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- Acorns tasted good before bread. --Anon
- Accept your genius and say what you think. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. --Author McBride Bloch
- A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it. --Dogen
- A great man is the man who does something for the first time. --Alexander Smith
- A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. --Samuel Butler
- All animals except man know that the ultimate joy in life is to enjoy it. --Samuel Butler
- All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.--Ellen Glasgow
- All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. --Samuel Butler
- All trouble in the world is due to the fact that a man cannot sit still in a room. --Blaise Pascal
- Almost everything comes from almost nothing. --Henri Frederic Amiel
- Always do one thing less than you think you can. --Bernard Baruch
- Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you loose. --Franz Grillparzer
- Always remember that you are unique - just like everyone else. --Unknown author
- A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. --Benjamin Franklin
- A man of fifty is responsible for his face. --Edwin McMasters Stanton
- A man's mind is hidden in his writings; criticism brings it to light. --Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol
- America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence with out civilization in between. --Oscar Wilde
- Amusement is the happiness of those that cannot think. --Alexander Pope
- An open mind, like an open window should be screened to keep the bugs out. --Virginia Hutchinson
- Anyone can have an off decade. --Larry Cole
- A professional is someone who can do his best work even when he doesn't feel like it. --Alfred Alistair Cooke
- Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- A ship in the harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for. --John A Shedd
- As if you could kill time without killing eternity. -- Henry David Thoreau
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -- Anonymous
- A wounded deer leaps the highest. --Emily Dickinson
- Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. --Rachel Carson
- Be careful how you interpret the world, it is like that. --Erich Heller
- Beware the flatterer; he feeds you with an empty spoon. --Cosino De Gregrio
- Bloom where you are planted. --Anonymous
- Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion. -- Will Rogers
- Chaos often breeds life, when order often breeds habit. --Henry Brooks Adams
- Children are living messages we send to a time we will not see. --Neil Postman
- Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. --Bernard Berenson
- Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. --Oscar Wilde
- Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. -- Joseph Russell Lynes, Jr.
- Dare to be naive. --Buckminster Fuller
- Deadlines are the mothers of invention. --John M. Shanahan
- Difficulties exist to be surmounted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. --Sir Bayle Roche
- Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Do it big or stay in bed. --Larry Kelly
- Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. --Anonymous
- Doors don't slam open. --John M. Shanahan
- Doubt breeds doubt. --Franz Grillparzer
- Do well and you will have no need of ancestors. --Voltaire
- Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy? --A Course in Miracles
- Effort is ugly. --B. Upton
- Endurance is frequently a form of indecision. --Princess Elizabeth Bibesco
- Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. --Marie von Ebner- Eschenbach
- Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. --Pablo Picasso
- Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. --Eric Hoffer
- Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use. --Phillips Brooks
- Every true genius is bound to be naive. --Johann Christop Friedrich von Schiller
- Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. --Italian proverb
- Failure is impossible. --Susan B. Anthony
- Find a need and fill it. --Ruth Stafford Peale
- Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. --Suzanne Necker
- Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash. --Harriet Rubin
- Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- There is no great genius without some touch of madness. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. --Gail Sheehy
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept. --Ken Keyes Jr.
