More "Golden Real Estate Quotes" -- David Walker's collection of thoughts and quotes about Real Estate, Homes, Land, Money, and Other Things. Sorted with no rhyme or reason. Date showed is when the quote was first on this web site. "Golden Real Estate Quotes?" ... well .. Ah ..they are in Gold print! and this is California "The Golden State" DISCLAIMER: I do not agree with all of the quotations listed. I may have at one point, but that doesn't mean that I do, now. They were recorded for various reasons - they made me think, they made me laugh, they made me roll my eyes and groan... don't be sensitive about them... David's Golden Quote of the Day 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004: December 2007 "The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." - Richard Moss "Everything worth doing starts with fear." - Art Garfunkel "Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along." - Confucius "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond." - May West "If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" - Will Rogers "The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life— and one is as good as the other." - Ernest Hemingway "A lie can travel half-way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes" - Mark Twain "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." - Henry David Thoreau "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly (via his cartoon character Pogo) "You can fool half of the people all of the time and that's enough to make a good living." - W.C. Fields "All the Constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it by yourself." -Benjamin Franklin “A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The day I say, 'This is good enough for me,' is the day I begin to die, Poilar. I want to know what I am. After that I want to know what I'm capable of becoming. And then I want to become it. I want to keep reaching higher all the time." - Robert Silverberg, Kingdoms of the Wall "Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale "The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise." - Alden Nowlen "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment." - T. H. White "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln "A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was." - Joseph Hall "An optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds - the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell "A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils." - Daniel Webster November 2007 "You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows - and has always known - that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival." - Anthony Robbins "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill October 2007 "A prudent question is one half of wisdom." - Francis Bacon "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus "If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau "I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close." - Henry J. Kaiser Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." - Will Rogers "I had the ambition to not only go farther than man had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go." - James Cook, Captain, HMS Endeavor "I cannot afford to waste my time making money." - Louis Agassiz "And what is it to know what one wants but to listen quietly to the silent voices from within and to yield to their guidance over the clamorous objections of fear and pride of consistency and custom and of greed and hate." - Bradford Shank "Goals are dreams with deadlines." - Diana Scharf Hunt It is always the best policy to speak the truth unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome “Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.” - Winston Churchill Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in.' - Ronald Reagan "The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it." - William Faulkner How much of our lives is spent in reverie, in wishing for what cannot be, in regretting what might have been avoided. These obsessions steal from us the moments of the now. - David K. Reynolds September 2007 I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. - Leo Tolstoy Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. - Ben Hecht "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence "First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" - Ghandi "To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top." - Robert M. Pirsig "Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." - Carl Schurz "I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money." - Hetty Green August 2007 "A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience." - Doug Larson "Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them." - Margaret Mitchell "After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations." - H. L. Mencken (on Shakespeare) "The race may not be to the swift nor victory to the strong, but that's how you bet." - Damon Runyon "Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before." - Sebastien Roch Nicholas de Chamfort "A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world." - George Santayana "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus "Never appeal to a man's better nature. He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage." - Lazarus Long "There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever." - Alfred Hitchcock "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Abraham Lincoln "Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. (There is no easy road from the earth to the stars.)" - Seneca "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle "No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less." - Lazlo 's Chinese Relativity Axiom "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." - Robert A Heinlein "I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ... they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!" - Warren G. Harding "Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty "The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make a difference that you lived at all." - Leo Rosten "This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it." - Al Capone July 2007 "Never hesitate to steal a good idea." - Al Neuharth "Most of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing." - Alexander Woollcott "What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public." - Vilhjalmur Stefansson "Luck is largely a matter of paying attention." - Susan M. Dodd "The trick is to grow up without growing old." - Frank Lloyd Wright “A progressive believes that society can be made better, that it can be made better by informed people acting in concert, and that it can be called 'better' only when it is better for everyone.” - Garrett Keizer "I always loved running...it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs." - Jesse Owens "Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered." - Marilyn Monroe "Business is the salt of life." - Thomas Fuller "The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly—because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them." - Michael Caine “Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy!” - John Jacob Astor "Inspiration comes of working every day." - Charles Pierre Baudelaire "The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities." - Frank Barron "Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement." - George Matthew Adams "Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone." - Albert Einstein "The West is the best, get here and we'll do the rest." - J. D. Morrison "Wishing you a Happy 4th of July" - David Walker and Family "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." - Yogi Berra "Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care." - Jimmy Buffett "When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'" - Sydney Harri "Ends and means are inseperable. There is no way in which a person can truly accomplish a worthy end by using unworthy means." - Stephen Covey June 2007 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde "I don't believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis." - Benjamin Franklin "Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies . . ." - John Q. "If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education." - Thomas Jefferson "Old age is the most unexpected of all thngs to happen to a man." - Leon Trotsky "There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as a gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards, or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you." - Merle Shain "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." - Bruce Feirstein "Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up." - Tom Stoppard "Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property." - Maria Edgeworth "I've found that prayers work best when you have big players." - Knute Rockne "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. - Galili Galileo "Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty." - James Russell Lowell "When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money." - Artemus Ward "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo May 2007 “In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” - Mortimer J. Adler George Carlin's Views on Aging Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions. "How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!"You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. ! "How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . you become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony . YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!! But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed? ! You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone. But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would! So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60. You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday! You get into your 80's and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN it is 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; "I Was JUST 92." Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!" May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!! - George Carlin "The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them" - Mark Twain "Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." - Carl Sandburg "I think Americans in general are bad cooks and dont know how to eat" - Boris Yeltsin "The wages of sin are death, but after taxes are taken out, it's just a tired feeling." - Paula Poundstone "Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep." - Denis Waitley "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." Graham Greene "Life is a series of sales situations, and the answer is no if you don't ask." - Patricia Fripp "Principles don't change with circumstances. That's what makes them principles." - George Colombo "The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." - Harlan Ellison "Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated." - Robert C. Savage "The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church." - Fedinand Magellan "Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity." - Karl Marx "Quotations are like statistics: You can prove almost anything with them." - Rubin Rabinovitz "A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools." - Edmund Ware Sinnott April 2007 "Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information." - Heinz R. Pagels "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar "As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." - M. Cartmill "Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."- Jack Kerouac "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - Edward Estlin Cummings When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films. - Paul Newman Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? - La Rochefoucauld The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. - Elie Wiesel A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller "Yes. I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punnishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking> foes for friends. - (Arabian proverb) "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. - Scott Adams March 2007 "There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed long ago, before anyone knew it was happening." - Theodosius Dobzansky "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." - J. Lubbock "Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience." - Pam Brown "Every man has a sane spot somewhere." - Robert Louis Stevenson "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." - Bill Beattie "Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame." - MG Siriam "So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries." - Romain Rolland "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw "Women are adaptable to what the man presents to her. If he presents affection she presents affection. If he presents anger then that is what she gives back. And if he present stupidity, then she adapts to the fact that she has to do the thinking for the both of them." - Tina Cleland "Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems." - Billy Joel February 2007 "Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set." - Adlai Stevenson "If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough." - Edward Everett Hale "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain of success than to take a lead in the introduction of new things, because the innovation has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and only luke-warm defenders in those who may do well under the new." - Machiavelli We part more easily with what we possess then with our expectations of what we hope for: expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. - Homer "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon "Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington "You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." - Sacha Guitry "A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us." - John Steinbeck "When you cease to dream you cease to live." - Malcolm S. Forbes "Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free." - Tom Robbins "Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free." - Tom Robbins "There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody -- one that nobody but the other guy has to pay." - Earl Wilson "Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?" - Alan King "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Alexander Pope "The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous." — Margaret Fontey "I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'. It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward." - Ayn Rand "I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth." - Jesse H. Jones "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France "The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard "The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer." - John Madden January 2007 "No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere." - Grover Cleveland "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." - Aesop "Creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies." - Steven Pinker "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats." - Henry David Thoreau "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." - Woodrow Wilson "The West is the best, get here and we'll do the rest." - J. D. Morrison "To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility." - William Cobbett "When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin." - Mae West "All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own." - Henry Ford "Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel." - Bella Abzug "The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame; it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land." - Scott Russell Sanders "Wishing you a peaceful, prosperous and healthy NEW YEAR!!!" - David Walker and Family December 2006 "This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves: not to march alone, but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us." - Hubert H. Humphrey "Merry Christmas to You and Yours" - David Walker and Family "In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence." - Rosanne Amberson "Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools" - Truman Capote "If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein "Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing." - William A. Ward "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong "Inspiration and passion usually go together. If you are going to persuade others to go with you, it certainly doesn't hurt that you've got very strong convictions about where you are going. Like Columbus did, for instance, to discover the New World. And, if you've got passion and conviction, you're more likely to be inspiring. If you're inspired yourself and you're passionate about something, you're more likely to succeed at it, and you've more likely to get others to come with you." - Ted Turner "There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last." - Jules Renard "The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made." - Jean Giraudoux "Income tax returns: the most imaginative fiction written today." - Herman Wouk "Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - A.A. Milne, Winne the Pooh "I am dying with the help of too many physicians." — Alexander the Great "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss "There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure." - Dan Bennett "A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow." - William Shakespeare November 2006 "Money is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted." - Samuel Butler "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust "The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose." - William E. Simon "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." - Dennis Wholey "Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it." - Will Rogers "Everything worth doing starts with fear." - Art Garfunkel "I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth." - Jesse H. Jones "The more success one achieves, the more pressure there is that goes with it. I'd rather have the pressure of success than the lack of pressure that goes with anonymity." - Roger Clemons "A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason." - Thomas Carlyle "The best investment on Earth is earth." - Louis Glickman "The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." -Alan Ashley-Pitt "The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future." - John Keynes "Life is a tragedy when seen in close up, but a comedy in long shot." - Charles Chaplin “Temples are to be dedicated to the gods, and books to good men.” - Aristedes (140 A.D.) "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." - Cynthia Nelms "There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother." - Theodore Roosevelt "Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies." - Wendell Phillips "A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain." - Mildred W. Struven "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars." - Henry Van Dyke "The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off." — William Golding "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." - John Quincy Adams October 2006 "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those are dumber." - Plato "Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're still alive, it isn't." — Richard Bach "If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." - Jack Dixon “Real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security.” - Russell Sage "Don't ever let anyone steal your dreams." - Dexter Yager "Buy land. They've stopped making it." - Mark Twain "It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it." - Blues Brothers 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. - Pablo Picasso September 2006 "A dinner lubricates business." - Lord William Stowell History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. - Ambrose Bierce "What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers." - Marina Horner "If as you grow older, you feel you are also growing stupider, do not worry. This is normal, and usually occurs around the time your children, now grown, are discovering the opposite - they now see that you aren't nearly as stupid as they had believed when they were teenagers." - Margaret Laurence "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." - Samuel Johnson "A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." - Will Rogers "Nuclear physics is much easier than tax law. It's rational and always works the same way." - Jerold Rochwald "Make your money work hard for you, and you'll not have to work so hard for it." - Napoleon Hill "Luck is where opportunity meets preparation." - Robert Evans "What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public." - Vilhjalmur Stefansson "Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax." - Charles F. Kettering "Just because I'm evil doesn't mean I'm not nice." - Charlie Fulton "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." - Will Rogers "Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires." - Marcelene Cox "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every oppurtunity. An optimist sees the oppurtunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill "The love of money as a possession— as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life— will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities" - John Keynes "American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off." - Will Rogers "A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries." - Will Rogers Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. - Ernest Benn "There is only one way to kill capitalism -- by taxes, taxes, and more taxes." - Karl Marx "Never ask of money spent where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent." - Robert Frost August 2006 "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum strong enough and single-handed I can move the world." - Archimedes "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little." - Jean Jacques Rousseau "People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black." - Henry Ford "Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman." - Marian Anderson "Buy real estate in areas where the path exists...and buy more real estate where there is no path, but you can create your own." - David Waronker "All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "There is a difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide." - Mortimer Caplan "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler "Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have." - Will Rogers "A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils." - Daniel Webster "Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments." - Euripides "It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling." - Bert Murray "It is a luxury to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." - Woody Allen “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” - William Arthur Ward "And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said before, but I shall say it again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." - President Roosevelt "You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it." - Malcolm X “Knowledge itself is power.” - Francis Bacon "What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. Kin Hubbard "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Reagan "No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority." - Mahatma Ghandi "Confusion is mightier than the sword." - Abbie Hoffman "I like this place, and willingly could waste my time in it." - William Shakespeare "What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us." - Robertson Davies July 2006 "In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want." - Alice Foote MacDougall "You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows - and has always known - that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival." - Anthony Robbins "It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted." - Aeschylus "I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes." - W.C. Fields "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." - Lucille Ball "I don't need the security of marriage - what I need is a romantic attachment." - Hugh Hefner "Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching, but also without attempting to play God." - Henry Kissinger “In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” - Mortimer J. Adler "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it." — Samuel Johnson "Business first; pleasure afterwards." - William Makepeace Thackeray "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton "The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped." - Arthur Schopenhauer "If you can't be kind, at least be vague." - Judith Manners "Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate." - Andrew Carnegie "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain "Advertising is legalized lying." - Herbert George Wells "Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth --to see it like it is, and tell it like it is --to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth." - Richard M. Nixon "Advertising is legalized lying." - Herbert George Wells June 2006 “Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.” - Marshall Field "Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression." - Mark Helprin "It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it." - Gracian Baltasar "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." - Oscar Wilde "If you do not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow." - Isaac Mophatlane "Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation." - Anwar al-Sadat "It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away." - Anthony Trollope "To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." - Samuel Johnson "Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be." — Rita Rudner "We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there." - Will Rogers "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." - Abraham Lincoln "The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness." - Havelock Ellis "Landlords grow rich in their sleep." - John Stuart Mill "Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck "If you cannot do great deeds, then faithfully carry out the smallest" - Johann Kaspar Lavater "Land increases more rapidly in value at the centers and about the circumference of cities." - William E. Harmon "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind." - John F. Kennedy May 2006 "The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." - Clarence Darrow "Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves." - Dorothy Parker "Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away." - Gerald R. Ford "Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant." - Henri Queuille "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity." - Harvey Ullman "Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect" - Leonardo Da Vinci "He that is of Opinion Money will do every Thing, may well be suspected of doing every Thing for Money." - Benjamin Franklin "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 There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain of success than to take a lead in the introduction of new things, because the innovation has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and only luke-warm defenders in those who may do well under the new. - Machiavelli "Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.” - Theodore Roosevelt “When we lost I couldn’t sleep at night. When we win I can’t sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better.” – Joe Torre "You can shave a monkey, but at the end of the day it's still a monkey" - Keith Dover "Confidence is the hinge on the door to success." - Mary O'Hare Dumas Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. - Barbara Kingsolver "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and it looks like work." - Tomas Edison We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. - Robert Wilensky "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner "Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark" - Orison Swett Marden Quotations are like statistics: You can prove almost anything with them. - Rubin Rabinovitz April 2006 It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative. - John Keynes "Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world." - Franklin D. Roosevelt The cure for anything is salt water- sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen "Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there." - Will Rogers "Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them." - Aldous Huxley The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell "In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows." - Woody Allen Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them, but through them. Therefore, they are humble. - John Ruskin The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. - Martina Navratilova "I would be most happy if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists of building enough bookshelves." - Anna Quindlen The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." - Henry Kissinger Our president has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children. – Eva Peron Today Europe tomorrow the world - Adolf Hitler The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use?" - Dale Carnegie Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If we wait for a moment when everything is absolutely right, then we will never begin. - Ivan Turgenev One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. - Crazy Horse "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanore Roosevelt March 2006 No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop 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 Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand. - Cardinal De Retz A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson "Procrastination is the thief of time." - Edward Young "I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all." - Carl Sandburg “The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again’.” - Elvis You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King, Jr. "That I'm not quite tall enough to peer over the fences of distraction" - Aaron Thomson "An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today." - Laurence J. Peter You're planning to make a ship sail against wind and tide by lighting a fire below deck?? I don't have time to listen to that kind of nonsense!" - Napoleon, about Robert Fultons plans to make a Steamboat. "The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice." - Bruce Lee "My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years." - Margaret Anderson "Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies." - J. T. Towbridge "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." - Tallulah Bankhead Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. — Spike Milligan "If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions." - James Russell Lowell "Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered Prayers" - Garth Brooks "To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant "The time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nina "Dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown "There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police." - Franklin Pierce Adams "We hang the petty thieves, but appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop February 2006 To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Alva Edison "I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose." - Montgomery Clift "I don't mind coming to work -- I just don't want to stay when I get there." - Louis H. Albert "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schultz When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. - Voltaire There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen "You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give and possess the light as the lens does... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means." - Dag Hammarskjold "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Sir Cecil Beaton "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay A hard thing about business is minding your own. - Tom Clancy Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. - Hesketh Pearson "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity." - Martin Luther King, Jr. Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge. - Will Rogers How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?/ Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. - Abraham Lincoln "If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton "The United States is the only country where it takes more brains to figure your tax than to earn the money to pay it." - Edward J. Gurney January 2006 "Women like silent men. They think they're listening." - Marcel Archard "Nothing can prevent you from learning the truth so much as the belief that you already know it. " - Jon K. Hart. "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer "When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds." - Will Rogers "The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any." - Katharine Whitehorn It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. - Eddie Carter "Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." - Richard M. Nixon The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - Groucho Marx A genius is a talented person who does his homework. - Thomas Edison We part more easily with what we possess then with our expectations of what we hope for: expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. - Homer "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy "Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." - Liz Smith "All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." - John Adams You must spend money, if you wish to make money. - Plautus "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney J. Harris When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson. - Will Rogers It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money. - P.J. O'Rourke December 2005 Happy New Year - David Lee Walker and Family "I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back." - Zsa Zsa Gabor Make your money work hard for you, and you'll not have to work so hard for it. - Napoleon Hill When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. - Oscar Wilde Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. - Voltaire "Merry Christmas" - David Walker and Family "Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." - Walt Disney I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. - Samuel Goldwyn Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." - George Bernard Shaw I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan A poem . . . begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. . . . It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. - Robert Frost "In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed." - Abraham Lincoln "I may despise what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through. - Edward Rickenbacker A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a 300 Dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green caterpillar. - Bill Vaughan "Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take OFF! But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you." - Amelia Earhart November 2005 You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. - George Burns This is my rule of married life: it's better to be happy than to be right. - Tom Magliozzi Beware of ambition for wealth; for there is nothing so characteristic of narrowness and littleness of soul as the love of riches; and there is nothing more honorable or noble than indifference to money. - Marcus Cicero I am thankful ---- David Walker The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. — Socrates (470 BC–399 BC) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson "If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." - Aristotle Onassis 'Tis is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship. — Richard Fuller "Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company." - Scott Adams Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world. - Charles Hanson Towne This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it...Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? - Abraham Lincoln "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." - Henry David Thoreau If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Will Rogers "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso "The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." - Alan Ashley-Pitt The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. - Ovid Life is a sum of all your choices. - Albert Camus October 2005 "Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." - Leonardo da Vinci "I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon The force will be with you...always. - Star Wars While there is snow on the roof, it doesn't mean the fire has gone out in the furnace. - John G Diefenbaker Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. - Erich Fromm Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie "I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on." - Beryl Pfizer In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. - David M. Ogilvy "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. - Abraham Lincoln Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. - Carl Jung "Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzshe We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business. - Will Rogers People spend money when and where they feel good. - Walt Disney "I discovered that I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot." - Kevin James "We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." - Abigail Adams "It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." - Noel Coward "We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps." - Nelson Demille September 2005 “Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the ‘right stuff’ to turn our dreams into reality.” - James Womack A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. - Will Rogers A prudent question is one half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Peale "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." - Frank Outlaw Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. - Will Rogers Gaming, that direst felon of the breast, Steals more than fortune from it's wretched thrall, Spreads o'er the soul the inert devouring pest And gnaws, and rots, and taints, and ruins all. - Petronius Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former – Albert Einstein Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves. - Zig Ziglar "Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough." - Wess Roberts Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein "He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin." - Horace "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." - Jane Austen Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain "The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen A wagonload of money will scarcely purchase a wagonload of provisions. - George Washington Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer. - Margaret Getchell All I know is what I read in the papers. - Will Rogers "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -J.F.K. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. - Will Rogers The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. - John Keynes I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane, and the pessimist the parachute. - Gil Stern Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcomb Forbes August 2005 The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. - Johnny Carson "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix." - Dan Quayle A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. - Yogi Berra "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." - G. C. Lichtenberg By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth "There's no business like show business." - Irving Berlin Tis against some Mens Principle to pay Interest, and seems against others Interest to pay the Principal. - Benjamin Franklin And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense. - Niccolo Machiavelli In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell. - Will Rogers Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. - Russell Conwell "Never confuse motion with action." - Ben Franklin Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. — Plato No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. - John Ruskin Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. - Woody Allen Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car - Will Stanton I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it. - Charles Dickens Beware of ambition for wealth; for there is nothing so characteristic of narrowness and littleness of soul as the love of riches; and there is nothing more honorable or noble than indifference to money. - Marcus Cicero "My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait.'" - Judy Tenuda July 2005 "Even a fool knows he can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying." - Harry Andersen If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. - Henry Fielding “Stop spending dollar time on penny jobs.” - Mary Kay Ash Me gusta vivir pobre... pero con mucho dinero. Translation: I like to live poor.. but with a lot of money - Pablo Picasso Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. - W.C.Fields "I like a man who grins when he fights." - Winston Churchill Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money. - Francois Rabelais "Always make new mistakes." - Esther Dyson "In that giddy whirl of noise and confusion, the men were delirious. Who thought of money, ruin, or the morrow, in the savage intoxication of the moment?" - Dickens Charles "Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them." - Jean Baudrillard "When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous." - Wayne Dyer Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." - Walt Disney It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. - Erma Bombeck We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing! — Benjamin Franklin Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. - Martin Luther King "Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless." - Calvin and Hobbes Eeeevil! It's everywhere! The galaxy reeks of it, I can fight it, but I can't fight it alone. - Buzz Lightyear Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse. - Don Addis When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. - Bill Copeland "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly..." - Robert A. Heinlein Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. - Ovid Having more money does not ensure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. — Hobart Brown "The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." - Joe Ancis June 2005 We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. - John Naisbitt "A thing is complete when you can let it be" - Gita Bellin "In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later." - Harold Geneen It is better to be wrong than to be vague - Freeman Dyson We can dispense with the pleasantries, Commander. I am here to get you back on schedule. - "Darth Vader" "Not all who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien. "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." - Gail Sheehy "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." - G. C. Lichtenberg That man is richest whose pleasures are the simplest. - Thoreau "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Sir Cecil Beaton I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. - Marie Corelli A man can make up his mind quickly, if he has only a little to make up. - Aristotle To act is easy . . . to think is hard. - Goethe "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."- Joseph Heller "I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers." - Helen Keller "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen "Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently." - Dave Liniger Luck is where preparation and opportunity meet. - Henry David Thoreau "At the beginning of a marriage, ask yourself whether this person will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory; most of the time is spent in conversation." - Friedrich Nietzsche “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” - William James Learn to enjoy the little things in life, because the big ones don't come around very often. - Andy Rooney Freedom means nothing left to lose. - Janis Joplin Banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Mark Twain "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Elinor Smith Dance is wonderful training for girls. Its the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it May 2005 All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Say what you mean and act how you feel, because those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. - Dr. Seuss "I once complained to my father that I didn’t seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad’s advice? “Margo, don’t be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.” - Margo Kaufman What we call results are beginnings. - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone." - Napoleon "Take your work seriously, but never yourself." - Dame Margot Fonteyn. Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. - Yeats There should be nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful - William Moris Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. - Sam Ewing For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me. - Winnie the Pooh Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future. - Melanie Gustafson Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. - Will Durant The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta be willing to put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. - Franklin Pierce Adams There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. - Groucho Marx "If A equals success then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein "Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably to the belief that the present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible." - George Orwell We think in generalities, but we live in details. - Alfred North Whitehead "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes "Wisdom is knowing what you don't know." - Socrates "Thousand of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be stoned.Happiness never decreases by being shared" - Buddha Only you can give others the impression that you’re an idiot. April 2005 "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Helen Keller "You are the sum total of all of your choices up to now." - Dr. Wayne Dyer I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner. - W. C. Fields Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. — Carl Sandburg One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. - G M Weilacher "A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltalre "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell "The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." - Bill Beattie "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean “I expect to pass through this life but once. Therefore, if there be any kindess I can show, or any good thing I can do for another human being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again." - William Penn Consequences, shmonsequences, as long as I'm rich. - Daffy Duck "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." - Bill Gates I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got. - Walter Cronkite Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. - Michael Caine The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. - Bill Cosby O, I am fortune's fool! - William Shakespeare March 2005 "Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them." - Chaim Weizmann When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky. - Armmand Hammer "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Henry Ford "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde “It’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.” –Hubert Humphrey No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse. - Richard Sasurly Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. - Albert Einstein "The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis "I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." - Mark Twain Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it. - Fulton J. Sheen Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already. - Soren Kierkegaard Life is an endless series of experiments. — Mohandas K Gandi Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C.S. Lewis February 2005 Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young. - Russell Banks Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will. - Edward A. Murphy, Jr. Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation - George Washington The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Einstein "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." -Anonymous No man can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. - Nathaniel Hawthorne "Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work." - John G. Pollard It never occurs to me that there are things that I can't do. - Whoopi Goldberg *We must believe in luck. For how else do we explain the success of those we don't like? - Jean Cocteau The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. - Shakespeare "No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied." - L.L. Bean "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda. A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. - Ken Keyes, Jr Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become. - Mary McGrory "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated." - Paul Anderson "Win one for the Gipper!" - George Gipp *"If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business." - William J.H. Boetecker "I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees." - Heinrich Heine The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master. - Khalil Gibran "Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do." - George Burns Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte "Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you." - Heather Williams Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. - Will Rogers January 2005 I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't know. — Mark Twain Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato (429-347 BC) "The basis of optimism is sheer terror." - Oscar Wilde Silence is more eloquent than words. - Thomas Carlyle Time is a great Healer but a lousy Beautician Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. - Aldous Huxley Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men? - Natalie Clifford Barney An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows" - Dwight Eisenhower Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates "Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." - Malcolm Muggeridge I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. - Diane Ackerman Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin L. King, Jr. Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. - Martin L. King, Jr. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. - Martin L. King, Jr. Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. - Martin L. King, Jr. - I've Been to the Mountaintop, - a speech made the day before his assassination A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. - Martin L. King, Jr. "Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be." - Martin Luther King Jr. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France "The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde "You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours." -Colin Powell "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments." - Napoleon Hill One small step for a man ~ One giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong December 2004 "The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself." - Eleanor Roosevelt Holidays have no pity. - Eugenio Montale When we fail we call it experience; when we succeed, we call it genius You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war - Napoleon Bonaparte "Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." - Mignon McLaughlin We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill *"When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly." - Sappho Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - D. P. Barron The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have not stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin. - Benjamin E. Mayes What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Ghandi There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. - Guy Almes If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances. - Julia Soul Wealth flows from energy and ideas. - William Feather Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoléon Bonaparte Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday. - Gladys Tabor Forgiveness for ourselves is the journey from guilt over what we have done or not done to the celebration of what we have become. - Dr. Joan Borysenko You can always spot a well-informed man -- his views are the same as yours. - Ilka Chase I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. - Everett Dirksen I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going. - George Bernard Shaw The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality. - Douglas Porter Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero Just because you have a computer, doesn't mean you can't be stupid. - Beavis and Butthead "He who knows not but knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him. He who knows not, but knows he knows not is a wise man; follow him." - Plato I began to look forward with delight to the approaching winter with its wondrous storms, when I would be warmly snow-bound in my Yosemite cabin with plenty of bread and books. - John Muir Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. - Oiver Wendell Holmes Sr. November 2004 "The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our lives is toward happiness." - Dalai Lama The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church. - Fedinand Magellan "The best part about telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said." Mark Twain Suffering is overated. - Bill Veeck "It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that." - Alan Alda The Snow Goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. - Lao-Tse Only the mediocre are always at their best. - Jean Giraudoux Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost A dog will show his love by jumping on you at the front door. A cat will show his love by ignoring you, and then curling up next to you when you need it most. - Danielle Asson I do dumb things sometimes. - Bob Knight True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. - Edward F. Halifax Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. - Henry Spencer A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. - Maya Angelou Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto Von Bismarck In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. - John C Dvorak All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. - Oscar Wilde "How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?" - Logan Pearsall Smith "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.) "If we fail to anticipate the unforseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized, or easily referenced." -The X-Files: Fight the Future "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - Pancho Villa Last words "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 October 2004 "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. - Samuel Goldwyn Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. - Sir Arthur Helps "I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon Consider the postage stamp: its usefullness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. - Josh Billings You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin "...Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third. " - Bud Abbott and Lou Costello To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men. - Abraham Lincoln The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome. - Peter L. Bernstein Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do--or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice. - Walter Anderson "If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: I'm cheap!" - Delta Burke "In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce What I love the most about deadlines is the whooshing sound they make as they go by. - Douglas Adams Dollars have never been known to produce character, and character will never be produced by money. - W.K. Kellogg "Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." - Earl of Chesterfield "A wise man knows his ignorance; a fool thinks he knows everything." - C. Simmons "Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." Wernher von Braun If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. - John Paul Getty If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. - Oscar Wilde "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." - Jacob M. Braude The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. - Atlanta Journal "Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare A wop bop a lu bop a wop bam boom! - Little Richard Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I become that person. Or he became me. - Cary Grant 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 or defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt September 2004 "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 Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. -Christopher Morley There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan Cultivation to the mind, is as necessary as food to the body. - Cicero He is the richest who is content with the least. -Socrates If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. - Harry Banks "I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde." - Dolly Parton We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. - Omar Bradley Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. - Joseph Gallivan The really nice thing about NOT planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of worry and depression. - Sir John Harvey-Jones "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - Edward Estlin Cummings When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films. - Paul Newman Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? - La Rochefoucauld The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. - Elie Wiesel A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller "Yes. I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punnishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking> foes for friends. - (Arabian proverb) "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. - Scott Adams August 2004 This "telephone" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Western Union internal memo c.1876 Equal opportunity means everybody will have a fair chance at being incompetent. - Laurence J. Peter "I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." - Gloria Steinem "A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about." - Douglas Noel Adams "A nickel isn't worth a dime today" - Yogi Berra "Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." - Carl Schurz Beware what you set your heart upon, for it shall surely be yours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. - Napoleon Hill The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody, but ourselves. - Brian Tracy Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. - Ernest Benn "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. - Albert Einstein I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling. — Geronimo Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry Kaiser It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. - Lee Segall The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer. - Edward R. Murrow If you expect to succeed, you'll succeed. - Nikita Koloff I don't know why everyone makes such a fuss about Fred Astaire's dancing. I did all the same steps, only backwards. And in heels! - Ginger Rogers "Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life." - Joseph Conrad "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 Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. — Milton Friedman "Oh, I don't drink these days, I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs." - Robert Downey Jr "Imagination is more important than knowledge..." - Albert Einstein "Never explain- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyways." - Elbert Hubbard "It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating." - Jack Handey Try not! Do, or do not. There is no try. — Yoda Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. - Michael Caine Debts and lies are generally mixed together. - Francois Rabelais 100 Dollars placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than 100,000,000 Dollars, by which time it will be worth nothing. - Lazarus Long "Pick battles important enough to fight and small enough to win." - Johnathan Kozol "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 July 2004 Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience. - Admiral Hyman Rickover *"You are the sum total of all of your choices up to now." - Dr. Wayne Dyer My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. - Peter Drucker Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. - General George S. Patton "The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices." - Frederick II, the Great Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. - Weston H. Agor "One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words." – Theodore Roosevelt, 1916 A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. - Burt Bacharach A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. - Benjamin