One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith
When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown
Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown
All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers

Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" ~Oprah Winfrey

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" ~Oprah Winfrey

Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb

Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian

Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. ~Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, "Chuck Versus the Ring"

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison

Aspire to a lower level of harm. ~Anonymous

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger

When you lose, don't lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger

Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb

Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. ~W. Migner

When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb

When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young

Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes. ~From the television show Scrubs

Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes. ~From the television show Scrubs

Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. ~Author Unknown

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown

For visions come not to polluted eyes. ~Mary Howitt

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets

Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash

Don't let it be all in your head, nor all in your body. ~Terri Guillemets Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying

Don't let it be all in your head, nor all in your body. ~Terri Guillemets

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti

God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson

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