Quotes For You

Photo: kqduane.com Your very silence shows you agree. - Euripides The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. - George Bernard Shaw Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. - Benjamin Franklin The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. - Walt Whitman Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. - Henry David Thoreau Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Popularity? It is glory's small change. - Victor Hugo Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. - William Shakespeare He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. - Chuang-tzu Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. - Benjamin Haydon

Frank Zappa (Photo: Newsweek) In the fight between you and the world, back the world. - Frank Zappa What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. - Havelock Ellis All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912 Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. - Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010 Never fight an inanimate object. - P. J. O'Rourke Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. - Thomas Fuller Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ...

George Herbert. Photo: Wikipedia Storms make oaks take deeper root. - George Herbert There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. - Cicero If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - The Dalai Lama Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. - H. G. Wells Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. - Seneca The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. - Abraham Lincoln The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. - Don Marquis Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. - Plato

George Burns. Photo: Television Academy Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. - Cicero Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - Mark Twain The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. - Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me n...

Frank Dane. Photo: Mediacourant Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. - Frank Dane To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. - Voltaire There are more fools in the world than there are people. - Heinrich Heine Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. - Isaac Newton The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. - Frank Tyger Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie Be still when you h...

Albert Einstein. Photo: bbc.com Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. - Dale Carnegie People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. - W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", 1915 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. - Cecil B. DeMille Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. - Emily Dickinson You always pass failure on the way to success. - Mickey Rooney ...

Liberace. Photo: The Telegraph Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. - Liberace The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. - Alan Alda Of those who say nothing, few are silent. - Thomas Neill Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. - Herman Melville Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. - Albert Einstein Experience teaches only the teachable. - Aldous Huxley If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. - Lyndon B. Johnson Two paradoxes ...

Photo: Biography.com Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. - Ray Bradbury Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. - Archimedes He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. - Sir Walter Scott Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. - Norman Vincent Peale All things must change to something new, to something strange. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best mirror is an old friend. - George Herbert