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Udall, Stewart L.: Gross National Product is our Holy Grail. (Stewart L. Udall: U.S. politician and later, a federal government official, 1920-2010) Categories: BUSINESS (U.S.A.)

Udall, Stewart L.: We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. (Stewart L. Udall: U.S. politician and later, a federal government official, 1920-2010) Categories: POWER

Ueland, Brenda: When we are listened to . . . ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. (Brenda Ueland: U.S. journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing, 1891-1985) Categories: LISTENING, MOTIVATION, RESPONSIVENESS

Ueland, Brenda: You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you. (Brenda Ueland: U.S. journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing, 1891-1985) Categories: BOOKS, COMMUNICATION, WRITING

Ulin, David L.: The arts speak to what we share, what we hold in common, rather than what pries us apart. (David L. Ulin: U.S. author and Guggenheim Fellow, Born 1961) Categories: THE ARTS

Ulin, David L.: To engage with a work of art is to engage in empathy, to enter the experience of another, to connect with their humanity. (David L. Ulin: U.S. author and Guggenheim Fellow, Born 1961) Categories: ART

Unamuno, Miguel de: They will conquer, but they will not convince. (Miguel de Unamuno: Spanish novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and rector of the University of Salamanca, 1864-1936) Categories: POWER, WAR

Unamuno, Miguel de: To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist. (Miguel de Unamuno: Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and professor of Greek and Classics, 1864-1936) Categories: GOD

Undset, Sigrid: No doing without some ruing. (Sigrid Undset: Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1882-1949) Categories: REGRET

Unknown Source: 'Chalk and cheese' —as different as night and day (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIFFERENCES, OPPOSITES

Unknown Source: . . . when you lift up women, you lift up humanity. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WOMEN

Unknown Source: A school cannot make the sun rise, but it can let the light in. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EDUCATION, SCHOOLS

Unknown Source: A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BACHELORS

Unknown Source: A bank is where you can borrow money if you provide enough evidence to show that you don't need it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BANKING

Unknown Source: A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BANKERS

Unknown Source: A bit of perfume always clings to the hand that gives the rose. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GIVING

Unknown Source: A camel is a horse designed by a committee. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMITTEES, CAMELS

Unknown Source: A canary in the coal mine (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DANGER, WARNING

Unknown Source: A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PARENTHOOD

Unknown Source: A child who reads will be an adult who thinks. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EDUCATION, READING

Unknown Source: A committee takes hours to put into minutes what can be done in seconds. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMITTEES

Unknown Source: A company is judged by the president it keeps. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT

Unknown Source: A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FORTITUDE, PERSEVERANCE

Unknown Source: A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIPLOMATS

Unknown Source: A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIPLOMACY

Unknown Source: A filing cabinet is a place where you can lose things systematically. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INEFFICIENCY, ORDERLINESS

Unknown Source: A form of governance in which resistance is “feudal.” (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FEUDALISM

Unknown Source: A friend is never known till a man has need. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDS, NEED

Unknown Source: A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see—and hits it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GENIUS

Unknown Source: A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CIVILITY, GENTLEMEN

Unknown Source: A good imitation is the most perfect originality. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CREATIVITY, IMITATION

Unknown Source: A gulf of unshared experience gapes between generations. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GENERATIONS

Unknown Source: A half-truth is a whole lie. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LIES

Unknown Source: A halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: REPUTATION, STATUS

Unknown Source: A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS

Unknown Source: A husband always prefers his wife's mother-in-law to his own. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MARRIAGE, RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: A joy that's shared is a joy made double. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JOY

Unknown Source: A man of words and not of deeds / Is like a garden full of weeds. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INACTION, ASSERTIONS

Unknown Source: A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HEALTH

Unknown Source: A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PLANNING

Unknown Source: A man's ruin lies in his tongue. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION

Unknown Source: A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONTRIBUTIONS

Unknown Source: A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MOTHERHOOD

Unknown Source: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEDICINE, MERRIMENT

Unknown Source: A mistake is not a failure, but rather is evidence that someone tried to do something. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MISTAKES

Unknown Source: A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MISTAKES

Unknown Source: A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OPTIMISM

Unknown Source: A mother is only as happy as her least happy child. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MOTHERHOOD

Unknown Source: A natural environment is good for the soul. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, NATURE

Unknown Source: A parent is not just someone to lean on but someone to make leaning unnecessary. (Unknown Source: ) Categories:

Unknown Source: A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, VISION

Unknown Source: A pessimist is an optimist with experience. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PESSIMIST

Unknown Source: A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PESSIMISM

Unknown Source: A picture is a poem without words. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ART, POETRY

Unknown Source: A picture is worth a thousand words. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ART, PICTURES

Unknown Source: A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION, WORDS

Unknown Source: A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRAYER

Unknown Source: A rainbow in the morning Is the Shepherd's warning; But a rainbow at night Is the Shepherd's delight. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RAINBOWS

Unknown Source: A recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion . . . and the discovery of a standard of judgment. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JUSTICE, CONFLICTS

Unknown Source: A religious person is likely to do what he is told . . . not what is right . . . whereas a spiritual person will do what is right . . . no matter what he is told. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

Unknown Source: A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WIDOWS

Unknown Source: A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PERSEVERANCE, PERSISTENCE

Unknown Source: A shoe too large trips you up. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OVER-AMBITION

Unknown Source: A single leaf working alone provides no shade.” (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TEAMWORK

Unknown Source: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POSTERITY

Unknown Source: A true friend is the best possession.- (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Unknown Source: A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LIBRARIES

Unknown Source: A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PARENTHOOD

Unknown Source: A vegetarian is a bad hunter. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: VEGETARIANISM

Unknown Source: A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUMOR

Unknown Source: A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GENDER, MARRIAGE, RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: A wise man hears one word and understands two. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WISDOM

Unknown Source: A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION, GOSSIP

Unknown Source: A wise man, to accomplish his end, may even carry his foe on his shoulder. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WISDOM

Unknown Source: A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WOMEN

Unknown Source: Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ABSENCE

Unknown Source: Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ACCUSATIONS, BLAME

Unknown Source: Adversity comes with instruction in its hand. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ADVERSITY, ASSISTANCE

Unknown Source: Advertising is legalized lying. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ADVERTISEMENTS

Unknown Source: After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MUSIC

Unknown Source: Aging is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying you. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: Aging seems to be the only available way to live a longer life. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: All except the shallowest living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CREATIVITY, LIFE, WRITING

Unknown Source: All glory comes from daring to begin. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DARINGNESS, SUCCESS, RISK-TAKING

Unknown Source: All great truths begin as blasphemies. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BLASPHEMIES

Unknown Source: All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONTINUITY, OCEAN, WATER

Unknown Source: All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: IMAGINATION

Unknown Source: All relationships are important because they reveal the true nature of the relationship we have with ourselves. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS, SELF-AWARENESS

Unknown Source: All sins cast long shadows. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SIN

Unknown Source: Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DREAMS, LIFE

Unknown Source: America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MONEY (U.S.A.)

Unknown Source: America is the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: VIOLENCE (U.S.A.)

Unknown Source: Among mortals, second thoughts are wisest. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CAUTION

Unknown Source: An abuser never loses sight of his prey. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ABUSERS

Unknown Source: An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ANGER

Unknown Source: An idle brain is the Devil's workshop. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BRAIN, IDLENESS

Unknown Source: An idle mind is a workshop for the devil. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: IDLENESS

Unknown Source: Anger is only one letter short of danger. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ANGER, DANGER

Unknown Source: Anger is the camouflage of sadness. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ANGER, SADNESS

Unknown Source: Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EDUCATION, IGNORANCE

Unknown Source: Anybody who tries to be something to everybody is nobody to anybody. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BEHAVIOR, RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: Appreciation is often tongue-tied. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: APPRECIATION

Unknown Source: Art is man's nature; nature is God's art. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ART, NATURE

Unknown Source: Artificial Intelligence: Let’s stop aggrandizing it and begin calling it what it really is: Plagiarism Software. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (A.I.)

