Antonio Porchia

“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”
Antonio Porchia (Italian poet, 1886-1968)

Charlie Batch

5P

Charlie Batch
(“Proper preparation prevents poor performance.”)

mr right

“He who fails to plan, plans to fail”

Albert Einstein

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

Albert Einstein

X

Always remember that you're unique . . . just like everybody else.

Alan Kay

The best way to predict the future
is to invent it.

Alan Kay

Spanish Proverb

I don't want the cheese, I just want out of the trap.
Spanish Proverb

Stanley Kubrick

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Stanley Kubrick

Barbara Coloroso

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem -- it's reality.

Barbara Coloroso

Burton Robert

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

Burton Robert

Spanish proverb

"Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso."

(Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick.) Spanish proverb

Spanish Proverb

Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.
Spanish Proverb

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681)

"Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor."



(When love is not madness, it is not love.)

Will Rogers

“Never miss a chance to shut up”

Will Rogers quotes (American entertainer, famous for his pithy and homespun humour, 1879-1935)

Spanish Proverb

It is a beautiful thing, to do nothing, and then rest afterwards.~Spanish Proverb

Yogi Berra

"You gotta be careful if you don't know where you're going, otherwise you might not get there."


Yogi Berra

Sigmund Freud

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

Sigmund Freud

Rutger Hauer

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.

Rutger Hauer at the end of Blade Runner

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

cool head, warm heart and clean hands

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

VBTA

TODAY I have a day less to count

R.D.Laing

I know you believe you understand what you think
I said, but I'm not sure you realise that what you
heard is not what I meant.

R.D.Laing - Knots

William Shakespeare

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

William Shakespeare

Queen Elizabeth II

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom."

Queen Elizabeth II

Michael Landon

"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows." - Michael Landon

Joan Miró

"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness."

Joan Miró

John F. Kennedy

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

John F. Kennedy

Leonardo da Vinci

 "Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
           Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Barbara Jordan

When do any of us ever do enough?

Barbara Jordan (1936-1996)
Politician

Martin Luther King Jr.

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.

Jim Valvano

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

Jim Valvano

Samuel Beckett

"Ever tried. Ever failed.
No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

Susan Carlson

"Why compare yourself with others?
No one in the entire World can do a better job of being you than you do."

Arabic

The fruit of silence is tranquility.

Macedonian

The fox is wise, but wiser is he who catches him.

Michael Jordan

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can make a rule,

and any fool will mind it.

Akiro Kurosawa

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Artnik

I DOUBT , therefore I am.

Heraclitus

No man ever steps in the same river twice,

for it's not the same river and

he's not the same man.

Oliver Goldsmith

We are all sure of two things, at least;
we shall suffer and we shall all die.
Oliver Goldsmith

Marcel Marceau

"It's good to shut up sometimes."
- Marcel Marceau

Greek

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
-Greek saying

Ovid

"The causes are hidden. The effects are visible to all."
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Roman poet

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681)

[es]

¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.

¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,

una sombra, una ficción,

y el mayor bien es pequeño;

que toda la vida es sueño,

y los sueños, sueños son!!!.





[en]

What is life? A frantic moment,

What is life? But an illusion,

but a shadow, but a fiction,

and the greatest good is small:

for life is all but a dream

and dreams are just that, they're dreams.



[mk]

Што е животот ? Само лудило.

Што е животот ? Само илузија ,

само сенка, само фантазија.

и кога најголемото е мало

тогаш сиот живот е само сон,

и соновите се само тоа, сон .

Giuseppe Garibaldi

"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Ben Weininger

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Ben Weininger

Carl Sagan

 "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
Carl Sagan

?

"He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions."
- Unknown

Guillaume Apollinaire

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
- Guillaume Apollinaire

?

«puıɯ ɹnoʎ uәdo»

Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Luke 23:34

Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them;
for they know not what they do.
Luke 23:34

Niccolò Machiavelli

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
   Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 - 1527); Italian politician and writer.

Muhammad Ali

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

Wilbur Wright

It is possible to fly without motors,
but not without knowledge and skill.
Wilbur Wright

replace:
knowledge and skill = imagination

Isaac Asimov

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Isaac Asimov

Chuck Reid

"In theory
there is no difference between theory and practice,
but in practice, there is."

Chuck Reid

Richard Bach

I gave my life to be the person I am today. Was it worth it?
Richard Bach

Richard Bach

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

Carlos Castaneda

'"Your problems is that you think you have time"
Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda

LORD BYRON

'Tis strange -- but true; for truth is always strange;

Stranger than fiction.

LORD BYRON, Don Juan

Miguel de Cervantes

Facts are the enemy of truth.
Don Quixote , Miguel de Cervantes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jonathan Swift

"There is nothing in this world constant, but inconsistancy."
       
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)-Irish politician and writer

Theophrastus

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."

Theophrastus (372BC-287BC); Greek botanist, humorist, & naturalist

Marquis de Sade

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others."

Marquis de Sade

Unknown

Life isn't measured
by they number of breaths we take,
but by the moments
that take our breath away.

Unknown

Carlos Castaneda

"It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos."

Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda

“No! I am never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don’t feel that way any longer.”

Carlos Castaneda, The teaching of don Juan

Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible
is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.


Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda

““Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.””
Carlos Castaneda

Stephen Hawking

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined,
and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

Stephen Hawking

?

Remember the Golden Rule:

Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

?

Life sucks, but it's better than the alternative.

Franklin P. Jones

"You can learn many things from children.
How much patience you have for instance."
- Franklin P. Jones

Lav Tolstoi

"Nowadays everybody designs laws, 
 it is easier writing than doing"
      Lav Tolstoi (1828-1910), Russian writer.

Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are,
we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin

Cicero

"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time."
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC); Roman author, orator, & politician.

Stevie Wonder

We all have ability.
The difference is how we use it.

José Ortega y Gasset

"You should avoid replacing the world of the others with yours."
(1883-1955); Spanish essayist, philosopher.

Jean Cocteau

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we
explain the success of those we don't like?."
Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963); French dramatist, director

mr right

Though no one can go back
and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending.

- Anonymous

blackONLY

We think that we know
where the limits are

Roy Goodman

Remember that happiness
is a way of travel,
not a destination.

Roy Goodman

Benjamin Franklin

"You may delay, but time will not." 
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); US politician

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?'
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
– Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown, Peanuts

The world is a comedy to those who think
and a tragedy to those who feel

-Horace Walpole

Isaac Newton (1643-1727); English mathematician.

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
    
Isaac Newton (1643-1727); English mathematician. 

Hannibal

We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal

Maryilyn vos Savant

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent."
Maryilyn vos Savant

"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."
James A. Froude

Jon Lennon

"You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.."

John Lennon / Beatles / "Imagine"

Anatole France

It is human to think wisely
and act in an absurd fashion.

-Anatole France

"When ideas fail,
words come in very handy." 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832);
German dramatist, novelist, poet, and scientist.

"I accept chaos. 
 I am not sure whether it accepts me".
        Bob Dylan (1941); US singer/songwriter.

"Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
Aristotle

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which
the days never knew.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is what he believes.

-Anton Chekhov

"A person often meets his destiny
on the road he took to avoid it."
         Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695); French poet.