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Man is a creature of hope and invention,
both of which believe the idea that
things cannot be changed.
- Tom Clancy
A decision made at night may be changed in the
morning.
- Samoan Proverb
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
A foolish man may be known by six things:
Anger without cause, speech without profit,
change without progress, inquiry without
object, putting trust in a stranger, and
mistaking foes for friends.
- Arabian Proverb
A hero is someone right who doesn't
change.
- George Foreman
A man's character never changes radically from
youth to old age. What happens is that
circumstances bring out characteristics which
have not been obvious to the superficial
observer.
- Hesketh Pearson
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's
inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it
is a miracle which is taking place every second.
- Henry David Thoreau
All change, all production and generation are
effected through the word.
- Leopold Senghor
All changes, even the most longed for,
have their melancholy; for what we leave
behind is a part of ourselves; we must die
to one life before we can enter into
another!
- Gail Sheehy
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total
well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors
and responses. In that choice we change our every experience
of life!
- Greg Anderson
Although the connections are not always
obvious, personal change is inseparable from
social and political change.
- Harriet Lemer
Certainly, travel is more than seeing of sights;
it is a change that goes on, deep and
permanent, in the ideas of living.
- Miriam Beard
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your
beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
- Marsha Sinetar
Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's
when the mind catches up with the body.
- Raquel Welch
Change is a measure of time and, in the
autumn, time seems speeded up. What was
is not and never again will be; what is is
change.
- Edwin Way Teale
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is
life.
- Alvin Toffler
Change is such hard work.
- Billy Crystal
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the
egg of the phoenix.
- Christina Baldwin
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
- William Drayton
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant
improvement and constant change.
- Tom Peters
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might
be.
- John Wooden
Folks don't like to have somebody around
knowin' more than they do. It aggravates
'em. You're not gonna change any of them
by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn
themselves, and when they don't want to
learn there's nothing you can do but keep
your mouth shut.
- Harper Lee
For me words are a form of action, capable
of influencing change. Their articulation
represents a complete, live experience.
- Ingrid Bengis
He that never changes his opinions, never
corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on
the morrow than he is today.
- Tryon Edwards
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
The only human institution which rejects
progress is the cemetery.
- Harold Wilson
If one is going to change things, one has to make
a fuss and catch the eye of the world.
- Elizabeth Janeway
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
- Gloria Steinem
If we are to change our world view,
images have to change.
- David Hockney
If we do not change our direction, we are
likely to end up where we are headed.
- Chinese Proverb
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we
don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
If you are building a house and a nail
breaks, do you stop building, or do you change
the nail?
- Rwandan proverb
If you can't change your fate, change your
attitude.
- Amy Tan
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who
inherit the future. The learned usually find
themselves equipped to live in a world that no
longer exists.
- Eric Hooffer
In a world where change is inevitable and
continuous, the need to achieve that change
without violence is essential for survival.
- Andrew Young
In science the important thing is to modify
and change one's ideas as science
advances.
- Herbert Spencer
In their search for quality, people seem to
be looking for permanency in a time of
change.
- John Naisbitt
In this world of change, nothing which
comes stays, and nothing which goes is
lost.
- Anne Sophie Swetchine
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes
of circumstances, are often justifiable.
- Daniel Webster
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own
change and movement, and one tries to arrest
them at one's eternal peril.
- Laurens Van der Post
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the
succession of influences that modify the being.
- George Eliot
Life is not a static thing. The only people
who do not change their minds are
incompetents in asylums, who can't, and
those in cemeteries.
- Everett M. Dirksen
Man has a limited biological capacity for
change. When this capacity is
overwhelmed, the capacity is in future
shock.
- Alvin Toffler
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be
wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
- Norman Cousins
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for
there is nothing that is durable.
- Menander
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change
of ideas.
- Laurence Steme
Often we change jobs, friends and spouses
instead of ourselves.
- Akbarali Jetha
One thing is sure. We have to do
something. We have to do the best we
know how at the moment. If it doesn't turn
out right, we can modify it as we go along.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Only I can change my life. No one can do it
for me.
- Carol Burnett
People can't live with change if there's not a
changeless core inside them. The key to the
ability to change is a changeless sense of who
you are, what you are about and what you value.
- Stephen R. Covey
Some people change their ways when they see
the light; others when they feel the heat.
- Caroline Schoeder
Someday perhaps change will occur when times
are ready for it instead of always when it is too
late. Someday change will be accepted as life
itself.
- Shirley MacLaine
Such is the state of life, that none are
happy but by the anticipation of change:
the change itself is nothing; when we have
made it, the next wish is to change again.
- Samuel Johnson
Teachers can change lives with just the
right mix of chalk and challenges.
- Joyce A. Myers
That's the risk you take if you change: that
people you've been involved with won't
like the new you. But other people who do
will come along.
- Lisa Alther
That's what learning is, after all: not whether we
lose the game, but how we lose and how we've
changed because of it, and what we take away
from it that we never had before, to apply to
other games. Losing, in a curious way, is
winning.
- Richard Bach
The most distinguished hallmark of the
American society is and always has been change.
- Eric Sevareid
The only man who can change his mind is a man
that's got one.