Unknown Source: As a rule, man is a fool, When it's hot he wants it cool, When it's cool he wants it hot, Always wanting what is not. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FOOLS, DISCONTENTEDNESS

Unknown Source: As Pogo said, “We have seen the enemy, and it’s us.” (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENEMIES

Unknown Source: As you make your bed, you must lie in it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Unknown Source: Awareness is the product of thinking; understanding, the product of re-thinking. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING

Unknown Source: Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words; your words become your actions; your actions become your habits; your habits become your character; your character becomes your destiny. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHARACTER, DESTINY

Unknown Source: Be curious, not judgmental. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CURIOSITY

Unknown Source: Be kind to trees, they’re busy saving the world. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TREES

Unknown Source: Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MATURATION, PATIENCE

Unknown Source: Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION, SILENCE

Unknown Source: Be the change you wish to see in the world. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHANGE

Unknown Source: Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMITMENT, CONSCIENCE

Unknown Source: Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ROLE MODELS

Unknown Source: Being a "senior" is mostly just Googling how to do stuff. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: Being alone does not have to mean being lonely. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ALONENESS

Unknown Source: Being literate is the only way to be free. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LITERACY

Unknown Source: Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SKEPTICISM

Unknown Source: Better is the enemy of the good. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXPECTATIONS

Unknown Source: Better silent than stupid. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SILENCE

Unknown Source: Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TEACHERS

Unknown Source: Better to be first in a village than second in Rome. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMPETITION, RECOGNITION

Unknown Source: Better to suffer in a novel situation than to be comfortable in the same old rut. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHANGE, NOVELTY

Unknown Source: Birch trees bend in a storm but don’t break. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Unknown Source: Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING, BIRTHDAYS

Unknown Source: Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don't accuse the sun of partiality. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Unknown Source: Book lovers never go to bed alone. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BOOK LOVERS

Unknown Source: Books, minds, and umbrellas only work if they’re open. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BOOKS, MIND, UMBRELLAS

Unknown Source: Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BOREDOM, INVENTION

Unknown Source: Bread is like the sun; it rises in the yeast and sets in the waist. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FOOD, BREAD, WEIGHT

Unknown Source: Broken people are beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ADVERSITY, DISABILITIES

Unknown Source: Bullying is children experimenting with social power. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BULLYING, POWER

Unknown Source: By the time a man is rich enough to sleep late, he's too old to enjoy it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: By words the mind is winged. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORDS

Unknown Source: Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: Call my bluff or take my guff. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BULLYING, CRITICISM, BLUFF

Unknown Source: Call on God, but row away from the rocks. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CAUTION, PRAYER

Unknown Source: Capitalism desacralizes nature and makes it a commodity for exploitation and profit. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CAPITALISM

Unknown Source: Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CAPITALISM

Unknown Source: Cataclysm is always followed by emergence. This is a universal evolutionary pattern. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CATACLYSM, PROGRESS

Unknown Source: Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHANCE, SELF-RELIANCE

Unknown Source: Change itself is the very basis of our continuity as persons. Only that which can change can continue. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHANGE, PROGRESS

Unknown Source: Chaos often brings life while order brings habit. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHAOS, HABITS, ORDERLINESS

Unknown Source: Character is Destiny. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHARACTER, DESTINY

Unknown Source: Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHARACTER, REPUTATION

Unknown Source: Chickens lay eggs; humans lie down. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENGLISH LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY

Unknown Source: Children are not small adults. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHILDREN

Unknown Source: Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ECONOMICS

Unknown Source: Clever lines routinely travel from obscure mouths to prominent ones. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ARTICULATION, COMMUNICATION

Unknown Source: Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EQUITY

Unknown Source: Common sense is not so common. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMON SENSE

Unknown Source: Compassion opens the inner door of the heart. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMPASSION

Unknown Source: Conflict Resolution: Reflect upon one another's uniquenesses. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONFLICTS, RESOLUTIONS

Unknown Source: Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BEHAVIOR, ATTRIBUTES

Unknown Source: Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COOPERATION

Unknown Source: Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COURAGE

Unknown Source: Credit is sometimes attributed to a noisy rooster who claims credit for the dawn. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ASSERTIVENESS, OUTSPOKENNESS

Unknown Source: Crime starts here: HOME. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CRIME

Unknown Source: Critics say that America (U.S.A.) is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They’re wrong. America is not a lie; it’s a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: U.S.A.

Unknown Source: Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CURIOSITY

Unknown Source: Danger and delight grow on one stalk. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RISK

Unknown Source: Deliberate often—decide once. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DECISIONS

Unknown Source: Deliberation often loses a good chance. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DELIBERATION

Unknown Source: Democracy dies in the dark. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CORRUPTION, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

Unknown Source: Depression is a condition described as ‘when one’s life feels like a stick of gum that’s lost its flavor’. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DEPRESSION

Unknown Source: Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OPPRESSION, RISK

Unknown Source: Dictionaries are spellbinders. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DICTIONARIES

Unknown Source: Disbelief is a form of belief. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BELIEFS, DISBELIEF

Unknown Source: Discipline and creativity are like yin and yang. Both are entirely different and yet without each other, they are nothing. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CREATIVITY, DISCIPLINE

Unknown Source: Discomfort is at the root of all growth and learning (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DISCOMFORT, DISCONTENT

Unknown Source: Dissent is not only patriotic; it is the essence of what being an American is all about. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DISSENT (U.S.A.)

Unknown Source: Do not forget who held the ladder when you climbed to success. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ACKNOWLEDGMENT, GRATITUDE

Unknown Source: Do not measure other people's corn by one's own bushel. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JUDGMENT

Unknown Source: Do not pray by heart, but with the heart. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRAYER

Unknown Source: Do not regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: Dogs have masters; cats have staff. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CATS, DOGS, PETS

Unknown Source: Don't be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INTEGRITY, MISTAKES

Unknown Source: Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FEAR

Unknown Source: Don't do onto others what you would not want done onto you. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOLDEN RULE

Unknown Source: Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying. (Unknown Source: ) Categories:

Unknown Source: Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my frirend. (Unknown Source: ) Categories:

Unknown Source: Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few / Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Unknown Source: Don’t ever believe that where you are now is the only possibility! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, SELF-AWARENESS

Unknown Source: Don’t go down to the cellar until the windstorm hits. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CAUTION, PATIENCE

Unknown Source: Don’t let anyone dull your shine. (Unknown Source: ) Categories:

Unknown Source: Don’t let the sun set without taking a bite out of the road toward your goal. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, EXPLORATION, GOALS

Unknown Source: Don’t try to “age with grace”; age with mischief, audacity, and a good story to tell. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING, MATURITY

Unknown Source: Don’t worry about getting old, worry about thinking old. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CERTAINTY, DOUBT

Unknown Source: Drawing all the wagons in a circle to defend the status quo will not keep out the night. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DEFENSE, UNITY

Unknown Source: Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CAUTION

Unknown Source: Each and every one of us is a unique musical instrument that echoes her/his distinctive melody. Together we construct the world’s orchestra that makes the universe work. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INDIVIDUALISM, UNIQUENESS

Unknown Source: Each living creature is a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INDIVIDUALISM

Unknown Source: Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BUSINESS, LABOR, CAPITAL

Unknown Source: Education and information without the guiding principles of love and justice lead to the development of guided missiles and misguided men and women. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRINCIPLES, SOCIAL JUSTICE

Unknown Source: Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EDUCATION, POVERTY

Unknown Source: Either mend or end. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DECISIONS, RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: Elbow grease is the best polish. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LABOR, STRENGTH

Unknown Source: Enhancing the freedom of some usually means depriving the freedom of others. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FREEDOM, INEQUITY

Unknown Source: Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SEIZE THE MOMENT

Unknown Source: Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MODERATION

Unknown Source: Evening news is where they begin with "Good evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NEWS BROADCASTS

Unknown Source: Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ARTISTS

Unknown Source: Every man is a poet when he is in love. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POETRY

Unknown Source: Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOODNESS, GUILT

Unknown Source: Every path has its puddle. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OBSTACLES

Unknown Source: Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HISTORY

Unknown Source: Every time I hear that dirty word 'exercise' I wash my mouth out with chocolate. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXERCISE

Unknown Source: Every tooth in one’s head is attached to an acupuncture meridian that goes to a different organ in one’s body. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PHYSIOLOGY, ACUPUNCTURE

Unknown Source: Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROGRESS, TRANSPORTATION

Unknown Source: Everyone can enhance a speech with a good "wardrobe." (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION, SPEAKING

Unknown Source: Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DESIRE, RISK

Unknown Source: Evil brings men together. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EVIL

Unknown Source: Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXPERIENCE, LEARNING

Unknown Source: Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INITIATIVE, EXPERIENCE

Unknown Source: Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXPERIENCE

Unknown Source: Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FACTS

Unknown Source: Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FAILURE, MOTIVATION

Unknown Source: Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DISAPPOINTMENT, FAILURE

Unknown Source: Failure is part of being human. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FAILURE

Unknown Source: Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BELIEF, FAITH, REASON

Unknown Source: Faith is knowing there is an ocean when you can only see the stream. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FAITH, VISION

Unknown Source: Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FAITH

Unknown Source: Fall down seven times, get up eight. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DETERMINATION, RESILIENCE

Unknown Source: Falling involve is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good idea, but your heart tells you, you can fly. (Unknown Source: ) Categories:

Unknown Source: Fashions change, but style is forever. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FASHION, STYLE

Unknown Source: Favor will come after many failures. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FAILURE

Unknown Source: Fear is stronger than arms. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FEAR

Unknown Source: Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FEAR

Unknown Source: Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FEARS, PARALYSIS

Unknown Source: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FAITH, FEAR

Unknown Source: Fear succeeds crime—it is its punishment. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CRIME, FEAR

Unknown Source: Few mistakes can be made by a mother-in-law who is willing to baby-sit. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MOTHERS-IN-LAW

Unknown Source: Flirtation is attention without intention. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FLIRTATION

Unknown Source: For Christian Lent, I gave up my new year's resolutions. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RESOLUTIONS

Unknown Source: For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LAW

Unknown Source: For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONTROL

Unknown Source: For sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HEALTH, RICHES, SLEEP

Unknown Source: For success, attitude is as important as ability. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ABILITY, ATTITUDE, SUCCESS

Unknown Source: For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SUCCESS

Unknown Source: For the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DARKNESS, LIGHT

Unknown Source: For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LOSS, PROFIT

Unknown Source: For your tomorrow, we gave our today. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SACRIFICE

Unknown Source: Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FORCE

Unknown Source: Forgiveness is a journey—in order not to become a hostage to hostility. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FORGIVENESS

Unknown Source: Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FORTUNE

Unknown Source: Four things belong to a judge to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JUDGES

Unknown Source: Friends are lifelines! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDS

Unknown Source: Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDS, SUPPORT

Unknown Source: Friendship is a plant which must be often watered. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Unknown Source: Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Unknown Source: From a fallen tree, all make kindling. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RESULTS, USEFULNESS

Unknown Source: From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EQUITY

Unknown Source: From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HATRED

Unknown Source: Get in the water and see what the swim is all about. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ACTION, INVOLVEMENT

Unknown Source: Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FACTS

Unknown Source: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TEACHING

Unknown Source: Give thanks for unknown blessings that are already on their way. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GRATITUDE

Unknown Source: Giving rarely moves in a straight line; it usually moves in circles. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GIVING

Unknown Source: Go to where the silence is and say something. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INITIATIVE, SILENCE

Unknown Source: Goals are only wishes unless you have a plan. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOALS, PLANNING

Unknown Source: God created sex; priests created marriage. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SEX

Unknown Source: God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOD, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Unknown Source: God hath made of one blood all nations of men. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUMANKIND

Unknown Source: God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOD

Unknown Source: God must have a sense of humor. He created people. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUMANKIND, HUMOR

Unknown Source: Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOLF

Unknown Source: Good company upon the road is the shortest cut. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMPANIONS

Unknown Source: Good friends are like quilts; they age with you, yet never lose their warmth. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Unknown Source: Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LAW

Unknown Source: Government run by organized money is more fearful than government run by organized mobs. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOVERNMENT

Unknown Source: Grass is the forgiveness of nature—her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NATURE, GRASS

Unknown Source: Gratitude is the heart's memory. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GRATITUDE

Unknown Source: Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: Great complexity is easier to perceive at times than great simplicity. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SIMPLICITY, COMPLEXITY

Unknown Source: Great men are not always wise. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WISDOM

Unknown Source: Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDS, SACRIFICE

Unknown Source: Greed lessens what is gathered. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GREED

Unknown Source: Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GREED

Unknown Source: Growing old may be mandatory, but growing up is optional. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MATURATION

Unknown Source: Happiness depends upon ourselves. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INITIATIVE, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Unknown Source: Happiness is an inside job. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Unknown Source: Happiness is not a horse; you cannot harness it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HAPPINESS

Unknown Source: Haste makes waste. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HASTE

Unknown Source: Hatred corrodes the container it's carried in. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HATRED

Unknown Source: Have the courage to act instead of react. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COURAGE, INITIATIVE

Unknown Source: Having a huge number of books is not exactly about reading them all; it’s about having the possibility of reading them. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BOOKS

Unknown Source: He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SALESMANSHIP

Unknown Source: He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUMOR

Unknown Source: He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INITIATIVE

Unknown Source: He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENDURANCE

Unknown Source: He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FEAR, RISK

Unknown Source: He that spareth his rod hateth his son. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PARENTHOOD

Unknown Source: He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXPECTATIONS

Unknown Source: He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INDIFFERENCE, LAZINESS

Unknown Source: He was a "how" thinker, not an "if" thinker. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DISCOVERERS

Unknown Source: He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INJUSTICE

Unknown Source: He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty, (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Unknown Source: He who has daughters is always a shepherd. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GUARDIAN, PROTECTOR

Unknown Source: He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HEALTH, HOPE

Unknown Source: He who is greedy is always in want. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GREED

Unknown Source: He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on the sea. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BLAME, MISTAKES

Unknown Source: He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AUTHORITY, RULERS

Unknown Source: He/she who is not busy being born is busy dying. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LIFE

Unknown Source: Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EVIL

Unknown Source: Hell is truth seen too late. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HELL

Unknown Source: His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORDS

Unknown Source: History is a pack of lies we play on the dead. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HISTORY

Unknown Source: Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ANGER, SELF-DAMAGE

Unknown Source: Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HOPE

Unknown Source: Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXPECTATIONS

Unknown Source: Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HOPE

Unknown Source: Hope is a form of resistance. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HOPE, RESISTANCE

Unknown Source: Hope is patience with the lamp lit. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HOPE

Unknown Source: Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FAITH, HOPE

Unknown Source: Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HOPE

Unknown Source: Hope lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HOPE

Unknown Source: Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HOPE

Unknown Source: Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HORSEPOWER, PROGRESS

Unknown Source: How do I know what I think until I see what I write? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WRITING

Unknown Source: How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, CAMPING

Unknown Source: Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BEHAVIOR

Unknown Source: Humanity either breeds or tolerates all its afflictions. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUMANKIND

Unknown Source: Hurt people hurt other people. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ABUSE, RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: I always turn first to the sports page which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but people's failures. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NEWSPAPERS

Unknown Source: I am a man; I count nothing human foreign to me. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BROTHERHOOD, HUMANKIND

Unknown Source: I am an atheist, thank God! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ATHEISM

Unknown Source: I am not a teacher but an awakener. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TEACHING

Unknown Source: I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIVERSITY

Unknown Source: I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TEACHING

Unknown Source: I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BRAVERY, SELF-CONTROL

Unknown Source: I count him lost, who is lost to shame. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SHAME

Unknown Source: I don't gamble. I invest with a risk. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GAMBLING

Unknown Source: I don’t hold grudges. I just remember things for a very long time. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GRUDGES

Unknown Source: I dreamed of a thousand paths. I awoke to find mine and to follow it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-IDENTITY

Unknown Source: I fear the use of fear and security as the Damocles over the nation’s people. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FEAR, SECURITY, SOCIETY

Unknown Source: I feel like a boat without either an anchor or a sail, for she was both to me. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SEPARATION

Unknown Source: I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POLITICIANS

Unknown Source: I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: REASON, MATHEMATICIANS

Unknown Source: I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEARNING

Unknown Source: I love public libraries because they are built on the principle that books are so important and so necessary to human flourishing that access to them cannot depend on your income. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LIBRARIES

Unknown Source: I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-PERCEPTION

Unknown Source: I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, “Well, that’s not going to happen.” (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COOKING

Unknown Source: I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROPHETS

Unknown Source: I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-UNDERSTANDING, COMPLAINTS

Unknown Source: I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMPASSION, SERVICE

Unknown Source: I'm a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DILIGENCE, LUCK

Unknown Source: If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COOPERATION

Unknown Source: If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: IGNORANCE, SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS

Unknown Source: If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FORESIGHT

Unknown Source: If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DREAMS, SELF-INITIATIVE

Unknown Source: If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ADVERSITY

Unknown Source: If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOD

Unknown Source: If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LIFE, MISTAKES

Unknown Source: If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: VICE

Unknown Source: If it bleeds, it leads [in coverage]. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEDIA

Unknown Source: If it is to be, it is up to me. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Unknown Source: If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROCRASTINATION

Unknown Source: If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JESUS

Unknown Source: If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MODERATION

Unknown Source: If one's children, it makes it harder to be the child to one's own parents once on is an adult. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GENERATIONS, PARENTING

Unknown Source: If only closed minds came with closed mouths! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS

Unknown Source: If some of us have seen stars, it is often because a teacher tilted our heads toward the heavens. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INSPIRATION, TEACHERS

Unknown Source: If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROGRESS

Unknown Source: If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONSCIENCE

Unknown Source: If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ECONOMICS

Unknown Source: If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome, we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CENSORSHIP, HISTORY

Unknown Source: If there is a door that might bring wind, close the door. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OPPOSITION

Unknown Source: If there is no wind, row. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE

Unknown Source: If there were no clouds, we would not enjoy the sun. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHALLENGE, DISAPPOINTMENT, HARDSHIP

Unknown Source: If there's anything I can't stand it's someone who talks while I'm interrupting. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION, INTERRUPTING

Unknown Source: If there's anything I can't stand, it's someone who talks while I'm interrupting. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION

Unknown Source: If you allow weak leadership, then you must contend with it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOVERNANCE, VOTING

Unknown Source: If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ANGER, PATIENCE

Unknown Source: If you aren't making waves, you aren't kicking hard enough. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: IMPACT, INNOVATION, DISTURBANCE

Unknown Source: If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two, he replies four loaves. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUNGER

Unknown Source: If you bury the truth, a thousand lies will sprout from the soil. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TRUTH, DISHONESTY

Unknown Source: If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MOTIVATION, SUPPORT

Unknown Source: If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JOBS, PRODUCTIVITY

Unknown Source: If you don't read, you will only know your opinion. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OPINIONS, PERSPECTIVES, READING

Unknown Source: If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OPPORTUNITY, UNCERTAINTY

Unknown Source: If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CRITICISM, MOTIVATION

Unknown Source: If you really want the last word in an argument, try saying, "I guess you're right." (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ARGUMENTS

Unknown Source: If you see your glass half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and stop bitching (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ADVERSITY, ATTITUDE, BEHAVIOR

Unknown Source: If you speak the truth have a foot in the stirrup. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CAUTION

Unknown Source: If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEGACIES

Unknown Source: If you think you’re too little to make a difference, then you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROTEST

Unknown Source: If you view religion as necessary for ethics, you've reduced us to the ethical level of four-year-olds. "If you follow these commandments you'll go to heaven, if you don't you'll burn in hell" is just a spectacular version of the carrots and sticks with which you raise your children. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ETHICS, RELIGION

Unknown Source: If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding (Unknown Source: ) Categories:

Unknown Source: If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PLANNING

Unknown Source: If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LUCK

Unknown Source: If you worry about what might be and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: REGRET, WORRY

Unknown Source: If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WRITING

Unknown Source: If your vision is for one year, plant rice; If your vision is for 10 years, plant trees. But if your vision is for 100 years, educate youth. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EDUCATION

