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Collected Thoughts

Date Thought Author Author's
Title

01/01

Happy New Year! Factel Staff  

01/02

"Happiness that is shared goes undiminished" Siddhartha Buddah 560-480 B.C. Founder of Buddhism

01/03

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." Albert Schweitzer  

01/04

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument." William G. McAdoo  

01/05

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness." Thomas Carlyle  

01/06

Never give advice unless asked, German Proverb  

01/07

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." Harry S. Truman  

01/08

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. Spanish Proverb  

01/09

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Benjamin Franklin  

01/10

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Aristotle  

01/11

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" Edgar Bergen American entertainer

01/12

"Getting fired is natures way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place." Hal Lancaster  

01/13

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." Ogden Nash  

01/14

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison  

01/15

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." Robert Frost  

01/16

"Drive-in banks were created so most of the cars today could see their real owners." J. Joseph Crossman  

01/17

"There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee." Lester J. Pourciau  

01/18

"Conceit is God's gift to little men." Bruce Barton  

01/19

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." Anne Frank (1929-1945)  

01/20

"Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard." Phocylides  

01/21

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do." Dale Carnegie  

01/22

"Procrastination is the thief of time." Edward Young  

01/23

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." Mark Twain  

01/24

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." Syrus 42 B.C.  

01/25

"Never mistake motion for action." Ernest Hemingway  

01/26

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." Groucho Marx  

01/27

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. English Proverb  

01/28

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." Frank Lloyd Wright  

01/29

"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." King Edward VIII (1894-1972)  

01/30

"When anger rises, think of the consequences." Confucius  

01/31

"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time." Oprah Winfrey  

02/01

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." Bertrand Russell  

02/02

"Some thing things have to be believed to be seen." Ralph Hodgson  

02/03

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." George Bernard Shaw British Author

02/04

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte  

02/05

"If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill  

02/06

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." Oscar Wilde  

02/07

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." Samuel Johnson  

02/08

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." Carl Sagan  

02/09

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix  

02/10

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault." Henry Kissinger  

02/11

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." Henry Ford  

02/12

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau  

02/13

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." Duchess of Windsor When asked for the secret of a long and happy life.

02/14

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are." Gore Vidal  

02/15

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." Socrates  

02/16

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology will exceed our humanity." Albert Einstein  

02/17

"Any man under 30, and is not liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." Winston Churchill  

02/18

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." W.B. Prescott  

02/19

"What do you take me for, an idiot?" Charles de Gaulle When asked if he was happy

02/20

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein  

02/21

"It is choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." Jean Nidetch  

02/22

"Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change." Jerry Frankhauser  

02/23

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln  

02/24

"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  

02/25

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without a clear question." Albert Camus  

02/26

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." Norman Vincent Peale  

02/27

"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better" Wendell Phillips  

02/28

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness." Josh Billings  

02/29

"The wisest man has something yet to learn." George Santayana  

03/01

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." Immanuel Kant  

03/02

"What worries you masters you." Haddon W. Robinson  

03/03

"Trust men and they will be true to you. Treat them greatly and they will show themselves great." Ralph Waldo Emerson  

03/04

"The truth is more important than the facts." Frank Lloyd Wright  

03/05

"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address." Lane Olinghouse  

03/06

"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg  

03/07

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." Horace Mann  

03/08

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?" Benjamin Franklin  

03/09

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. Scottish Proverb  

03/10

"The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra  

03/11

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." Abraham Lincoln  

03/12

"A short saying oft contains much wisdom." Sophocles (496-406 B.C.)  

03/13

"Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received." Seneca (5 B.C -65 A.D.)  

03/14

"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes, she's a tramp." Joan Rivers  

03/15

"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone." Anthony Burgess  

03/16

"When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes." Steven Wright  

03/17

"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like." Phyllis Diller  

03/18

"I wan'all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan'all the kids to copulate me" Andre Dawson Chicago Cubs outfielder

03/19

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missles and misguided men." Martin Luther King Jr.  

03/20

"The secret of success is sincerety. Once you can fake that, you've got it made." Jean Giraudoux  

03/21

"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn." George Bernard Shaw  

03/22

"Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives." Lawana Blackwell  

03/23

"Respect a man, he will do the more." James Howell  

03/24

"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics." Fletcher Knebel  

03/25

"?" (One-half of the worlds shortest correspondence) Victor Hugo On vacation after writing Les Miserables, Hugo wrote his publisher, curious about how it was selling. The reply: "!"

03/26

"If you don't risk anything you risk even more." Erica Jong  

03/27

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Mahatma Gandhi  

03/28

"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do." Henry Ford  

03/29

"Weather forecast for tonight: Dark, continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning." George Carlin  

03/30

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad - and that is my religion." Abraham Lincoln  

03/31

"Take a rest: A field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." Ovid (43 B.C. - 17 A.D.)  

04/01

"April 1 : This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four." Mark Twain  

04/02

"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs." Lily Tomlin  

04/03

"A wise man's question contains half the answer." Solomon Ibn Gabirol  

04/04

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. Chinese Proverb  

04/05

"Prejudice is opinion without judgment." Voltaire  

04/06

"I am free of all prejudice, I hate everyone equally." W.C. Fields  

04/07

"Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper." Dr. Thomas Fuller  

04/08

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." Samuel Johnson  

04/09

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business." Michael J. Fox  

04/10

"I really didn't say everything I said." Yogi Berra  

04/11

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end." Margaret Thatcher  

04/12

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin  

04/13

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." Mark Twain  

04/14

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." Moshe Dayan  

04/15

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution." Paul Gauguin  

04/16

"A goal without a plan is just a wish." Antoine de Saint Exupery  

04/17

"Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." Henry Kissinger  

04/18

"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than having no opinions at all." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg  

04/19

"I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them." George Bush  

04/20

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." Whitney Young  

04/21

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." Elvis Presley  

04/22

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." James Joyce  

04/23

"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer." Muhammad Ali  

04/24

"I hate women because they always know where things are." James Thurber  

04/25

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected." Henry Cate VII  

04/26

"Always get married early in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day." Mickey Rooney  

04/27

"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." Mark Twain  

04/28

"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place." Ice T  

04/29

"No man ever listened himself out of a job." Calvin Coolidge  

04/30

"In the beginning there was nothing. God said 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better." Ellen DeGeneres  

05/01

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." Ben Stein  

05/02

"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is." George Bernard Shaw  

05/03

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein  

05/04

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon  

05/05

"Because she is too ugly to kiss good-bye." Bum Phillips When asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all road trips

05/06

"The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe." Frank Rizzo Philadelphia Mayor and Police Chief

05/07

"Smoking kills, and if you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." Brooke Shields  

05/08

CAUTION: Cape does not enable user to fly. Batman costume warning label  

05/09

"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs." Samuel Goldwyn  

05/10

"The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightening and the lightening bug." Mark Twain  

05/11

"You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R." Dennis Miller  

05/12

If thine enemy wrongs thee, buy each of his children a drum. Chinese proverb  

05/13

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt  

05/14

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Edison  

05/15

"A leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way." John C. Maxwell  

05/16

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook." William James  

05/17

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" Robert Schuller  

05/18

"Empowerment is all about letting go so others can get going." Kenneth Blanchard  

05/19

"What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you." Wayne Dyer  

05/20

"I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets." Dave Edison  

05/21

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese Proverb  

05/22

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." Jeff Valdez  

05/23

"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces." Maureen Murphy  

05/24

"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to the facts." Mark Twain  

05/25

"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." Jackie Mason  

05/26

"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly' meaning many, and the word 'ticks', meaning blood sucking parasites." Larry Hardiman  

05/27

"Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist." Robert G. Allen  

05/28

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work." Harry Golden  

05/29

"My toughest fight was with my first wife." Muhammed Ali  

05/30

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." Benjamin Franklin  

05/31

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill  

06/01

"The mind is like a parachute, it only works when it's open." Pete Mezey  

06/02

"Have you ever noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac?" George Carlin  

06/03

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." Robert Frost  

06/04

"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." Sam Rayburn  

06/05

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." The Dalai Lama  

06/06

Talk does not cook rice Chinese Proverb  

06/07

"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night." Dave Berry  

06/08

"It is when the well is dry that we know the price of water." Benjamin Franklin  

06/09

"Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely." Kim Lyons  

06/10

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison  

06/11

"There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it." Monta Crane  

06/12

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln  

06/13

"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?" Dick Clark  

06/14

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." Jerry Seinfeld  

06/15

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul." Socrates  

06/16

"Necessity is the mother of invention." Plato  

06/17

"Getting caught is the mother of invention." Robert Byrne  

06/18

"Invention is the mother of necessity." Thorstein Veblen  

06/19

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Inetrnet, we know that is not true." Robert Wilensky  

06/20

"I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow." Woodrow Wilson  

06/21

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that knowbody's going to know whether you did it or not." Oprah Winfrey  

06/22

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain  

06/23

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back Chinese Proverb  

06/24

"Criticism is prejudice made plausable." H.L. Mencken  

06/25

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." Rita Rudner  

06/26

"You get fifteen democrats in a room and you get twenty opinions." Senator Patrick Leahy  

06/27

"Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath." Solon (683-589 B.C.)  

06/28

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." Charles Dickens  

06/29

"Crime does not pay --- as well as politics." Alfred E. Newman  

06/30

"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland." Woody Allen  

07/01

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot Italian Proverb  

07/02

"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." Mae West  

07/03

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times." Rita Rudner  

07/04

Happy 4th!    

07/05

"I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse." Mark Twain  

07/06

"Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wong." George Carlin  

07/07

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I've never tried before." Mae West  

07/08

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it." Margaret Fuller  

07/09

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln  

07/10

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." Mel Brooks  

07/11

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein  

07/12

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." Mark Twain  

07/13

"The firm, the enduring, the simple and the modest are near to virtue." Confucius  

07/14

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." H.L. Mencken  

07/15

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." John Kenneth Galbraith  

07/16

"What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?" Herb Kupcinet  

07/17

"You can't separate peace from freedom, because nobody can be at peace unless he has freedom." Malcolm X  

07/18

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for." Epicurus  

07/19

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." George Moore  

07/20

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble there's no place like home." John Howard Payne  

07/21

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." Marilyn Monroe  

07/22

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. Japanese Proverb  

07/23

"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Don't stop, it'll soon be here. It'll be better than before, yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone." Christine McVie  

07/24

"If you wake up and don't want to smile, It will take just a little while, Open your eyes and look at the day, You'll see things in a different way." Christine McVie  

07/25

"It's not best to swap horses while crossing the river." Abraham Lincoln  

07/26

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress." Frederick Douglass  

07/27

"No one wants advice -- only corroboration." John Steinbeck  

07/28

"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can." John Wesley  

07/29

Of all the strategems, to know when to quit is the best. Chinese Proverb  

07/30

"Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion" Ambrose Bierce  

07/31

"Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer and a lawyer." Mason Cooley  

08/01

"Women should have equal pay for equal work. And they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, should govern appointments and salaries." Susan B. Anthony  

08/02

"One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were, and that's what I resent. I don't know. I didn't forsee. It happened bit by bit, gradually, until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand - the people you hated when you were ten." John Lennon  

08/03

"The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn." Mason Cooley  

08/04

"In Beverly Hills .... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows." Woody Allen  

08/05

"A man's idea in a card game is war - cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary." Finley Peter Dunne  

08/06

"An angel robed in spotless white - Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night - Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone. Men saw the blush and called it dawn." Paul Laurence Dunbar  

08/07

"A man's indebtedness ... is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude." Ruth Benedict  

08/08

"Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth." Mark Twain  

08/09

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. Spanish Proverb  

08/10

"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." Mary Hirsch  

08/11

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." Mark Twain  

08/12

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." J.G. Holland  

08/13

"What a child doesn't receive, he can seldom give later." P.D. James  

08/14

"The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." Mark Twain  

08/15

"Have no friends not equal to yourself." Confucius  

08/16

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." Henry J. Kaiser  

08/17

There are always ears on the other side of the wall. Chinese Proverb  

08/18

"Admiration. Our polite recognition of another'a resemblence to ourselves." Ambrose Bierce  

08/19

"Shew me a lyar, and I'le shew thee a theefe." George Herbert Welsh poet (1593-1633)

08/20

"Courage is not limited to the battlefield or to the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are ... the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood, like fighting for what is right even when you know you are going to lose." Charles R. Swindoll  

08/21

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." Will Rogers  

08/22

"Some people see things that are and ask, why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...." George Carlin  

08/23

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Albert Einstein  

08/24

"Winning is not everything. It is the only thing." Vince Lombardi  

08/25

"I don't feel good." Luther Burbank Last words

08/26

"A man that doesn't cry doesn't have a heart." Duane 'Dog' Chapman  

08/27

"Well eccuuuuuse me!!!!" Steve Martin  

08/28

"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others." The Wizard of Oz To the Tin Man

08/29

"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -- for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more." John Lennon MBE -Member of the Order of the British Empire

08/30

"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age." Hosea Ballou  

08/31

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." Epictetus  

09/01

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple. If you find 'em, kill 'em." Loretta Lynn  

09/02

"I like terra firma. The more firma, the less terra." George S. Kaufman On flying

09/03

"The long versus the short term arguement is the one used by losers." Larry Adler American founder of Fire and All Risk Insurances

09/04

A cat that catches mice does not meow. Chinese Proverb  

09/05

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." Mother Teresa  

09/06

"Modesty is the citadel of beauty." Demades  

09/07

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." Crowfoot Blackfoot warrier and orater 1890

09/08

"It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the rest of the world -- it's the American way of looking at things." Henry Miller  

09/09

"Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children." Samuel Levenson  

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