...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

90% of all statistics are made up.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a work station…

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

-- Sir Thomas George Barnett Cocks, Unknown , born 1907

A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours.

-- Milton Berle, Unknown , born July 12, 1908

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

-- Martin Fischer, Unknown , born November 10, 1879

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

-- Fred Allen., Unknown , Unknown

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , born November 4, 1879

A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.

-- Kenneth Tynan, Unknown , Unknown

A cynic is one who will laugh at anything as long as it isn't funny.

-- 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 degree of chaos is essential to discover what we don't know we're looking for.

-- George ?, theater designer, Box Conspiracy play., Unknown , Unknown

A diplomat is one who can tell a man he's open-minded when he means he has a hole in his head.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A diplomat thinks twice before saying nothing.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for logic.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

-- William Cowper, Conversation. Line 96., Unknown

A free society is one in which it is safe to be unpopular.

-- Adlai Stevenson, Unknown , Unknown

A good catchword can obscure analysis for 50 years.

-- Wendell Wilkie, Unknown , Unknown

A good education is important. It enables you to pick out the most important things to worry about.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A good life lasts for generations.

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

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

-- Nelson Mandela, Unknown , Unknown

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

-- William James, Unknown , Unknown

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

-- Dutch proverb, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Jackie Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

A little kingdom I possess, Where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.

-- Louisa May Alcott, Unknown , born November 29, 1832

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself.

-- Richard Nixon, Unknown , Unknown

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

-- Morimer Zuckerman, USNews & World Report, 1998, January 12

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

-- Alexander Pope, Unknown , Unknown

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

-- Wiliam Burroughs, Unknown , Unknown

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

-- Joseph Joubert, Unknown , 1754-1824

A PBS mind in an MTV world.

-- Bumper Sticker, Unknown , Unknown

A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.

-- Terry Carr, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Marilyn Hamilton, Unknown , Unknown

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , Unknown

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

-- John W. Gardner, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Duke Ellington, 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 single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up to make new trees.

-- Lawrence g. Lovasik, Unknown , 1913-1986

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

-- Alexander Cannon, Unknown , Unknown

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , born September 12, 1880.

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

-- Lord Samuel Mancroft, Unknown , born July 27, 1914

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 teacher is a person who knows all the answers but only when she asks the questions.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A teacher's day is one-half bureaucracy, one-half crisis, one-half monotony, and one-eightieth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.

-- Susan Ohanian, 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

A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

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

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-- and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

-- Clark Kerr, Unknown , born 1911

A university floats on paper and rewards the creation of more words on paper.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

A university, if it is any good, is open-ended: the person of the most humble beginnings may rise to the highest office. To be sure, he is most likely to do so if he takes on something of the coloration of the university….He must judge delicately how much of that coloration is natural to him, or he will be thought a parvenu, a climber, merely ambitious rather than incidentally ambitious.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

-- James Buchanan, Unknown , Unknown

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"-- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

-- Richard Rorty, Chronicle of Higher Education, pg A48, Feb. 9, 1996

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to a conclusion, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

-- Noel Gilroy Annan, Unknown , born December 25, 1916

Academic vows: poverty, bibliography, and jargon

-- Leo Rosten, Unknown , Unknown

Actions speak louder than words.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Advancement will come with hard work

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

-- Philip Dormer Stanhope, Unknown , born September 22, 1694

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

-- Evelyn Underhill, Unknown , Unknown

All generalizations are false.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

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

All things are difficult before they are easy.

-- Thomas Fuller, Unknown , Unknown

All work is empty save when there is love.

-- Kahlil Gibran, 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

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

-- John Stuart Mill, Unknown , born May 20, 1806

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

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

Americans are always looking for a magic bullet.

-- William Castelli, M.D., Unknown , Unknown

An educated person is one who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living and doesn't teach them how to live.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who can take something you already know and make it sound confusing.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Anton Chekhov, Unknown , Unknown

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955

Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Anybody can do any amount of work, so long as it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing.

