Failure

The thing we call failure
is not the falling down
but the staying down

quote by Mary Pickford

Secret of success

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well

quote by John D. Rockefeller

Pearls of Wisdom




The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.  George Bernard Shaw



Justice without strength is helpless; strength without justice is tyrannical.  Blaise Pascal



Four things never come back-the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past live, and the neglected opportunity.  Arabian Proverb



You will never get ahead trying to get even.



The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.  Thomas Huxley



Goodness is the only investment that never fails.  Henry David Thoreau



The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.  Paul "Bear" Bryant



When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.  Paul "Bear" Bryant



Winners do things the hard way, and losers do things the easy way.  Paul "Bear" Bryant



When you make a mistake, admit it; learn from it and don't repeat it.  Paul "Bear" Bryant



What matters...is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.  Paul "Bear" Bryant



Do YOURSELF Proud.  Paul "Bear" Bryant



The scoreboard is not the correct measure of one's performance; If you gave everything you had - then you won; on the other hand, if you didn't give it your all, and the scoreboard says you won - you didn't, cause all you did was outscore your opponent and wasted your God given talent.  Paul "Bear" Bryant



The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.  Jean Moliere



Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.  Francois de la Rochefoucauld



There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding, and that which is lost by not trying.  Francis Bacon



You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.



He who prizes little things is worthy of great ones.  German Proverb



It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.  Jean Moliere



To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.  Cardinal Newman



If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.  Mark Twain



The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.  Chinese Proverb



There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.  Aldous Huxley



This above all; to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day.  Thou canst not then be false to any man.  William Shakespeare



People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.  Oliver Goldsmith



Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.  Aldous Huxley



Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.  Mark Twain



Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.  Pray for powers equal to your tasks.  Phillips Brooks



A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.  Confucius



The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.  Oliver Wendell Holmes



A man shows his character by what he laughs at.



The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles mine.



Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals.  Voltaire



Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.  Eddie Rickenbacker



Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.  Mark Twain



A fool aways find a greater fool to admire him.  Nicolas Bolleau-Despraux



Courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to do the thing we fear. Elisabeth Elliott



The most important thing to remember when you are going through hell, Is to keep going.



Through adverse situations we do not have the power to change the wind, but we do have the power to adjust the sails.



Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ...I'll try again tomorrow



We will either find a way, or make one.  Hannibal



Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.  Oliver Goldsmith



Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.  George Patton



Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.  Lou Holtz



What we do is less than a drop in the ocean.  But if that drop were missing, the ocean would lack something.  Mother Teresa



There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.  C.S.Lewis



The really great person is the one who makes everyone feel great.  G.K.Chesterton



Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.   Albert Einstein



Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."  Saint Francis of Assisi



Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.  Abraham Lincoln



Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.  Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.  Helen Keller



Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching.



Your attitude is the control center of your life.



Good luck is being prepared to accept opportunity when it knocks.



Even if you're are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.  Will Rogers



What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  Ralph Waldo Emerson



There's no thrill like doing something you didn't know you could.



Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.  Ralph Waldo Emerson



Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.  Theodore Roosevelt



We weren't promised an easy life. We were promised help to live it.



There are many reasons for doing a thing, but one of the most effective is the lack of an alternative.



To succeed - do the best you can, where you are, with what you have.  Theodore Roosevelt



Every problem contains the seeds to its own solution.  Norman Vincent Peale



If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much, and winning is not very important.  NFL Coach Dick Vermeil



What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rae is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.   Doris Lessing



If you think you can do something, you are probably right.  Henry Ford



I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing it to the end.  Abraham Lincoln



Never, Never, Never Quit.  Winston Churchill



Practice makes perfect, except when it comes to getting up in the morning.



Enjoy the little things. One day you may look back and realize that they were the big things.



There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen. Those who watch things happen. And those who wonder what happened.



You can't control the length of your life, but you can control its width and depth.



When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.



A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.



Success comes in cans, not in cannots.



If you ask of life, "What have you to offer me?", the answer will be, "What have you to give?"



Too often we seek a change in our condition, when what we need is a change in our attitude.



Worry is like a rocking chair - it will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.



If we appreciate what we have, it always becomes more. If we belittle what we have, it always becomes less.



Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.  Helen Keller



I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.  Helen Keller



The mark of a motivated man is his ability to distinguish a setback from a defeat.



Many of life's failures are those who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.



Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.



More important than how we live, is how we spend each day.



Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.



The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.



