Wise Words

"Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the child's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought -- sometimes it isn't much, either."
- Walt Disney

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
Dave Tyson Gentry

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

"When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
Indian Proverb

"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."
Jeff Pesis

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

"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts."
Millard Fuller

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."
Peter Marshall

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

"An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind."
Saint Bonaventure

"Learning in old age is like writing on sand; learning in youth is like engraving on stone."
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

"Chasing a dream, a dream no one else can see or understand, like running after a butterfly across an endless meadow, is extremely difficult."
W. P. Kinsella

"If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer."
Ace ventura, pet detective.

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

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- Anon.

"Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting."
- Billy Rose

"I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me."
- Jose Ortega Gasset

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"God would not have given us fingers if he wanted us to use forks."

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
- Oscar Wilde

"Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back."
- Morrie Schwartz, Quoted by Mitch Albom

"The great question...which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years into the feminine soul, is 'What do women want?'"
- Sigmund Freud

"I don't know, I don't care and it doesn't make any difference."
- Jack Kerouac

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."
- Yoda, The Phantom Menace

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

"If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence."
- Will Cuppy

"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. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

"A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view."
- Joey Adams

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible..."
- Walt Disney

"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

"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."
- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

"Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratification's, and nearest at hand."
- Michel de Montaigne

"Don't be humble. You're not that great."
- Golda Meir

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make the nail an example for your life. The head of the nail keeps it from going too far."
- Church Billboard

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
- Horace Mann

"A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words."
- Samuel Butler

"You must be the Change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandi

"I have noticed that people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."
- E.V. Lucas

"That was all wrong because not all was right."
- George Crabbe

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
- Colette

"There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it."
-- Diana Trilling

"Enthusiasm moves the world."
--J. Balfour

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."
--Lauren Bacall

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge."
--Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great."
--Mark Twain

"Decide what you think is right and stick to it."
--George Eliot

"If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to
get there?"
--Basil S. Walsh

"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less,
say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are
yours."
--Anon.

"People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that
which what they are not."
--Giacomo Leopardi

"If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much
easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
--Grace M. Hopper

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what
you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the
limo breaks down."
--Oprah Winfrey

"A friend should bear his friend's infirmities."
--William Shakespeare

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
--Marlene Dietrich

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
--Jane Austen

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
--William Gibbs McAdoo

"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered
themselves than by those found by others."
--Blaise Pascal

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that
it shall never have a beginning."
--John Henry Cardinal Newman

"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work
never begun."
--Christina Rossetti

"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind."
--Bulgarian proverb

"What a man can imagine he may one day achieve."
--Nancy Hale

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
--Katherine Mansfield

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
--Charles Kettering

"A good problem statement often includes: a. what is known; b. what is unknown; and c. what is sought."

"Love is being stupid together."
- Paul Valery

"The less of routine, the more of life."
A. B. Alcott

"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions."
--John A. Simone Jr.

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
--William James

"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
--Michel de Montaigne

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
--Theodore Roosevelt

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences."
- Robert G. Ingersoll

"Learning is a treasure that accompanies its owner everywhere."
- Proverb

"Wake up with a smile and go after life . . .. Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it."
--Joe Knapp

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
--Edmund Burke
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
- Alfred Adler

"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
- Evelyn Waugh

"To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent."
--Robert Copeland

"You'll find in no park or city/A monument to a committee."
--Victoria Pasternack

"Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy."
--Dale Carnegie

"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be
afraid."
--Lady Bird Johnson

"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."
--Shakti Gawain "It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life."
--Katharine Butler Hathaway

"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself."
--Axel Munthe

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

"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
--Jacqueline Bisset

"Learning is discovering that something is possible."
--Fritz Perls

"The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities."
--Cesare Pavese

"Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a
burden it was or what freedom really is."
--Margaret Mitchell

"You cannot plan the future by the past."
--Edmund Burke

"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so."
- Earl of Chesterfield

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
--Bernard Berenson

"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."
--Oscar Wilde

"Happiness is a way station between too little and too much."
--Channing Pollock

"It usually takes two people to make one of them angry."
--Laurence Peter

"It's never too late -in fiction or in life - to revise."
--Nancy Thayer

"Learning is discovering that something is possible."
--Fritz Perls

"My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere . . . be brief . . . be seated."
--James Roosevelt

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

"There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them."
--Mark Rutherford

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part ofhappiness."
--Bertrand Russell

"To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
--Katharine Graham

"When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly."
--Sappho