Unknown Source: If you’re avoiding discomfort, you’re avoiding growth. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AVOIDANCE, DISCOMFORT

Unknown Source: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate (unforeseen consequence). (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROBLEM-SOLVING

Unknown Source: Ignorance comes in all colors; not all blacks are criminals; not all whites are racists. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: IGNORANCE, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, RACISM

Unknown Source: Imagine that if trees gave Wi-Fi, we would all be planting trees like crazy and would end deforestation. It's a pity that they only produce the oxygen that we breathe to live. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ECOLOGY

Unknown Source: In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PLANNING

Unknown Source: In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MODERATION

Unknown Source: In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONSCIENCE, MAJORITY

Unknown Source: In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONSEQUENCES, DECISIONS

Unknown Source: In the final analysis, we do not solve our problems, for life is not a problem be solved but an experiment to be lived. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROBLEM-SOLVING

Unknown Source: Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INCONSISTENCY

Unknown Source: Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ASPIRATIONS, GOALS

Unknown Source: Internationalizing the university involves internationalizing the faculty and curricularizing the international. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

Unknown Source: Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEARNING, TEACHING

Unknown Source: It could've been. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HINDSIGHT

Unknown Source: It is a capital mistake to . . . twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: THEORIES, FACTS

Unknown Source: It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CAUTION

Unknown Source: It is a sad world that exists only in the present, unaware of the long procession that brought us here. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HISTORY

Unknown Source: It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower, and vacuum cleaner. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: YOUTH

Unknown Source: It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDS

Unknown Source: It is better to be safe than sorry. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SAFETY

Unknown Source: It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOVERNMENT, OPPOSITION, POLITICS

Unknown Source: It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUMANKIND, KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING

Unknown Source: It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RESTRAINT, SELF-CONTROL

Unknown Source: It is easy to be wise after the event. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WISDOM

Unknown Source: It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FUTILITY, GRIEF

Unknown Source: It is forbidden to kill; therefore, all murderers are puniished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WAR

Unknown Source: It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDSHIP, SUPPORT

Unknown Source: It is not the talking that counts between friends, it is the never needing to say what counts. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Unknown Source: It is not upon you to finish the task, but you’re not absolved from trying. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INVOLVEMENT, PARTICIPATION

Unknown Source: It is one's own fault if his enthusiasm is gone; he has failed to feed it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ABSENCE, ENTHUSIASM

Unknown Source: It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CIRCUMSTANCES

Unknown Source: It is said you can try to leave your caste, but caste never leaves you. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CASTE, INEQUALITY

Unknown Source: It is the best swimmers who drown. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OVER-CONFIDENCE

Unknown Source: It is the questions in life that move us forward, not the answers. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ANSWERS, QUESTIONS-ANSWERS

Unknown Source: It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ATTITUDE, TEMPERAMENT

Unknown Source: It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core—the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS, HURTFULNESS

Unknown Source: It takes a lot of courage to be weak. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COURAGE, WEAKNESS

Unknown Source: It takes only a little light to put out darkness (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EDUCATION, HOPE, INSIGHT, LEARNING

Unknown Source: It takes time to save time. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PLANNING, TIME

Unknown Source: It’s so windy that it’s as cold as a mother-in-law’s kiss. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-ACCEPTANCE

Unknown Source: I’ve learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my mistakes. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MISTAKES

Unknown Source: Journalism is history on the run. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HISTORY, JOURNALISM

Unknown Source: Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JOURNALISM

Unknown Source: Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POLITICS

Unknown Source: Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHANGE, INSPIRATION

Unknown Source: Keep in mind . . . to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CATS, DOGS, PETS

Unknown Source: Language is a city to which every human being brought a stone for the building of it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LANGUAGE

Unknown Source: Language is anonymous, collective, and unconscious, the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LANGUAGE

Unknown Source: Language is not an abstract construction of the learned or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, and tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LANGUAGE

Unknown Source: Laughter is the best medicine. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LAUGHTER

Unknown Source: Laws go where dollars please. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LAWS, MONEY

Unknown Source: Leaders need to know who they are—including how others see them. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Unknown Source: Learn how to bend and you'll never have to break. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FLEXIBILITY, OPEN-MINDEDNESS

Unknown Source: Learn to live with what’s due. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ACCEPTANCE, CHALLENGES, CIRCUMSTANCES

Unknown Source: Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GUILTLESS, SIN

Unknown Source: Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOSSIP

Unknown Source: Life gives everyone a second chance; it's called tomorrow. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OPPORTUNITY, TOMORROW

Unknown Source: Life guarantees a chance—not a fair shake. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHANCE, FAIRNESS

Unknown Source: Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing. (Unknown Source: ) Categories:

Unknown Source: Life is an echo. What you send out—you get back. What you give—you get. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LIFE

Unknown Source: Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHANGE, CHOICES, OPTIONS

Unknown Source: Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to ski in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!” (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ADVENTURE, LIFE

Unknown Source: Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ACTION, LEARNING

Unknown Source: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away—those precious memories. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEMORY

Unknown Source: Like bees to honey (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ATTRACTABILITY

Unknown Source: LISTEN and SILENT are spelled with the same letters. Think about it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LISTENING

Unknown Source: Live and let live. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TOLERANCE

Unknown Source: Live together like brothers and do business like strangers (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BROTHERHOOD, BUSINESS

Unknown Source: Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LOVE, TRUTH

Unknown Source: Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LOVE, WAR

Unknown Source: Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ATTRACTION

Unknown Source: Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HATRED

Unknown Source: Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LUCK

Unknown Source: Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LUCK

Unknown Source: Luck is being ready for the chance. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LUCK, READINESS

Unknown Source: Luck is good planning, carefully executed. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LUCK, PLANNING

Unknown Source: Luck is what happens when it meets preparation. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LUCK, PREPARATION

Unknown Source: Make haste slowly. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HASTE, PATIENCE

Unknown Source: Make your voice heard for those who have no voice. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ACTIVISM, PROTEST

Unknown Source: Malice hurts itself most. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MALICE, REVENGE, SELF-DAMAGE

Unknown Source: Man is a social animal. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INVOLVEMENT

Unknown Source: Man may work from sun to sun / But woman’s work is never done. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GENDER

Unknown Source: Man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HAPPINESS, SELF-RELIANCE

Unknown Source: Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CRIME

Unknown Source: Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PERSONALITY, CHARACTER

Unknown Source: Many things are lost for want of asking. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: QUESTIONS-ANSWERS, REQUESTS

Unknown Source: March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WEATHER

Unknown Source: Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why, as men do on land, do the great fish eat up the little ones? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INEQUALITY, OPPRESSION

Unknown Source: Meditate to mitigate. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXPLORATION, MEDITATION

Unknown Source: Memory is the scribe of the soul. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEMORY

Unknown Source: Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEMORY

Unknown Source: Men learn while they teach. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEARNING, TEACHING

Unknown Source: Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MISFORTUNE

Unknown Source: Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MISTAKES

Unknown Source: Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MISUNDERSTANDINGS, NEGLECT

Unknown Source: Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MONEY

Unknown Source: Money is not an aphrodisiac; the desire it may kindle in a female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MONEY, ROMANCE

Unknown Source: Morally tainted money is worth less than the value. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ETHICS, MONEY

Unknown Source: Most problems are really the absence of ideas. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: IDEAS, PROBLEMS, RESOURCES

Unknown Source: Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but in their hearts forever. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MOTHERS

Unknown Source: My humanity is tied to your humanity. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: UBUNTU, HUMANKIND

Unknown Source: Native talent is the most evenly distributed resource in the world. It is a resource that can be tapped wherever it is. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TALENT

Unknown Source: Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LISTENING

Unknown Source: Navajos have no word directly translatable for 'blindness;' it is called 'other-sightedness.' (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BLINDNESS, SIGHT

Unknown Source: Nearsightedness of the eyes is bad, but not nearly as bad as nearsightedness of the heart. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NEARSIGHTEDNESS, INSENSITIVITY

Unknown Source: Necessity makes even the timid brave. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NECESSITY

Unknown Source: Never be a prisoner of your past; it was just a lesson, not a life sentence. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PAST

Unknown Source: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RISK, ENDEAVORS

Unknown Source: Never expect to find happiness in the same place you lost it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HAPPINESS, LOSS

Unknown Source: Never of the living can the living judge—too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JUDGMENT

Unknown Source: Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you never know where it may lead. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OPPORTUNITY

Unknown Source: Newspapers are the world's mirrors. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NEWSPAPERS

Unknown Source: Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, withouit which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EDUCATION

Unknown Source: Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: No man is free who is not master of himself. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-CONTROL

Unknown Source: No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS, RELATIVES

Unknown Source: No one can save the one who closes his ears to the truth. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OBSTINACY

Unknown Source: No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Unknown Source: No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FEAR, POWER

Unknown Source: No to war! War is not always inevitable—it is always a defeat for humanity. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WAR

Unknown Source: No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GENDER, MARRIAGE

Unknown Source: Not all girls are made from sugar and everything nice. Some girls are made of adventure, dark chocolate, intelligence, cuss words, and courage. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GENDER, WOMEN, GIRLS

Unknown Source: Not all journeys are on roads. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CURIOSITY, JOURNEY, ROADS

Unknown Source: Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything than can be counted counts. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEASUREMENT

Unknown Source: Not old, just bikini-impaired! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: Nothing about human life is more precious than that we can define our own purpose and shape our own destiny. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-DETERMINATION, SELF-IDENTITY