Even a woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.



If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.  Abigail Van Buren



Look at what you have left, not at what you have lost.



Tomorrow is not promised us, so take today and make the most of it.



Life is a team sport, sometimes you give, and sometimes you get.



Today gives us another chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the sky.



Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.  Sir James M. Barrie



We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.  Jack Herbert



Happy is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.



The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.  NFL Coach Vince Lombardi



The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.  Bobby Knight



Some dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.



Well done is better than well said.  Benjamin Franklin



Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.



You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.



Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.



Giving your best today is the recipe for a better tomorrow.



You can't change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying too much about the future.



A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.



Luck is where preparation meets with opportunity.



Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.



Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.



It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before ... to test your limits ... to break through barriers.



To dream anything that you want to dream - is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do - is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits - is the courage to succeed. There is always room at the top.  Daniel Webster



Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.  Gen. George S. Patton



It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.  UCLA Basketball Coach John Wooden



Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.



Goals are dreams with deadlines.



Always remember that strength is attained by meeting resistance.



Nothing is so full of victory as patience. He that can have patience can have what he will.  Benjamin Franklin



Believe and act as though it were impossible to fail.  Charles F. Kettering



Knowledge is the foundation on which to build a better world.



Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.  St. Francis De Sales



The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.  Dr. Jonas Saulk



You never learn anything talking, you only learn when you ask questions.



Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.  Malcom S. Forbes



A stumble may prevent a fall.  English Proverb



Ideas bring nothing unless carried out.



A winner is someone who sets his goals, commits himself to those goals, and then pursues his goals with all the ability given him.



A truly great person makes everyone else feel great.



Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.  Ralph Waldo Emerson



To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but dream; and not only plan, but believe.



Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.  Sir John Dewar



No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.  Eleanor Roosevelt



We are tomorrow's past.



The mind is not a storehouse to be filled, but an instrument to be used.



Don't count your years, make your years count.



Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.



People who do things that count, never stop to count them.



The man who goes the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.



Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do, more than the ones you did.



...the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.  Martha Washington



Opportunity always involves some risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.



If it is to be, it is up to me.



A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.



You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.



Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.  Helen Keller



The race for quality has no finish line.



You will always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.Larry Byrd



Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.



Success is a journey, not a destination.



A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.  Alistair Cooke



The mind is like a TV set - when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.



The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.



If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.



Success has a simple formula: do your best and people will like it.



It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can!



If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.



You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.



Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.  Jim Ryun



No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.



Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after another.Walter Elliott



Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.



A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.



Necessity is the mother of taking chances.  Mark Twain



If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.



It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.



I am a true believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more of it I have.  Thomas Jefferson



A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.  Charles Schwab



Life is like riding a bicycle - you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.  Claude Pepper



The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.  Theodore Roosevelt



Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It is not a day when you lounged around doing nothing. It will be a day when you've had everything to do and you've done it.



You must do the thing you think you cannot do.  Eleanor Roosevelt



Weekends are a bit like rainbows - they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.



Advice your parents give when you're 18 sometimes doesn't reach you until you're 40.



Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.



It's not your aptitude but your attitude that determines your altitude.



A winning attitude is at least 80 percent of your success. Everything else balances out the other 20 percent.



Enthusiasm is a sunshine that keeps everything in us alive and growing.



Instead of pointing a finger, why not hold out a hand.



Life is a ten speed bike: Most of us have gears we never use. Charles Schultz



Our eyes are placed in the front because it is more important to look ahead than to look back.



An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.



He who thinks he can, can; and he who thinks he can't, can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.  Orison Swett Marden



Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.  Mark Twain



A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.  William Hazlitt



If man has done his best, what else is there?  George S. Patton



Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.  Henry Ford



If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.  Thomas Wolfe



Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.  Henri Bergson



It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust..  Samuel Johnson



Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.  Ralph Waldo Emerson



Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.  Benjamin Disraeli



They also serve who only stand and wait.  John Milton



The way to be nothing is to do nothing.  Nathaniel Howe



There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.  James Russell Lowell



