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Famous Qoutes

Quoting one is plagiarism. Quoting many is research.

"When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things."
- Alan Watts

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
- Albert Einstein

"A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be."
- Albert Einstein

"Insanity continuing to do the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not even sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocritizes. The latter cannot understand when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
- Albert Einstein

"I am a part of all that I have met."
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"See into life. Don't just look at it."
- Anne Baxter

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm a schizophrenic,
and so am I"
- Anonymous

"There is no They, Only Us."
- Anonymous

"People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do."
- Anonymous

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
- Anonymous

"If I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself."
- Anonymous

"It's a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages."
- Anonymous

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
- Anthony Burgess

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts and you will never go any higher than you think"
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
- Billie Jean King

"Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed."
- Booker T. Washington

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
- Charles Darwin

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
- Chinese proverb

"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."
- Christopher Morley

"To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom."
- Confucius

"If you can't write your ideas on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea."
- David Belasco

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
- Derek Bok

"Those who seek the easy way, do not seek the true way."
- Do gen

"The future is much like the present, only longer."
- Don Quisenberry

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
- Erich Fromm

"Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in."
- Evan Davis

"The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it."
- François Fénelon

"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
- Fred Allen

"The wise man said, 'It can't be done.' The fool came and did it."
- Folk Zen

"The world is moving so fast these days that the person who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
- Fosdick

"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of."
- Geri Weitzman

"There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain."
- G. K. Chesterton

"In a world where you can be anything, be yourself."
- Gina Tavi

"Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport."
- Graffiti

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get."
- H. Jackson Brown

"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving and the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself."
- Havelock Ellis

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds."
- Heraclitus

"Carpe deim, quam minimum credula postero." - means:
"Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in the morrow."
- Horace

"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something."
- Jackie Mason

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
- James Dean

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
- James Oppenheim

"Nothing is always."
- Jane Yolen

"Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law."
- Jean Anouilh

"A man never shows his own character so plainy as by the way he portrays another's."
- Jean Paul Richter

"I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house."
- Jerome K. Jerome

"I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home."
- Jilly Cooper

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."
- John Diefenbaker

"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."
- John Lennon

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
- John Lubbock

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it."
- John W. Raper

"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."
- Jonathan Swift

"All cities are the same -- to many people!"
- Kevin Knight

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then ... we elected them."
- Lily Tomlin

"Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know."
- Lao-tzu

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one take for us or spare us."
- Marcel Proust

"Everything is but what we think it."
- Marcus Aurelius

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
- Margaret Thatcher

"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your word.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors.
Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
- Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain

“Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
- Mark Twain

"If you want to attain such a thing, you must be such a person. Since you are such a person, why trouble about such a thing?"
- Master Ungo

"There is no Challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself."
- Michael F. Staley

"It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back."
- Mick Jagger

"A sense of humor can help you over look the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope
with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable."
- Moshe Waldoks

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"...our existence is at every instant and primarily the consciousness of what is possible to us."
- Ortega Y Gasset

"That which is looked upon by one generation as the apex of human knowledge is often considered an absurdity by the next, and that which is regarded as a superstition in one century, may form the basis of science for the following one."
- Paracelsus

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
- Plato

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
- Plato

"Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, but appropriate actions in an imperfect one."
- R. H. Blyth

"Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are wiser then we know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If I own a cow, the cow owns me."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You become what you think about all day long."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Money often costs to much."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time."
- Rebecca West

"I can't seem to bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's that I can't guess I'll toddle."
- Robert Benchley

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
- Robert Frost

"Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in."
- Robert Frost

"Smart is when you believe half of what you hear. Brilliant is when you know which half."
- Robert Orben

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US congress."
- Ronald Reagan

"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
- Ruth Gordon

"Hollywood is a combination of Heaven, Hell and a lunatic asylum."
- Salvation Army Gen. Albert OsbornSam Ewing

"The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public."
- Samuel Johnson

"The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend."
- Seung Sahn

"So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...
Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you."
- Shunryu Suzuki

"A short saying often contains much wisdom."
- Sophocles

"Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you."
- Stanisaw J. Lec

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.
But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
- Stephen Hawking

"Whoever has walked with truth generates life."
- Sumerian Proverb

"In my end is my beginning."
- T. S. Eliot

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Thomas Edison

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."
- Thomas Jefferson

"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."
- Tom Peters

"Humans are the only creatures, who when they lose their way, run faster."
- Unknown

"Formal education will earn you a living, self-education will make you a fortune."
- Unknown

"If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
- Unknown

"The only cure for love lost, is love found"
- Unknown

"People who can hold their tongues rarely have any trouble holding their friends."
- Unknown

"What do you want from your life? Consider long and well before you decide, for you may attain what you seek. What ever your goals may be , fix them in your mind and never let loose. Understand that even this may not be sufficient, for life is not always fair. Not all who work hard and patiently and have goals will achieve success. Without any of these three ingredients however, failure is a certainty. Give yourself every chance to succeed. And if you fail, fail trying!
- Unknown

"Live life as life lives itself."
- Unknown

"The man who thinks he knows it all has merely stopped thinking."
- Unknown

"A good explanation: never explain anything."
- Unknown

"Do not make loon soup."
- Valuable advice from The Eskimo Cookboook

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."
- Vince Lombardi

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- Walter Bagehot

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. " - Wernher Von Braun

"To ask the hard question is simple."
- W. H. Auden

"If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel."
- Will Kommen

"This is the final test of a gentleman--his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
- William Lyon Phelps

For what we regard as reality is conditioned by the theory to which we subscribe -- Stephen Hawking

In victory you deserve champagne, in defeat, you need it. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A good Traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.... - Eddie Vedder

We waste our lives working at jobs we hate to buy shit we don't need! - Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"

"The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off." - British Army Journal (1949)

Most of the shadows of life come from your own self blocking the sun. - James Pickett

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests. - George Matthew Adams

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. - Hosea Ballou

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work. - Frederick E. Crane

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. - Andre Gide

A good garden may have some weeds. - Thomas Fuller

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. - Confucius

Some folks never exaggerate--they just remember big. - Audrey Snead

Heaven for climate. Hell for company.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its
efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day
who don't know anything and can't read. - Mark Twain

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.
- Mark Twain

Reality is merely an illusion, but a very persistent one! - Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. - Albert Einstein

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. - Virginia Woolf

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - H. L. Mencken

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. - Dolly Parton

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde

A few words from the visionary Steven Wright:
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.
I intend to live forever - so far, so good.
Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
If I worked as much as others, I would do as little as they.
24 hours in a day ... 24 beers in a case ...coincidence?
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo!
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.
You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
Change is inevitable....except from vending machines.
A fool and his money are soon partying.
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
Borrow money from pessimists-they don't expect it back.
Half the people you know are below average.
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

I think-therefore I'm single. - Lizz Winstead

A good message....
Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400.It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening it deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course! Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every
night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to
good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it
opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If
you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back.
There is no drawing against the "tomorrow". You must live in the present on
today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health,

happiness and success!
The clock is running. Make the most of today.
To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a pre-mature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask a daily wage laborer with kids to feed.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLI-SECOND, ask the person who won a silver
medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared
it with someone special, special enough to spend your time.
And remember that time waits for no one.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift...that's why it's called the present!

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. - 19th century British writer, artist and designer William Morris

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way. - 20th century American writer Christopher Morley

True power is when what you say is only the tip of the iceberg of what you really know.

Proverbs
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. (spanish)
If you let everyone walk over you, you become a carpet. (belgian)
Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.
(portugese)
Good management is better than good income. (portugese)
When in doubt who will win, be neutral. (swiss)
The hunt is like a dance for men, for the women the dance is the hunt.
(austrian)
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday. (irish)
The work praises the man. (irish)
Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him. (scottish)
Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between. (gaelic)
The best armor is to keep out of range. (italian)
Who is blind, dumb and deaf will live a peaceful life of a hundred years.
(sicillian)
No woman can make a wise man out of a fool, but every woman can change a wise
man into a fool. (argentinan)
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. (russian)
A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person. (turkish)