MISCELLANEOUS QUOTES
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You cannot tell which way the train went by looking at the track.

To the victim, a "practical joke" is usually neither practical nor a
joke. 

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that 
four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

Don’t focus on being different, focus on being yourself - and your
difference will naturally shine through! -Kevin Eikenberry

The future belongs to those who see the possibilities before they
become obvious. -Theodore Levitt

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he
possesses it. -Kenneth Bancroft Clark

The past is the past, but the future is forever. -Adam Quote

Life is like a block of cheese, its only good for a couple of days.
-Adam Quote

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten
the second half of his life.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
-James Fenimore Cooper 

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make,
who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
-Stephen Levine

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you
up depends upon what you're made of.

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some
people on your side that you wish were on the other side.
-Jascha Heifetz 

Life is an open door. It can be closed at any time, so don't complain
about the draft.

Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.
-Phantom F. Harlock

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. -Edna Woolman Chase 

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to
see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
-Abraham Lincoln

It is better to be on the ground wishing you were flying, than vice
versa.

To change and to improve are two different things. -German proverb

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
-Alfred North Whitehead

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the
instrument as one goes on. -Samuel Butler

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
-Bertolt Brecht

Every time I see a good looking girl in a bar I remember Mom's wise
words: "Don't pick that up, you don't know where it's been."

Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and
what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays
you've celebrated. 

Analyzing humour is like analyzing a frog: you can do it, but the frog
tends to die in the process.

Time is what you make of it - it does not exist.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

Reputation is a bubble which a man bursts when he tries to blow it for
himself. -Emma Carleton

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of
thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or
spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up
of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
-George Matthew Adams

May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.
-Irish proverb

Nothing makes your clothes go out of fashion faster than getting a
raise.

Your experience is merely a hodgepodge of statistics, consisting of
those cases that you happen to remember. -Robert Hooke

Heaven never helps the men who will not act. -Sophocles

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a
poor hand well. -H. T. Leslie




A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn
before the rest of the world. -Oscar Wilde

You don't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.

If you don't have a vision, then your reality will always be
determined by other's perceptions. -Melanée Addison

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. 
-Thomas Carlyle

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?'
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
-Charlie Brown

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

God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.
-James M. Barrie

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell
more than he knows. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only
you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other
people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and 
then to make sure it's still there. -Will Rogers

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by
the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the
shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, the
crownless again shall be king. -J.R.R. Tolkien

One thing you will probably remember well is anytime you forgive and
forget. -Franklin P. Jones

An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist
fears that this is true.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-Thomas Alva Edison

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome. -Isaac Asimov 

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of others.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities
without your help.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
-Lin Yutang

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be
realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
-Khalil Gibran

What's on the mind when sober, is on the tongue when not. -Josh Seidel

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle
of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open
and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. -Michael Bridge

He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns. -English Proverb

The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer.
-Slogan of the US Armed Forces

Have a vision not clouded by fear. -Cherokee proverb

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
-William Bridges

The significant problems we face cannot be resolved at the same level
of thinking we were at when we created them. -Albert Einstein

Tact: The ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln

Here's a test to find whether your mission in life is finished. If 
you're alive, it isn't! -Richard Bach

He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived but
lost. -Thomas Fuller 

Some people wish to get what they deserve, while others fear the same.

Life is like a flowing river. When obstacles get in the way, like a
river your only chance to make it is to rise above it and flow on. You
don't want to sit there like a puddle unless you want to get stepped
on. 

No one is so eager to gain new experience as he who doesn't know how
to make use of the old ones. -Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it. -John Ruskin

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

A little bit of what you fancy always does you good. -Saxon

Beauty. So difficult to define, so easy to recognize.

The best protection against logic is ignorance.

Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters!

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be
misquoted, then used against you.

The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The
distinction is yours to draw...

Whenever I'm in a mood to watch the world go by, I just keep to the
posted speed limit.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which
to burn. -David Russell 

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. -Edmund Hillary 

Life has no rehearsals, only performances. 

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story,
and writes another. -J. M. Barrie

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -Lily Tomlin 

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is
committing another mistake. -Confucius 

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-Soren Kierkegaard 

Everything you can imagine is real. -Picasso