It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.  Abraham Lincoln



What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.  Thomas Paine



One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.  Sidney Howard



The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.  Edward Phelps



Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.  Thomas A Edison



The truth is more important than the facts.  Frank Lloyd Wright



As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.  Clarence Darrow



You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.  James Allen



The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.  Abraham Lincoln



Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.  Washington Irving



Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.  Felicia Hemans



You are only what you are when no one is looking.  Robert C Edwards



People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.  Zig Ziglar



Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.   George F. Tiltonood



Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.  Conrad Hilton



You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.  Dale Carnegie



Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.  Charles Caleb Colton



All things are difficult before they are easy.  Thomas Fuller



Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.  David Allen



Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.  Dr. Wayne Dyer



It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.  Claude M. Bristol



The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.  Arnold Bennett



It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin



Think you can't change the world? Too late, you already have. It was changed for the better the minute you were born. There are more people than you can imagine who will never be the same because they came in contact with you, if only for a fleeting moment.  Gail Pursell Elliott



The critic and the artist

The critic has to educate the public;
the artist has to educate the critic…

Quote by Oscar Wilde

20 Quotes for Getting through Tough Times




1. Tough times never last, but tough people do.  - Robert H Schuller



2. The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them. – Unknown



3. Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.  - Leroy Satchel Paige



4. A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington



5. I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. – Jewish Proverb



6. If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit



7. When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. – Malcolm S Forbes



8. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.  - William Hazlitt



9. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity. – Lou Holtz



10. I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.  - Thomas Paine



11. If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?  - Unknown



12. The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. - Ulysses S. Grant



13. The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.  – Seneca



14. Adversity is a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.  – Unknown



15. The true test of a person character is how they stand during test of adversity - Unknown



16. The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. – Charles M Schwab



17. He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. – William Samuel Johnson



18. In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. – Lee Iacocca



19. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. – Publilius Syrus



20. One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. – Albert Schweitzer

More Quotes for the Day




  • Science is about why, engineering is about why not.

     - Deam Kamen

  • All Limits are Self Imposed

     - Icarus

  • Imagination Encircles the World.

     - Albert Einstein

  • Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

      - Vincent Van Gogh

  • Man is what he believes.

      - Anton Chekhov

  • We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

      - Rainer Maria Rilke

  • We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.   - Buddha

  • Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

      - Inscription on Columbus' caravels

  • A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

      - Chinese Proverb

  • You see things and say, 'Why?', but I dream things and say, 'Why not?'

      - George Bernard Shaw

  • The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

      - Colin Wilson

  • The fair breeze blew, the foam flew, the furrow followed free:  we were the first that ever burst into that silent sea.

      - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • Hitch your wagon to a star.

       -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

      - Archimedes

  • Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go upwards.

      - Fred Hoyle

  • We are going to have the best educated Americans in the World!

      - Al Gore

  • The force is in fact the most to be feared in your entire naval arsenal. When engaged in combat we could throw everything we have at those ships and all our firepower would just bounce off or be of little effect. Then we are exhausted, we will detect you coming over the horizon and then you will sink us."

    - Soviet Fleet Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov,1985- Quote after watching the Iowa in a NATO exercise

  • Beware of what you wish for

  • Trade as you fight, fight as you trade - Carpe Diem

  • Politics are like war, in both you can be killed. But the difference is that in war you can be killed once, in politics, you can be killed many times.

    - Winston Churchill

  • It doesn’t matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.

  • I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy: “ Dear Jack, Don’y buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.”

    - John F. Kennedy

  • There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of an American presidential campaign.

    - Theodore White

  • Being President is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but stand there and take it.

    - Lyndon Johnson

  • When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I am beginning to believe it.

    - Clarence Darrow

  • Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resembalance to the first.

    - Ronald Reagan

  • It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

    - Ecclesiastes 7:5

  • You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

    - Mario Cuomo

  • In every election in American History both parties have their clichés. The party that has the clichés that ring true wins.

    - Newt Gingrich

  • No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody has already solved them.

    - Dwight Eisenhower

  • Pray to god, but continue to row to shore.

    - Russian Proverb

  • The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

    - F.H. Bradley

  • People react to fear, not love- they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it is true.

    - Richard Nixon

  • It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

    - Georges Bernanos

  • People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

    - Hermann Hesse

  • After one look at this planet and visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.”

    - William S. Burroughs

  • A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

    - Robert Frost

  • Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or act sanely under the influence of a great fear.

    - Bertrand Russell

  • Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

     - Hermann Broch

  • Even the badgers and the foxes learn by experience.

    - Lawrence Lessing

  • I am like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I ought to do, but I don’t know where to begin.

    - Stephen Bayne

  • Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

    - Ezekiel 12:22

  • But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

    - II Peter 3:8

  • Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

    - Dame Edith Sitwell

  • Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proven innocent.

