Spring, Creativity, Patriotism

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
~ Robin Williams

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
~ Dr. E. Land

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that
it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
~ Hamilton Fish

Chance, Leadership Ideals, Future

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.
~ Louis Pasteur

To lead others, embody their ideals!
~ Leonid S. Sukhorukov

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of
my life there.
~ Charles Kettering

Style, principle, progress

In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Progress depends on people knowing they'll be able to profit from their ideas.
~ Deborah Neville

Lead, follow or get out of the way!
~ George S. Patton

Work, Adventure, Encouragement

Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice and need.
~ François Marie Arouet Voltaire

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science.
~ Edwin Hubble

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

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~ Fuzzel Fish Administration Page

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
~ William Osler

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
~ Marcel Archard

Obfuscation, Forgiveness, Confusion

Be obscure clearly.
~ E. B. White

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
~ Tom Peters

Good idea, Arguments, False Knowledge

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
~ Admiral Grace Hopper

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a good discussion.
~ G.K. Chesterton

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Oppression, Commerce, Vision

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
~ Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) U.S. educator, born into slavery

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
~ Isaac Newton

Bonus quotes for the New Year

Perhaps the best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
~ Dean Acheson

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
~ John Quincy Adams

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~ Aristotle

accomplishment, hurry, leadership

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
~ Thomas Edison (1847-1931) U.S. inventor

Hurry! I never hurry. I have no time to hurry.
~ Igor Stravinsky

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
~ Dennis Peer

Some quotes for Christmas

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
~ Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )

The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong.
~ Sir Colin Marshall

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
~ Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Standards, Worrying, Freedom

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
~ Jeph Jacques

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
~ Winston Churchill

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Scarcity, Senility, Knowledge vs Emotion

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
~ Goethe

Don't worry about senility - when it hits you, you won't know it.
~ Bill Cosby

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
~ Bertrand Russell

Wealth, Life, Diplomacy

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
~ Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
~ Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English author

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
~ Robert Lee Frost

Patriot, Variance, Dance

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country,
right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived
that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
~ Mark Twain

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance
is everything.
~ Jack Welch

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
~ Japanese Proverb

SIlver lining, Misery, Face it

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
~ Maurice Setter

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you
want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what
people think of you.
~ Charles Kingsley

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be
changed until it is faced.
~ James Baldwin

Good Nature, Quiet, Drug Testing

Commonsense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of
life not too difficult.
~ William Somerset Maugham

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that
ideas will have a chance of connecting.
~ Eric Maisil

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of
society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't
test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance,
greed and love of power.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

Quotes just for fun

May your troubles be less,
May your blessings be more,
May nothing but happiness come through your door!
~ Irish Blessing

Modest incompetence simply won't do; it's mindboggling screw-ups that
are required.
~ Warren Buffett

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian
because I hate plants.
~ A. Whitney Brown

No Fast Pass, Yelling, Be the Change

Remember that this is not Disney World and you certainly don't want a
fast pass. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it
and enjoy the ride.
~ Advice

There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.
~ David Oman McKay

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Blessed, Originality, Cynics

Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
~ Advice

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
~ Herman Melville

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a
wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
~ U.S. Andersen