Quotes of the Week
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
-- George Carlin
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
-- H. L. Mencken
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
-- Paul Valery, 1895
Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
-- Jay Leno
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
-- William Gibson
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.
-- Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
-- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
-- Vince Lombardi
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
-- Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
-- Henry James
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
-- Norman Mailer, Armies Of The Night
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
-- Thomas Berger
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
-- William Safire
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
-- Victor Borge
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
-- Patrick Young
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Motivational Quotes of the Week
Motivational Quotes of the Week
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
-- George Santayana
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, June 2003
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-- Dan Zadra
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
-- Ruth Benedict
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
-- Margaret Fuller
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
-- C. S. Lewis, 'The Pilgrim's Regress'
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi, quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.
-- Robert E. Lee, Statement at the Battle of Fredericksburg (13th December 1862)
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.
-- Bagdikian's Observation
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
-- Samuel Johnson, from Boswell's Life of Johnson
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
-- Michael McClary
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
-- John D. Rockefeller
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.
-- Vicomte de Chateaubriand
Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?
-- John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
-- Hannah Green
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
-- Earl Warren
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
-- Julius Rosenwald
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
-- Peter Minard
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
-- Aesop
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
-- Miles Davis
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
-- William H. Sheldon
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
-- Henry S. Haskins
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
-- Matthew Arnold, 'God and the Bible,' 1875
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
-- Minna Thomas Antrim
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
-- Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
-- Cindy Gardner
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
-- Stephen King, "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
-- George Santayana
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, June 2003
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-- Dan Zadra
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
-- Ruth Benedict
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
-- Margaret Fuller
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
-- C. S. Lewis, 'The Pilgrim's Regress'
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi, quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.
-- Robert E. Lee, Statement at the Battle of Fredericksburg (13th December 1862)
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.
-- Bagdikian's Observation
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
-- Samuel Johnson, from Boswell's Life of Johnson
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
-- Michael McClary
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
-- John D. Rockefeller
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.
-- Vicomte de Chateaubriand
Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?
-- John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
-- Hannah Green
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
-- Earl Warren
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
-- Julius Rosenwald
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
-- Peter Minard
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
-- Aesop
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
-- Miles Davis
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
-- William H. Sheldon
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
-- Henry S. Haskins
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
-- Matthew Arnold, 'God and the Bible,' 1875
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
-- Minna Thomas Antrim
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
-- Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
-- Cindy Gardner
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
-- Stephen King, "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988
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