April 2010
51 posts
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary...
– Hans Hoffman
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We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the...
– Doc Searls
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Bait the hook well: the fish will bite.
– William Shakespeare
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A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication...
– Reverend Edward A. Malloy
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Not going home is already like death
– E. Catherine Tobler
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Nobody can tell you if what you’re doing is good, meaningful or...
– Hugh Macleod
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A man can die but once, we owe God a death.
– William Shakespeare
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The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
– George Moore
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True nobility is exempt from fear
– William Shakespeare
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There is still no way of discerning the children of God from the children of the...
– St. Augustine
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Money can’t buy happiness, but only rich people know that
– Natalia Vodianova
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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
– Kirby Larson
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I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m...
– John Cage
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
– Carl Sandburg
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The noblest question in the world is, “What good may I do in it?
– Benjamin Franklin
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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes...
– Robert Frost
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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
– Leo Buscaglia
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The waste basket is the writer’s best friend.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Everything you can imagine is real.
– Pablo Picasso
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Success is just solving problems one after the other
– Jeff Hawkins
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I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to...
– Howard Zinn
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Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
– Moses Ibn Ezra
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it.
– Sir Thomas Beecham
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
– David Russell
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
– Steve Jobs
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
– Voltaire
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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in...
– Madonna
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When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.
– Michael Patrick King
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man
– William Hazlitt
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Don’t ask the barber whether you need a hair cut.
– Warren Buffett
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Even God cannot change the past.
– Agathon
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
– Samuel Johnson
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Great thoughts come from the heart.
– Luc de Clapier
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
– Albert Einstein
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With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well...
– in _Yiddish Proverbs_, ed. Hanan J. Ayalti [1949]
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
– W. Somerset Maugham
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
– Albert Einstein
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Language is the source of misunderstandings.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library.
– Westheimer’s Discovery
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When love is not madness, it is not love.
– Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend...
– Heywood Broun
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I would rather think of my religion as a gamble than to think of it as an...
– Stephen S. Wise
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In peculiar characteristic of slavery is to be always in fear.
– Saint Ambrose
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Form follows function.
– Louis Sullivan
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I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m...
– Carl Sandburg
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I’m still an atheist, thank God.
– Luis Bunuel
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The dignified don’t even enter in the game.
– Paul John Weller in The Jam Beat Surrender