Thursday, March 31, 2005

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
-- Mary S. Calderone

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.
-- Hesiod

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

Monday, March 28, 2005

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
-- Ecclesiastes

Sunday, March 27, 2005

You are so 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 judge of the highest matters.
-- Plato

Saturday, March 26, 2005

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
-- Epictetus

Friday, March 25, 2005

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
-- Immanuel Kant

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
-- Andre Gide

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
-- Lord Chesterfield

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
-- Joseph P. Thompson

Monday, March 21, 2005

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
-- Jim Beggs

Sunday, March 20, 2005

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Sir Francis Bacon

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
-- Socrates

Friday, March 18, 2005

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
-- Ellen Metcalf

Thursday, March 17, 2005

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
-- Agatha Christie

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Keep cool and you command everybody.
-- Louis de Saint-Just

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
-- William Ralph Inge

Monday, March 14, 2005

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
-- Helen Keller

Sunday, March 13, 2005

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854

Saturday, March 12, 2005

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
-- Colin Powell

Friday, March 11, 2005

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
-- H. Mathews

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
-- William Shakespeare, 'The Tempest'

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
-- H. L. Mencken

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch

Monday, March 07, 2005

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
-- Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958

Sunday, March 06, 2005

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Saturday, March 05, 2005

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.
-- Lawrence Bixby

Friday, March 04, 2005

What you get is a subset of what you imagine.
-- Anupam Sharma
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
-- Albert Guerard

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
-- Chilo

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
-- Alexander A. Bogomoletz