Unknown Source: Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRAYER

Unknown Source: Nothing is more beautiful than the visiting of memories, EXCEPT, of course, the making of them. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEMORY

Unknown Source: Nothing is so burdensome as a secret. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SECRECY

Unknown Source: Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MISUNDERSTANDINGS

Unknown Source: Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ORATORY

Unknown Source: Nothing lasts forever, neither pain nor happiness. It’s just a matter of time to heal or seal. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HAPPINESS, PAIN

Unknown Source: Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SENSES, COGNITION

Unknown Source: Numbers constitute the only universal language. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LANGUAGE, NUMBERS

Unknown Source: Old age is when we begin extolling the past at the expense of the present. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: On the outer limits of cruelty humanity begins. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CRUELTY, HUMANKIND

Unknown Source: On your deathbed, you regret what you didn't do rather than what you did do. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DYING, LIFESPAN, REGRET

Unknown Source: One bad apple can spoil a whole bunch, but once the other apples start to rot, a whole new barrel is needed. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CORRUPTION

Unknown Source: One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BUSYNESS, MULTI-TASKING

Unknown Source: One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WAR

Unknown Source: One kind word can warm three winter months. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: KINDNESS

Unknown Source: One man's meat is another's poison. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIVERSITY, PREFERENCES, TASTE

Unknown Source: One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POETRY

Unknown Source: One of the best ways to learn something is to teach it to someone else. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TEACHING, LEARNING

Unknown Source: One of the hardest things to process is the slow change in the one you love. It’s called ‘The Long Goodbye’. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DEMENTIA, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

Unknown Source: One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Unknown Source: One woman can make a difference, but together we can rock the world. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOALS, WOMEN

Unknown Source: One year's seeding means seven years' weeding. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GARDENING

Unknown Source: Only the dead have seen the end of war. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WAR

Unknown Source: Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we can't eat money. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, MONEY

Unknown Source: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SYNERGY

Unknown Source: Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SUFFERING

Unknown Source: Painting is the song of the brush. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PAINTING, ART

Unknown Source: Parenting is a lifetime sentence. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PARENTHOOD

Unknown Source: Parenting should involve Roots to give children security and a sense of belonging, but also Wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PARENTING

Unknown Source: Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PATRIOTISM

Unknown Source: Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONFLICT, COPABILITY

Unknown Source: People are like bicycles; they can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ACTIVISM, AGING, EXERCISE

Unknown Source: People are people! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUMANKIND

Unknown Source: People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUMANKIND, INVOLVEMENT

Unknown Source: People come into your life for a reason, for a season, or for a lifetime. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS, FRIENDSHIPS

Unknown Source: People differ: Some object to the dancer, and others to the fan. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIVERSITY

Unknown Source: People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ASPIRATIONS

Unknown Source: People neglect their own fields and go weed the fields of others. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SACRIFICE

Unknown Source: People who don’t believe in inter-racial marriage should all get an ancestry DNA kit. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, RACISM

Unknown Source: People who have the most birthdays live the longest. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BIRTHDAYS

Unknown Source: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CRITICISM, GOSSIP, PRUDENCE

Unknown Source: People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CRITICS

Unknown Source: People who work with their hands are laborers; people who work with their hands and their brain are craftsmen; those who work with their hands, their brain, and their heart are artists. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ARTISTS

Unknown Source: Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COURAGE, MODESTY

Unknown Source: Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FAMILY, GRANDPARENTHOOD

Unknown Source: Pick a piece of the problem that you can help solve while trying to see how your piece fits into the broader social change puzzle. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MUTUALITY, SOLUTIONS

Unknown Source: Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for a year, marriage. Pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GARDENS

Unknown Source: Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FAMILY, POVERTY

Unknown Source: Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRAYER, PERSEVERANCE

Unknown Source: Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone . . . who alone can deliver us from solitude. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRAYER, RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: Prayer is the key, but faith unlocks the door. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRAYER, FAITH

Unknown Source: Prayer is the world's greatest wireless connection. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRAYER

Unknown Source: Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHILDREN, TRUTH

Unknown Source: Prevention is better than cure. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HEALTH, PREVENTION

Unknown Source: Procrastination is the hardening of the ‘oughteries’ (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROCRASTINATION

Unknown Source: Read one thousand books AND walk one thousand miles. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BOOKS, EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE

Unknown Source: Real courage is moving forward when the outcome is uncertain. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BRAVERY, COURAGE, DECISIONS

Unknown Source: Reason can in general do more than blind force. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: REASON

Unknown Source: Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELIGION

Unknown Source: Religious canons all too often lead to cannons! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELIGION, WAR

Unknown Source: Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Answers are dangerous, for they kill your wonder. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WONDERING, QUESTIONS-ANSWERS

Unknown Source: Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HAPPINESS

Unknown Source: Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WINNERS, LOSERS

Unknown Source: Remember the three Ds: Do it, Delegate it, or Dump it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Unknown Source: Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RESENTMENTS

Unknown Source: Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ACCEPTANCE, RESISTANCE

Unknown Source: Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-RESPECT

Unknown Source: Retirement is one great big giant coffee break. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RETIREMENT

Unknown Source: Retirement: Twice as much spouse, half as much pay. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RETIREMENT

Unknown Source: Revenge is an inhuman word. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: REVENGE

Unknown Source: Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROPAGANDA, RHETORIC

Unknown Source: Roots grow strongest when storms teach them to hold. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ADVERSITY, CHALLENGES, PERSEVERANCE, STRESS

Unknown Source: Sadness and gladness succeed each other. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GLADNESS, SADNESS

Unknown Source: Safety first has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RULERS, SAFETY

Unknown Source: Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-PITY

Unknown Source: Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. It leads us to a wondrous path of being able to negotiate, to engage in dialogue, and to make compromises on a daily basis. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMPROMISE, NEGOTIATION, BEWILDERMENT

Unknown Source: Senility and Enlightenment are in a race to the finish. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING, DEMENTIA

Unknown Source: Set a thief to catch a thief. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: THIEVERY

Unknown Source: Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOALS

Unknown Source: She's not moody. She's just known for her versatility of emotions. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MOODS

Unknown Source: She: "Before we got married, you told me you were well-off." He: "I was and didn't know it." (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MARRIAGE

Unknown Source: Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POTENTIAL, SILENCE

Unknown Source: Silence is compliance. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SILENCE, COMPLIANCE

Unknown Source: Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SIMPLICITY

Unknown Source: Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SIMPLICITY

Unknown Source: Single bliss is better than marital blisters. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MARRIAGE, SINGLEHOOD

Unknown Source: Six feet of dirt make all men equal. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DEATH, BURIAL

Unknown Source: Social norms are not taught; they are overheard, but the one thing even the most skilled deaf people cannot do is overhear. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DEAFNESS

Unknown Source: Socialism for the rich — and free enterprise for the poor. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ECONOMY (U.S.A.)

Unknown Source: Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OPPRESSION, SOCIETY

Unknown Source: Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROBLEMS

Unknown Source: Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING

Unknown Source: Some folks never exaggerate--they just remember big. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION, EXAGGERATION

Unknown Source: Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CLOSE-MINDEDNESS, PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Unknown Source: Some heroes are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COURAGE, HEROES

Unknown Source: Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LOVE

Unknown Source: Some of the world's greatest marksmen shoot the arrow and then draw the target. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INNOVATION

Unknown Source: Some people are committed to putting good energy into the universe. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMITMENT, GIVINGNESS, VOLUNTEERISM

Unknown Source: Some people make money the old-fashioned way. They inherit it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INHERITANCE, MONEY

Unknown Source: Some people see the sunset, some the beginning of darkness. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OPTIMISM, PESSIMISM

Unknown Source: Some pursue happiness, others create it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HAPPINESS

Unknown Source: Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GEOGRAPHY, TEACHING, WAR

Unknown Source: Sometimes what you fear the most is the very thing that will set you free. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FEAR

Unknown Source: Sometimes you find people who have sun inside them. They have an internal being that shines so bright it feels like sun warming your soul. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMPASSION, SENSITIVITY, TENDERNESS, WARMHEARTEDNESS

Unknown Source: Sometimes you have to love people from a distance and give them the space and time to get their minds right before you let them back into your life. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: Sometimes you win: sometimes you learn. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMPETITION, LEARNING, WINNING

Unknown Source: Speech is silver; silence is golden. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SILENCE

Unknown Source: Speech is the index of the mind. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SPEECH

Unknown Source: Spiritual truth is universal; as such, it is the property of no one religion. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

Unknown Source: Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion, or wealth. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SPORTS

Unknown Source: Spring is a virgin / Summer a mother / Autumn a widow / and Winter a stepmother. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SEASONS

Unknown Source: Stars cannot shine without darkness. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DESPAIR, POSSIBILITIES, STARS

Unknown Source: Start where you are, but don't stay there. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INITIATIVE, SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Unknown Source: States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POLITICS

Unknown Source: Sticks and stones may break my bones, But words can never harm me. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORDS

Unknown Source: Stop breathing life into the past. It died for a reason. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEMORY

Unknown Source: Stories unite people: theories divide them. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: THEORIES

Unknown Source: Strength is a matter of the made-up mind. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONCLUSIONS, DECISIONS

Unknown Source: Stretch your arm no farther than your sleeve will reach. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AMBITION, LIMITATIONS

Unknown Source: Strong women aren’t simply born; they are made by the storms they walk through. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHALLENGES, WOMEN

