Goosemaster

Lifer
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Only the educated are free.
~Epictetus

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
~Mark Twain

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
~Eric Hoffer

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
~Barry LePatner

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~Bill Cosby

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
~Henry David Thoreau

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
~Josh Billings

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
~Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
~George Eliot

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
~Sir Winston Churchill

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
~Roberto Benigni

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~Helen Keller

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
~Kin Hubbard

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
~Andre Gide

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
~Cicero

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
~Mark Twain

An honor is not diminished for being shared.
~Lois McMaster Bujold

Honor does not have to be defended.
~Robert J. Sawyer

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
~Confucius

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
~Jules Renard

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
~Aristotle

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~The Dalai Lama

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
~Frank Herbert

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
~Elsa Maxwell

What luck for rulers that men do not think.
~Adolf Hitler

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
~W. Edwards Deming

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable.
~Sophocles

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
~Brendan Gill

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
~Henry J. Tillman

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
~Robert Heinlein

No man ever listened himself out of a job.
~Calvin Coolidge

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
~Dag Hammarskjold

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
~Mark Twain

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
~Thomas Jefferson

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
~H. L. Mencken

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
~Spike Milligan

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
~Sir Francis Bacon

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
~Sir Winston Churchill

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
~Salvador Dali

The wise man carries his possessions within him.
~Bias

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
~Baltasar Gracian

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
~Publilius Syrus

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
~Albert Einstein

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
~Reggie Leach

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
~Erica Jong

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
~Alan Kay

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
~Kahlil Gibran

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~Abraham Lincoln

"A line is a dot that went for a walk." ~ Paul Klee.

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." ~Michelangelo

"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."
~ Georgia O'Keeffe

"Fill a space in a beautiful way" ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

"What good are computers? They can only give you answers."
~ Pablo Picasso

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
~ Auguste Renoir

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
~ Simonides (500 B. C.)

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
~ James McNeill Whistler

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
Vincent Van Gogh

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.
Edvard Munch

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
Rene Magritte

"I hope with all my heart that there will be painting in heaven." Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
 

amol

Lifer
Jul 8, 2001
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You DO realize that the average ATOT'er has the attention span of a goldfish, right? ;)
 

ActuaryTm

Diamond Member
Mar 30, 2003
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"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." - e.e. cummings
 

chrisms

Diamond Member
Mar 9, 2003
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My late grandfather gave me the best advice of my life. I was about 10 and I believe he was drunk at the breakfast table. He yelled it at me because he couldn't hear worth a damn. "Always look out for number one!"
 

moshquerade

No Lifer
Nov 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: chrisms
My late grandfather gave me the best advice of my life. I was about 10 and I believe he was drunk at the breakfast table. He yelled it at me because he couldn't hear worth a damn. "Always look out for number one!"
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