REAL LIFE
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. -- Cary Grant
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Robert Frost (1874-1963)
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have TV shows starring rubber squeak toys? - Douglas Coupland
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. -- Raymond Aron
BEAUTY
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. Gore Vidal
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. Gilda Radner
SCHOOL
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.--Doris Lessing
Pain is the root of knowledge.--Simone Weil
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.--Lady Bird Johnson
I recommend that you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.--Lord Chesterfield
JOY
It's like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!
--Merrill Markoe
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life -- this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. -Charles Dudley Warner(1829-1900)
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
A woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life. --Kim Chernin
Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. --Rosalind Russell
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. - D. H. Lawrence
I want to do it because I want to do it. --Amelia Earhart
WORK
The world belongs to the energetic.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. - Henry A. Kissinger
To change and to improve are two different things.--German proverb
All that is necessary is to accept the unacceptable, do without the indispensable, and bear the unbearable. --Kathleen Norris
Nothing can be done except little by little.--Charles Baudelaire
When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. --Margaret Chase Smith
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.--Harrison Ford
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -Edsger W. Dijkstra
We must not waste life in devising means. It's better to plan less and do more. - William Ellery Channing (1780-1842).
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, Certainly, I can! Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. - Betty Bender
PLEASURES
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Hunter S. Thompson
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. - Cynthia Heimel
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)
WALKING
Walking is man's best medicine. -Hippocrates, (460-377 BC)
Walking is also an ambulation of mind. -Gretel Ehrlich, novelist, poet, and essayist (1946- )
COURAGE
If you're going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.--Raymond Linquist
I'm not happy. I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.--Beverly Sills
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.--Louisa May Alcott
CLASSICS
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. - Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson
What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick. - Anonymous
What price Glory? - Maxwell Anderson
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. -Chinese Proverb
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 BCE)
mirabile dictu (mee-RAH-bi-lay DIK-too)[ interjection] - Strange to say; wonderful to relate. [Latin.]
If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. -Chinese Proverb
POLITICS
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. - Alanis Morissette
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. - Epperson's law
Friends and fellow-citizens! I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. For any State to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people is to pass a bill of attainder, or an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land. --
Susan B. Anthony, Jun 17, 1873
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? - Virginia Woolf
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. -Gloria Steinem
A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time. - Frank Vanderlip
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.
--Abigail Van Buren
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.- Leo Rosten
WRITING
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Steven Wright
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something -- a great deal -- to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words, by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds. --Adrienne Rich
What you don't know would make a great book.
Sydney Smith
Why don't you write books people can read?
Nora Joyce , to her husband James
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. -John Keats, poet (1795-1821)
A word after a word after a word is power. -Margaret Atwood, poet and
novelist (1939- )
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! -Gustave Flaubert, novelist (1821-1880)
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. -Maya Angelou, poet (1928)
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
PHILOSOPHY
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
Change before you have to. - Jack Welch
Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life. --Antoinette Bosco
Women and cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. - Robert Heinlein
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. W. Somerset Maugham
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. - Dave Barry
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do
This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it - -Al Cap
