radhe radhe: 2011

પ્રસ્વેદમાં પૈસાની ચમક શોધે છે
હર ચીજમાં એક લાભની તક શોધે છે;
આ દુષ્ટ જમાનાનું રુદન શું કરીએ?
આંસુમાં ગરીબોના નમક શોધે છે.
- મરીઝ
નથી માત્ર મારું, આ દુ:ખ છે બધાનું,
ઉતાવળમાં કોરું રહી જાય પાનું.
જરા સ્થિર થઈએ તો સરનામું થઈએ,
પછી કહી શકીશું તને આવવાનું.
જે આયાસપૂર્વક તે કાઢ્યું ગળેથી,
ગળે કેમ ઊતરી શકે એ બહાનું ?
ઘણાં દર્દ વેઠીને આવ્યો છું અહીંયાં,
નથી ગમતું તેથી આ પાછા જવાનું.
ન માનો તો ગાયબ ને માનો તો હાજર,
હે ઈશ્વર ! તું તો શિલ્પ જાણે હવાનું.
- કિરણ ચૌહાણ
પુષ્પ લિપિમાં હું તારું અધિકરણ વાચું
ને મ્હેકમ્હેકમાં હું રંગીન વ્યાકરણ વાચું
અરે ઓ ધૂળ ! છે તારી નિશાળ અલગારી
રંગને, મ્હેકને, ફૂલોને હું અભણ વાચું !
- રમેશ પારેખ
મુક્તક - સૈફ પાલનપુરી
કોઈ સ્મિતે સ્મિતે સળગે છે
કોઈ રડીને દિલ બહેલાવે છે
કોઈ ટીપે ટીપે તરસે છે
કોઈ જામ નવા છલકાવે છે
સંજોગના પાલવમાં છે બધું
દરિયાને ઠપકો ના આપો
એક તરતો માણસ ડૂબે છે
એક લાશ તરીને આવે છે
- સૈફ પાલનપુરી
મુક્તક - ઘાયલ
ચડી આવે કદી ભૂખ્યો કોઈ હાંકી કહાડે છે
નથી કાંઈ પેટ જેવું અન્નકૂટ એને જમાડે છે
કરાવે છે મકાનો ખાલી મંદિર બાંધવા માટે
અહીં માનવને મારી લોક ઈશ્વરને જિવાડે છે
*
અમૃતથી હોઠ સહુના એંઠા કરી શકું છું
મૃત્યુના હાથ પળમાં હેઠા કરી શકું છું
આ મારી શાયરી એ સંજીવની છે ઘાયલ
શાયર છું પાળિયાને બેઠા કરી શકું છું
- અમૃત ઘાયલ
મુગ્ધકો !
[સાભાર પરત]
લાગણીના સાગરે મસ્તી હતી !
હા, કવિ ને કાવ્યની કસ્તી હતી !
લ્યો ‘પરત સાભાર’ થૈ આવી ઘરે !
શું કિલોના ભાવની પસ્તી હતી ?
[રવાડે ચડેલા કવિને !]
કાવ્યને ઘૂંટી ઘણું કાવો કીધો
શબ્દને લૂંટ્યો અરે બાવો કીધો
અર્થનાં વસ્ત્રોય ના છોડ્યાં તમે
ને કવિ હોવા વિશે દાવો કીધો !
[કાવ્ય-સર્જન પ્રક્રિયા]
રચું છું શબ્દનાં જાળાં, વળી તોડ્યા કરું છું હું !
કવિ છું, કાવ્યમાં હાંફ્યો છતાં દોડ્યા કરું છું હું !
નવું કૈં આપવાના કેફમાં છું કોણ જાણે…ને….
કવિતાની હજારો ખાંભીઓ ખોડ્યા કરું છું હું !