- Edward Westcott
The only way to make sense out of change is to
plunge into it, move with it, and join the
dance.
- Alan W. Watts
The person who risks nothing, does
nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and
becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering
and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and
feel and change and grow and love and
live.
- Leo Buscaglia
The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere -
is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through
constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their
usefulness to current facts.
- William O. Douglas
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in
the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new.
For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
They always say that time changes things, but
you actually have to change them yourself.
- Andy Warhol
They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not
play things as they are. The man replied,
Things as they are changed upon a blue
guitar.
- Wallace Stevens
Things do not change: we change.
- Henry David Thoreau
To change a mind is to change the world.
- Joan Konner
Time is neutral and does not change things.
With courage andinitiative, leaders change
things.
- Jesse Jackson
To change one s mind is rather a sign of
prudence than ignorance.
- Spanish Proverb
To exist is to change, to change is to
mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself
endlessly.
- Henri Bergson
Today the world changes so quickly that in
growing up we take leave not just of youth but of
the world we were young in.... Fear and
resentment of what is new is really a lament for
the memories of our childhood.
- Peter Medawar
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate
ourselves; otherwise we harden.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If change is a constant, then stability is a
psychosis.
- Peter de Jager
We must be the change we wish to see in the
world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We must remember that one determined
person can make a significant difference,
and that a small group of determined
people can change the course of history.
- Sonia Johnson
We perceive and are affected by changes
too subtle to be described.
- Henry David Thoreau
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable,
changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
- William C. Bryant
What is necessary to change a person is to
change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
With the only certainty in our daily existence
being change, and a rate of change growing
always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog
game, speed helps people think they are keeping
up.
- Gail Sheehy
When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or
4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you
don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.
- Franklin P Adams
There is no such thing as can't, only won't.
If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning
desire to accomplish, to make a change.
Go forward, go backward. Whatever it
takes! But you can't blame other people or
society in general. It all comes from your
mind. When we do the impossible we
realize we are special people.
- Jan Ashford
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is
safer to chan e many things than one.
- Sir Francis Bacon
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
- John Milton
A person needs at intervals to separate himself
from family and companions and go to new
places. He must go without his familiars in order
to be open to influences, to change.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be
changed, but while it holds good it has got
to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A single day is enough to make us a little
larger or, another time, a little smaller.
- Paul Klee
A wise man changes his mind, a fool
never will.
- Spanish Proverb
A very slight change of our habits is
sufficient to destroy our sense of our
daily reality, and the reality of the world
around us.
- George Moore
Ancient laws remain in force long after the
people have the power to change them.
- Aristotle
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats
have a vested interest in the chaos in which
they exist.
- Richard Nixon
Bebop was about change, about evolution.
It wasn't about standing still and becoming
safe. If anybody wants to keep creating
they have to be about change.
- Miles Davis
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be
prepared for a promotion or any other significant
change.
- Pat Riley
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a
different result. Tears will get you sympathy,
sweat will get you change.
- Jesse Jackson
Change your thoughts, and you change your
world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
- Portuguese Proverb
Changes are not only possible and
predictable, but to deny them is to be an
accomplice to one's own unnecessary
vegetation.
- Gail Sheehy
Desperation is the raw material of drastic
change. Only those who can leave behind
everything they have ever believed in can
hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Even when the laws have been written
down, they ought not always remain unchanged.
- Aristotle
Everything changes, nothing remains without
change.
- Buddha
God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot
be changed; Give us courage to change what
should be changed; Give us the wisdom to
distinguish one from the other.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
I have accepted fear as a part of life
specifically the fear of change.... I have gone
ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says:
turn back!
- Erica Jong
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do
not accept my condition; I will strive to
change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to
learn from it.
- Salman Rushdie
I wanted to change the world. But I have
found that the only thing one can be sure
of changing is oneself.
- Aldous Huxley
If a day goes by that don't change some of
your old notions for new ones, that is just about
like trying to milk a dead cow.
- Woody Guthrie
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed
with me ever after, and changed my ideas:
they've gone through and through me, like wine
through water, and altered the color of my mind.
- Emily Bronte
If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory
If you don't like the way the world is, you
change it. You have an obligation to change it.
- Benedict Spinoza
You just do it one step at a time.
- Marian Wright Edelman
If you don't like what you are doing, you can
always pick up your needle and move to another
groove.
- Timothy Leary
If you never change your mind, why have
one?
- Edward De Bono
If you want to have clean ideas, change
them as often as your shirt.
- Francis Picabia
If you want to know the theory and
methods of revolution, you must take part
in revolution. All genuine knowledge
originates in direct experience.
- Mao Tse-Tung
If you want to make enemies, try to change
something.
- Woodrow Wilson
If you're old, don't try to change yourself,
change your environment.
- B. F. Skinner
it ain't really what you'd call change. It's all
happened before and it'll happen again with a
different set of facts.
- Gloria Naylor
It is change, continuing change, inevitable
change, that is the dominant factor in society
today. No sensible decision can be made any
longer without taking into account not only the
world as it is, but the world as it will be.
- Isaac Asimov
It is well for people who think to change
their minds occasionally in order to keep
them clean.
- Luther Burbank
It often takes more courage to change one's
opinion than to stick to it.
