MISCELLANEOUS QUOTES
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The worst prison would be a closed heart. -Pope John Paul II

If what you did yesterday still looks big to you then you haven't done
much today.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain and most fools do.
-Dale Carnegie

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
-Robert Anthony

All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on
the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many
are seeing. -Peter M. Leschak

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity. -George S. Patton

Don't squat with your spurs on.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that
is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau

Life is like a box of chocolates...You never know what you're gonna
get. -Forrest Gump

Can there be anything worse than blindness? Oh yes...for the most
pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no
vision. -Helen Keller

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence. -Charles Austin Beard

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. -English proverb

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. -William R. Inge

The world is good-natured to people who are good natured.
-William Makepeace Thackeray

Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow
on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people,
and soon we will have a new and better factory. -Andrew Carnegie

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

The pot calls the kettle black.

The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot.

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
-Charles Gordy

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. -Stanton Friedman

Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others.  It is
because we are different that each of us is special.

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. -French proverb

I have never once seen a dark room given light without a shadow
resting in a corner, never have I seen a darkness without a light
fueling it from an opposite angle or view.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. -Muriel Rukeyser

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
-John Vance Cheney

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be
taken seriously. -Hubert H. Humphrey

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than to
our strength. -La Rochefoucauld

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do
things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains
- except kill it. -Erich Fromm

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. -Arabian Proverb

Most people live their lives, do their best, and maybe - maybe - get
15 minutes of fame. But they're still there, and in the long run they
really matter... It's the same on the internet. There is a silent
majority of web sites that don't cost much and don't make much money,
or don't care about making money. They provide a great deal of what
makes the web what it is and what it will become. If the media...
ignore that majority, they risk not understanding what's really going
on. -Tim Haight

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end
the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
-Henry Steele Commager

Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden

Things equal out pretty well. Our dreams seldom come true, but then
neither do our nightmares. -Charles Kennedy

When we look into another's soul, we see ourselves reflected there.
-Virginia Morrigan

The future is like a corridor into which we can only see by the light
coming from behind. -Edward Weyer Jr

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
-St. Francis of Assisi

Never buy through your ears but through your eyes. -Irish proverb

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to
have an opportunity and not be prepared. -Whitney Young

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men,
or they are no better than dreams. -Emerson




All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even
the impossible may only be so, as of now. -Pearl S. Buck

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others. -John Andrew Holmes

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my
nightmares because of my dreams. -Jonas Salk

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of
one small candle. -Arthur Gordon

Byron Elbows' two rules of human nature:
No one is as weird as they think they are.
Everyone is weirder than others think they are.

The devil you know beats the devil you don't.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all
other countries because you were born in it. -George Bernard Shaw 

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools. 
-Gene Brown

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. -David Dunham

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted. -Albert Einstein

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow
                  -Langston Hughes

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never
were and say "Why not?" -Robert F. Kennedy

Sometimes you can't look up the correct spelling of a word in the
dictionary because you don't know how to spell it.

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of
which I disapprove. -Ashleigh Brilliant

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate
it. -Franklin P. Jones

If you knew you could not fail, what would you do?

There's no bad weather. Just bad clothing.

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
-Mark Twain

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which
he has to solve. -Erich Fromm

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Ability is of little account without opportunity. -Napoleon Bonaparte

In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
-Jay Leno

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with
chaos. -Will Durant

Solutions are a big business. It sometimes seems that half the people
in the world are selling solutions to this problem or that, while the
other half are looking for an easy way out of their problems.

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of
which I disapprove. -Ashleigh Brilliant

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Politicians, like underwear, should be changed often, and for the same
reasons.

Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't permanently
solve any problems, but it makes thing more acceptable for awhile.

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal,
matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you...
-T. G. Barron

Every exit is an entry somewhere else. -Tom Stoppard

A watched pot never boils.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-Oscar Wilde

Since I am convinced
That Reality is in no way
Real,
How am I to admit
That dreams are dreams?
Tanka by Saigyo Hoshi [1118-1190 AD]

What 'exists' is only a small part of what is 'possible'.
-Pere Alberch

Time is the longest distance between two places.