Aphorisms
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Walt Kelly’s Pogo
I have great faith in fools, self-confidence friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov
Everywhere I go, I hope the good things I’ve left behind are not far ahead.
Jeff Hall
A river is constantly changing but never changes.
Hermann Hesse—Siddartha
The daughter of a lion is also a lion.
James Michener—The Drifters
If you cannot trust the great writers, on whom you have lavished your highest rewards, who can you trust?
James Michener—The Drifters
The best way to change society is to replace one man at a time.
James Michener—The Drifters
The fool wanders, the wise man travels.
Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.
True courage is to do without witnesses everything you are capable of doing before all the world.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Young men should travel, if but to amuse themselves.
Byron
Death is nature’s way of saying that you should slow down.
sounds like something Woody Allen said
Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst, but also to the second best.
W. C. Phelps
Don’t confuse morals with morality.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Happiness doesn’t exist, you just have to be happy without it.
It’s the job that’s never started that takes longest to finish.
Don’t tarnish the present by being too quick to relegate it to the past.
Objectivity is subjective.
Woody Allen
Maturity the way I understand it is knowing what your limitations are.
Kurt Vonnegut—Cat’s Cradle
Death is so absolute and irrevocable a phenomenon that surely there must be some alternative.
Every whole is greater than its parts.
Marsilio of Padua
Age does not give wisdom, but it does give perspective.
Every man plays god, some of us are better equipped for it than others.
He that does not eat, need not work.
Henry David Thoreau
Moderation is the only crime.
You really need to realize that reality is messy, and things cannot be perfect. You also need to realize and *understand* that aiming for 'good' is actually much BETTER than trying to aim for 'perfect'. Perfect is the enemy of good.
probably Linus Torvalds
No one is a failure who is enjoying life.
Salada Tea Tag Lines
The definition of an intellectual is one who has been educated beyond his intelligence.
If a man is worth knowing, he is worth knowing well.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde
We are never deceived. We deceive ourselves.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, after a while he knows something.
Wilson Mizner
May you live all the days of your life.
Swift
Education is what remains when we have forgotten what we have been taught.
G. S. Halifax
There is only one thing I can’t resist—temptation.
Oscar Wilde
In seeking great happiness, small pleasures may be lost.
If I do it once, I’m a philosopher. If I do it twice, I’m a pervert.
Erica Jong
The reward in working isn’t what we get for it but what we become by it.
The life that is unexamined isn’t worth living.
Plato
You are only limited by your enthusiasm and determination.
Joe the roommate.
The main goal in life is to live—to live life fully and joyously. Aware of all the possibilities life has to offer.
George Webster Douglas
Everyone likes to play god. Some of us are more successful than others.
So much time. So little to do.
Willy Wonka
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.
The gods do not deduct from our allotted span those hours spent in sailing.
Ancient Phoenician Proverb
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
We cannot discover new oceans unless we are willing to lose sight of the shore.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I know I’m in my way.
Sandberg
Civilization advances by extending the number of important things we can do without thinking about them.
Alfred North Whitehead
Don’t let yourself be defined by another person.
Order can be achieved by exclusion rather than by combating and subduing chaos.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don’t be so humble. You’re not that great.
Golda Meir
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me.
Mahatma Ghandi
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
It ain’t bragging if you really done it.
Dizzy Dean
I like what I’m doing better than the way you’re not doing it.
Albert Sweitzer
May you be favored with the future of your choice.
A soldier—Fiddler on the Roof
You should know that your only safe secrets are those you have yourself forgotten.
Nero Wolfe
I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t make any difference.
Jack Kerouac
I must reject those values that reject me.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
The future, as always, belongs to the dreamers.
Heinz Pagels
Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
Napoleon
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by indifference.
John Scarry
If you don’t have time to do it right, when are you going to find time to do it over?
John Scarry
Ridicule may lawfully be employed where reason has no hope of success.
Ed Brayton
Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.
James Kakalios
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde
Gather together enough dust and you can make a mountain.
From little things, big things grow.
Never ascribe to stupidity that which can better be explained by a desire for approval.
John Scarry