- G. C Lichtenberg
It takes a deep commitment to change and
an even deeper commitment to grow.
- Ralph Ellison
Just because everything is different doesn't mean
anything has changed.
- Irene Peter
Delicious ambiguity.
- Gilda Radner
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies
and the individuals who choose to compete in
those markets must change.
- An Wang
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,
it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
No great movement designed to change
the world can bear to be laughed at or
belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes
all it touches.
- Milan Kundera
No one changes the world who isn't
obsessed.
- Billie Jean King
No one is in control of your happiness but
you; therefore, you have the power to
change anything about yourself or your life that
you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But
nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin
People change, not necessarily in negative ways.
Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't
aligned. It's just choices we make in life.
Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we
were with in seventh grade?
- Kirstie Alley
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it
might change to something better before they
have to hear it.
- Marsha Nonnan
People's minds are changed through
observation and not through argument.
- Will Rogers
Progress, far from consisting in change,
depends on retentiveness. Those who
cannot remember the past are condemned
to repeat it.
- George Santayana
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers.
The world is advancing.
- Giuseppe Mazzini
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance
to change as though it had some virtue of its
own. Change or we will die. Change or we will
stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.
- Judith Rossner
The art of living does not consist in preserving
and clinging to a particular mode of happiness,
but in allowing happiness to change its form
without being disappointed the change.
- Charles Morgan
The art of progress is to preserve order amid
change and to preserve change amid order.
- Alfred North Whitehead
The chameleon changes color to match the
earth, the earth doesn't change color to
match the chameleon.
- Senegalese Proverb
The great growling engine of change
technology.
- Alvin Toffler
The horizon leans forward, offering you
space to place new steps of change.
- Maya Angelou
The longer you stay in one place, the
greater your chances of disillusionment.
- Art Spander
The main dangers in this life are the people who
want to change everything - or nothing.
- Nancy Astor
The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
- Martin Luther King, Jr
The winds of the heavens shift suddenly; so does
human fate.
- Chinese Proverb
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from
bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach,
that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised
in a new place.
- Washington Irving
There is a danger in reckless change, but
greater danger in blind conservatism.
- Henry George
There is little virtue in being different for
the sake of being different, or in change
for the sake of change.
- Clinton R. Meek
There is no good reason why we should
not develop and change until the last day we live.
- Karen Homey
There is no sin punished more implacably by
nature than the sin of resistance to change.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's
love turbulence and use it for change.
- Ramsey Clark
Very often a change of self is needed more than a
change of scene.
- A. C Benson
We cannot change our past. We can not
change the fact that people act in a certain
way. We can not change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the
one string we have, and that is our attitude.
- Charles Swindoll
We do not succeed in changing things
according to our desire.but gradually our
desire changes.
- Marcel Proust
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we
want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten
minutes.
- J. William Fulbright
We must adjust to changing times and still hold
to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy
cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't
any philosophy in crises, others make the
decision.
- Jeannette Rankin
What we call 'progress' is the exchange of one
nuisance for another nuisance.
- Havelock Ellis
What, then, is the true Gospel of
consistency? Change. Who is the really
consistent man? The man who changes.
Since change is the law of his being, he
cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
- Mark Twain
When you blame others, you give up your
power to change.
- Robert Anthony
When you start dealing with real change
you are talking about interferring with
those who are in possession of something.
- Carl Stokes
When you're through changing, you're through.
- Bruce Barton
Whosoever desires constant success must change
his conduct with the times.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just
blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats.
After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not
hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
- Yogi Berra
If you can neither accept it or change it, try to
laugh at it.
- Ashleigh (Ellwood) Brilliant
There are two rules you must follow if you
wish to gain supreme power over the
world
.
Rule #1: Never tell everything you know!
- Anon
It is not the strongest species that survives nor the most
intelligent but rather the one that is most adaptive to change.
- Charles Darwin
When you believe in yourself, the power behind you is greater
than any task in front of you.
- Richard L. Weaver II
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than for
any other ability under the sun.
- John D. Rockefeller
He who laughs last, didn't get the joke.
- Unknown
If you watch a game, it's fun,
If you play it, it's recreation,
If you work at it, it's golf.
- Bob Hope
Maybe today's my day...But with 5 billion people in the world,
what are the chances.
- Anonymous
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying,
"really I was meant to be a ballet dancer." By then, pigs
will be your style.
- Quentin Crisp
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving
to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe
trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is winning.
People may not believe what you say say...but they'll believe
what you do.
Death and taxes will always be with us...at least death never
gets any worse.
The Year 2000 Date Crisis is like an onion. The more layers
you peel, the more you'll cry.
To dream of the person you would love to be is wasting the
person you are.
- Henkg@senet.com.au
Good judgement comes from experience...experience comes from
poor judgement.
- Jimi
Don't try to open a door that has already been opened.
-Mikie
Worrying is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to
do, but gets you nowhere.
-Karen
If variety is the spice of life...I've got heartburn.
- rick.ellis@transamerica.com
Never lose your ignorance, you cannot replace it.
- Mark bennison
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
- Unknown
Success in life is defined by how well you deal with plan
B.
