Friday 18 November 2011

Part II - A Collection of Quotes


Everyone is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. - Elbert Hubbard #quotes #quote

When a product is advertised as "new and improved" it means the price went up. - Joe Moore #humor

You can't win today's game with the points you scored yesterday. - Joe Moore #quote #quote

It's silly to worry. Half the things we worry about never happen, and the other half will happen anyway. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

The easiest thing to get, but the most difficult thing to get rid of , is a bad reputation. - Joe Moore #quotes

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. - Leonardo Da Vinci #quotes #quote

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. - Mark Twain #quotes #quote

Some people have such good memories they can even remember things that never happened. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain #quotes #quote

Regardlessof how much patience we have, we would prefer never to use any of it. - James T. O'Brien #quotes #quote

Morality is its own advocate; it is never necessary to apologize for it. - Edith L. Harrell #quotes #quote

When a child does well in school, the parent takes the credit. When a child does poorly, it's the teacher fault. - Joe Moore
The only thing in life accomplished without effort is failure. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present. - Lillian Eichler Watson #quotes #quote

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. - Hugh Allen #quotes #quote

Success is a journey, not a destination. - Ben Sweetland #quotes #quote

The optimist is the kind of person who believes a housefly is looking for a way out. - George Jean Nathan #quotes #quote

Knowing what's none of your business is just as important as knowing what is. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. - George Bernard Shaw #quotes #quote

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein #quotes #quote

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind, and won't change the subject. - Sir Winston Churchill #quotes #quote

The truth about a man is, first of all, what it is that he keeps hidden. - Andre Malraux#quotes #quote

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals. - Napoleon #quotes #quote

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J. Peter #quotes #quote

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. - Kurt Lewin #quotes #quote

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. - Carl Sandburg #quotes #quote

Feelings are everywhere?.be gentle. - J. Masai #quotes #quote

Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right. - Henry Ford #quotes #quote

Ablility is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz #quotes

He that would be a leader must be a bridge. - Welsh proverb #quotes #quote

Charity often consists of a generous impulse to give away something we no longer want. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

It is bad luck to be superstitious. - Andrew W. Mathis #quotes #quote

The government is concerned about the population explosion, and the population is concerned about the government explosion. - Joe Moore

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. - Chuck Reid #quotes #quote

A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! - Pablo Sarasate (Spanish Violinist) #quotes

We don't see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are. - Talmund #quotes #quote

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words. - Frank A. Clark #quotes #quote

There's always free cheese in a mousetrap. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. - Paul Sweeney #quotes #quote

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way. - Josh Billings #quotes #quote

If you help a friend in need, he's sure to remember you?.the next time he's in need. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. - Griff Niblack #quotes #quote

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. - Bill Vaughan #quotes #quote

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer. - Frank Bianco #quotes #quote

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. - George Halas #quotes #quote

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. Frederick B. Wilcox #quotes #quote

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. - Jewish Proverb #quotes #quote

When you really want to believe something, it doesn't take much to convince you. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

No one needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. - Elbert Hubbard #quotes #quote

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here now. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor #quote

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. - Robert G. Ingersoll #quotes #quote

No symphony ever played music like a two year old girl laughing with a puppy. - Bern Williams #quotes #quote

The average teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - Joe Moore #quotes

It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. - George Eliot #quotes #quote

Most of today's news is too true to be good. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. - Ron Nesen #quotes #quote

You've got to stand for something or you're gonna fall for anything. - John Cougar Mellencamp #quotes #quote

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. - Duke Ellington #quotes #quote

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. - Earl Wilson #quotes #quote

Few things help a person more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington #quotes

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. - Geena Davis #quotes #quote

The people who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. - Mark Twain #quotes #quote

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. - Mignon Mc Laughlin #quotes #quote

The truly skillful politician is one who, when he comes to a fork in the road, goes both ways. - Marco A. Almazan #quotes #quote

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the popularity of dogs. - Aldous Huxley #quotes #quote

We learn to walk by stumbling. - Bulgarian proverb #quotes #quote

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that. - Ernest Hemingway #quotes #quote

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. - John Ruskin #quotes #quote

