267. It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. —Buddha
268. Beauty is something we all admire, but beauty without charm is like a meal without spices. —Bernard Chevallier.
269. The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream. —Anon
270. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. —Anon
270. People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. —Neil Postman
271.Twenty years from now you will be disappointed by things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. —Mark Twain
272. I think there are two kinds of people when it comes to wisdom: people who regurgitate—like Parakeets, and those who are truly wise because they profoundly relate to wisdom. —Humberto Ruiz Jr.
273. Women think from North to South, while Men think from South to North. —Maria Constantino
274. Most people are as happy as they decide to be. —Abraham Lincoln
275. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. —Thomas Edison
276. Genius is knowing how far, too far to go. —Dustin Hoffman
277. Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? —Rose Kennedy (Times to Remember)
278. The definition of success—To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
279. "With many companies we start, we don't even do the figures in advance. We just feel there's room in the market. . . .We try to make the figures work out after the event." —Richard Branson, Virgin Group
280. "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence therefore is not an act, but a habit" —Aristotle
281. Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. —Anon
282. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. —B.F. Skinner.
283. Failure is the tuition you pay for success. —Walter Brunell
284. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. —Thomas Jefferson
285. "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." —Coco Chanel
286. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. —Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
287. Almost every man has a strong natural desire of being valued and esteemed by the respect of his species, but I am concerned and grieved to see how few fall into the right and only infallible method of becoming so. That laudable ambition is too commonly misapplied and often ill employed. Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous. Nor is it strange; since men of virtue are so rare, so very rare to be found. If we were as industrious to become good as to make ourselves great, we should become really great by being good, and the number of valuable men would be much increased; but it is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain, that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. —Benjamin Franklin
288. I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with; and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. In the matter of diet, I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me, until one or the other of us got the best of it. I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. As for drinking, when the others drink I like to help. I have ever taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. —Mark Twain
289. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. — Rumi
290. "The Song of the River" written by William Randolph Hearst in 1941 at his Wyntoon Estate on the McCloud River in Northern California foothills of Mount Shasta:
The snow melts on the mountain
And the water runs down to the spring,
And the spring in a turbulent fountain,
With a song of youth to sing,
Runs down to the riotous river,
And the river flows to the sea,
And the water again
Goes back in rain
To the hills where it used to be.
And I wonder if life's deep mystery
Isn't much like the rain and the snow
Returning through all eternity
To the places it used to know.
For life was born on the lofty heights
and flows in a laughing stream,
To the river below
Whose onward flow
Ends in a peaceful dream.
And so at last,
When our life has passed
And the river has run it's course,
It again goes back,
O'er the selfsame track,
To the mountain which was its source.
So why prize life
Or why fear death,
Or dread what is to be?
The river ran
It's allotted span
Till it reached the silent sea.
Then the water harked back
To the mountain-top
To begin its course once more.
So we shall run
The course begun
Till we reach the silent shore.
Then revisit earth
In a pure rebirth
From the heart of the virgin snow.
So don't ask why
We live or die,
Or whither, or when we go,
Or wonder about the mysteries
That only God may know
—W.R. Hearst
291. God is a comedian playing to an audience too scared to laugh. —Voltaire
292. "Isn't it great that all the people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there!" —Herb Caen
293. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. —Henry David Thoreau
294. "There is no one who can take our place. Each of us weaves a strand in the web of creation. There is no one who can weave that strand for us. What we have to contribute is both unique and irreplaceable. What we withhold from life is lost to life. The entire world depends upon our individual choices." —Duane Elgin
295. In the end, a vision without the ability to execute is probably a hallucination. —Stephen Case, Chairman, AOL Tim Warner.
296. The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee. —Anonymous
297. You can go to France, but you will never be a Frenchman. You can go to Japan, but you will never be Japanese. You can go to China, but you will never be Chinese. You can go Germany, but you will never be German. But anyone can come to America from anywhere and become an American. —Ronald Reagan (During a speech commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.)
298. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. —Peter Drucker
299. If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. —Jean-Paul Sartre.
300. Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. —Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)
301. Friendship is love without wings. —Lord Byron
302. "Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 21 (1903).
303. "For a favor done is a favor received; and the debt is no more that the monetary sign of a social obligation. The ‘confidence’ its members have in the credit system is their trust in a social order. " —Anon.
304. "There are no accidents" —Miles Davis
305. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." —George Bernard Shaw
306. "Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. blind/deaf author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 20 (1903).
307. "The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), American blind/deaf author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 23 (1903).
308. "Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. blind/deaf author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 3, "Personality" (1903).
309. Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. —Hellen Keller, The open door, 1957
310. On Ancestry "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. author, lecturer. The Story of My Life, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1903).
311. On Planning "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), U.S. general, Republican politician, president. One of Eisenhower's favorite maxims. Quoted by Richard Nixon in: Six Crises, "Krushchev" (1962).
312. "Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." —Dr. William Menninger.
