| Date |
Thought |
Author |
Author's
Title |
03/08/2005 |
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
British Prime Minister |
03/09/2005 |
Pray not for a lighter load, but for stronger shoulders. |
St. Augustine (354-386 A.D.) |
Carthaginian author, saint and Church father |
03/10/2005 |
Doing the hard thing and doing the right thing is often the same thing. |
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03/11/2005 |
Success is a journey, not a destination. |
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03/12/2005 |
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." |
Will Rogers |
American humorist |
03/13/2005 |
"You cannot fail unless you quit." |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th. U.S. President |
03/14/2005 |
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." |
Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.) |
Greek orator |
03/15/2005 |
"Inspiration and genius -- one and the same." |
Victor Hugo |
French poet, novelist and playwright |
03/16/2005 |
"The power of imagination makes us infinite." |
John Muir |
American naturalist |
03/17/2005 |
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. |
Italian Proverb |
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03/18/2005 |
"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can." |
Thomas Carlyle |
Scottish author |
03/19/2005 |
Let thy words be few. |
Ecclesiastes 5:2 |
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03/20/2005 |
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." |
George Herman Ruth |
"The Babe" |
03/21/2005 |
"If at first you don't succeed, then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it." |
W.C. Fields |
American actor and comedian |
03/22/2005 |
"Never say more than is necessary." |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
English dramatist and politician |
03/23/2005 |
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." |
Mahatma Ghandi |
Indian ascetic & politician |
03/24/2005 |
"That which does not kill you makes you stronger." |
Neitzsche |
German philosopher |
03/25/2005 |
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. |
Chinese Proverb |
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03/26/2005 |
Success is getting what you want, happiness is liking what you get. |
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03/27/2005 |
"One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure." |
William Feather |
American author and publisher |
03/28/2005 |
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure. |
The Master Adjuster |
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03/29/2005 |
If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be part of someone else's. |
Proverb |
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03/30/2005 |
Only as high as you reach, can you grow. Only as far as you seek, can you go. Only asdeep as you look, can you see. Only as much as you dream, can you be. |
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03/31/2005 |
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." |
Andrew Jackson |
7th. U.S. President |
04/01/2005 |
"Little friends may prove great friends." |
Aesop (550 B.C.) |
Greek slave and fable author |
04/02/2005 |
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust," |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
American author & physician |
04/03/2005 |
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored." |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th. U.S. President |
04/04/2005 |
"We are not amused." |
Queen Victoria |
Comment, upon seeing an imitation of herself by her groom |
04/05/2005 |
"Knowledge is power. --- Num et ipsa scientia potestas est." |
Francis Bacon |
English author & philosopher |
04/06/2005 |
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." |
William Shakespeare |
English dramatist and poet |
04/07/2005 |
"Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers." |
Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801 |
German poet and physiognomist |
04/08/2005 |
"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd. U.S. President |
04/09/2005 |
"They can because they think they can." |
Virgil (70 - 19 B.C.) |
Roman epic poet |
04/10/2005 |
"Try not to become a man of success but a man of value." |
Albert Einstein |
Theoretical physicist |
04/11/2005 |
"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else." |
Yogi Berra |
New York Yankee catcher |
04/12/2005 |
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
American poet and essayist |
04/13/2005 |
"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once." |
Samuel Smiles |
Scottish author |
04/14/2005 |
"The first and greatest commandment is, don't let them scare you." |
Elmer Davis |
American newspaperman |
04/15/2005 |
"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." |
Herman Wouk |
American novelist |
04/16/2005 |
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." |
Mark Twain |
American author and humorist |
04/17/2005 |
Forgive and forget. |
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04/18/2005 |
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." |
George Orwell |
English essayist, novelist & satirist |
04/19/2005 |
"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." |
Ogden Nash |
Americam humorist & poet |
04/20/2005 |
"A goosegirl ermined is a goosegirl still, And geese will gabble everywhere she goes." |
Dorothy E. Reid |
American poet |
04/21/2005 |
"Baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we like it." |
Fulton John Sheen |
Catholic Bishop |
04/22/2005 |
"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?" |
James Thurber |
American author, cartoonist and humorist |
04/23/2005 |
"I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was." |
Mae West |
American actress |
04/24/2005 |
"Conform and be dull." |
J. Frank Dobie |
American folklorist |
04/25/2005 |
"Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way." |
Isaac Goldberg |
American critic |
04/26/2005 |
"Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, -- conscience." |
