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The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
Ovid
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Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
Henry Beston
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
J. R .R. Tolkien
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Tao Te Ching
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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
Ambrose Bierce
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Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
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Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Henry David Thoreau
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
Russian proverb
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Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
Epictetus
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover
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You know you're getting old when it takes to much effort to procrastinate.
Unknown
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
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Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?
Marilyn Monroe
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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
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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucious
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.
Carl Sandburg
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Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Moliere
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The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada.
Lorne Bloch
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Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin.
Honduran Proverb
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
Tony Robbins
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Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
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A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.
Jim Sorensen
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I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.
John Kerry
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Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, dont put it off.
Ellen DeGeneres
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If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
Holly Lisle
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
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It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
Albert Einstein
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We don't see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don't think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.
John F. Kennedy
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I call architecture frozen music.
Goethe
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk
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[Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination.
Reverend W. Awdry
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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
Socrates
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
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