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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan
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"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
Unknown
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Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing...
Unknown
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If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
Benjamin Franklin
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Keep cool and you command everybody.
Louis de Saint-Just
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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
Eleanor H. Porter
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[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx
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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
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A man who knows he knows nothing is smarter than a man who thinks he knows something but really knows nothing.
Socrates
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During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
Fritjof Capra
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Everybody's stupid in their own stupid state of stupidity.
Ida
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Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
Thomas Paine
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp
Robert Browning
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Communications without intelligence is noise;
Gen Alfred Gray, USMC
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A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it.
Russian proverb
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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A kind word is like a spring day.
Russian proverb
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A wise man is never to sure of what he knows to be true.
James W. Gray
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The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.
Michelangelo
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The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.
George Bush Sr.
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I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME.
Shirley MacLaine
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Louisa May Alcott
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I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.
Jacques le Blanc
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Life is consciousness.
Emmet Fox
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Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
Arabian Proverb
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Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
William Wordsworth
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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling
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God must become an activity in our consciousness.
Joel S. Goldsmith
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw
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We are not separate from spirit, we are in it.
Plotinus
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When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
John B. Bogart
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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
Homer
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Fran Leibowitz
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pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.
Jeff Meyer
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Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
Noel Coward
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Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none.
William Shakespeare
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Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
Georges Jacques Danton
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