Elvendragon's favorites, chosen by Elvendragon

1. Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
       Jules de Gaultier   Best?
2. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
       Steven Wright   Best?
3. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
       Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
4. The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
       Aaron Copland   Best?
5. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
       F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
6. A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
       Unknown   Best?
7. What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
       Unknown   Best?
8. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
       Henry Kissinger   Best?
9. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
       Eleanor Roosevelt   Best?
10. Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
        James Thurber   Best?
11. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
12. A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
        Unknown   Best?
13. A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
        Unknown   Best?
14. Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.
        Unknown   Best?
15. After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.
        Unknown   Best?
16. All general statements are false.
        Unknown   Best?
17. Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
        Unknown   Best?
18. Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
        Unknown   Best?
19. Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.
        Unknown   Best?
20. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
21. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
        Mark Twain   Best?
22. Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
        Unknown   Best?
23. Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
        Unknown   Best?
24. Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
        Unknown   Best?
25. Fools rush in where fools have been before.
        Unknown   Best?
26. He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
        Unknown   Best?
27. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
        Galileo Galilei   Best?
28. I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
        Unknown   Best?
29. Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets. (Lethbridge-Stewart in 'Dr. Who')
        Unknown   Best?
30. Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
        Mark Twain   Best?
31. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
32. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
        Thomas A. Edison   Best?
33. Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
        Thomas Berger   Best?
34. The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
        Mark Twain   Best?
35. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
        Will Rogers   Best?
36. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
37. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
        Aesop   Best?
38. That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
        A. Whitney Brown   Best?
39. And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. (from the film, Buckaroo Banzai)
        Unknown   Best?
40. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
41. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
42. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
        Baltasar Gracian   Best?
43. Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
        Unknown   Best?
44. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
45. When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
46. It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
47. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
        E. F. Schumacher   Best?
48. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
49. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
        Solomon Short   Best?
50. Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
        Peter da Silva   Best?
51. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
        Mark Twain   Best?
52. They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
        Plato   Best?
53. It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
        Unknown   Best?
54. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
        Aristotle   Best?
55. A book of quotations... can never be complete.
        Robert M. Hamilton   Best?
56. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
57. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
        Plato   Best?
58. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
59. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
        Aristotle   Best?
60. My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
        Martin Luther   Best?
61. [Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
62. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
63. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
64. One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life.
        Alexander A. Bogomoletz   Best?
65. An idea is salvation by imagination.
        Frank Lloyd Wright   Best?
66. To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
        Mary Pettibone Poole   Best?
67. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
        Sophocles   Best?
68. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
        George Lois   Best?
69. Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
        Norman Podhoretz   Best?
70. In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
71. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
72. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
73. Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
        Unknown   Best?
74. Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
        Unknown   Best?
75. Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
        Unknown   Best?
76. Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
        Unknown   Best?
77. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
        Scott Adams   Best?
78. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
        Plato   Best?
79. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
80. Good habits result from resisting temptation.
        Ancient Proverb   Best?
81. When anger rises, think of the consequences.
        Confucious   Best?
82. When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
83. Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
        Paxton Hood   Best?
84. Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
        Austin Phelps   Best?
85. Keep cool and you command everybody.
        Louis de Saint-Just   Best?
86. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
        James A. Froude   Best?
87. If you bow at all, bow low.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
88. When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
        John W. Gardner   Best?
89. Learn as much by writing as by reading.
        Lord Acton   Best?
90. Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
        Plato   Best?
91. Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
        Antisthenes   Best?
92. Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
93. Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
        Socrates   Best?
94. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
        Confucious   Best?
95. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
        George S. Patton   Best?
96. Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
        Confucious   Best?
97. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
98. You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
        Plato   Best?
99. To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
        Confucious   Best?
100. Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
         Arab Proverb   Best?
101. Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
         Socrates   Best?
102. Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
         Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
103. Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
         Confucious   Best?
104. Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
         Aesop   Best?
105. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
         Socrates   Best?
106. Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
         Cecil B. DeMille   Best?
107. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
         Confucious   Best?
108. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
         Aristotle   Best?
109. Everything you do or say is public relations.
         Unknown   Best?
110. A healthy family is sacred territory.
         Unknown   Best?
111. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
         Aristotle   Best?
112. Knowing is half the battle.
         GI Joe   Best?
113. Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
         Unknown   Best?
114. Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
         Unknown   Best?
115. Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
         Unknown   Best?
116. "Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
         Unknown   Best?
117. My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery.
         Muriel Strode   Best?
118. Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
         Unknown   Best?
119. Never give advice...
         Unknown   Best?
120. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
         Socrates   Best?
121. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
         Socrates   Best?
122. The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground...
         Unknown   Best?
123. I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars?
         Unknown   Best?
124. God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!
         Unknown   Best?
125. Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?
         Marilyn Monroe   Best?
126. Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.
         Unknown   Best?
127. If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.
         Unknown   Best?
128. The wise learn many things from their enemies.
         Aristophanes   Best?
129. No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
         Plato   Best?
130. Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
         Unknown   Best?
131. True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
         Unknown   Best?
132. Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.
         Unknown   Best?
133. The beginning is the most important part of the work.
         Plato   Best?
134. And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
         Jerry Chin   Best?
135. Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
         Unknown   Best?
136. If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
         Unknown   Best?
137. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
         Albert Einstein   Best?
138. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
         African Proverb   Best?
139. The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
         Socrates   Best?
140. No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
         John Donne   Best?
141. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
         Confucious   Best?
142. Learn to obey before you command.
         Solon   Best?
143. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
         David Star Jordan   Best?
144. The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
         Aristotle   Best?
145. To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.
         Unknown   Best?
146. A library is an arsenal of liberty.
         Unknown   Best?
147. A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
           Best?
148. Courage atrophies from lack of use.
         Unknown   Best?
149. Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
         Unknown   Best?
150. A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
         Chinese Proverb   Best?
151. Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
         Unknown   Best?
152. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
         Aesop   Best?
153. If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything.
         Unknown   Best?
154. A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
         Confucious   Best?
155. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
         Unknown   Best?
156. A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
         Unknown   Best?
157. If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.
         Unknown   Best?
158. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
         Irish Blessing   Best?
159. It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
         Confucious   Best?
160. A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.
         Unknown   Best?
161. What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
         Unknown   Best?
162. The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.
         Unknown   Best?
163. What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
         Unknown   Best?
164. Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you.
         Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
165. Life has no rehearsals, only performances.
         Unknown   Best?
166. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
         Unknown   Best?
167. The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
         Unknown   Best?
168. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
         Unknown   Best?
169. Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
         Unknown   Best?
170. The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
         James Bryce   Best?
171. The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
         Unknown   Best?
172. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
         Confucious   Best?
173. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
         Confucious   Best?
174. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
         Socrates   Best?
175. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything
         Unknown   Best?
176. If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
         Unknown   Best?
177. Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
         Chinese Proverb   Best?
178. Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
         Chinese Proverb   Best?
179. He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.
         Unknown   Best?
180. Smile -- It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
         Unknown   Best?
181. It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
         Unknown   Best?
182. You know you're getting old when it takes to much effort to procrastinate.
         Unknown   Best?
183. Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
         Unknown   Best?
184. It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.
         Unknown   Best?
185. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
         Socrates   Best?
186. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
         Unknown   Best?
187. Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
         Unknown   Best?
188. The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
         Unknown   Best?
189. The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
         Unknown   Best?
190. Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
         Unknown   Best?
191. Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
         Unknown   Best?
192. We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
         Unknown   Best?
193. If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.
         Unknown   Best?
194. It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.
         Unknown   Best?
195. Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
         William Plomer   Best?
196. Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
         Unknown   Best?
197. Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
         Pamela Vaull Starr   Best?
198. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
         Aristotle   Best?
199. If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
         Chinese Proverb   Best?
200. Imagination rules the world.
         Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
201. Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
         Ray Bradbury   Best?
202. Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
         Unknown   Best?
203. Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
         Leonard Bernstein   Best?
204. He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
         Confucious   Best?
205. Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
         Unknown   Best?
206. If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.
         Unknown   Best?
207. The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
         Unknown   Best?
208. Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
         Unknown   Best?
209. The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
         Unknown   Best?
210. He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
         Unknown   Best?
211. Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
         Unknown   Best?
212. To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
         Confucious   Best?
213. There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
         Russian proverb   Best?
214. The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
         Plato   Best?
215. A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
         Unknown   Best?
216. Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
         Mohammed Neguib   Best?
217. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
         Douglas Adams   Best?
218. Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
         Isaac Bashevis Singer   Best?
219. In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
         Aristotle   Best?
220. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
         Chinese Proverb   Best?
221. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
         Bible   Best?
222. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
         Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
223. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
         Benjamin Disraeli   Best?
224. We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
         Plato   Best?
225. It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
         Confucious   Best?
226. Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.
         J. A. Spender   Best?
227. The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
         Confucious   Best?
228. The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
         William Lyon Phelps   Best?
229. Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
         Carl Schurz   Best?
230. All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
         Carl Jung   Best?
231. Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
         Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
232. Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
         Thomas Carlyle   Best?
233. To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
         Aaron Copland   Best?
234. An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
         Dutch Proverb   Best?
235. The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
         Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
236. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
         Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
237. Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
         Plato   Best?
238. He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
         Confucious   Best?
239. If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
         Socrates   Best?
240. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
         Epicurus   Best?
241. He is richest who is content with the least.
         Socrates   Best?
242. An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
         Chinese Proverb   Best?
243. A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.
         Arabic   Best?
244. By words the mind is winged.
         Aristophanes   Best?
245. Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
         Confucious   Best?
246. It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return.
         Unknown   Best?
247. Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
         Plato   Best?
248. The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
         Aristotle   Best?
249. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
         Douglas Adams   Best?
250. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
         Douglas Adams   Best?
251. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
         Douglas Adams   Best?
252. The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
         John Vance Cheney   Best?
253. If you can dream it, you can do it.
         Walt Disney   Best?
254. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
         George Bernard Shaw   Best?
255. If it is to be, it is up to me.
         Unknown   Best?
256. There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
         Unknown   Best?
257. Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
         Unknown   Best?
258. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
         Unknown   Best?
259. Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.
         Unknown   Best?
260. Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder 'What happened?'
         Unknown