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True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
Linus' Law: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
Perspective is worth 50 IQ points.
Las Vegas is a SimCity game gone horribly wrong.
Most men would rather die, than think. Many do.
Power corrupts and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
I did not fail. I learned two thousand ways not to make a light bulb.
When French people swear, do they say "pardon my English?"
If a swat team breaks down your door, do they have to replace it?
Have you ever noticed that when you rearrange the letters in "mother-in-law," they become "Woman Hitler?"
All the wrecks that strew life's ocean
If some star had been their guide
Would in safety now be riding
But they drifted with the tide
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Failure is more often from want of energy than want of capital.
The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.
Fortune favors the bold
(Audentis Fortuna Juvat)
Most people don't recognize opportunity, because it is usually disguised as work.
Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways, the smooth appeasing compromises of time.
In order to see Christianity, one must forget almost all the Christians.
Our Savior did not come into this world to save metaphysicians only. His doctrines are leveled to the simplest understanding, and it is only by banishing hierophantic mysteries and scholastic subtleties which they have nicknamed Christianity, and getting back to the plain and unsophisticated precepts of Christ, that we become real Christians.
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that He need not even exist in order to save us.
Primus in orbe deos fecit timor. (It was fear that first made gods in the world)
Lay me on an anvil Lord.
Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
Let me pry loose old walls!
Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
If only God would give me a clear sign like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Let's all give God a great big hand.
Is it not written in your law: "I said, you are Gods?"
The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
God is God, not of the dead, but of the living.
God weighs our prayers. He doesn't count them.
[#wdr22]] May the force be with you.
Amidst all the mysteries by which we are surrounded, nothing is more certain than that we are in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
The Lord may not come when you want him, but he's always going to be there on time.
Then the King will say to those on his right hand, come, you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world.
My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel if there had never been a priest.
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by His own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles.
Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic Religion?
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when He did not want to sign.
My Atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.
It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
The system of morals expounded in the New Testament contains no maxims which had not been previously enunciated.
Be born anywhere little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of salvation.
The trouble with born again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Cats are like baptists, they raise hell but no one can catch them at it.
The friend of man, the friend of truth, the friend of age, the friend of youth; If there;s another world he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this.
{[#wdr40]] Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it, the intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven his own way.
The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
We dislike the man who tries
to give us title clear,
To any mansion in the skies,
and grab our title here.
Oh Lord -- if there is a Lord; Save my soul -- if I have a soul. Amen.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
He was a wise man who invented God.
Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog walking on it's hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Common people do not pray, they only beg.
Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels are built with bricks of religion.
The sabbath was made for man and not man for the sabbath.
An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
A state that is prosperous always honors the Gods.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Laists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.
Liberty's chief foe is theology.
Mothers, wives and maids, there be the tools wherewith priests manage men.
I do benefits for all religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
For to everyone who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough; but from the man who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
Who rises from a prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
No one would have been invited to dinner as often as Jesus was unless he were interesting and had a sense of humor.
Don't do more than you can do. Recognize your limitations. Nowhere are we commanded to run with God. We are to walk with Him.
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations; baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teach them to observe all the commands I gave you. And know that I am with you always; yes to the end of time.
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christian.
I had always believed in a power greater than myself. I had often pondered these things. I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this Universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushed nowhere.
God is not a noun.
God is a verb.
God is not a period.
God is a question mark
or an exclamation point.
Make the wise your companions and you grow wise yourself; make fools your friends and suffer for it.
The heights by great men reached and kept
were not attained by sudden flight.
But while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.
He that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself his own dungeon.
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Religion is a feeble attempt to share the sense of God.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
Washington appears to be filled with two kinds of politicians -- those trying to get an investigation started, and those trying to get one stopped.
Ninety Eight percent of the adults in this country are decent , hard working, honest americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity, -- but then we elected them.
If the Lord is said to veil His glory, lest it be too bright for mortal eyes, might he not also veil his mirth -- perhaps as something much, much too funny for men to stand?
Consider well what your strength is equal to and what exceeds your ability.
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same amount of effort of the brain that it takes to balance on a bicycle.
Not all who would can be psychotic.
People crushed by law, have no hopes but power.
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the public.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
The mice voted to bell the cat.
If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.
The people is a beast, of muddy brain that knows not it's own strength.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
The logical culmination of the pricess of destroying everything through which I could possibly be wounded is suicide.
