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The worst prison would be a closed heart.

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.

Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Unknown - Polish Slogan
Never lose hope.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.

I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
Unknown - Latin Legal Phrase
He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.

May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead

Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rains fall soft upon your fields and,
until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
Unknown - Legal Maxim
An act against my will is not my act.

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
Unknown - Buckaroo Banzai, from the film
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Life has no rehearsals, only performances.

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them.

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

There are people who make things happen,
those who watch what happens,
and those who wonder what happened.

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.

It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing...

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

My Karma ran over your dogma.

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.

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

Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.

To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.

Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
Unknown - Popular Mechanics, March 1949
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

A healthy family is sacred territory.

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal.
Unknown - US Navy Wisdom
Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea.

Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.
Unknown - The Bhagavad Gita
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?

Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
Unknown - Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II
We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend.

"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
Unknown - Suggested book title
J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt.

Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Unknown - Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance
A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit.

Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints.

If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.

Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground....

DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Unknown - UNESCO Constitution
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
Unknown - The Ultimate Law
All general statements are false.

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.

Not all those who wonder are lost.
Unknown - Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

The wages of sin are unreported.

It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.

A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.
Unknown - epitaph for a loved one
Love is my Sword,
Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield.

If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there.

Everything you do or say is public relations.

Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.

Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.

Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral.

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.

The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

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

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me.

This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.
Unknown - Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table.
Unknown - Sign on a restaurant tip jar
If you fear change, leave it here.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.

Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?

Use soft words and hard arguments.

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.

Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny.

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

The wages of sin are unreported.

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Unknown - quoted by Jim Horning
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

- Unknown