He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.-- Henry James (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law.-- Ambrose Bierce (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.-- Dale Carnegie (source http://quote.kitt.net)

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.-- Robert Southey (source http://quote.kitt.net)

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed. -- Robert Heinlein (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.-- Woody Allen (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.-- Dale Carnegie (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.-- Vincent van Gogh (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.-- Francis Quarles (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Liberty!--Electric word! What is it? Is there anything more in it than a name--a rhetorical flourish? Why, men and women of America, does your hearts blood thrill at that word, for which your fathers bled, and your braver mothers were willing that their noblest and best should die? Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man?-- Harriet Beecher Stowe (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.-- African Proverb (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.-- Seneca (source http://quote.kitt.net)

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.-- Brooks Atkinson (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.-- Joseph Stalin (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.-- Mahatma Gandhi (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.-- Lewis Carroll (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.-- Robert Ingersoll (source http://quote.kitt.net)

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.-- Plato (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.-- Sir Winston Churchill (source http://quote.kitt.net)

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.-- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider (source http://quote.kitt.net)

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

A half-truth is a whole lie.-- Yiddish Proverb (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Women! Can't live with them...pass the beer nuts.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.-- Samuel Goldwyn (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.-- Plato (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.-- William Shakespeare (source http://quote.kitt.net)

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Measure your life in love.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.-- Benjamin Disraeli (source http://quote.kitt.net)

IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound. This, however, is inaccurate; to imaple is, properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position. This was a common mode of punishment among many of the nations of antiquity, and is still in high favor in China and other parts of Asia. Down to the beginning of the fifteenth century it was widely employed in "churching" heretics and schismatics. Wolecraft calls it the "stoole of repentynge," and among the common people it was jocularly known as "riding the one legged horse." Ludwig Salzmann informs us that in Thibet impalement is considered the most appropriate punishment for crimes against religion; and although in China it is sometimes awarded for secular offences, it is most frequently adjudged in cases of sacrilege. To the person in actual experience of impalement it must be a matter of minor importance by what kind of civil o

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.-- George Winters (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.-- Socrates (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.-- Henry J. Kaiser (source http://quote.kitt.net)

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

By their own follies they perished, the fools.-- Homer (source http://quote.kitt.net)

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.-- David Hume (source http://quote.kitt.net)

...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Art is the illusion of spontaneity. -- Japanese Proverb (source http://quote.kitt.net)

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.-- Victor Borge (source http://quote.kitt.net)

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.-- Aleister Crowley (source http://quote.kitt.net)

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.-- Oscar Wilde (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.-- Thomas H. Huxley (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Work is victory.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Life is like a ten-speed bike; most of us have gears we never use.-- Charles M. Schulz (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.-- George Bernard Shaw (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.-- Hazrat Inayat Khan (source http://quote.kitt.net)

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.-- Fred Allen (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.-- Christopher Reeve (source http://quote.kitt.net)

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. -- George Orwell (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)

Fame and glory are fleeting, especially in the music business. That's why completing my degree and graduating from college were priorities.-- Unknown (can you tell me?) (source http://quote.kitt.net)