[મહાભિનિષ્ક્રમણ]
વિચારોથી લડીને એટલો ત્રાસી ગયો છું હું !
મગજના બારણાંઓ એટલે વાસી ગયો છું હું !
નથી રહેતો હું મારી જાતની સાથેય સંપીને
હવે મારા મહીંથી એટલે નાસી ગયો છું હું !
[કાવ્યપઠન વેળાએ...]
ભરેલી મ્હેફિલોના ખ્યાલમાં છલકાઈ જાઉં છું !
થશે શું હારતોરા ! હોંશથી હરખાઈ જાઉં છું !
કે સાંભળનારને સ્થાને દીસે જ્યાં ખાલી પાથરણાં
રચેલા કાવ્યમાં પાછો ફરી દફનાઈ જાઉં છું !
[મારી કારકિર્દી વિશે !]
લખું છું કેટલું તોયે પુરસ્કૃત હું નથી હોતો !
કરેલાં સર્જનોમાંયે ચમત્કૃત હું નથી હોતો !
બહુ છે ભાંડનારાઓ, અમારા ચાહકો ક્યાં છે ?
અડિખમ છું હજી એથી બહિષ્કૃત હું નથી હોતો !
[વાચકોને]
કહ્યું કોણે ? અરે સાહિત્યથી હું ક્યાં પ્રભાવિત છું ?
ઉછીનાં તેજ ના માગો ! અરે હું ક્યાં પ્રકાશિત છું ?
કે ખડિયામાં રહ્યો છું, તરફડ્યો છું, લડખડ્યો છું હું !
કલમ દ્વારા પરાણે બ્હાર આવ્યો, તો નિરાશ્રિત છું !
[એ જ અભ્યર્થના...]
કાવ્ય દ્વારા જેટલી મસ્તી વધે,
એટલી સાહિત્યમાં પસ્તી વધે !
સૌ કવિ ના થાય એ અભ્યર્થના,
દેશમાં બેફામ છો વસ્તી વધે !

PROVEBS IN GUJARATI

કહેવતો
- ગાજ્યાં મેઘ વરસે નહી ને ભસ્યાં કુતરાં કરડે નહી.
- આવડે નહી ઘેઁશ ને રાઁધવા બેસે ભેંસ.
- વારા ફરથી વારો અને મારા પછી તારો.
- વઘારેલી ખીચડી દાઢે વાળગી.
- ન બોલવામાં નવ ગુણ.
- બોલે એના બોર વેચાય.
- કાગડો દહીંથરુ લઇ ગયો.
- વિદ્યા વિનય થી શોભે છે.
- સાહસ વિના સિદ્ધિ નથી.
- કુતરુ કાઢતા બિલાડુ પેંઠુ.
- વાંદરા ને સીડી ના અપાય.
- કેડ માં છોકરુ ને ગામ માં ઢિંઢોરો.
- ગામ હોય ત્યાં ઉકરડો હોયજ.
- નામ છે એનો નાશ છે.
- કુવામાં હોય તો હવાડા માં આવે.
- બાપ તેવા બેટા ને વડ તેવા ટેટા.
- મોર ના ઇંડા ચીતરવા ના પડે.
- જેવો દેશ તેવો વેશ.
- જેવો સંગ તેવો રંગ.
- જેની લાઠી એની ભેંસ.
- જેવું વાવો તેવુ લણો.
- ઝાઝા રસોઇયા રસોઇ બગાડે.
- સો વાત ની એક વાત.
- દુર થી ડુંગરા રળિયામણા.
- મામાનું ઘર કેટલે, દિવો બળે એટલે.
- સોબત કરતા શ્વાનની બે બાજુ નુ દુઃખ, ખીજ્યું કરડે પીંડીએ રીઝ્યું ચાટે મુખ્.
- આવડે નહિઁ ઘેઁશ (ખીચડી) ને રાઁધવા બેસ
- ડાહી સાસરે જાય નહિઁ ને ગાઁડી ને શિખામણ આપે
- ઠોઠ નિશાળા ને વત્તરણાઁ ઝાઝાઁ
- તારુઁ મારુઁ સહિયારુઁ ને મારુઁ મારાઁ બાપનુઁ
- હઁગીને આહડવા બેસવુઁ
- હાલ હાલ હલ્લુની માશી (હાલતો થા)
- ગાજ્યાઁ વરસાદ વરસે નહિઁ ને ભસ્યાઁ કુતરાઁ કરડે નહિઁ
- ઘી ઢોળાયુઁ તો ખીચડી માઁ
- પેટ કરાવે વેઁઠ
- દીધે પે દયા ભલી
- ઘરના છોકરાઁ ઘઁટી ચાટે
- ઘર બાળીને તીરથ ન કરાય
- ગામના મહેલ જોઈને આપણાઁ ઝુપડાઁ તોડી ન નખા.
- થાઈ એવાં થઈએ, તો ગામ વચ્ચે રહીએ.
- થાય તો કરવું, નહીં તો બેસી રહેવું.
- થાકશે, ત્યારે પાકશે.
- વાર્યાં ના વરે, હાર્યાં વરે.
- થોડું બોલે તે થાંભલો કોરે.
- થોડું સો મીઠું.
- થોડું રાંધ, મને પીરસ, ને ભૂખી રહે તો મારા સમ.
- થોડું ખાવું ને મોટાની સાથે રહેવું.
- થોડે નફે બમણો વકરો.
- થોડું બોલે તો જીતી જાય, ને બહુ બોલે તે ગોદા ખાય.
- થોડે બોલે થોડું ખાય.
- થોડે થોડે ઠીક જ થાય.
- પોથાં તે થોથાં, અને ડાચાં તે સાચાં.
- અંતે ધર્મો જય, પાપો ક્ષય.
- ગૉળ અંધારે ખાધો તોય ગળ્યો અને અજવાળે ખાધો તોય ગળ્યો.
- અન્ન તેનું પૂણ્ય અને રાંધનારીને ધૂમાડો.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

