Month: February 2009

Adele Brookman

“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.”

Bruce Lee

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

Carl Schurz

“If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. …

Susan Sontag

“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”

Havelock Ellis

“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be …

Charles Mackay

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses …

Nikola Tesla

“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to …

George McDonald

“Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”

Bono

“In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn’t quite know what to do about it. …

Eleanor Roosevelt

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say …

Mitch Hedberg

“With a stop light, green means ‘go’ and yellow means ‘slow down’. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means ‘go’, green …

Mitch Albom

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

Sonia Taitz

“What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.”

Steve Pavlina

“If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults …

John Maynard Keynes

“I do not know which makes a man more conservative?to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”

National Lampoon

“Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.”

George F. Will

“Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.”

Joseph Stalin

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

Matthew V. Lewis

“If you don’t think your life is worth more than someone else’s, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”

Susan Ertz

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

Peter Blake

“Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.”

George Santayana

“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”

Ellen Glasglow

“The only difference between a rut and a grave… is in their dimensions.”

Colin Powell

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

Indira Gandhi

“We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

Harriet Lerner

“Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.”

Norman Ford

“Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.”

John Gaule

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.”

Frank Deford

“I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.”

Herman Wouk

“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”

Dr. Frank Crane

“Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is …

Earl Warren

“I’m very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but …

Jewish Proverb

“Don’t be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don’t be bitter, lest you be spewed out.”

William Hutton

“The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.”

Matthew Oliphant

“I don’t think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.”

Virginia Woolf

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”