Quotable Quotes
1. "In the middle of difficult times lies opportunity." --Albert Einstein
2. "Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." --Henry Ford
3. "One thought driven home is better than three left on base." --James Liter
4. "Children are like wet cement, whatever falls on them makes an impression."
--Anonymous
5. "Of all the things you wear, a smile is most important." --Anonymous
6. "Mathematical precision has no place in moral calculations" --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
7. "Never write so that you are understood; instead, write so as not to be misunderstood."
--Shane Retter
8. "Do not be a citizen of your town or one of your city-state, but rather one of the world."
--Socrates
9. "Time here, time present, the future time is contained in time past." --T.S. Eliot
10. "There is no royal road to geometry" --Euclid
11. "Square meals make for round people." --E. Joseph Cossman
12. "For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe." --Larry Eisenberg
13. "Good education is the essential foundation of a strong democracy." --Barbara Bush
14. "Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire." --Bern Williams
15. "The shortest distance between two points is under construction." --Noelie Alito
16. "Useless laws weaken the necessary laws." --Montesquieu
17. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." --Rev. Hesburgh
18. "The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day."
--O.A. Battista
19. "Statisticians are often notorious for purporting mathematical values for every conceivable
facet of life, which the acquiescent public assumes to be the calculated law." --Shane Retter
20. "I'd rather have a million smiles in my heart than a million dollars in my pocket." --Robin Leach
21. "A friend is 'one who is the other I, such as are 220 and 284.'" --Pythagoras
22. "Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known." --Leonardo de Vinci
23. "Tragedy never opens the door for convenience." --Shane Retter
24. "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." --Oprah Winfrey
25. "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." --Sir
Isaac Newton
26. "I dream what to paint, and then I paint my dream." --Vincent Van Gogh
27. "Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them." --Joseph Joubert
28. "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."
--Ecclesiastes 3:1
29. "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." --Malcolm S. Forbes
30. "Happiness is a warm puppy." --Charles M. Schulz
31. "If you want to change the world, then start by changing your mind." --Shane Retter
32. "I wouldn't belong to any club that would have me as a member." --Groucho Marx
33. "A half truth is a whole lie." --Yiddish Proverb
34. "One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science measured against reality, is primitive
and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have." --Albert Einstein
35. "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here." --sign above Euclid's Academy
36. "Someone who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learned the first
proposition, asked Euclid, "But what shall I get by learning these things?" Whereupon Euclid
called his slave and said, "Give him three-pence since he must make gain out of what he
learns." --Stobaeus
37. "The hand is the first to notice that the mind is out of touch." --Shane Retter
38. "Never cut what you can untie." --Joseph Joubert
39. "Be like a postage stamp -- stick to one thing until you get there." --Margaret Carty
40. "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
---Marie Curie
41. "A moral statement is worth a thousand points of view." --Shane Retter
42. "Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others." --William
Allen White
43. "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." --Thomas Jefferson
44. "It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong." --Warren Buffett
45. "Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated." --Robert C. Savage
46. "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble." --Rudyard Kipling
47. "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be
less because of that missing drop." --Mother Teresa
48. "Never assume the obvious is true." --William Safire
49. "When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for
themselves." --George Pataki
50. "I can't help but wonder....whenever someone who did nothing gets something, then who had to
do something and get nothing for it in return?" --Shane Retter
51. "A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." --Phyllis Diller
52. "As a new age dawns and we stand in the shadows of giants, we must take it upon ourselves to
boldly step out into the light if we are to advance our position as a civilization." --Shane Retter
53. "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
--Albert Einstein
54. "The more ways a subject is presented, the more that subject is learned and remembered."
--William Glasser
55. "The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win" --Bobby Knight
56. "People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it." --John
Steinbeck
57. "Use soft words and hard arguments." --English Proverb
58. "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it." --Kurt Lewin
59. "When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target." --George Fisher
60. "A person all wrapped up in himself generally makes a pretty small package." --E. Joseph
Cossman
61. "A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery."
--Morris Bender
62. "It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you." --Dick Cheney
63. "The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more." --Jonas Salk, M.D.
64. "The only stupid question is asking yourself whether or not you should ask the question."
