Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing.

-William Feather

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: some things are within our control and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to ( Read more... )

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

- Saadi

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making ( Read more... )

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.

- Norman Brenner

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

- Russell Baker

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus

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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

- Anais Nin

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

- John Adams

To find ( Read more... )

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

-Al Capone

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

-Karl Marx

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.

- Austin O'Malley

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ( Read more... )

If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

- PG Wodehouse

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

--Joan Rivers

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

--J. S. Bryan

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities. --Ann Richards ( Read more... )

Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.

- George Santayana

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

- Cullen Hightower

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that ( Read more... )

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

- Samuel Johnson

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough

- Mario Andretti

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want. - Anna ( Read more... )

If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror.

- German Proverb

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

- Alexander Pope

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't ( Read more... )