" Do it big or stay in bed. "
Opera producer Larry Kelly
" Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure. "
Babe Didrikson
" One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose. "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
" Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. "
Kenny Rogers
" The art of progress is to preserve order amid change. "
A. N. Whitehead
" The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. "
John Foster Dulles
" Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. "
Dan McKinnon
" Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you. "
Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005 German mystic & religious author (1380 – 1471)
" I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. "
Johnny Carson US comedian & television host (1925 – 2005)
" To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing. "
Elbert Hubbard US author (1856 – 1915)
" Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them. "
Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
" You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. "
John J. Plomp
" When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. "
Bertrand Russell, “Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?”, 1947 British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)
" Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. "
Edna Ferber US author (1887 – 1968)
" And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. "
Socrates Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC – 399 BC)
" Where humor is concerned there are no standards – no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. "
John Kenneth Galbraith US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 – )
" If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. "
Samuel Butler English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 – 1902)
" Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. "
Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Greek philosopher (341 BC – 270 BC)
" Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. "
Calvin Coolidge 30th president of US (1872 – 1933)
" Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. "
Thomas Carlyle Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 – 1881)
" Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. "
John Ciardi US poet (1916 – 1986)
" Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. "
Nick Diamos
" You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. "
Dave Barry US columnist & humorist (1947 – )
" Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. "
Charles A. Dana US newspaper editor (1819 – 1897)
" Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. "
Arnold Bennett
" I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back. "
Zsa Zsa Gabor US (Hungarian-born) actress (1919 – )
" Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him "
Clark Mousakas
" Fashion changes, style remains. "
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
" I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles. "
Anais Nin US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 – 1977)
" My mother loved children — she would have given anything if I had been one. "
Groucho Marx US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 – 1977)
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