Words of Wisdom
- "The greatest match a man can win is won within."
- "The harder you work, the harder it is to lose."
- "A great many people seem to end up over the hill without
ever having actually climbed it!"
- "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried
to succeed."
- "Bad habits are like a good bed; easy to get into but
difficult to get out of."
- "Opportunity may knock, but you must open the door."
- "Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it."
- "Nobody is a failure until he stops trying."
- "It isn't the load that breaks us down; it's the way
we carry it."
- "The definition of FEAR is False Evidence Appearing
Real."
- "The true champion loses many battles before winning the
war."
- "The will to win is not nearly so important as the will
to prepare to win."
- "Be prepared! 'If only' are the famous last words of
those who weren't."
- "If 'ifs and buts' were candy and nuts, we'd have Christmas
everyday."
- "Desire is the key that opens the door when opportunity
knocks."
- "Great opportunities come to those who make the most of
small ones."
- "To demand more of yourself than you do of others is the
first step on any ladder of success."
- "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
- "Measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage
him."
- "Hard luck is composed of laziness, bad judgment, and
poor execution."
- "Victory comes to those who make the least mistakes."
- "Doing things by halves is worthless; it may be the other
half that counts."
- "To be satisfied with yourself is a sure sign that your
forward motion has stopped."
- "It isn't the hours you put in, but what you put IN the
hours."
- "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to
take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much
nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight
that knows neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore
Roosevelt
- "Don't think your condition is good enough; KNOW IT!"
- "I can't do it never yet accomplished anything; I will
try has performed miracles."
- "It is a rough road that leads to heights of greatness."
- Senaca
- "Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better
than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
- L. Jones
- "The man who never makes mistakes loses a great many chances
to learn something."
- "Winning is a habit, but unfortunately so is losing."
- Vince Lombardi
- "Reaching high keeps a man on his toes."
- "Adversity tests a man's true character."
- "No goal is unattainable with individual determination."
- "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
- Montaigne
- "A lot of good could be accomplished in this world if
nobody cared who got the credit."
- "If you fail to plan, plan to fail."
- "The price of greatness is responsiblity."
- "Let me win, but if I can't win, let me be brave in the attempt."
- from Special Olympics
- "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "The true champion believes in the impossible."
- "Nothing positive comes from self-pity."
- "Never lose your head. Its the best part of your body."
- Art Rooney
- "Courage under sure defeat is true magnificance."
- "Anger punishes itself."
- "What you don't say, sometimes says more."
- "Hard work is the best remedy for all of life's trials."
- "I will study and prepare myself . . . and someday my chance will
come."
- Abraham Lincoln
- "Winners in life don't always win; they just don't give up."
- "Your balance may be recovered when you trip, but not your words
when they slip."
- "Beware the fury of a patience man."
- John Dryden
- "Men are born with two eyes but with one tongue, in order that they may see
twice
as much as they say."
- C. C. Colton
- "Every man is a volume, if you how to read him."
- W. E. Channing
- "It takes less time to do something right the first time, than it does to explain why
you did it wrong."
- "Tough times don't last, but tough people do."
- "Never be ashamed of the work you have done, only the work you haven't done."
- "The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing
you
will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard
- "Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well."
- Stanhope
- "When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- "The greatest athletes are those who discover that what they should be doing and
what they are doing are the same thing."
- "Experience shows that exceptions are as true as the rules."
- Edith Ronald Mirrielees
- "Every man is capable of performing something unique; that which
he alone can perfect."
- W.A.W.
- "One machine can do the work of a hundred ordinary men, but no machine can do
the work of one extraordinary man."
- Elbert Hubbard
- "The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper."
-
C.
S. Lewis
- "To love what you do and feel that it matters--how could anything be more fun." -
Katharine Graham
- "He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts
unjustly to himself."
- Marcus Aurelius
- "I believe because it is impossible."
- Tertullian
- "Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds." - Socrates
- "Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final." - Don Shula
- "The absence of desire can be fatal." - W.A.W.
- "Individuals who act too 'cool' often freeze under pressure."
- W.A.W.
- "Sports do not build character; they reveal it."
