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MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Monday December 01, 2008

“Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.” - W.C. Fields

“All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.” – Kipling

“La peur de l'ennui est la seule excuse du travail. - Boredom is the only excuse for work.” - Jules Renard

“It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.” - Jerry Garcia

“To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.” – Aristotle

“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.” - Mary Kay Ash

“Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” - Aldo Leopold

“They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.” - Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious

“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.” - Dave Barry

“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.” - Edward Abbey

“Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.” - Simms

“Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.” - Fran Lebowitz

“Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.” - Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” - Cicero

“Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.” - Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame

“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.” – Plato

“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.” - Harry S Truman

“Victory belongs to the most persevering.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” - Will Durant

“Since when was genius found respectable” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.” - Thomas Jefferson

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.” - Keith Richards

“Man is what he eats.” - Ludwig Feuerbach

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.” - Michel de Montaigne

“The higher your station, the less your liberty.” – Sallust

“Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.” - Oprah Winfrey

“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.” - John Dewey

“Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.” - Millicent Fenwick

“If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?” - Margot Fonteyn

“Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.” - Sir Walter Raleigh

“We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves.” - Prophet Joseph Smith

“Public display of mourning is no longer made by people of fashion, although some flashier kinds of widows may insist on sleeping with only black men during the first year after the death.” - PJ O'Rourke

“Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.” - J. K. Rowling

“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.” - Jean De La Bruyere

“Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us” - Orison Swett Marden

“Dare to be yourself.” - Andre Gide

“There's only one way to fall down, but you won't know till you hit the ground.” - Bernard Butler, song "Lets Go Away" (album Friends and Lovers)

“Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.” - Don Marquis

“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.” - Bertrand Russell