"When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut."
A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
A clean, neat, and orderly work place is a sure sign of a sick mind.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
A generation which ignores history hes no past -- and no future.
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Draw your salary before spending it.
Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.
Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgment.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Here comes the orator, with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
Hindsight is an exact science.
If it's more than you need, it's greed.
If you continually give you will continually have.
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.
If you wish to succeed, consult three old people.
It's a poor workman who blames his tools.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string.
Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone.
Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence
Man's horizons are bounded by his vision.
Never appeal to a man's "better nature". He may not have one.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Put your brain in gear before starting your mouth.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
The attacker must vanquish, the defender need only survive.
The best prophet of the future is the past.
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
The light of a hundred stars does not equal the light of the moon.
The minute a man is convinced that he's interesting, he isn't.
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf.
There is always someone worse off than yourself.
Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.
To give happiness is to deserve happiness.
To keep your friends treat them kindly.   To kill them, treat them often.
To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
To refuse praise is to deserve praise twice.
Wasting time is an important part of living.
We prefer to speak evil of ourselves than not speak of ourselves at all.
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
What orators lack in depth they make up in length.
You live and you learn, or you don't live long.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" -A. Einstein
Expecting life to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian. -anon
"Never save anything for a special occasion.  Every day you're alive is a special occasion." -anon
"Life is a gift, that's why we call it the present." -anon
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.  -Anon
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" -George Bernhard Shaw
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." -Albert Einstein
"Any fool can criticize, and many of them do." -C. Garbett
"Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer." -Eugene Ionesco
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." -Norman Vincent Peale
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." -Kenneth Tynan
"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees and then names the streets after them." -Bill Vaughn
"Fashionability is a kind of vulgarity." -George Darley
"Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom."  -Golda Meir
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." -Henry David Thoreau
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new." -Henry David Thoreau
"All profoundly original art looks ugly at first." -Clement Greenberg
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." -Edward Hopper
"A work of art is useless.  So is a flower."  -Oscar Wilde
"Only a mediocre writer is always at his best." -W. Somerset Maugham
"There are no dull subjects. Only dull writers." -H. L. Mencken
Man dreads fame as a pig dreads fat.  -Chinese proverb
Tabloids are fast reading for the slow thinking.  -Anonymous
Television is the bland leading the bland.  -Murray Schumach
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.  -Frank Lloyd Wright
Educaton is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. -Daniel Boorstin
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. -Napoleon Bonaparte
Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement. -Seneca
Man is the only animal that has the true religion- Several of them.  -Mark Twain
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. -Hindu proverb
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal. -Einstein
There are no warlike peoples- just warlike leaders.  -Ralph Bunche
There was never a good war nor a bad peace.  -Benjamin Franklin
Better to live in peace than to begin war and lie dead.  -Chief Joseph
I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.  -Mohandas Ghandi
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money on books than we do on chewing gum. -Elbert Hubbard
"Be not enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstition."  -Rod Serling
Fear and paranoia are the products of ignorance.
Ideas are such funny things; they never work unless you do.
Talk is cheap because supply often exceeds demand.
Influence is like a savings account.  The less you use it, the more you've got. -Andrew Young
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
Opportunity may knock more than once, but you still have to open the door.
Generally speaking, you are not learning much when your mouth is moving.
The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss.
Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
"You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace." -Michael Franti
"I'm not black, but there's a whole lots of times I wish I could say I'm not white." -Frank Zappa
What if the "Hokey-Pokey" really IS what it's all about?
"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live." -John Adams
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.  When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. -Dora Camara
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality -Dante
Even a single lamp dispels the darkness -Gandhi
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death"
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. -Josef Stalin 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
If only closed minds came with closed mouths.
Risks must be taken because life's greatest hazard is to risk nothing, and thus gain nothing.
People who risk nothing, gain nothing.
Only a person who risks is truly free.
I take a simple view of life: Keep your eyes open and get on with it.  -Sir Laurence Oliver
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." -Abraham Lincoln
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.  -Henry Ward Beecher
"Home is not a place; It's wherever your passions take you." -John Sheridan, Babylon 5
"Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement." -William Arthur Ward
It's safer to skate on thin ice than it is to walk on water.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
The most wasted day of all is one in which we have not laughed.
