It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.
Thomas Jefferson
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Thomas Jefferson
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
John F. Kennedy
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Thomas Jefferson
...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
John F. Kennedy
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson
I think we're here for each other.
Carol Burnett
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
With foxes we must play the fox.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
Thomas Jefferson
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Thomas Jefferson
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge
He that fears your presence will hate you absence.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Enquire not what boils in another's pot.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
Thomas Jefferson
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
A good garden may have some weeds.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
What worries you, masters you.
John Locke
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.
Thomas Jefferson
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
Thomas Jefferson
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard
Once you label me, you negate me.
Soren Kierkegaard
Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard
Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
The most painful state of living is remembering the future.
Soren Kierkegaard
Praise the young and they will flourish.
Irish Proverb
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
Soren Kierkegaard
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
Soren Kierkegaard
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but its warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.
Irish Proverb
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it.
Soren Kierkegaard
The believer is happy, the doubter is wise.
Irish Proverb
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: 'Sing for us soon again;' that is as much as to say. 'May new sufferings torment your soul.'
Soren Kierkegaard
When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go.
Carol Burnett
He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you.
Irish Proverb
A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.
Irish Proverb
By degrees the castles are built.
Irish Proverb
Even the longest day has its end.
Irish Proverb
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
Don't break your shin on a stool that is not in your way.
Irish Proverb
A lie travels farther than the truth.
Irish Proverb
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham Bell
A poor person is often worthy.
Irish Proverb
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.
Irish Proverb
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
English Proverb
Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.
Irish Proverb
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
Irish Proverb
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Douglas Adams
A kind word never broke anyone's mouth.
Irish Proverb
It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.
Irish Proverb
A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.
Irish Proverb
If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself.
Irish Proverb
Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
Scott Adams
A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.
Irish Proverb
If you ever have trouble sounding condescending, ask a UNIX user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams
I feel sorry for those who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Frank Sinatra
The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.
Scott Adams
Just turn left at Greenland...
John Lennon
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.
John Lennon
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
John Lennon
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
Deepak Chopra
Dogbert: 'Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemon, make lemonade.' Dilbert: 'But i'm allergic to citrus.' Dogbert: 'Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemons, swell up and die.'
Scott Adams
We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first; rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
John Lennon
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.
Frank Sinatra
One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
Scott Adams
Lots of people who complained about us recieving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war--for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. Wouldn't you?
John Lennon
Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
John Lennon
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.
John Lennon
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
Scott Adams
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as 'a complete waste of time.'
Scott Adams
I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.
Frank Sinatra
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Frank Sinatra
One "oh shit" can erase a thousand attaboys.
Scott Adams
There's a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon
Technology: No Place for Wimps!
Scott Adams
Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon
I pitty people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's the best they're going to feel all day.
Frank Sinatra
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one.
John Lennon
The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
John Lennon
Before Elvis, there was nothing.
John Lennon
You haven't achieved equality until you're a legitimate target for humor.
Scott Adams
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
Tom Peters
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life.... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
Frank Sinatra
Dance like it hurts, Love like you need money, Work when people are watching.
Scott Adams
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
John Lennon
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
Scott Adams
I feel bad for people who don't drink because when they wake up in the morning and get out of bed...Thats the best they are gonna feel.
Frank Sinatra
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
Scott Adams
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
Robert Frost
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Scott Adams
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
Tom Peters
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Robert Frost
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie
An idea is a feat of association.
Robert Frost
I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost
And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
Robert Frost
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.
Tom Peters
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Robert Frost
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
Robert Frost
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
Robert Frost
Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope.
Robert Frost
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.
Parker J. Palmer
The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.
Parker J. Palmer
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
Douglas Adams
War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli
We are most alive when we're in love.
John Updike
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.
One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves.
Niccolo Machiavelli
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
John Updike
Who loves not wine, women and song, Remains a fool his whole life long.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Here stand I. I can do no other.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King Jr.
...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Martin Luther King Jr.
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
Rudyard Kipling
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
Sri Chinmoy
True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor Cousin
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer
There is no evil in the world without a remedy.
Jacopo Sannazaro
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.
Sri Chinmoy
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
Oprah Winfrey
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Oprah Winfrey
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
Oprah Winfrey
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
Oprah Winfrey
So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
Oprah Winfrey
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Oprah Winfrey
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
Oprah Winfrey
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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