Clever Observations

SOME CLEVER OBSERVATIONS...

How easy it was to produce scape-goats and how readily they were accepted! This was especially true when the alternative was to find yourself either guilty or stupid or both.
Frank Herbert "Heretics of Dune"

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupery

It's not the loadthat breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
George Canning

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.
Aristotle

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Ludwig Van Beethoven

People who cannot bear to be alone are generally the worst company.
Albert Guinon

Over everymountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
James Rogers

It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

There's a mighty big difference between good sound reasons, and reasons that sound good.
Burton Hillis

A law guaranteeing privacy simply insures that bugs are that much harder to spot.

Bad hunter chases, good hunter waits.

Habitis habit, and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

There is nothing about a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

A Gresham's Law: the fakes would undermine the value of the real.

Everything enjoyable is either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
Oscar WildeEverything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper light.
David Eddings  "Belgarion"

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Thaddeus Golas

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables yourecognize a mistake when you make it again.
F. P. Jones

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. 
Chinese Proverb

Some of us learn from the mistakes of others; the rest of us have to be the others.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxleyº

SOMETHING ABOUT THE FAMILY...

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your children.

Any married man should forget his mistakes - there's no point in two people remembering the same thing...

Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage: he didn'thave to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked.

You have finally grown up when you can have a good laugh - at yourself.

You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without.

SOME FAMOUS QUOTES...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Santayana

As a rule,men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
Julius Caesar

He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Seneca

He who has begun has half done.
Horace

If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.
Socrates

We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I would rather die on my feet than continue to live on my knees.
Zappatta

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I think, therefore I am.
Decartes

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.
Archimedes

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river...