Great Quotes To Live By
"Natives who beat drums to
drive off evil spirits are objects of
scorn to smart Americans who
blow horns to break up traffic jams."
--Mary Ellen Kelly
"The impossible is often the
untried."
--Jim Goodwin
"Quoting one is plagiarism.
Quoting many is research."
--Anonymous
"Great spirits have always
encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
--Albert Einstein
"Just because nobody complains
doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect."
--Benny Hill
"I have often regretted my
speech, never my silence."
--Publius
"The person who knows "how"
will always have a job. The
person who knows "why" will
always be his boss."
--Diane Ravitch
"Leadership is action, not
position."
--Donald H. McGannon
"What a man can imagine he
may one day achieve."
--Nancy Hale
"Great minds have purposes,
others have wishes."
--Washington Irving
"Windows: A 32 bit shell
for a 16 bit operating system, originally
written for an 8 bit processor
on a 4 bit bus by a 2 bit company
that can't stand 1 bit of
competition!"
--Anonymous
"When you see a snake, never
mind where he came from."
--W. G. Benham
"All men dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in
the dusty recesses of their
minds wake in the day to find
that it was vanity; but the
dreamers of the day are dangerous
men, for they may act their
dream with open eyes, to make it
possible."
--T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence
of Arabia)
"I'll not listen to reason.
Reason is always what someone
else has got to say."
--Elizabeth C. Gaskell
"Attempt the impossible in
order to improve you work."
--Bette Davis
"An expert is a man who has
made all the mistakes which can
be made in a very narrow field."
--Niels Bohr
"Do not rely completely on
any other human being, however
dear. We meet all of
life's greatest tests alone."
--Agnes McPhail
"History will be kind to me,
because - I intend to
write it !"
--Winston Churchill
"If you're looking for perfection,
look in the mirror. If you
find it there, expect it elsewhere."
--Malcolm Forbes
"They stood at attention in
a neat row, all with the same uniform,
yet each with his own values."
--Warren Peace, The
Lieutenant's Array
"The future is much like the
present, only longer."
-- Don Quisenberry
"I tremble for my country when
I reflect that God is just."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"If you look like your passport
photo, you're too ill to travel."
-- Will Kommen
"Great spirits have always
found violent opposition from mediocrities.
The latter cannot understand
when a man does not thoughtlessly submit
to hereditary prejudices but
honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
-- Albert Einstein
"If you think education is
expensive, try ignorance."
-- Derek Bok
"I haven't been wrong since
1973, when I thought I made a mistake."
-- Bob Hudson
"People who think they know
everything are very irritating to those of us who do."
-- Anonymous
"Minutes are worth more than
money. Spend them wisely."
--Thomas P. Murphy
"Chance favors those in motion."
--James H. Austin
"Act as if it were impossible
to fail."
--Dorothea Brande
"My mistake was buying stock
in the company. Now I'm worried
about the lousy work I'm turning
out."
--Marvin Townsend
"A verbal contract isn't worth
the paper it's written on."
-- Samuel Goldwyn
"If a person gives you his
time, he can give you no more
precious gift."
--Frank Tyger
"Simply stated, it is sagacious
to eschew obfuscation."
--Norman Augustine
"Experience is simply the name
we give our mistakes."
-- Oscar Wilde
"What is defeat? Nothing but
education, nothing but the first
step to something better."
--Wendell Phillips
"The tragedy of life is not
that man loses, but that he
almost wins."
--Heywood Broun
"Courage is fear holding on
a minute longer."
--Gen. George S. Patton
"True friendship is like sound
health; the value of it is seldom known
until it be lost."
--Charles Caleb Colton
"A real friend is one who walks
in when the rest of the world walks out."
--Anonymous
"The best mirror is an old
friend."
--Anonymous