"Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish.

If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish." -- Lenny Bruce "G~d could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." -- Yiddish Proverb "Old friends, like old wines, ONLY GET MORE flavor." -- Yiddish Proverb "Don't look for more honor than your learning merits." -- Yiddish Proverb "First mend yourself, and then mend others." -- Yiddish Proverb "A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he is right." -- Yiddish Proverb "Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds." -- Yiddish Proverb "One old friend is better than two new ones." -- Yiddish Proverb "What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth." -- Yiddish proverb "The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks." -- Yiddish Proverb "You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails." -- Yiddish proverb

"As you teach, you learn." -- Yiddish Proverb "Behind every successful Jew stands a bigot who could not stop him." -- Sam Levenson "A half-truth is a whole lie." -- Yiddish Proverb "You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." -- Sam Levenson "Our faith is grounded in our Jewish tradition. We believe we're from the House of David. We believe we're from the House of Abraham, so we cannot hate our own." -- James Caviezel "I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how." -- Lionel Blue "There are more important things in life than money. The trouble is they all cost money." -- Sam Levenson "You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose." -- Mary Antin "War doesn't prove who is right; only who is left." -- Sam Levenson "I'm so proud of being Jewish. Are you kidding? That's how I was raised." -- Dyan Cannon "Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." -- Albert Einstein 2

"It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic." -- Michael Baden "The U.N. has been as effective against war as foghorns have been against Fog." -- Sam Levenson The Six-Day War With more and more papers being declassified, some light has just been shed on the real reason the Israelis won the Six-Day War. It seems all the equipment was rented for one week. "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx. "I have an inferiority complex, it's just not a very good one." Anonymous. "Don't judge a man by the words of his mother, listen to the comments of his neighbors." -- Yiddish Proverb "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault." -- Henry Kissinger "I'm not afraid of dying - I just don't want to be there when it happens!" -- Woody Allen "One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world." --Jewish Proverb 3

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." -- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks." -- Yiddish Proverb "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- Albert Einstein When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "They want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits." -- Albert Einstein "It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore." -- Golda Meir "A wise man hears one word and understands two." Yiddish Proverb "I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace." -- Golda Meir "A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal." -- Yiddish Proverb "I don't believe in mathematics." -- Albert Einstein

"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. " -- Golda Meir "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." -- Albert Einstein "I don't want to become immortal through my work. I want to become immortal through not dying." -- Woody Allen "A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he is right." -- Yiddish Proverb "We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative..." -- Golda Meir "When you teach your son, you teach your son's son." --The Talmud "Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." -- Albert Einstein "If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the Poor could make a wonderful living." -- Yiddish Proverb "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein "What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth." -- Yiddish proverb "The Two-Minute Haggadah" Opening prayers rapidly :

Thank G~d for creating wine. (Drink wine.) Thanks for creating produce. (Eat parsley.) Dip the egg ( remove shell first ) Overview: Once we were slaves in Egypt. Now we're free. That's why we're doing this. Four questions: 1. What's up with the matzah? 2. What's the deal with horseradish? 3. What's with the dipping of the herbs? 4. What's this whole slouching at the table business? Answers: 1. When we left Egypt, we were in a hurry. There was no time for making decent bread. 2. Life was bitter, like horseradish. 3. It's called symbolism. 4. Hungry people get to slouch. Now tell a funny story: Once, these five rabbis talked all night, then it was morning. (Heat soup now.) The four kinds of children and how to deal with them: Wise child - explain Passover. Simple child - explain Passover slowly. Silent child - explain Passover loudly. Religious child - have the child explain it to you. Speaking of children: We hid some matzah. Whoever finds it gets $4.25. The story of Passover: It's a long time ago. We're slaves in Egypt. Pharaoh is a nightmare. We cry out for help. G~d brings plagues upon the Egyptians. We escape, bake some matzah. G~d parts the Red Sea. We make it through; the Egyptians aren't so lucky. We wander 40 years in the desert, eat manna, get the Torah, wind up in Israel, get a new temple, enjoy several years without being persecuted again. 6

(Let brisket cool now.) The 10 Plagues: Blood, Frogs, Lice - you can name all the bad stuff before you have dinner...lessens the appetite. The singing of "Dayenu": If G~d had gotten us out of Egypt and not punished our enemies, it would've been enough. If he'd punished our enemies and not parted the Red Sea, it would've been enough, oh, Dayenu! Dayenu, Dayenu... If he'd parted the Red Sea - (Remove gefilte fish from refrigerator now.) Eat more matzah. Take a few more sips of way too sweet red wine. Slouch. Again thank G~d for everything....and do it all again tomorrow night. "The Egyptians could run to Egypt , the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight." -- Golda Meir "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." -- Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton "When a thief kisses you, count your teeth." -- Yiddish Proverb "The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." -- Albert Einstein "Old friends, like old wines, don't lose their flavor." --Jewish Proverb

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein "One definition of courage is the willingness of a person to stand up for his beliefs in the face of great odds. Chutzpah is doing the same thing wearing a Mickey Mouse hat." -- Anonymous "Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth..." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein "For the Jews have long been in revolt not only against the Romans, but against humanity; and a race that has made its own life apart and irreconcilable, that cannot share with the rest of mankind in the pleasure of the table nor join in their libations or prayers or sacrifices, are separate from ourselves by a greater gulf than divides us from Sura or Bactra of the most distant Indies." -- Philostratus - The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 3rd Century CE Teacher "On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down." -- Woody Allen "Certainly, the world without the Jews would have been a radically different place. Humanity might have eventually stumbled upon all the Jewish insights. But we cannot be sure. All the great conceptual discoveries of the human intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they had been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them 8

for the first time. The Jews had this gift. To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of human person; of the individual conscience and so a personal redemption; of collective conscience and so of social responsibility; of peace as an abstract ideal and love as the foundation of justice, and many other items which constitute the basic moral furniture of the human mind. Without Jews it might have been a much emptier place." - Paul Johnson (Christian historian, author of A History of the Jews and A History of Christianity) "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein "Mankind, East and West, Christian and Muslim, accepted the Jewish conviction that there is only one G~d. Today it is polytheism that is so difficult to understand, that is so unthinkable." -- T.R. Grover, The Ancient World, p. 186 "Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because G~d counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's rib. Not from his feet to be walked on. Not from his head to be superior, but from the side to be equal. Under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved." -- Talmud "G~d does not play dice with the Universe." -- Albert Einstein "I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If G~d had intended me to bend over, he'd have put diamonds on the floor." -- Joan Rivers "If we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important 9

intellectual development in human history." -- David Gelernter, Yale University Professor "In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality." -- Lawrence Kelemen, To Kindle A Soul p. 195 "I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask." -- Peter Malkin "The Jews proved not only unassimilated, but inassimilable, and... the demonstration that this was so proved one of the most significant turning points in Greek history, owing to the gigantic influence exerted throughout subsequent ages by their religion, which not only survived intact, but subsequently gave birth to Christianity as well." -- Michael Grant, From Alexander to Cleopatra: the Hellenistic World "There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" -- Woody Allen "So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade." -- Will Durant, The Story of Civilization - The Reformation. (New York: Simon & Shuster, 1953) A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as the colors turn from yellow to orange and red and finally darkness?" He answered, "You are watching the sunset." The genius responded, "That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the 10

sun set. You are watching the world turn." - Jeremy Kagan, "The Jewish Self" "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein "The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached." -- Amos Elon, The Pity of It All - A portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743 -1933 (New York: Picador, 2002) "Five Jewish men influenced the history of Western civilization: Moses said the law is everything. Jesus said love is everything. Marx said capital is everything. Freud said sex is everything. Einstein said everything is relative." -- Anonymous "Wishing to make Speyer into a city, I thought to increase its honor a thousand fold by bringing in the Jews." -- Bishop Ruediger - Huozmann 1084 "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein "Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world." -- Winston Churchill - Prime Minister of Great Britain

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What is the Jew?...What kind of unique creature is this whom all the rulers of all the nations of the world have disgraced and crushed and expelled and destroyed; persecuted, burned and drowned, and who, despite their anger and their fury, continues to live and to flourish. What is this Jew whom they have never succeeded in enticing with all the enticements in the world, whose oppressors and persecutors only suggested that he deny (and disown) his religion and cast aside the faithfulness of his ancestors?! The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity." - Leo Tolstoy (What is the Jew? quoted in The Final Resolution, pg. 189, printed in Jewish World periodical, 1908) "The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits." -- Vilna Goan, Commentary to Mishlei 4:13 ear Rabbi, Why does the Jewish religion seem to obsess over insignificant details? How much matza do we have to eat, which spoon did I use for milk and which for meat, what is the right way to tie my shoelaces? It seems to me that this misses the bigger picture by focusing on minutiae. Is this nitpicking what Jews all spirituality? (I actually already sent you this question over a week ago and didn't receive a reply. Could it be that you have finally been asked a question that you can't answer?!) Rob

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"Rabbi's Answer: " Dear Rob, I never claimed to have all the answers. There are many questions that are beyond me. But it happens to be that I did answer your question, and you did get the answer. I sent a reply immediately. The fact that you didn't receive it is itself the answer to your question. You see, I sent you a reply, but I wrote your email address leaving out the "dot" before the "com". I figured that you should still receive the email, because after all, it is only one little dot missing. I mean come on, it's not as if I wrote the wrong name or something drastic like that! Would anyone be so nitpicky as to differentiate between "yahoocom" and " [Link]"? Isn't it a bit ridiculous that you didn't get my email just because of a little dot? No, it's not ridiculous. Because the dot is not just a dot. It represents something. That dot has meaning far beyond the pixels on the screen that form it. To me it may seem insignificant, but that is simply due to my ignorance of the ways of the web. All I know is that with the dot, the message gets to the right destination; without it, the message is lost to oblivion. Jewish practices have infinite depth. Each nuance and detail contains a world of symbolism. And every dot counts. When they are performed with precision, a spiritual vibration is emailed throughout the universe, all the way to G~d's inbox. If you want to understand the symbolism of the dot, study I.T. If you want to understand the symbolism of Judaism, study it. All the best, Rabbi

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"A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return." -- Jewish Proverb Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. But intolerance of another being who dares to exist. Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simple because that 'other' exists." -- Rabbi Menachem Mendle "A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return." -- Jewish Proverb "Intelligent people know of what they speak; fools speak of what they know." -- Minchas Shabbos Pirkei Avos 3:18 / Ethics Of The Fathers "Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself." -- Golda Meir "Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand. Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh." -- Yiddish Proverb "The Best Bar Mitzvah Invitation Ever" It is with great stress, emotional and physical fatigue and incredible financial sacrifice beyond comprehension, 14

that we invite you to join us as our wonderful son Jacob Adam is called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah. Saturday, May 12th (yes we realize it's Mother's Day Weekend) Temple Israel 14 Coleytown Road Westport , Connecticut 06880 at the ungodly hour of 9 am Even though you don't really need to be there until 10:20am to catch the real action. If you make it through the 3 hour service, please skip the kiddush (it's just cookies and cake) and join us instead for the ostentatious evening meal (Kosher, my husband's idea), which starts at 7 PM, (not 8 PM.. or you will miss out on the 2000 canapes). Birchwood Country Club Westport , CT 06880 (which we had to join just for this event and you would not believe the initiation fees) Please have the courtesy of showing up if you RSVP that you are attending, or you will be billed for $210.00 a plate if you are a no-show. Please RSVP as soon as you get this and not the day before the cut-off date. I can't take the stress. The gift of choice is either green, or contains 15

a routing and account number. " Hope you can make it! Lisa and David XXXX Dress: Black Tie optional Theme: 007 James Bond Kippot and Matching Eye Patch will be provided Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in." -- Gary Ackerman "It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have." -- Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (Horeb, vol. 1, pg 46) When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits." -- Albert Einstein "A mother understands what a child does not say." -- Yiddish Proverb "If a Jew doesn't make Kiddush (to sanctify himself by maintaining a distinctly Jewish lifestyle), then the non-Jew will make Havdalah for him (by making the Jew realize he is truly different)." -- R' Chaim of Volozhin "A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both." -- Yiddish Proverb "Do you know what it's like to preach to a white audience? I invented a pill called 'Preach-agra.' It keeps the audience erect during services." 16

-- Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of Kosher Sex, to Al Sharpton "Death is merely moving from one home to another. The wise man will spend his main efforts in trying to make his future home the more beautiful one." - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgenstern of Tomashov (the Kotzker Rebbe) "This one book (the Bible) ... has attracted to it, and had concentrated on it, vastly more thought and has called forth more works, explanatory, illustrative, apologetic, upon its text, its meaning, its geography, its theology, its chronology, its evidences, its inspiration, its origin, than all the rest of the literature of the world put together. An immense bulk of the world's literature owes its origin to this book." - Carlyle B Heynes in The Bible, Is it a True Book "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." -- Albert Einstein "The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a Higher Power in human affairs. Time after time in his history, moreover, he has been saved from disaster in a manner, which cannot be described excepting as 'providential.' The author has deliberately attempted to write this book in a secular spirit; he does not think that his readers can fail to see in it, on every page, a higher immanence" - Cecil Roth, Oxford University (History of the Jews, New York, 1963, p. 424) "I have already explained with clear proofs that the soul is the dominant factor in the nature of the Jew. For example, being stiff-necked is one of the bad qualities that Jews have. Practically speaking, that means that Jews refuse to accept criticism and will not listen to corrective advise. This is in fact because they are not essentially materialistic. 17

Only something which is materialistic is readily altered. Consequently Jews are very resistant to change and will not accept the advise of others. Further, the Rabbis say (Talmud - Beitzah 25b) that they are the most aggressive and pushy people." - Maharal of Prague (Rabbi Yehuda Loewe, 1526 - 1609) "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton: ? Israel's great achievement, so apparent that mention of it is almost trite, was Monotheism. It was an achievement that transformed subsequent history....One may raise the question whether any other single contribution from whatever source since human culture emerged from the stone age has had the far reaching effect upon history that Israel in this regard has exerted both through the mediums of Christianity and Islam and directly through the world of Jewish thinkers themselves" - from The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man, by H. and H. A. Frankfort, John A. Wilson, Thorkild Jacobsen, William A. Irwin" Jewish proverb: "A Jewish wife will forgive and forget, but she'll never forget what she forgave." One of life's mysteries - how a 2Ib box of chocolates can make a Jewish woman gain 5lb. Another of life's mysteries is when a Jewish woman hangs something in her wardrobe for a while and it shrinks two sizes! The trouble with some Jewish women is that they get all excited about nothing and then they marry him. A Bar mitzvah is defined as the day when a Jewish boy comes to realize that he is more likely to own a professional sports team than he is to play for one.

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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. -- Albert Einstein "All that is thought should not be said, all that is said should not be written, all that is written should not be published, all that is published should not be read." -- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgenstern of Tomashov (the Kotzker Rebbe) "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." -- Albert Einstein "At infant school, the Jewish and Christian children compared what their parents and grandparents had told them about each other." -- Lionel Blue "Intelligent people know of what they speak; fools speak of what they know." -- Minchas Shabbos Pirkei Avos 3:18 / Ethics Of The Fathers "The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence." -- Mikhail Bakunin "There is a striking point that runs through Jewish history as a whole. Western civilization was born in the Middle East, and the Jews were at its crossroads. In the heyday of Rome, the Jews were close to the Empire's center. When power shifted eastward, the Jewish center was in Babylon; when it skipped to Spain, there again were the Jews. When in the Middle Ages the center of civilization moved into Central Europe, the Jews were waiting for it in Germany and Poland. The rise of the United States to the leading world power found Judaism focused there. And now, today, when the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward the Old 19

World and the East rises to renewed importance, there again are the Jews in Israel..." - Professor Huston Smith The Religious of Man, New York: HarperCollins, 1989 "I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs." -- Lionel Blue "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein "Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general." -- Theodore Bikel "I'm not afraid of dying - I just don't want to be there when it happens!" -- Woody Allen "When we scan the Diaspora of Jewry over the entire globe and throughout the entire civilized world, we are surprised to see that this Nation, which is almost the most ancient in the world, is in truth the youngest in terms of the land under its feet and the sky above its head. As a result of the relentless persecutions and forced expulsions, most Jews are but recent new-comers to their respective lands of residence. Ninety percent of the Jewish people have lived in their new homes for no more than 50 or 60 years! (The Jewish People) are dispersed throughout over 100 lands on all five continents." - Leschzinsky "The Jewish Dispersion", pg. 9 (Heb.) "I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this 20

encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen." -- Lionel Blue "What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine." -- Theodore Bikel "I started to get giddy on Fritz the Cat, when I suddenly was able to get a pig that was a cop, and this particular other pig was Jewish, and I thought, Oh my G~d! A Jewish pig? These were major steps forward." -- Ralph Bakshi "Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict." -- Daniel Barenboim "We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us." -- Gary Ackerman "Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people." -- Shmuel Y. Agnon "I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade." -- Al Alvarez "There was a special examination for the Jewish candidates, of course: a nine-year-old Jewish child had to answer questions that a thirteen-year-old 21

Gentile was hardly expected to answer." -- Mary Antin If there is any honour in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen." -- A.L Rowse, authority on Shakespeare "Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest." -- Sam Levenson "The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions." -- Leo Tolstoy "It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they easily caught up with us, even on those new paths which we opened up without their aid." -- A. A. Leroy Beaulieu, French publicist, 1842 "So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here." -- Harold Brodkey "The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice are the gifts of the Jews." -- Thomas Cahill, Irish Author 22

"Half of my audience was not only not Jewish, they were not Caucasian. I would see these Japanese and Chinese faces being clearly moved." -- Theodore Bikel "One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all." -- William Rees-Mogg, former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords "It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar people, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is called the Jewish people.... This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for a singular long time... For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things over such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved, however, and their preservation was foretold... My encounter with this people amazes me..." -- Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician "The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for humanity, both divine and man made. The Jews, therefore, stand at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose." -- Paul Johnson, American Historian "As long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration as to the people who had the sense

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for righteousness most glowing and strongest." -- Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic "As he thinks in his heart, so he is." -- Yiddish Proverb "Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out." -- Yiddish Proverb "The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and a skullcap will not bar a man from the White House...... unless, of course, the man is Jewish." -- Jules Farber "A wise man hears one word and understands two." -- Yiddish Proverb "But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel." -- Theodore Bikel "He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good." -- Yiddish Proverb "A goat also has a beard, but that doesn't make him a rabbi." -- Sam Levenson "But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist." -- Theodore Bikel "My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he 24

had never met." -- Emanuel Celler "There was a Jewish element to all that, and the creators of all these golden age comic books, many of them were Jewish kids." -- Michael Chabon "I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor." -- Theodore Bikel "A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms." -- Judith Butler "A half-truth is a whole lie." -- Yiddish Proverb "May gypsies camp out in your belly and steal your guts one by one." -- Yiddish curse "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! " -- Golda Meir The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White House, unless, of course, the man is Jewish." -- Jules Farber

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Je suis rellement un homme quand mes sentiments, mes penses et mes actes n'ont qu'une finalit : celle de la communaut et de son progrs. ALbert EINSTEIN ( 1879- 1955 )
"I was raised in the Jewish tradition. Taught never to marry a Gentile woman, never to shave on Saturday, and most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on Saturday." -- Woody Allen

Il est hlas devenu vident aujourd'hui que notre technologie a dpass notre humanit. ALbert EINSTEIN ( 1879- 1955 )
"If not for fear, sin would be sweet." -- Yiddish Proverb "Wear a SMILE all day just because." -- Yiddish Proverb "Do not meet troubles half-way." -- Yiddish Proverb "What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth." -- Yiddish Proverb Jewish Quote du Jour "Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors. -- Yiddish Proverb

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"Worries go down better with soup than without." -- Yiddish Proverb "Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family." -- Yiddish Proverb "Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors." -- Yiddish Proverb "Don't make a mountain out of a molehill." -- Yiddish Proverb "Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile." -- Yiddish Proverb "G~d, I know we are Your chosen people, but couldn't You choose somebody else for a change?" -- Shalom Aleichem "If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living." -- Yiddish Proverb "Not to have felt pain is not to have been human." -- Yiddish Proverb "Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either." -- Yiddish Proverb "Things My Jewish Mother Taught Me" My Jewish mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning." My Jewish mother taught me RELIGION. 27

"You better pray that will come out of the carpet." My Jewish mother taught me LOGIC. "Because I said so, that's why." My Jewish mother taught me MORE LOGIC. "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me." My Jewish mother taught me FORESIGHT. "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident." My Jewish mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS. "Shut your mouth and eat your supper." My Jewish mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM. "Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!" My Jewish mother taught me about STAMINA. "You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone." My Jewish mother taught me about HYPOCRISY. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times-don't exaggerate!" My Jewish mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION. "Stop acting like your father!" My Jewish mother taught me about ENVY. "There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do." My Jewish mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. "Just wait until we get home." My Jewish mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE. "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way." 28

My Jewish mother taught me ESP. "Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?" My Jewish mother taught me DARK HUMOR. "When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me." My Jewish mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT. "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up." My Jewish mother taught me GENETICS. "You're just like your father." My Jewish mother taught me WISDOM. "When you get to be my age, you'll understand." And the most enduring one: My Jewish mother taught me about JUSTICE. "One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!" "When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed." -- Yiddish Proverb "You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money." -- Yiddish Proverb "Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys." -- Yiddish Proverb "Anyone who teases you loves you." -- Yiddish Proverb

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Five Jewish men who influenced the history of Western civilization. Moses said the law is everything. Jesus said love is everything. Marx said capital is everything. Freud said sex is everything. Einstein said everything is relative. "The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." -- Albert Einstein "If you can't go over, you must go under." -- Yiddish Proverb "Never trust people who tell you all their troubles but keep from you all their joys." -- Yiddish Proverb "Old friends, like old wines, ONLY GET MORE flavor."
-- Yiddish Proverb

"Don't look for more honor than your learning merits." -- Yiddish Proverb

"First mend yourself, and then mend others." -- Yiddish Proverb

"A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he is right." Hakl olduunda azn kapatanlara kahraman denir.
-- Yiddish Proverb

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"Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds." Sylediklerinle deil, yaptklarnla akll ol
-- Yiddish Proverb

"One old friend is better than two new ones." Eski bir arkada, iki yeniden iyidir
-- Yiddish Proverb

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth." Gznle grmediini, aznla icat etme
-- Yiddish proverb

"The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks." Sessiz kalan akll bir insan, konuan bir aptaldan daha ok ey syler.
-- Yiddish Proverb

"You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails." Rzgari kontrol edemezsin, ama yelkenleri ayarlayabilirsin.
-- Yiddish proverb

"As you teach, you learn." -- Yiddish Proverb

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"Behind every successful Jew stands a bigot who could not stop him." Her baarl Yahudinin arkasnda, onu durdurmay baaramayan bir banaz vardr.
-- Sam Levenson

"A half-truth is a whole lie." -- Yiddish Proverb

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." Skl bir yumrukla el skamazasn
-- Sam Levenson

"Our faith is grounded in our Jewish tradition. We believe we're from the House of David. We believe we're from the House of Abraham, so we cannot hate our own." -- James Caviezel

"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how." -- Lionel Blue

"There are more important things in life than money. The trouble is they all cost money." Hayatta paradan daha nemli eyler var. Tek sorun, para gerektirmeleri
-- Sam Levenson

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"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose." -- Mary Antin

"War doesn't prove who is right; only who is left." Savan sonu, kimin hakl olduunu gstermez, kimin hayatta kaldn gsterir.
-- Sam Levenson

"I'm so proud of being Jewish. Are you kidding? That's how I was raised." -- Dyan Cannon

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." -- Albert Einstein

"It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic." -- Michael Baden

"The U.N. has been as effective against war as foghorns have been against Fog." -- Sam Levenson

The Six-Day War With more and more papers being declassified, some light has just been shed on the real reason 33

the Israelis won the Six-Day War. It seems all the equipment was rented for one week. Gizli belgeler aklandka sraillilerin 6 gn savan neden kazandklar konusu akla kavumaktadr. Anlalan, ekipmanlar yalnzca bir haftalna kiralamlar!

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx.

"I have an inferiority complex, it's just not a very good one." Anonymous.

