Selected Quotations 4....

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
- Franklin P. Jones

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
- Tom Lehrer, lecturing in "The Nature of Math", 4/4/90

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
- Lenin

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
- Robertson Davies

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that is wrong.
- Muhammad Ali

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
- William Faulkner

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.
- Woody Allen

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
- John McEnroe

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundreth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Truman Capote

Never tell everything at once.
- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
- Louis L'Amour

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
- Aldous Huxley


Thats it for today.........

Selected Quotations... Part 3

Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
-James A. LaFond-Lewis

Courage is grace under pressure.
-Ernest Hemingway

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
-Theodore Roosevelt

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-Albert Einstein

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rich Cook

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six more.
-Walter Matthau

Smartness runs in the family. When I went to school, I was so smart my, teacher was in my class for five years.
-George Burns

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-Harry S. Truman

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
-Confucius

If you must begin, then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.
-Chogyam Trungpa

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
-Maya Angelou

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
-Charles de Gaulle

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
-Aristotle

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
-Rodan of Alexandria

Intelligent is a term used to describe someone who agrees with you.
-Unknown

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
-Orison Swett Marden

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
-John F. Kennedy

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
- Charles F. Kettering

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney

Nothing will work unless you do.
-Maya Angelou

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali

Be who you are and be that well.
-Saint Francis de Sales

What you are will show in what you do.
-Thomas A. Edison

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
-Samuel Goldwyn

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
-Johnny Carson

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
-Mark Twain

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


and to end with, here is a wonderful quotation,

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-George Bernard Shaw


Thats it for today.........