dummy

In nature there are neither rewards 
nor punishments -- there are consequences.

		Robert G.Ingersoll

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

		Walt Kelly

Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life.
I love it. I never want to die.

		Dennis Trudell

The wind and waves are always on the side
of the ablest navigators.

		Edward Gibbon

He is the best sailor who can steer within 
fewest points of the wind, and exact a 
motive power of the greatest obstacle.

		Henry David Thoreau

The biggest things are always the easiest
to do because there is no competition.

		William Van Horne

Only those who dare to fail greatly can
ever achieve greatly.

		Robert F. Kennedy

Back of every achievement is a proud wife
and a suprised mother-in-law.

		Brooks Hays

Noise proves nothing.  Often a hen who has
merely laid an egg cackles as if she
had laid an asteroid.

		Mark Twain

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable
of doing, while others judge us by what we
have done.

		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do what you can, with what you have, where
you are.

		Theodore Roosevelt

He has half the deed done who has made
a beginning.

		Horace

The only way round is through.

		Robert Frost

Is there anything in life so disenchanting
as attainment?

		Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

		Abraham Lincoln

Out of the best and most productive years
of each man's life, he should carve a seg-
ment in which he puts his private career
aside to serve his community and his coun-
try, and thereby serve his children, his
neighbors, his fellow men, and the cause
of freedom.

		David Lilenthal

Never look down to test the ground before
taking your next step; only he who keeps
his eye fixed on the far horizon will
find his right road.

		Dag Hammarskjold

We promise according to our hopes and 
perform according to our fears.

		La Rochefoucald

For a man to achieve all that is demanded
of him he must regard himself as greater
than he is.

		Johann von Goethe

He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do
few things ill, but he will do very few
things.

		George, Lord Halifax

When spider webs unite, they can tie up
a lion.

		Ethiopian proverb

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

		English proverb

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

		Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it
takes a good carpenter to build one.

		Sam Rayburn

God gives the nuts, but he does not 
crack them.

		German proverb

Let me tell you the secret that has led
me to my goal.  My strength lies solely
in my tenacity.

		Louis Pasteur

The world is all gates, all opportunities,
strings of tension waiting to be struck.

		Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes it is more important to discover
what one cannot do, than what one can do.

		Lin Yutang

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one 
is indicated.  You can't cross a chasm
in two small jumps.

		David Lloyd George

There is nothing so useless as doing
efficiently that which should not be
done at all.

		Peter F. Drucker

The reward of a thing well done, is to
have done it.

		Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who desires, but acts not, breeds
pestilence.

		William Blake

There are two reasons for doing things--
a very good reason and the real reason.

		Anon.

I shall tell you a great secret, my 
friend.  Do not wait for the last 
judgment, it takes place every day.

		Albert Camus

Do not show your wounded finger, for
everything will knock up against it.

		Baltasar Gracian

They sicken of the calm that know
the storm.

		Dorothy Parker

Trouble is only an opportunity in 
work clothes.

		Henry J. Kaiser

The man who is swimming against the 
stream knows the strength of it.

		Woodrow Wilson

The ultimate measure of a man is not 
where he stands in moments of comfort
and convenience, but where he stands
at times of challenge and controversy.

		Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great occasions do not make heroes or
cowards; they simply unveil them to the
eyes of men.  Silently and impercep-
tibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow 
strong or weak; and at last some crisis
shows what we have become.

		Brooke Foss Westcott

     What does not destroy me, 
     makes me strong.

                 Friedrich Nietzsche

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.

		Spanish proverb

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas
is good for a dog -- keeps him from
broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.

		Edward Noyes Westcott

The burden is equal to the horses strength.

		The Talmud

Nothing befalls a man except what is in
his nature to endure.

		Marcus Aurelius

Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity
the great.

		Pliny the Younger

When the world has once begun to use us
ill, it afterwards continues the same
treatment with less scruple or ceremony,
as men do to a whore.

		Jonathan Swift

Thou hast shown thy people hard things:
thou hast made us to drink the wine
of astonishment.

		Psalms 60:3

I advise you to go on living solely to
enrage those who are paying your
annuities.  It is the only pleasure
I have left.

		Voltaire

When men grow virtuous in their old age,
they only make a sacrifice to God of
the devil's leavings.

		Jonathan Swift

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is
the youth of old age.

		Victor Hugo

Middle age is youth without it's levity.
And old age without decay.

		Daniel Defoe

First you forget names, then you forget
faces, then you forget to pull your 
zipper up, then you forget to pull your
zipper down.

		Leo Rosenberg

What makes old age so sad is not that 
our joys but our hopes cease.

		Jean Paul Richter

Old age is not so bad when you consider
the alternatives.

		Maurice Chevalier

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

		Soren Kierkegaard

Anxiety is interest paid on trouble
before it is due.

		Dean Inge

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

		Wilhelm Stekel

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am,
and psychotic means he's even worse than my
brother-in-law.

		Karl Menninger

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling 
through the mind.  If encouraged, it cuts
a channel into which all other thoughts
are drained.

		Arthur Somers Roche

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a
pig.  You get dirty, and besides, the pig
likes it.

		George Bernard Shaw

Ask a toad what is beauty?...a female with
two great round eyes coming out of her
little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow
belly and a brown back.

		Voltaire

Grace is the absence of everything that
indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation
or incongruity.

		William Hazlitt

Though we travel the world over to find
the beautiful, we must carry it with us
or we find it not.

		Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is everlasting
And dust is for a time.