GOOD THOUGHTS QUOTES

Here's a collection of some of my favorite quotes. I'm always adding to it. If you have a favorite you'd like to add you can email me or add it as a comment to a post.

"There's no use trying," Alice said, "One can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen, "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."--Lewis Carroll

It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.--Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. --Norman Vincent Peale

Be the change that you want to see in the world.--Mohandas Gandhi

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.--Eleanor Roosevelt

It's never too late to be what you might have been.--George Ernst

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.--Henry David Thoreau

We are pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world.--Mother Teresa

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. --Rabbi Harold Kushner

Nothing unless first a dream.--Carl Sandburg

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles.--Washington Irving

The best way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas.--Linus Pauling

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.-- Marcel Proust

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path.--Julia Cameron

Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.--Elaine St. James

It takes a long time to become young.--Pablo Picasso

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.--Plato

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.--Eleanor Roosevelt

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.--Helen Keller

Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.--Anonymous

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.--Dr. Seuss

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.--Mohandas Gandhi

Peace begins with a smile.--Mother Teresa

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.--Albert Einstein

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.--Albert Schweitzer

For happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you. —Charlie Brown from Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schultz

“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do”-- Orison Swett Marden

Art is neither a profession or a hobby. Art is a Way of being.--Frederick Franck

Good works are links that form a chain of love.--Mother Teresa

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Real winners achieve their success through honest hard work" - Rajesh, Trippalur, Palakkad

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."-- Mother Teresa

Silence is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.--Father Thomas Keating

"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why."--Albert Einstein

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” —Plato

“Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.” —Mary Engelbreit, artist

“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. ”-- Nelson Mandela

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength. -- Corrie Ten Boom

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” —Thornton Wilder

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.”--Henry Van Dyke

The earth laughs in flowers. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.--Rachel Carson

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”—Voltaire

Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.--Sir Walter Scott

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.--Mohandas Gandhi

"Dwell in possibility."-- Emily Dickinson

"Imagination precedes fact."--C.S. Lewis

“No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.”—Zig Ziglar

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”--Woodrow Wilson, the 28th US President

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him. --Jim Elliot

“Only a life lived for others is worth living.” --Albert Einstein

No one has ever become poor by giving.--Anne Frank

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.--Carl Jung

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”-Mohandas Gandhi

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

“We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessing of peace.”--—William Gladstone

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.--Rabindranath Tagore

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! --Ruth Ann Schabacker

"The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart." --Menius

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. - William Arthur Ward“Dream your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind. Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe. Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind.” —Debbie Coulter"When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, 'Yes, this is how I ought to feel.'" -- Harold Kushner

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." --Joseph Addison

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.” —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn
You were born an original. Don't die a copy." --John Mason
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. --Robert Brault “Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible. -- Marcel Duchamp Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. -- William James

The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb

The best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -- William Wordsworth

My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is. --Ron Olson
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? -- Pablo Picasso
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world. -- Harold Kushner
"Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive, because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny."--Mahatma Gandhi
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.--Pablo Picasso

Goodthought Quotes from Readers

Don’t be so busy in doing what you should do; that you don’t get time to do what you want to do.--Jaisal

"Counting on my positives I shall rise...

