Quote (#515)

"We must return to nature and nature's god."
- Luther Burbank

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don’t try.
- Ed Howe

Experience is what you get when
you don’t get what you want.
- Dan Stanford

Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless.
Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow.
- August B. Black

The best discipline, maybe the only
discipline that works, is self discipline.
- Walter Kiechel

"I drank the silence of God
from a spring in the woods."
- Georg Trakl

Quotes - Favorites

"A poem is no place for an idea."
- Edgar Watson Howe

"The whole problem with the world is that fools
and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts."
- Bertrand Russell

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a
lot tougher to make a difference."
- Tom Brokaw

There's only one way to
fail, and that is to quit.
- [no attribution]

Knowing others is intelligence.
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
- Lao Tse

Perfect is achieved, not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de St. Exupery

Quotes

"Nobody outside of a baby carriage
or a judge's chamber believes in an
unprejudiced point of view."
- Lillian Hellman

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the naive forgive and forget; the wise
forgive but do not forget."
- Thomas Szasz

"Americans detest all lies except lies
spoken in public or printed lies."
- Edgar Watson Howe

"You create your opportunities
by asking for them."
- Shakti Gawain

"In preparing for battle I have
always found that plans are useless,
but planning is indispensable."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood,
place it in the navel of a firefly and still
have room enough for three caraway seeds and
a producer's heart."
- Fred Allen