I like work. It fascinates me. I sit and look at it for hours.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?
I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.
A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don't need it.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. ~ Sartre
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life's more amusing than we thought.
Andrew Lang
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Benjamin Disraeli
Sacred cows make the best hamburger. -- Mark Twain
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. -- Plutarch
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Laurence J. Peter
What's another word for Thesaurus? Steven Wright
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
Spike Milligan
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. Mae West
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.George Burns
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. Casey Stengel
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. Mitch Hedberg
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Mae West
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. Ann Landers
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
The harder I work, the luckier I get. Samuel Goldwyn
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vince Lombardi
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. Robert Frost
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.Confucius
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ― Pablo Neruda
“Hope is a waking dream.”― Aristotle
“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.” ― Sean O'Casey
“Hope -Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,Whispering 'it will be happier'” Alfred Tennyson
“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.” ― Margaret Mitchell
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ― Bil Keane
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” Bertrand Russell,The Conquest of Happiness
“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.” ― George Carlin
“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
― John Wooden
“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.” ― Confucius
“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it” Gautama Buddha
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” ― J.M. Barrie
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” ― William James
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?”― Benjamin Franklin
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”― Charles Lamb
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.” ― Albert Einstein
“Seven Deadly Sins,Wealth without work,Pleasure without conscience,science without humanity, Knowledge without character,Politics without principle,Commerce without morality,Worship without sacrifice.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” ― Jerome K. Jerome
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore de Balzac
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac
“ All men are equal before fish. ”
— Herbert Hoover
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
Ayn Rand
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent van Gogh
Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free. Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
-An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Confucius
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
Tupac Shakur
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. \r\nJimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"I should sooner live in a society governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the 2000 faculty members of Harvard University" Bill Buckley (1963)
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." Mahatma Gandhi
"Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it." Martin Luther King
"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse." Albert Cumas
"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be." Daniel Boorstin
"Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so." J Michael Straczynski
"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan." Martin Luther King
"Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective." Martin Luther King
"You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity." J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." Pete Seeger
"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." Mary Pettibone Poole,1938
"Only the educated are free." Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