Nothing makes a politician's statement harder to understand than his clarification. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. - Seneca #quotes #quote

Laurels don't make much of a cushion. - Dorothy Rabinowitz #quotes #quote

Worry is like a rocking chair?.it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

A pessimist doesn't know what he wants, but he knows he'll never get it. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

Every generation is convinced that there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners. - Byron Dobell #quotes #quote

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. - Mark Twain #quotes #quote

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy #quotes #quote

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. - Wendell Johnson #quotes #quote

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target. - George Fisher #quotes #quote

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle #quotes #quote

We're inclined to exaggerate almost everything, except our mistakes. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. - Don Wilder #quotes #quote

When you do something and don't want anyone to know it, it's either very good or very bad. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Dream is not the thing what you see in sleep, dream is the thing that does not let you sleep. - Adbul Kalam #quotes #quote

A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble. - Jack Kemp #quotes #quote

Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you will ever regret. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

When you speak to others for their own good, it's advice. When they speak to you for your own good, it's interference. - Joe Moore #quotes

People seldom repeat gossip?.the way they heard it. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor #quote

No one ever excused his way to success. - Dave Del Dotto #quotes #quote

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. - Walt Streightiff #quotes #quote

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. - Edgar J. Mohn #quotes #quote

Sooner or later most of us reach the metallic age..gold in our teeth, silver in our hair, and lead in our pants. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

The reason there is so much room at the top is that the crowd is at the bottom waiting for the elevator to take them up. - Joe Moore #quotes

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. - Doris Mortman #quotes #quote

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job. - Erwin Randall #quotes #quote

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck #quotes #quote

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell #quotes #quote

Man is the only kind of varmint that sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. - John Steinbeck #quotes #quote

You can't expect to make a place in the sun for yourself if you keep taking refuge under the family tree. - Claude McDonald #quotes #quote

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. - Amanda Cross #quotes #quote

Always try to be a little kinder than necessary. - James M. Barrie #quotes #quote

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore Hesburgh #quotes #quote

To err is human, but to remain in error is stupid. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. - Bertrand Russell #quotes #quote

Most of us tell lies not to deceive others, but to protect ourselves from a truth we are not ready to face. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck #quotes #quote

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Doug Horton #quotes #quote

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. - Arnold H. Glasow #quotes #quote

If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. - Abigail Van Buren #quotes #quote

Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances for good and bad judgment. - John Chatfield #quotes #quote

Worry is like a rocking chair?.it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. - George Will #quotes

Most people are funny. They want to be in the front of the bus, the back of the church and the middle of the road.- Joe Moore #quotes #humor

For every minute you're angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog. - Bennett Cerf #quotes #quote

Think how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have of changing others. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. - John Barrymore #quotes #quote

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #quotes #quote

Words without ideas are like sails without wind. - Unknown #quotes #quote

It's a shame that life's problems don't hit us when we're teenagers and know everything. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it. - Cale Yarborough #quotes #quote

Reason deceives us; conscience, never. - Jean Jacques Rousseau #quotes #quote

When an ordinary man attains knowledge he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding he is an ordinary man. - Unknown author #quotes

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. - Jose Marti #quotes #quote

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. - Bob Hope #quotes #quote

It's not how old you are that counts, but how you are old. - George Burns #quotes #quote

The only thing in life accomplished without effort is failure. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

A good conscience never costs as much as it's worth. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. - Will Durant #quotes #quote

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. - Henri Arnold #quotes #quote

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. - Josh Billings #quotes #quote

People who think they have nothing to be thankful for, should at least be thankful for what they didn't get, but deserved. - Joe Moore

You shouldn't fear criticism when you're right, nor ignore it when you're wrong. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye #quotes #quote

Politics is the science of who gets what, when and why. - Sidney Hillman #quotes #quote

The law of heredity is that all undesirable traits come from the other parent. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

The impossible is often the untried. - Jim Goodwin #quotes #quote

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake #quotes #quote

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. - Mark Twain #quotes #quote

We like a person to come right out and say what he thinks?.if he agrees with us. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now?..always. - Albert Schweitzer #quotes #quote

Success is never final, but failure can be. - Bill Parcells #quotes #quote

It's easy to meet expenses. Just turn around and there they are. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you. - Dame Flora Robson #quotes #quote