"Don't judge a man by the words of his mother, listen to the comments of his neighbors." Bir insan yarglamak iin annesini deil, komularn dinle.
-- Yiddish Proverb

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault." nl bir insan olmann faydas udur: nsanlar sksanz bile, kendi hatalar olduunu dnrler.
-- Henry Kissinger

"I'm not afraid of dying - I just don't want to be there when it happens!" lmekten korkmuyorum, sadece bu gerekletiinde orada olmak istemem.
-- Woody Allen

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"One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world." Yaamn en byk muammalarndan biri, kznla evlenmeyi hak edecek kadar iyi olmayan bir adamn, dnyann en akll ocuun babas olmasdr.
--Jewish Proverb

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." ok mtevazi olmayn; o kadar da byk bir insan deilsiniz.
-- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks." -- Yiddish Proverb

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- Albert Einstein

When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "They want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits." Kars, Alman Bykelisi ile grmesi iin giysilerini deitirmesini sylediinde Albert Einsteinn cevab: Beni grmek istiyorlarsa, ite karlarndaym. Elbiselerimi grmek istiyorlarsa, dolabm aalm, grsnler.
-- Albert Einstein

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"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore." Dorudur ki tm savalarmz kazandk. Ama byk bedeller dedik. Artk yeni zaferler istemiyoruz.
-- Golda Meir

"A wise man hears one word and understands two." Akll bir adam bir kelime duyar, iki kelime anlar.
Yiddish Proverb

"I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace." Bir askerimiz ldnde, gece yars bile olsa, bana haber verilmesi iin talimat verdim. Bir Msrl saker ldnde Naser de uyandrlmak istedii zaman bar olacaktr.
-- Golda Meir

"A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal." Bir insan, hi almaya frsat olmad iin drst saylamaz.
-- Yiddish Proverb

"I don't believe in mathematics." -- Albert Einstein

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"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. " Pesimistlik, bir Yahudi iin tayamayaca bir lkstr.
-- Golda Meir

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." Hayat, bisiklete binmek gibidir. Dengede kalmak iin hareket etmeye devam etmek gerekir.
-- Albert Einstein

"I don't want to become immortal through my work. I want to become immortal through not dying." -- Woody Allen

"A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he is right." -- Yiddish Proverb

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

"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son." --The Talmud

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them." -- Albert Einstein

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"If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the Poor could make a wonderful living." -- Yiddish Proverb

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth." -- Yiddish proverb

"The Two-Minute Haggadah" Opening prayers rapidly : Thank G~d for creating wine. (Drink wine.) Thanks for creating produce. (Eat parsley.) Dip the egg ( remove shell first ) Overview: Once we were slaves in Egypt. Now we're free. That's why we're doing this. Four questions: 1. What's up with the matzah? 2. What's the deal with horseradish? 3. What's with the dipping of the herbs? 4. What's this whole slouching at the table business? Answers: 1. When we left Egypt, we were in a hurry. There was no time for making decent bread. 2. Life was bitter, like horseradish. 3. It's called symbolism. 4. Hungry people get to slouch. Now tell a funny story: 38

Once, these five rabbis talked all night, then it was morning. (Heat soup now.) The four kinds of children and how to deal with them: Wise child - explain Passover. Simple child - explain Passover slowly. Silent child - explain Passover loudly. Religious child - have the child explain it to you. Speaking of children: We hid some matzah. Whoever finds it gets $4.25. The story of Passover: It's a long time ago. We're slaves in Egypt. Pharaoh is a nightmare. We cry out for help. G~d brings plagues upon the Egyptians. We escape, bake some matzah. G~d parts the Red Sea. We make it through; the Egyptians aren't so lucky. We wander 40 years in the desert, eat manna, get the Torah, wind up in Israel, get a new temple, enjoy several years without being persecuted again. (Let brisket cool now.) The 10 Plagues: Blood, Frogs, Lice - you can name all the bad stuff before you have dinner...lessens the appetite. The singing of "Dayenu": If G~d had gotten us out of Egypt and not punished our enemies, it would've been enough. If he'd punished our enemies and not parted the Red Sea, it would've been enough, oh, Dayenu! Dayenu, Dayenu... If he'd parted the Red Sea - (Remove gefilte fish from refrigerator now.) Eat more matzah. Take a few more sips of way too sweet red wine. Slouch. Again thank G~d for everything....and do it all again tomorrow night.

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"The Egyptians could run to Egypt , the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight." -- Golda Meir

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." -- Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton

"When a thief kisses you, count your teeth." -- Yiddish Proverb

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." -- Albert Einstein

"Old friends, like old wines, don't lose their flavor." --Jewish Proverb

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

"One definition of courage is the willingness of a person to stand up for his beliefs in the face of great odds. Chutzpah is doing the same thing

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wearing a Mickey Mouse hat." -- Anonymous

"Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth..." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein

"For the Jews have long been in revolt not only against the Romans, but against humanity; and a race that has made its own life apart and irreconcilable, that cannot share with the rest of mankind in the pleasure of the table nor join in their libations or prayers or sacrifices, are separate from ourselves by a greater gulf than divides us from Sura or Bactra of the most distant Indies." -- Philostratus - The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 3rd Century CE Teacher

"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down." -- Woody Allen

"Certainly, the world without the Jews would have been a radically different place. Humanity might have eventually stumbled upon all the Jewish insights. But we cannot be sure. All the great conceptual discoveries of the human intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they had been 41

revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jews had this gift. To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of human person; of the individual conscience and so a personal redemption; of collective conscience and so of social responsibility; of peace as an abstract ideal and love as the foundation of justice, and many other items which constitute the basic moral furniture of the human mind. Without Jews it might have been a much emptier place." - Paul Johnson (Christian historian, author of A History of the Jews and A History of Christianity)

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein

"Mankind, East and West, Christian and Muslim, accepted the Jewish conviction that there is only one G~d. Today it is polytheism that is so difficult to understand, that is so unthinkable." -- T.R. Grover, The Ancient World, p. 186

"Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because G~d counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's rib. Not from his feet to be walked on. Not from his head to be superior, but from the side to be equal. Under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved." -- Talmud

"G~d does not play dice with the Universe." -- Albert Einstein 42

"I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If G~d had intended me to bend over, he'd have put diamonds on the floor." -- Joan Rivers

"If we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history." -- David Gelernter, Yale University Professor

"In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality." -- Lawrence Kelemen, To Kindle A Soul p. 195

"I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask." -- Peter Malkin

"The Jews proved not only unassimilated, but inassimilable, and... the demonstration that this was so proved one of the most significant turning points in Greek history, owing to the gigantic influence exerted throughout subsequent ages by their religion, which not only survived intact, but subsequently gave birth to Christianity as well." -- Michael Grant, From Alexander to Cleopatra: the Hellenistic World

"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an 43

insurance salesman?" -- Woody Allen

"So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade." -- Will Durant, The Story of Civilization - The Reformation. (New York: Simon & Shuster, 1953)

A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as the colors turn from yellow to orange and red and finally darkness?" He answered, "You are watching the sunset." The genius responded, "That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn." - Jeremy Kagan, "The Jewish Self"

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein

"The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached." -- Amos Elon, The Pity of It All - A portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743 -1933 (New York: Picador, 2002)

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"Five Jewish men influenced the history of Western civilization: Moses said the law is everything. Jesus said love is everything. Marx said capital is everything. Freud said sex is everything. Einstein said everything is relative." -- Anonymous

"Wishing to make Speyer into a city, I thought to increase its honor a thousand fold by bringing in the Jews." -- Bishop Ruediger - Huozmann 1084

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein

"Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world." -- Winston Churchill - Prime Minister of Great Britain

What is the Jew?...What kind of unique creature is this whom all the rulers of all the nations of the world have disgraced and crushed and expelled and destroyed; persecuted, burned and drowned, and who, despite their anger and their fury, continues to live and to flourish. What is this Jew whom they have never succeeded in enticing with all the enticements in the world, whose oppressors and persecutors only suggested that he deny (and disown) his religion and cast aside the faithfulness of his ancestors?! 45

The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity." - Leo Tolstoy (What is the Jew? quoted in The Final Resolution, pg. 189, printed in Jewish World periodical, 1908)

"The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits." -- Vilna Goan, Commentary to Mishlei 4:13

ear Rabbi, Why does the Jewish religion seem to obsess over insignificant details? How much matza do we have to eat, which spoon did I use for milk and which for meat, what is the right way to tie my shoelaces? It seems to me that this misses the bigger picture by focusing on minutiae. Is this nitpicking what Jews all spirituality? (I actually already sent you this question over a week ago and didn't receive a reply. Could it be that you have finally been asked a question that you can't answer?!) Rob

"Rabbi's Answer: " Dear Rob, I never claimed to have all the answers. There are many questions that are beyond me. But it happens to be that 46

I did answer your question, and you did get the answer. I sent a reply immediately. The fact that you didn't receive it is itself the answer to your question. You see, I sent you a reply, but I wrote your email address leaving out the "dot" before the "com". I figured that you should still receive the email, because after all, it is only one little dot missing. I mean come on, it's not as if I wrote the wrong name or something drastic like that! Would anyone be so nitpicky as to differentiate between "yahoocom" and " [Link]"? Isn't it a bit ridiculous that you didn't get my email just because of a little dot? No, it's not ridiculous. Because the dot is not just a dot. It represents something. That dot has meaning far beyond the pixels on the screen that form it. To me it may seem insignificant, but that is simply due to my ignorance of the ways of the web. All I know is that with the dot, the message gets to the right destination; without it, the message is lost to oblivion. Jewish practices have infinite depth. Each nuance and detail contains a world of symbolism. And every dot counts. When they are performed with precision, a spiritual vibration is emailed throughout the universe, all the way to G~d's inbox. If you want to understand the symbolism of the dot, study I.T. If you want to understand the symbolism of Judaism, study it. All the best, Rabbi

"A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return." -- Jewish Proverb

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Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. But intolerance of another being who dares to exist. Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simple because that 'other' exists." -- Rabbi Menachem Mendle

"A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return." -- Jewish Proverb

"Intelligent people know of what they speak; fools speak of what they know." -- Minchas Shabbos Pirkei Avos 3:18 / Ethics Of The Fathers

"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself." -- Golda Meir

"Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand. Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh." -- Yiddish Proverb

"The Best Bar Mitzvah Invitation Ever" It is with great stress, emotional 48

and physical fatigue and incredible financial sacrifice beyond comprehension, that we invite you to join us as our wonderful son Jacob Adam is called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah. Saturday, May 12th (yes we realize it's Mother's Day Weekend) Temple Israel 14 Coleytown Road Westport , Connecticut 06880 at the ungodly hour of 9 am Even though you don't really need to be there until 10:20am to catch the real action. If you make it through the 3 hour service, please skip the kiddush (it's just cookies and cake) and join us instead for the ostentatious evening meal (Kosher, my husband's idea), which starts at 7 PM, (not 8 PM.. or you will miss out on the 2000 canapes). Birchwood Country Club Westport , CT 06880 (which we had to join just for this event and you would not believe the initiation fees) Please have the courtesy of showing up if you RSVP that you are attending, or you will be billed for $210.00 a plate if you are a no-show. Please RSVP as soon as you 49

get this and not the day before the cut-off date. I can't take the stress. The gift of choice is either green, or contains a routing and account number. " Hope you can make it! Lisa and David XXXX Dress: Black Tie optional Theme: 007 James Bond Kippot and Matching Eye Patch will be provided

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in." -- Gary Ackerman

"It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have." -- Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (Horeb, vol. 1, pg 46)

When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits." -- Albert Einstein

"A mother understands what a child does not say." -- Yiddish Proverb

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"If a Jew doesn't make Kiddush (to sanctify himself by maintaining a distinctly Jewish lifestyle), then the non-Jew will make Havdalah for him (by making the Jew realize he is truly different)." -- R' Chaim of Volozhin

"A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both." -- Yiddish Proverb

"Do you know what it's like to preach to a white audience? I invented a pill called 'Preach-agra.' It keeps the audience erect during services." -- Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of Kosher Sex, to Al Sharpton

"Death is merely moving from one home to another. The wise man will spend his main efforts in trying to make his future home the more beautiful one." - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgenstern of Tomashov (the Kotzker Rebbe)

