It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. -- Tallulah Bankhead "Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools." -- Truman Capote
"Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal."
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." -- William James
"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." -- Saint Augustine
"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."
"It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it."
"Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass."
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy. A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. I
can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a
formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth." Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits. -- Stephen Leacock To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. -- Herbert Henry Asquith Wagner's music is better than it sounds. I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. -- Herman Melville To
will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring
one to that goal, and then old to that action till the goal is reached.
The key is action. Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. This
art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care
and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have. Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you. The
most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common
feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after
another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. Be a fountain, not a drain. To be
a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err,falter, sin,
but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man.
Sin is a gravitation. It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
I think it would be a good idea. Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Normal
is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through
traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the
job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. If you don't risk anything you risk even more. Guilt is a rope that wears thin. You
have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take
advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out
there. You can't sit back and wait. One
ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see
a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable
words. To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. CNN
is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted
Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give
up power. “I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” “We are what our thoughts have made us; So take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” --Swami Vivekananda Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. --Woody Allen The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. --Franklin P. Jones Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success. USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population. --David Letterman If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. --W.C. Fields I couldn't wait for success, so I went on ahead without it. --Jonathan Winters Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. --Mae West Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. --Victor Borge Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. --George Burns If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? --Steven Wright Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. --Arnold H. Glasgow Ah yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. --Robin Williams Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. --Mel Brooks Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. --George Burns Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. --Victor Borge I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. --Lana Turner A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. --Rod Stewart An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. --Agatha Christie See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. --Robin Williams All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. Money can't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy. --Spike Milligan Seven out of ten people suffer from hemmorhoids. Does this mean that the other three enjoy it? --Sal Davino Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't. Never tell your mom her diet's not working. --Joel, 14. According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful. I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. --Les Dawson Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in. --Richard Jeni My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women. --Woody Allen If at first you donft succeed, think how many people youfve made happy. --H. Duane Black Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships. --Sharon Stone Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. --Groucho Marx Mind is the powerful thing in this world. One who has fully conquered his mind has all the powers at his command. Whatever he says becomes words of scriptures. Wherever he goes becomes a place for piligrimage. Your worst difficulties are your best oppurtunities to prove yourself. Nothing goes vain in this world. Even a thought you think, a word you speak, make a definite impact on the whole universe, however infinitesimal it may be. No matter at what stage you are in, there is always a scope for further advancement. If you have taken the first step, you are likely to last step also.Well begun is half done. Wise men learn from fools more than what fools learn from wise men. Unless you are ready to accept the responsibility for the conditions you are in, there is very little which can be done to change your condition. Accepting and recognizing your weaknesses is the first step for removing them Real pleasure is in giving or losing and not in receiving. Money can give you everything except happiness. It has the power to make you miserable in comforts. The more you resist sufferings and miseries in life, the more they will trouble you; the more you accept them, the more easily they will leave you. World is a theatre or a stage where we all are actors playing our designated roles. How well we play our role is only important and not the role itself. In different births, we may be given different types of roles to enable us to grow in various directions. The problems and sufferings in our life are like the tests and exams in the school life to teach us certain lessons and to tell us where we stand. No one can make you happy except you yourself. Sickness is more in mind than in the body. You can't be sick until you feel sick. Nobody can be helped unless he wants to be helped. Desire and will are the prime requirements for the progress. If you can take care of things which are in your hand, things which are not in your hand will be automatically taken care of. A joyous spirit will always find reasons to be happy in any circumstances. A gloomy spirit will always find reasons to be unhappy in any circumstances. World is not meant for our use and not for possession. It is to be used only as a means to acheive our ends. One ounce of practise is better than tons of theory. If you like to win but think you can't, it is almost certain that you won't. Such is the power of thought. The best way to keep yourself happy is to ensure that others are happy. The busiest man has the greatest leisure. Strictness for oneself and liberality for others is real greatness. A man is judged by every small thing he does.Big things are not necessary for the evaluation of a person. Whenever you realise that you know very little, then you are fit for learning. Happiness is neither fulfillment of desires nor supression of desires. It is overcoming the desires. It is doubtful whether you can change the world. But you can certainly change yourself. Never think you are inferior to anybody and never think that you are superior to anybody. All differences are unreal. Appearance of problem and difference and their disappearance after sometimes are like the day following the night. One should tolerate them patiently without getting upset. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Those little nimble musicians of the air, those warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art Don’t think of going to heaven, try to bring it down to earth Don’t hate your enemies....it affects your judgment! The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. Two men look out of the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. People will buy anything that is one to a customer. I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win. Don't count the days, make the days count. If ever you dream about beating me then better wake up and apologize. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat! One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. When you want something, all the Universe conspires in helping You to achieve it. Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being. Don't love the things! you own, lest they own you. Don't measure your life by how many breaths you take, measure it by how many times you get your breath taken away. Don't pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart Don't be angry at a friend who told your secret, for neither could you keep it to yourself Don't attempt to run from the past, it is always behind you. Don't be afraid of opposition; Remember a kite rises against, not with the wind. The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, we did it ourselves. The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the man you want to be. Be
gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for
only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the
right attitude toward others. The shortest and best way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be. The best cure for anger is delay. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. May
your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing
else and let love be free to become what love truly is. Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.. Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk To let a fool kiss you is stupid, to let a kiss fool you is worse The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. Farewell
we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We
must away ere the break of day. Far over wood and mountain tall. When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze. Truth has to fall on fertile soil. Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it Logic can take you from A to B...imagination can take you anywhere How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. If
you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you
and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I
have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two
ideas. My
basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy;
you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because
they're popular; you make them because they're right. The really cultured person reads the newest books in science and the oldest in literature. The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking things. Nothing means nothing, but it isn't really nothing because nothing is something that isn't. For a moment, life could be still, But never in a lifetime, can a moment be still, Live every MOMENT! Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. There may be no 'I' in team, but there's a 'ME' if you look hard enough!! You learn by asking "why" but I learn by asking "why not". If at first you dont succeed then hide every possible trace that you ever tried. You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track. |
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