695. Life is very short, and there's no time, for fussing and fighting my friend. -The Beatles (we can work it out)
696. You can't see things in other people that you don't posses within yourself. -Dr. Phil
697. Hell is truth seen to late. -Edward Wilson
698. The following aphorisms are written by Andy Rooney, a man who has the gift of saying so much with so few words.....(AH)
I've learned.... That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
I've learned.... That when you're in love, it shows.
I've learned.... That just one person saying to me, "You've made my day!" makes my day.
I've learned.... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
I've learned.... That being kind is more important than being right.
I've learned.... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
I've learned.... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
I've learned.... That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
I've learned.... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
I've learned.... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
I've learned.... That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
I've learned.... That we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
I've learned.... That money doesn't buy class.
I've learned.... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
I've learned... That under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
I've learned.... That the Lord didn't do it all in one day. What makes me think I can?
I've learned.... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
I've learned.... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.
I've learned.... That love, not time, heals all wounds.
I've learned.... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
I've learned.... That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
I've learned.... That there's nothing sweeter than sleeping with your babies and feeling their breath on your cheeks.
I've learned.... That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
I've learned.... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
I've learned.... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
I've learned.... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
I've learned.... That I wish I could have told my Dad that I love him one more time before he passed away
I've learned.... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
I've learned.... That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
I've learned.... That I can't choose how I feel, but I can choose what I do about it.
I've learned.... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
I've learned.... That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
I've learned ... That it is best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it is requested and when it is a life threatening situation.
I've learned.... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
To all of you.... Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence.
699. The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.-Stanley Cubric
700."Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. And dance like no one is watching. " ---- ANON
701. April fools is for fools. -Jake3
702. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. -Garth Brooks
703. Experience is what happens when something unexpected comes up.
704. The future belongs to the creative. -H Ruiz
705. Beyond complexity lies simplicity. -Anon
706. Failures are instructive. -Anon
707. Being "on the move" doesn't always mean moving.
708.Good judgement comes from experience and experince comes from bad judgement. --Barry LePhter (sent in Jeff Briebart)
709. In all relationships people either contribute or contaminate. -Dr. Phil
710. Bad people treat kindness as a weakness. -Anon
711. Adversity either deepens or deadens you. -Friedrich Nietzsche
712. It is better to be alone with honesty, than to be lonely with a liar. -Anon
713. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. -Winston Churchill
714. Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.— Kahlil Gibran (Brad Elman)
715. "Who says worrying never does any good, most of the things I worry about never happen" --- Gordon B Hinckley (Bruce McMullen from Microsoft)
716. "Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love."- Clare Boothe Luce (Brad Elman)
717. "Change before you have to."--Jack Welch (Ashley Burkholder)
718. Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (Jill Soudyn)
719. Bessie Braddock to Sir Winston Churchill: "You're drunk!" His retort: "Yes, and you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober."
720. "I like to learn, but I do not always like to be taught" -Anon (Valliesto Bailey)
721. "Don't cry for things that can't cry for you" - Anon (Valliesto Bailey)
722. Time is a river without banks. -Anon
723. The reward for a good deed is to have done it. -Anon
724. If they will do it with you, they will do it to you. -Dr. Phil
725. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. -Anon
726. I believe more in respect than in love. -Ruiz
727. When you struggle, that's when you realize what you're made of, and that's when you realize what the people around you can do. You learn who you'd want to take with you to a war, and who you'd only want to take to lunch.~ Chamique Holdsclaw
728. "Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master." --Rev. Jesse Jackson
729. "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."--Jack Nicholson
730. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
731. "Doest thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."--Benjamin Franklin
732. A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it. -Jimmy Jones
733. "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
--Christopher Morely
734. "The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do."
--Leontyne Price
735. When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.'--Theodore Roosevelt
736. "I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me."
--Angela L. Wozniak
737. "Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum."--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
738. “Happiness is a way-station between too little and too much.”
--Channing Pollock
739. “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
--Sandra Carey
740. “A silent threat to your credibility is making assumptions. Most assumptions are inaccurate.”
