3461-Will Rogers- ‘See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails’

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1900-William James- ‘Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.’

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337-Antoine De Saint-Exupery- ‘A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.’

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3431-Will Rogers- ‘Never let yesterday use up too much of today.’

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1870-Aristotle- ‘To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.’

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307-Douglas Adams- ‘I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.’

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3400-Joseph Conrad- ‘The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.’

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1839-Aristotle- ‘Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.’

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276-Dwight D Eisenhower- ‘From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.’

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3370-Dorothy Parker- ‘Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.’

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1809-Aristotle- ‘Change in all things is sweet.’

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246-Dwight D Eisenhower- ‘Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.’

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3339-William Blake- ‘I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow.’

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1778-Robert Louis Stephenson- ‘Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.’

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215-Lyndon B. Johnson- ‘Light at the end of the tunnel We don’t even have a tunnel we don’t even know where the tunnel is.’

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3308-Anon.- ‘Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.’

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1747-Mark Twain- ‘I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.’

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184-Frank Lloyd Wright- ‘Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.’

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3278-Anon.- ‘Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.’

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1717-Mark Twain- ‘Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.’

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154-Anais Nin- ‘Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.’

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3247-Anon.- ‘Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.’

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1686-Mark Twain- ‘Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.’

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123-Hubert Humphrey- ‘You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you’ll find out that you’re a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that’s happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.’

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3217-Anon.- ‘If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about … five minutes.’

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1656-Mark Twain- ‘The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.’

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93-Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl- ‘Jack When you marooned me on that god forsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate I’m Captain Jack Sparrow.’

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3186-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- ‘The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.’

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1625-Mark Twain- ‘A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title –from The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson’

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62-H.L. Mencken- ‘The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth–that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.’

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3157-Golda Meir- ‘We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon-no alternative.’

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1596-Mark Twain- ‘Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied.’

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33-H.L. Mencken- ‘Criticism is prejudice made plausible.’

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3126-Nelson Mandela- ‘A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.’

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1565-W. H. Auden- ‘Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.’

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