Nature, America, Regret, Drink

NATURE
Anne Wilson Schaef
… how important it is to do things in their right time. To “wait with” until things ripen. To listen to nature, which is one of our greatest teachers.

AMERICA
Mary McCarthy
Life for the European is a career; for the American, it is a hazard.

REGRET
Katherine Mansfield
Make it a rule never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; your can’t build on it; it’s only for wallowing in.

DRINK
George Saintsbury
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and every way best races of all times.

Metaphysics, Academia, Problems, Conversation

METAPHYSICS
Carl Gustav Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

ACADEMIA
John C. Maxwell
The problem with most educational institutions is that they try to teach people what to think, not how to think.

PROBLEMS
Phillip C. McGraw
… while the pain of dealing with your problems is an acute, easy-to-identify pain, the pain of avoiding them is also profound, even if more subtle.

CONVERSATION
Mignon McLaughlin
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

Knowledge, Work, Leadership, Age

KNOWLEDGE
Henry Louis Mencken
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

WORK
Jeff MacNelly
A career is a job that has gone on too long.

LEADERSHIP
John C. Maxwell
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

AGE
Madeleine L’Engle
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

Ideas, Wealth, Goals, Women

IDEAS
Nicolas Malebranche
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

WEALTH
J.S. Morrill
Like liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued.

GOALS
Benjamin E. Mays
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

WOMEN
Karl Kraus
Women’s Rights are men’s duties.

Humor, War, Go For It, Service

HUMOR
Golda Meir
Don’t be humble. You’re not that great.

WAR
Paul Thomas Mann
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

GO FOR IT
Stephen Larsen
Say yes to life, even though you know it may devour you.

SERVICE
David J. Schwartz
Put service first and money takes care of itself – always.

Health, Tribal, Fear, Men

HEALTH
John Henry Newman
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

TRIBAL
Anne Wilson Schaef
Greed and selfishness: These behaviors can destroy a society. In most Native cultures, they are severely punished.

FEAR
Rudyard Kipling
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

MEN
Olin Miller
A man who won’t lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

Happiness, The System, Failure, Marriage

HAPPINESS
Andre Maurois
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

THE SYSTEM
Mignon McLaughlin
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

FAILURE
Howard W. Newton
When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others for his successes.

MARRIAGE
Samuel Johnson
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Thomas Jefferson Quotations

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, (i.e., the "business cycle") the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

The parliament is, by corruption, the mere instrument of the will of the administration. The real power … in the government is in the great aristocratic families of the nation.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.

Gratitude, Society, Expectations, Lying

GRATITUDE
J. Kenfield Morley
I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

SOCIETY
Norman Kingsley Mailer
The horror of the Twentieth Century is the size of each event and the paucity of its reverberation.

EXPECTATIONS
Martin Luther
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

LYING
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
He who cannot lie does not know what the truth is.

Death, Socialism, Dreams, Love

DEATH
Paul Thomas Mann
A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.

SOCIALISM
Ludwig von Mises
Aggressors cannot wage total war without socialism.

DREAMS
Doug Firebaugh
What you want in your life occasionally shows up … what you must have … always does.

LOVE
Alan King
If you want to read about love and marriage you’ve got to buy separate books.

Creativity, Religion, Destiny, Life Style

CREATIVITY
Jack London
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

RELIGION
Herbert J. Miller
This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

DESTINY
Liz Greene
I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me …

LIFE STYLE
Samuel Johnson
Let me smile with the wise and eat with the rich.

Cognition, Media, Degradation, Interactions

COGNITION
Marvin Lee Minsky
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either.

MEDIA
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Movies in America have not developed advertising intervals simply because the movie itself is the greatest of all forms of advertisement for consumer goods.

DEGRADATION
Sigmund Freud
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

INTERACTIONS
Henry A. Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

Belief, Government, Decision, Friends

BELIEF
Henry Louis Mencken
The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

GOVERNMENT
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s problems.

DECISION
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

FRIENDS
Hugh Kingsmill
Friends are God’s apologies for relatives.

Art, Freedom, Courage, Drink

ART
Henri Matisse
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue.

FREEDOM
Herman Melville
Freedom is only good as a means; it is no end in itself.

COURAGE
Thomas Fuller
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

DRINK
Henry Mon
Booze may not be the answer, but it helps you to forget the question.

Zen, Education, Change, Conversation

ZEN
Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

EDUCATION
Peter McWilliams
If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

CHANGE
William Edwards Deming
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

CONVERSATION
Ben Jonson
Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee.