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"Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it." --David Guy Powers
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." --Jonathan Winters
"The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." --Helen Rowland
"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." --Victor Kiam
"If you want to do something, do it!" --Plautus
"Why always, 'not yet?' Do flowers in spring say, 'not yet?'" --Norman Douglas
"When everything has to be right, something isn't." --Stanislaw Lec
"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present."
"Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow." --Horace
"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it." --Henry Moore
"Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift."
--William James
"There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back."
--Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind." --Bulgarian proverb
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." --Jonathan Winters
"The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." --Helen Rowland
"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." --Victor Kiam
"If you want to do something, do it!" --Plautus
"Why always, 'not yet?' Do flowers in spring say, 'not yet?'" --Norman Douglas
"When everything has to be right, something isn't." --Stanislaw Lec
"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present."
"Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow." --Horace
"One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it." --Henry Moore
"Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift."
--William James
"There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back."
--Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind." --Bulgarian proverb
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Walter Hagen -
"You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.”
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"You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.”
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Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Mark Twain - 1835-1910
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