		Marianne Moore

There is no excellent beauty that hath not
some strangeness in the proportion.

		Francis Bacon

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it,
you can't expect an apostle to look out.

		G. C. Lichtenberg

Ordinary people know little of the time and
effort it takes to learn to read.  I have
been eighty years at it, and have not
reached my goal.
		Johann von Goethe

Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is
better than none, and the best cannot be
expected to go quite true.

		Samuel Johnson

Some people can stay longer in an hour than
others can in a week.

		William Dean Howells

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how
he is, tells you.

		Bert Leston Taylor

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude
without providing you with company.

		Gian Vincenzo Gravina

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of
life.  Don't let them scare you unduly,
for they keep boredom at bay and spark
creativity.

		R. I. Fitzhenry

Patience is a most necessary quality for
business; many a man would rather you
heard his story than grant his request.

		Lord Chesterfield

A holding company is the people you give
your money to while you're being searched.

		Will Rogers

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a
payroll.

		Ivan Shaffer

A company is judged by the president it
keeps.

		James Hulbert

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

		Gary Player

Chance is always powerful.  Let your hook
be always cast.  In the pool where you
least expect it, will be a fish.

		Ovid

I think we consider too much the good luck
of the early bird, and not enough the bad
luck of the early worm.

		Franklin D. Roosevelt

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will
come up with a fish in his mouth.

        	Arabic proverb

If fortune turns against you, even jelly
breaks your tooth.

		Persian proverb

As one gets older, one discovers every-
thing is going to be exactly the same
with different hats on.

		Noel Coward

I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day,
but no change at all ivry fifty years.

		Finley Peter Dunne

'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical;
change is indubitable, whereas progress is a
matter of controversy.

		Bertrand Russell

Character is what God and the angels know of
us; reputation is what men and women think
of us.

		Horace Mann

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

		Don Herold

There are only two things a child will share
willingly--communicable diseases and his
mother's age.

		Benjamin Spock

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he
would probably still be at the dock.

		Justice Arthur Goldberg

She had lost the art of conversation, but
not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

		George Bernard Shaw

I often quote myself.  It adds spice to
my conversation.

		George Benard Shaw

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the
food.

		William Hazlitt

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

		George S. Patton

One man with courage makes a majority.

		Andrew Jackson

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart
to help.
		Abraham Lincoln

Two and two continue to make four, in spite
of the whine of the amateur for three, or
the cry of the critic for five.

		James McNeill Whistler

In judging others, folks will work overtime
for no pay.

		Charles Edwin Carruthers

To escape criticism -- do nothing, 
say nothing, be nothing.

		Elbert Hubbard

I am sitting in the smallest room in my
house.  I have your review in front of
me.  Soon it will be behind me.

		Max Reger

When a hundred men stand together, each 
of them loses his mind and gets another
one.

		Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

		Soren Kierkegaard

Cynicism -- the intellectual cripple's
substitute for intelligence.

		Russell Lynes

A cynic is a man who, when he smells 
flowers, looks around for a coffin.

		H. L. Mencken

Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what 
they lack.

		Harry Emerson Fosdick

Do not go gentle into that good night
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

		Dylan Thomas

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

		Emily Dickinsom

The reports of my death are greatly
exaggerated.

		Mark Twain


We die only once, and for such a long time.

		Moliere

I'm not afraid to die.  I just don't want
to be there when it happens.

		Woody Allen

Life is a great suprise.  I do not see why
death should not be an even greater one.

		Vladimir Nobokov

If life must not be taken too seriously--
then so neither must death.

		Samuel Butler

The crash of the whole solar and stellar 
systems could only kill you once.

		Thomas Carlyle

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

		Johann von Goethe

Half the work that is done in the world is
to make things appear what they are not.

		E. R. Beadle

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating.
The pills are harmless: the poison is in
the sugar.

		Stanislaw Lec

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense 
talked about bad men not looking you in the
face.  Don't trust that conventional idea.
Dishonesty will outstare honesty out of
countenance, any day in the week, if there
is anything to be got by it.

		Charles Dickens

	To lose
	Is to learn.

		Anon.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, 
nothing but the first step toward
something better.

		Wendell Phillips

The schools ain't what they used to be
and never was.

		Will Rogers

The things taught in school are not an
education but the means of an education.

		Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligence appears to be the thing that
enables a man to get along without an
education.  Education appears to be the
thing that enables a man to get along
without the use of his intelligence.

		A. E. Wiggan

A university is what a college becomes when
the faculty loses interest in students.

		John Ciardi

Education with inert ideas is not only 
useless; it is above all things harmful.

		Alfred North Whitehead

A child educated only at school is an
uneducated child.

		George Santayana

Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.

		William Butler Yeats

The ultimate goal of the educational system
is to shift to the individual the burden of
pursuing his education.

		John W. Gardner

A wise man gets more use from his enemies
than a fool from his friends.

		Baltasar Gracian

You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten
you.

		Eric Hoffer

[Man's fate] contains the root and the sum of
all creation's drive, and this it is that makes
it so entrancing, exhilarating and perilous.
And such is Man: he would rather balance on the
tightrope of his own creation, razorthin and
sagging in the middle, over the abysmal valley
of his own folly, than walk in safety starting
meadowlarks.  It is in danger and in the times
that most try his soul that he flourishes.

		William Ready

There is nothing I'm afraid of like 
scared people.

		Robert Frost

The scalded cat fears even cold water.

		Thomas Fuller

	Fear has a smell, as
	Love does.

		Margaret Atwood

		



		






                                            
