Eternity and Then Some

Monday, February 06, 2006

Words of Wisdom...

wouldn't it be nice if everyone were wise...or at least capable of logical thinking?

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." -Hubert Humphrey

"The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere." -Hsun Tzu

"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." -Aaron Levenstein

"When the president does it, that means it is not illegal." -Richard Nixon

"Doing what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius." - Henry Frederic Amiel

"No matter how long you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." - Turkish proverb

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." - Robert Frost

"Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting." - Stephen R. Covey

"The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Every morning I look throught the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben

"See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little." - Pope John XXIII

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." - Phillip Brooks

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William G. McAdoo

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick

"What passes for women's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency." - George Jean Nathan

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde

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