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• The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. – Confucius (551 B.C. – 479 B.C.)
• We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s got a responsibility. – Newton Minow (FCC chairman)
• Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self respect springs. – Joan Didion (1934 – )
• All of the books in the world contain no more information [data] than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. – Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
• A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. – Ben Shneiderman
• You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. – Quentin Crisp
• I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. – Jonas Salk
• The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business. – Aaron Burr
• Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.- Michael Phelps
• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
• We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. – Frederick Keonig
• Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t. – Pete Seeger
• The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. – John Sladek
• The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet. – William Gibson
• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery (1871-1945)
  
• Many people flounder about in life because they have no purpose. Before it is possible to achieve anything, an objective must be set. – George Halas
  
• To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. – Walt Whitman
• Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. – Andy Rooney
• Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t. – Pete Seeger
• Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. – Carol Burnett
• Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. – Mark Twain
• Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. – Charles Kingsley
• It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. – Voltaire (1694- 1778)
• The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.  – Henry L. Stimson
• If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade. – Tom Peters
• The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late. – Omar Bradley
• People will only follow you if they see you’re ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too. – Patrick Dixon
• It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. – David Brin
• The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. – William Hazlitt
• There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. – John Adams

• You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. -Evan Esar
• The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. -John Sladek
• There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t. -Robert Benchley
• You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. -Frank Crane
• Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -Benjamin Franklin
• Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. -Samuel Johnson
• Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson
• The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. -Thomas Carlyle
• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -Ovid
• Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change. -Ramsay Clark
• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -Alvin Toffler
• Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -Jonathon Kozol
• Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -George Lois
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.  You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. -Eleanor Roosevelt
• There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. -General Douglas McArthur (1880-1964)
• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature … Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller (1880-1968)
• Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. -Ron Paul (1935- )
• Wisdom outweighs any wealth. -Sophocles
• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. -Marilyn vos Savant
• A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have  -Gerald Ford
• Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. -Stanley Walker
• Give no decision till both sides thou’st heard. -Phocylides
• One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. -Alexander A. Bogomoletz
• Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. -William Wirt
• Courage is being scared to death – but saddling up anyway. -John Wayne

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. – George Moore

Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. – E.B. White (1899-1985)

What worries you masters you. – Haddon W. Robinson

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. -Dale Carnegie

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured. – Indian Proverb

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. – Publilius Syrus

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. – Seneca

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. – Lord Chesterfield

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. – Natalie Goldberg

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. – Bertha Calloway

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. – Sir Winston Churchill

You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. – Barbara Hall

It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J.K. Rowling

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade? – Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. – Rodin

You always pass failure on the way to success. – Mickey Rooney

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for. – Will Rogers (1879-1935)

I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. – George Burns (1896-1996)

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. – Ayn Rand (1905- 1982)

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy. – Isaac Asimov, Foundation’s Edge (1920- 1992)

• If you fear making new friends because you would have to step outside the box, enlarge the borders of the box so that you have room for new friends while you stay in the box.  -  Sam Whatcott, Erstwhile Philosopher
• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. – John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States
• When ideas fail, words come in very handy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet/Dramatist/Novelist
• Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. – Leo Rosten
• Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. – Samuel Johnson (1709- 1784)
• My music is best understood by children and animals. – Igor Stravinsky (1882- 1971)
• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. – Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
• The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. – Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English Philosopher/Essayist/Statesman
• I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got. – Walter Cronkite, American Broadcast Journalist
• The man who has done his best has done everything. – Charles Schwab, 1862-1939, American Industrialist and Businessman
• It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. – Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American Scientist/Publisher/Diplomat
• Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. – Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman and Literary Figure
• The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. – Bernard M. Baruch, 1870-1965, American Financier and Statesman
• It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. – W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. – Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, American Motivational Author and Radio Broadcaster
• The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a “But.” – Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887, American Preacher/Orator/Writer
• Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
• An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. – Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
• If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. – Source Unknown

PROFOUND QUOTES THAT WE THINK ARE VALUABLE TO READ AND CONSIDER

• It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t. – Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862, 8th President of the United States
• There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. – Source Unknown
• Once a man who had been slandered by a newspaper came to Edward Everett asking what to do about it. Said Everett, “Do nothing! Half the people who bought the paper never saw the article. Half of those who saw it, did not read it. Half of those who read it, did not understand it. Half of those who understood it, did not believe it. Half of those who believed it are of no account anyway” – Zig Ziglar, Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World
• Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. – Colley Cibber, 1671-1757, English Actor/Playwright/Poet Laureate
• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. – Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American Author and Achievement Expert
• Great challenges make great men. We don’t seek tribulation, but if we respond in faith, the Lord strengthens us. – Elder Dennis E. Simmons
• Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich. – Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American Industrialist and Founder of Ford Motor Company
• If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job. – Malcolm S. Forbes, 1917-1990, American Publisher
• No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. – Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919, American Industrialist and Philanthropist
• To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. – Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British Philosopher/Mathematician/Essayist
• Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. – Bill Gates
• Thought is action in rehearsal. – Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian Neurologist and Psychiatrist
• If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. – Source Unknown
• The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. – Oprah Winfrey
• It’s the job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish. – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle
• The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. – Roger Bannister, English Neurologist and Runner
• Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. – George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-born American Philosopher
• Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. – Roger Staubach, American Football Player
• The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882, American Poet
• Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do great and good things….You are not destined to be a scrub. You are a child of God, of infinite capacity. – President Gordon B. Hinckley
• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. – Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American Film Producer/Director/Animator
• Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half. – Bum Phillips, American Football Coach
• By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be the boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost
• The love we give away is the only love we keep. – Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American Philosopher and Writer
• Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. – Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet and Novelist
• Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945, 32nd President of the United States
• Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. – Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish Artist and Painter
• Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. – Leo Buscaglia, 1924-1998, American Author and Expert on Love and Human Relationships
• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. – Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, French General and Politician

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A Modern Business Parable
A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (Ford Motors) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River . Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.
The Americans, very discouraged & depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action. Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing. Feeling a deeper study was in order, American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion. They advised, of course, that hat too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing. Not sure of how to utilize that information, but wanting to prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team’s management structure was totally reorganized to include: 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering superintendents and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager. They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 1 person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the ‘Rowing Team Quality First Program,’ with meetings, dinners, free pens and a certificate of completion for the rower. There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices and bonuses.
The next year the Japanese won by two miles. Humiliated, the American management laid off the rower (a reduction in workforce) for poor performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and cancelled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and the next year’s racing team was “out-sourced” to India. Sadly, the End.
However, sad, but oh so true!
Here’s something else to think about: Ford has spent the last thirty years moving all its factories out of the US, claiming they can’t make money paying American wages. Toyota has spent the last thirty years building more than a dozen plants inside the US .
The last quarter’s results : Toyota makes 4 billion in profits while Ford racked up 9 billion in losses. Ford folks are still scratching their heads.
IF THIS WASN’T SO SAD IT MIGHT BE FUNNY!
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• “Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.” — Dr. Lee DeForest, “Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television.” “The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.” – - Admiral William Leahy , US Atomic Bomb Project
• “There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.” — Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
• “Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” — Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
• “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers .” — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
• “I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.” — The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
• “But what is it good for?” — Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
• “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” — Bill Gates, 1981
• “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” — Western Union internal memo, 1876.
• “The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” — David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
• “The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible.” — A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
• “I’m just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.” — Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in “Gone With The Wind.”
• “A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.” — Response to Debbi Fields’ idea of starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies.
• “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” — Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
• “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” — Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
• “If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.” – - Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M “Post-It” Notepads.
• “Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You’re crazy.” — Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
• “Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” – - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University , 1929.
• “Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.” — Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France .
• “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” — Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899
• “The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required.” — Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University
• “I don’t know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn’t be a feasible business by itself.” — the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.
• “Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.” — Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872
• “The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.” — Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.

And last but not least…

• “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” — Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.

FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS QUOTES

• The rules of life, just the same as the rules of math, apply to all of us equally – Sam Whatcott, Somewhat Famous Erstwhile Philosopher
• You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. – Flip Wilson
• I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. – Warren Buffett
• It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it. – Steven Wright (1955 – )
• I am not young enough to know everything. – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost (1874-1963)
• If you don’t fail now and again, it’s a sign you’re playing it safe. – Woody Allen, American Film Director/Writer/Comedian
• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle, 384-322 B.C., Greek Philosopher
• Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American Author and Achievement Expert
• It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. – Claude Bernard, 1813-1878, French Physiologist
• If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
• Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin
• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero
• If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
• Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English Author and Critic
• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. – Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English Philosopher/Essayist/Statesman
• Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. – Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French Poet/Dramatist/Novelist
• The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. – Lou Holtz, American Football Coach and Motivational Speaker
• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis
• There can be economy only where there is efficiency. – Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman and Literary Figure
• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet/Dramatist/Novelist
• When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan
• Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. – Nelson Rockefeller, 1908-1979, American Politician/Philanthropist/Businessman
• There can be economy only where there is efficiency. – Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman and Literary Figure
• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet/Dramatist/Novelist
• You’re never too old to become younger. – Mae West, 1893-1980, American Actress and Playwright
• A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Marcus T. Cicero, 106-43 B.C., Roman Orator and Politician
• Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. – Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Author/Critic/Naturalist
• A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. – Harry Truman
• In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. – Daniel L. Reardon
• Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. – Gil Stern
• The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. – Source Unknown
• From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. – Samuel Goldwyn, 1879-1974, American Motion Picture Producer
• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. – James M. Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish author
• If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes. – John Wooden, American Basketball Coach and Player
• Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. – Sophocles, 496-406 B.C., Greek Tragic Dramatist
• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American Journalist and Author
• The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet and Essayist
• Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. – Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, American Inventor and Entrepreneur
• To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. – George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-born American Philosopher
• If you believe everything you read, you better not read. – Japanese Proverb

Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese. – Billie Burke, 1885-1970, American Actress

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates, 470-399 B.C., Greek Philosopher

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. – George Washington, 1732-1799, 1st President of the United States

Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to. – Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878-1969, American Clergyman

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. – Erma Bombeck, 1927-1996, American Journalist/Author/Humorist

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. – Plato, 427-347 B.C., Greek Philosopher

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