Quote of the day

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

I don't know. I have met a lot of dogs that I have known for years, more than willing to bark at  me while on my walks.

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." - Dale Carnegie

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world

--- J.R.R. Tolkien ---

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn.

"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death

Leonardo da Vinci

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Anna Jameson.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys

--- P.J. O'Rourke ---

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Confucius

        The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

         Mark Twain

          Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

             Confucius

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.  :)  Socrates

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor... explore, dream." - Mark Twain

Life is like candy, sometimes it's sweet, sometimes it's sour

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.

Confucius.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Nido R Qubein

“We’ve all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.”

David Lee Roth of Van Halen – 1980

A lie can travel half wy around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes

--- Charles Spurgeon --- 

“One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.”

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Confucius

"Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

-- Helen Keller

   "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

    -- Goethe

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones

"There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude." - Robert Brault

"We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players." - Doc Searls

You know you're in love when you don't wanna go to sleep at night because your life is better than a dream

Life is sad when you are alone, it is much more pleasant when you are two.

Finnish proverb.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Confucius

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

Bo Bennett.

«You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.» Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity.The order varies for any given year

--- Paul Sweeney ---

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

Confucius

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

- Albert Einstein

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one they sprung up.

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Quote of the Day‏ 
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Sandburg

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly

--- Langston Hughes ---

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Confucius.

A lawyer would do anything to win a lawsuit, sometimes he could even tell the truth.

Ayrton Senna

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

- Winston Churchill

I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill

--- Robert A. Heinlein ---

If you tell the truth, you don`t have to remember anything. 

Mark Twain

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.

Oscar Wilde.

In all human affairs, friendship is faithful, except in the interests of love and the affairs of the heart.

William Shakespeare

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Dick Cavett

“You can take and nail two sticks together like they've never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.”
― George Carlin