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Quotations
"Quote
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| "There
are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal
with what is most difficult.” - Rainer Maria Rilke 9-1-11
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| "We
acquire skills through constant practice. They accrue in increments so small that
we seem to be making no progress. We lose competence in the same way---taking
for granted our hard-won habits and barely aware they are leaving us." - David
Mamet 8-1-11"Tourists
don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going." - Paul
Theroux"Don't
flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to
your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary
do tact and courtesy become." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It
is a fallacy that wisdom comes with age. Old men do not automatically become wiser.
They become more careful." - Ernest Hemingway"The
difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then
given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson." - Tom
BodettNothing
is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love
of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the
old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer. Jerome K. Jerome "Love
is like the measles; we all have to go through it." - Jerome K. Jerome "A
little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success." - Elbert Hubbard "Gratitude
is the memory of the heart." - Jean Baptiste Massieu"The
excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking
for your joy." - Eudora Welty "There
are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
- James Thurber "It
is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new
forms of expression." - Eric Hoffer "The
world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own
face." - William Makepeace Thackeray "It
is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer
to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations." - Walter
Bagehot "The
real essence of work is concentrated energy." - Walter Bagehot"It
is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." - James Thurber
"Love
grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way
to retain love is to give it away." - Elbert Hubbard "Be
courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you
give them your confidence." - George Washington"A
perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell." - George Bernard Shaw"One
way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure." - William
Feather"Why
should poetry have to make sense?" - Charlie Chaplin"The
greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter
Bagehot"Man
is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."
- Eric Hoffer"We
work to become, not to acquire." - Elbert Hubbard"We
can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand." - Eric
Hoffer 9-3-10 |
"One
repays a teacher badly if one always remains a pupil." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"A
thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." - Oscar Wilde"Every
time history repeats itself the price goes up. " - Anon.
"A little inaccuracy sometimes
saves tons of explanation." - Saki"They
say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind." - G. K. Chesterton"If
only the good were a little less heavy-footed" - W. Somerset Maugham"You'll
find in no park or city
A monument to a committee." - Victoria Pasternack"Human
blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness." - A.J.P.
Taylor"Any
fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it." - Henry David Thoreau
When nations
grow old
the Arts grow cold,
And commerce settles on
every tree."
- William Blake"City
life: Millions of people being lonesome together." - Henry D. Thoreau"When
in Rome, do as the Romans ought to do." - Anon."Home
was quite a place when people stay there." - E. B. White"One
of the strangest things about life is that the poor who need money the most, are
the very ones that never have it." - Finley Peter Dunne"A
mind stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes"The
world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories." - Diane
Arbus"It's
good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check
up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't
buy." - George Horace Lorimer"The
brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning
and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost "What
you are when you are not trying to be anything is what you really are." -
Anon."What
we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test
of love." - Bishop Westcott "You
got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not
get there." - Yogi Berra
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Degas"Imagination
is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein"I
Personally think we develop language because of our deep need to complain."
- Lily Tomlin"Those
who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." - Salvador Dali"To
create one's world in any of the arts takes courage." - Georgia O'Keefe"A
great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself
from within." - Will Durant"The
tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young." - Oscar
Wilde"I
know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are
not aware of their own individuality..." - Georgia O'Keefe"Life
is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot" - Charlie
ChaplinJust
because some of our neighbors are taciturn, it does not follow that they have
nothing to tell. - Alexander Woollcott "The
best way out of a difficulty is through it." - Robert Frost"When
love and skill work together expect a masterpiece." - John Ruskin"Find
expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a
joy, and you intensify its ecstacy." - Oscar Wilde"He
is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." - Goethe
"There
is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues,
that is all." - Rebecca West "I
wish that I was where I am." - Gertrude Stein "One
should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening." - Oscar
Wilde"I'm
not claiming wisdom, but when you learn that you are always learning, you're liberated."
- Frank McCourt, Newsweek"The
world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let
them." - Robert Frost"The
best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized
society because I want the cream to rise." - Robert Frost "Government,
even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable
one." - Thomas Paine"The
whole of government consists in the art of being honest." - Thomas Jefferson"Every
man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers." - Hans Christian
Andersen"Throughout
history, the greatest menace to civilization has been the civilized nations"
- Anon."Ordinary
riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasure-house of
your soul, there are infinitely precious things that may not be taken from you."
- Oscar Wilde "There
are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert
Schweitzer"Great
minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by
misfortune; but great minds rise above them." - Washington Irving"Courage
and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear
and obstacles vanish into air." - John Quincy Adams
"If you wish to appear
agreeable in society you must consent to be taught many things which you know
already." - Lavater."If
wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart.
The spirit should not grow old." - James A. Garfield."Believe
me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes
we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Longfellow. "I
don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
- Abraham Lincoln "The
men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try
to do nothing and succeed." - Lloyd Jones "More
words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument."
- Will Rogers "Next
to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to
know when to forego an advantage." - Disraeli "To
believe with certainty we must begin by doubting." - Stanislaus."Happiness
is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." - Albert Schweitzer
"...awaiting
a rebirth of wonder." - Laurence Ferlinghetti "We
ourselves impart to our jobs the only honor and dignity they can have." -
Alexander Woollcott"The
saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury." - Charlie Chaplin
"Life
is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating." - O.
Henry"A
day without laughter is a day wasted." - Charlie Chaplin"It
may be those who do most, dream most." - Stephen Leacock"It's
amazing, the human capacity to not notice things that you're not interested in."
- Bram Gunther"Giving
up is the ultimate tragedy" - Robert J. Donovan"Time
you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Laurence J. Peter"Nothing
thickens one like travel." - Will Rogers"Old
age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions."
- Laurence J. Peter"Wonder
is involuntary praise." - Young "It
is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude
to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of a crowd keeps
with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson"Friendship
is the highest degree of perfection in society." - Montaigne"You
probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom
they do." - Olin Miller"The
nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's
their fault." - Henry Kissinger "Be
thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." - Will
Rogers (Suggested by Robin Jett, Red River Historian)"Patience
is also a form of action." - Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917) "I
never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein "Though
no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make
a brand new ending." - Anon. "Blessed
is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Jonathan
Swift "Smile
first thing in the morning. Get it over with." - W.C. Fields"An
appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court."
- Finley Peter Dunne"If
you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome;
if you believe the theologians,
nothing is innocent;
if you believe the military, nothing is safe." -
Lord Salisbury"Our
constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. senators." - Will Rogers
"Americans
detests all lies, except lies spoken in public or printed lies." - Ed
Howe"A
good listener is usually thinking about something else" - Kin Hubbard"Imitation
is the sincerest form of television." - Fred Allen "It
took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but by then
I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." - Robert Benchley
"All my
best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." Ralph Waldo Emerson"There
is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book,
and the tired man who just wants a book to read." - G.K. Chesterton"The
wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist
makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that
is people everywhere. Not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing
their true nature." - James Thurber "A
national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with
a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in." - H.L. Mencken“Right
now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this
before.” - Stephen Wright"Outside
of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx"By
all means, marry. If you marry a good woman you will be happy. If you marry a
bad woman you will become a philosopher." - Socrates "It
had only one fault. It was kind of lousy." - James Thurber"I
would go so far as to call the artist’s childhood his only authentic present;
all other stages of time experienced by him will merely indicate the depth of
perspective between two static points - childhood and death." - Alexander King
"I loathe the
expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind looking for simple and
singular solution, that uses that foolish expression. A person not only ticks,
he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put back together
again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm." - James
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