--Shane Retter
65. "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains." --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
66. "Never look in the past with great aspirations, unless you plan on living there. Instead, use the
past for reflection and never for direction." --Shane Retter
67. "The prescription for success is a simple one, it's just that we don't ever like to take our
medicine." --Shane Retter
68. "There are many things that catch your eye in life, but only a few things that catch your heart and
those are the things worth pursuing." --Shane Retter
69. "The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order
and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the
language of mathematics." --Johannes Kepler
70. "The better part of one's life consists of their friendships." --Abraham Lincoln
71. "Life's not so much about making the right choices as it is about making the choice right."
--Teresa Eineman
72. "Stand up for what is right, even if you are standing alone." --Ephesians 6:10
73. "Mankind's struggle to make sense of his world is never complete. It is only when he realizes that
often many of the tragedies of life happen for reasons that he is not meant to understand at
this time that he has come to terms with the human experience." --Shane Retter
74. "If you always do what you always did, then you will always get what you always got."
--Anonymous
75. "If you can't get out of it, then get into it." --Anonymous
76. "Like many other ideas that arose from the simple seeds of thought that Archimedes planted
centuries ago, a great tree has grown which bears the fruits of both mathematical application
and beauty. As mathematicians, we must not only harvest and consume these fruits, but we
must replant these seeds so that others may share from this great tree of knowledge."
--Shane Retter
77. "A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded that he cannot do, never does all he can."
--John Stuart Mill
78. "Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth." --Archimedes
79. "If you encounter a setback, don't take a step back, but prepare for a come back." --O.J. Simpson
80. "The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."
--H.T. Leslie
81. "Too many people expect wonders from a democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just
having it." --Walter Winchell
82. "A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." --Len Wein
83. "I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."
--Harold S. Kushner
84. "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time,
but you can't fool all of the people all the time. " --Abraham Lincoln
85. "He who does the job the best gets to do the job for all the rest." --James (Jim) Covert
86. "Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. Yesterday is History,
Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a Gift, that is why we call it "The Present". --Anonymous
87. "Life is not measured by the number of breaths that we take but by the moments that take our
breath away!" --Anonymous
88. "Though the source may be obscure, the stream flows on." --Poincare'
89. "If you puff yourself up, then you will get the wind knocked out of you. Be content to be
yourself." --Anonymous
90. "Whenever you hold someone down, you are forced to stay down with him." --Anonymous
91. "A scary journey feels much better than a meaningless job and an empty life." --from the book
Leading with Soul
92. "When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear." --Buddhist saying
93. "Be yourself, an original is always worth more than a copy!" --Anonymous
94. "Great students listen to teachers even when the teacher isn't talking. Great teachers never
cease being great students." --Shane Retter
95. "When it rains on your parade, learn to dance in the rain." --Tabitha White
96. "You cannot be outstanding, unless you are willing to stand out." --Anonymous
97. "Good and great are rarely the same person." ---Winston Churchill
98. "If you believe that you are already defeated before you try, then you don't have to ask for a
second opinion." --Shane Retter
99. "Thank goodness all of us think differently or else we would have nothing to learn from each
other." --Shane Retter
100. "Two wrongs never made a right, two Wrights made an airplane, and three rights make a left."
--Anonymous
101. "We shall at least be sensible of our own ignorance, if we do not augment our knowledge."
--D. Hume
102. "Cogito Ergo Sum! (I think, therefore I am!)" --Rene' Descartes
103. "Live by the calendar and not the stopwatch." --Anonymous
104. "In all cases of discovery, those things which are taken over from others who have earlier
laboured upon them make gradual progress later at the hands of those who have taken them
over, whereas what is discovered at the very beginning customarily makes but little advance
at first--and yet it is far more useful than the later increase which depends upon it." --Aristotle
105. "Rhetoric should not excite the passions by fine language but rather should persuade the
reason by fine argument." --Aristotle in the Gryllus
106. "Knowledge must be systematic and unified. Its structure is given by logic, and its unity rest at
bottom on ontology." --Plato's Academy
107. Observer, "Welcome to the real world!"......Scientist or Poet, "No thanks, I'm just visiting."
--Shane Retter
108. "A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project." --Abigail Van Buren
(Universal Press Syndicate)
109. "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from
failure." --Gen. Colin L. Powell
110. "When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge." --Tuli Kupferberg
111. "The love of liberty is the love of others. The love of power is the love of ourselves."