"This one book (the Bible) ... has attracted to it, and had concentrated on it, vastly more thought and has called forth more works, explanatory, illustrative, apologetic, upon its text, its meaning, its geography, its theology, its chronology, its evidences, its inspiration, its origin, than all the rest of the literature of the world put together. An immense bulk of the world's literature owes its origin to this book." - Carlyle B Heynes in The Bible, Is it a True Book

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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." -- Albert Einstein

"The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a Higher Power in human affairs. Time after time in his history, moreover, he has been saved from disaster in a manner, which cannot be described excepting as 'providential.' The author has deliberately attempted to write this book in a secular spirit; he does not think that his readers can fail to see in it, on every page, a higher immanence" - Cecil Roth, Oxford University (History of the Jews, New York, 1963, p. 424)

"I have already explained with clear proofs that the soul is the dominant factor in the nature of the Jew. For example, being stiff-necked is one of the bad qualities that Jews have. Practically speaking, that means that Jews refuse to accept criticism and will not listen to corrective advise. This is in fact because they are not essentially materialistic. Only something which is materialistic is readily altered. Consequently Jews are very resistant to change and will not accept the advise of others. Further, the Rabbis say (Talmud - Beitzah 25b) that they are the most aggressive and pushy people." - Maharal of Prague (Rabbi Yehuda Loewe, 1526 - 1609)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton:

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that transformed subsequent history....One may raise the question whether any other single contribution from whatever source since human culture emerged from the stone age has had the far reaching effect upon history that Israel in this regard has exerted both through the mediums of Christianity and Islam and directly through the world of Jewish thinkers themselves" - from The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man, by H. and H. A. Frankfort, John A. Wilson, Thorkild Jacobsen, William A. Irwin"

Jewish proverb: "A Jewish wife will forgive and forget, but she'll never forget what she forgave." One of life's mysteries - how a 2Ib box of chocolates can make a Jewish woman gain 5lb. Another of life's mysteries is when a Jewish woman hangs something in her wardrobe for a while and it shrinks two sizes! The trouble with some Jewish women is that they get all excited about nothing and then they marry him. A Bar mitzvah is defined as the day when a Jewish boy comes to realize that he is more likely to own a professional sports team than he is to play for one.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. -- Albert Einstein

"All that is thought should not be said, all that is said should not be written, all that is written should not be published, all that is published should not be read."

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-- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgenstern of Tomashov (the Kotzker Rebbe)

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." -- Albert Einstein

"At infant school, the Jewish and Christian children compared what their parents and grandparents had told them about each other." -- Lionel Blue

"Intelligent people know of what they speak; fools speak of what they know." -- Minchas Shabbos Pirkei Avos 3:18 / Ethics Of The Fathers

"The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence." -- Mikhail Bakunin

"There is a striking point that runs through Jewish history as a whole. Western civilization was born in the Middle East, and the Jews were at its crossroads. In the heyday of Rome, the Jews were close to the Empire's center. When power shifted eastward, the Jewish center was in Babylon; when it skipped to Spain, there again were the Jews. When in the Middle Ages the center of civilization moved into Central Europe, the Jews were waiting for it in Germany and Poland. The rise of the United States to the leading world power found Judaism focused there. And now, today, when the 54

pendulum seems to be swinging back toward the Old World and the East rises to renewed importance, there again are the Jews in Israel..." - Professor Huston Smith The Religious of Man, New York: HarperCollins, 1989

"I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs." -- Lionel Blue

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

"Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general." -- Theodore Bikel

"I'm not afraid of dying - I just don't want to be there when it happens!" -- Woody Allen

"When we scan the Diaspora of Jewry over the entire globe and throughout the entire civilized world, we are surprised to see that this Nation, which is almost the most ancient in the world, is in truth the youngest in terms of the land under its feet and the sky above its head. As a result of the relentless persecutions and forced expulsions, most Jews are but recent new-comers to their respective lands of 55

residence. Ninety percent of the Jewish people have lived in their new homes for no more than 50 or 60 years! (The Jewish People) are dispersed throughout over 100 lands on all five continents." - Leschzinsky "The Jewish Dispersion", pg. 9 (Heb.)

"I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen." -- Lionel Blue

"What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine." -- Theodore Bikel

"I started to get giddy on Fritz the Cat, when I suddenly was able to get a pig that was a cop, and this particular other pig was Jewish, and I thought, Oh my G~d! A Jewish pig? These were major steps forward." -- Ralph Bakshi

"Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict." -- Daniel Barenboim

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"Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people." -- Shmuel Y. Agnon

"I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade." -- Al Alvarez

"There was a special examination for the Jewish candidates, of course: a nine-year-old Jewish child had to answer questions that a thirteen-year-old Gentile was hardly expected to answer." -- Mary Antin

If there is any honour in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen." -- A.L Rowse, authority on Shakespeare

"Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest." -- Sam Levenson

"The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, 57

spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions." -- Leo Tolstoy

"It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they easily caught up with us, even on those new paths which we opened up without their aid." -- A. A. Leroy Beaulieu, French publicist, 1842

"So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here." -- Harold Brodkey

"The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice are the gifts of the Jews." -- Thomas Cahill, Irish Author

"Half of my audience was not only not Jewish, they were not Caucasian. I would see these Japanese and Chinese faces being clearly moved." -- Theodore Bikel

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"One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all." -- William Rees-Mogg, former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords

"It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar people, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is called the Jewish people.... This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for a singular long time... For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things over such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved, however, and their preservation was foretold... My encounter with this people amazes me..." -- Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician

"The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for humanity, both divine and man made. The Jews, therefore, stand at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose." -- Paul Johnson, American Historian

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"As he thinks in his heart, so he is." -- Yiddish Proverb

"Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out." -- Yiddish Proverb

"The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and a skullcap will not bar a man from the White House...... unless, of course, the man is Jewish." -- Jules Farber

"A wise man hears one word and understands two." -- Yiddish Proverb

"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel." -- Theodore Bikel

"He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good." -- Yiddish Proverb

"A goat also has a beard, but that doesn't make him a rabbi." -- Sam Levenson 60

"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist." -- Theodore Bikel

"My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met." -- Emanuel Celler

"There was a Jewish element to all that, and the creators of all these golden age comic books, many of them were Jewish kids." -- Michael Chabon

"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor." -- Theodore Bikel

"A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms." -- Judith Butler

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"A half-truth is a whole lie." -- Yiddish Proverb

"May gypsies camp out in your belly and steal your guts one by one." -- Yiddish curse

"Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! " -- Golda Meir
"Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small." -- Yiddish Proverb

"Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out." -- Yiddish Proverb "Don't live in a town where there are no doctors." -- Yiddish Proverb "Don't make a toil of pleasure." -- Yiddish Proverb

"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." -- Yiddish Proverb

"Don't pick a wasp out of a cream-jug." -- Yiddish Proverb "He who puts up with insult invites injury." -- Yiddish Proverb

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"Your friend has a friend; don't tell him." -- Yiddish Proverb

"With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too." -- Yiddish Proverb "I discovered a Jewish all news radio station. Every hour on the hour, an announcer says, 'Oy, you don't want to know about it.'" -- Anonymous "Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty." -- Yiddish Proverb

"Pride is the mask of one's own faults." -- Yiddish Proverb "When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage." -- Yiddish Proverb "The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten." -- Yiddish Proverb "What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth." -- Yiddish Proverb "Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all." -- Yiddish Proverb "The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law." -- Yiddish Proverb What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead." -- Yiddish Proverb

"A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death

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but of life." -- Baruch Spinoza, "Ethics" "A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return." -- Jewish Proverb "G~d, I know we are your chosen people, but couldn't you choose somebody else for a change? -- Shalom Aleichem "A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both." -- Jewish Proverb "The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion." -- Adolf Hitler {Well, consider the source...} "As you teach, you learn." -- Jewish Proverb "As he thinks in his heart, so he is." -- Jewish Proverb "Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house." -- Jewish Proverb "Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out." -- Jewish Proverb "Don't live in a town where there are no doctors." -- Jewish Proverb "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your G~d my G~d. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if 64

anything but death separates you and me." -- The Bible Ruth 1. 16-17 "Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere." -- Groucho Marx Jewish Quote du Jour "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!" -- Golda Meir "Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?" -- Henry Miller "It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?" -- Heinrich Heine "Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon." -- Benjamin Disraeli "Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here." -- Golda Meir "A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work." -- Geoffrey Norman 65

"If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling." -- Dr. R. W. Shepherd

"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things." -- Anonymous

#1 "Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world." -- Winston Churchill -----------------------------------------------------------------------#2 "The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the
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religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions." -- Leo Tolstoy -----------------------------------------------------------------------#3 "It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they easily caught up with us, even on those paths which we opened up without their aid." -- A. A. Leroy Beaulieu, French publicist, 1842 -----------------------------------------------------------------------#4 "The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual,
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person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews." -- Thomas Cahill, Irish Author -----------------------------------------------------------------------#5 "One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all." -- William Rees-Mogg, former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member of the House of Lords -----------------------------------------------------------------------#6 "It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar people, separated from the other peoples of the world and this is called the Jewish people.... This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but
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has also lasted for a singular long time... For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged by the natural order of things over such a long spell of years. They have always been preserved, however, and their preservation was foretold... My encounter with this people amazes me..." -- Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician -#7---------------------------------------------------------------------"The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for humanity, both divine and man made The Jews, herefore, stand at the center of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose."

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--Paul Johnson, American Historian -----------------------------------------------------------------------#8 "As long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration as to the people who had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest." --Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic -----------------------------------------------------------------------#9 "Indeed it is difficult for all other nations of the world to live in the presence of the Jews. It is irritating and most uncomfortable. The Jews embarrass the world as they have done things which are beyond the imaginable. They have become moral strangers since the day their forefather, Abraham, introduced the world to high ethical standards and to the fear of Heaven. They brought the world the Ten Commandments, which many nations prefer to defy. They violated the rules of history
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by staying alive, totally at odds with common sense and historical evidence. They outlived all their former enemies, including vast empires such as the Romans and the Greeks. They angered the world with their return to their homeland after 2000 years of exile and after the murder of six million of their brothers and sisters. They aggravated mankind by building, in the wink of an eye, a democratic State which others were not able to create in even hundreds of years. They built living monuments such as the duty to be holy and the privilege to serve one's fellow men. They had their hands in every human progressive endeavor, whether in science, medicine, psychology or any other discipline, while totally out of proportion to their actual numbers. They gave the world the Bible and even their "savior." Jews taught the world not to accept the world as it is, but to transform it, yet only a few nations wanted to listen. Moreover, the Jews introduced the world to one God, yet only a minority wanted to draw the moral consequences. So the nations of
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the world realize that they would have been lost without the Jews.. And while their subconscious trie s to remind them of how much of Western civilization is framed in terms of concepts first articulated by the Jews, they do anything to suppress it. They deny that Jews remind them of a higher purpose of life and the need to be honorable, and do anything to escape its consequences. It is simply too much to handle for them, too embarrassing to admit, and above all, too difficult to live by. So the nations of the world decided once again to go out of 'their' way in order to find a stick to hit the Jews. The goal: to prove that Jews are as immoral and guilty of massacre and genocide as some of they themselves are. All this in order to hide and justify their own failure to even protest when six million Jews were brought to the slaughterhouses of Auschwitz and Dachau; so as to wipe out the moral conscience of which the Jews remind them, and they found a stick.

