Kisses, Vices, Conference

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
~ Bob Hope

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do
nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
~ Fred Allen

Know your limitations, Drive, Invention

Never eat more than you can lift.

~ Miss Piggy

 

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

~ Bette Davis

 

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

~ Agatha Christie

Patience, Parents, Humor

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

 

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

~ Ogden Nash

 

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

~ Larry Gelbart

Love, Skiing, Obstacles

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most
difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the
work for which all other work is but preparation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
~ Dave Barry

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
~ Frank A. Clark

Walls, Refresh, Discreet

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who
cares enough to break them down.
~ Banana Yoshimoto

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will
flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their
own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will
drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
~ John Muir

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be
mysterious about any.
~ Arthur Wellesley

Future, Jilted, Foolish

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees
nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
~ Jim Bishop

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to
forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
~ Moliere

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
~ Colette

Persist, Usefulness, Quartet

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
~ Tobias Wolff

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be
preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
~ Sir Francis Bacon

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a
barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.
~ Chuck Sigars

Theories, Faith, Force

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has
data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead
of theories to suit facts.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way
we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely
convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not
so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something
you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the
more heroic your faith.
~ Real Live Preacher

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
~ Abraham Lincoln

poverty, gift, data

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of
the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own
opinion, or in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
~ Ann Radcliffe

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
~ Charles Dudley Warner

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to
make it up.
~ Scott Adams

disappointments, greatness, get busy

Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.
~ Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
~ Colleen Wainwright

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I
can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Atheist, Fire, Intelligence

I'm still an atheist, thank God.
~ Luis Bunuel

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and
he's warm for the rest of his life.
~ Terry Pratchett

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
~ Charles Darwin

Courage, Fishing, Sources

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the judgment that something
is more important than our fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted
line. He caught every other fish.
~ Steven Wright

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for
his facts.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Danger, Envy, Encouragement

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
~ Jane Goodall

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder
for what you want.
~ Robert Bringle

Encouragement is like a premium gasoline - it helps to take knocks out
of living.
~ Anonymous

Image, Progress, Belief

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is
this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.
~ William Gurnall

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
~ George Santayana

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
~ Edith Sitwell

Enemy, Success objective, Thought

So long as a man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to
him is "You're fine." But after you do take sides, it becomes "Your
heart is bad and you know it."
~ John Eldridge, Wild at Heart

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything
else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations
bend to that one objective.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
~ Sir William Osler

Doubt, Reasonable, Ready

Do not doubt in the dark what you have learned in the light.
~ Susie Larson

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable,
you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left
is a compromise.
~ Robert Fritz

People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who
aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it./ The minute you
become ready is the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer
about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'.
~ Hugh Macleod

Tomorrow, Opinions, Expression

The man of God you want to be tomorrow, start living today.
~ Unknown

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well.
Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.
~ Ruben Studdard

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the
expression of opinions that we loathe.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Student, Wit, Outnumbered

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions,
never know too much to learn something new.
~ Og Mandino

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
~ Jeph Jacques

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for
the forty-eight.
~ Margaret Thatcher

Crazy, Truth, Morals

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do.
~ Apple, Inc.

We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
~ Blaise Pascal

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Expression, Messy, Crispiness

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for
it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.
~ Friedrich Froebel, "Father" of modem kindergarten

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one
another from day to day - even hour to hour.
~ Elizabeth Moon

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes
when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.
~ Frank Duff

Creative play, Liars, Phones

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free
to be creative.
~ D.W. Winnicott

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
~ Nick Diamos

All phone calls are obscene.
~ Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Meaning, More, Philosophers

All play means something. It goes beyond the confines of purely
physical or purely biological activity. It is a significant
function-that is to say, there is some sense to it.
~ Johan Huizinga, cultural historian

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
~ Bill Hoest

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for
science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and
probably wrong.
~ Richard Feynman

Playtime, Self, Virtue

Today's young children are controlled by the expectations, schedules,
whims, and rules of adults. Play is the only time they can take
control of their world.
~ Sheila G. Flaxman

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one
cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not
to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly
to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that
virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and
every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my
teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a
mischievous person.
~ Socrates

Stress reduction, Decorating, Experience

Playing reduces stress, improves life, and increases creativity. Who
doesn't want that?
~ Stevanne Auerbach, Dr. Toy

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of
people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough
bookshelves.
~ Anna Quindlen

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get
if you don't.
~ Pete Seeger

Ideas, Intelligent life, Misquotation

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air;
transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent
with fancy, and winged it with paradox.
~ Oscar Wilde, playwright, novelist

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
~ Bill Watterson

I improve on misquotation.
~ Cary Grant

Creativity, Encourage, Liberty

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
~ John Cleese, English actor, writer

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
~ Plato

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ~ George
Bernard Shaw

Play, Philosophy, Certainty

The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel
there is something missing in our lives.
~ Leo Buscaglia, author, educator

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has
not already been said by one philosopher or another.
~ Rene Descartes

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be
reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

wise, quality, famous

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either
their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness
flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are
in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
~ Edward Hoagland, novelist, essayist, nature writer

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
~ Steve Jobs

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just
want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was
great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'
~ Terry Pratchett

Imagination, Passions, Simplicity

Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come
to birth. The debt we to the play of imagination is incalculable.
~ Carl Gustav Jung, psychologist, psychiatrist

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
~ Douglas Horton

Work, Heaven, Learning

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under
differing conditions.
~ Mark Twain, novelist, journalist, river pilot

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
~ Karen Sunde

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You
just need people with the desire to better themselves.
~ Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

Grow Old, Letters, Doing

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
~ George Bernard Shaw, playright

All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
~ Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing.
Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Play, Games, Reality

Play is the child's main business in life; through play he learns the
skills to survive and finds some pattern in the confusing world into
which he was born.
~ Lee (1977)

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If
you work at it, it's golf.
~ Bob Hope

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
~ Albert Einstein

Letters, Couples, Murder

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity,
letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back
to my own with greater contentment.
~ Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

The happiest couples are those who spell "us" with a capital "you."
~ Klare Provine

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless
they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~ Voltaire

Esteem, Adventurer, Seriously

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.
~ Margaret Cho

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
~ Vincent van Gogh

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
~ Brendan Gill