"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." ~ William Blake

Flame

Flame is very near to smoke.
[Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.]
~Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. ~Edward S. Martin

Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn full-bodied with age until they go sour and vinegary and give you a headache. ~ Unknown

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. ~Eva Figes

A fair exchange brings no quarrel. ~ Proverb, (Danish)

History is the essence of innumerable Biographies. ~ Thomas Carlyle

"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." - Nelson Mandela

"More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown." - Spanish Proverb

"I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes." - Oprah Winfrey

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. ~ Proverb, (Dutch)

God never did make a more calm, quiet, and innocent recreation than angling. ~ Izaak Walton

"The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to those things." - Woody Allen

"Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect." - Vince Lombardi

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett

Take counsel of your pillow. ~Proverb, (Latin)

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. ~ Seneca

Good wine needs no bush. ~ William Shakespeare

Like a lovely tree

Like a lovely tree
She grew to womanhood, and between whiles
Rejected several suitors, just to learn
How to accept a better in his turn.

~Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ~ Margaret Carty

In union there is strength. ~ Aesop

A pleasant traveling companion helps us on our journey as much as a carriage. ~ Jonathan Swift

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question." - Albert Camus

"The more a man knows, the more he forgives." - Catherine the Great

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have means much more." - Seneca

"In giving advice, seek to help, not to please, your friend." - Solon

"Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong." - Oscar Wilde

"Let him that would move the world first move himself." - Socrates

Love, hope, fear, faith

Love, hope, fear, faith--these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character.

~Robert Browning

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

Only the suppressed word is dangerous. ~ Ludwig Börne

"I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great." ~ Richard Hovey

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. -- Albert Einstein

"Charity sees the need not the cause." - German Proverb

"He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face." ~ Benjamin Franklin

Speak of the devil, and he appears. ~Proverb, (Italian)

A kick from a mare never hurt a horse. ~ Proverb, (French)

"To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail." - Michael Jordan

"Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried." - Mae West

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it." - George Satanaya

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." - Ben Stein

"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." - Woody Allen

"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Unknown

The best soldiers are not warlike. ~ Proverb, (Chinese)

A man's word is his honor. ~ Proverb, (Danish)

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. ~ George Marshall

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~ Proverb, (Yiddish)

"No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded." - Yogi Berra

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men." - Joseph Conrad

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing." - John Erskine

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours." - Harry S. Truman

"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." - Bertrand Russell

"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

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

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen

"Outer space is no place for a person of breeding." - Lady Violet Bonham Carter

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. ~Helen Keller

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." -- Woody Allen

"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived." -- Oscar Wilde

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." -- Anatole France

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them." -- Ian Fleming

"Satire is what closes Saturday night." ~ Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)

"Enjoy your little while the fool seeks for more." ~ Proverb, (Spanish)

"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too." ~ H. L. Mencken~

The Kingdom of God is within you

"If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you."
~Leo Tolstoy

"A good neighbor is better than a brother far off." ~ Proverb, (Danish)

"Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked." ~ Yogi Berra

"It is a good answer which knows when to stop." ~ Proverb, (Italian)

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." -- Elbert Hubbard

"A fat kitchen is next door to poverty." ~ Proverb, (Italian)

Anything for a quiet life. ~ Thomas Middleton, title of a play

"Sometimes it is not enough to our best; sometimes we must do what is required." - Winston Churchill

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - Muhammad Ali

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." - Katharine Hepburn

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have." - Socrates

"Happiness is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once the child grows up." - Pablo Picasso

"Know thyself to know others, for heart beats like heart." ~ Proverb, (Chinese)

"Feigned love is worse than hatred." ~ Proverb, (Latin)

"Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though late, a sure reward succeeds." ~ William Congreve

O sleep!

O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven
That slid into my soul.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder." ~ Dr. Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull

"The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes." ~ Proverb, (Yiddish)

"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible." - George Chakiris

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something." - Plato

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it." - Lyndon Johnson

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. ~ W.L. George

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

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." - Winston Churchill

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." - Voltaire

"That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another...." - Charles M. Shulz

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." - George Eliot

"It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." - Rene Descartes

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

"I never see what has been done. I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie

"Gray skies are just clouds passing over." - Duke Ellington

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." - JRR Tolkien

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher

"Among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver." - Maya Angelou

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." - Judy Garland

"A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it." - Alistair Cooke

The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck. ~William Shakespeare

The fire i' the flint
Shows not till it be struck.
~ William Shakespeare

"The course of true love never did run smooth." ~ Proverb, (Latin)

"One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds." ~ Proverb, (Italian)

"The fox knows well with whom he plays tricks." ~ Proverb, (Spanish)

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind". ~ Albert Einstein

"There may be deep bottoms in still waters." ~ Proverb, (Russian)

"Postpone not a good action." ~ Proverb, (Irish)

the irresistible creeping tide

"All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks but seldom changes the way the world works. Lasting historical change comes not through tidal waves but through the irresistible creeping tide." ~Richard Nixon

Youth is not a time of life

"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life." ~Samuel Ullman

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." ~ Thomas Paine

"Sin writes histories, goodness is silent." ~ Thomas Fuller

"Politics makes strange bed-fellows." ~ Charles Dudley Warner

"The pitcher goes so long to the well that it breaks at last." ~ Proverb, (Dutch)

Better a bad excuse, than none at all. ~William Camden

To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly. ~Periander of Corinth, his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,~

There is no slavery but ignorance. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings. ~Leo Tolstoy

Fondly blind

So lovers, to their fair one fondly blind,
E'en on her ugliness with transport gaze.
~Proverb, (Chinese)~

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." ~Dale Turner

"Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman." ~ Hungarian Proverb

"Fatigue is the best pillow." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"He is an aristocrat in folio." ~ Proverb, (Dutch)

"When you see the wolf, do not look for his track." ~ Proverb, (Italian)

"Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche." ~ Andrew Denton

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace." ~ Dhammapada

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet." ~ Saint Augustine~

"The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry." ~ Arabian Proverb

"Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward." ~ Carol Channing

"There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself." ~ Joseph Joubert

"Old age and poverty are wounds that can't be healed." ~ Proverb, (Greek)

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death." ~ James F. Byrnes

"Ill fares the young bird in the urchin's hand." ~ Proverb, (Portuguese)

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." - Herman Melville

"There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues." - Prentice

"The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters." - Gloria Steinem

"You've got to take the initiative and play your game. Confidence makes the difference." - Chris Evert

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha

"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." - Walt Disney

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity." - Samuel Johnson

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." - Michael Jordan

"Someone who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him." - Lao-Tzu

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome." - Samuel Johnson

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Auguste Rodin

"No one can give you better advice than yourself." - Cicero

"Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." - Confucius

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill

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

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else." - Yogi Berra

"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. " - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of." - Peter Ustinov

"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." - Georgia O'Keefe

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George Patton

"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." - Golda Meir

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. ~ Max Frisch

The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting. ~ Unattributed Author, The Husia of Ancient Egypt, translation by Maulana Kaurenga

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

Things don't go wrong, they simply happen. ~ Jacob Ghitis

Old age is a hundred disorders. ~ Proverb, (Welsh)

Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound. ~ Proverb, (Latin)

To every fool his cap. ~ Proverb, (Dutch)

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ~ H. L. Mencken

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven." ~ H. L. Mencken

"Blasphemy is a victimless crime." ~ Anonymous

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. ~ The Tao Te Ching

Fare thee well!

Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well.
~Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Perseverance kills the game. ~Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Charge nothing and you'll get a lot of customers. ~ Proverb, (Yiddish)

I can remember the lush, spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles: tabernacle and pharisee and parable, trespass and Babylon and covenant. ~ Penelope Lively

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence. ~ Henry Chester

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

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

Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on. ~ Tom Hobson

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. ~ Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. --Confucius

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. ~ Igor Stravinsky

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. ~ Lester Bowles Pearson

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. ~ Doris Day

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today. ~ Proverb, (Chinese)

We suffer by our proximity. ~ Proverb

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore. ~ Peter McWilliams

Music is the universal language of mankind. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~ Phyllis Diller

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. ~ Aristotle

A good neighbor is a found treasure. ~ Proverb, (Chinese)

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. ~ Robert Fulghum

No answer is also an answer. ~ German Proverb

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~ Henry Fielding

A good horse never lacks a saddle. ~ Proverb, (Italian)

No man is so rich as to say, "I have enough!" ~ Proverb, (Latin)

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. ~ Sir James M. Barrie

"College isn't the place to go for ideas." - Helen Keller

"Stairs are climbed step by step." ~Proverb, (Kurdish)

"The weakest goes to the wall." ~ David Tuvill, Essays Moral

In wine there is truth. ~ Proverb, (Roman)

"Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it." - Cicero

"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here." - Jim Henson

"If we stopped trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton

"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them." - Ira Gershwin

"Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep." - Madonna

A Vision of Poets

"There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time." ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Vision of Poets

"To unpathed waters, undreamed shores." - William Shakespeare

"He who lives in a glass house should be the last to throw stones. ~Proverb, (German)

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." - The Dalai Lama

"You always admire what you really don't understand." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"When the shepherd strays, the sheep stray." ~Proverb, (Dutch)

"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion." - Frederick Douglass

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." ~Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"After about three lessons, the voice teacher said, 'Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.'" - Johnny Cash

"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism." ~ Mary McCarthy

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." - General George S. Patton

"It does not become the sparrow to mix in the dance of the cranes." ~ Proverb, (Danish)

"You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming." - Pablo Neruda

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas A. Edison

"A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot." ~ German Proverb

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin

"What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else." ~ Hal Boyle

"Re-examine all that you have been told... and dismiss that which insults your soul." - Walt Whitman

"He who would enjoy the feast should fast on the eve." ~ Proverb, (Italian)

