...After all, all he did was string together a lot of old well-known quotations.

-- H.L. Mencken on Shakespeare, Unknown , Unknown

...it doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are-- if it doesn't agree with experiment it's wrong.

-- R.P. Feynman, Unknown , Unknown

...some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 308, 1995

...the very notion of time management is a misnomer. For we cannot manage time. We can only manage ourselves in relation to time. We cannot control how much time we have; we can only control how we use it. We cannot choose whether to spend it, but only how.

-- Alec Mackenzie., The Time Trap. American Management Association., 1990

...this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

-- Mary Pickford, Unknown , Unknown

A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anyone to serve on a committee.

-- Fletcher Knebel, Unknown , Unknown

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

A good education is like a savings account. The more you put into it, the richer you are.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

A good life lasts for generations.

-- A greeting card. The Borealis Press G-Line, Unknown , 1999.

A great oak is only a little nut that held its ground.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

-- Jackie Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

A little folly now and then is cherished by the wisest men.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

-- Frederick Douglass, Unknown , Unknown

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than an educated family.

-- Harry S. Truman, Unknown , Unknown

A person's wound is where their passion is born.

-- Marilyn Hamilton, Unknown , Unknown

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

-- James A. Garfield, Unknown , Unknown

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

-- Duke Ellington, Unknown , Unknown

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

-- Charles F. Kettering, Unknown , Unknown

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

-- Walter Lippmann, Unknown , Unknown

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.

-- Annie Dillard, Unknown , Unknown

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

-- Grace Murray Hopper, Unknown , Unknown

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

-- Kurt Lewin, Unknown , Unknown

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

-- Sir Richard Livingston, Unknown , Unknown

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

-- George Patton, Unknown , Unknown

Advancement will come with hard work

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Advice should be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

-- Amelia E. Barr, 1831-1919, All the Days of My Life, 1913

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

All things are difficult before they are easy.

-- Thomas Fuller, Unknown , Unknown

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , born November 30, 1835

All your hard work will soon pay off.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

Always be diplomatic before inserting a knife in your enemy's back.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

-- Lena Horne, in interview, 1985

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

-- John Quincy Adams, Unknown , Unknown

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

-- Harold Rosenberg, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

-- Niels Bohr, Unknown , Unknown

Any idiot can face a crisis--it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

-- Anton Chekhov, Unknown , Unknown

Anything more dull and commonplace it wouldn't be easy to reproduce.

-- The London Times, on Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Unknown , Unknown

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they are yours.

-- Richard Bach, Unknown , Unknown

As too many people forget, the most critical ingredient of success is being there when they want you.

-- Emma Lathen, By Hook or By Crook, Unknown

Aspire to Inspire before you Expire

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

-- Edward Young, Night Thoughts, Line 417, Unknown

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

-- Bette Davis, Mother Goddamn, 1974

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Bad spellers of the world, Untie!

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be careful what you choose. You may get it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be different--if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

-- Ed Koch, Unknown , 1996

Be prepared.

-- Boy Scout Motto, Unknown , Unknown

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Beauty is in the details.

-- German proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Beep beep.

-- Roadrunner, Chuck Jones, Warner Bros cartoon, Unknown

Before enlightenment, there is much carrying of water; after enlightenment, there is much carrying of water.

-- Buddhist saying, Unknown , Unknown

Behind every successful woman...is a substantial amount of coffee.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

-- Adolph Monod, Unknown , Unknown

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

-- Adolph Monod, Unknown , Unknown

Blessed are those who are flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

-- Jonathan Swift, Unknown , Unknown

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , 1856-1950

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

-- Charles Peters, Unknown , Unknown

But if you don't have fun doing this thing, my friend, then it will be the dumbest damned thing you have ever done. I don't mean taking weight off and keeping it off, I mean the crucial matter of gaining control of part of your life. That's what you'd better glory in; otherwise you might as well ask your mother what to do next.

-- Richard Watson, The philosopher's diet: How to loose weight and change the world, Unknown

But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me

-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "Answered, for Lord William Hamilton", 1758

By their fruits you will know them.

-- Matthew 7:16, The Bible, Unknown

Cab drivers are living proof that practice does not make perfect.

-- Howard Ogden, Unknown , Unknown

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

-- Plutarch, Life of Marcus Cato, Unknown

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

-- Garrison Keillor, Unknown , Unknown

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

-- Joseph Wood Krutch, Unknown , Unknown

Causes of violence: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principles.

-- Mahatma Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional.

-- Roger Crawford, Unknown , 2002

Chance favors the prepared mind.

-- Louis Pasteur, Unknown , Unknown

Change is good. You go first.

-- Scott Adams., Dilbert cartoon., Unknown

Church ain't out 'til the fat lady sings.

-- Southern USA Saying, Unknown , Unknown

Coasting only takes you downhill.

-- Roger Crawford, Unknown , 2002

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

-- Henry Ford, Unknown , Unknown

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

-- Leonard Binder, Unknown , born August 20, 1927

Confidence is the mother of incentive.

-- Greg Henry Quinn, 365 Meditations for Teachers, May 4, 1995

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

-- John Billings, Unknown , 1818-1885

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

-- David Gerrold, Unknown , Unknown

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

-- Ambrose Redmoon, Unknown , Unknown

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.

-- Robert Heinlein, "This I believe" National Public Radio series, c1951

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it, establish your priorities and go to work.

-- Hunt, Unknown , Unknown

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

-- Gordon Graham, Unknown , Unknown

Defining your criteria for success is easier when you suck. As you get better, it becomes harder. The steps are smaller and smaller.

-- Bode Miller, Olympic skier,, Newsweek interview, p. 44, January 23, 2006

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-- Bob Rivera & Peter Yates, janitors, Kingswood Regional High., Unknown , 1991

Do not judge others, and God will not judge you...The measure you use for others is the one that God will use for you.

-- Luke 6:37-38, Unknown , Unknown

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

-- Lyndon B. Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be hasty; prosperity will knock on your door soon.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

-- email humor, Unknown , Unknown

Don't be too stupid to be lazy.

-- West Indies proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Don't bother me. I'm living happily ever after.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Don't just live the length of your life, live the width of it as well.

-- Diane Ackerman, Unknown , Unknown

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

-- Mary Manin Morrissey, Unknown , Unknown

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

-- Howard Aiken., Unknown , Unknown

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

-- Malcolm X, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the best provision for old age.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

-- Pete Seeger, Unknown , born 1919

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

-- Woody Allen, Unknown , Unknown

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

-- Marlon Brando, Unknown , Unknown

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

-- Paul Goodman, Unknown , Unknown

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

-- Harry Anderson, Unknown , Unknown

Every job is a self-portrait of the individual who did it.

-- Carolyn Coats, Things Your Mother Always Told you but You Didn't Want to Hear, 1994

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

-- Edward Gibbon, Unknown , Unknown

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

-- E.W. Howe, Unknown , Unknown

Every time you swim out to the rock, it gets a little closer.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

-- Erica Jong, Unknown , Unknown

Excellence can be attained if you -Care more often than others think wise. -Risk more often than others think is safe. -Dream more often than others think is practical. -Expect more than others think is possible.

-- Janet Cagery, Unknown , Unknown

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Facing it, always facing it. That's the way to get through. Face it.

-- Joseph Conrad, Unknown , Unknown

Facing up to your mistakes keeps you from repeating them. Successful people make plenty of mistakes but hardly ever the same one twice.

-- Debra A. Benton, Lions Don't Need to Roar. Warner Books, 1993

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

-- John Wood, Unknown , Unknown

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

-- George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch, 1871-2

Failure is an experience, not an individual.

-- Geneva Gay, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Unknown

Failure is not the end but is the opportunity to try again.

-- Tommy Phelps, Western Kentucky University student, Unknown , Unknown

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

-- Truman Capote, Unknown , Unknown

Failures are divided into 2 classes those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

-- John Charles Salak, Unknown , Unknown

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

-- Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys, 1886

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take up ranks with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, for they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat

-- Theodore Roosevelt., Unknown , Unknown

First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then I was dying to finish college and start working. And then I was dying to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could return to work. And then I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying…And suddenly realize I forgot to live.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

-- Mohandas Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

Flops are a part of life's menu, and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

-- Rosalind Russell, New York Herald Tribune, April 11, 1957

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love.

-- John Burroughs, Unknown , Unknown

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong.

-- H. L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

For you to be successful sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

-- Rita Mae Brown, Unknown , Unknown

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable, and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

-- G. K. Chesterton, Unknown , Unknown

Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt

-- Dorothy Parker, "Inventory," Enough Rope, 1927

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

-- Thomas A. Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown

Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there; make it happen.

-- Lee Iacocca, Unknown , Unknown

Get your mind set…..Confidence will lead you on.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

-- William Saroyan, Unknown , Unknown

Good sense is the master of human life.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

-- Joseph Conrad, Unknown , born December 3, 1857

Half the misery in the world is caused by ignorance. The other half is caused by knowledge.

-- Bonar Thompson, Unknown , born 1888

Happiness is not a destination…it's a way of life.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Happiness is that state of consciousness that proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

-- Ayn Rand, Unknown , Unknown

Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

He didn't give a darn who chaired the meeting as long as he took the minutes….with reference to Stalin.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.

-- Francis Bacon, Unknown , Unknown

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

-- Mae West, Unknown , 1892-1980

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

-- Hypatia, in Elbert Hubbard, (1908) Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, c. 370-415

Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on go, …Only shooting stars break the mold.

-- Greg Camp of the music group Smash Mouth, song, 'All Star', 1999

Hitting the kid with the ball might get you the ball, but it won't get you anyone to throw it to.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Honor lies in honest toil.

-- Grover Cleveland, Unknown , Unknown

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

-- Vachel Lindsay, Unknown , Unknown

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

-- Coco Chanel, Unknown , Unknown

How terrible when all people speak well of you; their ancestors said the very same things about the false prophets.

-- Luke 6:26, Unknown , Unknown

I always intended to do things, but life always got in the way of my intentions, and I was like a passengr riding in a getaway car, randomly throwing assignments out the window like a drive-by criminal.

-- Jessica McMeans, undergraduate, personal review of her coursework, April, 2005

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

-- Stephen Leacock, Unknown , Unknown

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

-- William E. Henley, Unknown , Unknown

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

-- Sir Isaac Newton, Unknown , Unknown

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Unknown , Unknown

I do everything I set my mind to!...now where did I set my mind?

-- t-shirt slogan, Unknown , Unknown

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

-- Jackie Robinson, "This I believe" National Public Radio series, c1951

I don't deserve this award but then I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

-- Jack Benny, Unknown , Unknown

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

-- Benjamin Barber, Unknown , Unknown

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

-- Bill Cosby, Unknown , Unknown

I get up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.

-- E.B. White, Unknown , Unknown

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

-- Clara Barton, Unknown , Unknown

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

-- B. Russell, Unknown , Unknown

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

-- Vita Sackville-West, Unknown , Unknown

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

-- Langston Hughes, Unknown , Unknown

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest of caution.

-- Werner Von Braun, Unknown , Unknown

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game's winning shot…and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why…I succeed.

-- Michael Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me

-- Sara Teasdale, "Riches," Love Songs, 1917

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

-- Ulysses S. Grant, Unknown , Unknown

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

-- Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, 1913

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

-- Golda Meir, Unknown , Unknown

I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility and dignity but for my fool.

-- Dr Theodore I Rubin, Love Me, Love My Fool, McKay, 1976

I must study politics and war that my sons will have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

-- Augusten Burroughs, Unknown , Unknown

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

-- Sarah Louise (Sadie) Delany, Having Our Say, 1992

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public--talent in privacy.

-- Marilyn Monroe, Ms. Magazine, August 1972

I started with nothing and I still have most of it.

-- bumper sticker, Unknown , Unknown

I started with nothing…and I still have most of it left.

-- Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too…. I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.

-- Pearl Cleage, Unknown , Unknown

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Unknown , 1917-1963

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.

-- Bessie Delany, Unknown , Unknown

I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Glenda Jackson, Unknown , Unknown

I was like probably most of you. I did not graduate Summa Cum Laude or Magna Cum Laude, I graduated, Oh Thank You Lordy!

-- Andrew Young, Mayor of Atlanta, Unknown , 1987

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, “This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!”

-- Lewis Mumford, To National Book Awards Committee, 'My Works and Days' Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

-- Bertrand Russell, Unknown , Unknown

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

-- James A. Garfield, Unknown , Unknown

I would rather fail in a cause that someday will triumph, than to win in a cause that I know will someday fail.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

-- e e cummings, Unknown , Unknown

I'm very brave generally only today I happen to have a headache.

-- character "Tweedledum" by Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Unknown

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

-- Lilly Tomlin, Unknown , Unknown

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

-- John Galsworthy, Unknown , born August 14, 1867

If a free society cannot help the many that are poor; it cannot save the few that are rich.

-- John F. Kennedy, Unknown , Unknown

If a government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.

-- Gerald Ford, Unknown , Unknown

If a job is worth doing, then get someone in to do it properly.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

-- Marin Luther King, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, you have two choices - try again or read the instructions.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

-- Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1947

If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

-- Ovid, Unknown , Unknown

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

-- Grandma Moses, My Life's History, 1947

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

-- Hal Abelson, Unknown , Unknown

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

-- Isaac Newton, Unknown , Unknown

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

-- William Booth, Unknown , born 1829

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

-- Michelangelo Buonnarroti, Unknown , Unknown

If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

-- Latin proverb, Unknown , Unknown

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

-- Edward A. Murphy, Jr., Original formulation of "Murphy's Law", Air Force flight safety manuals., 1949

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

-- Gail Sheehy, Unknown , 1937-

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

-- Dan Quayle, Unknown , Unknown

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

-- W.H. Auden, Unknown , Unknown

If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?

-- Ellen Goodman, Unknown , Unknown

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

-- Hyman Rickover, Unknown , 1900-1986

If you are made of the right stuff, a hard fall results in a high bounce.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

If you cain't bear no crosses, You cain't wear no crown.

-- African-American spiritual, Unknown , Unknown

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

-- Jean Kerr, Unknown , born July 10, 1923

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

-- George Carlin, Unknown , Unknown

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

-- Harry S. Truman, Unknown , Unknown

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway…The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway….give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

-- Mother Teresa, Meditations from a Simple Path, Unknown

If you don't open your mouth, you don't get fed.

-- Old Saying, Unknown , Unknown

If you ever think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito.

-- Anita Roddick, Unknown , 1996

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

-- Jimmy Carter, Unknown , Unknown

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

-- Marcus Garvey, Unknown , Unknown

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

-- Katharine Hepburn, Unknown , Unknown

If you rest, you rust.

-- Helen Hayes, My Life in Three Acts, 1990

If you think education is expensive--try ignorance.

-- Derek Bok, Unknown , Unknown

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

-- Mary Kay Ash, Unknown , Unknown

If you wait until you're really sure, you'll never take off the training wheels.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you wish to, you will have an opportunity.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

If you're looking to find the key to the Universe, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is - there is no key to the Universe. The good news is - the universe has been left unlocked.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

If you're not scared to death, you haven't collected enough information.

-- Eileen Mason, Unknown , Unknown

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte, Unknown , 1769-1821

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

-- Eric Hoffer, Unknown , 1973

In America, Anyone Can Be President. That's One of the Risks You Take.

-- Bob Levey's Washington column "Best T-shirts of the summer", Washington Post, Unknown

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

-- Brian K. Reid, Unknown , Unknown

In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

-- George Crabbe, The Birth of Flattery, Unknown

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

-- John Ruskin, Unknown , Unknown

In politics, the middle way is no way at all.

-- James A. Garfield, Unknown , Unknown

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Unknown , Unknown

In reality, serendipity accounts for 1 percent of the blessings we receive in life, work, and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

-- Peter McWilliams, Unknown , Unknown

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

-- Gerald Holton, Unknown , Unknown

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

-- E. Hoffer, Unknown , Unknown