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Nothing could be more gratifying for them than to find the Jews in a struggle with another people (who are completely terrorized by their own leaders) against whom the Jews, against their best wishes, have to defend themselves in order to survive. With great satisfaction, the world allows and initiates the rewriting of history so as to fuel the rage of yet another people against the Jews. This in spite of the fact that the nations understand very well that peace between the parties could have come a long time ago, if only the Jews would have had a fair chance. Instead, they happily jumped on the wagon of hate so as to justify their jealousy of the Jews and their incompetence to deal with their own moral issues. When Jews look at the bizarre play taking place in The Hague, they can only smile as this artificial game once more proves how the world paradoxically admits the Jews uniqueness. It is in their need to undermine the Jews that they actually raise them. The study of history of Europe during the past centuries teaches us one
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uniform lesson: That the nations which received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered; and that the nations that have tortured and oppressed them have written out their own curse." --Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist -----------------------------------------------------------------------#10 "If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen." --A.L Rowse, authority on Shakespeare

"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself." -- Golda Meir "Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism." -- David Ben-Gurion "The financial situation at the moment is so bad that Jewish women are now marrying for love" -- Anonymous

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"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that." Shylock From The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare "If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew." -- Albert Einstein "He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good." -- Jewish Proverb "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews." -- Anne Frank "If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists." -- Jewish Proverb "My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada." -- David Steinberg Catholics believe life begins at conception. Atheists believe that life begins at birth. Jews believe that life

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begins when the children leave home and the dog dies. -- Anonymous "If G~d lived on earth, people would break his windows." -- Jewish Proverb The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White House, unless, of course, the man is Jewish." -- Jules Farber "Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here." -- Golda Meir "Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself." -- Golda Meir "It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?" -- Heinrich Heine

A MARVELOUS QUOTATION BY ALBERT EINSTEIN (Read these before looking at his quote.) When Paul Newman died, they said how great he was but they failed to mention he considered himself Jewish (born half-Jewish). When the woman (Helen Suzman) who helped Nelson Mandela died recently, they said how great she was, but they failed to mention she was Jewish. On the other side of the equation, when Ivan Boesky or Andrew Fastow or Bernie Madoff committed fraud, almost every article mentioned they were Jewish. However, when Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Martha Stewart, Randy Cunningham, Gov. Edwards, Conrad Black, Senator Keating, Gov Ryan, and Gov Blagojevich messed up; no one reported what religion or denomination they were, because they were not Jewish. This is a reminder of a famous Einstein quote:

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In 1921, Albert Einstein presented a paper on his then-infant Theory of Relativity at the Sorbonne, the prestigious French university.

"If I am proved correct," he said, "the Germans will call me a German, the Swiss will call me a Swiss citizen, and the French will call me a great scientist. "If relativity is proved wrong, the French will call me a Swiss, the Swiss will call me a German, And the Germans will call me a Jew".

"If not for fear, sin would be sweet." -- Jewish Proverb "These three are the marks of a Jew - a tender heart, self-respect, and charity. -- Hebrew Proverb "Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother." -- Peter Malkin "Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call." -- Richard Lewis "Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!" -- Golda Meir "Don't be humble; you are not that great." -- Golda Meir "G~d, I know we are your chosen people, but couldn't you choose somebody else for a change?" -- Shalom Aleichem "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." -- Benjamin Disraeali

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"Humility is no substitute for a good personality." -- Fran Lebowitz "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So, for every ten Jews beating their breasts, G~d designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one." -- Mel Brooks "Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish." -- Lenny Bruce "It's time to say that America is a better place to be a Jew than Jerusalem. If there ever was a promised land, we Jewish Americans are living in it." -- Rabbi Jacob Neusner Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being." -- Morris Joseph "It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." --- Jerry Seinfeld "If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you." -- Bernard Malamud "If a people cannot help itself, it cannot be helped at all." --- Theodor Herzl "Fools search always for yesterday." --- Jewish saying 78

"I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory." -- Elie Wiesel "Sometimes we are too lazy to STOP working." --- Rabbinic saying "Maturity is the point where emotion merges with intellect." --- Sheim M'Shmuel "In crises, the most daring course is often safest." --- Henry Kissinger "I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If G~d had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor." -- Joan Rivers "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." --- Alfred Adler "It's good to hope; but bad to depend solely on it." --- Jewish saying "I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them." --- Phyllis Diller "From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again." -- Karl Marx

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"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." --- Sam Levenson "It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like." --- Jackie Mason "Brains to the lazy are like a torch to the blind --- a useless burden." --- Bechinas HaOlam "Historically the profoundest meaning of Passover is something which sets Judaism apart from other religions. It marks the birth of a nation. Out of a mass of slaves, Moses fashioned a nation and gave them a faith." -- Philip S. Bernstein "The suspense is often worse than the ordeal." --- Jewish saying "Middle age is when a man is warned to slow down by a doctor instead of a policeman." --- Sidney Brody "To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active-memoried, and persistently experimental." --- Leo Stein "In Jewish history there are no coincidences." -- Elie Wiesel

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"The learned who parade their knowledge are worth less than the stupid who, ashamed, hide their ignorance." --- Jewish saying Not to transmit an experience is to betray it." --- Elie Wiesel "He who is merciful when he should be cruel will in the end be cruel when he should be merciful." --- Midrash Shmuel "Discontent is the source of trouble, but also of progress." --- Berthold Auerbach "From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street." --- Mark Helprin "A baptized Jew is a circumcised Christian." -- German Proverb "The eyes does not see as well as the heart." --- Jewish saying

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"Hard as the world is to explain with the Almighty, it is harder yet without the Holy One." --- Moses Montefiore "Too much modesty is half-conceit." --- Jewish saying "All can be imitated, save truth; for imitated truth is no longer truth." --- Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz "If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness." --- Ludwig Borne "Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors." -- Jewish Proverb "A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually." --- Abba Eban "Those who place too much stock in the stock they descend from, descend." --- Rabbi Shraga Silverstein "Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams." --- Ann Landers 82

"Knowledge and action are twins, each glorifying the other." --- Shekel HaKodesh "I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile, women shave on Saturday and most especially never to shave a Gentile woman on Saturday." -- Woody Allen "Without inwardness there can be no external world, and without imagination there can be no reality." --- Franz Werfel "The worst fault a person can have is to forget his intrinsic greatness as a human being." --- Rebbe Shlomo of Karlin "Strength is not the absence of weakness, but how we wrestle with our weaknesses." --- Noah Benshea "Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to." -- Henny Youngman "He who laughs last thinks slowest." --- Unknown "Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." --- Louis Mann 83

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?" --- Barbra Streisand "America / rather, the United States / seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world." -- Edna Ferber "A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune." --- Anonymous "The lazy are generally the busiest people in the world." --- Jacob Klatzkin "Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it." -- Henny Youngman "Necessity can break iron." --- Jewish saying "If you believe you can spoil, believe you can fix." --- Rebbe Nachman of Breslav

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"The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Humanity's flaw is that we can deteriorate; but our virtue is that we can improve." --- Chassidic saying "The touchstone of moral growth is a progressive displacement of reaction by action." --- Rabbi Shraga Silverstein "Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world." -- Winston Churchill "Beauty wanes, but a reputation endures." --- Jewish saying "Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes." -- The Talmud "The miser pays double in the end." --- Yiddish proverb "To do good is better than to inherit brilliance." --- Jewish saying "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --- Abba Eban 85

"The Almighty prefers YOUR deeds to your ancestors' virtues" --- Midrash "Nice guys do NOT finish last --- they are just running in a different race." --- Meir Weingarten "Pride is a mask for faults." --- Jewish saying "One who thinks that money can do everything is likely to do anything for money." --- Chassidic saying "The wisdom of wisdoms is that a man should not be overwise." --- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Be a tail among lions and not a head among foxes." -- Talmud "The one who causes a good deed to be performed is as meritorious as he who performs it." --- Talmud "The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be." -- Abba Eban "The righteous, of any faith, will be rewarded in the World to Come." 86

--- Talmud "When two quarrel, a third grabs the hat." --- Jewish saying "A heavy purse is light to carry." --- Jewish saying "When the Divine does a favor, He doesn't boast about it." --- Jewish saying "The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations." -- John Adams "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." --- Anne Frank "Israel is a country surrounded on all sides by enemies, but the people's headaches are caused by the neighbors upstairs." -- Efraim Kishon "To truly love the Divine, one must first love man. And if one tells you that he loves the Divine but does not love his fellow man, he is lying." --- Chassidic Proverb 87

"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be." --- Golda Meir "Unless we believe the Divine renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious." --- Baal Shem Tov Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon." -- Benjamin Disraeli Reply to a taunt by Daniel O'Connell "Wealth is a pedigree to the man who lacks one." --- Mishlei Chachamim "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." --- Benjamin Disraeli "Israel is the only country in the world where the coffee is already so good that Starbucks went bankrupt trying to break into the local market." -- Efraim Kishon

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"A heart without affection is like a purse without money." --- Benjamin Mandelstamm "Don't uproot a garden because of thorns." --- Jewish saying "The man surrounded by dwarfs looks like a giant." --- Jewish saying "Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So, for every ten Jews beating their breasts, G~d designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one." -- Mel Brooks "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." --- Erica Jong "Man is what he is, not what he used to be." --- Jewish saying "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's THEIR fault." --- Henry Kissinger "Sorrow locks the gates of Heaven. Prayer opens locked gates. Joy has the power to tear down the walls."

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--- Baal Shem Tov "Israel is one of the few places in the world where the sun sets into the Mediterranean Sea." -- Efraim Kishon "The test of good manners is being able to bear with bad ones patiently." --- Rabbi Shlomo ibn-Gavriel "Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony." -- Susan Sontag "Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall --- but don't rush to pick him up, either." --- Jewish Proverb "Don't be too sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out." --- Jewish Proverb "Israel is the only country in the world whose soldiers eat three sets of salads a day, none of which contain any lettuce (which is not really a food), and where olives ARE a food and even a main course in a meal,

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rather than something one tosses into a martini." -- Efraim Kishon "What grows never grows old." --- Noah Benshea "The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." --- Alvin Toffler The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the business person, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt." -- Jesse Jackson "True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked." --- Erich Segal "Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got." --- Art Buchwald "Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you . . . and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit." --- Talmud

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"Wisdom is the finest pedigree." --- Mivchar Hapeninim "Israel is the only country in the world where one is unlikely to dig a cellar without hitting ancient archaeological artifacts." -- Efraim Kishon "Words should be weighed, not counted." --- Yiddish Proverb "Israel is the only country in the world where people cuss using dirty words in Russian or Arabic because Hebrew has never developed them." -- Efraim Kishon "Yeast, salt and recalcitrance are good only in small doses." --- Talmud

Jewish Proverbs, Most Direct Quotes

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. Yiddish Proverb The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks . Yiddish Proverb What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. Yiddish proverb A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he is right. Yiddish Proverb

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One old friend is better than two new ones. Yiddish Proverb One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. Jewish Proverb A wise man hears one word and understands two. Yiddish Proverb "Don't be so humble - you are not that great." Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. Golda Meir Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. Albert Einstein Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails. Yiddish proverb I don't want to become immortal through my work. I want to become Immortal through not dying. Woody Allen Imagination is more important than knowledge. Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton . We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

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Albert Einstein

"Israel is the only country in the world where patients visiting physicians end up giving the doctor advice." -- Efraim Kishon "You don't have to be big to be great." --- Shalom Aleichem "Better pain in your heart than shame on your face." --- Jewish saying "Israel is the only country in the world where everyone strikes up conversations while waiting in lines." -- Efraim Kishon "Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives." --- Viktor Frankl "Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable." --- Anonymous

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. - Samuel Butler

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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. - Josh Billings

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Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end. - The Talmud

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Sign on a synagogue just before Yom Kippur: Your sins are not so many that you should stay out Or so few that you shouldn't come in.

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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. - Mae West

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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality. - Kahlil Gibran

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Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. - Mark Twain

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Said one man to the other after the Rabbis Yom Kippur sermon on the congregations myriad of sins: Well, at least I haven't made any graven images.

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A Rabbi prayed to God in turmoil over the sinful state of his city, "Lord, most of the people in the city have no interest in following you. And the rest of us are having a hard time holding on!" God heard the prayer and sent down an angel to investigate the claim. Later the angel reported back that, indeed, things were much worse that the Rabbi indicated. 99% of the city was more sinful than Sodom and Gomorrah, and the remaining faithful 1% were struggling. God considered what to do for those who were staying true to the faith. Finally God decided to send a letter of encouragement to the faithful few. And do you know what the letter said? Well, DID you know what the letter said? Surely, you MUST know what the letter said Cmon, share what the letter said, already

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Two astronauts land on Mars. Their mission: to check whether there is Oxygen on the planet "Give me the box of matches" says one. "Either it burns and there is Oxygen, or nothing happens." He takes the box, and is ready to strike a match when out of the blue, a Martian appears waving all his arms yelling "No, no, don't!" and grabbing the match away. The two guys look at each other, worried. Could there be an unknown explosive gas on Mars? But he takes another match...and now, a crowd of hysterical Martians is coming, all waving their arms yelling "No, no, don't do that!" The astronaut says to his buddy, "It looks serious. What are they afraid of? He turns to the Martian and says We mean you no harm but we're here for Science, to know if man can breathe on Mars". Before the Martian can react, he strikes the match, which flames up, burns down, and...nothing happens. "Why did you try to prevent us from striking a match?" The leader of the Martians says, "Today is Yom Kippur!"

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Subject: Sukkah An observant Jew who lived on Park Avenue, built a Sukkah on his balcony. Some of his 'high society' non-Jewish neighbors brought him to court. They claimed that the Sukkah on his balcony was an eyesore and was having a negative impact on the value of their homes in this posh neighborhood. In court, the man was very worried about the outcome. It was the eve of the eight-day holiday, leaving him no time to make alternative arrangements in case the judge ordered him to take down the Sukkah. He prayed for help. And God listened. Judge Ginsburg, who was Jewish himself, had a reputation of being a very wise man. After hearing both sides, he turned around to the observant Jew and scolded him: "Don't you realize that you live on Park Avenue, and not in Brooklyn? There is a certain decorum which is expected on Park Avenue. You have no right to be putting up an ugly hut on this lovely street without a building permit authorizing it. I hereby rule that either you remove the hut, or I will fine you one thousand dollars. You have exactly eight days to do so! Next Case!"

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Top Rejected Jewish Books from Jewish Authors

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Portnoy Is No Longer Complaining: Philip Roth writes this sequel about his hero, Alexander Portnoy in which he has nothing to complain about. In fact, for a whole 312 pages, Portnoy reassures us that in fact he "is fine and pretty well adjusted." War and a Piece of Cheesecake: Herman Wouk's attempt to write about the Goldstein family and their fight over the last piece of cheesecake in the fridge left from Shavuoth. Mein Camp: Mel Brooks writes a "campy" version of Mein Kampf in which he desperately looks for the jokes that were unused in the Producers. The Red Tent: a story of one woman's plight to stand up to her mother about the colors for her wedding canopy. Chicken Schmaltz for the Soul: A collection of vignettes about gaining weight around the Jewish holidays ~~~~~~~

"A fool grows without rain." --- Jewish saying "Israel is the only country in the world where there is the most mysterious and mystical calm ambience in the streets on Yom Kippur, which cannot be explained unless you have experienced it." -- Efraim Kishon "Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice." --- Stanley Horowitz "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." --- Ann Landers

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"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." -- Elie Wiesel

"Your imagination is the preview to life's coming attractions." --- Albert Einstein "Sadness locks the gates of Heaven; prayer opens locked gates; and joy has the power to break down walls." --- Baal Shem Tov "Who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral." -- Yiddish saying "The Creation narrative says 'In the beginning the Almighty created...' to teach us that He only created the beginning. The remainder is left to us." --- Rebbe Leibele Eiger of Lublin "Two eyes were given to man: One with which to see his fellow man's virtues, and another with which to see his own faults." --- Rebbe Meir of Premishlan

Quien no tiene su casa, es vecino de todo el mundo. He who has no home is neighbor to all the world. El que corre, se cae. He who runs, falls.

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Quien no risica, no rosica. Whoever doesn't laugh, doesn't bloom. Si Mose morio, adonay quedo. Moses may be dead, but God endures.

Aboltar cazal, aboltar mazal. A change of scene, a change of fortune. Si los anios calleron, los dedos quedaron. If the rings fell off, at least the fingers stayed. Quien no sabe de mar, no sabe de mal. He who knows nothing of the sea, knows nothing o f suffering

asa mia, nido mio. My home, my nest. Quien hijo cria, ora hila. To beget a son is to spin gold. Quien no tiene hija, no tiene amiga. To not have a daughter is to not have a friend. Hija de casar, nave de encargar. Daughter to marry, boat to equip. De vez que vengo lleno, so marido bueno. When I come fully, I am a good husband. SELF-RELIANCE Arremediate con lo tuyo y no demandes de dingunos. Get by with what you have, & ask nothing from no one. Dexame entrar, me hazere luar. Just let me in, & I'll make my own space. Paga lo que debes, saves lo que tienes. Pay what you owe; know what you have. Esperar de otros officio de locos.

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To rely on others is to be a fool. (Waiting on others is crazy.) Freite en la aciete, y no demandes de la gente. Fry in oil before you beg. Ayudate, te aydare. Help yourself, I will pity you. Haz cuando puedes, y no cuando queres. Do something when you are able, not when you want to. Mejor solo que al acompanado. Better to be alone than with bad company. A lo que lo echa la persona, al lo que li sale. Whatever one says of another is true of oneself. Cualo es la hermoza, la que te plaza a ti. What is beauty--that which is pleasing to you. OPEN-HEARTEDNESS Buen corason haze buen caracter. A good heart makes for good character. Non mi mires la color, mirami la savor. Don't judge me by my color, judge me by my flavor. Onde iras, amigos toparas. Wherever you go, may you find friends. Haz bien, y no mires con quien. Do good, & don't care about with whom. Quien no sabe de mar, no sabe de mal. He who knows nothing of the sea, knows nothing of suffering. No me llores por ser prove, sino por ser solo. Weep not for my poverty, rather for my loneliness. Quien no tiene su casa, es vecino de todo el mundo. He who has no home is neighbor to the entire world. HOW TO DO IT AND VIEW IT

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Cuando avre la boca se conoce lo que es. When one opens his mouth, he reveals who he is. Cien mezura y una corta. Measure one hundred and cut one. El que corre se caye. He who runs falls. Quien mas hace, mas vale. Whoever does much is worth much. Obras son amorer. Works are loves. Grano a grano, inche la gallina el papo. Grain by grain, the chicken fills its intestines. Mas vale ser coda al leon, que cabezera al raton. It's better to be the tail of a lion than the head of a rat. Hazer y non agradecer. Do, but don't brag. Vivir dias, ver miravillas. To live days is to see marvels. SURVIVAL AMIDST A POWER THAT BE Culebra que no mir morde, que viva mil anos. The snake that doesn't bite me, may it live a thousand years. Faste a amigo con el huerco, hasta que pases el ponte. Befriend the hangman until you are over the bridge. Ningun encarcelado, se puede descarcelar. No one is a prisoner, if he can escape. Aboltar cazal, aboltar mazal. A change of scene, a change of fortune. Si ten dan, toma: si te ajahvan, fue. If they give you, take; if they hit you, run. Si los anios calleron, los dedos quedaron. If the rings fell off, at least the fingers stayed.

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Cominos macarones, alambicos corazones. We ate macaroni, & licked our hearts. Codrerico es, va se asara. He's a lamb, & he will fry. Boca dulce abre puertas de hierro. Kind words open iron gates. Quien se comio el queso? los ratones. Who ate the cheese? The rats. Quien muncho se aboca, el culo se le vee. He who bows down too low exposes his ass. Si no hay demandador, no hay respondedor. If no one asks, no one answers. Boca que dixo no, dize si. The mouth that said no, says yes. Leon que esta dormiendo, no le espiertas. A sleeping lion shouldn't be awakened. El rey fa hasta donde puede, y no hasta donde quere. The king goes as far as he can, & not as far as he wishes. THE VALUE OF KEEPING YOUR MOUTH SHUT Quien si serra la boca, moscas no entra. A closed mouth, flies cannot enter. El havlar poco es oro, lo muncho es lodo. Little talk is gold, much talk is mud. Si el callar es oro, el hablar es lodo. If silence is golden, speech is muddy. Asno callado, por sabio cantado. A silent jackass is counted among the wise. Haragan y consejero. Lazy and wordy. Al entendedor, un punto. To one who understands, a single word suffices.

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WORLDLY WISDOM Quien con perros se acuesta con pulgas se levanta. He who beds down with a dog gets up with fleas. Como hay dar, hay saludar. As one gives, so he is received. Del loco y el nino se sabe la verdad. Truth is found in the mouths of babes & fools. Lo que no acontece en un mundo, acontece en un punto. What the world thinks impossible can happens in a moment. De boca a boca va fin a Roma. From mouth to mouth & on to Rome. Mira la madre, tome la hija. Look at the mother before you take the daughter. Quien camina por el sol save la savor de la sombra. Whoever walks in the sun knows the pleasure of shade. Quien esta para los bexos deve de estar para los pedos. Whoever accepts the kisses must also accept the kicks. En la ciuda de ciegos, beato quien teine un ojo. In the city of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. El mal viene a quintales, se va a miticales. Trouble comes in gallons & goes in droplets. Quien mucho pensa, no se la fada Yersalaim. Whoever thinks too much will never reach Jerusalem. Rey sin gente no vale niente. A king without a people is worthless. Poco oir, poco hablar, poco mal tener. Hear little, speak little, suffer little. Unos tienen las hechas, otras la fama. Some have their deeds, others their reputations. Cuando mucho escuresce, es para amenescer. Dawn breaks when it is darkest. El que te hace riir, te quiere ver llorar.

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He who makes you laugh wants to see you cry. Quien cae, consiente. Whoever falls, feels. Quien no tiene miyoyo, qui tenga pies. He who has no brain, must have feet. Dueda, buen dia no espera. Debts can't wait for better times. Quien se prestado se vestio, en medio de la calle se quito. He who dresses on credit, is undressed in public. No se espalden los pies mas de las colcha. Don't spread your feet further than your blanket. Pan y queso y dos candelas. Bread & cheese & two candles. Quien vende el sol, merca la candela. Whoever sells the sun buys a candle. Cada subida tiene su abajada. Every rise has its fall. Pepino sin sal se da savor es la tena de Bajor. Cucumber without salt tastes like the skin rash of Walt. El comer y el arrazca hay que al empazar. Eating and scratching must have a start. El trabajo paga las devdas. Work pays off debts. HUMAN NATURE El farto no cree al fambrento. The well-fed doesn't believe the starving. Guay! cuando el amares favla leshon hakodesh. Beware when the ignoramus starts quoting scripture. Cuando ganeden esta acerrado, guehinam esta siempre abierto. While the Garden of Eden may be closed, Hell is always open. El hombre es mas sano del fierro mas nezik del vidro.

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A man is stronger than iron and more fragile than glass. Poco tura la alegria en la casa del cumargi. Happiness is shortlived in the house of a gambler. El gamello non mira a su corcova. A camel doesn't see his own hump. Ande va la piedra, en el ojo de la ciega. Where do they throw rocks, but in the eyes of the blind. Cada gallo canta en su gallinero. Every rooster sings in his own chicken coop. Cuando te llaman azno mira si tienes cola. When they call you a jackass, make sure you don't have a tail. Quien de todos es amigo, es muy pobre, o muy rico. Whoever is everyone's friend is either very poor or very rich. Quien barbas vee, barbas honra. He who sees beards, honors beards. En la guerra no se esparten confites. No one gives out candy during a war. Un buen pleito trae una buen paz. A good fight yields a good peace. Quien da en primero, da con miedo. Whoever gives first, gives with fear. Quien no risica, no rosica. Whoever doesn't laugh, doesn't bloom.

Tanto mi lo quero, que no mi lo cree. So much is my need, I can't believe my greed. El mal castigado, sabe bien castigar. He who has been severely punished knows how to punish severely. El palo en verde se enderecha. A green tree can straighten itself out. Grande i chica talamo quere. The great & the small all want a marriage bed. Cuando el gato se va de casa, ballan los ratones.

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When the cat leaves the house, the rats dance. Quien quiere ser servidor, es mal sufrido. The person who desires to serve suffers the most. En la boca tengo un grillo, qui me dice: dilo, dilo! I have a cricket in my mouth that says: "Tell him! Tell him!" Llagas untadas duelen ma no tanto. Honorable wounds hurt, but not much. Ninguno sabe loque me alma consiente. No one knows what my heart feels. Quien quere a la rosa, no mira al espino. Desiring the rose, one overlooks the thorns. Cuanto mas tienes, mas quieres. The more you have the more you want. El haragan es consejero. The lazy one is the advisor. GOD & MYSTICISM Si no viene la hora del dios, no cae la oja del arbol. Without God's decree, not a leaf falls from the tree. Si Mose morio, adonay quedo. Moses may be dead, but God endures. El Dio es tadrozomas no es olvidadozo. God may act slowly, but He never forgets. Al haragan el dios le ayuda. God helps the lazy. Al xefoj se senten las bozes. When the last prayer is said & done, you finally hear the voices. Quien al cielo escupe, en la cara la cae. Whoever spits at the heavens, hits himself in the face. En el escuro es todo uno. In the darkness, all is one. Pasa punto. pasa mundo.

