Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
-Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
-Horace, poet and satirist (65-8 BCE)

Beginings are the only happy endings
Unknown

Cry in the dojo. Laugh on the battle field
Samurai Proverb

You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange.
A.K. Ramanujan, poet (1929-1993)

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible.
A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

If you consult enough experts, you can confirm any opinion.

Unknown


Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Unknown


Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Bokonon as quoted from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle


Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon


"I don't smoke, I don't drink and I am 100% fit."

General Montgomery

"I smoke, I drink and I am 200% fit."

Winston Churchill


Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers


Everyday people wake up, get dress, look in the mirror, and say to themselves, 'I look good.'; there're wrong.

Jerry Abramowitz


The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. 

Bertrand Russell


They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a communist; They came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because I was not a socialist; They came for the union leaders, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a union leader; They came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me.

Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984


If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don't have upper body strength. I mean, some do, but they're relatively rare. On the other hand, men are basically little piglets, you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, doesn't matter, you know. These things are very real. On the other hand, if combat means being on an Aegis-class cruiser managing the computer controls for twelve ships and their rockets, a female may be again dramatically better than a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.

Adjunct Professor Newt Gingrich, Reinhardt College


But they are useless. They can only give you answers.

Picasso, on computers.


When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.

Ethiopian proverb


The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Henry Miller, American writer (1891-1980)


Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)


Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)


It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire (1694-1778)


There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Unknown


Q: Was she too old or too young?
A: There is only too old.

Ferdinand Wuhrmann


In order to see birds its is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Robert Lynd


Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Herbert Hoover


Spaniards can be impressed by the courtesy of his conqueror, French by his riches, Greeks by his respect for the arts, Jews by his moral integrity, Africans by his calms and authoritative bearing, but the Germans are impressed by none of these things. They must be struck to the dust, struck down again as they rise. Struck again while he lies groaning, while his wounds still pain him, he will respect the hand that dealt them.

Germanicus Caesar, quoted by Georgia Eddy in a letter to the New York Times


Boating Survival Rule #1: Stay in the boat

Anonymous


After you pull the pin from Mr. Hand Grenade; he is nolonger your friend.

James Webb


Organsm increases women's ambition and gives them more strength

Israeli sex researchers Mordecai Helperin and Alexander Olchaniesky, advising Olympic athletes that sexual abstinence doesn`t enhance performance.


The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.


Kill 'em with kindness

Mary Ann Marino


Keeping your head above water may promote sanity, but it also puts you to sleep.

Donal Keith, marine archeologist


History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban


The preferred method of destruction for ammunition is to fire it in the direction of the enemy.

1960s US Army pamphlet instructing on the destruction of equipment in order to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.


Clinton's background...helped bring him to the notice of the national media when he first took office (some, absurdly, mention this 32-year-old incoming governor of a small state as a possible president).

1984 The Almanac of American Politics, as reported in TNR 12/21


We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Petronius Arbiter, 210 BC


My mom always said that rain was God crying, She also said it was because of something I did.

Jack Handey


The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.

Henry Kissinger


As it goes deeper and deeper, it displays elements of strategic understanding. Somewhere out there, mere tactics are translating into strategy. This is the closest thing I've seen to computer intelligence. It's a weird form of intelligence, the beginning of intelligence. But you can feel it. You can smell it.

Frederick Friedel computer advisor to Gary Kasparov on Deep Blue