| 1. When goods do not
cross borders, soldiers will. - Frederic Bastiat |
2. Creativity is allowing
yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams |
| 3. A desk is a dangerous
place from which to view the world. - John le Carre |
4. Some people pay a
compliment as if they expected a receipt. - Kin Hubbard |
| 5. Good manners are like
traffic rules for society. - Michael Levine |
6. Men are like steel.
When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
- Chuck Norris |
| 7. Swing hard, in case
they throw the ball where you're swinging. - Duke Snider |
8. A good example is
like a bell that calls many to church. - Danish proverb |
| 9. Dreams that do come
true can be as unsettling as those that don't. - Brett Butler |
10. The best security
blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
- Jan Blaustone |
| 11. Frienship is certainly
the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen |
12. What really flatters
a man is that you think him worth flattering. - George Bernard Shaw |
| 13. You can't stay mad
at somebody who makes you laugh. - Jay Leno |
14. Today everything
exists to end in a photograph. - Susan Sontag |
| 15. No bubble is so iridescent
or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. - Sir William
Osler |
16. Some are born great,
some achieve greatness, and some hire public-relations writers. - Daniel
J. Boorstin |
| 17. Ultimately, the only
power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- Elie Wiesel |
18. There is no king
who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had
a king among his.
- Helen Keller |
| 19. I have one request:
May I never use my reason against truth. - Elie Wiesel |
20. When you can't have
what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
- Kathleen A. Sutton |
21. There is no shortage
of good days. It is good lives thet are hard to come by.
- Annie Dillard |
22. Making long-term
decisions requires short-term difficulties. - Larry Demarest |
23. A bone to the dog
is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just
as hungry as the dog.
- Jack London |
24. There are three ways
to get something done; Do it yourself, employ someone or forbid your children
to do it.
- Monta Crane |
25. It is better to ask
some of the questions than to know all the answers.
- James Thurber |
26. Wildflowers don't
care where they grow. - Dolly Parton |
27. Good teaching is
one fourth preparation and three fourths theatre.
- Gall Godwin |
28. There are no speed
limits on the road to excellence. - David W. Johnson |
29. Among my most-prized
possessions are words that I have never spoken.
- Orson Rega Card |
30. The wheel was invented
so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to. - Cullen
Hightower |
| 31. Any jackass can kick
a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it. - Sam Rayburn |
32. Why not go out on
a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? - Frank Scully |
33. April is nature's
reveille of the year.
- Bern Williams |
34. The most important
trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. - Henry Boye |
| 35. There are two situations
that make interesting stories: when an extraordinary person is plunged
into the commonplace, and when an ordinary person gets involved in extraordinary
events. - Sister Helen Prejean, ("Dead Man Walking") |
36.There is nothing like
returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourselfhave altered.
- Nelson Mandela |
| 37. High station in life
is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived
with grace. -Tennessee Willjams (Memoirs) |
38. History, although
sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by
the many acts of the small.
- Mark Yost |
| 39. Statesman rise and
fall on the smallest of actions. - Mark Helprin |
40. Income-tax time is
when you test your powers of deduction. - Shelby Friedman |
| 41. Money and success
don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there - Will Smith |
42. Fear and' hope are
alike underneath.
- Richard Ford ("Independence
Day") |
| 43. Persistence is the
twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter
of time. - Marabel Morgan ("The Electric Woman") |
44. Never let a problem
to be solved become more important than a person to be loved - Barbara
Johnson |
| 45. There is always one
moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. - Graham
Greene ("The Power and the Glory") |
46. The attempt to silence
a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize
his superiority to yourself.- Joseph Sobran |
47. In politics, there's
a fine line between too much conviction and too little.
- Robert J. Samuelson |
48. The leadership instinct
you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone
that go with it. - Elaine Agather |
| 49. Happiness is different
from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring
and
accomplishing - George Sheehan |
50. Treat a person as
he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will
become what he should be. - Jimmy Johnson |