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A moment passes, a world passes. El dios da la llago, y el da la medicina. God inflicts the wound & provides the medicine. El dios tiene cargo, y de de la horfigo del campo. God even takes care of the ant in the field.

"Just as darkness may be hiding behind light, so too light may be hiding behind darkness." --- Rebbe Tzadok HaKohein "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" -- Anne Frank

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." --- Michael Levine "When I was a young boy, they called me a liar. Now that I'm all grown up, they call me a writer." --- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads." --- Erica Jong "Israel is the only country in the world where everyone on a flight gets to know one another before the plane lands. In many cases, they also get to know the pilot and all about his health or marital problems." -- Efraim Kishon "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." --- Anonymous "When a wallet grows, so do necessities." --- Jewish saying "Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend." --- Avos D'Rabbi Nosson "Israel is the only country in the world where the leading writers in the country take buses." -- Efraim Kishon "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." --- Abraham Maslow "One of man's greatest tragedies is mistaking the seed within him for the flower." --- Rabbi Shraga Silverstein 108

"Better a good enemy than a bad friend." --- Jewish saying "Israel is the only country in the world where the graffiti is in Hebrew." -- Efraim Kishon "When a habit begins to cost money, it's suddenly called a hobby." --- Jewish proverb "Every person contains something precious that cannot be found in anyone else." --- Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz Remember that happiness is a way of travel --- not a destination." --- Roy M. Goodman "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." --- Unknown "Life is a grindstone, whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of." --- Jacob Morton Braude "It's better to be late in this world than early in the other one." -- Popular saying about Israeli driving

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"The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law." --- Yiddish Proverb

"Times don't change. Men do." --- Sam Levenson

"Nothing speaks more loudly to a child than a good parent's quiet example." --- Unknown "Better to ask something foolish than to do something foolish." --- Yaakov Laska "If a thing goes without saying --- let it." --- Jacob Morton Braude "Israel is a country where the same drivers who cuss you and flip you the bird will immediately pull over and offer you all forms of help if you look like you need it." -- Efraim Kishon "A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding." --- Jewish saying "What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth." -- Jewish Proverb

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"The guilty make excuses BEFORE they are accused." --- Jewish saying "Some things are easier done than said." --- Rabbi Shraga Silverstein "Israel is the only country in the world where reservists are bossed around and commanded by officers, male and female, younger than their own children." -- Efraim Kishon "What is just is always right." --- Jewish saying
"No reason to smile? Do so anyway and the Creator will give you every reason to." --- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

"The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions." -- Leo Tolstoy To lose courage is worse than to lose an army." --- Jewish saying "Israel is the only country in the world where no one cares what rules say when an important 111

goal can be achieved by bending them." -- Efraim Kishon "I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes --- until I met a man who had no feet." --- Jewish Proverb "Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either." -- Jewish Proverb "Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss." --- Unknown "Israel is the only country in the world with bus drivers and taxi drivers who read Spinoza and Maimonides." -- Efraim Kishon "If you won't be better tomorrow then you were today, what do you need tomorrow for?" --- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov "Rabbi Judah says: Whoever does not teach his son a trade or profession teaches him to be a thief." --- Talmud "A country's prosperity can be seen simply in how it treats its elderly."

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--- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov "Israel is the only country in the world where 'small talk' consists of loud, angry debate over politics and religion." -- Efraim Kishon "Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." --- Bernard Meltzer

"No man dies before his time." --- Jewish saying "The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time, history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews." -- Thomas Cahill, Irish Author Israel is the only country in the world that introduces applications of high-tech gadgets and devices, such as printers in banks that print out your statement on demand, years ahead of the United States and decades ahead of Europe." -- Efraim Kishon "If you are hungry, sing. If you hurt, laugh." -- Yiddish Proverb 113

"Israel is the only country in the world where no one has a foreign accent because everyone has a foreign accent." -- Efraim Kishon "What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth." --- Jewish proverb Laughter is the closest distance between two people." --- Victor Borge "Israel is the only country in the world where inviting someone "out for a drink" means drinking cola, coffee or tea." -- Efraim Kishon "Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." --- Albert Einstein "Better a good enemy than a bad friend." --- Jewish saying "The mind of each is different from that of the other, just as the face of each is different from that of the other." --- Jewish saying "After making every possible effort to get out of our rut and failing, we must call it home and remodel it." 114

--- Rabbi Shraga Silverstein "The trouble with some Jewish women is that they get all excited about nothing; then they marry him." -- Anonymous A little light will dispel much darkness." --- Tzeda LaDerech "Israel is the only country in the world where the ultra-Orthodox Jews beat up the police and not the other way around." -- Efraim Kishon "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." --- Elie Wiesel "The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can." --- Dave Weinbaum "Learn how to be silent --- so that you'll know how to speak." --- Rebbe Mendel of Vorki The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering." --- Rabbi Moshe ibn-Ezra

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"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations." --- Isaac Disraeli "Death is merely moving from one home to another. The wise spend the main efforts of life trying to make their future home, the more beautiful one." --- The Kotzker Rebbe "As long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration as to the people who had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest." -- Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic

"Israel is the only country in the world where people read English, write Hebrew, and joke in Yiddish!" -- Efraim Kishon "It's better to ask ten times than to go astray once." --- Jewish saying It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals." --- Felix Frankfurter "When one must, one can." --- Yiddish Proverb

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Whoever does not try, does not learn." --- Adapted from "Pirkei Avos" "Most people believe they see the world as it is. However, we really see the world as we are." --- Anonymous "The righteous say little and do much." --- Talmud "The beginning of wisdom is to desire it." --- Rabbi ibn-Gavrioel "A young man has to live and an old man wants to." --- Yiddish Proverb "A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails." --- Anonymous "Pretending to be amused when a fool tells a joke is also a form of charity." --- Rabbi Yechiel Michal of Alexander

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--- Rebbe Wolf of Zhitomir "To be born a gentleman is an accident; to die one, an achievement." --- Unknown "How pitiful is the miser, who lives with poverty in order to die with wealth." --- Rebbe Yechezkal of Shinova "The perfect human has a man's strength and a woman's compassion." --- Zohar "There is no better exercise for your heart, than reaching down and helping to lift someone up." --- Bernard Meltzer "No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying." --- Unknown "Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts." Anger begins with madness and ends with regret." --- Ben Hamelech V'hanazir "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back to the crowd." 118

--- Morris Mandel "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." --- Albert Einstein "A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers." --- Unknown
I once wanted to become an atheist but gave up. They have no holidays. - Henny Youngman The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl amd skullcap will not bar a man from the White House, unless, of course, the man is Jewish. - Jules Farber

The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. - Calvin Trilling Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil. - Gold Meir

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. _ Fran Lebowitz

My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada. - David Steinberg My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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- Benjamin Disraeli It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. - Sam Levenson Don't be humble ; you are not that great. - Golda Meir God will pardon me...It's His business. - Heinrich Heine I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks. -Joe E. Lewis Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors. - Sam Goldwyn A spoken contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. - Sam Goldwyn I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something. - Jackie Mason Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. - Groucho Marx Too bad that all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair. - George Burns A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. - Milton Berle I don't want yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs

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them their jobs. - Sam Goldwyn Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done. - Ernie Kovacs With the collapse of vaudeville, new talent has no place to stink. - George Burns When I bore people at a party, they think it is their fault. - Henry Kissinger I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. - Woody Allen

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyim even if you are Jewish. -Shalom Aleichem Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So, for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one. - Mel Brooks God, I know we are your chosen people, but couldn't you choose somebody else for a change? - Shalom Aleichem

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Marriage is a wonderful [Link] who wants to live in an institution? - Groucho Marx

What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. Marie Corelli [1855 - 1924] The Life Everlasting [1911] Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1841 1935 We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832) Lacon [1825]; Volume 1, Number 103 A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 - 1894) The Professor At The Breakfast Table [1860] Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. Sbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741 1794) Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1841 1935 All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. Jack Kerouac Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never 122

thrown away. Arthur Helps Learning from Experience . . . * We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. George Bernard Shaw * Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much. Eugene Delacroix * Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. Sacha Guitry * Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. Heinrich Heine * A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience. Elbert Hubbard * Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones * There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. Laurence J. Peter * One never believes other peoples experience, and one is only very gradually convinced by ones own. Vita Sackville-West * Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams Ive always imagined heaven to be a kind of library. 123

Gabriel Garcia Marquez I am still learning. Michelangelo (born March 6, 1475), said in his 80s. Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below. John Dryden, poet and dramatist (1631 - 1700) If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Dr. Wayne Dyer What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadnt lived it? Edward Albee Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. Clare Booth Luce We ought to use our neighbors as looking glasses to see our own faults in, and mend in ourselves what we see in them. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) John Ploughmans Talk [1880] If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. Clarence Darrow The questions dont do the damage. Only the answers do. Sam Donaldson Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. C. Northcote Parkinson *** Id rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. 124

George Burns If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. Thomas Aquinas Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up. Edmund Rouse, 1926 - 2002 Be careful going in search of adventure its ridiculously easy to find. William Least Heat Moon If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. Dennis Roth *** * If you would know the mind of a man, listen to his speech. Chinese proverb * He who leaves God out of his reckoning does not know how to count. Italian proverb * There is no mortar that time will not loosen. French proverb * Good fortune wears a pretty dress but its underclothes do not bear investigation. Russian proverb * God deliver me from a man of one book. English proverb * Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. Slovenian proverb *****

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When you reach the top, thats when the climb begins. Michael Caine If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. Albert Einstein Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections The Power of a Smile . . . * What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison * Smiles are the souls kisses. Minna Thomas Antrim * A smile is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge * A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Phyllis Diller * A smile is the million-dollar asset in your human relations inventory. If youre not using your smile, youre like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. Les Giblin * A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. Denis Waitley * A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. William Arthur Ward The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being 126

insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea Take your work seriously but yourself lightly. C. W. Metcalf To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup,Whenever youre wrong, admit it; Whenever youre right, shut up. Ogden Nash (1902 1971) American writer of humorous poetry; "A Word to Husbands" in Marriage Lines [1964] Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Lifes Little Instruction Book Great accomplishments are often attempted but only occasionally reached. Those who reach them are usually those who missed many times before. Failures are only temporary tests to prepare us for permanent triumphs. Charles R. Swindoll (1934 - ) (In Martin H. Mansers The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations [2001], Faith) A conscience, like a buzzing bee, can make a fellow uneasy without ever stinging him. American Farm & Home Almanac It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. anon., The American Gas Light Journal [24 July 1911] * Youre never too old to grow up. Shirley Conran, Savages * Maturity means reacquiring the seriousness one had as a child at play. Friedrich Nietzsche 127

* Maturity begins when were content to feel were right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong. Sydney J. Harris A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. Henrik Ibsen I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet, these are wealth enough for me. Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933) Love Songs [1917], Riches Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe, that thou mayest understand. Saint Augustine (354 - 430) In Ioannis Evangelium The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. John Mason Brown *** Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz, 1894 - 1985 We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. Andre Maurois Rule #1 : Obey all Rules. Barney Fife You dont stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing. Michael Pritchard 128

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains; those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple. Marcius Porcius Cato, 234 - 149 BC The existence of a well-defined problem does not imply the existence of a solution. Gregory Benford (1941- ) Tides Of Light [1989] We play out our days as we play out cards, taking them as they come, not knowing what they will be, hoping for a lucky card and sometimes getting one, often getting just the wrong one. Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902 You cant buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. Henny Youngman *** * You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself. English proverb * Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy. Spanish proverb * The man who cant dance thinks the band is no good. Polish proverb * There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. French proverb * On the day of victory no one is tired. Arab proverb * If wishes were horses, then beggars could ride. English proverb * It is better that they say, "Here he ran away," than "Here he died." Spanish proverb