Wit has truth in it. Wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
A person can live with failure but not with the excuses that took away his right to fail.
Never wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics, and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
If you observe this vehicle exceeding the speed limit, please notify our marketing department. -- Team Yugo
Never get into arguments with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
Saint: a dead sinner revised and edited.
Public schools were condemned by Pope Pious XI 1930
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
If you have to eat two frogs, eat the big one first.
Government never of itself furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong solutions.
The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.
The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Where is it written in the constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may angage it?
You are not here on this earth to fulfill the unmet dreams of a frustrated parent or to protect another person from facing the reality of himself or the world.
There is no expedient to which a person will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Marriage exists not to produce children but to produce children of God.
Every time you influence another person to do a better job you benefit him and increase your own value.
That no man or group of men may initiate the use, or threat, of physical violence against the person or property of anyone else.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
It's not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
The sure formula for failure is: Try to please everybody.
As scarce as the truth is, the supply always seems greater than the demand.
Curb your dogma.
No dogmas allowed except guide dogmas for the blind.
Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.
If a majority of people want something done, then in a free society a private individual should have no trouble profiting by accomplishing it. If a majority of people do not back a particular enterprise, then the government of a free society has no business attempting it.
Study everything. You will find something you can use.
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any moment to fall; It is and it must in the long run be better for man to see things as they are than to be ignorant of them.
Good executives never put off for tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.
An optimist is someone who tells you to cheer up when things are going his way.
Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The man who rows the boat generally does not have time to rock it.
We are all manufacturers -- Some make good, others make trouble and still others make excuses.
If you live your life afraid of dying, you've lived your life dead.
If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.
He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well, is not so apt to get the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.
An apology to Karl Marx. I always pooh-poohed his basic thesis that anarchy would eventually replace socialism. I can see now that he was right. The state did just wither away, Dr Marx, I stand corrected.
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.
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.
A man with a gun in his home is no threat to you if you are not breaking into it.
Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of Hope
Look well therefore to this day.
These are people around with whom thou shalt not screw.
Aut inveniam viam aut faciam -- I shall either find a way or make one --
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
By liberty, I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the white-house -- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
What banner is this that greets the morn,
Its hues from Heaven so freshly born?
With burning star and flaming band
It kindles all the sunset land;
Oh tell us what its name may be, --
Is this the Flower of Liberty?
It is the banner of the free,
The starry Flower of Liberty.
I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time, reap the fruits of a democracy You will find in due season your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
If people are basically good, you don't need a government; if people are basically bad, you don't dare have one.
Every man shall sit under his own vine and his own fig tree and no man shall make him afraid
Social Scientists are ever amazed that when they pay those stupid peasants more, even those who have never set foot in a University of Chicago classroom seem to figure out that supplies should rise. Even better; they volunteer to do it.
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
In the 1960's we fought a war on poverty, and poverty won.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Be sure to keep a mirror always nigh
In some convenient, handy sort of place,
And now and then look squarely in thine eye,
And with thyself keep ever face to face.
The ear attentive to wholesome correction finds itself at home in the company of the wise.
Still as of old, men by themselves are priced -- For thirty pieces Judas sold himself, not Christ.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Must Christ then perish in torment in every age to save those who have no imagination.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Talk not of genius baffled.
Genius is master of man.
Genius does what it must,
and talent does what it can.
I know some poison I could drink.
I've often thought I'd taste it.
But mother bought it for the sink.
And drinking it would waste it.
The larger an organization, the more is it's morality and blind stupidity inevitable. By stressing the collective qualities in it's individual representatives society will necessarily set a premium on everything that is average Individuality will be driven to the wall. This process rules everything in which the state has a hand. Without freedom there can be no morality.
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very very small.
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there they have to let you in.
The World is Round.
TV -- Chewing gum for the eyes.
Rock Journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
A Piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
I understand that Mrs. Karl Marx, at the end of a long and bleak life, remarked, "How good it would have been if Karl had made some capital instead of writing so much about it."
The last anti-Semite will die only with the last Jew.
I hear that whenever anyone in the White-house tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.
I would have made a good Pope.
War alone keys up all human energies to their maximum tension and sets the seal of nobility on those peoples who have the courage to face it.
I appreciate your welcome. As the cow said to the Maine farmer: "Thanks for the warm hand on a cold morning."
