Thoughts 01JUN2011

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self - Cyril Connolly
Men expect too much, do too little - Allen Tate
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement - Alfred Adler

Thoughts 31MAY2011

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back - Abraham Lincoln
Politics is more difficult than physics - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 30MAY2011

Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short - English Proverb
Quite people are well able to look after themselves - Irish Proverb
Procrastination is the thief of time - Proverb of Unknown Origin

Thoughts 23MAY2011

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade - Chinese Proverb
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters - English Proverb (17th century)
Not wine... men intoxicate themselves; Not vice... men entice themselves - Chinese Proverb

Thoughts 20MAY2011

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it - George Orwell (1903-1950)
He who knows nothing, doubts nothing - Italian proverb
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing - Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)

Thoughts 19MAY2011

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value - Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character - Albert Einstein
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws - Plato

Thoughts 18MAY2011

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs - Henry Ford
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities - Christian Nestell Bovee
Education is hanging around until you've caught on - Robert Frost

Thoughts 16MAY2011

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied - Arnold Glasow
If you don't ask, you don't get - Mahatma Gandhi
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 13MAY2011

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new - Albert Einstein
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it - Sir Winston Churchill
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas A. Edison

Thoughts 12MAY2011

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it - Thomas Jefferson
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them - Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)

Thoughts 10MAY2011

The wise man is astonished by anything - André Gide (1869-1951)
The most exhausting thing in life . . . is being insincere - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

Thoughts 09MAY2011

Small children give you headache; big children heartache - Russian Proverb
Praise the young and they will blossom - Irish Proverb
Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred - Korean Proverb

Thoughts 06MAY2011

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time - Abraham Lincoln
Where you start is not as important as where you finish - Zig Ziglar
Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky - Russian Proverb

Thoughts 05MAY2011

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same - Chinese Proverb
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get - Spanish Proverb
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks - Russian proverb