August 2003 Quotes
Suffering is but another name
for the teaching of experience,
which is the parent of instruction
and the schoolmaster of life.
Homer
Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
A truly strong person does not need
the approval of others any more than
a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon Howard
Half the promises people say were
never kept, were never made.
Edgar Watson Howe
The rung of a ladder was never meant to
rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot
long enough to enable him to
put the other somewhat higher.
Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not a reward --
it is a consequence.
Suffering is not a punishment --
it is a result.
Robert Ingersoll
Both tears and sweat are salty,
but they render a different result.
Tears will get you sympathy;
sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson
There are no bonds so strong as those
which are formed by suffering together.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Common sense and a sense of humor
are the same thing, moving at different
speeds. A sense of humor
is just common sense, dancing.
Clive James
I think we have more machinery
of government than is necessary,
too many parasites living on
the labour of the industrious.
Thomas Jefferson
To let friendship die away by negligence
and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily
to throw away one of the greatest
comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Samuel Johnson
Words -- so innocent and powerless
as they are, as standing in a dictionary,
how potent for good and evil they
become in the hands of one who
knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be careful not to get so eager to please
that it doesn't matter whom.
Carolyn Hax
Since when do you have to agree with
people to defend them from injustice?
Lillian Hellman
Generosity is giving more than you can,
and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve
success or financial independence after the chief
reason for which we sought it has passed away.
Ellen Glasgow
I have never been especially impressed by the
heroics of people who are convinced they
are about to change the world. I am more awed
by those who struggle to make
one small difference after another.
Ellen Goodman
The nice thing about egotists is that
they don't talk about other people.
Lucille S Harper
Words -- so innocent and powerless
as they are, as standing in a dictionary,
how potent for good and evil they
become in the hands of one who
knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
