Quotes

There are only 10 types of people who understand binary. Those that do, and those that don't.

-- Gary Tutt

 

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

-- Greek Proverb

 

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten , but they may start a winning game.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

-- Samuel Butler

 

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

-- Voltaire

 

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

-- John Lubbock

 

Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

-- Thomas Blount

 

Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.

-- Vince Lombardi

 

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
-- Plato

 

You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln

 

He that never changes his opinion, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow that he is today.

-- Tyron Edwards

 

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes when they do.
-- Malcolm Forbes

 

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

-- Thomas Carlyle

 

What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of a latent idiocy.

-- Marie Corelli

 

Arguing with a fool proves there are two.

-- Doris M. Smith

 

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains the property of the few.

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but 
keeps from you all his joys. 
-- Jewish Proverb

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your
hand-break on.
-- Maxwell Maltz

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be
content with what you have.
-- Doris Mortman

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act
in a manner consistent with our self-image.
-- Brian Tracy

"Teenaged boys already know everything. When a boy reaches
13 years of age, the Knowledge Fairy comes around and
inserts into his brain all the information in the entire
universe. From that point on, he no longer needs any
parental guidance. All he needs is parental money."
-- Dave Barry

The problem with the designated driver program, it's 
not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into 
doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, 
drop them off at the wrong house.
-- Jeff Bridges

"People who drink to drown their sorrow should 
be told that sorrow knows how to swim." 
-- Ann Landers

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be
fired with enthusiasm.
-- Vince Lombardi

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes
you except yourself.
-- Rita Mae Brown

"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than
dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New
York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done
was muck about in the water having a good time. But
conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were
far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same
reason."
-- Douglas Adams

Formal education will make you a living; self-education 
will make you a fortune.
-- Jim Rohn

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, 
but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make 
sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
-- George Lorimer

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that 
makes us rich.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in 
cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them. 
-- R. Venning

"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be silent
if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
-- Unknown

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat,
the luckier you get.
-- Ray Kroc

Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is
ask a failure. History may be written by academics but
it's rarely created by them.
-- Source Unknown

"The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter 
how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall." 
-- Mitch Hedberg 

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back 
in the same box." 
-- Italian Proverb

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live." 
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd 
be mad at me for saying that." 
-- Mitch Hedberg 

Choice, not chance, determines destiny. 
-- Source Unknown

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music
which he hears, however measured or far away.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Better to ask twice than to lose your way once. 
-- Danish Proverb

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait 
very, very long time. 
-- Chinese Proverb 

Virginity like bubble, one prick all gone. 
-- Chinese Proverb 

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and 
white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million 
shades of gray.
-- Laura Schlessinger 

The optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. The 
pessimist fears it is true.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer 

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. 
I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive. 
-- Virginia Wade

The greatest waste in the world is the difference between 
what we are and what we could become. 
-- Ben Herbster 

There is no investment you can make which will pay you 
so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer 
through your establishment. 
-- Orison Swett Marden

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck 
saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message 
when working with people. 
-- Mary Kay

To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take 
hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen 
them beyond our knowledge. 
-- Phillips Brooks

When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated 
to annoy; say something nice to someone else and watch the 
world light up with joy. 
-- Source Unknown

You pile up enough tomorrows, 
and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays. 
-- Professor Harrold Hill (The Music Man) 

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. 
-- Unknown

Children are poor men's riches. 
-- English Proverb

"About the time we can make ends meet, somebody 
moves the ends." 
-- Herbert Hoover 

The darkest hour of any man's life is when he 
sits down to plan how to get money without 
earning it. 
-- Horace Greeley 

If you make money your god, it will plague you 
like the devil. 
-- Henry Fielding 

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. 
The wrong comes when riches possess men. 
-- Billy Graham

"If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just 
intense negotiations every 28 days."
-- Robin Williams

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys 
several times the same good things for the first time. 
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he 
is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. 
-- George Bernard Shaw 

He who has not a good memory should never take upon 
himself the trade of lying. 
-- Michel De Montaigne 

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, 
and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. 
-- William Shenstone

There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.
-- Benjamin Franklin

"It's strange, isn't it? You stand in the middle of a
library and go 'Aaaaaaargghhhh!' and everyone just stares at
you. But you do the same thing on an airplane, and everyone
joins in."
- Unknown

"For birth control, I rely on my personality."
- Milt Abel

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great 
ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. 
--François de la Rochefoucauld

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before 
he is out of mind. 
--Thomas à Kempis

Most people would learn from their mistakes 
if they weren't so busy denying they made them. 
-- Unknown

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more 
honorable but more useful than a life spent doing 
nothing. 
-- George Bernard Shaw 

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, 
which is but saying in other words that he is wiser 
today than he was yesterday. 
-- Alexander Pope 

If the human race profits from its mistakes, 
we have one glorious future ahead of us. 
-- Unknown

"For a man, getting dressed up is anything that requires
underwear and socks. Whereas a woman gets her hair 
done, puts on makeup, tummy toner, a short skirt, and high 
heels, then says she wants to "find a man who loves me 
for me."
-- Betty Walker

"Fear is being stuck in heavy traffic when you 
just had two cups of coffee and a bran muffin."
-- John Mendoza

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent,
the more of it remains.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer
somebody else up.
-- Mark Twain

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes
hardest to bear are those which never happen.
-- James Russell Lowell

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all we need to make us
really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
-- Charles Kingsley

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.
We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle
the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
-- Samuel Ullman

Everything seems different, but nothing ever changes.
-- K

Every morning I smile - get it over and done with.
-- Jerry Maguire

"Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity
is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage
his self-respect"
-- Thomas S. Monson

"Integrity is what we do, what we say,
and what we say we do."
-- Don Galer

"A person is not given integrity. It results from the
relentless pursuit of honesty at all times."
-- Unknown

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in
the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper."
-- Jerry Seinfeld:

"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a
woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and
stopped."
-- Sam Levenson

Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just stood there.
-- Unknown

There has never yet been a man in our history
who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Quarrels wouldn't last as long, if the fault was only on one side.
-- K

There is no Freedom without Sacrifice.
-- Amitabh Ghuwalewala