Higher and higher to my own surprise." -Sankalp S. Paralkar

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.--Jaisal

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ~Virgil A. Kraft

50 good thoughts

1. It is not what you do for your juniors/subordinates/children that are important. It is what you teach them to do for them selves.
2. The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people.
3. A successful man is he who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him! Learn to accept criticism proactively and with grace.
4. Your success is determined by what you are willing to sacrifice for it.
5. No one will manufacture a lock without a key. Similarly the God does not give problems without solutions. Only we should have patience and courage to find them.
6. Success is not the key to happiness. But happiness is the key to success.
7. Do not complain about others. Change yourself if you want peace. It is easier to protect our feet with shoes than to carpet the earth.
8. Do not only be close with someone who makes you happy. Be close with someone who can not be happy without you. It may make a lot difference to him at least.
9. Bill Gates never did LaxmiPooja but he is the richest man. Einstein never did SaraswatiPooja but he was the cleverest man. So just believe in hard work.
10. You can tell whether a man is intelligent by his answers. But you can tell a man is wise by his questions.
11. Slow down and enjoy life. It is not only the scenery you miss by going fast but you also miss the sense of where
you are going and why.
12. The only thing I like about stones that come in my way is: once I pass them, they automatically become my
milestones.
13. Luck is not in your hands. But work is in your hands. Your works can make your luck but luck can not make
your works. So always trust yourself.
14. Love is a gift. If you receive it, open and appreciate it. If not, don not worry. Someone somewhere is still
wrapping it for you.
15. Birds that live in a lake will fly away when the lake dries. But the lotus that grows in the same lake will die with
the lake. So recognize the birds in your life.
16. Coincidence decides to whom you meet in life. Your heart and your mind decide with whom you want to stay in life. But only destiny decides who gets to stay in your life.
17. Everything in life has a beautiful ending. And if it is not beautiful, then be sure, it is not the ending.
18. MORNING means one more inning given by the god to play.
19. A person who surrenders when he is wrong is honest.
A person, who surrenders when not sure, is wise.
A person, who surrenders even if he is right, is a HUSBAND! :-)
20. I can not say whether things will get better if we change, what I can say is that if we want to get better, we need to change.
21. Leave something for someone…never leave someone for something because in life something may leave you but someone will always live with you.
22. Too often we underestimate the power a touch, a smile, a kind word, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the power to build a life long relationship.
23. God has deposited Love, Joys, Prosperity, Peace and Laughter plus all kind of Blessings in your account. Use without limit. The PIN code is : PRAYER!
24. Three best things:
A little seed in good soil
A few cows in good grass
A few friends in tavern
25. One meets his destiny often on the road he tried to avoid it.
26. With lies you may go ahead in the world but you can never come back.
27. The road to a friend’s house is never too long.
28. When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.
29. There is none luckier than he who thinks himself so.
30. The truth may walk around naked, but the lie has to be clothed.
31. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
32. No one knows what he can do until he tries.
33. God gives every bird its food but does not always drop it into the nest.
34. Do not choose for any one what you do not choose for yourself.
35. It is better, in times of need, to have a friend than to have money.
36. As you do to others, they will do to you.
37. Little children – little joys
Bigger children – bigger sorrows
38. A good name keeps its brightness even in dark days.
39. An inch of gold will not buy an inch of time.
40. A light heart lives long.
41. Personality has the power to open the doors, but it takes character to keep them open.
42. The person who likes you more will trouble you more. But when you drop a tear, they will fight the world to stop that tear.
43. Those people whom you miss in your happiness are the ones whom you love. But those people whom you miss in your sadness are the ones who love you. Do not forget them.
44. Success is not a matter of being the best and winning the race, it is a matter of handling the worst and finishing the race. Be positive.
45. A man does not start turning old when his hair starts graying, but when his enthusiasm towards life and its joy start dropping. Just keep checking your age!!
46. A honey bee visits 2 million flowers to collect 500 mg of honey. So our workload is nothing as compared to them. Be cheerful and keep working.
47. It is not that some people have will power and some do not. It is that some people are ready to change and others are not. Believe in yourself and change for betterment.
48. Everybody says that mistake is the first step to success. But it is not true. Actually it is the correction of mistake.
49. Winners recognize their limitations but focus on their strengths.
Losers recognize their strengths but focus on their weaknesses.
50. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

