster which, if encouraged, would override all popular rights. (John Moody
1868-1958)
“Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long
enough it will be true.” (Arnold Bennett 1867-1931)
“The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the
readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and
operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to
know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling
caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted,
but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to
want to think, and this they consider freedom.” (Oswald Spengler 1880-1936)
Theft is theft even when the government approves of the thievery. Turning a democracy into a
Kleptocracy does not enhance the stature of the thieves; it only diminishes the legitimacy of the
government. (Judge Janice Rogers Brown 1949 - )
Democracy and capitalism seem to have triumphed. But, appearances can be deceiving. Instead
of celebrating capitalism’s virtues, we offer it grudging acceptance, contemptuous tolerance, but
only for its capacity to feed the insatiable maw of socialism. We do not conclude that socialism
suffers from a fundamental flaw. We conclude instead that its ends are worthy of any sacrifice –
including our freedom. (Judge Janice Rogers Brown 1949 - )
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks
of the insane." (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 121-180 A.D)
In truth, liberalism’s vaunted tolerance and openness is a lie. In America, at least, liberalism is
tolerant only of those concerns to which it is indifferent. (Judge Janice Rogers Brown 1949 - )
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by
Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or
lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips. (Ann
Coulter 1961 - )
"Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole." (Ann Coulter 1961 - )
"Hearing politicians tell us "we" can't "afford" a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't
"afford" a diet. In no other context do people talk about "paying for" money they don't have. I can't
pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht." (Ann Coulter 1961 - )
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a
matter of life or death to you.” (C.S. Lewis 1893-1963)
"People are not complete fools (though you might not always be able to recognize this from the
editorials of the New York Times)." (Mona Charen)
“When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back”
(Charles Krauthammer 1950 - )
“Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account
when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement
officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism
and protect American lives.” (Michelle Malkin 1970 - )
"In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy
and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to
stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation,
and staying out of our lives." (Walter E. Williams 1936 - )
"For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial
membership where one has no more control over his culture than his race. That's a racist idea,
but it's politically correct racism. It says that one's convictions, character and values are not
determined by personal judgment and choices but genetically determined. In other words, as
yesteryear's racists held: race determines identity." (Walter E. Williams 1936 - )
There are some arguments so illogical that only an intellectual or politician can believe them. One
of those arguments is: capitalism benefits the rich more than it benefits the common man. (Walter
E. Williams 1936 - )
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and
power are. (Cal Thomas 1942 - )
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the
immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government. (Cal Thomas 1942 -)
Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if
government weren't there as a perpetual parent. (Cal Thomas 1942 - )
The same people who despise the federal and republican aspects of the United States -- states'
rights, the electoral college, indirect elections, etc. -- will swoon over the moral authority of UN
'votes' criticizing the United States. This is like having a gang of criminals 'vote' on which old
lady they're going rob and kill and then, looking at the corpse, say, 'Well, it was a democratic
decision'. (Jonah Goldberg 1969 - )
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown,
displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and
multiple personality disorders. (Michael Medved 1948 - )
Euphemism is the first sign that an advocate feels queasy about what he's really advocating.
(Paul Greenberg)
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government
and high taxes. (Charley Reese 1937 - )
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or
at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. (Maggie Gallagher)
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as
political power. (Maggie Gallagher)“
"Liberals hate America, they hate "flag-wavers," they hate abortion opponents, they hate all
religions except Islam (post 9/11). Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do.
They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now."