-Marilu Henner
Hollywood is a place that will give you $2000 for your body
and 50 cents for your soul.
-Marilyn Monroe
There is only one thing that money can't buy...poverty.
- Unknown
The greatest teacher is often the self.
Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own.
-Adam Lindsay Gordon, 1867.
I used to think only two things were sure in life, death and
taxes. Now comes along the Year 2000.
- Unknown
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 Gandhi
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
- Al Bundy
Beware of geeks bearing gifs.
- Martin Klein
The love of life is the root of all good.
- Joel
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to
speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
I filled out an application that said, "In Case of Emergency
Notify." I wrote "Doctor"...What is my mother going to do?
- Steven Wright
Always borrow money from a pessimist; they do not expect to
be paid back.
- Anonymous
It's always something...
- Gilda Radner
I am tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin
deep. That is deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
- Jean Kerr
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt
the person doing it.
- Chinese Proverb
I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered
all over the beaches of the world...maybe you have seen it.
- Steven Wright
People are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
I hate quotations.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals
dying of nothing.
- Redd Foxx
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
- Steven Wright
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it
is time to reform.
- Mark Twain
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public
speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that
sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to
a funeral, you are better off in the casket than doing the
eulogy.
- Jerry Seinfeld
One out of every four people in this world is mentally unstable.
Think of your three best friends. If they seem normal, you
are the one.
- Ann Landers
Either the wallpaper goes or I do.
- Oscar Wilde, last words
Man who go to bed with itchy bottom wake up with smelly finger.
- Confucius
Live for today...dream of tomorrow...learn from yesterday.
- Unknown
Nothing is free...sometimes included, but never free.
- Scott Dallmeyer
It's better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.
- Mike Fletcher
Imagination is more important than intelligence.
- Einstein
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you
ever tried.
- Unknown
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
- R. Whybrow
If you continually give, you will continually have.
- Chinese Proverb
It only takes one person to make a change...Let it begin with
you.
- Joyce Thompson
It might be the early bird that gets the worm, but it's the
second mouse that gets the cheese.
- Unknown
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Hunger is stronger than fear.
- Chris Hansen
You can pick your nose and you can pick your friends, but
you can't pick your friend's nose.
- Bob Darst
Behave yourselves.
- C. Moore
Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things
which matter least.
- goethe
Even if you are on the right track you will still get run
over if you just sit there.
(unknown)
Never feed left-over beans to an inside dog.
-Experienced
It's not important where you've been, or where you are; what
counts is where you want to be. So get going!
-Anon
It's funny; but when you let someone take care of you, pretty
soon they get to own you.
- Old Yankee Proverb
Do or don't do - there is no try.
-Yoda
All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later
to tidy things up.
-John D. MacDonald
Too often we take comfort with opinion without the discomfort
of thought.
- JFK
All guilt is relative, loyalty counts, and never let your
concience be your guide.
- Lucas Buck
Concience is just the fear of getting caught.
- Lucas Buck
Nothing will come of nothing. Dare mighty things.
-Shakespeare
No chairs make for short meetings.
Faith is the refusal to panic.
- Martin Lloyd Jones
He who take cookie to bed have crummy night ahead.
-Confucius
"Common sense isn't."
- W.R. Schweitzer, circa 1970
"Just because you're paranoid don't mean they ain't out to
get ya."
- Unknown (to me, at least)
Bowling Tip: If you throw the ball in the same place on your
second turn as you threw it on your first turn, you won't
hit any pins.
- Anon
Failure's but a stepping stone to victories to be won.
- Jean Richardson
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it!! Boldness
has genius,power and magic in it."
- Goethe
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into
your own heart. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside
awakens"
- Jung
"Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate
something about another person unless it reflects to you something
you love or hate about yourself"
- Anon
Not to care for philosophy is to be a true Philosopher.
- Blaise Pascal
It's funny how easy it can be sometimes to hate the things
we love.
- Tom Lancer
All generalizations are false...including this one.
- Unknown
Discipline Breeds Success
- Oge Wachuku
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.
- jigga
The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism
by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On.
- Unknown
If you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is stop
diggin'.
- Unknown
Never smack a man who's chewin' tobacco.
- Unknown
Never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut.
- Unknown
If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence,
try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
- Unknown
Don't worry about bitin' off more than you can chew. Your
mouth is probably a whole lot bigger'n you think.
- Unknown
Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes
from bad judgement.
- Unknown
Always drink upstream from the herd.
- Unknown
If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every
now and then to make sure it's still there.
- Unknown
The best way to have a quiche for dinner is to make it up
and put it in the oven to bake at 325 degrees. Meanwhile,
get out a large T-bone, grill it, and when it's done, eat
it. As for the quiche, continue to let it bake, but otherwise
ignore it.
- Unknown
There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one
works.
- Unknown
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin'
it back.
- Unknown
Always take a good look at what you're about to eat. It's
not so important to know what it is, but it's critical to
know what it was.
- Unknown
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and
put it back in your pocket.
- Unknown
Never miss a good chance to shutup.
- Unknown
Stupidity breeds stupidity.
- B. Kreuser
The world has enough idiots, don't add to the population.
- B. Kreuser
Two wrongs doesn't make a right. However, three rights does
make a left.