-- Robert Benchley, Unknown , Unknown

Appeal to reason in your advertising and you appeal to 4% of the human race.

-- Advice given at a 1923 conference on advertising., Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Richard Bach, Unknown , Unknown

Aristotle noted that it was a mark of understanding to know what sorts of things can be proven and made precise, and what sorts, on the other hand, require our tolerance of vagueness and probable conclusions.

-- John Churchill, From the Secretary: Inspiring Conversations in The Key Reporter. Vol 67, Number 4. P. 2., Summer 2002

As God once said, and I think rightly.…

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

-- Adelle Davis., Unknown , Unknown

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

-- Josh Billings, Unknown , born 1818

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

-- Will Durant, Unknown , Unknown

Ask God to bless your food, but don't expect him to make your bread.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Ask why until you understand.

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

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

-- Henry Winkler, Unknown , 1995

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

-- Leon Botstein, Unknown , born December 14, 1946

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

-- Kyong Ho, (1849-1912), Unknown

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

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Baruch's Observation: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Basic Law of Construction: Cut it large and kick it into place.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be careful what you choose. You may get it.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

-- Elie Wiesel, Legends of Our Time, 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 obscure clearly.

-- E. B. White, Unknown , born July 11, 1908

Be prepared.

-- Boy Scout Motto, Unknown , Unknown

Be the change you want to see in the world.

-- Gandhi, Unknown , Unknown

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

-- Justice Antonin Scalia, Unknown , Unknown

Beauty is in the details.

-- German proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Being in Congress doesn't make you a leader any more than going to the garage makes you a car.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

-- Margaret Thatcher, Unknown , Unknown

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.

-- William Hale White, 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

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

-- Laurence J. Peter, Unknown , Unknown

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 this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

-- Euripedes, 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

Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.

-- Batman Costume warning, Unknown , Unknown

Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional.

-- Roger Crawford, Unknown , 2002

Change has considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

-- King Whitney, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

-- Henry Brook Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, Unknown

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

-- Charlotte Bronte, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Southern USA Saying, Unknown , Unknown

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on Society.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Coasting only takes you downhill.

-- Roger Crawford, Unknown , 2002

Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

-- William Shakespeare, MacBeth I, III, Unknown

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

-- Henry Ford, Unknown , Unknown

Computers will never be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost.

-- Laurence J. Peter, Unknown , born September 16, 1919

Conference: A place where conversation is substituted for the dreariness of labor and the loneliness of thought.

-- Anonymous, 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

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

-- John Billings, Unknown , 1818-1885

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

-- William Allen White, Unknown , Unknown

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

-- Blaise Pascal, Unknown , born June 19, 1623

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

Courageous risks are life giving, they help you grow, make you brave and better than you think you are.

-- Joan L. Curcio, Unknown , Unknown

Crawling still gets you there.

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

Curb an excessively independent attitude.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Cutbacks, on top of cutbacks already made, were in the air, though no one had yet used the word, which was a technical term and a magical charm to be used only at the time when items in the budget were actually being crossed off. It was a technical term in that you could refer to "shifting resources" and "reallocating funds" right up to the moment you told some guy that his research assistant was being fired and his new lab equipment was not being ordered, and it was a magical charm because it instantly transformed the past into a special, golden epoch, the grand place that all things had been cut back from.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 20-21., 1995

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

Deliberation is the work of many men; action, of one alone.

-- Charles de Gaulle, Unknown , Unknown

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

-- G. K. Chesterton, Unknown , born May 29, 1874

Departmental conflicts, which were many, it turned out, were spoken of only by allusion and only in low voices.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 57, 1995

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 your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.

-- Robert E. Lee, Unknown , 1807-1870

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

-- Lyndon B. Johnson, 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 let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Don't let friends impose on you. Work calmly and silently.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Don't presume that I will respond in a logical or rational manner.