- "All things are difficult before they are easy."
- "Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice."
- "Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." -
General George S. Patton
- "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what he gets for it, but hwat he
becomes by it." - John Ruskin
- "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little EXTRA."
- "Talent is no match for hard work, determination, and perseverance." -
W.A.W.
- "Many receive advice, but only the wise profit from it." - Syrus
- "Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on
first." - Frederick Wilcox
- "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
- "When time, which steals our years away,
Shall steal our pleasures too,
The memory of the past will stay,
And half our joys renew." - Unknown Author
- "Things may come to those that wait, but only things left by those that hustle."
- Abraham Lincoln, County Wrestling Champion and 16th U.S. President
- "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and
leave
a trail."
- "Never marvel at the strength of a man's words, but rather by the determination and
truthfulness of his actions." - W.A.W.
- "The trouble with many critics is that they tell you what should be in situations
they
never have been in themselves." - W.A.W.
- "Make good habits and they will make you." - Parks Cousins
- "Change favors those who are prepared." - Louis Pasteur
- "Second guessing is much easier than speculating under pressure."
- W.A.W.
- "Life is like a horse--either you ride it or it rides you."
- "A man of character does not expect to be liked by everyone, nor
does he worry about being liked by anyone." - W.A.W.
- "An apology is the best way to have the last word."
- "Progress is not created by contented people." - Frank Tyger
- "Lies tarnish the soul." - W.A.W.
- "One of the most important things a father can do for his children is to love
their mother." - Ray Chenoweth
- "Personal judgments are like watches; none go just the same, yet
each believes his own." - Alexander Pope
- "Challenges should not be seen as obstacles but rather as opportunities for
acquiring new experiences in life."
- "It is very hard to win when your thoughts turn to losing."
- W.A.W.
- "If you are patient in one moment of anger you will escape a hundred days of
sorrow."
- "Balance is the key to wrestling . . . and life." - W.A.W.
- "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." -
Carlyle
- "Success covers a multitude of blunders." - George Bernard Shaw
- "Champions expect pain, endure pain, and never complain."
- W.A.W.
- "If I try I can only lose, not fail." - W.A.W.
- "I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more." - Jonas
Salk
- "Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought."
- Henri Bergson
- "Not doing more than average is what keeps the average down."
- William M. Winans
- "Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
- "A patient man will ultimately succeed." - W.A.W.
- "Who darns nothing, need hope for nothing." - Johann von Schiller
- "Creativity is intelligence having fun."
- "An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason." -
Publilius Syrus
- "A long dispute means both parties are wrong." - Voltaire
- "I have much more faith in a kind man than I do in mankind."
- W.A.W.
- "Exhibit pride in your work and humility in your accomplishments." -
W.A.W.
- "Leadership is action, not position." - Samuel Gompers
- "It's not what you were, but what you are." - W.A.W.
- "Great wrestlers don't out-muscle; they out-hustle." - W.A.W.
- "No one can ever make you feel inferior without your consent."
- "To try and fail is at least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss
of what might have been." - Chester Bernard
- "In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail." - Cassius
- "Character is not made in a crisis--it is only exhibited."
- Robert Freeman
- "Common sense the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing
things as they ought to be done." - Josh Billings
- "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
- Seneca
- "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of
fear." - Mark Twain
- "He that has learned to obey will know how to command." - Solon
- "There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and energy and
industry." - D. G. Mitchell
- "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything
else." - Benjamin Franklin
- "Rather suffer an injustice than commit one." - Anonymous
- "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't
work for the rabbit." - R. E. Shay
- "Positive anything is better than negative nothing." - Elbert
Hubbard
- "He who won't be counseled can't be helped." - Ben Franklin
- "Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom." - W.A.W.
- "Adversity is the first path to truth." - Lord Byron
- "Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."
- Garibaldi
- "The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
- John Locke
- "A man is not old as long as he is seeking something."
- Jean Rostand
- "The greatest remedy for anger is delay." - Seneca
- "Not failure, but low aim, is crime." - J. R. Lowell
- "The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."
- Joshua Reynolds
- "Ambition is not a vice of little people." - Michel de Montaigne
- "Anger blows out the candle of the mind." - R. G. Ingersoll
- "All change is not growth; all movement is not forward."
- Ellen Glasgow
- "Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway
- "Keep cool; anger is not an argument." - Daniel Webster
- "Success can test one's mettle as surely as the strongest
adversary."
- "Busy souls have no time to be busybodies." - O'Malley
- "The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm." -
H.
W. Arnold
- "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct
it." - Orlando A. Battista
- "The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good
example." - Morell
- "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
- Rodin
- "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame
someone else." - John Burroughs
- "We make our own fortunes and call them fate." - Benjamin Disreali
- "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
- Marie Curie
- "Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry." - Oliver Goldsmith
- "Justice is a law of nature rarely found in human affairs."
- W.A.W.
- "Every man is the architect of his own fortune." - Sallust
- "No man is free who is not a master of himself." - Epictetus
- "Sometimes the best gain is to lose." - George Herbert
- "It isn't over till it's over." - Yogi Berra
- "Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
- Joseph Joubert
- "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." - Voltaire
- "A man's true height is determined by his thoughts and actions."
- W.A.W.
- "Making mistakes reveals human nature. How one deals with them reveals
character." - W.A.W.
- "I must be cruel, only to be kind." - William Shakespeare
- "In the quest for knowledge, there are no barriers."
- Joseph J. Thomas
- "An individual's fate is not a matter of chance, but a matter of
choice." - W.A.W.
- "Maturity is accepting the consequences of your actions."
- W.A.W.
- "Silence often gives impressions that words can not." - W.A.W.
- "Forgetting is oft times harder than remembering." - W.A.W.
- "Everybody falls, but only WINNERS get back on their feet."
- W.A.W.
- "Try not to be a man of success, but rather a man of value."
- A. Einstein
- "Most problems are solved with resolve." - W.A.W.
- "Circumstances are often the masters of our lives." - W.A.W.
- "Some people say they can do a little bit of everything--very
little." - W.A.W.
- "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope
for
tomorrow." - Robert H. Goddard
- "Home is a refuge for all good men." - W.A.W.
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"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred
with their bones." - William Shakespeare
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"Patience is a vital trait of the great athlete." - W.A.W.
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"Truly intelligent men know better than to take themselves too seriously. --
W.A.W.
- "If you don't try, you can't fail . . . or SUCCEED."
- "The largest room available to athletes is room for IMPROVEMENT."
- "The way to avoid roadblocks to learning is to ask questions."
-- Joseph J. Thomas
- "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
-- Friedrich Engels
- "Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice."
-- George Jackson
- "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
-- R. W. Emerson
- "Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."
-- Thomas Carlyle
- "In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." -- J.
Churton Collins
- "A room without books is as a body without a soul."
-- Sir John Lubbock
- "The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling
against adversity." -- Seneca
- "A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
-- E. W. Howe
- "A teacher affects eternity." -- Henry B. Adams
- "No man can think clearly when his fists are clinched."
-- G. J. Nathan
- "Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."
-- T. B. Aldrich
- "Adventure is the champagne of life." -- G. K. Chesterton
- "Before you tell anyone to 'be yourself' reassess his character."
-- Anonymous
- "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
-- J. M. Barrie
- "Many can argue; not many converse." --Alcott
- "Coming together is the beginning; keeping together is progress;
working together is success." --Henry Ford
- "People only see what they are prepared to see." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to
copy after." --Oliver Goldsmith
- "A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience."
--Elbert Hubbard
- "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by
what we have done." --H. W. Longfellow
- "The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves."
--William Penn
- "In doing what we ought we deserve no praise." --Saint Augustine
- "Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave
insaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." --George Sala
- "We know what we are, but we know not what we may be." --William
Shakespeare
- "Work before pleasure--for there is no real pleasure
without work."
- "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
-- J. M. Barrie
- "Sometimes true courage in life is just being a decent
human being."
- "That which does not kill us, makes us stronger."
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"Lose your cool - play the fool!
- W. Andrew Welker
- "Most men look to what is right for them. Few search
for the truth." - W.A.W.