Franklin "Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies." - Honore de Balzac "That on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California," which was "an earthly paradise." - Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo, Spanish author about 1510 "Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking" - J.C. Watts "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln You have to learn to appreciate the little things in life, because the big things may never get here and then you've sat around for nothing. - Paul Reiser History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte "Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore." - Dorothy Bryant *Living well is the best revenge. - George Herbert "I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation." - Mike Todd December 2004 "The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself." - Eleanor Roosevelt Holidays have no pity. - Eugenio Montale When we fail we call it experience; when we succeed, we call it genius You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war - Napoleon Bonaparte "Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." - Mignon McLaughlin We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill *"When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly." - Sappho Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - D. P. Barron The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have not stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin. - Benjamin E. Mayes What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? - Mahatma Ghandi There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. - Guy Almes If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances. - Julia Soul Wealth flows from energy and ideas. - William Feather Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoléon Bonaparte Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday. - Gladys Tabor Forgiveness for ourselves is the journey from guilt over what we have done or not done to the celebration of what we have become. - Dr. Joan Borysenko You can always spot a well-informed man -- his views are the same as yours. - Ilka Chase I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. - Everett Dirksen I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going. - George Bernard Shaw The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality. - Douglas Porter Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero Just because you have a computer, doesn't mean you can't be stupid. - Beavis and Butthead "He who knows not but knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him. He who knows not, but knows he knows not is a wise man; follow him." - Plato I began to look forward with delight to the approaching winter with its wondrous storms, when I would be warmly snow-bound in my Yosemite cabin with plenty of bread and books. - John Muir Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. - Oiver Wendell Holmes Sr. November 2004 "The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our lives is toward happiness." - Dalai Lama The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church. - Fedinand Magellan "The best part about telling the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said." Mark Twain Suffering is overated. - Bill Veeck "It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that." - Alan Alda The Snow Goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. - Lao-Tse Only the mediocre are always at their best. - Jean Giraudoux Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost A dog will show his love by jumping on you at the front door. A cat will show his love by ignoring you, and then curling up next to you when you need it most. - Danielle Asson I do dumb things sometimes. - Bob Knight True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. - Edward F. Halifax Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. - Henry Spencer A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. - Maya Angelou Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto Von Bismarck In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. - John C Dvorak All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. - Oscar Wilde "How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?" - Logan Pearsall Smith "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.) "If we fail to anticipate the unforseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized, or easily referenced." -The X-Files: Fight the Future "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - Pancho Villa Last words "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 October 2004 "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." - Muhammad Ali I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. - Samuel Goldwyn Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. - Sir Arthur Helps "I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon Consider the postage stamp: its usefullness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. - Josh Billings You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin "...Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third. " - Bud Abbott and Lou Costello To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men. - Abraham Lincoln The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome. - Peter L. Bernstein Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do--or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice. - Walter Anderson "If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: I'm cheap!" - Delta Burke "In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce What I love the most about deadlines is the whooshing sound they make as they go by. - Douglas Adams Dollars have never been known to produce character, and character will never be produced by money. - W.K. Kellogg "Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." - Earl of Chesterfield "A wise man knows his ignorance; a fool thinks he knows everything." - C. Simmons "Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." Wernher von Braun If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. - John Paul Getty If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. - Oscar Wilde "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." - Jacob M. Braude The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. - Atlanta Journal "Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare A wop bop a lu bop a wop bam boom! - Little Richard Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I become that person. Or he became me. - Cary Grant 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 or defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt September 2004 "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 Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. -Christopher Morley There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan Cultivation to the mind, is as necessary as food to the body. - Cicero He is the richest who is content with the least. -Socrates If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. - Harry Banks "I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde." - Dolly Parton We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. - Omar Bradley Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. - Joseph Gallivan The really nice thing about NOT planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of worry and depression. - Sir John Harvey-Jones "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - Edward Estlin Cummings When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. - Thomas Paine The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films. - Paul Newman Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? - La Rochefoucauld The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. - Elie Wiesel A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller "Yes. I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punnishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking> foes for friends. - (Arabian proverb) "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. - Scott Adams August 2004 This "telephone" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Western Union internal memo c.1876 Equal opportunity means everybody will have a fair chance at being incompetent. - Laurence J. Peter "I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." - Gloria Steinem "A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about." - Douglas Noel Adams "A nickel isn't worth a dime today" - Yogi Berra "Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." - Carl Schurz Beware what you set your heart upon, for it shall surely be yours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. - Napoleon Hill The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody, but ourselves. - Brian Tracy Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. - Ernest Benn "There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread." - Mother Teresa The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income ta