--William Hazlitt
112. "I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth." --Elie Wiesel
113. "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
--Edith Wharton
114. "Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken." --Orson Rega
Card
115. "Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" --Frank Scully
116. "I am ignorant of everything but my own ignorance." --Socrates
117. "Pressure is what turns coal into diamonds. How much you shine depends on what pressures
you survive." --Anonymous
118. "Don't sell out now, prices may go up! (morals, ethics, etc.)" --Shane Retter
119. "Ability will never catch up with the demand for it." --Malcolm S. Forbes
120. "A stumble may prevent a fall." --English Proverb
121. "To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have." --Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
122. "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." --Publilius Syrus
123. "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." --Chinese Proverb
124. "Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them." --Norman Vincent Peale
125. "We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice." --Jack Herbert
126. "We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead." --Thomas Jefferson
127. "If you want a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." --Albert Einstein
128. "There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle and the other is as
though everything is a miracle." --Albert Einstein
129. "America celebrates the most freedoms any country has ever attained throughout the course of
its history and we have paid the price fro those freedoms time and time again. Even though
the cost of those freedoms seems high at times, it's still inexpensive compared to the price of
living without them." --Shane Retter
130. "Better to let others think you the fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
--Mark Twain
131. "Before I speak, I have something important to say." --Grouch Marx
132. "Are you counting the minutes or making the minutes count? Which will you do when you are
20? 40? 60? 80?" --Shane Retter
133. "The man who has no imagination has no wings." --Muhammed Ali
134. "If you lose, don't lose the lesson." --Chinese Proverb
135. "Life is like an echo, what you send out is exactly what you get back." --Joe Clark
136. "The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched--they must be felt with
the heart." --Helen Keller
137. "If you are green then you are growing. If you are ripe, then you are rotting." --Anonymous
138. "He who does the job the best, gets to do the job for all the rest." --James Covert
139. "Silly people and silly faces are often seen in public places." --Anonymous
140. "Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it." --John Steinbeck
141. "We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying
to reverse that mistake of nature." --Dale E. Turner
142. "It pays to know the enemy--not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to
turn him into a friend." --Margaret Thatcher
143. "The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement." --George Will
144. "Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat."
--Caroline Schoeder
145. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." --H. Jackson Brown
146. "Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know
they were impossible." --Doug Larson
147. "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is
not obliged to do." --Mark Twain
148. "Nothing makes a person more worthless than the very thought that he/she is
worthless." --Shane Retter
149. "How can it be that mathematics, a product of human thought, independent of
experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?" --Albert Einstein
150. "It is always best to master the mechanics, before mastering the machine." --Shane
Retter
151. "Vanity of the words is in vain of the message." --Shane Retter
152. "If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in
the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace
in the world."
--Chinese Proverb
153. "Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." --Ralph Waldo
Emerson
154. "Good parents give their children roots and wings. Roots to know where home is,
wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them." --Jonas Salk
155. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
--Henry Ford
156. "Success in life is not tied to money; after all, Henry Ford never owned a Cadillac!"
--Anonymous
157. "Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks." --Dottie
Walters
158. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens
to him." --Aldous Huxley
159. "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
--Vernon Saunders Law
160. "Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools speak because they have
to say something." --Plato
161. "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in
any direction you choose." --Dr. Seuss
162. "When the POWER OF LOVE replaces the LOVE OF POWER in the world, then world peace
will prevail." --Jimi Hendrix
163. "The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one
who walks alone, is likely to find himself (herself) in places no one has ever been."
---Albert Einstein
164. "It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent
people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of
thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization
advances by extending the number of important operations which we perform
without thinking about them." ---Alfred North Whitehead
165. "Now, thanks to my years at the university, I can read the writing on the wall. Yet
they appear to be a forgery." --Anonymous
166. "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth
doing." ---Theodore Roosevelt
167. "Act always toward the maxim (rule) by which at the same time you can will it to be
a universal law." ---Immanual Kant (Categorical Imperative)
168. "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." ---Chinese
Proverb
169. "The constitution of the universe, I believe may be set in first place among all
natural things that can be known, for coming before all others in grandeur
by reason of its universal content it must also stand above them all nobility
as their rule and standard." ---Sir Isaac Newton or Galileo Galilei
170. "We are all teachers, the only problem is that only a few of us are students."
---Shane Retter
171. "A committee is a group that keeps minutes but loses hours." ---Unknown
172. "Reflections are but tarnished aspirations." ---Computer Expression
173. "I am like a child on the seashore picking up problems while the ocean of truth
lies unknown before me." ---Sir Isaac Newton
174. "He who throws dirt, loses ground." ---Chris Driscoll
175. "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." ---Steven Wright
176. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
---Aristotle
177. "Always take a job that is too big for you." ---Harry Emerson Fosdick
178. "Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence."
