Absence makes the heart grow fonder. -Anonymous, (Davison, Potential Rhapsody) We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That Chance will bring us through. -Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna Constancy is the foundation of virtues. -Francis Bacon, De Augmentia Scientiarum If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. -Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning Bk. i It is sufficiently clear that all things are changed, and nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains absolutely the same. -Francis Bacon, De Natura Rerum Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books may also be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others. -Francis Bacon, Essays "Of Studies" Rugged the breast that beauty cannot tame. -John Codrington Bampfylde, "Sonnet in Praise of Delia" No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -William Blake, Proverbs of Hell If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents. -Robert Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi Make no little plans: they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . make big plans, aim high in hope and work. - Daniel H. Burnham She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to taht tender light Which heaven to gaudy days denies. -George Gordon, Lord Byron, Hebrew Melodies "She Walks in Beauty" You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile good. -Charles Carlson A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. -Thomas Carlyle, Speech 1840 The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy. -Abraham Cowley, Inconstancy Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen. (Inter os atque offam multa intervenire posse.) -Cato the Censor, "On the Improper Election Aediles" (Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae Bk. xiii, ch. 18, sec. 1) Abscence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. (L'abscence est a l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; it eteint le petit, il allume le grand.) -Comte De Bussy-Rabutin, Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules "Maximes d'Amours" One joy dispels a hundred cares. -Confucius The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man things of comfort. -Confucius Without music, life is a journey through a desert. -Pat Conroy Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant. -Benjamin Disraeli, Speech October 20 Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel Pt. I Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. -Thomas A. Edison What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight --it's the size of the fight in the dog. -Dwight Eisenhower Belief consist in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men "Montaigne" For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone. Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all their teams going the other way: every god will leave us. Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote, --justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude "Civilization" Some books leave us free and some books make us free. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude "Books" Prevention is better than cure. -Erasmus Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. -Euripides, Pirithous Great actions speak great minds. -John Fletcher, The Prophetess Act ii, sc. 3 But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. -Benjamin Franklin, Writings Vol. x "Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy" We may be personally defeated, but our principles never. -William Lloyd Garrison I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with blood I count as of no consequence. -Mahatma Gandhi We must either find a way or make one. -Hannibal He that does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven. -Hare and Charles True philosophers who are burning with love for truth and learning never see themselves . . . as wise man, brim- full of knowledge . . . For most of them would admit that even the very greatest number of things of which we know is only equal to the very smallest fraction of things of which we are ignorant. Nor are these philosophers so addicted to any kind of tradition or doctrine that they suffer themselves to become their slaves, and thus lose their liberty. -William Harvey Always listen to experts. They're tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. -Robert Heinlen Anger is momentary madness. (Ira furor brevis est.) -Horace, Epistles Bk. i, epis, ii Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. -David Hume, Essays "Of Tragedy" No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men. -David Hume Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. -Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, quoted in Molly Bawn Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. -Thomas Henry Huxley There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. -Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveller "To the Reader" Who longest wait of all surely wins. -Helen Hunt Jackson I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged. - In a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Mrs. H. Harrison Smith (1816) Victory and defeat are each ofht esame price. -Thomas Jefferson When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. -Thomas Jefferson, Writings Vol. xvi A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. -John Keats, Endymion Bk. i, I "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. -John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Security is mostly a superstitiion. It does not exist in nature . . . life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -Charles Kingsley He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still -Lao-Tsu. Tao Teh King Nothing under the sun is accidental. -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Emilia Galotti Act vi, sc. 3 I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. -Abraham Lincoln (Gross, Lincoln's Own Stories) At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. -John Locke, Essay on Human Understanding That nothing with God can be accidental. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend Pt. vi Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life St. 9 The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. -James Russel Lowell, Longing What chance has made yours is not really yours. (Non est tuum, fortuna quod fecit tuum.) -Lucilius (Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium Epis. viii, sec. 10) Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed: because a person's true life is not made up of the things he owns. -Luke 12:15 Every day is a fresh opportunity to continue the quest toward out mission. -Harold McAlindon Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. -Michelangelo, (Emerson, Conduct of Life "Beauty") Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. -Michelangelo As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. -John Milton, Areopagitica Sec. 6 Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. -John Milton, Areopagitica Sec. 6 We do not inherit the earth from out parents. We borrow it from our children. -Native American proverb I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -Isaac Newton 'Tis now a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. -Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. -Proverbs xv, 1 When a giftedteam dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort --it is ready to climb. -Pat Riley No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. -John Ruskin, The Two Paths Lecture ii He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another. (Qui genus jactat suum, Aliena laudat.) -Seneca, Hercules Furens I have Immortal longings in me. -William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra Act v, sc. 2 There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. -Logan Pearsall Smith You cannot define talent. All you can do is build the greenhouse and see if it grows. -Willian P. Steven May the teachings of those you admire become part of you, so that you may call upon them. Remember, those whose lives you have touched and who have touched yours are always a part of you, even if the encounters were less than you would have wished. It is the content of the encounter that is more important than its form. May you not become too concerned with material matters, but instead place immeasurable value on the goodness in your heart. Find time in each day to see beauty and love in the world around you. Realize that each person has limitless abilities, but each of us is different in our own way. What you may feel you lavk in one regard may be more than compensated for in another. What you feel you lack in the present may become one of your strengths in the future. May you see your future as one filled with promise and possibility. Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience. May you find enough inner strength to determine your own worth by yourself, and not be dependent on another's judgment of your accomplishments. May you always feel loved. -Sandra Sturtz What I have learned is but a handful of earth, what is left unlearned is the Earth itself. -Tamil proverb Win without boasting. Lose without excuse. -Albert Payson Terhune A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and forever. -Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy "Of Reading" Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint. -Mark Twain Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked. -Mark Twain Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. -Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton The thing always happen that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. -Frank Lloyd Wright There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn't matter who gets the credit. -Ralph Waldo Emerson A good example is a lesson anyone can read. -Unknown Anger is often more harmful than the injury that caused it. -Unknown An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. -Unknown Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. -Unknown A person can run away from his troubles just as easily as he can run away from his shadow. -Unknown Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. -Unknown A winner is a person who asks questions and listens to the answers; a loser never listens. A person can run away from his troubles just as easily as he can run away from his shadow. -Unknown A wish is a desire without anyattempt to attain its end. -Unknown Being the best means outrunning the rest. -Unknown Better to ask twice than to lose your way once. -Unknown Challenge your own mind --stretch and exercise it like any other part of your body. -Unknown Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change. -Unknown Character is the sum total of all our everyday choices. -Unknown Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. -Unknown Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on in spite of it. -Unknown Deciding whom you'll marry is the most important decision you'll make. -Unknown Don't be content with being average. Average is a close to the bottom as it is to the top. -Unknown Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination. -Unknown Duty is a matter of the mind. Commitment is a matter of the heart. -Unknown Eagles we are not, but we can still fly. Our imaginations become our wings. The magnificent eagle is still just an eagle but we can soar as high and as far as our aspirations take us. -Unknown Everyone is allowed an occasional failure --except the skydiver, of course. -Unknown Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. -Unknown Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is very costly. -Unknown Failures are a normal part of life. They are not disasters. -Unknown Few things are created and perfected at the same moment. -Unknown Finding fault is easy. It's improving that's hard. -Unknown Find one thing you do extremely well. -Unknown Follow your dreams. -Unknown Football players are the only people who can go anywhere by playing both ends against the middle. - Unknown Forget mistakes. Organize victory out of mistakes. -Unknown For problems, sweat is a good solvent. -Unknown Golf is a sport that separates the men from the poise. -Unknown Golfers are happiest when they feel below par. -Unknown Good, better, best; never rest till good