(Ann Coulter 1961 - )
Think of a politician's soul as an apartment. Think of lobbyists as renters. Each year, the renters
show up, waving wads of cash. (Tony Snow 1955 - )
“Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.” (George S. Patton 18851945)
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by
calling that impossible which is only difficult. (Samuel Johnson 1709-1784)
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. (Bergen Evans 19041978)
"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires,
slavery--is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make
him happy." (C.S. Lewis 1898-1963)
We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as
members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of public money. (David “Davey”
Crockett 1786-1836)
“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This
means... that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by
impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth
for his purchase.” (Benjamin Graham 1894-1976)
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and a
satisfactory return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative." (Benjamin
Graham 1894-1976)
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. (Jerome K. Jerome
1859-1927)
The problem for the Democrats is that a significant number of their voters are far more passionate
about their party's enemies than their country's." (Vic Irish)
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things. Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
"There is increasing evidence that most of the corporate tax is paid by workers in the form of
lower wages and by customers in the form of higher prices." (Richard W. Rahn 1942 - )
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. (Samuel Johnson
1709-1784)
“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles”
“When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all
in confederacy against him." (Jonathan Swift 1667-1745)
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. (Paul “Bear”
Bryant 1913-1983)
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is all striving is vain, will never reign
supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which
speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy
determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given
him. (William James 1842-1910)
"Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few; it is the universal right of all God's
children." "We do not face large deficits because American families are undertaxed; we face
those deficits because the federal government overspends." (Ronald Reagan 1911-2004)
“Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly” (William Hazlitt 1778-1830)
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. (Herschel Walker 1962 - )
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records. (William A. Ward 1921-1994)
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. (Charlie Finley 1962 - )
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do. (A J
Kitt 1968 - )
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. (Joe Paterno 1926 - )
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying
with that plan. (Tom Landry 1924-2000)
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the
practice. (Eric Lindros 1973 -)
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. (Vidal Sassoon
Show me a guy whos afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. (Lou
Brock 1939 -)
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you’re OUT. There is no
such thing as life in-between. (Pat Riley 1945 - )
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. (Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826)
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of
knowledge, but rather a lack of will. (Vincent T. Lombardi 1911-1970)
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. (Thomas Edison 18471931)
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of
becoming.” (John Wooden 1910 -)
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit
beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation. (John Marshall 1755-1835)
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured
by legislation. (Thomas Reed 1839-1902)
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times. (Thomas
Reed 1839-1902)
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the
votes were being counted. (Thomas Reed 1839-1902)
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God,
and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny
commence. (John Adams 1735-1826)
A consultant may be defined as an unemployed practitioner. (Allen’s observation)
Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.
(Justice Janice Rogers Brown 1949 - )
It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that
"compassion." (Harry Browne 1933-2006)
The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. (Harry Browne 1933-2006)
The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only
after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far
less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens — even if
you don't own a gun yourself. (Harry Browne 1933-2006)
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as
in America. (Eric Hoffer 1902-1983)
Your business is never really good or bad "out there" your business is either good or bad right
between your own two ears. (Zig Ziglar 1926 - )
Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps
remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves. (Herman Cain 1945 - )
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to
invent twenty more to maintain that one. (Alexander Pope 1688-1744)
The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best
thought and effort. (William Feather 1889-1981)
"Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims
to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with
airport security altogether." (Ann Coulter 1961 - )
"In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns
the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one." (Paul Harvey 1918 - )
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively
fortifies it. (Stephen Vizinczey 1933 - )
There are two distinct classes of men... those who pay taxes and those who receive and
live upon taxes. (Thomas Paine 1737-1809)
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. (William Blake 1757-1827)
Hindsight is an exact science. (Guy Bellamy 1922-1997)
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with
satisfaction. -George Horace Lorimer 1867-1937)
"Should the fact that if I become injured by not wearing a seatbelt or sick from eating and
smoking too much, and become a burden on taxpayers, determine whether I'm free to not wear a
seatbelt or puff cigarettes and gorge myself? Is there a problem with freedom? I say no, it's a
problem of socialism. There is absolutely no moral case for government's taking another
American's earnings, through taxes, to care for me for any reason whatsoever. Doing so is simply
a slightly less offensive form of slavery. Keep in mind that the essence of slavery is the forceful
use of one person to serve the purposes or benefit of another." (Walter E. Williams 1936 -)
"We might think of dollars as being "certificates of performance." The better I serve my fellow
man, and the higher the value he places on that service, the more certificates of performance he
gives me. The more certificates I earn, the greater my claim on the goods my fellow man
produces. That's the morality of the market. In order for one to have a claim on what his fellow
man produces, he must first serve him. Contrast that moral standard to Congress' standing offer,
"Vote for me and I'll take what your fellow man produces and give it to you." (Walter E. Williams
1936 - )
“No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of
one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.” (Walter E. Williams 1936 - )
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” (Moses Maimonides 11351204)