- mora
Seems everybody wants to get to heaven, but nobody wants to
have to die to get there.
- Unknown
Ignorance is correctable, stupid is forever.
- Unknown
Life is like an ice cream cone, just when you think you have
it licked, it drips all over you.
- Unknown
Understanding isn't always important in life...acceptance
is.
- Unknown
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is
a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
All things are difficult before they become easy.
- Unknown
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocore minds.
- Albert Einstein
Given proper care...the human body should last a lifetime.
- Unknown
Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.
- Annette Funicello
He who wants milk should not sit on a stool in the middle
of the pasture expecting the cow to back up to him.
- Unknown
Why is it that instead of making the most of who we are or
where we are, we spend most of our life trying to be some
one else at some place else?
- Unknown
Life is what happens when your making plans.
- Unknown
A wise man is never more alone then when he is alone.
Without accountability, there is no motivation for change.
- Scott Boss
It's not how old you are...it's HOW you are old.
- Unknown
That which is essential is invisible to the eye...it is only
with the heart that one can see rightly.
- The Little Prince
He who knows not and thinks he knows is a fool, shun him.
He who knows and knows he knows is wise, follow him.
Always remember that you're unique...just like everyone else.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
Live every day of your life, as if it would be your last,
but remember there will be another one following.
Everything is easy when you don't know what you are talking
about.
Sit up, work hard, even the water droplets had to climb the
ladder to become clouds.
- Oge Wachuku
A true intellectual is one who, regardless of intelligence
or education, will readily give up his opinion on a matter
when presented with a greater truth.
"Life is tough, it's tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne as Sgt. Stryker in "The
Sands of Iwo Jima"
Like good wine, we grow more mellow with age. And as we age,
we grow more mellow with wine.
- Unknown
All mushrooms are edible...some only once.
- Unknown
I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and
I love today.
- Unknown
Half the lies they tell me aren't true.
- Yogi Bera
People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch
either one being made.
- Unknown
Do not pull up the tree to see if the roots are growing.
- From the book, Up the Organization
Please do not look into the laser with your remaining good
eye.
(Sign in VPI physics lab)
Count your age by friends not years. Count your life by smiles
not tears.
- Unknown
Worry is the misuse of imagination.
- Unknown
Given with love, a fistful of dandelions means as much a a
dozen roses.
- Unknown
A lot of growing up takes place between "it fell" and "I dropped
it."
- Unknown
When you are up to your ankles in alligators, do not stop
to tie your shoes.
- Unknown
The grist mills of the gods grind slowly but extremely fine.
- Unknown
The worst part of being early is that there is no one there
to appreciate it.
- Unknown
Your altitude in life will be governed by your attitude.
- Unknown
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate
your destiny.
- Yoda
If I had invented buckets, I would have put holes in the bottom
so that, if you put water in there and then decide you want
it back out, you don't even have to do anything.
- J.P. Kain
It's not the size of the dog in a fight, it's the size of
the fight in the dog!
- Unknown
We will find a way, or we will make a way
- Hannibal
If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
- Unknown
Success is the best revenge.
- Unknown
"Life is just what happens to you while you're busy making
other plans."
- John Lennon
A moment is a concentrated eternity... All that ever was is
now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never fool around with your barbers wife.
- A.V.
The more complex the mind the greater the need for play.
-Spock
After a time, you may find that having is not as desirable
as wanting.
-Spock
It is possible to do everything right and still lose the game.
-Captain Picard
A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step
- Unknown
Working with your shoulder to the wheel, your nose to the
grindstone and your eye on the ball, you will not get a lot
done.
- Unknown
The truth is but a stumbling block in the pathway of life.
- Unknown
The best defense is a good offense.
- Woody Hayes, Coach of Ohio State
Univ.
If the pieces don't fit together, their beauty doesn't matter.
- Miyamoto Musashi - 1645
Never wrestle with a pig...You both get all dirty and the
pig likes it.
(from a restaurant menu)
Who said life is fair?
- My Mom
Give government of the people,for the people, by the people
BACK to the people !
-Alfred E Neuman
You pay peanuts, you get monkeys!
"When you look for something, it is always in the last place
you look."
- Mom
The older I get, the wiser my parents get.
- Cathy Poturalski
The road of life is made smoother when traveled with someone
we love.
- Unknown
Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest
is usually the one that got hit.
- Lois L'Amour
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
- Unknown
If at first you succeed, try real hard to hide your astonishment.
- Unknown
If at first you don't succeed, don't try sky diving.
- Unknown
The true test of a man is not whether he can handle four or
five women. The true test of a man is whether he can stick
to just one.
- Stuart Brogden
The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few, or the
one.
- Mr. Spock
No other success in life can compensate for failure in the
home.
- David O. McKay
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order
to earn better than a "C," the idea must be feasible."
- A Yale University management professor
in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight
delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express.)
If all the world's a stage, where does the audience sit?
If a man makes a statement in the forest, and there is no
woman to hear him, would he still be wrong?
The higher you climb up the flagpole, the more people that
see your butt.
- Unknown
The first step to wisdom is the realization that you know
nothing.
- Unknown
Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.
- Machiavelli
Bad news never smells any better with age.
- Mark R. Avery
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its
pupils.
