Quotes For You

  Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act III, sc. 1 Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - Seneca Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - John Churton Collins Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. - William Arthur Ward Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. - Larry Gelbart Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge READ MORE

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go. - Lillian Carter What you risk reveals what you value. - Jeanette Winterson Life is a risk. - Diane Von Furstenberg There is no point in doing more efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter Drucker If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. - Seneca Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. - John Locke If small and nimble are qualities at one extreme of a continuum that is bookended at the other side by heavy and dominant, the former traits are ideally suited for points of origin and times of high volatility. These are periods of constant change, multiple openings, and perpetually shifting opportunity. The latter set of qualities, conversely, will fare best in times of maturity, when making sharp turns is no longer part of the navigation. - Dan Ramsden, CEO and Venture capitalist Just trust yourse...

  There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. - Edgard Varese You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. - Salvador Dali In a mad world only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein (attributed) There is no great genius without some touch of madness. - Seneca If you don't risk anything you risk even more. - Erica Jong Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy READ MORE

  Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. - Walt Whitman Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. - J. S. Bryan Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - Suzanne Necker Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. - Publilius Syrus Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Sallust Fortune favours the bold. – Virgil Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets preparation. – Seneca Fortune is like glass — the brighter it shines, the more easily it is broken. – Publilius Syrus READ MORE  

  Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. - Henry David Thoreau Take what you can use and let the rest go by. - Ken Kesey The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14 READ MORE

  Theodore Roosevelt When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. --Theodore Roosevelt Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. --Thomas Jefferson Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. --Abraham Lincoln If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. --Agatha Christie I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. --Johnny Carson Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. --Charles Dickens It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. --Jerry Seinfeld The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. --Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a ste...

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

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

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. - Publilius Syrus, Maxims Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - Seneca, Epistles In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - John Churton Collins Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success. - Michael Jordan Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' - Ronald Reagan Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All yo...