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." -Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) 
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -Galileo Galilei 
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." -Emile Zola (1840-1902) 
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." -Definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." -Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode" 
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) 
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." -Henry Ford (1863-1947) 
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." -George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." -George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." -H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." -Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
"If you are going through hell, keep going." -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." -George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." -George Eliot (1819-1880)
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." -Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -Umberto Eco
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." -Jimmy Durante
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." -Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." -Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street." -Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." -Frank Zappa
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." -Isaac Asimov
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." -G. B. Burgin
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." -Jimi Hendrix
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." -Richard Bach
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -Will Durant
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." -Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." -Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head." -Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together." -Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"While we are postponing, life speeds by." -Seneca (3BC-65AD)
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Luck is the residue of design." -Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." -Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) 
"Wit is educated insolence." -Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) 
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." -Niels Bohr (1885-1962) 
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) 
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." -W.B. Prescott
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." -Martin Fraquhar Tupper 
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." -Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) 
"I am not young enough to know everything." -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 
"Men have become the tools of their tools." -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) 
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain (1835-1910) 
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives." -Abba Eban (1915-2002) 
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me." -Charles William Stubbs 
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." -Mark Twain (1835-1910) 
"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting." -Karl Wallenda 
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." -Sun Tzu 
"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar." -Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC) 
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Alan Kay 
"Never mistake motion for action." -Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) 
"Well done is better than well said." -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) 
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 
"I think it would be a good idea." -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization 
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"  -Will Rogers (1879-1935) 
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." -Irving Kristol 
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." -A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) 
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood." -General George S. Patton (1885-1945) 
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." -Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato) 
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." -Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) 
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." -Mark Twain (1835-1910) 
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) 
"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." -Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) 
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault." -Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." -Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"The truth is more important than the facts." -Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) 
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Bravery untempered by control can be a recipe for suicide."
Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.
"Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance." -Bill Maher
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -Helen Keller
"If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track." -Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Kindness is the greatest wisdom.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise.
"There is no happiness for him who does not travel...  Therefore, wander...  The fortune of him who is sitting sits, it rises when he rises, it sleeps when he sleeps, it moves when he moves...  Therefore, wander!"  From Aitreya Brahamanan, the Rigveda (800-600 B.C.) 
If you always do what you've always done, then you will always get what you've always got.
Definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.
"The war that matters is the war against the imagination- all other wars are subsumed in it." -Diane Di Prima
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Harold Thurman Whitman
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.  -Albert Einstein
Going to church doesn't make one a Christian any more than going to a garage makes one a mechanic.
There is not one shred of evidence to support the notion that life is serious.
Blessed are those who know how to think for themselves, truth will speak to them.
It's much more important to be kind than right. Kindness improves standard of life. So does laughter. However, righteousness can kill.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. -- Christopher Morley
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth. -- Picasso
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
"Imagine no possessions," said the millionaire from his luxury Manhattan apartment.
Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- Author unknown
"A man is but the product of his thoughts: What he thinks, he becomes." -Mahatma Gandhi
The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored. Always.
"A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a foolish man speaks because he has to say something." -Anonymous
"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities." - Bill Maher
A man is known by his deeds.  Hang on to your ideals.
A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Ask advice, but use your own own common sense.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Cooperate with those who have both know-how and integrity.
Don't let doubt and suspicion bar your progress.
Failure teaches success.
Find the road to happiness by helping others.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
In all things success depends on preparation; without it there is failure.
Knowledge helps you make a living, Wisdom helps you make a life.
Knowledge is priceless.
Man who thinks first will have good fortune.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Success is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from mistakes.
The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Time is the wisest counsellor.
To be happy is not to possess much, but to hope and to love much.
To give happiness is to deserve happiness.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
"The brave may not live forever... but the cautious do not live at all." Princess Diaries
"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." -Anthony Bourdain
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, tequila in hand, ....body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -Frederick Doug
lass
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending"-Maria Robinson
"It's fear that controls us in this country, in this world."  -Dr. Jack Kevorkian
"Courage is knowing what's right, and doing it." -Confucius
"There's such blatant hypocrisy in the world, and it makes me angry.  That's what spurs me on."  -Dr. Jack Kevorkian
"Fear NOTHING. Pain, death, failure, disease- fear NOTHING.  That's all.  Just remember that." -Dr. Jack Kevorkian
"There is no darkness but ignorance." -William Shakespeare
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway (allegedly)