Archives    November 2002 Quotes

It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is
a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
Not failure, but low aim, is a sin.
Dr Benjamin Mays

Worry is interest paid in advance
on a debt that never comes due.
David Mamet

Sticks and stones are hard on bones
aimed with angry art. Words can sting like
anything but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis McGinley

Consider that people are like tea bags.
They don't know their own
strength until they get into hot water.
Dan McKinnon

Procrastination is the art of
keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis

When a society abandons its ideals
just because most people can't live up to them,
behavior gets very ugly indeed.
Judith Martin

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

Whoever said, "It's not
whether you win or lose that
counts," probably lost.
Martina Navratilova

Strong people make as many and as
ghastly mistakes as weak people. The
difference is that strong people admit
them, laugh at them, learn from them.
That is how they become strong.
Richard J Needham

There is always some madness
in love. But there is also always
some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I know why it is man alone
who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply
that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't smoke too much, drink too much,
eat too much or work too much.
We're all on the road to the grave--
but there's no need to be in the passing lane.
Robert Orben

It's always the old, who lead us on
to war, It's always the young to fall.
Phil Ochs

One of life's most painful moments comes
when we must admit that we didn't do our
homework, that we are not prepared.
Merlin Olsen

Those who think it is permissible to
tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Austin O'Malley

Everything comes gradually
and at its appointed hour.
Ovid

I lay it down as a fact that if all men
knew what others say of them, there
would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal

I don't measure a man's success
by how high he climbs but how high
he bounces when he hits bottom.
Gen George Patton

Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
small minds discuss people.
Laurence Peter