PROVERBS - JUST ADDED

Success should not go to head and failure should not go to heart. (Tamil proverb)

TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More.

Light travels faster then sound... which is why most people appear brilliant until you hear them.

Happiness is like a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you. (Hawthorne)

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. (Indira Gandhi)

The larger the lake of knowledge the longer the shore of wonder.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace. (Jimi Hendrix)

There is a light at the end of every tunnel, just pray it's not a train.

You were born as an original. Don't die as a copy.

He who feels that he is too small to make a difference has never been bitten by a mosquito.

If I knew grandchildren were going to be this much fun, I would have had them first!

If you let go of the past, it no longer has a hold on you.

There is a certain freedom in having nothing left to lose.

Rules + Regulations - Relationships = Resentment + Rebellion.

When I stand before the Lord, I'd rather explain why I went, rather than why I didn't go.

We do what we believe, the rest is just a bunch of religious talk.

Of course men can multitask, they read on the toilet.

Friendship should not be sought, but is usually found both by chance and good luck.

Enthusiasm can be like a fire that needs an occasional poke with a stick.

The envious praise me unknowingly. (Kahlil Gibran)

A lasting marriage consists of the 3 C's;
Commitment
Communication
Compromise.
(Lilly)

If you can laugh with a person, you can work with a person.

Strive for perfection in everything you do.
Take the best that exists and make it better.
When it does not exist, design it.
(Sir Frederick Henry Royce - of Rolls-Royce)

Smile is contagious; just smile at someone and see their reaction.

It takes a day to find a friend, a moment to lose them but a lifetime to forget them.

He, who doesn't hope to win has already lost. (Simon Bolivar)

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Making your good times count and not forgeting your bad times makes a man sucessful.

Talent is useless without training, thank God. (Mark Twain)

Relationships-- of all kinds-- are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost. (Kaleel Jamison)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Fate decides who walks into your life, you decide who you let stay, who you let walk away, and who you refuse to let walk out.

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

Don't make someone a priority, who only makes you an option.

If a man is not there for you at your worst, he does not deserve to see you at your best.

It is the pain of sacrifice or the pain of regret.

He who wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper. (Edmund Burke)

It's good to have money and all the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. (George Horace Lorimer)

Friendship is not about who came first or who cares the most. It is all about who came in your life and never left.

Contingencies have tendencies to become dependencies. (W. Thomas McQueeney)

When you take things for granted, the things you are granted, get taken. (Phil Hennessy)

The older I get, the smarter my Dad gets. (Mark Twain)

The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge. (Jagad Guru)

Charity may begin at home, but if it goes no further, it's no longer charity. It's clan loyalty.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Advice for the day: If you have a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two, and keep away from children.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water. (Ben Franklin)

A succesful man makes more money than his woman can spend.
A succesful woman is one who can find such a man.

If you can't dance, don't blame the dance floor.

The road to a friends house is never long. (Swedish proverb)

The time to ensure that the toilet works is before you really need it.

Making enemies out of friends is easy.
Making friends out of enemies is difficult, but it is actually worthwhile.

Fools learn from experience. Wise men learn from the experience of others (Otto von Bismark)

When the congregation falls asleep it is time for the minister to wake up.

The measure of greatness is not found in your accomplishments. Its in how much discouragement it takes to stop you.

People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. There is much chaos in this world because things are being loved and people are being used.

Laziness is the mother of all vice... but, it's a mother and you should respect her! (Spanish popular wisdom)

Being Australian is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, and then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.

