The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
And the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
And the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too'.
Margaret Thatcher
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.
Thomas Jefferson
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it
Orlando A. Battista
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
Walter Matthau
To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
Josh Billings
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate
capabilities.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.
Proverb
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
-Louis D. Brandeis
The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.
Abraham Lincoln
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Thomas Hardy
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Thomas Carlyle
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another person's life.
Joyce Brothers
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Minna Antrim
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is like a prism through which the many variations of beauty are revealed in our lives.
Anon.
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