Thoughts 21MAR2011

If you want to make enemies, try to change something - Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
When you are right, no one remembers; when you are wrong, no one forgets - Irish proverb
People love to talk but hate to listen - Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942)

Thoughts 18MAR2011

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile, and it smiles, too - Herbert Samuel (1870-1963)
If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now - Russian proverb
Think much, speak little, and write less - Italian proverb

Thoughts 17MAR2011

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to - Bill Vaughn
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other - Author Unknown
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

Thought 16MAR2011

YOU'D BETTER RUN
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes out you'd better be running.
From Siemen Nixdorf Welcoming New Customer Card (got this many many many many moons ago)
My friends, there are no friends - Coco Chanel (1883-1971)

Thoughts 15MAR2011

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common - John Locke (1632-1704)
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been - Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence - Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Thoughts 14MAR2011

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does - Anne Roe (1904-1991)
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost - J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers - James Thurber (1894-1961)

Thoughts 11MAR2011

There is nothing so powerful as the truth, and nothing so strange - Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
Ideas are one thing, and what happens is another - John Cage
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection—they have many friends and few enemies - Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)

Thoughts 10MAR2011

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember - Oscar Levant (1906-1972)
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Those who give have all things. Those who withhold have nothing - Hindu proverb

Thoughts 09MAR2011

The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty purse - German proverb
All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move - Arab proverb
He who is learned is not wise; he who is wise is not learned - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Thoughts 07MAR2011

The final lesson of history: 'Let's never go back there again! - Nietzsche
This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him - William Lyon Phelps, American educator (1865-1943)
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)