A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ~James Joyce, Ulysses
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Tell him I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa. ~Dorothy Parker
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." ~David Grayson
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. ~Bertold Brecht
Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. ~John Weitz
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. ~Denis Waitley
But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Gifts," Essays, Second Series, 1844
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. ~Joe Cordare
People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped. ~Author Unknown
Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself. ~Author Unknown Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself. ~Author Unknown
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football. ~Anthony Burgess
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. ~Isaac Asimov
Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. ~Author Unknown
It's not just a rock. It's forty-two pounds of polished granite, with a beveled underbelly and a handle a human being can hold. Okay, so in and of itself it looks like it has no practical purpose, but it's a repository of possibility. And, when it's handled just right, it exacts a kind of poetry - as close to poetry as I ever want to get. The way it moves.... Not once, in everything I've done, have I ever felt the same wonder and humanity as when I'm playing the game of curling. ~Paul Gross, John Krizanc, and Paul Quarrington, Men with Brooms
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~Henry David Thoreau
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. ~Matthew 6:34
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation? ~Samuel Johnson How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in those one dislikes! Yet people fancy they see with their eyes. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there. ~Author Unknown