George Washington |
1st. U.S. President |
04/27/2005 |
"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last." |
Publilius Syrus |
1st. century Roman slave & poet |
04/28/2005 |
"To be loved, be lovable." |
Ovid (43 B.C. - 18 A.D.) |
Roman poet |
04/29/2005 |
"Be favorable to bold beginnings." |
Virgil (70 - 19 B.C.) |
Roman epic poet |
04/30/2005 |
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." |
Walt Whitman |
American poet |
05/01/2005 |
" I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself." |
D.H. Lawrence |
English novelist |
05/02/2005 |
"The little Reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over." |
Aesop |
Greek slave and fabulist |
05/03/2005 |
"Carriages without horses shall go, and accidents fill the world with woe." |
Mother Shipton |
17th Century Prophetess |
05/04/2005 |
"There is no indispensible man." |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd. U.S. President |
05/05/2005 |
"A Christian is a man who feels repentence on a Sunday, for what he did on Saturday, and is going to do on Monday." |
Thomas Russell Ybarra |
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05/06/2005 |
"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news." |
John B. Bogart |
19th Century editor of the New York Sun |
05/07/2005 |
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep." |
Arab Proverb |
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05/08/2005 |
"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber." |
Benjamin Franklin |
American statesman, printer, scientist, inventor, philosopher, musician, economist, author and Founding Father |
05/09/2005 |
A half-truth, when it produces a false conclusion is a deceptive lie. |
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05/10/2005 |
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. |
Indian Proverb |
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05/11/2005 |
Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. |
Spanish Proverb |
When love is not madness, it is not love. |
05/12/2005 |
Deliberate often -- decide once. |
Latin Proverb |
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05/13/2005 |
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and all good things will be yours. |
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05/14/2005 |
"A big book is a big nuisance." |
Callimachus (260 B.C.) |
The "Founding Father" of libriarians |
05/15/2005 |
I'm lost, I've gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, please ask me to wait. |
The Master Adjuster |
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05/16/2005 |
"When I want to read a novel, I write one." |
Benjamin Disraeli |
British Prime Minister |
05/17/2005 |
It ain't over till it's over." |
Yogi Berra |
New York Yankees catcher |
05/18/2005 |
"Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game." |
Winston Churchill |
British Prime Minister |
05/19/2005 |
"Life is a trajedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think." |
Jean de la Bruyere |
French writer and moralist |
05/20/2005 |
"Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other." |
Thomas Fuller |
English clergyman |
05/21/2005 |
"The future depends on what we do in the present." |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader |
05/22/2005 |
"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience." |
Elbert Hubbard |
American author |
05/23/2005 |
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." |
Albert Einstein |
Theoretical physicist and Time Magazine "Person of the Century' |
05/24/2005 |
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
American essayist & poet |
05/25/2005 |
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." |
Plato (427--347 B.C. |
Greek author & philosopher |
05/26/2005 |
"Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent." |
Dionysius The Elder (430--367 B.C.) |
Greek general, tyrant & patron of the arts |
05/27/2005 |
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living." |
Socrates (470--309 B.C.) |
Greek philosopher |
05/28/2005 |
The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. |
Danish Proverb |
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05/29/2005 |
"An honest business never blush to tell." |
Homer (850 B.C.) |
Greek epic poet |
05/30/2005 |
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her." |
W.C. Fields |
American comedian |
05/31/2005 |
"Whether you think you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." |
Henry Ford |
American auto maker |
06/01/2005 |
"Tell the men to fire faster and not give up the ship; fight her till she sinks." |
Commander James Lawrence U.S.N. |
June 1, 1813 |
06/02/2005 |
"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath." |
Aeschylus (525--456 B.C.) |
Greek trajic dramatist |
06/03/2005 |
"Little by little does the trick." |
Aesop |
Greek slave and fabulist |
06/04/2005 |
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." |
Herm Albright |
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06/05/2005 |
"Give me chastity and continence -- but not yet." |
St. Augustine |
Carthaginian author and Church Father |
06/06/2005 |
"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all." |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
06/07/2005 |
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." |
Winston Churchill |
British Prime Minister |
06/08/2005 |
" I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd. U.S. President |
06/09/2005 |
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again." |
Franklin P. Jones |
American humorist |
06/10/2005 |
"You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven, okay?" |
Dennis Miller |
American comedian |
06/11/2005 |
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception." |
Groucho Marx |
American comedian |
06/12/2005 |
"Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new." |
Francis Bacon |
Lord Chancellor of England, author, philosopher and father if inductive reasoning |
06/13/2005 |
"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either." |
Dick Cavett |
American talk show host and comedian |
06/14/2005 |
"In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards." |
Mark Twain |
American author and humorist |
06/15/2005 |
"That ain't the way to spell my name." |
Yogi Berra |
After getting a check that read 'Pay to Bearer' |
06/16/2005 |
Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. |
Chinese Proverb |
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06/17/2005 |
"A bad beginning makes a bad ending." |
Euripides (484--406 B.C.) |
Greek trajic dramatist |
06/18/2005 |
"Diplomacy is the art if saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock." |
Will Rogers |
American humorist |
06/19/2005 |
"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." |
Groucho Marx |
American comedian |
06/20/2005 |
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one." |
George Washington |
1st. U.S. President |
06/21/2005 |
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th. U.S. President |
06/22/2005 |
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." |
Vince Lombardi |
American football coach |
06/23/2005 |
"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." |
Jack London |
American author |
06/24/2005 |
" I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." |
Rodney Dangerfield |
American comedian |
06/25/2005 |
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day." |
Emily Dickinson |
American poet |
06/26/2005 |
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." |
Walt Disney |
Studio head and Ruler of the Magic Kingdom |
06/27/2005 |
"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information." |
Benjamin Disraeli |
British Prime Minister |
06/28/2005 |
"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." |
Mike Ditka |
American professional football coach |
06/29/2005 |
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." |
Frederic Douglass |
American abolitionist |
06/30/2005 |
"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficut for people to work." |
Peter Drucker |
American teacher and management consultant |
07/01/2005 |
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." |
Jimmy Durante |
American comedian |
07/02/2005 |
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." |
Bob Dylan |
American songwriter and musician |
07/03/2005 |
"Results, why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." |
Thomas Edison |
American inventor |
07/04/2005 |
Happy 4th of July! |
Factel Staff |
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07/05/2005 |
"Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find -- nothing." |
Aesop |
Greek slave and fabulist |
07/06/2005 |
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." |
Albert Einstein |
Theoretical physicist |
07/07/2005 |
"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
34th U.S. President |
07/08/2005 |
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." |
Duke Ellington |
American composer |
07/09/2005 |
"Talkers are no good doers." |
William Shakespeare |
British playwright |
07/10/2005 |
Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping. |
Latin Proverb |
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07/11/2005 |
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." |
W.C. Fields |
American comedian |
07/12/2005 |
"Fortune favors the brave." |
Virgil |
Roman epic poet |
07/13/2005 |
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." |
Aesop |
Greek slave and fabulist |
07/14/2005 |
"Nothing endures but change." |
Heraclitus (540-480 B.C.) |
Greek Philosopher |
07/15/2005 |
"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come." |
Lee Iacocca |
American business executive |
07/16/2005 |
"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself." |
Robert Ingersoll |
19th. Century American orator and political speechwriter |
07/17/2005 |
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." |
Frank Zappa |
American musician |
07/18/2005 |
"That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure." |
Madonna |
American singer |
07/19/2005 |
Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls |
Philippine Proverb |
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07/20/2005 |
"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." |
W. Somerset Maugham |
English dramatist and novelist |
07/21/2005 |
"The simple solution for disappointment, depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going." |
Peter McWilliams |
American author and publisher |
07/22/2005 |
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." |
Thomas Paine |
American Patriot |
07/23/2005 |
"Men seldom make passes -- at girls who wear glasses |
Dorothy Parker |
American author, humorist and poet |
07/24/2005 |
"Delay is preferable to error." |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd. U.S. President |
07/25/2005 |
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." |
Yogi Berra |
New York Yankees catcher |
07/26/2005 |
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." |
Albert Einstein |
Theoretical physicist |
07/27/2005 |
"They say marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightening." |
Clint Eastwood |
American actor and movie director |
07/28/2005 |
"Gluttony is not a secret vice." |
Orson Welles |
American actor and director |
07/29/2005 |
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." |
Dale Carnegie |
American author and self-improvement pioneer |
07/30/2005 |
"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Speak for yourself. Act for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide." |
Marva Collins |
American educator |
07/31/2005 |
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." |
John Wayne |
American actor |
08/01/2005 |
"He who will not economize will have to agonize." |
Confucius (551 - 479 B.C.) |
Chinese philosopher |
08/02/2005 |
After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done. |
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08/03/2005 |
"There's a sucker born every minute." |
P.T. Barnum (attributed) |
American showman and marketing genius |
