Never pass up a chance to sit down or relieve yourself. -old Apache saying

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Thoughts

Pathwalker, there is no path. You must make the path as you walk.
-Antonio Machado

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
-African proverb

Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice. Either will suffice.
-Robert Frost

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
-George Orwell

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
-Pascal

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr

Wasted strengths are like sundials in the shade.
-Benjamin Franklin

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion.
-Mark Twain

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
-Zig Ziglar

Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons or in individuals or in governments.
-Plato

Everything in moderation.
-The Oracle at Delphi

A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.
-Tom Robbins

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
-George Bernard Shaw

People thought that Darwin mainly talked about survival of the fittest. What he said was that the species that survive are usually not the smartest or the strongest, but the ones most responsive to change.
-Phillipe Kahn

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

We may get along with 80% of the people, but it's the other 20% that cause 80% of the aggravation.
-The Pareto Principle applied to relationships

I know myself by my intentions, I know others by my interpretation of their actions.
-John Wallen

Any virtue carried to extreme can become a crime.
-Alexandre Dumas

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part.
-Casey Stengel

The highest form of human intelligence is the ability to observe without judging.
-Krishnamurti

You can observe a lot just by watching.
-Yogi Berra

Everyone driving slower than you is an idiot.
Everyone driving faster than you is a maniac.
-George Carlin

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