be better, and better, best. -Unknown Good ideas, like pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make. -Unknown Good sportsmanship means being good losers. But it doesn't have to mean being perfect. -Unknown Great visions often start with small dreams. -Unknown Habit is like a soft bed, easy to get into but hard to get out of. -Unknown Happiness involves working towards meaningful goals. -Unknown Happiness is like perfume: you can't give it away without getting a little on yourself. -Unknown He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. -Unknown High expectations are the key to everything. -Unknown How a person plays the game shows something of his character --how he or she loses shows all of it. - Unknown Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. -Unknown I believe that there's an athlete in all of us. -Unknown Ideas are the great moving forces of history. -Unknown If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. -Unknown If it is to be, it is up to me. -Unknown If there is larceny in a person, golf will bring it out. -Unknown If we have our own "why" of life, we can bear almost any "how." -Unknown If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else. -Unknown If you don't swallow praise, ti can't hurt you. -Unknown If you give me a fish, I'll eat for a day. If you teach me to how to fish, I'll eat for a lifetime. -Unknown If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. -Unknown If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep. -Unknown Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. -Unknown Improvement begins with "I." -Unknown Improvement counts, no matter how small. -Unknown In golf, as in life . . . it's the follow-through that makes the difference. -Unknown In gold, the proof is in the putting. -Unknown In the game of life, someone has to warm the benches. -Unknown Initiative is doing the right thing without being ordered to do it. -Unknown It doesn't matter if you're on the right track, you'll still get run over if you don't keep on moving. -Unknown It is hard to create a great thing suddenly. -Unknown It is misery enough to have once been happy. -Unknown It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy. -Unknown It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring. -Unknown It's not who wins or loses; it is who gets the blame. -Unknown It takes a lot of training to be an engineer, and it takes a lot of boating to be a sailor. -Unknown Knock the T off can't. You can if you think you can. -Unknown Life is like a ladder. Every step we take is either up or down. -Unknown Like a cypress swamp whose trees persist and thrive for centuries, we can build special talents that help us persist and thrive in the an ever changing world. -Unknown Losers let it happen. Winners make it happen. -Unknown Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. -Unknown Love is a great beautifier. -Unknown Luck may sometimes help; work always helps. -Unknown Make an effort everyday to feel good about who you are and what you can be . . . . -Unknown Money changes people just as often as it changes hands. -Unknown Money is a lousy means of keeping score. -Unknown Morale is when your hand and feet keep on working when your head simply says it can't be done. -Unknown Never let a day go by without a dream. -Unknown No one ever excused his way to success. -Unknown Nothing increases the size of fish like fishing all by yourself. -Unknown Nothing is hard if you try. -Unknown Nothing is worth more than this day. -Unknown One loss doesn't make a season. -Unknown One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes. -Unknown Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. -Unknown People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. -Unknown People fail because of lack of discipline. -Unknown Praise should be directed at the performance not the person. -Unknown Pro golfers realize that money can grow on trees. -Unknown Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful. -Unknown Remembering is a dream that comes in waves. -Unknown Remember when you were at your best? Now be there again. -Unknown Simple solutions seldom are. -Unknown Skill is stronger than strength. -Unknown Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay. -Unknown Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed and permanently set. -Unknown Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. -Unknown Success can be measured more by obstacles overcome when trying to reach success than plateaus reached. - Unknown Success depends on your backbone not your wishbone. -Unknown Success is getting up one more time than you fall down. -Unknown Success is never final, and failure is never fatal. -Unknown Success is not how high and fast you reach the top, but how high and fast you bounce back when you hit the bottom. -Unknown Temper is what gets most of us into trouble, but pride is what keeps us there. -Unknown The ability to beat the odds lies within us all. -Unknown The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship. -Unknown The best angle from which to approach any problem is the tryangle. -Unknown The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience. -Unknown The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. -Unknown The expert in anything was once a beginner. -Unknown The greatest mistake you can make is to be constantly fearful you will make one. -Unknown The hardest thing in life to learn is which bring to cross and which to burn. -Unknown The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. -Unknown The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat. -Unknown The longer you keep your temper, the more it will improve. -Unknown The miracle is this --the more we share, the more we have. -Unknown The most important six words: "I admit I made a mistake." The most important five words: "I am proud of you." - Unknown The most important word: "We." The least important word: "I." -Unknown The one thing worse than a quitter is the person who is afraid to begin. -Unknown The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. -Unknown The reason golf is so popular is because it is the only game where you keep your own score. -Unknown The secret of action is to