--Brian Koslow
741. So you think your job sucks? Well why didn't you say something-there's a support group for that-it's called everybody and we meet at the bar!!' Drew Carey
742. If they will do it in front of you, they will do it behind you. -Julie Guthrie
743. Maybe this world is another worlds hell. -Anon
745. Life is like a beach. Sometimes the tide is high, sometimes low. Sometimes the surf is ruff sometimes calm. Sometimes the water is freezing cold sometimes magnificently warm. Sometimes sand gets in your shoes and makes you feel uncomfortable, and then again sometimes sand feels great under you feet. The beach has an ebb and flow that always reminds me of life. Perhaps this is because we come from the water. The older I get the more a realize that life is a beach. -Jake3 6-6-2002 12:12PM
746. Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. -Italian Proverb
747. "Rhythm is something you either have or don't have but when you have it, you have it all over." -Elvis
748. Why he became a musician: "I wanted to be a singer because I didn't want to work." -Elvis
749. It is amazing how limited most people are. -Dora Jane Horton
750. "Don't underestimate the stupidity of mankind" -Anon
751. Is there more in the tank? I don't know. I think I'm using just about everything I have.” -- Lance Armstrong, after winning his fourth straight Tour de France.
752. There is no smoke without fire. -David Bowie
753. There are no problems, only solutions. -John Lennon (Watching the Wheels)
754. I'm the best there has ever been. -The Devil Went Down To Geogia by Charlie Daniels
755. Short people always think they are taller than they are and taller people always think they are shorter than they are. -Stephanie
756. Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.— Finley Peter Dunne (Brad Ellman)
757. A missed opportunity is a lifetime of regret. -Anon
758. Bringing a girl to a bar or club is like bringing sand to the beach. -Valiesto Bailey
759. Appeasement only makes the Aggressor more Aggressive-anon
760. Some of gods greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. -Garth Brooks
761. A man chases a woman until she catches him. -Valiesto Bailey
762. You make a decision through elimination. -Patty Sollenne
763. Family brings you home. -Maya Angelou
764. "It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world." -- Benjamin Franklin
765. "The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person."-- Vi Putnam
766. Castro played host to Carter at the Latin American School of Medicine, where the Cuban leader argued that the concept of democracy was born in ancient Athens, with fewer than 20,000 citizens ruling some 50,000 non-citizens and 80,000 slaves.
Noting the vast poverty of most of the world's people, Castro compared Western-style democracies to an Athens in which a minority unjustly dominates the majority and said Cuba was striving for "a society with justice" and equal opportunity. He said his country was seeking "that dream of justice, of true liberty, of true democracy, of true human rights."
767. I bacame a photographer because I was did not want to work. Photography is simply puting the camera in an interesting position and pushing the button. -Harry Benton.
768. 'Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.'-Ansel Adams
769. Most people don't really learn their craft. -Jerry Lewis
770. Do what you love and the money will follow. -Oparah
771. Leadership comes to those who have prevailed. -Charlie Rose
772. To see is to think and to think is to see. -Richard Serra (Sculputor)
773. Art is purposefully useless. Richard Serra (Sculputor)
774. "Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally... You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course, it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore all around it; one discovery will lead to another, and before you know it you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the results of thought." -- Alexander Graham Bell
775. Never mistake motion for action. — Ernest Hemingway (Brad Ellman)
776. What you risk reveals what you value. -Jeanette Winterson
777. To be in chains is sometimes safer than to be free. -Orson Welles (The Trail)
778. One gets very dependent on ones advocate as time goes by. -Anthony Perkins (The Trail)
779. Those who can do. Those who can't teach. -George Bernard Shaw.
780. Sorry about the long letter. I did not have time to write a short one. -Pascal
781. The most powerful role model in any child's life is the same sex parent. -Dr. Phil
782. News is the first draft of history. -Phil Gram
783. What you most expect often doesn't happen and what you least often occurs. -Dan Rather
784. You can not change what you do not acknowledge. -Dr. Phil
785. All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. -William Shakespeare.
786. "Two things will never go out of style: spirituality and sex. They're the same thing. At the moment of supreme orgasm, even the atheist says, 'Oh, my God.' -Carlos Santana
787. The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
788. I guess I am lying to myself—It's just do I know I am? —Mick Jager (Song: Miss You)
789. Ultimately science comes down to the individual mind grappling with something mysterious. —GEORGE JOHNSON
790. Your mind is not for storing it is for thinking. —Anon
791. There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. -Morpheus
792. Time is always against us.-Morpheus
793. You don't just marry a woman. You marry a family. -Joan Girardot
794. The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage. The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors. -Warren Buffet (Fortune Magazine. November 22, 1999)
795. I would rather have an intelligent enemy than a stupid friend. -Antonia Banderas
796. The hardest thing is to begin. -Salma Hayak
797. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. -Dr. Phil
798. Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking. -Dean Martin (Standing on the Corner, watching all the girls go by)
799. A fool and his wealth are soon departed. -Proverb
800. The thing about life is that by the time you get old enough to understand what it is all about you die. -Ozzy Ozzborne
801. A gem cannot be polished without friction. -Anon
802. Even when you're good, you're 20 minutes away from returning to 'You suck.' ” — Ray Ratto on coaching in the Bay Area these days.
803. Never trust anyone who sells on commission. -Anon
804. Three of a kind makes a trend. -Anon
805. More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision. -Tony Soprano
806. You get what you ask for in this world. If you ask for nothing you get nothing. -Dr. Phil
807. Appeasement only makes the Aggressor more Aggressive. -Anon
808. "I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time." —Pablo Picasso
809. The circle is know complete. When I left you I was but the learner. Know I am the master. -Darth Vader
810. I would rather laugh than cry. -Julie Guthrie
811. "The difficult we do right away; the impossible takes slightly longer." -- Philo T. Farnsworth, Inventor of Television <http://farnovision.com>
812. The past is never dead. It's not even past. -William Faulkner (From Requiem for a Nun)
813. I have seen so far because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. -Sir Isaac Newton
814. Any successful platform needs a solid foundation. -Microsoft
815. Religion to me really means ethical systems and it comes down to a sense of values. -Michael Crichton
816. Women are not the sensitive sex. That is one of the great delusions of literature. Men are the true Romanticists. -Cary Grant (Indiscreet 1958)
817. The moment I meet an attractive women, I have to start pretending I've no desire to make love to her. -Cary Grant (North by Northwest)
818. Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. -JOHN FOSTER DULLES
819. That which is not just is not law. —William Floyd Garrison (1831 Boston)
820. There are two things you give your children. One is roots; the other is wings. —Anon
821. If you could see around a corner, you might not go around the corner. —Dr. Phil
822. Like a diamond from deep in the earth, art comes from deep within the artist. -Vincent Van Gough
823. Why do fools fall in love? How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? What is the meaning of it all? Questions without easy answers. —Anon
824. North Korea is a riddle wrapped in a mystery, cloaked in an enigma. -Sir Winston Churchill
825. The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world. Michael Angelo
826. Time is never wasted-It is misused. —Anon
827. Looks Can Kill. —Anon
828. As the slave said while whispering into the ear of the returning victorious Roman Emperor: "All glory is fleeting..." —Anon
829. You're only as good as your last product. —Anon
830. First rule of materialism: there's always something better. Second rule of materialism: only the strong should look for it. -Anon
831. God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas. —Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
832. Since time eternal, Man has observed that the movements of the heavens obey unchanging laws, and these have been his basis for learning to measure time and establish his calendars. Watch making is thus born of astronomy. —Patek Philippe
833. "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." —Bertrand Russell
834. The essence of all education is self-discovery and self-control. When education helps an individual to discover his own powers and limitations and shows him how to get out of his heredity its largest and best possibilities, it will fulfill its real function; when children are taught not merely to know things but particularly to know themselves, not merely how to do things but especially how to compel themselves to do things, they may be said to be really educated. For this sort of education there is demanded rigorous discipline of the powers of observation, of the reason, and especially of the will. —Edwin Grant Conklin - American biologist
835. A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world. ~ Olive Schreiner (The Letters of Olive Schreiner)
836. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.~ Marie Curie
837. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." —Bill Cosby
838. Everybody has their dues in life to pay. —Areosmith
839. Education is freedom. —Oprah
840. There is a lot to be said for longevity. —Frank Sinatra (vis-à-vis Larry King)
841. The wisdom of the ages is a cultural excrement that stabilizes and fertilizes the lives of succeeding generations. —Al Hillix
842. If your life looks cloudy, maybe the windows of your soul need washing. —Anon
843. Excesses ultimately eventually are their own undoing, and that keeps me hopeful. —Paul Harver
844. The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things the most shameful and vile. —Plato
845. It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature. —Anonymous
846. It has always been a mystery to me why people spend so much time deliberately fooling themselves by creating alibis to cover their weaknesses. If used differently, this same time would be sufficient to cure the weakness, then no alibi would be needed. —Elbert Hubbard
847. Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision! —Napoleon Hill
848. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. —Pablo Picasso
849. A fearless man thrives on far horizons. —Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich)
850. Several years ago, I attended a lunchtime lecture presented by a professor from the Stanford Institute for the Qualitative Study of Society during a journalism conference. He cited a project whose aim was to find out whether people are happier now than they were 50 years ago. The project staff read people's diaries from the years in question, and what they found was interesting: People's level of happiness or unhappiness, however you choose to look at it, hasn't changed. What has changed is what they are unhappy about. Fifty years ago, people felt constrained and smothered by their close family and community ties. Today, conversely, people feel alienated and lonely because they no longer have those ties. —Amy Moon
851. What we love, we shall grow to resemble. --St. Bernard
852. If there is no solution there is no problem. —Dr. John Piel
853. If you want to lean...teach. --Dr. Phil
854. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with. —Anon
855. Every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints. —Mick Jaeger
856. "News is what someone, somewhere is trying to suppress, the rest is just advertising"- Lord Northcliffe, British Press Baron
857. "Better to have people hate you for your high values than love you for your low standards". —Anon
858. Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. —Sir Henry Royce (Rolls Royce)
859. Everything is possible in science. —Charls Pinkus (inventor of the birth control pill. He said this to a naysayer who said it was not possible for him to create a birth control pill before he did.)
860. "There are no problems, only solutions !!!"
861. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. —Rabbi Julius Gordon
862. Life is a party. Let's get out and strut. —Mick Jaeger
863. "Never try; never know!" —Anon
864. "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." —Anon
865. The smallest changes can make the biggest difference. —Julie Guthrie 3-7-2003
866. Enjoy it while it lasts because if never does. —Anon
867. "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, its a wonder I can think at all." —Paul Simon
868. There is nothing more dangerous than the combination of a little knowledge with a lot of conviction. —Anon
869. "Where does he get all those wonderful toys" —Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Batman
870. "Enjoy what you can now, because things get pretty weird once it works." —James Gandolfini
871. "Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. " —Sir Winston Churchill (Brad Ellman)
872. Change is a challenge to the adventurous, an opportunity to the alert, a threat to the insecure. —Anon
873. No good deed goes unpunished. —Anon
874. Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. —W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
875. If we are related we shall meet. —Emerson
876. Drink to me. —Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) last words
877. Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it. —Anon
878. Every gambler knows that the secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep. Cause every hand is a winner and every hand is a loser, and the best you can hope for is to die in your sleep. —Kenny Rogers (The Gambler)
879. I shouted out "Who killed the Kennedy's?" When after all it was you and me. —Mick Jaeger
880. One man's ceiling is another man's floor. —Anon
881. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is a king. —Minority Report
882. Anyone can stand out by looking like an idiot. —Hal Rebenstein
883. When someone trusts me I do my best work. —Vera Wang
884. To the victor belongs the spoils. —Anon
885. Self-righteousness has given way to situational ethics. —Anon
886. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. —Frank Lloyd Wright.
887. Buy a professional camera and you're a professional photographer, buy a flute and you own a flute. —Anon
888. "I am the only candidate running for mayor of San Francisco, all the other candidates are running against me." —Gavin Newsom
889. "Is there not one thing in your life worth losing everything for?" -Sean Connery (The Wind and the Lion.)
890. There are two sides to every story, and then there is the truth. —Anon
891. "Women, horses, cars, clothes. I did it all.........It's called living." —Cab Calloway (Brad Ellman)
892. That which we elect to surround ourselves with becomes the museum of our soul and archive of our experiences. -Thomas Jefferson
893. I've never been sorry I bought something I wanted when I wanted it. The older I get the more I realize that money is replaceable but time is not. —Anon
894. He who live outside his means will see his means diminish. He who lives within his means will see his means expand. —Mark Rado
895. You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. —George Horace Lorimer
896. That which does not kill you only makes you stronger. —Friedrich Nietzsche