-- on a Button, 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

Each new change grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

-- Hal Borland, Unknown , Unknown

Educated people do not simply believe; they believe what they can explain and cogently defend.

-- S.M. Cahn, Unknown , Unknown

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

-- Robert Frost, Unknown , born 1874

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.

-- Robert Frost, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Pete Seeger, Unknown , born 1919

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

-- Lord Brougham, Unknown , Unknown

Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no known cure for a big head.

-- J. Graham, Unknown , Unknown

Education: That which reveals to the wise, conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

-- Woody Allen, Unknown , Unknown

Elites feel able to rise above their own rules, since they create them: no one can attend faculty meetings for long without discovering that rules are normative, not binding.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, 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

Even when all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.

-- Bertrand (Arthur William) Russell), Unknown , born May 18, 1872

Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but going faster is a maniac?

-- George Carlin, Unknown , Unknown

Every decision you make is a mistake.

-- Edward Dahlberg, 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 must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

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

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 I've built character, I've regretted it.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

-- Marcel Proust, Unknown , born July 10, 1871

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

-- Gertrude Stein, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.

-- Irish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

-- Tolstoy, Unknown , Unknown

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

-- Beryl Bainbridge, 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

Experience is what you get when you expected something else.

-- Anonymous, 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 is not the end but is the opportunity to try again.

-- Tommy Phelps, Western Kentucky University student, 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

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

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.

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

Foolishness is infinitely more fascinating than intelligence…. Intelligence has limits while foolishness has none.

-- Claude Chabrol, Unknown , born June 24, 1930

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings.

-- George Will, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- John Burroughs, Unknown , Unknown

For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

For every complex question there is a simple answer -- and it's wrong.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Unknown , bron November 13, 1850

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

-- Ingrid Bengis, Unknown , Unknown

For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, 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

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

Generosity is giving more than you can…pride is taking less than you need.

-- Unknown , 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 facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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

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

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Give me liberty or give me death!

-- Misattributed to Patrick Henry long after his death., Unknown , Unknown

God is in the details.

-- Mies Van Der Rohe, Unknown , Unknown

God put me here on this Earth to do certain things. At this point I'm so far behind I'll never die.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

-- Anonymous, 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

Grief is the price of victory.

-- Frank Herbert, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Bonar Thompson, Unknown , born 1888

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

-- Storm Jameson, Unknown , 1891-1986

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

-- Ingrid Bergman, Unknown , born August 29, 1915

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

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advise it is merely custom.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical questions?

-- Geroge E. Bradley, print media column, "Ever Wonder?", Unknown

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

-- Abraham Lincoln., 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 prayed—it wasn’t my religion. He ate—it wasn’t what I ate. He spoke—it wasn’t my language. He dressed—it wasn’t what I wore. He took my hand—it wasn’t the color of mine. But when he laughed—it was how I laughed, and when he cried—it was how I cried

-- Amy Maddox, age 16, Franklin Community High School. Bargersville, IN, "Underneath we're all the same", Unknown

He sought advice readily, always a good quality in an administrator, and did his own Xeroxing.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 62, 1995

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

-- Francis Bacon, Unknown , Unknown

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts-- for support rather than illumination.

-- Andrew Lang, Unknown , Unknown

He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, He is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not, He is a child, teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows, He is asleep, wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise, follow him.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

-- Jose Ortega Y Gassett, Meditations on Quixote, 1914

Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy!

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!

-- Bullwinkle, Jay Ward & Bill Scott, Rocky and His Friends, aka The Bullwinkle Show cartoon, 1959

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

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 Important Are You? More than you think. A rooster minus a hen equals no baby chicks. Kellogg minus a farmer equals no corn flakes. If the nail factory closes what good is the hammer factory? Paderewski’s genius wouldn’t have amounted to much if the piano tuner hadn’t shown up. A cracker maker will do better if there’s a cheesemaker. The most skillful surgeon needs the ambulance driver who delivers the patient. Just as Rodgers needed Hammerstein you need someone and someone needs you.

-- From Wall Street Journal, 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

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

-- Anne Frank, Unknown , Unknown

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

-- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See, Unknown

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 a part of all whom I have met.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Unknown , Unknown

I am because we are.

-- African Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

-- Helen Keller, Unknown , Unknown

I belong to a greater whole so I am diminished when others are diminished by oppression or treated as though they were less than who they are. It is not I think, therefore I am. It is I am human because I belong. I participate; I share because I am made for community.

-- James A. Joseph, former Ambassador, Testimony: "What AmeriCorp Can Teach America", Sep 5, 2003

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

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

-- Edward Everett Hale, Unknown , 1822-1909

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

-- John Cage, Unknown , Unknown

I could…see in Emerson…that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

-- Herman Melville about Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

-- John Dewey, 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 have a solution, but I admire your problem.

-- Unknown , 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 don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.

-- Anne Frank, Unknown , Unknown

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now...

-- William Penn, Unknown , 1644-1718

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

-- Barbara Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

-- Clark Kerr, Unknown , born 1911

I fully realize that I have not succeeded in answering all of your questions…Indeed, I feel I have not answered any of them completely. The answers I have found only serve to raise a whole new set of questions, which only lead to more problems, some of which we weren’t even aware were problems. To sum it all up…In some ways I feel we are confused as ever, but I believe we are confused on a higher level, and about more important things.

-- Unknown, 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 give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Unknown , baptized May 26, 1689

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

-- Whitfield Diffie., 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 made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

-- Blaise Pascal, Unknown , born June 19, 1623

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of the people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by the heroism of those who are willing to struggle to make one small difference after another.

-- Ellen Goodman, Unknown , Unknown

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

-- Harold Macmillan, Unknown , Unknown

I hear and I forget. I see and remember. I do and I understand.

-- Chinese Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

I know of no rule that holds so true as that we are paid for our suspicions by discovering that which we suspect.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Unknown , Unknown

I like life. It's something to do.

-- Ronnie Shakes, Unknown , Unknown

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 personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

-- Lily Tomlin, Unknown , Unknown

I refuse to star in your psychodrama.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

-- Patricia Moyes, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Glenda Jackson, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Bertrand Russell, 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 like to know why life can't present all its problems when you're 17 and know all the answers.

-- A.C. Jolly, Unknown , Unknown

I'll not listen to reason….Reason always means what someone else has to say.

-- Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, 1853

I'm glad this question came up, in a way, because there are so many different ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right.

-- Robert Benchley, Unknown , born September 15, 1889

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

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

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

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

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

-- L. Ron Hubbard, Unknown , Unknown

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

-- J. Harlen Bretz., 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 vain, flatter. If timid, flatter. If boastful, flatter. In all history, too much flattery never lost a gentleman.

-- Kathryn Cravens, Unknown , Unknown

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

-- 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 don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

-- Arthur Ashe, Unknown , Unknown

If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends--you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

-- Alice Duer Miller, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- William Booth, Unknown , born 1829

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

-- Nikki Giovannit, Unknown , Unknown

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

-- Edith Wharton, 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 is anything education does not lack today, it is critics.

-- Nathan M. Pusey, Unknown , Unknown

If we had had more time for discussing we probably would've made a great many more mistakes.

-- Leon Trotsky, Unknown , born November 7, 1879

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

-- FMEA, Stamatis, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- African-American spiritual, Unknown , Unknown

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? 5? no, 4. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Unknown , Unknown

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.

-- Mo Udall, 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 talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

-- Stanley Kubrick, Unknown , born July 26, 1928

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

If you can't forecast accurately, forecast often

-- Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Harry Vaughan. Misattributed to Harry 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 ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

-- Audrey Hepburn, Unknown , 1929-1993

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 feel that you have both feet planted on the ground then the university has failed you.

-- Robert F. Goheen, Unknown , born August 15, 1919

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others!

-- Dolores Huerta, Unknown , Unknown

If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

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

If you look in the right places, you can find good offerings.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Katharine Hepburn, Unknown , Unknown

If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.

-- Kuan Chung, 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 become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else.

-- Clinton Davidson, Unknown , Unknown

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 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

If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

-- Dalai Lama, Unknown , Unknown

Ignorance is salvageable but stupid is forever.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Ignorance never settles a question.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold.

-- Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilbur, Unknown , Unknown

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

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 any academic community there are scholars of whom it is said that they have twenty fresh ideas a day, ten of them quite mad, five naïve or stupid, three without point, and two exciting and potentially of great value. Most bureaucracies, seeking to homogenize their members, would not tolerate so low-level a return; any sound university will bear with eighteen expressions of madness, stupidity, and nonproductivity in exchange for two of great value.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

In music we gain a sense of rhythm through the absence of sound. A similar process occurs in communication between two people.

-- Sheldon Roth, Unknown , 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, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

-- Margaret Thatcher, b. 1925, Unknown , 1970

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

-- Napolean Bonaparte, 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

Information can’t be put in any container that isn’t leaky.

-- Spider Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

-- Nomi Whalen, Unknown , born 1932

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values.

-- Gerald Brenan, Unknown , Unknown

Invest in a human soul. Who knows? It might be a diamond in the rough.

-- Mary McLeod Bethune, Unknown , Unknown

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

-- June Singer, Unknown , Unknown

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.

-- J. R. R. Tolkien, Unknown , Unknown

It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

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

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a four day vacation, the thin veneer of family unity wears off almost at once, and you are revealed in your true personalities.

-- Shirley Jackson, Unknown , Unknown

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

-- Rebecca West, Unknown , Unknown

It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

-- Tom Stoppard, Unknown , born July 3, 1937

It is better to know nothing than to learn nothing.

-- Hebrew Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

It is better to know some of the questions than all the answers.

-- J. Thurber, Unknown , Unknown

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

-- Agatha Christie, Unknown , born September 15, 1890

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

It is easier to move a cemetery than to effect a change in curriculum.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

-- Johann von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

-- Ursula K. LeGuin, Unknown , Unknown

It is good to kill an Admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

-- Voltaire, Unknown , Unknown

It is hard: to forget, to apologize, to save money, to be unselfish, to avoid mistakes, to keep your temper at all times, to think first and act afterwards, to maintain a high standard, to keep on keeping on, to shoulder the blame, to be charitable, to admit error, to take advice, to forgive. But it is right to do these things.

-- 'Newsletter' Newsletter, Unknown , 1994, February

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person’s behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

-- Robert A. Heinlein, Unknown , Unknown

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

-- Ovid, Metamorphoses. IV. 428, Unknown

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

-- Blaise Pascal, Unknown , born June 19, 1623

It is not doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret to happiness.

-- James Barrie, Unknown , Unknown

It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

-- Voltaire, Unknown , born November 21, 1694

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

-- Descartes, Unknown , Unknown

It is not important to be the best…just do your best.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

-- Caron deBeaumarchais, Unknown , Unknown

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, "Citizenship in a Republic", April 23, 1910

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

-- C.W. Leadbeater, Unknown , Unknown

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

-- Margaret Bonnano, Unknown , Unknown

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

-- Rebecca West, Unknown , born December 21, 1892

It is tiresome to hear education discussed, tiresome to educate, and tiresome to be educated.

-- William Lamb, Unknown , Unknown

It is up to us to change our community by holding ourselves accountable, and the politicians we elect accountable, to making a positive difference in all our communities...Get involved. Stop blaming others. Look in the mirror and ask yourself: What have I done today to make this country better?

-- Sam Sanchez, commentary aired on WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C. and quoted in Feb 15, 1995, The Washington Spectator, Unknown

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

-- John Andrew Holmes, Unknown , Unknown

It is wise to direct your anger toward problems-- not people; to focus your energies on an answer--not excuses.

-- William Arthur Ward, Unknown , Unknown

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

-- Seneca, Unknown , Unknown

It isn't what you know but the simple things you don't overlook.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

-- Walt Disney, Unknown , Unknown

It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

-- Marie-Jeanne Roland, in Lydia Maria Child, (1847) Memoirs of Madame de Stael and of Madame Roland, said in 1793

It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

It's easier to see the mistake on someone else's paper.

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

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

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

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

-- Vince Lombardi, Unknown , Unknown

It's never too late--in fiction or in life--to revise.

-- Nancy Thayer, Unknown , Unknown

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

-- George Bush, Sr., U.S. President, Unknown , Unknown

It's only in our minds that we are separate from the rest of the world.

-- Gay Luce, Unknown , Unknown

Ivar understood his position perfectly, and more than that, he accepted it as his office. The university had become a broad, bare field in the center of which he stood alone, while everyone else covered their heads and fled. His job was to stand there, smiling, pretending that everything was fine, while sniper fire from the press, the regents, the legislature, the governor's office, the faculty senate, and the parents of students ricocheted all around him. He had to keep smiling and use certain words, "concerned," "situation," "of course," over and over again. Other, truer words and phrases ran through his head. "Fall guy" was one.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 334-5., Unknown

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.

-- Bill Clinton, Unknown , Unknown

Keep your plans secret for now.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Kindness is always fashionable.

-- Amelia E. Barr, Unknown , 1831-1919

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

-- Johann Wolfgan von Goethe, Unknown , Unknown

Knowledge is power--especially if you know about the right people.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences…Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

-- Anne Sullivan, Unknown , Unknown

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

-- John Kennedy, Unknown , Unknown

Let us always be open to the miracle of the second chance.

-- Rev. David Stier, Unknown , Unknown

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

-- Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Unknown

Liberal Arts Major…Will Think for Money

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

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

-- Annette Funicello, Unknown , Unknown

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

-- Margot Fonteyn, Unknown , Unknown

Life is a test. It is only a test. If this were your actual life, you would have been given better instructions.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

-- Kathleen Norris, Unknown , Unknown

Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

-- W.C. Handy, Unknown , Unknown

Life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, words and deeds return to us--sooner or later--with astounding accuracy.

-- Florence Shinn, Unknown , Unknown

Life never helps the man who will not act.

-- Sophocles, Unknown , Unknown

Little things affect little minds.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , Unknown

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

-- Edna Ferber, Unknown , Unknown

Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

-- Samuel Butler, Unknown , Unknown

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

-- Joseph Wood Krutch, Unknown , born November 25, 1893

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human understanding.

-- Ambrose Bierce, Unknown , born June 24, 1842

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

-- Anne McCaffrey, Unknown , Unknown

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

-- Thomas Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

-- Frantz Fanon, Unknown , Unknown

May I be no man's enemy, and may I be the friend of that which is eternal and abides. May I never quarrel with those nearest me: and if I do, may I be reconciled quickly. May I love, seek, and attain only that which is good. May I wish for all men's happiness and envy none. May I never rejoice in the ill-fortune of one who has wronged me. May I win no victory that harms either me or my opponent. May I reconcile friends who are angry with one another. May I, to the extent of my power, give all needful help to my friends and all who are in want. May I never fail a friend who is in danger. When visiting those in grief may I be able by gentle and healing words to soften their pain. May I respect myself. May I always keep tame that which rages within me. May I accustom myself to be gentle, and never be angry with people because of circumstances. May I never discuss who is wicked and what wicked things he has done, but know good men and follow in their footsteps. Amen

-- Prayer by Eusebius, from "A Time of Prayer" pg. 58, 3rd century

Measure twice. Cut once.

-- American Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.

-- John Kenneth Galbraith, Unknown , Unknown

Mercy produces courage Frugality produces generosity Humility produces leadership.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

-- Mrs. H. O. Ward, Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society Customs, Manners, Morals, and Home Culture, 1878

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

-- James Harvey Robinson, Unknown , Unknown

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

-- Robert Benchley, Unknown , born September 15, 1889.

Much that passes for education…is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

-- David P. Gardner, Unknown , Unknown

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

-- Indira Ghandi, in Carolyn Warner (ed.) (1992) The Last Word, lived 1917-1984

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

-- Helen Hayes, Unknown , Unknown

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

-- Ashleigh Brilliant, Unknown , Unknown

Natasha: You have plan, dahlink? Boris: Of course I have plan. It never works, but I always have one!

-- Natasha Fatale & Boris Badenov, Jay Ward & Bill Scott cartoon, 1959

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

-- John W. Campbell, Unknown , Unknown

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

-- Richard Whately, Unknown , Unknown

Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

-- Nick Diamos, Unknown , Unknown

Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.

-- Magdalen Nabb, Unknown , Unknown

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive, anyway.

-- Unknown., Unknown , Unknown

Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you have the power to put them there.

-- Lyndon Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Never underestimate your power to change yourself: never overestimate your power to change others.

-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Unknown , Unknown

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises: why then are you not taking part in them?

-- H.G. Wells, Unknown , Unknown

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, Unknown , born December 21, 1804

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

-- La Bruyere, Unknown , born August 16, 1645

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

-- Paul Dickson, Unknown , Unknown

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side.

-- Jascha Heifetz., Unknown , Unknown

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.

-- Anna Pavlova, Unknown , Unknown

No one can go back and make a brand new start. However, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

-- Author unknown, Unknown , Unknown

No one can have experienced to the fullest the true sense of achievement and satisfaction who has never pursued and successfully caught his tail.

-- Rosalind Welcher, referring to cats., Unknown , Unknown

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

-- Beran Wolfe, Unknown , 1900-1935

No one wants advice-- only corroboration.

-- J. Steinbeck, Unknown , Unknown

No speech can be entirely bad if it is short.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

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

None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Not a shred of evidence exists that life is serious.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

-- Edward Shepherd Mead, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is quite common. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and Determination alone are the all-powerful elements.

-- Adapted by ? From a quote by Calvin Coolidge, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

-- G. C. Lichtenberg, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

-- Dr. Samuel Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single life-time; therefore we are saved by hope.

-- Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 163, 1952

o truly enjoy... [a university], the individual--student or faculty--must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship…both in order to move the institution just that little bit away from what is was to what it could become, and also to assure at least the sense if not the reality of independence.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves."

-- Lao Tzu, Unknown , Unknown

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

-- Margaret Young., Unknown , Unknown

Oh No! Not another learning experience!

-- on a Button, Unknown , Unknown

Old habits are strong and jealous.

-- Dorothea Brande, Unknown , Unknown

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit on our own rumps.

-- Montaigne, Unknown , Unknown

On the rhinoceros: "Here is an animal with a hide two feet thick and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste."

-- James C. Wright, Jr., Unknown , born December 22, 1922

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

-- Italian proverb, Unknown , Unknown

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

-- Andre' Gide, Unknown , Unknown

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

-- Robert F. Kennedy, Unknown , born November 20, 1925

One man with courage makes a majority.

-- Andrew Jackson, Unknown , Unknown

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

-- John Wanamaker, Unknown , Unknown

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

-- Alexander A. Bogomoletz, Unknown , Unknown

One of the most important trips a person can make is that involved in meeting the other person halfway.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 20., 1995

One person is a human being; two people is politics.

-- George Velliotes, Unknown , born 1829

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things."

-- John Burroughs, Unknown , Unknown

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

-- Miguel Unamuno, Unknown , Unknown

Only people who do things make mistakes.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

Only the mediocre can always be at their best.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

-- N.D. Hillis, Unknown , Unknown

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

-- Shelby Steele, 1991, Unknown

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

-- Thomas Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

-- Bennett Cerf, Unknown , born May 25, 1898

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

-- Pearl Buck, Unknown , Unknown

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

-- Boston-NY AIDS Ride., Unknown , c2000

Our moral responsibility is not to stop the future, but to shape it... to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

-- Alvin Toffler, American futurist, Unknown , Unknown

Our problems are mostly behind us-- what we have to do now is fight the solutions.

-- Allen P. Stults, Unknown , born June 13, 1913

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

-- William Shakespeare, Unknown , Unknown

Over the years, Mrs. Loraine Walker's vision of the campus had changed. The collection of stone buildings had evolved, in her mind, into a web of offices, where secretaries sat under bright lights and near them, much more dimly, sat administrators whose grasp on things was tenuous at best. ....The only people who talked on the phone anymore were the administrators, whose whole lives, like those of chimps, were made up of nit-picking, stroking, and jockeying for dominance. ...The stony walls and concrete paths, the closed windows and doors, the trees and shrubs, all the elements of the campus that seemed to separate people, had become permeable membranes undetectable in the wafting currents of information.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 137, 1995

Paperwork is the invention of the devil.

-- Alexis A. Gilliland, Unknown , Unknown

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

People fail forward to success.

-- Mary Kay Ash, Unknown , Unknown

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

-- Anne Sullivan, letter in 'Helen Keller, The Story of My Life', Oct. 30, 1887

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , born November 4, 1879

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

-- Mary Pettibone Poole, Unknown , Unknown

People who make some other person their job are dangerous.

-- Dorothy L. Sayers, Unknown , Unknown

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader--occasionally in the right direction.

-- Alexander Chase, Unknown , Unknown

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

-- Walter Bagehot, Unknown , Unknown

Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion.

-- John Churchill, From the Secretary: Inspiring Conversations in The Key Reporter. Vol 67, Number 4. P. 2., Summer 2002

Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking place.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , born November 4, 1879

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

-- Paul Valery, Unknown , born October 30, 1871

Power can be seen as power with rather than power over, and it can be used for competence and co-operation, rather than dominance and control.

-- Anne L. Barstow, Unknown , Unknown

Practice random acts of intelligence & senseless acts of self-control.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

-- Niels Bohr, born October 7, 1885, Unknown

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

-- Pamela Vaull Starr, Unknown , Unknown

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.

-- George W. Bush, Unknown , Unknown

Rely on your own good judgment.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Remember to share good fortune as well as bad with your friends.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Remember, any jackass can kick over the barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

-- Tip O'Neil quoting Sam Rayburn, former Speaker of the House, Unknown , Unknown

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

-- Thomas A. Edison, Unknown , Unknown

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

-- Ann Landers, Unknown , Unknown

Rules are the solutions to yesterday's problems.

-- Button, Unknown , Unknown

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Say, O God, possessor of all sovereignty, you give sovereignty to whom you wish and take sovereignty from whom you wish.

-- The Koran, Chapter of the Family of Imran, Unknown , Unknown

Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , born September 12, 1880

She had actually transferred funds out of the athletic budget into the library budget from time to time, possibly her most dangerous covert action.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 140., 1995

Shortcuts aren't always.

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

Silence is learned from the talkative, Tolerance from the intolerant, Generosity from the stingy and Kindness from the unkind.

-- Ann Landers column, Unknown , pre-1995

Silence is more musical than any song.

-- Christina Rossetti, Unknown , Unknown

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

-- Jean Cocteau, Unknown , born July 5, 1889.

So many a good story is ruined by over reliance on truth.

-- James Gordon Bennett, Unknown , born Sept 1, 1795

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "The World's Need," Custer, 1896

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

-- W.E.B. Du Bois, Unknown , 1898

Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Some minds are eager for any change, and some are angry at any.

-- M. Woolsey Stryker, Unknown , 1894

Some things are stored in the heart and not in the mind.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

-- Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, Unknown , Unknown

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

-- Lin Yutang, Unknown , Unknown

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

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