313. "Age and experience will always beat out youth and inexperience." —Tonny Robbins
314. "He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers" —Proverb
315. "Repetition is the mother of skill" —Proverb
316. Persistence "Nothing in the world can take he place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." —Calvin Coolige
317. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." —Thomas Edison
318. "We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us." —Winston Churchill
319. "...Love is seldom what it seems, only other peoples dreams." —Frank Sinatra
320. "All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. "—Danny Thomas.
321. "I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's talent and the passion that count in success." —Ingrid Bergman
322. On The Arms Race "Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), U.S. general, Republican politician, president. Speech, April 1953, Washington, D.C.
323. "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." —Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-American theoretical physicist. Quoted in: News Chronicle (14 March 1949)."
324. "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." —Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born U.S. physicist. Motto for the astronomy building of Junior College, Pasadena, California.
325. "Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage." —Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), U.S. general, Republican politician, president. Broadcast speech, 28 Jan. 1954
326. The first time I walked into a trophy shop, I looked around and thought to myself, 'this guy is good!" —Fred Wolf
327. Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.----Bertolt Brecht
328. Habit is stronger than love. —Umburto Ruiz
329. I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. —T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. Quoted in: New York Times (21 Sept. 1958)
330. "We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings." —Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. author, lecturer. My Religion, pt. 1, ch. 6 (1927).
331. You look to the bottom of everything—it's money. —Sid Ceaser (On Charlie Rose)
332. Man has to be part of the action and passion of his times, or to be judged not to have lived. —Oliver Wendel Homes. (Philosopher and former Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States )
333. "I don't do favors—I gather debts" —Sicilian saying. (sent in By Chris Caen.)
334. The least expensive way, almost always ends up being the most expensive way. —Anon
335. Self righteousness has given way to situational ethics. —Anon
336. If you don't have dreams, they can't come true. —Anon
337. There is more to life than increasing its speed. —Gandhi
338. "I jes trying to get on without shovin' anybody, that's all." —Henry Fonda, "The Grapes of Wrath"
339. "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." —Archibald McLeish
340. Noting that the president recently said critics had "misunderestimated" him, Brown deadpanned: "They elected the symbol of ebonics to the presidency of this nation. There ain't no brother in Oakland, or anywhere else, that would run the phrase or mix up the words the way this cat does. It raises serious questions about whether he's really white."--At state Dem convention, Willie Brown cracks wise about President Bush's verbal tribulations.
341. "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." —John Steinbeck
342. "One should count each day a separate life." —Seneca
343. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. —Napoleon Hill
344. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (sent in by David Rosenthal)
345. "For me, the safest place is out on a limb." —Shirley MacLaine
346. Take care of the Luxuries, and the necessities will take care of themselves. —Frank Lloyd Wright.
347. "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island . . . and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life." —Walt Disney
348. "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." —Abraham Lincoln
349. Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system. —Stephen R. Covey
350. Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. —Dane Von Hurst
351. April hath put a spirit of youth in everything — William Shakespeare
352. "The most important thing is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well." —The Olympic Creed
353. You know, when you grow up in the suburbs of Sydney or Auckland or Newcastle, like Ridley or Jamie Bell, well, the suburbs of anywhere. You know, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the down side of advantage and relying purely on courage, it's possible. —RussellCrowe
354. "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." —G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
355. Hold fast to dreams, for If dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. —Langston Hughes
356. "I promise to keep on living as though I expect to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years, People grow old only by deserting their ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." —Douglas MacArthur
357. "He turns not back who is bound to a star." —Leonardo Da Vinci
358. "If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life." —Chris Evert
359. "The best mirror is an old friend." —Anon.
360. We should never despair, our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times. —General George Washington
361. "I expect to pass through this world but once; any good things that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creatures, let me show it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." —William Penn (1644-1718)
362. "All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." —Dale Carnegie
363. In order to make something that is truly new, you must first destroy something that is old. Be that an old building to make a new one, or a prevalent thought for a new paradigm. Columbus had to destroy the old world notion that the world was flat in order to create the new world notion that it was round. —Ryan Kuder
364. You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. —Brian Tracy
365. "He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty." —Lao-tzu
366. A man hears what he wants to hear and he disregards the rest. —Simon and Garfunkel (The Boxer)
367. "Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third." —Knute Rockne
368. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau
369. A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.--Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
370. Everything that can be digital will be digital. —Bill Gates
371. There are two things that people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise. —Mary Kay Ash
372. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. —George MacDonald
373. "Few companies would have reached the going concern stage without the inflated confidence of their founders. Entrepreneurs tend to be like eighteen-year-old marines who believe the bullet will go right through them without hurt or harm." —Deaver Brown
374. The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going. —David S. Jordan
375. If you let others dictate your business, they will. —Anon
376. Lose your dreams and you will loose your mind. —Mick Jagger (Goodbye Ruby Tuesday)
377. "Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever
course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has it victories, but it takes brave men to win them." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, author (1803-1882)
378. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." —Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948)
379. Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it."
—Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
380. Men use love to get sex, women use sex to get love. —Anon
381. Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. —Michael Jordan
382. There are four things in life I need to live comfortably. As long as I can eat, sleep, shit and fuck well, everything is o.k. —Roger Bramy
383. "An optimist is the human personification of spring." —Susan J. Bissonette
384. Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. —Francis Hutcheson (Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue)
385. If you don't embrace your emotions, they will strangle you. —Joy Young
386. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. —Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher (1813-1855)
387. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. —Karl Wallenda
388. "Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." —Joaquin Setanti
389. Most of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. —Alexander Woollcott
390. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
—Michael Evans
391. "The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first." —Ginger Rogers
392. "To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life." —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author
393. I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. —Frank Sinatra
394. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." —Leonardo da Vinci
395. "Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue." —John Herschel, scientist (1792-1871)
396. Life should be a celebration! We are here for a short time and should make the most of it. —Hugh Hefner on his 75th birthday
397. There is no limit to what a man can do, or where he can go, if he does not mind who gets the credit. —Plaque on Ronald Reagan's Desk.
398. "The true gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity, who is himself humbled if necessity compels himself to another: who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company. A man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe." —John Walter Wayland
399. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities and the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Great men can't be ruled. —Ayn Rand
400. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. —Norman Vincent Peale
401. "The opportunity is often lost by deliberating." —Publius Syrus
402. "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." —John F. Kennedy
403. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." —Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
404. Many times I've wondered how much there is to know. —Led Zeppelin (Over the hills and far away)
405. He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. —Thomas Fuller
406. In reality, I have not left home. My backyard has just grown bigger. Now the world is my backyard. –Buckminister Fuller, quoted by J. Baldwin
407. History is a lie, agreed upon. —Anon
408. "Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep" —Sigmund Freud
409. Intellectual property is the backbone of our economy. —Bill Gates, CEO Summit 2001
410. "Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain." —Diane De Pottiers
411. Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower. —S. H. Simmons
412. "The Dark Ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think." —Buckminster Fuller, from "Cosmography" (MacMillan, 1932)
413. The secret to success is to know something that nobody else knows. —Aristotle Onasis
414. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. —Galileo Galilei
415. "I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation." —Mike Todd
416. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. —Robert Schuller
417. Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. —John Updike, "Rabbit at Rest" (DR)
418. Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. —Mary Tyler Moore
419. The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do. —Henry Moore
420. "Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad." —Christina Rosetti
421. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." —William James
422. "The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them." —Socrates, philosopher (469 B.C.-399 B.C
423. "You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend." —Yasir Arrafat (On going to war over religion)
424. "I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely." —Kim Basinger
425. "If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape." —Anon
426. Those who can't think fight. —Heather Graham (Lost in Space)
427. A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. —Kenneth Tynan
428. If you are not cannibalizing your own business somebody else will. —Jack Welch
429. "Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack." —George S. Patton, American general (1885-1945)
430. Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is." —Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady)
431. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. —William Feather
432. There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love, there is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. —Wayne Dyer
433. "Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans." —Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) French general and president of the Fifth Republic
434. There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. —Charles Proteus Steinmetz
435. Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. —Homer Simpson
436. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. —John Neal
437. You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. —Jimi Hendrix
438. Necessity knows no law. —Publilius Syrus
439. If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
440. "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it." —George Bernard Shaw, author (1856-1950)
441. "Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it." —Chuck Noll
442. "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research." —Tom Lehrer...from the song "Lobachevsky"
443. "There is no such thing as Heaven...but somewhere there is a San Francisco." —Mark Twain
444. He gives double who gives unasked. —Arabian proverb
445. "The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." —Mark Twain
446. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day. —Abraham Lincoln
447. "If you foolishly ignore beauty, you'll soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life" —Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times Magazine, October 4, 1953
448. High expectations are the key to everything. —Sam Walton
449. The George Carlin Theory: "The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch and you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you go back into the womb, spend your last nine months floating...and you finish off as an orgasm."
450. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. —Herman Melville
451. Anything that does not kill you will only make you stronger. —Friedrich Nietzsche
452. Your focus determines your reality. —Star Wars (Phantom Menace)
453. Success is not about recognition, it is about personal development. —Anon
454. Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. —Alfred Hitchcock
455. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. —Oliver Wendell Holmes
456. Love is ACTIVE concern for the psychological / spiritual growth of another person, or of one's self. —Steve Smith [Jake's Favorite: This is perhaps the greatest defenition for love]
457. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. —Friedrich Nietzsche
458. We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us—how we can take it, what we do with it—and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty—that is the test of living. —Joseph Fort Newton
459. Forgiveness is the final form of love. —Reinhold Niebuhr
460. He who dares nothing need hope for nothing. —Anon
460.5 Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference between a date and a job interview is that in not many job interviews is there a chance you'll wind up naked at the end of it. —Seinfeld
461. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. —Abraham Maslow
462. I don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you are a success. —George Burns
463. Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind to express itself forcefully.—Unknown
464. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
465. How I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then. —Bob Seger (Against the Wind)