Happiness hates the timid. -- Eugene O'Neill
Have no friends not equal to yourself. --Confucius
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing. --Paul Valery
Here I am; send me. --IS. 6:8
He who reflects too much will accomplish little. --Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. --Winston Churchill
Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs. --John Davis
I can, therefore I am. --Simone Weil
I can take reality in small does, but as a lifestyle it is too confining. --Lily Tomlin
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. --Anatole France
I couldn't wait for success...so I went ahead without it. -- Jonathon Winters
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. --John Galsworth
I dislike arguments of any kind, they are always vulgar and often convincing. --Oscar Wilde
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. --Jane Ellis Hopkins
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have too. --Elvis Presley
If a Plant's Roots are Too Tight, Repot. --Gardening Headline, The New York Times
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. --Justice Arthur Goldberg
If God had wanted me to be otherwise. He would have created me otherwise. --Johann von Goethe
If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have settled for less. --Lily Tomlin
If not now, when? --Talmud
If you obey all the rules you will miss the fun. --Katherine Hepburn
If you speak the truth, have one foot in the stirrup. --Turkish proverb
If you want to kill time try working it to death. --Sam Levenson
If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself in shallow water. --Bulgarian proverb
I have an existential map. It has 'You are Here' written all over it. --Steven Wright
I have no fear that the result of our experiment may be that men will be trusted to govern themselves without master. -- Thomas Jefferson
In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability. --George Gilder
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. --Douglas Adams
Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein
I am an idealist. I don't know where I am going, but I am on my way. --Carl Sandburg
Imitation is criticism. --William Blake
In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge. --Dennis Dugan
Instant gratification takes too long. --Carrie Fisher
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. --Edgar Watson Howe
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves. --Blaise Pascal
Integrity is praised and starves. --Decimus Junius Juvenalis
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. --Anatole France
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. --Allen H. Neuharth
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated his ability. --Oscar Wilde
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. --Lucimar Santos De Lima
It is always the secure who are humble. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets. --Genoese proverb
It's better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. --Oscar Wilde
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. --Saint Jerome
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. --Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. --Walt Disney
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. --Howard Ruff
I want to do it because I want to do it. --Amelia Earhart
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. --Irene Peter
Keep your promises to yourself. --David Harold Fink
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. --George Santayana
Learning is what most folks do for a living in the 21st century. --Perelman
Life guarantees a chance - not a fair shake. --Anonymous
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. --Samuel Butler
Luck is the residue of design. --Branch Rickey
Marconi invented radio, but Ted Husing knew what to do with it. --Ralph Edwards
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities. --Napoleon Bonaparte
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. --Susan Ertz
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. --Joseph Joubert
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. --Oscar Wilde
Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks in the mirror, he sees a monkey. --Malcome de Chazal
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. --Oscar Wilde
My understanding of truth can change from day to day. And my commitment must be to truth rather than to consistency. --Ram Dass
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. --Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. --Vauvenargues
Nobody realizes that some people expend a tremendous amount of energy merely to be normal. --Albert Camus
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. --Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
No human thing is of serious importance. --Plato
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. --Turkish proverb
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. --Titus Maccuis Plautus
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have. --Emily Auguste Chartier
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. --Oscar Wilde
One can go a long way after one is tired. --French proverb
One completely overcomes only what one has assimilated. --Andre Gide
One man with courage makes a majority. --Andrew Jackson
One of the symptoms of approaching a nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. --Bertrand Russell
Only dead fish swim with the stream. --Anonymous
Only the shallow know themselves. --Oscar Wilde
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time. --Catherine Deneuve
Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble. --Frank Tyger
Opposition enflames the enthusiast, never converts him. --Johann Christop Friedrich von Schiller
Originality is the art of concealing your source. -Franklin Jones
Optimism is an intellectual choice. --Diana Schneider
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over education from happening. --William Troy Harris
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. --Anonymous
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. --Antisthenes
People who know how to act are never preachers. --Emerson
People living deeply have no fear of death. --Anais Nin
Pleasure is the object, duty and goal of all rational creatures. --Voltaire
Praise undeserved is satire in disguise. --Broadhurst
I can take reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle it is too confining. --Lily Tomlin
Problems are messages ignored. --Anonymous
Prosperity makes few friends. --Vauvenargues
Reality is a crutch for people who don't have enough imagination. --Unknown Author
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. --Lily Tomlin
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. --Lily Tomlin
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. --Sir Arthur Helps
Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength. --Eric Hoffer
Simple pleasures...are the last refuge of the complex. --Oscar Wilde
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --Leonard da Vinci
Solemnity is the device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. --Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. --Donald A. Miller
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. --Thomas Fuller
Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. --Lewis Carroll
Style is the dress of thoughts. --Lord Phillip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Success is an accident...well placed. --John M. Shanahan
Success has ruined many a man. --Benjamin Franklin
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. --Oscar Wilde
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. --Napoleon I
The butterfly counts not months, but moments and has time enough. --Rabindranath Tagore
The cleverly expressed opposite to any widely accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. --Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds out there is no "top". --Nancy Barcus
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself for who I am, it is then that I can change. --Carl Rogers
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. --Charles de Gaulle