Applaud friends, the comedy is over.
I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.
Don't get the idea that I'm one of these God-damn radicals. Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system.
I dress for women and I undress for men.
The only thing people are interested in is people.
Wham! Wham! Wham!
Wham! Wham! Wham!
Wham! Wham! Wham!
Pop! Pop!
Almost everyone is an opportunity for someone.
Now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not too distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday night. One of my relatives, unfortunately was even in the newspaper business.
I'm not a stunt-man, I'm not a daredevil
I'm an explorer.
Just think about how much you're going to be missing: you won't have Richard Nixon to kick around any more, because gentlemen this is my last press conference.
I do nothing that a man of unlimited funds, superb physical endurance, and maximum scientific knowledge could not do.
The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.
Why can't they understand the logic of it? I'm the straw that stirs the drink.
I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practice law.
To the degree that you ignore all neurotic remarks and actions of normal people and all remarks and actions of neurotic people, the path between you and your objectives will be less complicated.
I would like to nominate Academy Award winning actress Jane Fonda for a new award: the rottenest,t miserable performance by any one individual American in the history of the country.
Beethoven can write music, thank God -- but he can do nothing else on earth.
Aye, call it holy ground,
The soil where they first trod!
They left unstained what there they found,
Freedom to worship God.
How can a man be said to have a country when he has no right to a square inch of it.
Arise, ye prisoners of starvation
Arise, ye wretched of the earth
For justice thunders condemnation --
A better world's in birth
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
If there were any medium that should not be concerned with censorship, it should be TV. You have a dial.
Agriculture, manufacturers, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another.
Freedom doesn't mean you get to choose what happens to you, but you do get to choose how you react to it.
If we must disagree, let us disagree without being disagreeable.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take a civil service exam.
In Russia the government is terrified of painters and poets.
I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industries.
A government big enough to give us everything we want would be big enough to take from us everything we have.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese.
Sometimes it is said that a man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only rearrange them.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised dad he'd go straight.
An absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid on them by their governments.
If you live in a town that is run by a committee you had better be on it yourself.
Any dictatorship can have only one aim; self-perpetuation.
Who holds the souls of the children holds the nation.
What country can preserve it's liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
A Limerick
A spend-thrifty fellow named Sy,
Who charged everything he could buy,
Said when hailed into court,
With his bank account short,
The government does why can't I?
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Freedom of the press is alive at the U.S. Mint.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government.
It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production. We have not the power to produce more than there is the potential to consume.
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last cowardly resort of the boob and the bigot.
Cohen's Law on Lawmaking
Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.
As well as the separation of church and state, I advise the separation of socialism and state. Socialism is a religion and should thus be treated.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in this country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel.
In Russia when you answer questions you may come to an unfortunate conclusion.
Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make out economy stronger, our our lives more abundant, and our future more free.
Government even in it's best state, is but a necessary evil, in it's worst state, an intolerable one.
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute military plans.
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Every revolution was once a thought in one man's mind
If by mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in any moral point of view, justify revolution --
Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupies the cells.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Across the gateway of my heart I wrote "No thoroughfare,"
But love came laughing by and cried: "I enter everywhere."
He that loves a rosy cheek,
Or coral lips admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires
As Old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence.
In her first passion woman loves her lover. In all the others, all she loves is love.
The most important thing a man can know as he approaches his own door is that someone on the other side is listening for his footsteps.
Crummy Relationship Theory
A crummy relationship is one in which you consistently give more than you receive, and only masochists and losers allow such a relationship to continue.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
There are no oaths that make so many perjurers as the vows of love.
In Love there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
Respect is what we owe; Love is what we give.
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Only one thing will attract love, and that is love.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
For dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act -- act in the living present!
Heart within and God o'erhead!
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.
If only you had it to do over again, you would do it differently. Fine -- then get started, because you do have the opportunity to do it over again, if you just have the courage to admit it to yourself.
Youth measures in only one direction from things as they are to an ideal of what things ought to be, while the old measure things as they are against the past the old remember.
A careful inventory of all of your past experiences may disclose a startling fact that everything has happened for the best.
The human adventure is just beginning.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known.
Technology or perish.
Immanentize the Eschaton!
We are reaching the stage where problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
If man can live in Manhattan, man can live anywhere.
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
The good old days, the good old days,
We all so fondly speak of,
Which if they ever should come back
No one could stand a week of.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
We would like to live as we once lived but history will not permit it.
You are a foul ball in the line drive of life.
Men who never get carried away should be.
The world stands aside and makes room for the man who knows where he is going and is on his way.
But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers on.
Man's task is to make of himself a work of art.
The meaninglessness of life forces a man to create his own meaning.
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you cam in.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is funneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Surely life means more than food and the body more than clothing.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
God does not play dice with the Universe.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
God creates, woman inspires, and man assembles.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark; I can't help it. It's the truth.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money.
If you don't know what you want from life, what do you think you will get.
Some men die from overeating, others die from strong drink, while still others just wither up and die because they have nothing else to do.
You always fail forward to success.
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
If you can dream -- and not make the dream your master,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a man my son!
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Any man who has ten thousand dollars left when he dies is a failure.
Conditions are never right at the right time; the timing is always wrong! If you're waiting for the time to be just right before taking action, you are in possession of a foolproof excuse for failure.
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
The way of the lazy is strewn with thorns,
The path of the industrious is a broad highway.
Amateurs hope. Professionals work.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
The generous soul will prosper,
He who waters will be watered.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Edison failed ten-thousand times bfore he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.
Success is a journey, not a destination.
Success requires no explanations -- failures must be doctored with alibis.
The two hardest things in life are success and failure.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hope and plans.
Most successful men in the higher brackets of success did not strike their best stride until they past the age of forty.
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
No man can rise to fame and fortune without carrying others along with him. It simply cannot be done.
Winning isn't everything -- but wanting to win is.
Some men are successful as long as someone else stands back of them, and some men are successful in spite of hell! Take your choice.
It is a striking coincidence that ""American"" ends with ""I can.""
remember it is not necessary for others to fail in order that you may succeed.
Carson's Consolation.
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
Tis not in mortals to command success;
But we'll do more, Sempronius -- We'll deserve it.
Opportunity is something that permits one to get his foot inside the door of success, but it doesn't break the door down.
Your quickness out of the starting blocks makes for interesting conversation, but the payoff is based on where you are when the race is over.
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And T'will be found upon examination;
The latter has the largest congregation.
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Reform must come from within not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe -- the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
The Gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to Plague us.
When our vices leave us, we flatter ouselves with the credit of having left them.
Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de tre's bon foi, believes itself right.
You must love the Lord God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it. You must love your neighbor as yourself.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
I call that man idle who might be better employed.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world
Morally and pragmatically, a lie is a lie.
What the wicked man fears overtakes him.
What the virtuous desires comes to him as a present.
If the reader buys it, it's moral.
Censorship, like charity should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
What goes into the mouth does not make a man unclean; it is what comes out of the mouth that makes him unclean.
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
Definition - Game Theory
The most prudent way of dealing with people is to assume that their way of defining things is:
Good is what I do; bad is what you do.
Right is what I do; Wrong is what you do.
Every word, act and situation is subjectively defined by each individual in such a way as to comfortably fit in with his own actions and/or circumstances.
When virtuous men prosper the city rejoices, there are glad cries, too, when the wicked are ruined.
So always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that is the meaning of the law of the prophets.
Though the virtuous man falls seven times, he stands up again; the wicked are the ones who stumble in adversity.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
Haunted World Theory
The safe approach to dealing with people is to assume that everyone with whom you have dealings will come back to you at some future date.
I tell you solemnly, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be considered loosed in heaven.
Attend well to your character and your reputation will look out for itself.
Things do not change; we change.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Put your trust in God boys, and keep your powder dry.
Though life is made up of mere bubbles,
'Tis better than many aver,
For while we've a whole lot of troubles,
The most of them never occur.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Canada Bill Jones Supplement
A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
Never slap a man in the face 'specially when he's chewin' tobacco.
The force of necessity is irresistible.
There's nothing that says a man has to take a toll bridge across a river when there's a free bridge nearby.
He who bases his actions solely on the belief that his efforts will be appreciated by others is doomed to disappointment. The safest assumption is that, at best, your efforts will go unnoticed, at worst, they will be held against you.
"Is's" vs "outght-to's" theory
The degree of complications in an individual's life corresponds to his insistence on dwelling on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it actually is.
Even God cannot change the past.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
If any would not work, neither should they eat.
Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65 I still had pimples.
Butler's Law of Progress
All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond it's income.
Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.
It never will rain roses; when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Don't complain, don't explain.
Don't covet the other fellow's job if you are not prepared to accept the responsibility that goes with it.
A newspaper is a private enterprise, owing nothing to the public.
Sometimes when I get up in the morning, I feel very peculiar. I feel like I've just got to bite a cat! I feel like if I don't bite a cat before sundown, I'll go crazy! But then I just take a deep breath and forget about it. That's what is known as real maturity.
There's no heavier burden than a great potential.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
You have a tremendous advantage over the person who slanders you or does you a willful injustice; you have it in you power to forgive that person.
I am responsible for my actions, but who is responsible for those of General Motors.
Do you think anyone but yourself has the right to experiment on your nervous system?
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
More persons on the whole are humbugged by believing nothing, than by believing too much.
You and I possess within ourselves, at every moment of our lives, under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives.
I am more important than my problems.
Everyone carries around his own monsters.
Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage and slavery.
I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.
The majority of believers have belief without understanding.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Life is a tragedy to the man who feels and a comedy to the man who thinks.
Laughing or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
There are no small parts. Only small actors.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.
Inside every fat Englishman is a thin Hindu trying to get out.
Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race with me as it's chief obstacle.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
A man must destroy himself before others can destroy him.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the baby.
Strive not to banish pain and doubt,
In pleasure's noisy din;
The peace thou seekest from without,
Is only found within.
The external harmony and progress of the entire human race is founded on the internal harmony and progress of every individual.
Help yourself, and heaven will help you.
There is no free will or human dignity on the emotional level.
'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
My mind to me an empire is.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Maybe the damned horse can fly!
A man whose mind conceives only a small frightened view of life will act just like a man who conceives only a small frightened view of life.
The more conscious and intelligent you become the more you want to become even more conscious and intelligent.
There is nothing rationally desirable that cannot be achieved if rationality itself increases.
The mind is an erogenous zone.
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
The word educate has it's roots in the Latin word ""educo"", which means to educe, to draw out, to develop from within. The best educated man is the one whose mind has been the most highly developed.
As long as you are curious, you defeat age.
A mind content both crown and kingdom is.
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't deal with drugs.
If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop them so why worry about it?
(In his Ft. Worth hotel rm. Before the assassination)
There is only one universal constant and it is change.
Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.
It is not the healthy that need the doctor but the sick.
The earth belongs to the living not to the dead.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you happen to live near him.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The horse weighs one thousand pounds and I weigh ninety-five. I guess I'd better get him to cooperate.
Be careful when you walk on an oriental carpet because you might be stepping on somebody's psychedelic vision.
A well disciplined mind works while the physical body sleeps.
Ponder the fact that one has complete control over but one thing, and that is the power of one's own thoughts.
The subconscious mind often works out one's greatest problems when the conscious mind is asleep.
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questioning is more important than his answers.
For they conquer who believe they can.
We are all greater artists than we realize. 90 percent of all we experience is in our imagination.
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
A clean desk represents an empty mind.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
You are more than a human being. You are a human becoming.
A man who is at peace with himself is also at peace with the world.
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Blind Pharisee! Clean the inside of the cup and dish first so that the outside may become clean as well.
If you don't care for yourself,
who will?
If you care only for yourself,
who are you?
He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires and fears, is more than a king.
An apology is a healthy indication that a man is still on speaking terms with his own conscience.
To do much clear thinking a man must arrange for regular periods of solitude when he can concentrate and indulge his imagination without distraction.
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than a prig.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
The angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
Man's three-pound brain is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up to a man's limitations, it is all over with him.
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.
Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person concerned.
Baby said
When she smelt the rose,
"Oh! what a pity
I've only one nose!""
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life.
My salad days when I was green in judgment; cold in blood.
Stress is the spice of life.
Complete freedom from stress is death.
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
At various epochs people have been obsessed by the feeling of the imminence of overwhelming catastrophe such periods have proved to be not ends but incentives to fresh achievements. We are drawn back in order to be propelled forward like an arrow from a bow.
One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
Life has a habit of giving everyone that which he believes he will get.
The best rose bush, after all is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.
The path of life is to abide by discipline, and he who ignores correction goes astray.
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.
Never get into a bidding war over a once-in-a-lifetime deal. The best deal in the world comes along every day.