- composer Hector Berlioz
After the rain, there are rainbows.
- Unknown
Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.
- Eddie Adam
I always said I would be somebody, I guess I should have been
more specific.
- Lily Tomlin
Knowledge is the progression from cocksure ignorance to total
uncertainty.
- Unknown
If you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
You cannot solve the problem with the same thinking that started
the problem.
- Albert Einstein
The truly educated can listen to any view without loosing
their temper or self-confidence.
- Robert Frost
If life is a bowl of cherries, how come I am in the pits.
- Unknown
People who live on the cutting edge bleed a lot.
- Unknown
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk, that will teach
you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemmingway
Never put your shoes in the same dryer as your cat.
- HRR
When grasping for the last breath in the stranglehold of life,
a close inspection will show that the hands around your throat
are your own.
- Bill Deslippe
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach
a man to fish, you can sell him hooks, lures, bait, boats,
etc. for a lifetime.
- Unknown
Before I criticize someone, I walk a mile in their shoes.
If they still bug me, they're a mile away, barefoot and I
have their shoes!
- Unknown
According to the laws of aerodynamics, bumble bees can't fly...but
nobody told them.
- Unknown
There is no limit to what can be accomplished when no one
cares who gets the credit.
- John Wooden
Losers make excuses, winners find solutions.
- Unknown
Failure is not an option, it is just a nagging possibility
that helps me stay focused.
- Unknown
Satisfaction is the beginning of failure.
- Unknown
Two is never equal to three...not even for very large values
of two.
- Unknown
I don't have everything that I love, but I love everything
that I have.
- Unknown
If you don't get everything you want, just think about the
things you don't want that you don't get.
- Unknown
Never eat anything bigger than your head.
- Anon
Anything that hasn't happened yet, must be in the future.
- Unknown
Impatient people often interrupt themselves.
- Unknown
God made top soil so that farmers could raise good kids.
- Unknown
The grist mills of the gods grind slowly but extremely fine.
- J. Hiashutter
It is wise, when handling snakes, to use someone else's hands.
- R. Rivers
If you pray for rain you must be willing to deal with the
mud.
- Unknown
Never marry for money...you can borrow it cheaper.
- Unknown
It's better to do right than be right.
- Spencer Hayes
I am not important, but what I do is.
- Spencer Hayes
Never eat yellow snow.
We must not conform to society, but go forth and change it.
- Unknown
Hard work is for people short on talent.
- George Carlin
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
- Unknown
If the shoe fits, buy another one just like it.
- George Carlin
Everything takes longer than it does.
- Don Strobe
Scientists have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms.
It is impossible to detect. Fortunately, no cases have been
reported so far.
- George Carlin
Life is like swimming in a river. If you don't move upstream,
you go backwards.
- Unknown
Originality consists in concealing your sources.
- J.R. Ridinger
Consider yourself unlucky only if you take up coffin making
and people stop dying.
- Sufi proverb
Life is like a buffet, you can eat all you want, but you have
to help yourself.
- Unknown
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the
masses.
- Unknown
You are not what you think you are, you are what you think.
- Unknown
Your mind is like a parachute, it works better when it's open.
- Unknown
There is a time in life where rest does us more good than
practice!
- Unknown
A moral dilemma is defined as giving a pacifists a gun and
pointing him at a child abuser.
- Dr. Jest
You gotta be one of the good guys, son. Cause there's way
too many of the bad.
- PFC John Custer
To be a truly effective ruler, you must not fear to wield
the dagger yourself if need be.
- Dr. Jest
We spend half of our lives waiting and the other half paying.
- Unknown
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
If you take a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will
not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog
and a man.
- Mark Twain
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Forget your lust for the rich man's gold, all that you need
is in your soul.
- Ronnie Van Zandt
Miracles today...the impossible tomorrow.
- Unknown
I don't believe it. That is why you fail.
- Luke Skywalker/Yoda
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Yoda
Make the best of your past the worst of your tomorrows.
- Unknown
Chance favors the prepared minds, but destroys the unprepared.
- Unknown
Life is a journey...not a destination.
- Unknown
You never have a second chance to make a good first impression.
- Unknown
Never pee on an electric fence.
- Unknown
If you want something done right, do it yourself.
- Unknown
Never do anything for your husband or wife that you don't
want to do for the rest of your life.
- Unknown
Life is like riding a bull, you get bucked off and climb right
back on and do it again.
- Unknown
May you live in interesting times.
- Old Chinese Saying
Practice does not make perfect...Only PERFECT practice makes
perfect.
- Unknown
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much
room.
- Unknown
He who knows not and knows that he knows not, is a child,
teach him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not,
is a fool, shun him. He who knows and knows that he knows
is wise, follow him.
- Unknown
No man is an island.
- Unknown
A job worth doing is worth doing right.
- Unknown
Everything happens for a reason.
- Unknown
Opportunity: When one door slams shut on your fingers, the
sound of another one opening will drown out your screams.
- Unknown
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived
forwards.
- Unknown
You can do the impossible, the miracles take a little longer.
- Unknown
People are like flowers...they need love and attention to
bloom.
- Unknown
There are three types of people in this world...Those who
can count...and those who can't.