"If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree." ~Proverb, (African)

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future." - Oscar Wilde

"Life itself is the proper binge." - Julia Child

World

"World's use is cold, world's love is vain,
World's cruelty is bitter bane;
But pain is not the fruit of pain."
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future." - Oscar Wilde

"If you haven't cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful." - Sophia Loren

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin

"World's use is cold, world's love is vain,
World's cruelty is bitter bane;
But pain is not the fruit of pain."
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Many words don't fill the sack." ~Proverb, (Dutch)

"World's use is cold, world's love is vain,
World's cruelty is bitter bane;
But pain is not the fruit of pain."
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something." ~ Frank Crane

"Ideas are the beginning of all achievement." - Bruce Lee

"Swim on and don't trust." ~ Proverb, (French)

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In fierce March weather

"In fierce March weather
White waves break tether,
And whirled together
At either hand,
Like weeds uplifted,
The tree-trunks rifted
In spars are drifted,
Like foam or sand."
~Algernon Charles Swinburne

"Boys avoid the bees that stung 'em." ~ Proverb, (German)

"Find ecstasy in life. The mere sense of living can be joy enough." - Emily Dickinson

"The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail." ~Proverb, (Irish)

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." - Benjamin Disraeli

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind." - Pearl Buck

"Success is doing what you like and making a living at it." ~Proverb, (Greek)

"You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one." - Henry David Thoreau

"Bite not the dog that bites." ~Proverb, (Danish)

"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams." - Jesse Jackson

"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." - Oscar Wilde

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." - Oscar Wilde

"Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt

"His religion at best is an anxious wish, like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Kindred without friends, friends without power, power without will, will without effect, effect without profit, profit without virtue, is not worth a rush." ~Proverb, (French)

"Good news may be told at any time, but ill in the morning." ~George Herbert

"Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt

"Please all, and you will end up pleasing none." - Aesop

"Never injure a friend, even in jest." - Marcus Cicero

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." - William Shakespeare

"Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier." - Mother Teresa.

"Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions." ~ George Herbert

"Touch a galled horse, and he'll wince." ~Proverb, (Dutch)

"Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent." ~ Francis Bacon

"I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon." ~ Dorothy Parker

"Who dares, wins." ~ Anonymous

"All things of this world are nothing, unless they have reference to the next." - Proverb, (Spanish)

"Charity sees the need, not the cause." - Proverb, (German)

"The tree must be bent while it is young." - Proverb, (German)

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

"Beware the anger of the dove." - Proverb, (French)

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." ~ Martin H. Fischer

"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age." - Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"Iron hand in a velvet glove." ~William Ellery Channing

Not to stop questioning

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein

"If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help." - German proverb

"When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself." — Shunryu Suzuki

What do you wish to be doing?

"Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that." ? Epictetus

"When the Spirit Horse comes, then it’s over." — Chavez, "Young Guns II"

The world is coming to an end

Three Chinamen were playing Fan Tan when they were told the world was coming to an end. The first said, ?I shall go to the mission and pray.? The second said, ?I shall buy a six-pack of mescal and six whores.? But the third said, ?I shall finish the game.? ? from the movie "Young Guns 2"

"If the doors of perception were cleansed then every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." — William Blake

"The woods would be less enjoyable if the only birds to sing were those who sang best." — Unknown

"He’s no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, to get that which he shall not lose." — Unknown

"Do not follow where the pathway leads, but go where there is no path, and leave a trail." — Unknown

"Mother, should I build a wall?" — Pink Floyd

Broken Hearts

"I see the fragments of the dreams I used to have
And bits of aspiration lying in the sand.
I see the reasons for the things I used to do.
They?re all transparent now and so I see the truth."
?Living Colour

Our life is what our thoughts make it.—Marcus Aurelius

Let the past bury its dead.—Dale Carnegie

I might as well have said it to the moon.—Dale Carnegie

"A man doesn’t have the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him." — Abraham Lincoln

Try to bear lightly what must needs be.—Socrates’ jailer

That which he feared most came upon him.—Dale Carnegie

"There comes a time when any more investigation and thinking is harmful. There comes a time when we must decide and act and never look back." — Waite Phillips

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.—Tennyson

"De minimis non curat lex." The law does not concern itself with trifles.—Unknown

"Carry on, no matter what happens." — Elizabeth Connley

"It is so. It cannot be otherwise." — Flemish cathedral inscription

"It is never too late to give up our prejudices." — Henry David Thoreau

"Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind." — Andy J. Sklivis

"Make no judgments where you have no compassion." — Anne McCaffrey

Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships.—Jeffrey A. Timmons

"Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off." — Paul Brodeur

"Can such things be?" — Ambrose Bierce

"To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." — William H. Walton

"Always laugh at yourself—before others do." — Elsa Maxwell

"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried." — Frank Tyger

No man was ever wise by chance.—Seneca

Storms make trees take deeper roots.—Claude McDonald

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.—Mildred Barthel

"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."—Isaac Bashevis Singer