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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.  

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