“An armed society is a polite society." (Robert A. Heinlein 1907-1988)
“It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.” (Emiliano Zapata 1877 - 1919)
The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action. (Andre Godin 1817-1888)
I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best. (Akeem Olajuwon 1963 - )
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to
others. (Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784)
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or
evade it." (Thomas Sowell 1930 - )
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. (Thomas Fuller 1608-1661)
"The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
(Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
No idea in politics has hurt children more than the false and misleading idea that the quality of
education is determined by how much we spend. (Rod Paige 1933 - )
Conscience is the most sacred of all property. (James Madison 1751-1836)
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. (Flannery O'Connor 1925 - 1964)
Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a
motivated idiot. (Jim Rohn 1930 - )
“Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own
trouble be sufficient for the day.” (Samuel Butler 1835-1902)
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. (Art Buchwald
1925-2007)
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like
turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese. (Ted Nugent 1948 - )
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of
socialism is the equal sharing of misery." (Winston Churchill 1874-1965)
“Everything in moderation, especially moderation” (Cicero 106 BC – 43 BC)
“A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for
the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so
that it can no longer resist.” (Cicero 106 BC – 43 BC)
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new
ending.” (Maria Robinson 1758 – 1800)
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent;
and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. (Wendell Phillips
1811-1884)
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party
rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses, the nationalization or
expropriation of private property, and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any
moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw. (Ayn
Rand 1905 -1982)
Liberals are constitutionally unable to understand that every tax represents a transfer of power
and freedom from the people to the government. (Linda Bowles 1952-2003)
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the
meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. (Philip K. Dick
1928 - 1982)
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. (Philip K. Dick 1928 - 1982)
When it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians. (Jeff MacNelly 1948 –
2000)
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well being of the
place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. (Booker T. Washington 1859 - 1915)
"I want to take those (Exxon’s) profits and put them into an alternative energy fund that will begin
to fund alternative smart energy alternatives that will actually begin to move us toward the
direction of independence." (Hillary Clinton 1947 - )
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this
country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? (Thomas
Sowell 1930 - )
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. (Voltaire 1694
– 1778)
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. (Edna Buchanan 1949 -)
“Global warming is a myth and every serious person and scientist says so.” (Vaclav Klaus 1941 -)
"The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental
power. But there is also a constructive reason. The great advances of civilization, whether in
architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come
from centralized government." (Milton Friedman 1912 – 2006)
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program” (Milton Friedman 1912 – 2006)
“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by
government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”
(Milton Friedman 1912 – 2006)
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people,
there is liberty. (Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826)
There is only one quality worse than hardness of the heart and that is softness of the head.
(Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919)
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. (Robertson Davies 1913-1995)
"I never want to be called a 'good loser'. Show me a good loser and I'll just show you a loser."
(Stu Ungar 1953-1998)
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to
the dead. (Thomas Paine 1737-1809)
"My personal preference is a constitutional amendment limiting federal spending to a fixed
percentage, say 10 percent, of the GDP. You say, "Williams, why 10 percent?" My answer is that
if 10 percent is good enough for the Baptist Church, it ought to be good enough for the U.S.
Congress." (Walter E. Williams 1936 - )
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes further is generally the one who is willing
to do and dare. The "sure thing" boat never gets far from shore. (Dale Carnegie 1888 - 1955)
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure
than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they
live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919)
“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with
sincerity” (Andre Gide 1869-1951)
“Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps
demanding more and more money.” (Phyllis Schlafly 1924 - )
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. (Henry Kissinger 1923 - )
The reason some countries are rich while others are poor is best explained by the amount of
economic freedom its peoples enjoy and the extent of government control over economic matters.
(Walter E. Williams 1936 - )
“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in
gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long
enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic
people.” (Zig Ziglar 1926 - )
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators. (P.J. O’Rourke 1947 - )
“One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed
nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to
grace us with their presence.” (Thomas Sowell 1930 - )
“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings”
(Thomas Sowell 1930)
“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men,
but between talkers and doers.” (Thomas Sowell 1930 - )
“It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all” (James Thurber 1894-1961)
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.” (Og Mandino
1923 – 1996)
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life,
but that it bothers him less and less. (Vaclav Havel 1936 - )
If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force
for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step
forward and do this dirty work for you. (Neal Boortz 1945 - )
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some
persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if
the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do
without committing a crime. (Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850)
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
(Bernard Berenson 1865-1959)
“We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than
to change the preconceptions.” (Jessamyn West 1902-1984)
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
(Edmund Burke 1729-1797)
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." (Douglas Macarthur 1880-1964)
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. (Sir Winston Churchill 18741965)
“If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not
even God can hit a 1-iron.” (Lee Trevino 1939 - )
"Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well." (Craig Stadler 1953 - )