Unknown Source: Study the past if you divine the future. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HISTORY

Unknown Source: Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WAR

Unknown Source: Tact is the intelligence of the heart. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TACT

Unknown Source: Tall oaks from little acorns grow. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MATURATION

Unknown Source: Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PEACE, SAVAGERY

Unknown Source: Teachers make all other professions possible. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TEACHING

Unknown Source: Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENVIRONMENT

Unknown Source: Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TEACHING, VALUES

Unknown Source: Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONVINCIBILITY

Unknown Source: Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORDS

Unknown Source: That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHARITY

Unknown Source: That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SLEEP

Unknown Source: The age of some women is like the speedometer on a used car - you know it's set back, but you don't know how far. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: The ambitious climb high . . . and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AMBITION

Unknown Source: The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FEARLESSNESS

Unknown Source: The arrogance of reason has separated us from the essence of love. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: REASON

Unknown Source: The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEDICINE

Unknown Source: The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WRITING

Unknown Source: The bargain is ill made where neither party gains. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BARGAINING, NEGOTIATIONS

Unknown Source: The beauty of autumn is a reminder that change can be beautiful. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AUTUMN, CHANGE, SEASONS

Unknown Source: The benchmark of greatness is finding joy in loving and serving others. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SERVICE

Unknown Source: The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EDUCATION, TRAVEL

Unknown Source: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENVIRONMENT, INITIATIVE

Unknown Source: The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GRATITUDE, SELF-ACCEPTANCE, SELF-AWARENESS

Unknown Source: The best way out of a difficulty is through it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIFFICULTIES

Unknown Source: The best way out of a problem is through it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ANALYSIS, PROBLEMS

Unknown Source: The best way to get praise is to die. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRAISE

Unknown Source: The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOSSIP

Unknown Source: The big thieves hang the little ones. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POWER

Unknown Source: The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROOF, PLAINTIFFS

Unknown Source: The challenge is to live consciously and intentionally. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONVICTIONS

Unknown Source: The children of Adam are limbs to each other, having been created of one essence. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUMANKIND

Unknown Source: The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENVY

Unknown Source: The crow, when travelling abroad, came back just as black. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Unknown Source: The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JUSTICE

Unknown Source: The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SORROW

Unknown Source: The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MIND, SCARS

Unknown Source: The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SAFETY, SECURITY

Unknown Source: The difference between in-laws and outlaws? Outlaws are wanted. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ABILITY, PERSEVERANCE

Unknown Source: The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PHILOSOPHY

Unknown Source: The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PERSEVERANCE, SELF-INITIATIVE

Unknown Source: The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: IMMIGRATION (U.S.A.)

Unknown Source: The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CIVILIZATION, SOCIETY

Unknown Source: The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: The extinction of a language is equivalent to the extinction of a species. . . . If we lose a different way of linguistically organizing thought, we lose a possible way of seeing reality. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS

Unknown Source: The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOVERNANCE

Unknown Source: The finest diamonds occur under the hottest heat. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRESSURE

Unknown Source: The first 25 years of your life, you learn; the next 25 years, you accumulate; the next 25 years, you try to get rid of everything. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING, LIFESPAN

Unknown Source: The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, looking . . . neither to the right nor the left. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONCENTRATION, DETERMINATION, FOCUS, SUCCESS

Unknown Source: The first step is the hardest. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MOTIVATION, SELF-INITIATIVE

Unknown Source: The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance of the need to change. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AWARENESS, CHANGE

Unknown Source: The followership has a responsibility for creating good leadership. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FOLLOWERS, RESPONSIBILITY, VOTING

Unknown Source: The goals of education is for every classroom become an 'intensive-care' unit. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EDUCATION

Unknown Source: The greatest thing about a hug is you can't get one without giving one. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUGGING

Unknown Source: The hardest work is to go idle. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: IDLENESS

Unknown Source: The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NEUTRALITY

Unknown Source: The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WOMEN

Unknown Source: The ideal person is not the one with whom one can be happy, but the one without whom one can’t be happy. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ADVERSITY, SELF-AWARENESS, SORROW

Unknown Source: The land and the sea are the chief; man is their servant. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EARTH, HUMANKIND

Unknown Source: The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEGACIES, MEMORY

Unknown Source: The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FUTURE, PAST

Unknown Source: The longest journey you will make in your life is from your head to your heart. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SENSITIVITY

Unknown Source: The lottery of birth — Poverty, Privilege (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CIRCUMSTANCES, LOTTERIES

Unknown Source: The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXPECTATIONS, SELF-INITIATIVE

Unknown Source: The man who speaks the truth is always at ease. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TRUTH

Unknown Source: The manuscript of nature is the true scripture. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NATURE

Unknown Source: The master is as tied to the slave as the slave is tied to the master. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SLAVERY

Unknown Source: The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GIVINGNESS, LIFE

Unknown Source: The measure of power is not based on how many you beat down but how many you lift up. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ASSISTANCE, INSPIRATION, POWER

Unknown Source: The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY

Unknown Source: The more corrupt the state, the more laws. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CORRUPTION, LAW

Unknown Source: The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOALS, WORK

Unknown Source: The most delightful advantage of being bald—one can hear snowflakes. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BALDNESS

Unknown Source: The most difficult years of marriage are those following the wedding. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MARRIAGE

Unknown Source: The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PEACE

Unknown Source: The most expensive thing in the world is trust, which takes years to earn and only a matter of seconds to lose. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INTEGRITY, TRUST

Unknown Source: The most flexible mode of expression is dialogue. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION

Unknown Source: The most useful piece of learning . . . is to unlearn what is untrue. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEARNING, UNLEARNING

Unknown Source: The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake; you can’t learn anything from being perfect. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MISTAKES

Unknown Source: The motto in the workaholic Silicon Valley is "Stop for lunch and you are lunch." (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORKAHOLISM

Unknown Source: The nail that sticks out is hammered down. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONFORMITY

Unknown Source: The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch—free from the past or un-indebted to others—could not conceivably be more wrong. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CREATIVITY, HISTORY, INDEBTEDNESS, ORIGINALITY

Unknown Source: The number of trips around the sun equals age. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BIRTHDAYS, AGE

Unknown Source: The obstacle is the path. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OBSTACLES, OPTIONS, PATHWAYS

Unknown Source: The only foolproof path to weather is inheritance. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INHERITANCE, WEALTH

Unknown Source: The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LUCK

Unknown Source: The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WISDOM

Unknown Source: The pain of holding on is always greater than the pain of letting go. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PERSEVERANCE, WITHDRAWAL

Unknown Source: The palest ink is better than the best memory. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EVIDENCE, HISTORY, MEMORY

Unknown Source: The people of Seattle deny they get much rain, while the rest of the country thinks of it as America's bladder. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RAINFALL (U.S.A.)

Unknown Source: The pessimist is half-licked before he starts (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PESSIMISTS

Unknown Source: The president proposes and the legislature disposes. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOVERNANCE, POLITICS

Unknown Source: The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a crib-house whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Unknown Source: The process of a living language is like the motion of a broad river which flows with a slow, silent, irresistible current. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LANGUAGE

Unknown Source: The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROPAGANDA

Unknown Source: The proper role of the news reporter is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JOURNALISTS

Unknown Source: The quality of journalism and the quality of democracy go hand-in-hand. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JOURNALISM

Unknown Source: The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONTENTMENT, DETOURS, FLEXIBILITY, HAPPINESS

Unknown Source: The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts." (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ECCENTRICITY

Unknown Source: The rich know not who is his friend. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CLUELESSNESS, FRIENDSHIP, WEALTH

Unknown Source: The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ECONOMICS

Unknown Source: The road from apprentice to mentor runs through the mountains. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MENTORING, APPRENTICESHIPS

Unknown Source: The scariest part about being a parent is the part when you have to sit back and let them learn on their own. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PARENTING

Unknown Source: The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FAILURE, SUCCESS, TIMING

Unknown Source: The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GENIUS

Unknown Source: The secret of living well and longer is eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LIFE

Unknown Source: The secret of patience . . . is to do something else in the meantime. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DISTRACTIONS, PATIENCE

Unknown Source: The secret of patience . . . to do something else in the meantime. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PATIENCE

Unknown Source: The seeds of poverty are with institutions, not individuals. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INSTITUTIONS, POVERTY

Unknown Source: The silent dog is the first to bite. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BEHAVIOR, COMMUNICATION, SILENCE

Unknown Source: The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION

Unknown Source: The soul of the grandchild lives in the heart of the grandmother. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GRANDMOTHERS

Unknown Source: The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INACTION

Unknown Source: The status of women in a country is a good indicator of the health of its economy. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WOMEN

Unknown Source: The strongest person in any room is the one who speaks the least. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LISTENING, MODESTY, PRUDENCE

Unknown Source: The study of word origins points to our common humanity. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LANGUAGE

Unknown Source: The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BUSINESS, POLITICS

Unknown Source: The tallest oak in the forest was once a little nut that held the ground. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PERSISTENCE

Unknown Source: The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SUPPORT

Unknown Source: The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the efficiency of transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DEMOCRACY, EQUITY

Unknown Source: The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PARENTHOOD (U.S.A.)

Unknown Source: The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POLITICS (U.S.A.)

