Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Industry need not wish.
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther
The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, teats, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
History will be kind to me; for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso
There are two things people want more than sex and money -- recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash
There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford
Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.
Ayn Rand
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas -- including this one.
Dan Rather
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemans speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.
Sir Winston Churchill
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...
Orison Swett Marden
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John Wooden
Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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