- "The longer you live, the more you realize you can't
change the world--but it doesn't have to change you." - W.A.W.
- "Some say cling to the earth while others say reach for
the stars. There's time enough for the earth in the grave."
- "Never pray to win, but to do your best--for God has no favorites." -
Dorothy I. Welker
- "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred
Adler
- "It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man (who says) the
oath." - Aeschylus
- "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
- Joseph Addison
- "What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."
- E. W. Howe
- "Character is much easier kept than recovered."
- Thomas Paine
- "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."
- George Bernard Shaw
- "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." - Dr.
Samuel Johnson
- "Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but
none to self-restraint." - M. K. Gandhi
- "To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life." - Gelett
Burgess
- "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
-- J. M. Barrie
- "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." --
Oscar Wilde
- "We see things not as they are, but as we are."
-- H. M. Tomlinson
- "Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
--Edmund Burke
- "In our world, more often the truth is 'Money talks and integrity walks.'"
-- Bill Welker
- "Never doubt yourself nor your abilities."
-- Pete Cuffaro
- "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest
inheritance." -- Ruth E. Renkel
- "The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."
-- Jacqueline Schiff
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- "A true friend never gets in your way unless you
happen to be going down." -- Arnold H. Glasow
- "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-- Beverly Sills
- "We don't know who we are until we see what we can
do." -- Martha Grimes
- "Information is pretty thin stuff unless mixed with
experience." -- Clarence Day
- "The speed of the leader determines the rate of
the pack." -- Wayne Lukas
- "It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to
accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
- "If a man has common sense, he has all the sense
there is." --Sam Rayburn
- "Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out."
-- Michael Burke
- "He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar,
too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft. The ideal citizen is the
scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action." -- Plato
- "There are no secrets to success. It is the result
of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
-- Gen. Colin L. Powell
- "Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument
is an exchange of ignorance." -- Robert Quillen
- "The impossible is often the untried."
-- Jim Goodwin
- "A great athlete does not come from muscle,
speed, and skill...but from the mind
first." -- Dan-E. Welker
- "Every child should have an occasional pat on
on the back as long as it is applied low
enough and hard enough."
-- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
- "The older I grow, the more I listen to people who
don't say much." -- Germain G. Glidden
- "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."
-- Vermont Proverb
- "The older I grow, the more I listen to people who
don't say much." -- Germain G. Glidden
- "If you want truly to understand something, try to
change it." -- Kurt Lewin
- "When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving
target." -- George Fisher
- "To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you
do have." -- Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
- "Speak when you're angry--and you'll make the best speech
you'll ever regret." - L. J. Peter
- "Even in the dictionary, academics comes before
athletics." -- William A. Welker
- "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." --
Edmund Burke
- "Silence is one of the hardest things to refute."
-- Josh Billings
- "Remember, it takes two fools to argue"
- "Native ability without education is like a tree without
fruit." -- Aristippus
- "When passion rules, she never rules wisely"
-- Ben Franklin
- "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
- "The hardest thing about earning a title is the
ability to live up to it." -- W. A. Welker
- "A bore is a person who lights up the room simply
by leaving it." -- L. J. Peter
- "Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles."
-- Herbert Agar
- "Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live."
-- Conte Vittorio Afieri
- "To read without reflecting is like eating without
digesting." -- Edmund Burke
- "Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The
human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
-- William Ellery Channing
- "Life can be fun if you learn to enjoy the adventure."
- "Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than
our progress in education." - John F. Kennedy
- "We cannot be separated in interest or divided in
purpose. We stand together until the end."
- Woodrow Wilson
- "If you blame others for your failures, do you also credit
them for your successes."
- "Humility is a strange thing--the minute you think you've got it,
you've lost it."
- "The best rule of thumb for character is to remember that if you
can't be big, don't belittle."
- "To truly succeed, it is necessary to accept the world
as it is and rise above it."
- "Another good thing about telling the truth is that you don't have
to remember what you said."
- "The real test of your character is your treatment of those who
can be of no possible service to you."
- "You will never get ahead of anyone as long as you are trying to
get even."
- "The trouble with our laws these days is that the criminals know
their rights better than their wrongs."
- "Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself."
- "The trouble with being a good sport is that you have
to lose to prove it."
- "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for
they will never cease to be amused."
- "Those who seek faultless friends will remain
friendless."
- "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today
is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.'"
- "To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first"
--William Shakespeare
- "Great minds have purposes; others have wishes." -- Washington Irving
- "The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but liking
what one has to do." -- James M. Burrie
- "I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back."
-- Philip Brookes
- "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the
best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the
rest of us." -- Edward Wallis Hoch
- "I become apprehensive when I observe people in large groups because
they are often controlled by their emotions -- and from there, emerge
as mobs." -- W. Andrew Welker
- "That best portion of a good man's life -- his little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and love." -- William Wordsworth
- "Tart words make no friends: A spoonful of honey will catch more
flies than a gallon of vinegar." -- Benjamin Franklin
- "Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."
-- The Christopher Motto
- "A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains."
-- Dutch Proverb
- "When I was young, I kissed my first women and smoked my first
cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco."
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- Arturo Toscanini
- "I do not ask for any crown but that which all may win; nor try to
conquer any world except the one within." -- Louisa May Alcott
- "The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly
safe." -- James M. Barrie
- "See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little."
-- Pope John XXIII
- "He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help."
-- Abraham Lincoln
- "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can
do the work of one extraordinary man." -- Elbert Hubbard
- "There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower."
-- Honore de Balzac
- "Nothing will ever be accomplished if all possible objections must be
first overcome." -- Samuel Johnson
- "The only thing some people do is get older." -- Edgar Watson Howe
- "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't
be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." -- Elbert Hubbard
- "Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long
enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- "Courage is fear in action." -- William A. Welker
- "Cowardice is fear inaction." -- William A. Welker
- "A person has to be busy to stay alive." -- Maxwell Anderson
- "Enthusiasm rinds opportunities and energy makes the most of them."
-- Henry Hoskins
- "Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile."
-- Bertand Russell
- "All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities." -- Claes
Oldenburg
- "It is easier to right for one's principles than to live up to them."
-- Adlai Stevenson
- "Maybe more youngsters would stay home at nights if they were not
afraid to stay alone at nights." -- Herbert Prochnow
- "Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties." -- Aesop
- "A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
-- Edgar Watson Howe
- "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It
might have been." -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1856)
- “Though many people regret growing old, it’s a privilege denied to many.”
-- Anonymous
- “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.”
-- Robert Quillen
- “He who takes a stand is often wrong, but he who fails to take a stand is always wrong.” -- Anonymous
- “I can believe anything provided it is incredible.” -- Oscar Wilde
- “A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” -- Anonymous
- “Appropriate rules cultivate a disciplined character.” -- Bill Welker
- “Nothing really sets human nature free but self-control.” -- Paul Bottome
- “Only through practice can new ideas truly be evaluated.” -- W.A.W.
- “It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not.”
-- Andre Gide
- “My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
- “There is no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary.” -- Donald Kimball
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” -- Albert Einstein
- “A hypocrite is a person who ... but who isn’t.” -- Don Marquis
- “If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it.”
-- Henry Ford
- “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
- “It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”
-- Rene Descartes
- “A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.”
-- Barbara Walters
- "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -- T. S. Eliot
- "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." -- George Moore
- "Forget injuries; never forget kindness." -- Confucius
- "Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can." -- Elsa Maxwell
- "Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish." -- Thomas Fuller
- "What we learn to do, we learn by doing." -- Aristotle
- "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from
the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange,
I am ungrateful to those teachers." -- Khalil Gibran
- "In doing we learn." -- George Herbert
- "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects"
-- Will Rogers
- "Be of good courage and the Lord will strengthen your heart."
-- The Holy Bible
- "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
-- George Bernard Shaw
- "Life is a long lesson in humility." -- Sir James M. Barrie
- "The tragedy of life is not what men suffer, but rather what they miss."
-- Thomas Carlyle
- "Live so you won't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town
gossip." -- Will Rogers
- "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy
the interval." -- George Santayana
- "Life is a long lesson in humility." -- Sir James M. Barrie
Thanks to Dr. Bill Welker
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