A Thought a Week

Experience is one thing you can't get
for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde


"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy

"Management is nothing more than motivating other people." - Lee Iacocca

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." - Pearl Buck

"Pay peanuts and you get monkeys." - Anonymous

"Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot." - Josh Billings

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." - Moliere $$$

"Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer." - Sicilian Proverb

"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time." - Rober Half

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Winston Churchill

"Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature." - Harold Coffin

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." - George Moore

"To a friend's house the road is never long." - Anonymous

"The best mirror is a friend's eye." - Gaelic Proverb

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." - Arthur Ashe

"When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home." - Erma Bombeck

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." - Frank A. Clark

"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet." - African Proverb

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." - Jonathan Winters

"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade." - Tom Peters

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh

"He who never made a mistake never made a discovery." - Samuel Smiles

"Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected." - Alice James

"A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have." - Los Angeles Times Syndicate

"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness." - Bertrand Russell

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke

"Art is the signature of civilizations." - Beverly Sills

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day." - Henry David Thoreau

"Nothing great was ever done without much enduring." - St. Catherine of Siena

"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington

"Those who trust us, educate us." - George Eliot

"Many things are lost for want of asking." - English Proverb

"Research is formalized curiosity, it is poking and prying with a purpose." - Zora Neale Hurston

"If you are not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe." - Woody Allen

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more." - Jonas Salk, MD

"Where words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Anderson

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." - Oscar Wilde

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." - Oprah Winfrey

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul." - Moshe Dayan

"Only a fool thinks price and value are the same." - Antonio Machado

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." - Indira Gandhi

"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap." - Carrie Snow

"Speech is silver, silence is golden." - German Proverb

"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." - Frank A. Clark

"Seven days without laughter makes one weak." - Joel Goodman

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." - John Keats

"Time is the greatest innovator." - Francis Bacon

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - President R. M. Nixon

"The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over." - Peter Guber

"Ignorance is not bliss"00bbc0"> - it is oblivion." - Philip Wylie

"The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie." - Ann Landers

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"Walk around the house in a tank top, you'll lose weight in no time." - Tom Tracks

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