Quote
of the Day | Where there's a will, there are five hundred relatives.
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| Books Quote | The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. - The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible - The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible
| | | | Famous Quote | You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. - You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Winning is not everything. It's the only thing. - Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.
| | | | Friendship Quote | If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. - If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
| | | | Funny Quote | You know the speed of light, so what's the speed of dark? - You know the speed of light, so what's the speed of dark?
Where there's a will, there are five hundred relatives. - Where there's a will, there are five hundred relatives.
When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets. - When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.
| | | | Leadership Quote | From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet. - From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership. - Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. - The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
| | | | Love Quote | If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. - You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. - We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
| | | | Motivational Quote | Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. - Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can *flow* or it can *crash* ! Be water, my friend. - Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can *flow* or it can *crash* ! Be water, my friend.
She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel. - She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
| | | | Wisdom Quote | Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. - Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
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| Author in Quotes (Matthew) Heywood (Campbell) Broun
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Albert Gyorgyi
Alexander Michael
Anatole France
Ancient Indian Proverb
Andrew Carnegie
Anita Brookner
Anonymous
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Antoine de Saint
Antoinette Deshoulieres
Arbie M. Dale
Arnold H. Glasgow
Benjamin 'Dizzy' Disraeli
Benjamin D'Israeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin
Bertrand Russell
Bruce Lee
Charles Augustin Sainte
Charles R. Swindoll
Christopher Wren
Cornelius Stam
Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
Donald J. Adams
Doris M. Smith
Dr. John G. Hibben
Duke of Wellington
Dwight David Eisenhower
Elaine Agather
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emily Bronte
Epictetus
Eric Hoffer
Erich Fromm
Euripides
F Lebowitz
Faith Sullivan
Faye Wattleton
Fernandez de Andrada
Francois Arouet
Frank Tyger
Franklin P. Jones
Fred A. Manske, Jr.
Galileo Galilei
General Charles De Gaulle
George Bernard Shaw
George Horace Gallup
Greek Proverb
Harold J. Seymour
Harold Taylor, President, Sarah Lawrence College
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harry S. Truman
Helen Keller
Henry Ford
Henry Louis Mencken
Herbert Fenstermeim
Irving Layton
James Bryce
James Grover Thurber
Jean Anouilh
Jean Cocturan
Jean Riboud
Jeremy Taylor
Jerry Seinfeld
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John C. Maxwell
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John LeCarre
John Lubbock
John W(illiam) Gardner
Joseph Brodsky
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
Leland Exton Modesitt, Jr., SciFi author
Mahatma Gandhi
Malcolm Forbes
Marcel Proust.
Margaret Atwood
Marie Corelli
Max Beerbohm
Michael L.
Michael Parenti
Mortimer Adler
Mother Teresa
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Newt Gingrich, US Congressman
Nora Roberts
Orville Wright
Peter F(erdinand) Drucker
Pietro Aretino
Plato
Ralph Nader
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Ray Kroc
Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Bernstein
Robert F. Bennett
Robert Frost
Robert Greenleaf
Robert Reich
Robert Southey
Robert Townsend
Rosalynn Smith Carter
Saint Augustine
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Sam Houston
Sam(uel Moore) Walton
Samuel Butler
Samuel Johnson
Sandra Carey
Sir Francis Bacon
Stephen Neill
Stephen R. Covey
Theodore Harold White
Theodore M. Hesburgh
Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas Blount
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Tyron Edwards
Van Wyck Brooks
Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas 'Vince' Lombardi
Voltaire
W. Fusselman
Walter J. Lippmann
Warren G. Bennis
Weinberg
Wendell Johnson
which is everything.
William Allen White
Wystan Hugh Auden
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