Quotes for January

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things." Robert Louis Stevenson

"If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

"Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps." Chinese Proverb

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." Dan Quayle

"No one ever went broke by saying no too often." Harvey MacKay

"It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative." John Burroughs

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him." James Allen

"Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his." Franklin P. Jones

"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." Francis Maitland Balfour

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." Frank Zappa

"I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run." Babe Ruth

"It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart." Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine." H. L. Mencken

"Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made." Otto von Bismarck

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle

"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat." Will Rogers

"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." Henry Kissinger

"Life is just one damned thing after another." Elbert Hubbard

"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down." Mitch Hedberg

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." Katharine Hepburn

"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously." Peter Ustinov

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." Rabbi Julius Gordon

"No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living." Marie Beynon Ray

"As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it." Horace

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last." Marcus Aurelius

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art." Tom Stoppard

"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." David Brin

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley

"An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves." Bill Vaughan

"A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish." B.C. Forbes

"I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body." Elayne Boosler

"The National Rifle Association says, 'Gun's don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps." Eddie Izzard

"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." Bertrand Russell

"These days an income is something you can't live without--or within." Tom Wilson

"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either." Gore Vidal

"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." Oscar Wilde

"We do what we must, and call it by the best names." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance." English Proverb

"Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance." Saadi

"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind." Robert Green Ingersoll