Solitude, Life, Man, Work, Interests ...
| Beginning, End | What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where, we start from. | T.S. Eliot |
| Age | The youth goes in a flock, manhood in pairs, and old age alone. | Swedish Proverb |
| Age, Old and Young Man | The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Argument | The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it. | Andre Maurois [A Little Book of Aphorisms] |
| Apathy | Apathy at the individual level translates into insanity at the mass level. | Doug las Hofstadter |
| Art | All arts create the time outside of time, which is not clock-time. It is, in a sense, dreamtime. | Ursula K. LeGuin |
| Authority | Question Authority... and the Authorities will question you! | |
| Beauty, Old | You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. | Anouk Aimee |
| Beginning | Between the beginning and the end there is always a middle. | Brazilian Proverb |
| Bigness | A raindrop, dripping from a cloud, / Was ashamed when it saw
the sea. / `Who am I where there is a sea?' it said. / When it saw itself with the eye of humility, / A shell nurtured it in its embrace. |
Saadi of Shiraz (c. 1200 AD) |
| Business, Success | No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. | J. Paul Getty. |
| Business | Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. | Andy Warhol. |
| Business | Business? It's quite simple: it's other people's money. | Alexandre Dumas. |
| Business | The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss. | Diane Ravitch |
| Courage | You must do the thing you think you can not do. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Courage | Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. | John wayne |
| Courage | Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. | Eddie Rickenbacker |
| Creativity | Cretivity is a celebration of life-my celebration of life. It is a bold statement. I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything. | Joseph Zinker |
| Correction, Encouragement | Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Computing | The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. | Hamming |
| Character | Character is much easier kept than recovered. | Thomas Paine |
| Doing | If we keep on doin' what we always done, well keep on gettin' what we always got. | Barbara Lyons |
| Egotism | The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly suposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. | Harold S. Geneen |
| Death | Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down. | Dick Sharples |
| Debt | It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor is it my principle to pay the interest. | Richard Brinsely Sheridan, to a lender |
| Education | Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. |
B.F. Skinner |
| Exception | How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. | Louis Charles Alfred de Musset, French writer (1810-1857) |
| Failure | A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself. | Georges Clemenceau, French politician (1841-1929) |
| Fighting | If he does not fight, it is not because he rejects all fighting as futile, but because he has finished his fights. He has overcome all dissensions between himse lf and the world and is now at rest... We shall have wars and soldiers so long as the brute in us is untamed. | Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan |
| Friend | A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Friend | Life without a friend; death without a witness. | George Herbert |
| Future | The future is not a gift - it is an achievement. | Harry Lauder |
| Future | My interest lies in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. | Charles F. Kettering |
| God | God is REAL, unless explicitly declared INTEGER. | |
| Goodness | An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. | Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer (1862-1949) |
| Guilt | Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. | Henry Fielding |
| Happy, Time | Those who are happy do not observer how time goes by. | Chinese Proverb |
| Happiness | To fill the hour- that is happiness. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Happiness | If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you. | Sister Mary Tricky |
| Interests | A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (1749-1832) |
| Intellectual | an intellectual is someone who has discovered something more interesting than sex. | Aldous Huxley |
| Job | Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. | Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher (1803-1882) |
| Job, Truth | I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs. | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Job | Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here. | Elizabeth Arden. |
| Job | Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements. | H.S.M. Burns |
| Knowledge, Ignorance | The little I know I owe to my ignorance. | George McGovern |
| Life | Why take life seriously? You're not coming out of it alive anyway! | |
| Life, Defeat | Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat. | |
| Love | It is better to have loved and lost than just to have lost. | |
| Leaders | What this country needs is more leaders who know what this
country needs. |
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| Life | To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. | Oscar Wilde |
| Life | Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. | Samuel Butler (1612-1680) |
| Leadership | When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. | Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher (6th century B.C.) |
| Lie | Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically- fou our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. | Quentin Crisp |
| Lover | Scratch a lover and find a foe. | Dorothy Parker |
| Lovers | Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. | Helen Rowland |
| Marketing, Customer | If you can persuade your customer to tattoo your name on their chest, they probably will not switch brands. |
an Indiana University professor |
| Money | Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. | Woody Allen |
| Marriage | The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. | Harold Nicolson |
| Marriage | It may be compared to a cage. The birds without try desperately to get in, and those within try desperately to get out. | Michel de Montaigne |
| Maturity | The maturity of man- to have reacquired the seriousness he had as a child at play. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Naggers | Naggers always know what they are doing. They weigh up the risks, then they go on and on until they get what they want or they get punched. | Jools Holland |
| New | Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| New | To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. |
Chinese Proverb |
| Old | Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of teh men of old; seek what they sought. | Matsuo Basho |
| Old | In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked upon as something shocking Now, heaven knows, Anything goes. |
Cole Porter |
| Opinions | The more opinions you have, the less you see. | Wim Wenders |
| Optimism | In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. | Daniel L. Reardon |
| Parenthood | Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. |
Michael Levine [Lessons at the Halfway Point] |
| Persuade | Right or wrong, a good persuader is still a good persuader. | Robert Half |
| Profit | Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat. | Hubert Humphrey |
| Power, Judgement. | Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the back-ground. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgement. | Lord Chandos |
| Proportion, Balance | Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity. | Eric Hoffer |
| Paradox | It is not necessarily true that averaging the averages of different populations gives the average of the combined population. | Simpson's Paradox |
| Persistence | If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Power | The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. | Bruce Lee |
| Right | Never do the correct thing when you can do the right thing instead. | Dave Weinbaum |
| Recreation | The perfume of the rose is as important to the health of the mind as food is to the body. | Roy Genders |
| Recreation | If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. | Lin Yutang |
| Recreation | People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged to find time for illness. | John wanamaker |
| Right, Opinion | My opinions might have changed, but not the fact that I am right. | |
| Retirement | When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's that? | Walter Wriston |
| Sayings | Time passes away, but sayings remain. | Indian Proverb |
| Sensitivity | What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? | George Eliot |
| Silence | The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. | Cato the Younger (B.C. 95-46) |
| Solitude, Great Man | It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. | Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer and philosopher (1803-1882) |
| Stripes | Male zebras have white stripes, but female zebras have black stripes. | |
| Study | To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start. | |
| Self | You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing. | Meryl Streep |
| Time | There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. | Sainte-Beuve |
| Time | It doesn't take talent to be on time. | Pete Reiser |
| Travel | Travelling is almost like talking with men of other centuries. | |
| Travel | For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. | Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with my Donkey. |
| Will, Intelligence | I am a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. | Antonio Gramsci |
| Wedding | You can rehearse a wedding but not a marriage. | Al Batt |
| World, Beginning | The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. | George Baker (1877-1965) |
| Wisdom | Wisdom lies not neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. | Octavio Paz |
| Work | After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years throw it away and start all over. | Alfred Edward Perlman |