Unknown Source: The time I've lost in wooing / In watching and pursuing / The light that lies In woman's eyes / Has been my heart's undoing. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FLIRTATION, WOOING

Unknown Source: The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MATURATION, TREES

Unknown Source: The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING, LIFESPAN

Unknown Source: The U.S. passed from barbarism to decadence, without having passed through civilization. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: U.S.A.

Unknown Source: The U.S.A. is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIETING, FOOD

Unknown Source: The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEGACY, MORALITY, SOCIETY

Unknown Source: The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INDIFFERENCE, UNIVERSE

Unknown Source: The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INTERESTS, VICE, VIRTUE

Unknown Source: The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-IDENTITY

Unknown Source: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: VIOLENCE, WAR, COLONIALISM (U.S.A.)

Unknown Source: The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JUSTICE, STRENGTH, WORLD

Unknown Source: The whole world knows we have it made in America . . . made in China, made in Mexico, made in Japan. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Unknown Source: The wildest colts make the best horses. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: YOUTH

Unknown Source: The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-RELIANCE

Unknown Source: The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are equally unique manifestations of the human spirit. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CULTURES, DIVERSITY

Unknown Source: The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIVERSITY, HUMANKIND, IMMIGRATION

Unknown Source: The worst hatred is that of relatives. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HATRED, RELATIVES

Unknown Source: The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking but that he won't let you stop listening. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LISTENING

Unknown Source: There are deeper wounds than those of the body; heal the deeper!. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WOUNDS

Unknown Source: There are few successful adults who were not first successful children (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SUCCESS

Unknown Source: There are many lost 'Einsteins' who would have made enormous contributions had they been allowed to reach their full potential. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POVERTY, BRILLIANCE

Unknown Source: There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRINCIPLES, WAR, KILLING

Unknown Source: There are more people in China who speak English than there are in the U.S. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Unknown Source: There are no extraordinary people, only ordinary people with extraordinary challenges to take on. (Unknown Source: ) Categories:

Unknown Source: There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION

Unknown Source: There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen: and those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what happened. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BEHAVIOR, HUMANKIND

Unknown Source: There can be no freedom without a flow between leadership and followership. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AUTHORITY, FOLLOWERSHIP, LEADERSHIP

Unknown Source: There can be no good without evil. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EVIL, GOODNESS

Unknown Source: There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ETHICS, SYNERGY

Unknown Source: There is a myth, a pervasive myth, to the effect that if we . . . only learn to speak English well-and particularly without an accent, we would be welcomed into the U.S. American fellowship. However, the true test is not our speech. That accent is heard in our pigmentation, our physiognomy, our names. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY, DIVERSITY (U.S.A.)

Unknown Source: There is a skeleton in every house. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SECRECY

Unknown Source: There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them away. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GAMBLING

Unknown Source: There is no accounting for taste. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OPINIONS, PREFERENCES, DISLIKES

Unknown Source: There is no finish line. So love the journey. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOALS

Unknown Source: There is no one “history.” Rather, there are just historical perspectives by individuals and/or groups that help piece together chains of events that help explain the past. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HISTORY

Unknown Source: There is no physician like a true friend. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Unknown Source: There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PLEASURE, REACTIONS

Unknown Source: There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONSCIENCE

Unknown Source: There is nothing noble in being superior to some other people. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-AWARENESS, SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Unknown Source: There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HOPE, FEAR

Unknown Source: There's a pinch of the madman in every great man. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GREATNESS, MADMAN

Unknown Source: There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Unknown Source: There’s a lid for every pot. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DATING, MARRIAGE, ROMANCE

Unknown Source: There’s a place for riots; if you don’t have extremes, you don’t get any moderation. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PROTEST, RIOTS

Unknown Source: They are able because they think they are able. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-CONFIDENCE

Unknown Source: Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PERCEPTION

Unknown Source: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November / All the rest have thirty-one excepting February alone / Which hath but twenty-eight, is fine / Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MONTHS

Unknown Source: This is the type of English up with which I will not put. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Unknown Source: Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NAIVETE

Unknown Source: Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FORGIVENESS

Unknown Source: Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COLLEGE, PROFESSORS

Unknown Source: Those who prefer security over civil rights deserve neither security nor civil rights. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RIGHTS, SECURITY

Unknown Source: Those who prevent history being taught fully intend to repeat it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EDUCATION, HISTORY

Unknown Source: Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HAPPINESS, SHARING

Unknown Source: Time gives good advice. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TIME

Unknown Source: Time trieth truth. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TIME, TRUTH

Unknown Source: To be a leader you need a lot of people dumb enough to follow. (Unknown Source: ) Categories:

Unknown Source: To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CERTAINTY

Unknown Source: To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GRUDGES

Unknown Source: To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXPECTATIONS

Unknown Source: To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BLAME, MANAGEMENT

Unknown Source: To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXPECTATIONS, FRUSTRATION

Unknown Source: To improve your memory, lend people money. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEMORY

Unknown Source: To know another language is to have a second soul. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LANGUAGE, BILINGUALISM

Unknown Source: To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COWARDICE

Unknown Source: To lose Is to learn. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEARNING, LOSING

Unknown Source: To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LOVE

Unknown Source: To stay young at heart, you must have a plan / Do what you are able for as long as you can. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PLAGIARISM, RESEARCH

Unknown Source: To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PLAGIARISM, RESEARCH

Unknown Source: To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing- (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DECISIONS, OVER-THINKING

Unknown Source: To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OBSTACLES

Unknown Source: To want to forget something is to think of it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEMORY

Unknown Source: To whom much is given, much will be required. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RESPONSIBILITY

Unknown Source: Tomorrow life is too late: live today. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INITIATIVE, TIME

Unknown Source: Too early old, too late smart! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING

Unknown Source: Too often when conscience tries to speak, the line seems to be busy (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONSCIENCE, PREOCCUPATION

Unknown Source: Tough times never last, but tough people do. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PERSEVERANCE

Unknown Source: Trained to kill, Kill we will. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WAR

Unknown Source: Travelers from afar can lie with impunity. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LIES

Unknown Source: Treat your wastebaskets like babies; keep them within reach at all times, feed them frequently, and change them often. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NEATNESS, ORDERLINESS

Unknown Source: Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ADVERSITY, WISDOM

Unknown Source: Trouble will rain on those who are already wet. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TROUBLES, VULNERABILITY

Unknown Source: True happiness consists in making others happy. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HAPPINESS

Unknown Source: True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LOVE

Unknown Source: Trust comes from risk; trust follows having survived a risk . . . successfully (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RISK, TRUST

Unknown Source: Trust in Allah, but tie your camel first. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BELIEF, PRAYER

Unknown Source: Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TRUTH

Unknown Source: Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RESEARCH, TRUTH

Unknown Source: Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TRUTH

Unknown Source: Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OBSTACLES, OPPORTUNITIES

Unknown Source: Two wrongs do not make a right. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WRONGS

Unknown Source: Unions are why there are fire exits at your work, and why the doors aren’t padlocked during work hours. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EMPLOYMENT, LABOR, UNIONS

Unknown Source: Unless you have the courage to doubt, you will never come to know the truth. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COURAGE, DOUBT

Unknown Source: Unshared joy is an unlighted candle. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: JOY, SHARING

Unknown Source: Until one has loved an animal, part of her/his soul remains unawakened. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ANIMALS, PETS

Unknown Source: Visits always give pleasure—if not the arrival, the departure. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: VISITATIONS

Unknown Source: War does not determine who is right—only who is left. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WAR

Unknown Source: War is only good for the countries who sell the weapons. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ECONOMICS, WAR, WEAPONS

Unknown Source: War should be to effect a humanitarian result—not just to kill people and collect real estate. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WAR

Unknown Source: We all have two choices. We can make a living OR we can design a life. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHOICES, GOALS, PLANNING

Unknown Source: We always use evil to prevent greater evil. How much evil must be done to achieve good? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WAR

Unknown Source: We are all part of the Ocean of Consciousness—in its beauty, vibrancy, majesty, power, expansiveness, and serenity. Each of us may be seen as a wave and never alone. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COOPERATION, SYNERGY

Unknown Source: We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LAW

Unknown Source: We are in the world in relationship with others. Our capacity to realize our own objectives is inextricably wrapped up with the capacity of others to realize theirs. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COMMUNITY, RELATIONSHIPS

Unknown Source: We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LAZINESS

Unknown Source: We are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUMANKIND

Unknown Source: We are the best teachers when we are active learners. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEARNING, TEACHERS

Unknown Source: We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WISDOM

Unknown Source: We can't always choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHOICES

Unknown Source: We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ATTITUDE, FACTS, PERCEPTION

Unknown Source: We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ADJUSTMENT, FLEXIBILITY

Unknown Source: We don't have to agree on anything to be kind to one another. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: KINDNESS

Unknown Source: We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POLITICS, JUSTICE

Unknown Source: We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EQUITY

Unknown Source: We have no money, so we will have to think. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CREATIVITY, INNOVATION

Unknown Source: We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LISTENING

Unknown Source: We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GIVING

Unknown Source: We must each ask ourselves: "What is the right and creative thing for me to do in this hour"—and do it! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DECISIONS, INITIATIVE, OPTIONS

Unknown Source: We only start to value things that we have when we start losing them (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FAMILIARITY, HABITUATION

Unknown Source: We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TRAVEL

Unknown Source: We will either find a way, or make one. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ACTION, SOLUTIONS

Unknown Source: Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: POSSESSIONS, WEALTH

Unknown Source: What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BELIEFS, COMMITMENT, CONVICTIONS