begin. -Unknown The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. -Unknown The two best times to keep your mouth shut are when you're swimming and when you're angry. -Unknown The work will teach you how to do it. -Unknown The wrong way to make your way is to insist on having it. -Unknown There are four ages of man: 1)when you believe in Santa Claus, 2)when you don't believe in Santa Claus, 3)when you are Santa Claus, 4)when you look like Santa Claus. -Unknown There is no failure save in giving up. -Unknown There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. -Unknown There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him. -Unknown To achieve all that's possible we must attempt the impossible --to be as much as we can be we must dream of being more. -Unknown To belittle is to be little. -Unknown To be successful, you have to keep moving. After all, no one stumbles on something sitting down. - Unknown To succeed --do the best you can, where you are, with what you have. -Unknown Triumph --umph added to try. -Unknown Use it or lose it. -Unknown Use the talents you possess; for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best. -Unknown We are the architects of our own fortunes, and our happiness depends, in the end, on ourselves. -Unknown We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough. -Unknown We cannot do everything at once; but we can do something at once. -Unknown We can't all be shining examples, but we can at least twinkle a little. -Unknown We heard of a man who decided not to procrastinate anymore --but he never got around to it. -Unknown We often don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. -Unknown We see possibilities in others, but do we ever dream of the possibilities within ourselves? -Unknown What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion. -Unknown What I truly value --I do. -Unknown When success turns a person's head, he is facing failure. -Unknown When you play golf you are locked in combat with your own worst enemy --yourself. -Unknown Winners believe they can win. -Unknown Winners concentrate on winning. Losers concentrate on getting by. -Unknown You can let bad times make you bitter --or better. -Unknown You can't hug your kids too much. -Unknown You don't have to have the lead if you have the heart to come from behind. -Unknown You have to keep jumping to know when you are jumping at opportunity. -Unknown You need to reach a point of accepting you can't be everything you want ot be. -Unknown You rarely succeed unless you have fun doing it. -Unknown You will stay young as long as you learn, form new habits, and don't mind being contradicted. -Unknown   The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. Thucydides   The point of wisdom is not simply to do well ... it is to do good. Patricia Monaghan    Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin    The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Sir Winston Churchill   Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt   You can only lead others where you yourself are prepared to go. Lachlan McLean   To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside where it functions best. Margaret Thatcher    To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable.  To be certain is to be ridiculous. Chinese proverb    The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates     Top executives should rate their subordinates on loyalty and competence. Those who are more loyal than competent should be fired because they are the dangerous ones.  They will stay forever while other more competent,  less loyal people will jump ship  as problems develop.  And the loyal, noncompetent subordinates will “protect”  their bosses from the truth. Reality will be too threatening and ugly.   When truth dies, really bad things happen. Shapiro, Slywotzky and Tedlow   Intelligence is what we use when we don't know what to do,  when we have to grope rather than using  a standard response. Jean Piaget    If you hit every time ... the target is too near or too big. Tom Hirshfield   The good judgment we have as human beings provides the best judgment for what we need in business. John Dalla Costa     People rise to the challenge when it is their challenge. Belasco & Stayer   The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life  is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes   One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations. Steve Allen   Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde   Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Elmer Letterman   Authority is 20% given and 80% taken! Kenneth Blanchard   When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating. William Shakespeare    Walk slowly at a relaxed pace and you won't stumble. Tao-Te Ching   The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. Henry Kissinger   I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Stephen Leacock   The truth is out there. The X Files   But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than to be ignorant. H. L. Mencken   Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Ralph Waldo Emerson   Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. Buckminster Fuller   We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill   All great ideas are dangerous. Oscar Wilde   What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson   I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell. Harry S. Truman   Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Phillips Brooks   You must do one thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt   People excel and learn, not because they are told to,  but because they want to. Peter Senge   I am still learning. Michelangelo   We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. Jimmy Carter   In wildness is the preservation of the world. Henry David Thoreau   Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese proverb   Wounded people are dangerous; they know they can survive. Anon.   You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore. Successories   The sheep are happier of themselves than under the care of the wolves. Thomas Jefferson   Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln