Quotes For You

Willa Cather. Photo: Britannica.com No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. - Willa Cather Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. - John Maynard Keynes Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. - Walt Whitman Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. - G. K. Chesterton If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. - Mother Teresa You never find yourself until you face the truth. - Pearl Bailey Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. - Cicero The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner

Goethe. Photo: Wikipedia We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. -  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. - Grenville Kleiser The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it. - Wilfred A. Peterson Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing. - Phil Jackson Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. - George Washington Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. - G. K. Chesterton The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. -...

Flip Wilson. Photo: yourblackworld.net The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. -  Flip Wilson Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished. - Leslie Nielsen Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. - Rita Mae Brown Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. - Mike Ditka The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. - Arthur Ashe It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. - Betty Friedan

Mark Twain. Photo: American Heritage Trees Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. - Mark Twain I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. - John F. Kennedy The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? - Cicero Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. - Gore Vidal Never give advice unless asked. - German Proverb Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld In love, one and one are one. - Jean-Paul Sartre Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. - Samuel Johnson

John Wayne. Photo: personalliberty.com Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much. - John Wayne, Advice on acting Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - Emily Dickinson The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. - Franklin P. Jones Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. - Bob Marley Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also. - Seneca One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. - George Eliot Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. - Kahlil Gibran Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 4 Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote

Photo: Facts About Universal Medicine Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Spanish Proverb The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. - Bertrand Russell Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. - Bob Hope

Ernest Hemingway. Photo: Chicago Tribune That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929 We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678) This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form. - Francis Ford Coppola There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein Art is born of the o...