Unknown Source: What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOVERNANCE, POWER, WAR

Unknown Source: What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MARRIAGE, WIDOWS

Unknown Source: What happens in the classroom among people is more important than any assignment, curriculum, procedure, or content. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EDUCATION, LEARNING

Unknown Source: What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CONSCIENCE

Unknown Source: What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CAREERS, CHOICES, MISTAKES

Unknown Source: What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SECRECY

Unknown Source: What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-CONTROL

Unknown Source: What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: IMPOSSIBILITY, PRAYER

Unknown Source: What once were vices are now manners. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CUSTOMS, MANNERS

Unknown Source: What other people think about you is none of your business. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Unknown Source: What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: TEARS

Unknown Source: What the devil needs is for good people to remain silent. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COWARDICE, SILENCE

Unknown Source: What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PERCEPTION

Unknown Source: What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MEMORY

Unknown Source: When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COOPERATION

Unknown Source: When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRAYER

Unknown Source: When foxes guard the henhouses, the hens don't flourish. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BULLYING, CORRUPTION, OPPRESSION

Unknown Source: When government becomes a lawbreaker, it's an invitation to anarchy. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CORRUPTION

Unknown Source: When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CRITICISM, PRAISE, REPUTATION

Unknown Source: When men realized that women bleed every month and don't die, they became fearful of women's power. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FEAR, GENDER

Unknown Source: When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SOLIDARITY, COOPERATION

Unknown Source: When the familiar has become somewhat strange to you, it’s never quite the same again. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PERCEPTION, TRAVEL

Unknown Source: When the goddess of wealth comes to give you her blessings, you shouldn’t leave the room to wash your face. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OPPORTUNITY

Unknown Source: When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: STRATEGIES

Unknown Source: When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CUSTOM, POLITENESS

Unknown Source: When two egoists meet, it becomes a situation of an I for an I. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EGOTISM

Unknown Source: When two languages bump into each other, they borrow stuff. We call it borrowing, except words don't need to be returned. Sharing is what makes the world go round. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LANGUAGE, SHARING

Unknown Source: When we show respect for other living things, they show respect for us. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MUTUALITY, RECIPROCITY

Unknown Source: When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING, LIFE

Unknown Source: When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost; When character is lost, all is lost! (Unknown Source: ) Categories: CHARACTER

Unknown Source: When you change the way you view things, the things you look at change. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PERCEPTION

Unknown Source: When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ASSISTANCE, BENEFITS, SOLUTIONS

Unknown Source: When you don't know what harbor you're aiming for, no wind is the right wind. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOALS, PLANNING

Unknown Source: When you drink the water, you must remember the spring. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ANCESTORS

Unknown Source: When you eat the fruit, don’t forget who planted the tree. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Unknown Source: When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HOPE, PERSEVERANCE

Unknown Source: When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ARGUMENT, BLAME

Unknown Source: When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOALS, SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Unknown Source: When you say ignorant things about women in power, they don’t hear you. But your daughters do. Your mother does. Your sisters and nieces hear you too. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GENDER, IMPACT, WOMEN, UTTERANCES

Unknown Source: Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NATURE, TECHNOLOGY

Unknown Source: Whenever we exploit the earth, we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich; it is a way to be rich. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ENVIRONMENT

Unknown Source: Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, neither persons nor property will be safe. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: SECURITY

Unknown Source: Where there is no vision, the people perish. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: VISION

Unknown Source: Where there's a will, I want to be in it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INHERITANCE

Unknown Source: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RUMORS, INDICATIONS, WRONGDOING

Unknown Source: Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: KINDNESS

Unknown Source: While living in a different culture, you may not always have ready access to a mirror, but it’s likely to be one of the most reflective times of your life. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIVERSITY, TRAVEL

Unknown Source: White silence—white consent. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RACISM

Unknown Source: Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXPERIENCE, TASTE

Unknown Source: Who lies for you will lie against you. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LIES

Unknown Source: Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GOSSIP

Unknown Source: Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GENDER

Unknown Source: Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BUDGETING, MONEY

Unknown Source: Wickedness never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GUILT, JUSTICE, WICKEDNESS

Unknown Source: Widowers are often looking for "a nurse with a purse." (Unknown Source: ) Categories: NEEDS, WIDOWERS, WISHES

Unknown Source: Wisdom is having a lot to say and not always saying it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: PRUDENCE, WISDOM

Unknown Source: Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: UNDERSTANDING, WISDOM

Unknown Source: Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: FRIENDSHIP

Unknown Source: Wit is far more often a shield than a lance. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WIT

Unknown Source: With our loved one’s passing, heaven gained another angel. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EULOGY, MEMORIAL

Unknown Source: Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORDS

Unknown Source: Words should be weighed and not counted. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORDS

Unknown Source: Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORDS

Unknown Source: Work hard in your silence. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DILIGENCE, HUMILITY

Unknown Source: Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORRY

Unknown Source: Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORRY

Unknown Source: Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORRYING

Unknown Source: Worrying won’t stop the bad stuff from happening. It just stops you from enjoying the good. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORRY

Unknown Source: Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORRYING

Unknown Source: Worrying works. 90% of what I worry about never happens. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WORRY, WORRYING

Unknown Source: Wrinkles are the service stripes of life. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WRINKLES

Unknown Source: Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WRITING

Unknown Source: You are my other me, we are mirrors of each other. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you, I love and respect myself. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: HUMANKIND, MUTUALITY, UBUNTU

Unknown Source: You can only move forward until you get out of reverse, such as through the Truth and Reconciliation process. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: RECONCILIATION

Unknown Source: You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him/her. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COURAGE

Unknown Source: You can use books to install new software into your brain. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BOOKS, TECHNOLOGY

Unknown Source: You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EVIL, VICE

Unknown Source: You can't get blood out of a turnip. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: REALITY

Unknown Source: You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: REALITY

Unknown Source: You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AWARENESS

Unknown Source: You cannot have your cake and eat it too. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: BENEFITS, DECISIONS

Unknown Source: You cannot make a crab walk straight. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: OBSTINACY, REALITY

Unknown Source: You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DECISIONS, ASSETS

Unknown Source: You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: WRITING

Unknown Source: You don't have to know where you're going, as long as you're on your way. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: EXPLORATION, PURSUITS

Unknown Source: You don't know a spouse until you divorce him or her. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIVORCE

Unknown Source: You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MARRIAGE

Unknown Source: You have to have an egg to make an omelet (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INVESTMENT

Unknown Source: You know it's time for change when children act like leaders and leaders act like children. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Unknown Source: You know you’ve grown up when a nap is no longer a punishment but a reward. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGING, NAPPING

Unknown Source: You live a new life for every new language you speak. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DIVERSITY, LANGUAGE, RENEWAL

Unknown Source: You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LEADERSHIP

Unknown Source: You never feel so alive as when you are close to death. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DYING

Unknown Source: You should make the most of this time and place in your life, for never again will you inhabit an environment so challenging and yet so nurturing, so rigorous and yet so forgiving. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: ACTION, INVOLVEMENT

Unknown Source: You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: MATURATION, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Unknown Source: You, yourself, must make the effort. The buddhas are only teachers. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: INITIATIVE, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY

Unknown Source: Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: GENERATIONS

Unknown Source: Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: COURAGE, EXPLORATION, RISK

Unknown Source: Your debt Is someone else’s asset. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: DEBTS

Unknown Source: Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LIFE, PAST

Unknown Source: Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: AGGRESSION

Unknown Source: Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. (Unknown Source: ) Categories: LOVE

Unruh, Jesse: Money is the mother's milk of politics. (Jesse Unruh: U.S. Democratic politician, 1922-1987) Categories: MONEY, POLITICS

Updike, John: Sex is like money; only too much is enough. (John Updike: U.S. novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic, and one of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, 1932-2009) Categories: MONEY, SEX

Updike, John: That’s one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics. (John Updike: U.S. novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic, and one of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, 1932-2009) Categories: POLITICS (U.S.A.)

Updike, John: There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. (John Updike: U.S. novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic, and one of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, 1932-2009) Categories: COMMUNICATION, WORDS

Updike, John: We are most alive when we're in love. (John Updike: U.S. novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic, and one of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, 1932-2009) Categories: LIFE, ROMANCE

U.S. Army Slogan: The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. (U.S. Army Slogan: ) Categories: CHALLENGES

U.S. Proverb: Idle people have the least leisure. (U.S. Proverb: ) Categories: IDLENESS

U.S. Proverb: Loose lips sink ships. (U.S. Proverb: ) Categories: COMMUNICATION, GOSSIP

U.S. Proverb: No good deed goes unpunished. (U.S. Proverb: ) Categories: CONSEQUENCES, MORALITY, MISREPRESENTATION, RENUNCIATION

U.S. Proverb: They that dance must pay the fiddler. (U.S. Proverb: ) Categories: CONSEQUENCES

Ustinov, Peter: Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004) Categories: COMEDY, HUMOR

Ustinov, Peter: Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. (Peter Ustinov, actor, writer and director (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004) Categories: LOVE

Ustinov, Peter: Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. (Peter Ustinov, actor, writer, and director (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004) Categories:

Ustinov, Peter: Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well. (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004) Categories: LEARNING, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, WELL-BEING

Ustinov, Peter: Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004) Categories: PARENTHOOD

Ustinov, Peter: Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. (Peter Ustinov: British actor, writer, filmmaker, columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter, 1921-2004) Categories: DREAMS, NIGHTMARES

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