Our job is to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened, and then it is the job of the people to decide whether they have faith in their leaders or in government. We are faithful to our profession in telling the truth. That's the only faith to which journalists need adhere.
All the world's a stage.
The Christian life is not a way ""out"" but a way ""through"" life.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Life is a movie. Death is a photograph.
All that one can say is that life is opportunity.
Once in a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immortality, if not, he has not lived.
Those having torches will pass them on to others.
Story, Story, Story.
Story is something happening to someone you have been led to care about.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.
All movements go to far.
Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
You can't go far just by wishing
Nor by sitting around to wait
The good Lord provides the fishing
But you have to dig up the bait
Better the corner of a loft to live in than a house shared with a scolding woman.
He who laughs, lasts.
Can any of you, for all his worrying, add one single cubit to his span of life.
One can stand still in a flowing stream, but not in a world of men.
Enter by the narrow gate, since the road that leads to perdition is wide and spacious, and many take; but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
No one is living aright unless he so lives that whoever meets him goes away more confident and joyous for the contact.
In University they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
"What helped you over the great obstacles of life?"" Was asked of a highly successful man. ""The other obstacles,"" he replied.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other fellow die for his.
The law doth punish man or woman
That steals the goose from off the common,
But lets the greater felon loose
That steals the common from the goose.
The constitution of the United States is a compact of independent nations subject to the rules acknowledged in similar cases.
America, where people are not homogenized and cream rises.
The American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it Capitalism, call it what you like, gives each and everyone of us a great opportunity, if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it..
North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fail to negotiate.
Anywhere is Paradise.
Some for renown on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
The heart has reasons of which reason has no knowledge.
Philosphy is the highest music.
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Specialist: a man who knows more and more about less and less.
The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
The desire for knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Man is unique among animals in his practiced ability to know things that are not so.
Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls in front of pigs,
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
When a ruler listens to false reports, all his ministers will be scoundrels.
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Knowledge is power.
Be not righteous overmuch, neither make thyself over wise.
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Keep your head cool, your feet warm and you'll make the best doctor poor.
(Only text of the book, which was sealed and opened only after the author's death and the book was auctioned for $20,000 in gold.)
PS.. The other 99 pages were blank.
After I'm dead, I rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
If you put all your eggs in one basket, be sure to see that no one kicks the basket over.
Cohen's Law of Politics
Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.
Forgive your enemies but never forget their names.
Intelligence is a way of acting.
I believe that genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
Mistakes are not the only lessons.
Everything is a lesson.
Life is not a goblet to be drained; but a measure to be filled.
A sudden fortune will dwindle away, he grows rich who accumulates little by little.
He who loves discipline, loves knowledge, stupid is the man who hates correction.
Idler, go to the ant; ponder her ways and grow wise.
Pain makes a man think
Thought makes man wise
and wisdom makes life endurable
When wisdom comes into your heart and knowledge is a delight to you, then prudence will be there to watch over you and discernment be your guardian.
Sometimes the man whom you think you have bested by talk has outwitted you by silence.
He keeps his life who guards his mouth, he who talks too much is lost.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear but around in awareness.
Nil credam et omnia cavebo.
(Believe nothing and be on guard against everything)
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity -- and that's just not fair.
For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I believe -- that unless I believe, I should not understand.
Wisdom (Wiz'-dam)Having direct perception of data and being able to make use of it. Being able to conceive of the relative goodness of that which you treat as truth. Being free from that which is not true.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have 93 percent working.
Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.
The greatest cross I've had to bear is The cross of Lorraine.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Broder's Law
Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
Influence is like a savings account; the less you use it, the more you've got.
A liberal is one who has both feet firmly planted in the air.
Strange game. (Global Thermonuclear War) The only winning move is not to play.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Everyone thinks chiefly of his own hardly ever of the public interest.
One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
I have just received the following telegram from my generous daddy. It says, ""Jack, don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.""
It may be true that ""you can't fool all the people all the time"" but you can fool enough of them to run a large country.
Democracies usually collapse not long after the plebes discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses for a while.
Politics is spoken out of the barrel of a gun.
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
The first thing you do when you want to be elected is to prostitute yourself. You show me a man with courage and conviction and I'll show you a [political] loser.
The good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians
Vice president the political equivalent of barefoot and pregnant.
Radicals who would take us back to the roots of things because they disregard the fruit Time has produced and preserved. Conservatives fail because they would preserve even what time has decomposed.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
In the pursuit of happiness the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Don't take yourself too seriously if you wish to get any joy out of life.