08/04/2005 |
Barnum was wrong -- it's more like every 30 seconds. |
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08/05/2005 |
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. |
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08/06/2005 |
"Please all, and you will please none." |
Aesop |
Greek slave and fabulist |
08/07/2005 |
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I have others." |
Groucho Marx |
American comedian |
08/08/2005 |
Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. |
The Master Adjuster |
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08/09/2005 |
"What, me worry?" |
Alfred E. Neuman |
Mad magazine cover boy |
08/10/2005 |
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it." |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd. U.S. President |
08/11/2005 |
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." |
Ovid (43 B.C.- 17 A.D.) |
Roman poet |
08/12/2005 |
"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." |
Ayn Rand |
Russian-Americam author and philosopher |
08/13/2005 |
"They do not love that do not show their love." |
William Shakespeare |
British playwright |
08/14/2005 |
"Never apologize for showing feeling, when you do you apologize for truth." |
Benjamin Disraeli |
British Prime Minister |
08/15/2005 |
"The hardest thing about flying is the ground." |
Charles Kingsford Smith |
Australian aviation pioneer |
08/16/2005 |
"Too much of a good thing is wonderful." |
Mae West |
American actress |
08/17/2005 |
"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason." |
Publius Syrus (42 A.D.) |
Latin writer of mimes |
08/18/2005 |
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone." |
Henrik Ibsen |
Norwegian dramatist |
08/19/2005 |
"Don't look back: Something may be gaining on you." |
Satchel Paige |
Cleveland Indians pitcher |
08/20/2005 |
"Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." |
George S. Patton |
American General |
08/21/2005 |
"As ill will comes from opposition, so goodwill increases love." |
Ptahhotep (2414-2375 B.C.) |
Egyptian Vizier, thought to be the first recorded author |
08/22/2005 |
"Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third." |
Knute Rockne |
American football coach |
08/23/2005 |
"A woman is like a tea bag -- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
First Lady of the United States and human rights activist |
08/24/2005 |
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th. U.S. President |
08/25/2005 |
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." |
Will Rogers |
American humorist |
08/26/2005 |
"Never answer an anonymous letter." |
Yogi Berra |
New York Yankees catcher |
08/27/2005 |
"My favorite quote is 'The Golden Rule.' My least favorite quote is an insurance quote." |
Bob Moran |
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08/28/2005 |
"The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit." |
Aesop |
Greek skave and fabulist |
08/29/2005 |
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are." |
W. Somerset Maugham |
British short story writer and playwright |
08/30/2005 |
"I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake -- which I also keep handy." |
W.C. Fields |
On the subject of drinking. |
08/31/2005 |
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." |
Bertrand Russell |
British author & philosopher |
09/01/2005 |
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd. U.S. President |
09/02/2005 |
"If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice." |
Heraclitus (Circa 513 B.C.) |
Greek philosopher |
09/03/2005 |
"I have not lost my mind -- it's backed up on disk somewhere." |
The Master Adjuster |
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09/04/2005 |
"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care." |
William Safire |
American columnist & speechwriter |
09/05/2005 |
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." |
George Santayana |
American Philospher |
09/06/2005 |
"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." |
Pete Seeger |
American folksinger and enviornmentalist |
09/07/2005 |
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties." |
Aesop |
Greek slave and fabulist |
09/08/2005 |
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." |
Peter Drucker |
American teacher and management consultant |
09/09/2005 |
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist |
09/10/2005 |
"If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg." |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th. U.S. President |
09/11/2005 |
"Lets roll." |
Todd Beamer |
September 11, 2001 |
09/12/2005 |
"God bless America, land that I love; Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with a light from above." |
Irving Berlin |
American song writer |
09/13/2005 |
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." |
George Washington |
1st. U.S. President |
09/14/2005 |
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd. U.S. President |
09/15/2005 |
"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do -- lose." |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
34th. U.S. President |
09/16/2005 |
"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." |
Albert Einstein |
Theoretical physicist |
09/17/2005 |
"The devil can cite scripture for his purpose." |
William Shakespeare |
British playwright |
09/18/2005 |
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd. U.S. President |
09/19/2005 |
"Carry the battle to them, don't let them bring it to you." |
Harry S. Truman |
33rd. U.S. President |
09/20/2005 |
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
French general and Emperor |
09/21/2005 |
"If I had the chance, I'd do something about it." |
Muhammad Ali |
September 21, 2001 |
09/22/2005 |
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." |
Douglas MacArthur |
American Army General |
09/23/2005 |
"I have not yet begun to fight." |
John Paul Jones |
September 23, 1779 |
09/24/2005 |
"The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever." |
Elizabeth, Queen Mother of England |