---Margaret Halsey
179. "He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning." ---Danish Proverb
180. "You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him."
---Robert C. Savage
181. "Adults are obsolete children." ---Dr. Seuss
182. "Say what you have to say, not what you ought." ---Henry David Thoreau
183. "Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom." ---Phyllis
Theroux
184. "There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth."
---Leo Tolstoy
185. "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." ---Leo Tolstoy
186. "Doubt has killed more dreams than failure ever will." ---Parker Mantell
187. "Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is
the only cash you have -- so spend it wisely." ---Kay Lyons
188. "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another
step forward." ---Thomas Alva Edison
189. "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
190. "With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be
compassionate , and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation
of integrity." ---Keshaven Nair
191. "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
---Anonymous
192. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
---Eleanor Roosevelt
193. "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies you the right
to grow." ---Alice Walker
194. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress." ---Fredrick Douglass
195. "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty." ---Winston Churchill
196. "The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a
happier life for ourselves." ---Helen Keller
197. "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." ---Thomas Jefferson
198. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
---Henry David Thoreau
199. "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have
within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars
to change the world." ----Harriet Tubman
200. "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were
the big things." ---Robert Brault
201. "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." ---A. J. Muste
202. "Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some
respect, whether he chooses to be so or not." ---Nathaniel Hawthorne
203. "Talent is only a starting point." ---Irving Berlin
204. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless." ---Mother Teresa
205. "There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the
spacing of the spheres."---Pythagoras
206. "Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."
---R. Tagore
207. "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve
change amid order." ---Alfred North Whitehead
208. "Thank goodness all of us think differently or else we would have nothing
to learn from each other." ---Shane Retter
209. "If everyone is thinking the same, then we are not thinking."
---Douglass MacArthur
210. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." --Muhatma Gandi
211. "When life hands you more than you can stand, try kneeling."
---Anonymous
212. "There's one way to find out if a man is honest --- ask him. If he says
'yes' you know he is a crook." ---Groucho Marx
213. "The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic,
and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does."
---Harpo Marx (Adolph or Arthur Marx)
214. "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (When All Else Fails, Play Dead)
---Red Green (Rick Green)
215. "When we speak or act, we often model the times. When we teach, we transcend
the ages." ---Shane Retter
216. "No one argues with me when I am at the back of the line, paying the
bill." ---James "Jim" E. Covert
217. "What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us; what we have done for
others and the world, remains and is immortal." ---Albert Pike
218. "We forget the things we should remember....and remember the things we should
forget." ---Anonymous
219. "To educate a person in the mind, but not in morals is to educate a menace to
society." ---Theodore Roosevelt
220. "To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, love.
To a customer, service. To all men, charity. To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect." ---Anonymous
221. "People who are good at coming up with excuses are seldom good for anything
else." ---Benjamin Franklin
222. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." ---Abraham Lincoln
223. "Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
---Benjamin Franklin
224. "Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve
neither and lose both." ---Benjamin Franklin
225. "Don't let the sum worth of your life to be assessed with a dollar sign." ---Shane Retter
226. "Aim to live so that you don't look back, at the end of your life or after some great
catastrophe, and think, 'How happy I was then, if only I'd realized it.'"
---Gretchen Rubin
227. "The greatest teachers that I have ever had are: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and
How." ---Shane Retter
228. "The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most
for what they want at the moment." ---Napoleon Bonaparte
229. "Victory is not winning every battle......but rising every time you fall." ---Napoleon
Bonaparte
230. "Envy is a declaration of inferiority." ---Napoleon Bonaparte
231. "Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool." ---Napoleon
Bonaparte
232. "Courage isn't having the strength to go on ----- it is going on when you don't have
the strength." ---Napoleon Bonaparte
233. "Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly."
---Napoleon Bonaparte
234. "Show me a family of readers and I will show you the people who move the world."
---Napoleon Bonaparte
235. "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." ---Napoleon Bonaparte
236. "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." ---Napoleon Bonaparte
237. "To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when
he was twenty." ---Napoleon Bonaparte
238. "Not all those who wander are lost." ---J.R.R. Tolkien
239. "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." --- Martin Luther King Jr.
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