Talent hits the target which no one else can hit; genius hits the target which no one else can see.

A beautiful relationship does not depend upon how good we understand someone but on how well we avoid misunderstandings.

Wisdom will keep you from getting into situations where you need it. (Bruce M. Sandbrook)

Opportunity is a bald man with a beard: You can catch him coming, but you can' t catch him going.

What is worth having is worth waiting for.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Robert Frost)

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. (Mohandas Gandhi)

As long as people keep killing people, to stop the killing of people, the killing will go on.

If love was a raindrop I would send you a shower
If hope was a minute I would send you an hour
If happiness was a leaf I would send you a tree
If you need a friend you will always have me!

Surely it's no coincidence that the word "listen" is an anagram of the word "silent".

May every day of your life together be worse than the next. (Old Irish wedding blessing)

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. (Abraham Lincoln)

A good match blows fire...

You may have grown old, but you may not have grown up.

It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

A Sunday school teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible, Psalm 23. She gave the youngsters a month to learn the verse. Little Rick was excited about the task - but he just couldn't remember the Psalm. After much practice, he could barely get past the first line. Then came the day that the kids were scheduled to recite Psalm 23 in front of the congregation. When it was his turn, Rick stepped up to the microphone and said proudly, "The Lord is my Shepherd, and that's all I need to know."

A Sunday school teacher asked, "Johnny, do you think Noah did a lot of fishing when he was on the Ark?"
"No," replied Johnny. "How could he, with just two worms?"

A Sunday school teacher was carefully explaining the story of Elijah, the Prophet and the false prophets of Baal. She explained how Elijah built the altar, put wood upon it, cut the steer in pieces, and laid it upon the altar. And then Elijah commanded the people of God to fill four barrels of water and pour it over the altar. He had them do this four times - "Now," said the teacher, "can anyone in the class tell me why the Lord would have Elijah pour water over the steer on the altar?"
A little girl in the back of the room started waving her hand, " I know, I know!" she said, "To make the gravy!"

A Sunday school teacher was describing how Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt, when little Jason interrupted, "My Mummy looked back once while she was driving," he announced triumphantly, "and she turned into a telephone pole!"

Nine-year-old Joey was asked by his mother what he had learned in Sunday school.
"Well, Mom, our teacher told us how God sent Moses behind enemy lines on a rescue mission to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. When he got to the Red Sea, he had his army build a pontoon bridge and all the people walked across safely. Then he radioed headquarters for reinforcements. They sent bombers to blow up the bridge and all the Israelites were saved."
"No Joey, is that really what the teacher taught you?" his mother asked.
"Well, no, Mom, but if I told it the way the teacher did, you'd never believe it!"

The banquet was about to begin when the master of ceremonies was informed that the clergyman invited to give the blessing was unable to attend.
He asked the main speaker if he would oblige, and the man agreed.
He began, "There is no clergyman present, let us thank God."

If you need time alone, try cleaning the house.

If I never had a bad day, how would I know whether I was having a good day? (Lee)

Looks capture the eyes.
Personality captures the heart.

Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French, the lovers Italian, and all is organize by the Swiss.
Hell is where the police are German, the mechanics are French, the cooks are British, the lovers are Swiss, and it's all organized by the Italians!
(Eliane Kirchner)

When you give and don't expect anything back that's love. But if you give and expect a return it's an investment.

God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.

The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his driveway. After a fruitless search, he told his mother the lens was no where to be found.
Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes returned with the lens in her hand.
"How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked.
"We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150."

Laughter is a smile with the volume turned up.

Sometimes we all have days where we are 386's in a P4 world.

Have you ever noticed how the contents of a box are much more interesting before the box is opened?

It is okay to visit your past just don't bring any luggage with you.

Don't ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.

There's a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation. It's called your checkbook.

Knowledge is proud she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more. (Cowper)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. (Mark Twain)

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.

We can't always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Be not simply good; be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau)

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. (Mark Twain)

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

A children's catechism class was learning the Apostles Creed. Each child had been assigned a sentence to repeat.
The first one said, "I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth."
The second child said, "I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son."When he had completed his sentence, there was an embarrassing silence.
Finally, one child piped up, "Teacher, the boy who believes in the Holy Spirit isn't here."