Procrastination is the assassination of motivation.
- Unknown
A good convect conducts the maximum penalty in amperes.
-
Unknown
Bad situations become normal if you see them everyday.
- Unknown
I am always ready to learn but I do not always like to be
taught.
- Winston Churchill
Don't just find someone you can live with...find someone that
you can't live without.
- Unknown
If you can't be nice...be vague.
- Unknown
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent
people and 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
breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas Alva Edison
"There is no education like adversity.
- Benjamin Disraeli
" Half this game is ninety percent mental "
- Philadelphia Phillies manager Danny
Ozark
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not
the kindly smile, not the joy of companionship; it is the
spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers
that someone believes in him and is willing to trust him with
his friendship."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives
- Braveheart
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-
Eleanor Roosevelt
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Unknown
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops.
- Henry Brooks Adams
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the
journey that matters, in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
"Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition
From Mediocre Minds"
- Albert Einstein
The ax forgets, the tree remembers.
- African Proverb
Never trust a skinny cook.
- Chinese proverb
Don't breathe underwater.
- Really Unknown
You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't
have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay
for it.
- Thomas Sowell
Live a life, not a livestyle.
- Unknown
If it works, don't break it.
- Unknown
If your mother and father didn't have any children...chances
are you won't either.
- Unknown
Time flies like an arrow...fruit-flies like a banana.
- Unknown
Taking your worries to bed is like trying to sleep under a
millstone.
- Herald Grandstaff
Behind the clouds the sun is still shining.
- SK
Never time to do it right, always time to do it twice.
- Unknown
There are only two things money can't buy, true love and home
grown tomatoes.
- Unknown
Ladies, it's not the dress that makes you look fat...it's
the fat that makes you look fat.
- Al Bundy
Common sense without education, is better than education without
common sense.
- Ben Franklin
Love, that which we all know of, is given to those that we
wish we all knew.
- Unknown
To the world, you may just be someone; but to someone, you
may just be the world.
- Unknown
I don't want to be everything to everyone...I just want to
something to someone.
- Unknown
Those who make fun of the ones who do are the one who can't.
- Unknown
Don't sweat the mule going blind...just load the wagon!
- Wanda Jones
If you want something to be said, let a man do it. If you
want something to be done, let a woman do it.
- Margaret Thacher
Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.
- Kacey Wilson
Keep your friends close and enemies closer.
- Unknown
"You either change things or you don't. Excuses rob you of
power and induce apathy."
- AGNES WHISTLING ELK
"Perfection is for the gods and the insane."
- Gregory P. Ohs
Saying from the Hoover era:
"You can lead a horse to water...but if you can teach it to
float on it's back...you got something that Yankees will pay
to see!"
"Shut up and deal with it!"
- Unknown
I may not always be right...but I'm always the boss.
- From the boss' desk
You're smarter than you believe.
You're stronger than you seem.
You're smarter than you think.
- Christopher Robin to Winnie-the-Pooh
Man's creed...It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Be careful of what you think...that is what you will say.
Be careful of what you say...that is what you will do.
Be careful of what you do...that will become your character.
Be careful of your character...that is who you have to live
with.
The secrets of success don't work unless you do.
Never give advise. The wise don't need it and the foolish
won't heed it.
Going on means going far...going far means returning.
It does not matter how many times you fall...what matters
is that you rise up one more time.
Do not take for granted the things that you hold closest to
your heart.
Cling to them as you would your life for without them your
life is meaningless anyway.
The fastest way to recieve love is to give love.
The fastest way to lose love is to hold onto it too tightly.
There's nothing like being a big man and owning up to the
truth when you are caught red-handed.
"Whoso must be a man must be a nonconformist"
- R.W. Emerson
"Envy is ignorance; immitation is suicide"
- R.W.Emerson
There is a difference between knowing the path and walking
it.
- Channarith Ly
The more you learn the more you forget. The more you forget
the less you learn. The less you learn the less you forget.
The less you forget the more you learn.
One should be well in all qualities of life and not just one
so that the person can overcome all the difficulties.
Life is a hard teacher. It gives the tests first and the lessons
afterwards.
- Eve Jackson
If you argue with an ignorant person sooner or later you won't
know who the ignorant person really is.
- Unknown
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Ghandi
A human being has two ends, one we think with and one we sit
on...success depends on which one we use the most.
- Unknown
Never underestimate the enemy.
- Unknown
If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso
never done time?
- Melle Mel
Eventually everything you hate will be all you have left.
- Gaz Mc
Chemistry is the backbone of life. If this is true, then I
have a slipped disc.
- Amit Dharwadkar
The more you learn the more you forget. The more you forget
the less you learn.
The less you learn the less you forget. The less you forget
the more you learn.
If this is so whats the point of learning.
Don't be afraid of the enemies who attack you. Be afraid of
the friends who flatter you.
- Gen.Alvaro Obregon
The best neighbors are no neighbors.
- Our dear neighbor quoted this on
our first neighborly visit.
An open mind is like a castle with its doors unlocked and
its windows wide open.
I'm too busy to die.
Small man on large toilet is high on pot.
- Confusious
The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe
things as they are and to let everything go as it goes. This
is to put everything under control in the widest sense.