    - George Orwell

  • I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

    - Robert Frost

  • Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.

    - Sophia Loren

  • Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

    - Quentin Crisp

  • A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

    - Proverbs 19:9

  • Smokers inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

    - Colette

  • It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

    - Fletcher Knebel

  • If someone is making a fool of themselves, and are insistent upon it, get out of the way and let them

  • "I think these counters are well fed," noted Bush spokesman Tucker Eskew — Republican attorneys continue to collect loose chads from the floors of counting rooms.

  • “Presidents don’t threaten Jack, they don’t have to.” 

    - Richard Nixon

  • “A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job.

    The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks "What do two plus two equal?" The mathematician replies "Four." The interviewer asks "Four, exactly?" The mathematician looks at the interviewer incredulously and says "Yes, four, exactly."

    Then the interviewer calls in the accountant and asks the same question "What do two plus two equal?" The accountant says "On average, four - give or take ten percent, but on average, four."

    Then the interviewer calls in the economist and poses the same question "What do two plus two equal?" The economist gets up, locks the door, closes the shade, sits down next to the interviewer and says "What do you want it to equal?"   - Anonymous

  • “Never be too proud to go onto your knees before God.”

    - Richard Nixon

  • “The darkness is reaching out from the darkness. Your next John.”

  • “The Dark. I’ve always been afraid of the dark.”

    - Richard Nixon

  • “Those that hate you don’t work unless you hate yourself.”

    - Richard Nixon.

  • “The only easy day was yesterday.”

    - Navy Seal saying

  • “The president has only 190 million bosses, the Vice President has only 190 million and one.”

    - Hubert Humpherey

  • “Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”

    - Clive James

  • “Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her, when nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her.”

    - Helen Rowland

  • “A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.”

    - Grace Hansen

  • Morry Adelman at MIT claims that he heard this at Shell long ago:

    "A planner is a gentle man,

    with neither sword nor pistol.

    He walks along most daintily,

    because his balls are crystal."

    - Mike Lynch, MIT 


  • “The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but it’s echo lasts a great deal longer.”

    - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  • “There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she is just practicing?”

    - Ruth Gordon

  • “ Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?”

    - Quentin Crisp

  • “The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.”

    - Job 33:4

  • Q; How many central bank economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

    A: Just one -- he holds the lightbulb and the whole earth revolves around him.

  • “An invaluable step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual,”

    - Lord Baden Powell

  • “On blind dates: So you are saying you want to walk up to a complete stranger and expect to fall in love.”

  • Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

  • A woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

    - Helen Rowland

  • NATURAL RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT

    Newlan's Truism: An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

  • After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.

    - Mack McGinnis

  • Amanates sunt amenetes – (Lovers are lunatics)

    - Unknown

  • In the beginning God made a man and a woman and set them on earth. Then the man and woman looked at each other and burst out laughing.

    - African Myth

  • It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

    - Alexandre Dumas

  • Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs.

    This is the principle behind lotteries, dating and religion.

    - Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle

  • Beware of the man who sits upon the pale horse, for he is death, and hell come with him.

    - Revelations

  • There is no NORMAL life, just life. Get on with it.

    - Tombstone

  • Did you hear of the economist who dove into his swimming pool and broke his neck? He forgot to seasonally adjust his pool. 

  • Follow Me, and you will get victory!

     Joan of Arc

  • I have a message for your King Henry. It is a message from God. Go home. Go now in peace, if you do not go now, you will be buried in this field. I have seen enough blood. But if you want more, I can’t stop you, I can only warn you that it will be your blood, not ours. I am waiting for your answer.

    That is what I call a bloody miracle.

    She was alone on her white horse, facing the whole English army and she drove them away. And now Leome is free.

     Joan of Arc, and Council to Charles VII

  • I fear nothing but treachery.

     Joan of Arc

  • France does not belong to you Charles, it belongs to God.

     Joan of Arc

  • Joan, be careful you are not helping yourself by refusing to submit to our judgment. You, who claim to be my judges, YOU be careful. For you to one day will be judged.

     Joan of Arc

  • I would rather die than revoke what our lord had caused me to do.

     Joan of Arc

    If in the event, of an ordinarily extraordinary event. Please notify me.

    Money is like a deck of cards, it alway's follows suit.

    What is not known is the source of all that will be.

    Life is like a Stephen Segal movie. In the end it's over.

Life

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards

Quote by Sören Kierkegaard