" 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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