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Joseph Sobran: Silent knights
“The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.” –—Joseph Sobran
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Marie Ebner von Eschenbach: Vanity
“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.” —Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, writer (1830-1916)
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Audrey Hepburn: People
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. ” —Audrey Hepburn.
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Jimmy Cannon: Christmas
“Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.” —Jimmy Cannon.
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Gavin MacLeod: Marriage
“It’s very trying on a marriage when you’re doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don’t have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority. ” —Gavin MacLeod.
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Talmud: Single lives
“Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.” The Talmud
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Saint Francis de Sales: Love and fear
“Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. ” —Saint Francis de Sales.
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Len Wein: Evil
“The most unrealistic thing I’ve ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don’t believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil. ” —Len Wein.
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Josh Billings: Imaginative memory
“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ” —Josh Billings.
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William Shakespeare: The devil and scripture
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. ” —William Shakespeare.
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Kingman Brewster, Jr: Not talking
“I’m very curious to know what the hell they’re saying on the phone, but I’d be more worried if they weren’t talking.”Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Richard Lamm: Christmas
“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.” — Richard Lamm.
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Wayne Dyer: Being right
“Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right? ” Wayne Dyer
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Hippocrates: Walking
“Walking is man’s best medicine.” —Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-377 BCE).
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Thomas Fuller: Belief and unbelief
“He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. ” —Thomas Fuller
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Allan Lawrence: Confidence
“Even if you don’t feel confident, fake it. Time after time, I have seen a marginal runner act the role of confident competitor, and eventually become one.” —Allan Lawrence, The Self-Coached Runner.
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Mike Ditka: Eating healthy
“So, when it comes to eating healthy, it’s just doing the right thing. And it’s not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it’s something you have to do 25 days a month. Let’s put it that way. ” Mike Ditka
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Calvin Coolidge: Spirit of Christmas
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. Calvin Coolidge
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Benjamin Disraeli: Change
“Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.” —Benjamin Disraeli.
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Benjamin Franklin: Continual Christmas
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Claudius: Know what you say
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. ” Claudius
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Konrad Adenau: Conciliating tigers
“An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. ” Konrad Adenau
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Emily Dickinson: Anger
“Anger as soon as fed is dead- / ‘Tis starving makes it fat.” —Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886).
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Confucius: Teaching others…
“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.” Confucius
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Amy Lowell: Youth and maturity
“Youth condemns; maturity condones. ” Amy Lowell
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Unknown: Brains and silence
“The only successful substitute for brains is silence.” Unknown
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John Cusack: On being together
“A lot of people are not meant to be together. ” —John Cusack Related articles John Cusack to Play Rush Limbaugh(drudge.com)
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Jessamyn West: Saints and rogues
“We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? ” Jessamyn West
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Vera Wang: Work, learn
“Don’t be afraid to take time to learn. It’s good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.” Vera Wang
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Ian Fleming: What men want
“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. ” Ian Fleming
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Cyril Connolly: Love and pain
“There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. ” —Cyril Connolly.
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Stephen Evans: Mourning
“I don’t mourn the dead. I mourn the living. ” Stephen Evans
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Adlai E. Stevenson: Perilous circumstances
“To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation. ” Adlai E. Stevenson
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Peace Pilgrim: Criterion
“There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? ”—Peace Pilgrim
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Geoff Arbuthnot: Arrogant and right
“Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.” Geoff Arbuthnot
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W Somerset Maugham: Gentleman and writer
“It’s very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.” —W Somerset Maugham
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John Greenleaf Whittier: Heroism
“One brave deed makes no hero. ” John Greenleaf Whittier
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Amy Lee: Right choice?
“If people make fun of you, it probably means you’re doing something right. ” —Amy Lee
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Marc Maron: Integrity
“It’s easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out. ” —Marc Maron.
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Mohandas Gandhi: Wisdom
“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ” —Mohandas Gandhi .
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Thomas J. Watson: Managing
“A manager is an assistant to his men.” —Thomas J. Watson.
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John Steinbeck: Other human beings
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. ” —John Steinbeck.
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Helder Camara: Hungry communist
When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a communist. –Helder Camara , archbishop (1909-1999)
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Somerset Maugham: Style
“The best style is the style you don’t notice.” —Somerset Maugham.
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Thomas Arnold: Real knowledge
“Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. ” Thomas Arnold
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Spanish proverb: Health
“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” —-Spanish proverb.
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Albert J. Nock: Learning and forgetting
“Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. ” —Albert J. Nock.
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Kahlil Gibran: Friendship
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ”—Kahlil Gibran.
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Joe Henderson: Being tough
“Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head.“ —Joe Henderson, running coach and author.