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. - Unknown #quotes #quote

Happiness is being able to look back with pride and forward with hope. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. - Johan von Goethe #quotes #quote

You should be careful about calling yourself an expert. An ex is a has-been, and a spurt is a drip under pressure.- Joe Moore #quotes #humor

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - Rober Frost #quotes #quote

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. - Lou Holtz #quotes #quote

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein #quote #quote

Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble. - Frank Tyger #quotes #quote

Love is one game that is not called off because of darkness. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor #quote

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein #quotes #quote

It isn't failing that spells one's downfall; its running away, giving up. - Michel Greco #quotes #quote

The greatest artist was once a beginner. - Farmer's Digest #quotes #quote

Learning by experience is often painful, and the more it hurts the more you learn. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. - William Arthur Ward #quotes #quote

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. - Leonardo Da Vinci #quotes #quote

A lot of people spend half their time wishing for things they could have if they didn't spend half their time wishing. -Joe Moore #quotes

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban #quotes #quote

A good resolution is like an old horse which is often saddled but rarely ridden. - Mexican proverb #quotes #quote

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. - Horace Walpole #quotes #quote

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. - Abraham Heschel #quotes #quote

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof. - James Russell Lowell #quotes #quote

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. - Aristotle #quotes #quote

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. R. Niebuhr #quotes

People become well-to-do by doing what they do well. - Joe Moore #quotes

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. - Edward Somers #quotes #quote

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. - Ben Franklin #quotes #quote

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter Drucker #quotes #quote

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein #quotes #quote

We couldn't conceive of a miracle if one had ever happened. - Libbie Fudim #quotes #quote

The thing to try when all else fails is again. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. - Joe Ancis #quotes #quote

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills #quotes #quote

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin #quotes #quote

We usually give others much better advice than we give ourselves. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Determine that the thing can and shall be done. And then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln #quotes #quote

Everytime you put a new idea into action, you find ten people who thought of it first; but they only thought of it. - Joe Moore #quotes

You should make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson #quotes #quote

We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life. - Sir William Osler #quotes #quote

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle #quotes #quote

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin #quotes #quote

Religion has been studied and practiced for ages, but it has been studied far more than it has been practiced. - Joe Moore #quotes

People who preach self-denial usually have other people in mind. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it! Jonathan Winters #quotes #quote

Money-giving is a good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people. - Dr. Karl Menniger #quotes

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. - George Burns #quotes #quote

Worry often give a small thing a big shadow. - Chinese proverb #quotes #quote

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. - John Nuveen #quotes #quote

Parents of brilliant children are great believers in heredity. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

The best way to open a business is with high hopes and low overhead. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. - Wallace Wattles #quotes #quote

Pessimism never won any battle. - Dwight D. Eisenhower #quotes #quote

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H.L. Mencken #quotes #quote

He who believes that the past can not be changed has not yet written his memoirs. - Torvald Gahlin #quotes #quote

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. - Mohandas K. Gandhi #quotes #quote

Determine that the thing can and shall be done. And then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln #quotes #quote

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of the voyage. - #quotes Henry Beecher #quote

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore #quotes #quote

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. - Montaigne #quotes #quote

Money can't buy love?but it certainly doesn't hurt your bargaining power. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. - Mark Van Doren #quotes #quote

It is not the employer who pays---he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. - Henry Ford #quotes #quote

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. - Edward Abbey #quotes #quote

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl G. Jung #quotes #quote

Nothing makes it easier to resist tempation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values?..and witnesses. - Franklin P. Jones #quotes

Pets are such agreeable friends?they don't talk back, borrow money, ask questions, or criticize. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

If you can separate good advice from bad advice, you really don't need any advice. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. - Warren Beatty #quotes #quote

The difference between a wise man and a fool is that a fool's mistakes don't teach him anything. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

What we learn with pleasure we never forget. - Alfred Mercier #quotes #quote

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams. - Ann Landers #quotes #quote

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin #quotes #quote

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. - Gloria Pitzer #quotes #quote

Failing to plan is like planning to fail. - Joe Moore #quotes

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