What we say about others says more about us than about them.
We do not need more knowledge, we need more character! - President Calvin Coolidge
You can't get ahead while getting even. (Dick Armey)
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. - Vince Lombardi
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. (Abraham Lincoln)
The only way out is through. (?Ralph Waldo Emerson or Robert Frost?)
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty
sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. (Elizabeth Taylor)
All progress, all success, springs from thinking. (led Thomas Edison to file more than 1,000 patents)
I read the Bible and the newspaper everyday, that way I know what both sides are up to. (Zig Ziglar 1/17/1998)
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
Best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them! (Mark Victor Hansen)
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. (Abraham Maslow-psychologist)
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. (J. Jenkins)
Happiness depends on happinings, Joy depends on Jesus (Our Daily Bread 1998/6/3)
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees calamity in every opportunity. (Winston Churchill)
When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us. (Alexander Graham Bell)
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute, but let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour... That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
It's a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job, it releases tension needed for his work. - sculptor Henry Moore
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that (only) one of them is doing the thinking, - Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Procrastination is the seed of self-destuction (Tim Bryan?)
Pain is short-lived, but Pride lasts a lifetime (Elvis Stojko)
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought (John F. Kennedy)
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit.(P.J.O'Rourke)
If a man trades his liberty for security... he deserves neither.
(They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin 1759)
Small Minds talk about People; Average Minds talk about things; Great Minds talk about Ideas.
Evil prevails when good men and women do nothing.
If you don't have time to do it right the first time, why think you'll have time to do it over?
If you want something you've never had, you must do something you've never done.
Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. (Coach John Wooden, UCLA "They Call Me Coach")
Make measurable progress in reasonable time or make substantial changes.
If you don't stop where you're going, you'll end up where you're headed.
Good things come to those who wait... but when they come, they're out of date. But here's a rule that's slicker... He who goes for what he wants, will get it that much quicker.
10% of the people in this country own 90% of the wealth because of their habits and attitudes!
The majority sees the obstacles, and only a few see the objectives. History records the latter. (Helen Keller)
Few things are harder to put up with, than the annoyance of a good example. (Mark Twain)
Luck is a loser's excuse for a winner's commitment. (Dexter Yager)
Goals are perspiration, Dreams will always be the Inspiration. (Jody Victor)
Quitters make a decision not to win, Winners make a decision not to quit.
One-Liners - Page 1 was last updated on
November 15, 2001.