There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them everywhere they go.
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom; he who thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Pleasure is not happiness.
Some people accumulate money so they can convert it to happiness, but the wiser ones accumulate happiness so they can give it away and still have it in abundance.
I have heard men say they never mistrust a man who whistles or sings while he works.
Hollywood is where if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.
Kittens are like strings. Every yo-yo wants one.
If you've got something good going, shut up!
Bennett's Beatitudes:
1) Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it, for he shall enjoy living.
2) Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.
Better Deal Theory
If you're always worried that there may be a better deal down the road, you'll never close any deal. If your analysis of a deal is sound, and the indications positive, have the courage of your convictions and move forward with it.
You are perfect exactly the way you are.
Nothing that causes a man to worry is worth what his worry costs him in peace of mind and physical health.
He who has a thousand friends has not one friend to spare, and he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
God gives us relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends.
Too clever is dumb.
The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.
The handclasp is mightier than the fist.
When asked, ""How can you speak kindly of your enemies when you should rather destroy them?"" Lincoln answered, ""Madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?""
Friends must be grown to order-not taken for granted.
A friend is one who knows all about you and still respects you.
In life you will throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.
A friend is a man who has the same enemies you have.
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, then you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn.
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity.
If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity.
What convinces is conviction.
I tell you solemnly once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my father in heaven. For where two or three meet in my name, I will be there with them.
Your chances of getting hit by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky and shout, ""storms suck!""
You can pretend to be serious. You can't pretend to be witty.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there.
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
My goodness Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas at all any more.
"I guess I've lost another pupil," sighed the professor, as his glass eye slid down the drain.
"But Oswald, that isn't our baby."
"Quiet, you fool; it's a better carriage.""
It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.
I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Other men live to eat, while I eat to live.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust
So near to God is man
When duty whispers low, ""Thou must"",
The youth replies, ""I can.""
Jupiter has loaded us with two wallets: the one filled with our own faults, he has placed at our backs; the other heavy with the faults of others, he has hung before.
Competition doesn't create character, it exposes it.
The surest road to health,
say what they will,
Is never to suppose
we shall be ill.
If inventors feared criticism, we would still be traveling by ox cart and wearing homespun clothing.
Fear knocked at the door.
Faith went out to it
and there was no one there.
(Fable over the fireplace of a small hotel near Liverpool)
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Work is much more fun that fun.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
A hole in one, scored by pure accident, can keep a complete duffer playing golf for the rest of his life.
Cranes Rule:
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
Boy-Girl Theory
Negotiating is very much like the ""Dating Game"": Every person wants what he can't have and does not want what he can have. Plan your strategy accordingly.
It is easier to keep ahead than to try to catch up with back work.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
I don't meet competition. I crush it.
The person who will not take a chance seldom has one thrust upon him.
The harvest is rich, but the laborers are few.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
We must not look at the points we have lost but at the points we can gain.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.
Desperation Theory
Beware the man who operates from a desperate position, for he wields the most lethal weapon of all -- the latitude to try anything, because he has nothing to lose.
My cake is dough.
A man's words flow from out of what fills his heart.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
The NAACP is a wonderful organization. Belong to it myself. But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be out of work.
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
Tend-To Theory
Hyping oneself is toxic; believing one's own hype is fatal.
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
He sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies but little kingdoms?
Property quickly come by at first will not be blessed in the end.
If you have more enemies than friends the odds are you have earned them.
Time wounds all heels.
Vincit omnia veritas.
(Truth conquers all things)
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
This above all: to thine own self be true;
And it must follow as the night the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
You're very foolish if you try to beat around the bush -- you just meet yourself coming around the bush the other way.
If a man gave spoken expression to every thought that came into his mind, he would have no friends.
I had rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency on down.
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; of false that it lessens.
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
I would rather be right than president.
Character is what you are in the dark.
Fame is what you have taken,
Character's what you give;
When to this truth you awaken,
Then you begin to live.
If a body's ever took charity, it makes a burn that doesn't come out.
We must all hang together else we shall all hang separately.
Wrong is wrong, even if it helps you.
Beware the man who does not drink.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
If one gets something for nothing it generally turns out to worth to him about what it cost.
