V

"Life doesn't come with erasers. You can't make something that has happened, not happen. "


The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
-Ezra Pound, poet (1885-1972)



Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
-George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)


God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)


When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
-Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)


Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
-George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)


There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher


He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his Reason is weak.
-Michel De Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
-William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994)


Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
-Samuel Johnson


One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
-Malayan Proverb


It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
-Cato The Elder, statesman and writer (234-149 BCE)


Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
-Socrates,philosopher (469?-399 BCE)


If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
-Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)


Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
-John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)


We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)


Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
-Phillips Brooks, bishop and orator (1835-1893)


Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
-Mahatma Gandhi(1869-1948)


Intellectuals solve problems: geniuses prevent them.
-Albert Einstein,physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)


" A man thinks he amounts to a lot but to a mosquito a man is merely something to eat"
- Don Marquis


"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."
- Orison Swett Marden –


The things we remember best are those best forgotten.
- Baltasar Gracian, Spanish priest and writer


The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
-Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)


Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
-David Dunham


>
>1. Thou shall not worry,
> for worry is the most unproductive of all human activities.

>2. Thou shall not be fearful,
> for most of the things we fear never come to pass.

>3. Thou shall not cross bridges before you come to them,
> for no one yet has succeeded in accomplishing this.

>
>4. Thou shall face each problem as it comes.
> You can only handle one at a time anyway.

>5. Thou shall not take problems to bed with you,
> for they make very poor bedfellows.

>6. Thou shall not borrow other people's problems.
> They can better care for them than you can.

>7. Thou shall not try to relive yesterday for good or ill,
> it is forever gone. Concentrate on what is happening
> in your life and be happy now!

>8. Thou shall be a good listener,
> for only when you listen do you hear ideas different from
> your own. It is hard to learn something new when you are
> talking, and some people do know more than you do.

>9. Thou shall not become "bogged down" by frustration,
> for 90% of it is rooted in self-pity and will only
> interfere with positive action.

>10. Thou shall count thy blessings,
> never overlooking the small ones,
> for a lot of small blessings add up to a big one
>
>~By Ruth Bourdon~


The only way around is through.
- Frost, Robert - 1875-1963, American Poet

Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.
- Ibsen, Henrik - 1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist


Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
- Cooley, Mason


The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - 1772-1834, British Poet


I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
- Borrow, George - 1803-1881, British Author


As regards intellectual work, it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realms of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual working in solitude.
-Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939)


"UR brain is divided into 2 parts-Left & Right, of the left nothing is right, of the right nothing is left "
- ???


"Nothing is required, and nothing will avail, except a little, a very little clear thinking."
- John Maynard Keynes -

In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.
-Imbesi's Law of Conservation of Filth


With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.
- Yiddish Proverb


If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
-Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)


Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by
their fruits.
-Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204)


The tears of strangers are only water.
-Russian proverb



To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - 1803-1882, American Poet


Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
- Bisset, Jacqueline - 1946-, American Screen Actor



Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
- Brothers, Dr. Joyce - 1927-, American Psychologist



The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
- Buddha - 568-488 BC



Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may diet.
- Kurnitz, Harry


To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare.
-Kenko Yoshida, essayist (1283-1352)



If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
-Lord Salisbury, British prime minister(1830-1903)


"It may be a mistake to mix old and new wines, but old and new wisdom mix admirably"
- Bertolt Brecht


A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
-Robertson Davies, writer (1913-1995)


"We must be the change we want to see in the world".
- Mahatma Gandhi

There is a saying: “ The best thing you can give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent tolerance; to a friend your heart; to your child a good example; and to yourself respect “


He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
-Confucius (c. 551-479? BC)


Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes, writer (1547-1616)



Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
-Chuang-Tzu, philosopher (4th c. BCE)


The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
-Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)


Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
-Alfred Hitchcock, film-maker (1899-1980)


I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
-George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)


The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of thegreatest virtues.
-Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician(1596-1650)


For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been."
-John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892)


To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
-Henry DavidThoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)


Be yourself and do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; In the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
-Max Ehrmann, writer and lawyer (1872-1945)


"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
- Dorothy Nervil –


The road to wisdom? Well it plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less.
-Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)


Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?
M. Straczynski


The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
-William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)


Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
-Johann Gottfried Von Herder, critic and poet (1744-1803)


Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
-Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France(1769-1821)


There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
-Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)


The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)


To confront a person with his own shadow is to show him his own light.
-Carl G. Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961)


Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)


It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
-HenryDavid Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)



"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby


When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
-Chinese proverb


When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
-Louis Pasteur, chemist and bacteriologist (1822-1895)


I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)


Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
-Samuel Johnson,lexicographer (1709-1784)



"Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures."
- H. Jackson Browne, Jr. –


"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good."
- Calvin Coolidge –


"The only thing that will stop you from fufilling your dreams is you."
- Tom Bradley -


"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."
- Georges Louis Leclerc -


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


"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much."
- Joan Collins –


"Never let dreams die, for if you do, life will only be a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
- Langston Hughes –