March 2012
269 posts
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“Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.”
– Eric Sevareid
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“Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.”
– Evan Esar
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“Good taste is the enemy of comedy.”
– Mel Brooks
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“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”
– George Santayana
February 2012
223 posts
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“He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer,...”
– Albert Pike
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“The only time to buy these is on a day with no ‘y’ in it.”
– Warren Buffett
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“Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless...”
– Alvin Toffler
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“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How...”
– Ray Bradbury
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“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in...”
– Robertson Davies
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“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
– Mark Twain
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“Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It’s a relief...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
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“A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don’t do it.”
– Eric Schmidt
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.”
– Voltaire
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“Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.”
– William Shakespeare
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“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells,...”
– Erich Segal
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“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a...”
– Paul Valery
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“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over...”
– A.J. Kitt
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“Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science,...”
– Richard Feynman
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“Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of...”
– Jason Fried
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“I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the...”
– Mary S. Calderone
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“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”
– Horace
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“A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.”
– George Iles
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“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is...”
– Douglas Adams
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“Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know...”
– Golda Meir
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“May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.”
– Sara June Parker
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“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
– Tallulah Bankhead
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“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads...”
– Woody Allen
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“I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.”
– Louise Nevelson
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“I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that,...”
– Colleen Wainwright
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“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a...”
– Dan Quayle
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“Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.”
– Sir Francis Bacon
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“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take in quickly what...”
– Cicero
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“My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.”
– Mike Myers
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“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker...”
– David M. Ogilvy
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“You can’t think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write...”
– John Rogers
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“Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.”
– W.L. George
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“Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of...”
– Socrates
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“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”
– Cary Grant
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“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to...”
– Mark Twain
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“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left...”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention...”
– William Bridges
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“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”
– Thomas Fuller
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“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to...”
– Og Mandino
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“Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the...”
– Joey Bishop
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“Pain (any pain—emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information...”
– Peter McWilliams
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“The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something...”
– Ann Richards
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“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
– William Shakespeare
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“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as...”
– Carl Sagan
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“You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it’s a little thing,...”
– Albert Schweitzer