Wisdom To Start The Day ...........................

[Chris Ryser]

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Publilius Syrus

[Chris Ryser]

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Clarence Darrow

[Chris Ryser]

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams

[Chris Ryser]

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.

Benjamin Franklin

[Chris Ryser]

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Lou Holtz

[Chris Ryser]

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Arthur Baer

[Chris Ryser]

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Aristotle

[Chris Ryser]

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Franklin Kettering

[Chris Ryser]

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Mario Puzo

[Chris Ryser]

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

Source Unknown

[Chris Ryser]

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Robert Burton

[Chris Ryser]

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

Anon.

[Chris Ryser]

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Benjamin Disraeli

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

[Chris Ryser]

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

[Chris Ryser]

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.

Dumas The Younger

[Chris Ryser]

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

Thornton Wilder

[Chris Ryser]

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

C. C. Phelps

[Chris Ryser]

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Jean Paul Richter

[Chris Ryser]

If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just to finish the race -- it's up to you.

Dave Scott

[Chris Ryser]

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Job E. Hodges

[Chris Ryser]

All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing

Peter M. Leschak

[Chris Ryser]

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

[Chris Ryser]

When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Henry David Thoreau

[Chris Ryser]

Pharma industry is the art of making billions from milligrams.

Gerhard Kocher