In matters of principal, stand like a rock, in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice and madness without tuition or restraint.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Do the right thing because it is right.
Exception Theory
He who makes an exception runs the risk of establishing a rule, because exceptions tend to become rules. One exception has a habit of leading to another, until life itself becomes one big exception.
Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written word but by the spoken word.
Time to me this truth has taught
('Tis a treasure worth revealing),
More offend from want of thought
Than from any want of feeling.
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our thoughts as to conceal them.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover,
But a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Or if sometime when roaming round a noble wild best greets you,
With black stripes on a yellow ground, just notice if he eats you
This simple test may help you learn, the Bengal Tiger to discern.
The bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of a cheap price is forgotten.
No guts, no glory
By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.
Believe you can and you can.
You can do if you want to. You can do if you try.
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.
You become what you think.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Avery's Observation
It does not matter if you fall down as long as you pick up something from the floor when you get up.
Bombeck's Rule of Medicine
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
A truly big man never tries to impress others with his bigness and never tries to keep up with the Joneses.
Do what you are afraid to do.
Help conquer the IQ shortage; worry less and think more.
It is better to excel another than to waste time envying him.
It is a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.
Six words for success:
Never never never never give up.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are concentrated the deeper they burn.
God can do great things through the man who doesn't care who gets the credit.
You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.
Ever insurgent let me be,
Make me more daring than devout;
From sleek contentment keep me free
And fill me with a buoyant doubt.
For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the game.
Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Abram's Advice
When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
Time is your most valuable asset.
If life hands you lemon make lemonade.
Put your sword back for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.
Think first and the job is half done.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
I've developed a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time.
Don't agonize, organize.
I'll stand for nothing less or I'll never stand again.
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by consistent daily application of the best you have within you.
If you do nothing else but keep your nose to the grindstone and work, hard long hours, your guaranteed to get only one thing in return: old.
Always stay in your own movie.
You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.
It's better to err on the side of daring than on the side of caution.
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Tactful. Not sacrificial.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk about the things he treasures most.
There's only one way to be sure that your plans will be carried out; Take matters into you own hands and don't expect help from anyone.
We're all in this alone.
Concentration-Payoff Theory: Success is directly dependent upon the total number of hours one is able to devote to intense, uninterrupted concentration.
Committees of twenty deliberate plenty, Committees of ten act now and then, But most jobs are done by committees of one.
We are as the king, only not as rich.
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
Dedicated to men and women throughout the world who practice individualism and self responsibility, who do not covet the fruits of the labors of others, who respect every persons right to sovereignty over his own life, and whose actions are consistent with the cause of human freedom.
I'm the one that's go to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
As a general rule, a person's chances for success will tend to increase the more he's out of step with the dictates of conventional wisdom.
Americans are too sympathetic to provide a good milieu for individuality.
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
When a free thinker is born, the devil trembles with fear.
Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
Some ladies now make pretty songs and some make pretty nurses; Some men are good for righting wrongs and some for writing verses.
I suspect that woman will be the last thing civilized by man.
The woman was not taken from Adam's head we know, To show she must not rule him -- Tis evidently so, The woman she was taken from under Adam's arm, So she must be protected from injuries and harm.
If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
Love is being stupid together.
The greatest love is a mother's, then a dog's, then a sweetheart's.
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Honesty has ruined more marriages than infidelity.
Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
I don't know anything about music. In my line of work you don't have to.
It is far easier to know men than to know man.
Hair is another name for sex.
As usual, there's a great woman behind every idiot.
Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.
Most marriages don't add two people together, they subtract one from the other.
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman -- any woman -- with beautiful legs.
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization to impress our girlfriends.
There are three intolerable things in life -- cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and over-excited women.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
There is no such thing as an ugly woman -- there are only the ones who do not know how to make themselves attractive.
Women -- the greatest undeveloped resource in the world today.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Women could be the most enchanting creatures on earth if, in falling into their arms, one didn't fall into their hands.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
We never know the worth of water 'till the well is dry.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money-then make money with money, then make lots of money with lots of money.
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
I've been rich and I've been poor, and believe me rich is better.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
If Plato had not existed, it would have been necessary for someone to invent him.
Nulli Tunica, Nulli Calci, Nulli Salvus - No shirt, no shoes, no service.
Brain cells are a good thing to have. I'm going to be completely out by the end of the week.
There are no boundaries one must adhere to when preserving one's liberty.
