Great Quotes To Live By


"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of
scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams."
--Mary Ellen Kelly

"The impossible is often the untried."
--Jim Goodwin

"Quoting one is plagiarism. Quoting many is research."
--Anonymous

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
--Albert Einstein

"Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect."
--Benny Hill

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
--Publius

"The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The
person who knows "why" will always be his boss."
--Diane Ravitch

"Leadership is action, not position."
--Donald H. McGannon

"What a man can imagine he may one day achieve."
--Nancy Hale

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
--Washington Irving

"Windows:  A 32 bit shell for a 16 bit operating system, originally
written for an 8 bit processor on a 4 bit bus by a 2 bit company
that can't stand 1 bit of competition!"
--Anonymous

"When you see a snake, never mind where he came from."
--W. G. Benham

"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 (Lawrence of Arabia)

"I'll not listen to reason.  Reason is always what someone
else has got to say."
--Elizabeth C. Gaskell

"Attempt the impossible in order to improve you work."
--Bette Davis

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can
be made in a very narrow field."
--Niels Bohr

"Do not rely completely on any other human being, however
dear.  We meet all of life's greatest tests alone."
--Agnes McPhail

"History will be kind to me, because - I intend to
write it !"
--Winston Churchill

"If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you
find it there, expect it elsewhere."
--Malcolm Forbes

"They stood at attention in a neat row, all with the same uniform,
yet each with his own values."
--Warren Peace, The Lieutenant's Array

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

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

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

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

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

"I haven't been wrong since 1973, when I thought I made a mistake."
-- Bob Hudson

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

"Minutes are worth more than money.  Spend them wisely."
--Thomas P. Murphy

"Chance favors those in motion."
--James H. Austin

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."
--Dorothea Brande

"My mistake was buying stock in the company. Now I'm worried
about the lousy work I'm turning out."
--Marvin Townsend

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
-- Samuel Goldwyn

"If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more
precious gift."
--Frank Tyger

"Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation."
--Norman Augustine

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
-- Oscar Wilde

"What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first
step to something better."
--Wendell Phillips

"The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he
almost wins."
--Heywood Broun

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
--Gen. George S. Patton

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known
until it be lost."
--Charles Caleb Colton

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
--Anonymous

"The best mirror is an old friend."
--Anonymous