People laugh because I'm different, I laugh because they're all the same.

My Sunday school class of kindergartners was studying the creation story.
After several weeks, we were ready to review.
"What did God make the first day?" I quizzed.
"The second day?" They answered both questions correctly.
"And what happened on the third day?" I asked.
One little child, face shining with enthusiasm, exclaimed, "He rose from the dead!"

Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future.
Faith is having the courage to dance to it today.

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours. (Colin Powell)

Impossibility simply means I'm possibility. (Monsieur Nana Adom)

Faith is personal, but never private.

Tears are the baptism of the soul.

Utility is when you have one telephone,
luxury is when you have two,
and paradise is when you have none.

A politician is the one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

Quality rather than quantity determines your success.

Turn the despair of being alone into the wonder of being alone with God.

Don't protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

FUNNY ONE -LINER

Funny One-Liners

100,000 sperm and you were the fastest?
42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
A day without sunshine is like, night.
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.
A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
All men are idiots, and I married their King.
Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
Always try to be modest and be proud of it!
Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of.
Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.
Assassins do it from behind.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Auntie Em, Hate you, hate Kansas, taking the dog. Dorothy.
Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Beer: It's not just for breakfast anymore.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks
Borrow money from a pessimist, they don't expect it back.
Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo!
C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit.
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
Chocolate: the OTHER major food group.
Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!
Could you drive any better if I shoved that cell phone up your ass?
Criminal Lawyer is a redundancy.
Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?
Death is hereditary.
Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains?
Did anyone see my lost carrier?
Diplomacy is the art of saying good doggie while looking for a bigger stick.
Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either. Just leave me alone.
Don't be irreplaceable; if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
Don't drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill your drink.
Don't piss me off! I'm running out of places to hide the bodies.
Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.
Double your drive space. Delete Windows!
Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Energizer Bunny arrested and charged with battery.
Error, no keyboard. Press F1 to continue.
Ever notice how fast Windows runs? Neither did I.
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.
Forget world peace. Visualize using your turn signal.
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
Friends may come and go, but enemies tend to accumulate.
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can, and you had best do what you're told.
Get a new car for your spouse; it'll be a great trade!
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
Good judgment comes from bad experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
Honk if you love peace and quiet.
Honk if you want to see my finger.
How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink?
How does Teflon stick to the pan?
How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals. I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame you.
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
I get enough exercise just pushing my luck.
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
I need someone really bad. Are you really bad?
I poured Spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
I took an IQ test and the results were negative.
I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
I used to have a handle on life, and then it broke.
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
I won't rise to the occasion, but I'll slide over to it.
I wouldn't be caught dead with a necrophiliac.
I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar.
I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.
If you can read this, I can slam on my brakes and sue you!
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
If you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
If you get to it and you can't do it, well there you jolly well are, aren't you.
If you haven't much education you must use your brain.
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it was probably worth it.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
IRS: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.
It IS as bad as you think, and they ARE out to get you.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.
Jack Kevorkian for White House Physician.
Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an asshole.
Join the Army, meet interesting people, and kill them.
Keep honking. I'm reloading.
Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.
Learn from your parents' mistakes: use birth control.
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
Montana: At least our cows are sane!
More hay, Trigger? No thanks, Roy, I'm stuffed!
Multitasking means screwing up several things at once.
My hockey mom can beat up your soccer mom.
My mind is like a steel trap, rusty and illegal in 37 states.
Never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut.
Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
Never mess up an apology with an excuse.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Oh Lord, give me patience, and GIVE IT TO ME NOW!
Okay, who put a stop payment on my reality check?
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
Oops. My brain just hit a bad sector.
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.
Plan to be spontaneous, tomorrow.
Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
Quantum mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.
Quickly, I must hurry, for there go my people and I am their leader.
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
Remember half the people you know are below average.
Save the whales. Collect the whole set
Save your breath. You'll need it to blow up your date!
Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.
Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
Smile, it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface.
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Some people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them.
Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.
Suicidal twin kills sister by mistake!
Support bacteria, they're the only culture some people have.
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Finland. Now Santa Claus is missing.
The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required on it.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
The hardness of butter is directly proportional to the softness of the bread.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a flat tire.
The more you complain, the longer God makes you live.
The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
The secret of the universe is @*&^^^ NO CARRIER
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.
The sex was so good that even the neighbors had a cigarette.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.
The universe is a figment of its own imagination. There's no future in time travel.
There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.
There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all of its students.
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Very funny Scotty, now beam down my clothes.
Wanted: Meaningful overnight relationship.
Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?
We were born naked, wet and hungry. Then things got worse.
Wear short sleeves! Support your right to bare arms!
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
What is a free gift? Aren't all gifts free?
What's the speed of dark?
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane and going the wrong way.
When there's a will, I want to be in it.
When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?
Who stopped payment on my reality check?
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
Why is abbreviation such a long word?
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.
You are depriving some poor village of its idiot.
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted then used against you.
You're just jealous because the voices are talking to me and not you!
Your gene pool could use a little chlorine.
Your kid may be an honors student, but you're still an idiot.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

