Quotes For You

  I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx Our thoughts are free. - Cicero How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. - Henry David Thoreau Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. - John Witherspoon Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Sir Francis Bacon Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Sir Richard Steele I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles De Gaulle Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. - Will Rogers READ MORE

  Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few. - Moralia By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. - Mark Twain Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. -Samuel Johnson Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. - William Arthur Ward Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. - Og Mandino Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full ...

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. - Franklin P. Jones This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers, New York Times, Apr. 29, 1930 Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. - Mark Twain The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. - Plutarch Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. - John Randolph We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John F. Kennedy The sinews of war are infinite money. - Cicero When you have given nothing, ask for nothing. - Albanian Proverb Examine what is said, not him who speaks. - Arab Proverb BACA LAGI  

  Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. - Alexandre Dumas I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain Actions lie louder than words. - Carolyn Wells Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoover Strong reasons make strong actions. - William Shakespeare Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. - Jean Paul Richter No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. - Lily Tomlin Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. - Plutarch You must not come lightly to the blank page. - Stephen King Reason should direct and appetite obey. - Cicero

  We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. - Noel Coward Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts" Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. - Cicero Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. - Thomas Paine Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell READ MORE

  Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. - Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. - John F. Kennedy Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915 You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalynn Carter Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. - Cicero If you cannot convince them...

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

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

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...

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...

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.  - Oscar Wilde  As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. -  Leonardo da Vinci  Man is what he believes.  - Anton Chekhov  True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.  - William Penn   A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.  - G. K. Chesterton  A room without books is like a body without a soul.  - Cicero  I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.   - Groucho Marx  Woe be to him that reads but one book.  - George Herbert  Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.  - Evan Esar Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.  - Ot...

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.  - Cicero  

While there's life, there's hope. - Cicero, Ad Atticum 

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. - Marcus Tullius Cicero,106-43 B.C .