%% There's nothing either good or bad but thinking make it so. ~~ William Shakespeare %% Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into actions the most difficult thing in the world. ~~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe %% A bold onset is half the battle. ~~ Giuseppe Garibaldi %% Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ~~ William Shakespeare %% It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. ~~ Christina, Queen of Sweden, 1629-89 %% We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. ~~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe %% Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. ~~ Marcus Aurelius %% The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves. ~~ Abraham Lincoln %% 'We sure shook that bridge,' the mouse said to the elephant after they had crossed the bridge. ~~ Anonymous %% The one who says, 'It can't be done,' is liable to be interrupted by someone doing it. ~~ Anonymous %% When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. ~~ Abraham Lincoln %% Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. ~~ Chinese Proverb %% A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ~~ William Blake %% Faire de la bonne cuisine demande un certain temps. Si on vous fait attendre, c'est pour mieux vous servir, et vous plaire. ~~ Restaurant Antoine, New Orleans %% Any sufficiently advanced technology is, to the uninitiated, indistinguishable from magic. ~~ Arthur C. Clarke %% Give me a word for 'define' ~~ Ken Cajet %% Sedes Semper Sedentes ~~ (Here she sits, and she shall sit forever) %% When this chess game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box ~~ Anonymous %% Quiet down! And keep it that way! ~~ Ken Cajet %% In language, clarity is everything ~~ Confucius %% Money makes money; and the money money makes makes more money. ~~ Jim Dempsey %% 'Shut up' he explained ~~ Ring Lardner %% What will you do with that car if you actually catch it? ~~ what the cat asked the dog %% I'm trying to impress her, but she knows me ~~ Mike Jenkins %% Nobody has a sense of humor about payroll ~~ Roger Eason %% The way is void ~~ Musashi %% There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot ~~ Randy Falkenrath %% Proofread carefully, to see if you any words out ~~ Anonymous %% I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry ~~ John Cage %% A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. ~~ Joseph Roux %% Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake ~~ Napoleon Bonaparte %% It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others ~~ John Andrew Holmes %% There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking ~~ Thomas A. Edison %% ~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe