Quotes represent nuggets of wisdom, and so they are worth keeping around. I thought I would put up a few on my web page.

• The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it -- Bertrand Russel
• If I am not for myself, who is for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? -- Rabbi Hillel, Talmud
• Do unto others as you would have others do unto you -- Rabbi Hillel, Talmud
• Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error -- Linus Pauling
• If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him -- Voltaire
• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength -- George Orwell
• Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past -- George Orwell
• Life is a sexually transmitted disease -- London Underground
• It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world -- Simone de Beauvoir
• God always is, nor has He been and is not, nor is but has not been, but as He never will not be; so He never was not -- Saint Augustine
• The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat -- Lily Tomlin
• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions -- Albert Einstein
• If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all -- Noam Chomsky
• We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity -- Martin Luther King
• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs -- Karl Marx
• The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries -- Winston Churchill
• Laws do not persuade just because they threaten -- Seneca, 65 AD
• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult -- Seneca
• You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again -- Nobel Prize-winning author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others -- George Orwell (Eric Blair), Animal Farm, 1945
• The man who dies ... rich dies disgraced -- Andrew Carnegie, Wealth, from the North American Review, June 1889
• Great men can't be ruled -- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943
• What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a God! -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II
• ... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee -- John Donne
• Computer Science is not about computers, any more than astronomy is about telescopes -- Edgar W. Dijkstra
• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
  I took the one less travled by,
  And that has made all the difference.
  -- Robert Frost
• When you come to a fork in the road, take it -- Yogi (Lawrence Peter) Berra
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man -- George Bernard Shaw
• Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world... are the ones who do -- Apple
• I think therefore I am -- Rene Descartes
• We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented. It's as simple as that -- The Truman Show
• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle -- Albert Einstein

• I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a degree -- The Wizard of Oz
• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do -- Burrhus Frederic Skinner
• Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought -- Albert von Scent-Gyorgi
• To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle -- George Orwell
• Iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind -- Leonardo da Vinci
• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo
• Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects -- Will Rogers
• Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal. -- Socrates
• In the information age, it is not what you know, but what you can find; genius will be measured by the speed at which you can find things -- Anonymous
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
• The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them -- Albert Einstein
• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former -- Albert Einstein
• Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory -- Leonardo Da Vinci
• We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time -- T.S. Eliot
• Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius -- Benjamin Disraeli
• Genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them -- Joseph Joubert
• Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration -- Thomas Alva Edison, Life, 1932
• Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius -- George Bernard Shaw
• Only the educated are free -- Epictetus, Discourses
• Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty -- Albert Einstein, NY Times, 1952
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education -- Mark Twain
• I have found that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking for something and finding something else on the way -- Franklin P. Adams
• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards -- Anatole France
• Students today can't prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend upon their slates which are expensive. What will they do when the slate is dropped and it breaks? They will be unable to write -- Teacher's Conference, 1703
• It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated --Alec Bourne
• Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on -- Winston Churchill
• You are what you know -- CNN
• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use -- Galileo Galilei
• Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson -- Vernon Law
• A genius is someone who shoots at a target no one else sees and hits it -- Anonymous
• Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Genius without education is like silver in the mine -- Benjamin Franklin

• Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream -- Malcolm Muggeridge
• Remember no man is a failure who has friends. -- It's a Wonderful Life
• The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones -- Chinese proverb
• This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it -- Psalms 118:24
• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist -- Mark Twain
• Failed in business at age 21; was defeated in a legislative race at age 22; failed again in business at age 24; overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26; had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional race at age 34; lost a congressional race at age 36; lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort to become the vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; was elected president of the United States at age 52. -- Abraham Lincoln
• Whether you believe you can do something or you believe you can't; you're right. -- Anonymous
• A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step -- Lao-Tsu, The Way of Lao-Tsu
• What is to give light must endure burning -- Viktor Frankl
• Dear Red. If you're reading this, you've gotten out. And if you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further. You remember the name of the town, don't you? I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels. I'll keep an eye out for you and the chessboard ready. Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well. Your friend. Andy. -- Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption
• I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying. -- The Shawshank Redemption
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work -- Thomas Edison
• A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity -- Eleanor Roosevelt
• Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent -- Calvin Coolidge
• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity -- Albert Einstein
• You must have long-range goals to keep from being frustrated by short-range failure -- Charles Nobel
• I believe that man will not only endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he, alone among other creatures, has an exhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance -- William Faulkner
• The reward for a thing well done is to have done it -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trial -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Things are only impossible until they are not -- Anonymous
• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. -- Ray Bradbury
• You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people. -- Grace Murray Hooper
• Do what you can with what you have where you are. -- Theodore Roosevelt
• One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try -- Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings
• Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there -- Mark Twain
• In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart -- Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank, entry of July 15, 1944
• When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso -- Artist Pablo Picasso
• I shall hear in Heaven -- Beethoven
• I'd rather lose in a cause that will one day win than win in a cause that will someday lose -- Woodrow Wilson
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat -- Theodore Roosevelt
• Every man dies. Not every man truly lives -- Braveheart
• It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top -- Arnold Bennett
• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go -- T.S. Eliot
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. IF you love what you are doing, you will be successful -- Albert Schweitzer
• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length -- Robert Frost
• [In reference to a piece of string] Pull it and it'll follow wherever you wish. Push it and it will go nowhere at all. It's just that way when it comes to leading people -- General Eisenhower
• While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior -- Henry Link
• Don't let success go to your head or failure go to your heart -- Anon
• Example is leadership -- Albert Schweitzer
• Get a good idea and stay with it, and work it until it's done and done right -- Walt Disney
• I will prepare and someday my chance will come -- Abraham Lincoln
• It's hard to beat a person who never gives up -- Babe Ruth
• If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. No one would have remembered him either -- Anonymous

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it -- Alan Kay
• The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of the mind are fabricated for it by matter. -- James Clerk Maxwell
• When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein
• The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. -- Albert Einstein
• I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world -- Albert Einstein
• The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking -- Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
• I know not what may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -- Isaac Newton
• There is grandeur in this view of life -- Charles Darwin, 1859
• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic -- Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future
• I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence -- Richard Feynman
• There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone -- Bjarne Stroustrup
• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it -- Albert Einstein
• Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development -- Julius Frontinum, 1 AD
• There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will -- Albert Einstein, 1932
• I think there is a world market for maybe five computers -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
• 640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody -- Bill Gates, 1981
• Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are -- Anonymous
• Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real -- Jules Verne
• Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed -- Neil Alden Armstrong, upon reaching the moon, July 20, 1969
• The medium is the message -- Marshal Herbert McLuhan
• One of the destinies of personal computing is to enable end users to create tools specific to their problems -- D. Leebaert and T. Dickinson
• After billions of years of biological evolution -- on their planet and ours -- an alien civilization cannot be in technological lockstep with us. ... There have been humans for more than twenty thousand centuries, but we've had radio only for about one century. ... If alien civilization are behind us, they're likely to be too far behind us to have radio. And if they're ahead of us, they're likely to be far ahead of us -- Carl Sagan
• I [..] am rarely happier then when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. Ten seconds, I tell myself, is ten seconds. Time is valuable and ten seconds' worth of it is well worth the investment of a day's happy activity working out a way to save it -- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic -- Arthur C. Clarke
• Western civilization isn't possible without relational databases -- Bruce Lindsay, IBM fellow

• Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it, to show that you have one. -- Lord Chesterfield
• As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm -- Hippocrates, Epidemics
• We place our faith in their skill. We lay our lives in their hands. But sooner or later we realize that they are only human. And we hope that they notice... we are too -- Edward E. Rosenbaum, Taste of My Own Medicine
• Each one of us is a brain, an athelete, a basket-case, a princess and a criminal -- The Breakfast Club
• That is our final arrogance; that we blame God for our own state -- Bono
• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
• We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people -- Martin Luther King.
• A man's ethical behavior should be based on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death -- Albert Einstein
• The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth -- Albert Einstein
• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own -- Benjamin Disraeli
• Look at a man the way that he is, he only becomes worse. But look at him as if he were what he could be, and then he becomes what he should be. -- Goethe
• Nobody rises to low expectations. -- Calvin Lloyd
• Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view -- Obi-Wan Kenobi, Return of the Jedi
• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject -- Sir Winston Churchill
• If you do a favour for someone and expect a favour in return, it's a trade, not an act of kindness -- Anonymous
• He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
• When thou enter a city abide by its customs -- Talmud
• The only way to get pertinent information is to ask impertinent questions. -- Joe Michael Straczynski
• The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we appear to be -- Socrates
• Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." -- C.S. Lewis
• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter -- Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters
• Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking -- Henry Louis Mencken
• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on -- Sir Winston Churchill
• You can fool some of the people all 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
• It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt -- Voltaire
• You've got to be passionate about something -- Steve Jobs
• Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty -- Voltaire
• My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there -- Indira Gandhi
• How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward -- Spanish Proverb
• Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim -- Spanish Proverb
• I have no particular talent; I am merely extremely inquisitive -- Albert Einstein
• Who is wise? He who learns from everyone -- Talmud
• He that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget -- Talmud
• A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog -- Jack London
• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas -- Albert Einstein

• We should not let the land flowing with milk and honey become a land flowing with blood and tears. Don't let it happen -- Yitzchak Rabin
• The path of peace is preferable to the path of war -- Yitzchak Rabin
• No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever -- Menachem Begin, Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, 26 March 1979
• Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties -- but right through every human heart -- and all human hearts -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
• You can not shake hands with a clenched fist -- Indira Ghandi
• An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind -- Indira Ghandi
• It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. -- Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize
• No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power -- Charles Colton
• Only when we can trust those who are different from us, will there be peace on earth. -- Anonymous
• No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it -- Winston Churchill
• The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies -- Lester Pearson
• We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it -- Max Lerner
• Nothing good ever comes of violence -- Martin Luther
• In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. -- Croesus
• We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another -- Jonathan Swift
• May you live all the days of your life -- Jonathan Swift
• The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one -- Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
• Another such victory, and we are undone -- King Pyrrhus, 280 BC
• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner -- General Omar Bradley
• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster; and when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you -- Friedrich Nietzsche
• Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved -- Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Renaissance statesman, diplomat and writer
• To know your enemy, you must become your enemy... Keep your friends close and your enemys closer -- Sun Tzu
• A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic -- Joseph Stalin
• You mean you'll put down your rock, and I'll put down my sword and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people? -- The Princess Bride
• They say: we were young.
  We have died.
  Remember us.
  They say: our deaths are not ours;
  they are yours;
  they will mean what you make them.
  They say: we leave you our deaths.
  Give them their meaning -- Archibald MacLeish
• May peace be within your walls, tranquility within your palaces -- Psalms
• Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box -- Italian Proverb
• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? -- Abraham Lincoln

• Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world -- Dave Barry
• Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round -- Muhammad Ali, 1962
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception. -- Groucho Marx
• Age is a matter of mind; if you don't mind it doesn't matter. -- Mark Twain
• It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper -- Jerry Seinfeld
• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong -- Oscar Wilde
• Experience is wonderful thing. It enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again. -- Anonymous
• Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others -- Groucho Marx
• Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman -- Mark Twain
• A top-secret government study indicates that we wouldn't be any worse off if we let the economists predict the weather and the meteorologists predict the economy -- Paul Harwitz, March 19, 1980, Wall Street Journal
• Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar -- Sigmund Freud
• Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant -- Cary Grant
• There are two kinds of researchers: those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you that there are 142 ways of doing things and that there isn't consensus on which is best. The former will simply tell you that 141 of them don't work -- paraphrased, David Cheriton, Prof. of Computer Science at Stanford
• Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? -- Robert Pirsig
• Stop The World I Want To Get Off -- Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
• There's a sucker born every minute -- Phineas Taylor Barnum
• From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put -- Winston Churchill
• A committee is a group of people who keep minutes and waste hours -- Milton Berle, comedian
• A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a workstation -- Anonymous
• If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs -- Russian Proverb

• I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details -- Albert Einstein
• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work -- Mark Twain
• It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice -- Bozo
• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart -- Robert Green Ingersoll
• I have seen the future... and it doesn't work -- Arthur C. Clarke
• We are all special cases. We all want to appeal against something! Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven -- Albert Camus, The Fall
• Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless -- Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes: It's a Magical World
• It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool. -- Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes: Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons, p19
• Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon -- Anonymous
• I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work-and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't -- Lucille Ball
• The state of mankind can be summarized in two sentences: We ought to. But we don't -- Kurt Tucholsky
• Don't find fault. Find a remedy -- Henry Ford
• For the unlearned, old age is winter. For the learned, it is the season of the harvest -- Hasidic saying
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young -- Henry Ford
• Computers like to move chunks of memory. And what's a chunk of memory? It's a submatrix, my friend -- Charles Van Loan, Numerical Analysis
• All my successes have been built on my failures -- Benjamin Disraeli
• Repair the roof before it rains. Make hay while the sun shines -- Chinese Proverb
• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining -- John F. Kennedy
• Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime -- G. Gordon Liddy
• We do not fall in love, we grow in love and love grows in us -- Karl Menninger
• One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters -- George Herbert
• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe -- Marilyn Vos Savant
• As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously -- Benjamin Franklin
• That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property -- Thomas Jefferson
• My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying -- Laurence J. Peter
• Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with -- Mark Twain
• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed -- Mark Twain
• You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother -- Albert Einstein
• Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up -- Robert Frost
• I pronounce it as certain, that there was never yet a truly great person who was not at the same time truly virtuous -- Benjamin Franklin
• Birthday toast: May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live -- Anonymous
• As you teach, you learn -- Jewish Proverb
• Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody -- Mark Twain
• Fall down seven times, get up eight. -- Japanese Proverb
• Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been -- Mark Twain
• The shortest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time -- Samuel Smiles
• Don't worry about what's ahead. Just go as far as you can go - from there you can see farther -- Anon
• If you want to get a good idea, get a lot of ideas -- Linus Pauling
• The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them -- American Proverb
• Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return -- Leonardo da Vinci
• May those who love us, love us. Those who don't love us, may god turn their hearts. And if he can not turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so that we may know them by their limping -- "Keeping the faith"
• You can not make a real commitment unless you accept that it is a choice that you keep making again and again -- "Keeping the faith"
• The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn -- David Russell
• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble -- Helen Keller
• We first make our habits, and then our habits make us -- John Dryden
• Laws without penalties are like bells without clappers -- Czech Proverb
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on -- Robert Frost
• The greatest failure is the failure to try -- Jimmy Carter
• If I try to be like him, who will be like me? -- Yiddish Proverb
• To teach is to learn twice -- Joseph Joubert
• Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination -- Roy Goodman
• The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it -- Chinese Proverb
• In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king -- Erasmus
• Wonder is the beginning of wisdom -- Greek proverb
• A young doctor makes a humpy churchyard -- English proverbs
• I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease -- John Donne
• Ten enemies cannot do a man the harm that he does to himself - Yiddish Proverb
• To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting -- Stanislaus I
• When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us -- Alexander Graham Bell
• Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time -- Hebrew Proverb
• In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car -- Larry Summers, President of Harvard University
• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly -- Robert F. Kennedy
• A person who doesn't know but knows he doesn't know is a student; teach him. A person who knows but who doesn't know that he knows is asleep; awaken him. But a person who knows and knows that he knows is wise; follow him -- Asian Proverb
• I am not young enough to know everything -- Oscar Wilde
• Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others -- Groucho Marx.
• Be ashamed to die before you have won some battle for humanity -- Horace Mann.
• Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country -- General George S. Patton, Jr. England, 31 May 1944
• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order -- Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
• Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself -- Cicero, Orator and Statesman
• Peace does not lie in charters and convenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people -- JFK
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are -- Theodore Roosevelt
• There must have been a moment when we could have said 'no'. Somehow, we missed it. -- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last -- Winston Churchill
• It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness -- Carl Sagan
• Understanding is a kind of ecstasy -- Carl Sagan