Answer to query regarding the princesses leaving England after the bombing of Buckingham Palace in 1940 |
09/25/2005 |
" The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." |
Ernest Hemingway |
American writer |
09/26/2005 |
"Guns are left to do what words might have done earlier, properly used." |
John Waller |
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09/27/2005 |
"War is a contagion." |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd. U.S. President |
09/28/2005 |
" I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." |
Albert Einstein |
Theoretical physicist |
09/29/2005 |
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." |
Benjamin Franklin |
Founding father, diplomat, printer and inventor |
09/30/2005 |
"Man must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." |
John F. Kennedy |
35th. U.S. President |
10/01/2005 |
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." |
Will Rogers |
American humorist |
10/02/2005 |
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." |
Thomas Edison |
American inventor |
10/03/2005 |
"Do you mean now?" |
Yogi Berra |
When asked what time it is |
10/04/2005 |
"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th. U.S. President |
10/05/2005 |
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." |
Hunter S. Thompson |
American writer |
10/06/2005 |
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." |
Gloria Steinem |
American feminist |
10/07/2005 |
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." |
Mark Twain |
American writer |
10/08/2005 |
"Put your shoulder to the wheel." |
Aesop |
Greek slave and fabulist |
10/09/2005 |
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." |
Confucius (551-479 B.C.) |
Chinese philosopher |
10/10/2005 |
"The color of justice is green." |
Johnny L. Cochran, Jr. |
Attorney |
10/11/2005 |
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." |
Mark Twain |
American writer |
10/12/2005 |
"A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder." |
Chester A. Nimitz |
U.S. Navy Admiral |
10/13/2005 |
"I have not failed 10,000 times. I have sucessfully found 10,000 ways that it will not work." |
Thomas Edison |
American inventor |
10/14/2005 |
"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." |
Marion Barry |
Mayor of Washington D.C. |
10/15/2005 |
"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." |
Dan Quayle |
U.S. Vice President |
10/16/2005 |
"It's better to be prepared and not get the opportunity than to get the opportunity and not be prepared." |
George S. Patton |
U.S. Army General |
10/17/2005 |
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." |
Dorothy Parker |
American columnist, poet, writer and critic |
10/18/2005 |
"If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number? |
Robin Williams |
American actor and comedian |
10/19/2005 |
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." |
P.J. O'Rourke |
American Journalist and humorist |
10/20/2005 |
"It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time." |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th. U.S. President |
10/21/2005 |
"If opera is entertainment, then falling off a roof is transportation!" |
Alfred E. Neuman |
Mad magazine cover boy |
10/22/2005 |
"Character is fate." |
Heraclitus |
Greek philosopher |
10/23/2005 |
We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. |
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10/24/2005 |
"All doors open to courtesy." |
Thomas Fuller |
British clergyman, author |
10/25/2005 |
"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." |
Martha Washington |
First First Lady of the United States |
10/26/2005 |
Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night. |
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10/27/2005 |
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." |
Anais Nin |
American novelist, dancer |
10/28/2005 |
"A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get up." |
Evel Knievel |
American daredevil |
10/29/2005 |
"It is possible to fail in many ways ... while to succeed is possible only in one way." |
Aristotle |
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10/30/2005 |
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done." |
Fred Allen |
U.S. radio comedian |
10/31/2005 |
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." |
Woody Allen |
U.S movie actor, director and comedian |
11/01/2005 |
"You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart if you want it to work." |
Susannah Clark |
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11/02/2005 |
"If you don't vote, you don't count." |
Vernon Dahmer |
Civil Rights Activist murdered by the KKK |
11/03/2005 |
"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." |
Laurence J. Peter |
U.S. educator and writer |
11/04/2005 |
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." |
Mario Andretti |
U.S. automobile racer |
11/05/2005 |
"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes." |
William Bennett |
U.S. government official |
11/06/2005 |
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think." |
Mortimer Adler |
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11/07/2005 |
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered." |
Aeschylus |
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11/08/2005 |
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." |
Willis Whitney |
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11/09/2005 |
"When the Hare awoke from his nap, he saw the Tortoise just near the winning post. Plodding wins the race." |
Aesop |
Greek slave and fabulist |
11/10/2005 |
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." |
John Wooden |
American basketball coach |
11/11/2005 |
"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred." |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd. U.S. President |
11/12/2005 |
"The important thing is not to stop questioning." |
Albert Einstein |
Theoretical physicist |
11/13/2005 |
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force." |
Aesop |
Greek slave and fabulist |
11/14/2005 |
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." |
Hunter S. Thompson |
American writer |
11/15/2005 |
"I don't want to make the wrong mistake." |
Yogi Berra |
New York Yankees catcher |
11/16/2005 |
"What counts is not necesarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
34th. U.S. President |
11/17/2005 |
"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it's positive or negative." |
W. Clement Stone |
American businessman |
11/18/2005 |
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." |
Henry David Thoreau |
American writer |
11/19/2005 |
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. |
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11/20/2005 |
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." |
Eric Hoffer |
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11/21/2005 |
"To tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." |
Mark Twain |
American author |
11/22/2005 |
"Great effort springs naturally from great attitude." |
Pat Riley |
American basketball coach |
11/23/2005 |
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." |
Bill Cosby |
American comedian |
11/24/2005 |
"Tomorrow is promised to no one." |
Clint Eastwood |
From the film 'Absolute Power' |
11/25/2005 |
"No! Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." |
Yoda |
From the film 'The empire Strikes Back' |
11/26/2005 |
"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." |
Charlotte Whitton |
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11/27/2005 |
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." |
William Shakespeare |
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11/28/2005 |
"If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at any time in your life." |
Cher |
American singer/actress |
11/29/2005 |
"Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it." |
Irving Berlin |
American composer |
11/30/2005 |
"A short saying oft contains much wisdom." |
Sophocles (496 - 406 B.C.) |
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12/01/2005 |
"If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect." |
Ted Turner |
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12/02/2005 |
"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical." |
Yogi Berra |
New York Yankees catcher |
12/03/2005 |
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd. U.S. President |
12/04/2005 |
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." |
Albert Einstein |
Theoretical physicist |
12/05/2005 |
"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." |
William Shakespeare |
British playwright |
12/06/2005 |
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." |
Hunter S. Thompson |
American author |
12/07/2005 |
"If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf." |
Thomas Fuller |
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12/08/2005 |
"Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein." |
Joe Theismann |
American football player |
12/09/2005 |
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." |
Helen Keller |
American blind/deaf author |
12/10/2005 |
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults." |
Socrates |
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12/11/2005 |
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." |
Dan Quayle |
American politician |
12/12/2005 |
"To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage or of principle." |
Confucius |
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12/13/2005 |
"This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." |
Mary Pickford |
American actress |
12/14/2005 |
"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish." |
Quintilian |
Roman rhetorician |
12/15/2005 |
"The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time." |
Vince Lombardi |
American football coach |
12/16/2005 |
"Incompetants invariably make trouble for people other than themselves." |
Larry McMurtry |
American author |
12/17/2005 |
"Well done is better than well said." |
Benjamin Franklin |
American statesman |
12/18/2005 |
"If you treat people right they will treat you right -- ninety percent of the time." |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd. U.S. President |
12/19/2005 |
"I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high." |
Wilbur Wright |
American avaition pioneer, on declining to make a speech |
12/20/2005 |
"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them." |
Rita Rudner |
American comedian |
12/21/2005 |
"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill." |
Charles Swindall |
American pastor, author |
12/22/2005 |
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; ... |
Major Harry Livingston, Jr. (1748-1828) |
An account of a visit from St. Nicholas |
12/23/2005 |
... "Now DASHER now, DANCER! now, PRANCER and VIXEN! On, COMET! on CUPID on, DONDER and BLITZEN! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away!dash away!dash away all!" ... |
ibid |
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12/24/2005 |
... He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down from a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT! |
ibid |
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12/25/2005 |
Merry Christmas to you! |
Factel Staff |
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12/26/2005 |
Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. |
Chinese Proverb |
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12/27/2005 |
"My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never." |
Bela Karolyi |
Gymnastic coach |
12/28/2005 |
"Don't be so humble, you are not that great." |
Golda Meir |
Prime Minister of Israel (to a visiting diplomat) |
12/29/2005 |
"All I want is to enter my house justified." |
Joel McCrea |
From the film 'Ride The High Country' |
12/30/2005 |
"I'll moider da bum." |
Boxer 'Two-Ton' Tony Galento |
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare |
12/31/2005 |
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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