When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
------Kikuyu Proverb
You cannot hide the heart when the mouth is open.
----Brigham Young
One day the faithful will have it all.
----Neal A. Maxwell
Fools' names, like fools' faces,
Are often seen in public places.
----Anonymous Saying
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has propsered.
----Aeschylus (c. 400 B.C.)
Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson
Let deeds match words.
Platus
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wild
Shaw
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percey Byshe Shelley
Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
----Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
He who is merely just is severe.
----Voltaire (1694-1778)
Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
----Sophocles (495-406 B.C.)
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England.
----Sir Thomas Malory (d. 1471)
Le Morte d'Arthur
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life;
That word is love.
----Sophocles (495-406 B.C.)
I am his Highness' dog at Key;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
----Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
{Said to have been written on his dog's collar}
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
----Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.
----Michelangelo (Buonarroti) (1475-1564)
Even the lion must put up with flies.
----Anonymous
What dire offense from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
----Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
----Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
--George Bernard Shaw
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong.
--Mark Twain
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
--John Morley
Weep not that the world changes--did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.
--William Cullen Bryant
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
--Niels Bohr
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
--William Congreve
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
--Dr. Robert Schuller
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
--Erica Jong
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
--Voltaire
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
--James A. Froude
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
--Joseph Addison
Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
--James Russell Lowell
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
--Edward Everett Hale
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
--Josh Billings
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
--Olin Miller
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can."
- Danny Kaye
"'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that,' he said, 'shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.'"
- Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451" (Granger quoting his grandfather)
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below."
- Dryden
"Character is what you are in the dark."
- Dwight L. Moody
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
- Einstein
"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."
- Alan Ashley-Pitt
"The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none."
- Carlyle
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him."
- Swift
"What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
-Emerson
"...You may disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
- Beverly Sills
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
- Thoreau
"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire."
- William Yeats
Everything is within walking distance, if you have the time
"Be Thou my battle-shield, sword for the fight
Be Thou my dignity, Thou my delight,
Thou my soul's shelter, Thou my high tower:
Raise thou me heavenward, O Power of my power."
- Ancient 8th Century Irish Hymn
Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
"Never fear shadows, they simply mean there's a light shining somewhere near by."
--Ruth E. Renkal
"A friend walks in when the world walks out"
--Walter Winchell
" The road to success in life is lined with many tempting parking spaces."
" Discouraged? Just remember that the darkest night did not turn down all
the stars."
" When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering
away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing
in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will break into two, and I know it
was not that blow that did it.......but all that had gone before."
" Don't get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the
lock."
Aim for the moon; and if you miss it - you will fall among the stars."
" You are the slave of spoken words and the master of unspoken."
"When there is a hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it smaller."
" In the world you may be only one person, but to one person you may be the world. "
There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others."
"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp;
But, if you will sit down quietly, it may alight upon you."
" I'd rather be hated for what I am, than loved for what I'm not."
" Ideals are like stars,
You will not succeed in touching them with your hands.
But like the seafaring men on the desert of waters,
You choose them as your guides,
And following them you will reach your destiny."
"A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight and walks with you in the shadows."
Doubt vs. Faith
" Doubt sees the obstacles
Faith sees the way.
Doubt sees the darkest night.
Faith sees the day.
Doubt dreads to take a step.
Faith soars on high.
Doubt questions, Who believes'?
Faith answers, 'I'."
" Did is a word of achievement
Won't is a word of defeat
Might is a word of bereavement
Can't is a word of defeat
Ought is a word of duty
Try is a word each hour
Will is a word of beauty
Can is a word of power."
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
--Calvin & Hobbes
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
--Slovenian Proverb
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
--Albert Einstein
Everything you can imagine is real.
--Picasso
We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.
--Kurt Vonnegut
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
--Unknown
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
--Malcolm S. Forbes
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say Ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favore fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think i know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis
"the time has come,"the Walrus said,
"to talk of many things:
Of shoes-and ships-and sealing wax-
And cabbages-and kings-
And why the sea is boiling hot-
And whether pigs have wings."
The Tyger by William Blake
Tyger, Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Do you fear the Wind? by Hamlin Garland
Do you fear the force of the wind,
The slaîh of the rain?
Go face them and fight them,
Be savage again.
Go hungry and cold like the wolf.
Go wad like the crane.
The palms of your hands will thicken.
The skin of your cheek will tan.
You'll grow ragged and weary and swarthy.
But you'll walk like a man!
lewis carroll
The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might
He did his very best to make,
The billows smooth and bright--
And this was all very odd
because it was
The middle of the night.
My Shoe by ?
Since i hurt my pendulum
My life is all erratic
My parrot, who was cordial
Is now transmitting static.
The carpet died, a palm collapsed.
The cat keeps doing poo.
The only thing that keeps me sane
Is talking to my shoe.
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. "
- Ninon de L'Enclos
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
--Josh Billings
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at.
--Oscar Wilde
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
--Niels Bohr