- Shunryu Suzuki
If you don't ask, they can't say yes.
- Rachel Brice
What I don't know I can learn. What I do know no one can teach.
A best friend is the one who stabs you in front.
Luck is what happens when preparations meet opportunities.
You can't conquer new oceans unless you have the courage to
loose the sight of the shore.
No matter how well you think you know yourself, you'll never
see your liver.
- Unknown
It's one thing to force a behavior, it's quite another to
remind someone of a commitment.
- Patrick Campbell
Man's view is short of a long term future.
- John K. Chipman
A ship in harbour is safe, but that's not what a ship is built
for.
He knows what he is doing but does he do what he knows.
Life is like a piggy bank, you only get out what you put in.
- Travis Crowell
The Opposite of Congress is Progress.
Not everything that counts can be measured and not everything
that can be measured counts.
- Albert Einstein
The man who hides his feelings from the world, hides his feelings
from himself.
If winning isn't everything then why do we keep score.
- Vince Lombardi
Imagination is the foundation of the future.
- Dale P. Edwards
The highway of fear is the shortest route to defeat.
They say the mind bends and twists in order to deal with the
horrors of life. Sometimes the mind bends so much it snaps
in two.
There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in
the best of us that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about
the rest of us.
- Anon
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Wake up every morning with a smile and get it over with.
- Garfield
Denial is a wonderful thing...It makes people happy and keeps
their lives simple.
"I see" said the blind man to the deaf dog.
Never buy wine from man with purple feet.
- Confuscious
In your marriage there is no first prize for being right.
No matter how good you think you are, there is always someone
better.
- Unknown
There is little difference between a man throwing a banana
peel on the sidewalk and a banana peel throwing a man on the
sidewalk.
Presumption leads to precision.
Talking is silver, Listening is gold.
- GTW
A tidy desk is the sign of a cluttered mind.
Light a candle or curse the dark.
Is the glass half empty or half full.
Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator decided not to run for
re election because he'd been diagnosed with cancer:
"No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more
time in the office."
"If you win the rat race, you're still a rat."
John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway
of the Dakota:
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight
car but if he has a university education he may steal the
whole railroad.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Still waters run deep.
All things change until we wake. Dreams drift in the wind.
- Robert Jordan
Failure is not an option...it's a last resort.
We are blinded by our reality.
Persistence overcomes Resistence.
- John Thompson II
Today is tomorrow. So stop dreaming and live.
Anticipate failure in others so that you may avoid disappointment
in them later.
Do not fear the fall, because the hard thing is getting back
up.
Smile and the whole world smiles with you, frown and they
point and stare.
My wife says I never pay attention to what she says, or something
like that.
-Unknown
The clouds in the sky go by without much fuss or bother,
yet humankind create much fuss and bother. They should learn
from the clouds.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the acceptance and
mastery of it.
-Unknown
One who thinks he knows and knows he knows is a wiseman,
follow him.
Climb high; Climb far. Your goal the sky; Your aim the star.
- Inscription at William College
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its
original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
- Miguel De Cervantes
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but
to their capacity for experience.
- George Bernard Shaw
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined
it.
- Donald Curtis
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch
or happy, rich or poor.
- Edmund Spenser
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are
the creatures of men.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The lion judges by its own condition.
See your future, be your future. May, make--make it. Make
your future.
- Chevy Chase
Take it easy and if its too easy take it twice.
What happened twice will happen again.
All I know are the thoughts that I dont know or the art of
knowing without knowing.
It is impossible to plow a field by turning it over in your
head.
- Irish proverb
Not all dogs bite, but all dogs have teeth.
Some days, your the pidgeon....some days your the statue.
Trust the eyes....not the mouth.
I don't fail. I just succeed at finding things that don't
work.
It is good to live in interesting times.
When you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other;
therefore if you decide to take responsibility for your circumstances,
you automatically tap into the power to change them".
- Dr. Stephen R. Covey
If you're going to be dumb, then you better be tough.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much
you care.
In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared
mind.
- Louis Pasteur
The Rat Race is over...the Rats won!
Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to
do it.
A fool is not one who makes mistakes but one who does not
learn from his mistakes.
- Dan Scaduto
To most people pure nonsense makes more sense than common
sense.
Unless you listen to other points of view, you will never
know what your own is supposed to be.
Nostalgia is simply the ability to forget the things that
sucked.
- Nelson DeMille
Remember Guys, always tip your hat to the ladies.
- Chuck Burt
Every man's life, worthy of a novel.
- Jim Potts
True is not told in words.
- Clark Blomquist
"The moment you wake up is the instant you realize that
the
teacher is in you and that all your happiness, as well as
all of your
problems, are your own."
- Richard L. Weaver II, S/MOERs---Self Motivation, Optimism,
Encouragement Rules: Daily Reminders for Outstanding Living/
(Perrysburg, OH: And Then Some Publishing L.L.C., 2009), p.
213.
Never raise your hand to your children... it leaves your groin unprotected.
- Red Buttons
Blood is thicker than water, but water is clearer than blood.
Ever time the ground cracks open, Daddy finds a 'tater'. - A.W. Wright
"Everyone ought to have a motto" - That's what I always say.
"Bad news does not get better with time"
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