It is bad luck to be superstitious.

Andrew W. Mathis

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962), to a young physicist

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Zora Neale Hurston (1901 - 1960), Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.

William Feather (1908 - 1976)

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford (1942 - ), quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

Matt Frewer, as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), "The Peter Principle"

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

Britney Spears (1981 - )

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".

Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962), to a young physicist

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

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 (1894 - 1961)

The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008

I'll be ready for it to happen and that way it won't happen. It's a burden, being able to control situations with my hyper-vigilance, but it's my lot in life.

Tina Fey, Bossypants, 2011

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Anonymous

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Woody Allen (1935 - )

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Prejudices: Second Series, 1920

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

It's not about the length of the posts. It's about the passion.

Cam Barrett, Better Blogging Brainstorming, SXSW 2006

Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937)

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.

Jewish Proverb

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Gail Pool

If the young only knew; if the old only could.

French Proverb

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923), Speech in Boston, 1920

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 1

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

Ilya Prigogine (1917 - )

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.: Antiphanes
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 07-03-05
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.: Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
Education is the best provision for old age.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.: Anonymous, (wrongly attributed to the Koran)
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.: J. Arthur Thomson
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005)
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.: Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
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 (1903 - 1950)
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.: Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977)

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Saki (1870 - 1916)

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams (1957 - )

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 1642

Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Gene Fowler

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Edward Chapin

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

The powers that be are ordained of God,

Bible, Romans xiii. 1.

Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

William Thayer Shedd

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

American Proverb

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900), 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

Patrick Young

All phone calls are obscene.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

Jewish Proverb

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom,
We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them,
Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

Kanye West

I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.

Dr. Ana M Guzman

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Amicitia

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Maya Angelou (1928 - )

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), (Snoopy)

If people aren't going to talk about your product, then it's not good enough.

Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Designing for Community with Zero-Advertising Brands, SXSW 2006

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

John H. Patterson

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

Stephen Hawking (1942 - )

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.

Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 07-12-09

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)

Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Bible, Psalm lxxxv. 10.

A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

Anonymous

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

I like life. It's something to do.

Ronnie Shakes

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963), last message to the world, 1957

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Bertha Calloway

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.

Joel Spolsky, Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park

Evil draws men together.

Aristle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles (527 BC - 460 BC), from Plutarch, Lives

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

Mike Myers

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Wendy Magruder

My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876)

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Mary Todd Lincoln (1818 - 1882)

The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.

Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

And the grasshopper shall be a burden.

Bible, Ecclesiastes xii. 5.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.

Orson Scott Card (1951 - ), Ender's Game

Dreams are wishes your heart makes.

American Proverb

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

Bible, Job xxix. 15.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)

Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

David Shore, House M.D., Pilot, 2004

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Simone de Beauvoir

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Celia Thaxter

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Marie Beyon Ray

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864

Gossip about a person and his shadow will appear.

Japanese Proverb

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Mel Brooks (1926 - )

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining...

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1965

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)

The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Senator Dianne Feinstein (1933 - )

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

Bible, James 1: 23-24

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel (1928 - )

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Steve Jobs (1955 - )

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

John Milton (1608 - 1674)

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