Quotes for March

"If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider." Dr. Joyce Brothers

"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile." Walter Chrysler

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens." Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top." An English Professor, Ohio University

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." Jack London

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." George Bernard Shaw

"No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement." Greg Henry Quinn

"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts." Colette

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." Rita Mae Brown

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." Thomas Jefferson

"If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions." Og Mandino

"Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got." H. Stanley Judd

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government." Benjamin Franklin

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it." Upton Sinclair

"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." Philip K. Dick, Valis

"Never answer a critic, unless he's right." Bernard M. Baruch

"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move." David Letterman

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors." Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Somebody is always doing what somebody else said couldn't be done." Author Unknown

"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents." Sir Winston Churchill

"One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience." Alice James

"In politics, absurdity is not a handicap." Napoleon Bonaparte

"Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it." Kathleen Casey Theisen

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." Mark Twain

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993

"Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us." William Feather

"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it." Max Frisch

"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." Anatole France

"All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you." Rainer Maria Rilke

"All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway." Harry S Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947

"Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it." George Bernard Shaw

"You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." Will Rogers, New York Times Aug. 31 1924

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." Howard Aiken

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." Soren Kierkegaard

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken." Benjamin Disraeli

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." Dwight D. Eisenhower

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." P. J. O'Rourke

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood." Louise Beal

"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world." Lily Tomlin

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." Mark Twain

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952

"Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens." Nick Diamos

"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning." Billy Wilder

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters." Margaret Halsey

"It is fun to be in the same decade with you." Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to Winston Churchill

"If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he needs never regret his limited ability." Marcus T. Cicero

"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true." Denis Waitley

"No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined." Harry Emerson Fosdick

"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world." Georges Duhamel

"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves." Gene Fowler

"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to." Granville Hicks

"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs." Samuel Goldwyn