The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance. --Baltasar Gracian
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. --Kin Hubbard
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. --Helen Keller
The hole and the patch should be commensurate. --Thomas Jefferson
The minority is always right. --Henrik Johan Ibsen
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. --Richared Bach
The morning has gold in its mouth. German proverb
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the question. --Susan Sontag
There are 2 ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. --Edith Wharton
There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed. --Leo Tolstoy
There is a time for departure even when there's no place to go. --Tennessee Williams
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. --Ken Olsen, President, Chairman, and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The reward for conformity is everyone likes you but yourself. --Rita Mae Brown
The soul is not a thing. It is a place from which to speak. --Julio Olalla
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is. --Winston Churchill
The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. --Stanley Kubrick
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. --James A. Garfield
Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his own pulse in not getting any better. --Hubert van Zeller
To be social is to be forgiving. --Robert Frost
To be honest, one must be inconsistent. --H.G. Wells
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. --Georg Christoph Lichenberg
To exaggerate is to weaken. --Jean Francois de La Harpe
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. --Oscar Wilde
If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters. --Abigail Van Buren
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what the are. --Malcolm Forbes
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. --Mae West
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. --Colette
To think is to say no. --Emile Auguste Chartier
Trust your hunches. They are usually based on facts filed just below the conscious level. --Dr. Joyce Brothers
Learn how to feel joy. --Seneca
Truth is I have always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers. --Lily Tomlin
Unpredictability, too, can be monotonous. --Eric Hoffer
Very simple ideas lie within the reach of only complex minds. --Remy de Gourmont
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. --Jonathan Swift
Vows begin when hope dies. --Leonardo Da Vinci
Weak people never give way when they ought to. --Jean Francois
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? --Niels Bohr
We all find time to do what we really want to do. --William Feather
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all live under the same horizon. --Konrad Adenauer
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. --Jean Francois de La Harpe
We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge. --Rutherford D. Rogers
We choose our joys and our sorrows long before we experience them. --Kahlil Gibran
We fear the thing we want the most. --Dr. Robert Anthony
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. --Carlos Castaneda
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. --Rabindranath Tagore
Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. --Georg Groddeck
What I cannot love, I overlook. --Anais Nin
What isn't tried won't work. --Claude McDonald
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. --Aristotle
What we learn with pleasure, we never forget. --Alfred Mercier
What you think means more than anything else in your life. --George Mathew Adams
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. --Henry David Thoreau
When nothing is sure, everything is possible. --Margaret Drabble
When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made. --Anonymous
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. --Eric Hoffer
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. --Oscar Wilde
When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. --Bernard Baily
When somebody asks you to do the impossible, ask him to dribble a football. --Anonymous
When you can't solve a problem, manage it. --Dr. Robert H. Schuller
"Why not" is the slogan for an interesting life. --Mason Cooley
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. --Herman Hesse
A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody. --Anonymous
With most men, unbelief from one thing springs from belief in another. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile. --Congolese proverb
You are only as sick as your secrets. --Anonymous
You can promote your healing by your thinking. --James E. Sweeney
You can't have everything. Where would you put it? --Steven Wright
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. --Ethel Barrymore
Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment. --Karen Crockett
You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you. --Johann Christop Friedrich von Schiller
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains, is the Zen you bring up there. --Robert M. Pirsig
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. --George Santayana
The angry people are those people who are most afraid. --Dr. Robert Anthony
To do is to be. To be is to do. The way to do is to be. --Socrates, --Plato, --Lao-Tzu
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
-- Immanuel Kant
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I
want to see the manager."
-- William S. Burroughs
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the
credit.
-- Harry S Truman
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is
absolutely fatal.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
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"Nu ti se va darui niciodata o dorinta fara posibilitatea de a o indeplini. Dar va trebui sa muncesti din greu pentru aceasta".
"Daca gasesti justificari pentru limitele tale, o sa le ai intr-adevar".
Richard Bach
"Orice lucru trebuie explicat in cel mai simplu mod posibil, dar nu mai simplu decat atat". A. Einstein
“Mai intai incearca sa intelegi si pe urma fa-te inteles”
“Sunt o suta de drumuri care duc spre paradis: nouzeci si noua sunt pentru persoanele inteligente, iar unul pentru ceilalti”
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think
that I am.)
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether
to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
-- Theodore Roosevelt
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Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your
own. You may both be wrong.
-- Dandemis
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Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought
for those people who can't remember where they leave things.
-- Unknown
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
-- Mae West
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless
there are three other people.
-- Orson Welles
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
-- Sir William Osler
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either
case, the thought is staggering.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
-- E. B. White
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and
for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
-- W. C. Fields
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James M. Barrie
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
-- Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy)
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange
protein; it rejects it.
-- P. B. Medawar
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it
exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
-- Ernest Benn
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing
nearly everything, money is handy.
-- Groucho Marx
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What you want is not the most important thing, definately not to anyone else!
The person in our heart, is the person in front of us. <= an old chinese saying
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams
I think the greatest practical joke ever played on man is to be given a mind that needs to live for ever and a body that can not.