" There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. "

Frederika Bremer

" A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members. "

David Coblitz

" Fortune helps the brave. "

Terence, Phormio Roman comic dramatist (185 BC – 159 BC)

" However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source. "

Nigerian Proverb

" A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. "

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu Chinese philosopher (604 BC – 531 BC)

" A man without trust is a man without life. "

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

" The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing. "

Gamel Abdel Nasser

" If you pick up 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 US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

" Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. "

Sam Levenson (1911 – 1980)

" We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. "

Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)

" Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. "

Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

" The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself. "

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196 US activist & linguist (1928 – )

" Make your life a mission – not an intermission. "

Arnold Glasgow

" What children take from us, they give

" History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte French general & politician (1769 – 1821)

" I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. "

Douglas Adams English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 – 2001)

" He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream. "

Latin

" For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. “If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather – assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.” "

J.W.N. Sullivan

" Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" Boldness in itself is genius. "

L. Ron Hubbard

" If you judge people, you have no time to love them. "

Mother Teresa Indian humanitarian & missionary (1910 – 1997)

" One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman. "

Debra Messing

" Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust. "

R. D. Hitchcock

" If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. "

Thomas Fuller English clergyman & historian (1608 – 1661)

" It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you miss 100% of the shots you do not take. "

Wayne Gretski

" I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. "

Nancy Reagan US 2nd wife of Ronald Reagan 1952 (1921 – )

" A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. "

Mark Twain, (attributed) US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

" Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry. "

George Ade US dramatist & humorist (1866 – 1944)

" The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do. "

Joseph Stalin Georgian Soviet politician (1879 – 1953)

Entries and comments feeds. Valid XHTML and CSS.