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Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. Billy Wilder There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can, in the end, get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the general rule. Samuel Butler (1835 1902) The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, ch. I , Lord, What is Man?; ed. Henry Festing Jones [1917] To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. Louis LAmour, To the Far Blue Mountains I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. Blaise Pascal, Penses Charm is a way of getting the answer "yes" without asking a clear question. Albert Camus Rules of Three: * There are three ways to get something done do it yourself, hire someone to do it, or ask your kids not to do it. Malcolm Kusher * There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. Christopher Morley * There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know ones self. Benjamin Franklin 130

* Albert Einsteins three rules of work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity; 2. From discord, find harmony; 3. In difficulty, find opportunity. We cannot hold a torch to light anothers path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland The secret of all victory is the organization of the non-obvious. Oswald Spengler The sense of humor is the oil of lifes engines. Without it, the machinery creaks and groans. G. S. Merriam Contrary to what we usually believe . . . the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a persons body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934 - ) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience [1990], Chapter 1 If you have an important point to make, dont try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack. Winston Churchill Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit. Conrad Hilton

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You never know where the bottom is until you plumb for it. Frederick Laing When youre given a longer leash, run with it. Bruce Bildsten * A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan, in a 1967 interview * Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between ones origins and ones final achievement. Michael Korda * I personally measure success in terms of the contribution an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. Margaret Mead There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. Malcolm Muggeridge The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot Not on one strand are all lifes jewels strung. William Morris Learning requires a pause. You must stop to harvest the lesson from each adversity. Paul G. Stoltz Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. C. D. Jackson *** Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have 132

his way. Red ODonnell It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. J. L. Basford Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. Franklin Pierce Adams If the path before you is clear, youre probably on someone elses. Joseph Campbell *** * Who timidly requests invites refusal. Latin proverb * When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. African proverb * A man is as wise as his head, not his years. Turkish proverb * Great things can be reduced to small things, and small things can be reduced to nothing. Chinese proverb * Danger and delight grow on one stalk. Scottish proverb ***** Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Hans Christian Andersen A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants; and 133

secondly, how much more unhappy he might be than he really is. Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) The Spectator [July 30, 1714], Number 574 Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. Washington Irving * Laugh at yourself, but dont ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, dont leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. Alan Alda * Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. Leo Buscaglia, 1924 - 1998 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you dont try. Beverly Sills Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. Denis Waitley Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. August Strindberg, 1849 - 1912 Changes You Need to Make . . . * We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it? Marcus Aurelius * We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around 134

us simply by changing ourselves. Rudolf Dreikurs * I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley * There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change. Anne Morrow Lindbergh * There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. Norman Mailer * You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety. Abraham Maslow * Its the most unhappy people who most fear change. Mignon McLaughlin * If we dont change, we dont grow. If we dont grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy * There is a time for departure even when theres no certain place to go. Tennessee Williams As for beauty, one of its most potent charms lies in its modest unconsciousness; it is greatly marred when accompanied by vanity. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume 24 [1878] The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. Abraham Maslow

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Console yourself, dear man and brother, whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality, or the world would be at a sad pass shortly. James Russell Lowell (1819 1891) On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners in the essay collection My Study Windows [1871]. It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. Aeschylus (525 - 456 BC) Prometheus Bound [c. 478 BC] Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. Colin L. Powell (1937 - ) The wisest man could ask no more of Fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the Many, honored by the Few; To count as naught in World, or Church, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great. James Russell Lowell (1819 1891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. Jeffries Wyman [1874] Dont smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. Leo Buscaglia A young gambler is sure to be an old beggar if he lives long [Link] Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) John Ploughmans Talk [1880] *** The only reason some people get lost in thought is because its 136

unfamiliar territory. Paul Fix, 1901 - 1983 All the worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Sean OCasey If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it. Bette Davis Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Andre Gide (1869 1951) Le traite du Narcisse [1891] It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) Hawthorne And His Mosses [1850] The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. H L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) *** * Do not give advice unless you have the wisdom to go with it. Irish proverb * When a law is made, the way to avoid it is discovered. Italian proverb * Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in a well. German proverb * Quarrels would not last long if the wrongs were all on one side. French proverb * Self praise smells bad. Swedish proverb Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: Im with you kid. Lets go. Maya Angelou 137

And whats a life? a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644) What Is Life? Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. Lydia Maria Child, 1802 - 1880 Integrity in Life . . . * In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they dont have the first, the other two will kill you. Warren Buffet * Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Browne, Jr. * A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. Baltasar Gracian * Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. C. S. Lewis * Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. Samuel Richardson * If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you dont have integrity, nothing else matters. Alan Simpson * The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. 138

Zig Ziglar Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side. Elizabeth Bibesco Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Washington Irving I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. William Penn (1644 - 1718) A stupid mans report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. Bertrand Russell Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. Colin L. Powell (1937 - ) Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. James Russell Lowell, 1819 - 1891 It is not enough that you can form, nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to 139

deviate from them, and where lies the exception. Robert Greville * Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there. * Money cant buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while youre being miserable. * There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife. * No good deed goes unpunished. * There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. all from Clare Boothe Luce, 1903 - 1987 Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction. Nikos Kazantzakis (1883 - 1957) The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises [1927], The March: First Step Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art. Miguel de Cervantes (1547 1616) Don Quixote de la Mancha, pt. II, bk. II, ch. XXIII [1615] Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. Marian Anderson *** In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. Isaac Asimov The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. Charles Caleb Colton, 1780 - 1832

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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. Anne Lamott I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. George Canning Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997) *** * From a short pleasure comes a long repentance. French proverb * Desperation is the mistress of the impossible. Spanish proverb * If you play around the beehive, you must expect to be stung. Greek proverb * I dreamed a thousand new paths; I work and walked my old one. Chinese proverb * Good bargains empty our pockets. German proverb My father never lived to see his dream come true of an allYiddish-speaking Canada. >>>>David Steinberg>>>

I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have no holidays. >>>>Henny Youngman>>>

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the time I was five I knew I was that one. >>>>Mel Brooks>>>

The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White House, unless, of course, the man is Jewish. >>>>Jules Farber>>>

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York , you're Jewish. If you live in Butte , Montana , you are going to be goyim even if you are Jewish >>>>Lenny Bruce>>>

God, I know we are your chosen people, but couldn't you choose somebody else for a change? >>>>Shalom Aleichem>>>

The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. >>>>Calvin Trillin>>>

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! 142

>>>>Golda Meir>>> Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother. >>>>Peter Malkin>>>

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. >>>>Fran Lebowitz>>>

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. >>>>Benjamin Disraeli>>>

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. >>>>Sam Levenson>>>

Don't be humble; you are not that great. >>>>Golda Meir>>>

God will pardon me. It's His business. >>>>Heinrich Heine>>>

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I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks. >>>>Joe E. Lewis>>>

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors. >>>>Sam Goldwyn>>>

A spoken contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. >>>>Sam Goldwyn>>> I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something. >>>>Jackie Mason>>>

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. >>>>Woody Allen>>>

Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution? >>>>Groucho Marx>>>

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>>>>Groucho Marx>>>

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it. >>>>Oscar Levant>>>

Too bad that all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair. >>>>George Burns>>>

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. >>>>Mort Sahl>>>

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. >>>>Milton Berle>>>

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs. >>>>Sam Goldwyn>>>

Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done. >>>>Ernie Kovacs>>> 145

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When I bore people at a party, they think it is their fault >>>>Henry Kissinger>>>
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General The same old charitable lie, Repeated as the years scoot by; Perpetually makes a hit "You really havent changed a bit!" Margaret Fishback (1900 - 1985) The Lie Of The Land Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519 Self-Worth from Problem Solving . . . * There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. Richard Bach * The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. John Foster Dulles * A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington * We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John W. Gardner * Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make [Link] Vincent Peale * The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Ruskin The longest journey is the journey inward. Dag Hammarskjold, the Swedish statesman (1905-1961). It comes from a 147

posthumously published collection of short notes called "Markings." Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end. Claude M. Bristol A mans conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldnt do - but it does not keep him from doing it. Frank A. Clark Thomas Szasz: * Where there is no will, there is no way. * The irresponsible life is not worth living. * Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. * Two wrongs dont make a right, but they make a good excuse. * If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. * Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. * The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. * People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates. It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. Anatole France One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Russell Lowell, 1819 - 1891 If you cant make a mistake, you cant make anything. Marva N. Collins *** 148

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784 If you cant annoy somebody, theres little point in writing. Kingsley Amis Habits are like supervisors that you dont notice. Hannes Messemer Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. Peter Ustinov Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Albert Einstein *** * A good teacher is better than a barrelful of books. Chinese proverb * It is seldom the fault of one when two argue. Swedish proverb * To the bad driver, the mules are always to blame. Greek proverb * The first step in the ladder of folly is to believe oneself wise. Spanish proverb * Eagles fly alone but sheep flock together. Scottish proverb ***** You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from the setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. Plato (428 - 348 BC) Laws #888

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It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker. Lion Feuchtwanger (1884 - 1958) Paris Gazette [1940] Voyages are accomplished inwardly, and the most hazardous ones, needless to say, are made without moving from the spot. Henry Miller (1891 - 1980) The Colossus Of Maroussi [1941], Chapter 1 What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable. Christian Nestell Bovee (1820 1904) Intuitions and Summaries of Thought, vol. 1, p. 117 [2 vols. 1862] Women like silent men. They think theyre listening. Marcel Achard, 1899 - 1974 The Meaning of Happiness * Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley * The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison * Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and youll find a happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie * True happiness involves the full use of ones power and talents. John W. Gardner * Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. Harriett Martineau 150

* Happiness consists in finding out precisely what the one thing necessary may be in our lives, and in gladly relinquishing all the rest. Thomas Merton When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. Stephen Jay Gould (1941 2002) American palaeontologist. An Urchin in the Storm [1987], The Quack Detector There is no king, who, with a sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute. Thomas Jefferson (1743 1826) Letter to George Wythe [13 August 1786] Delay is the devils great net. All men mean to repent. Alas! They will repent one day that they did not repent at once. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume 14 [1868] Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored. Thomas Sowell, Good Things, Townhall * Genius is talent exercised with courage. * Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world. * I dont know why we are here, but Im pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. 151

* I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horses good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. * Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. all from Ludwig Wittgenstein Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made. Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) The Idea of a Universal History [1784], Proposition 6 People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening. David Brinkley (1920 2003) Quoted in Sy Safransky (ed.) Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations [1990] You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz (1911 2006) Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. Quoted in Andrew Finlayson Questions That Work, p. 44 [2001] When I was young, I admired clever people; now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 1972) Quoted by his student, Harold S. Kushner, in When All Youve Ever Wanted Isnt Enough [1986] Striving to better, oft we mar whats well. William Shakespeare, from King Lear

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*** Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. Charles Darwin It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. Henry Fielding He who demands little, gets it. Ellen Glasgow * Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings, 1818 - 1885 * Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. Josh Billings, 1818 - 1885 *** There are three ways . . . to deal with embarrassing political situations. The best way is to admit them. "When I make a mistake, its a beaut!" Fiorello La Guardia, former mayor of New York, once said, disarming his critics. The next best way is to proclaim that your blunders were really triumphs. That wonderful old former Republican Senator from Vermont, George Aiken, advised President Johnson during the Vietnam War, "Say you won and get out!" Mr. Johnson ignored him and regretted it till the end of his days. The worse way is to pretend and blame everything that goes wrong on somebody else. James Reston 153

*** * Of two cowards, the one that finds the other out first has the advantage. Italian proverb * Children act in the village as they have learned at home. Swedish proverb * A good conscience is Gods eye. Russian proverb * Variety is the spice of life. English proverb * Friendship is a plant we must often water. German proverb Of those that spin out life in trifles, and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life. Samuel Johnson (1709 1784) The Idler (essays in the newspaper The Universal Chronicle from 1758 1760) [Issue of 5 August 1758]. It is in the nature of precaution that the more successful it is, the less necessary it appears to have been. Anonymous Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. Galileo Galilei, 1564 - 1642 No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. John Burroughs It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be 154

discovered of getting rid of bores; for it is too bad that a poor wretch can punished for stealing your pocket handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience. Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788 1824) Quoted in Chetwood Evelyn The Companion. After-Dinner Table-Talk [1850] Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Bernard Malamud We must take human nature as we find it. Perfection falls not to the share of mortals. George Washington, letter to John Jay, August 15, 1786 Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. Joshua J. Marine No one else can grow for us: We must each grow for ourselves. Thomas Troward * Truth generally is kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth. Samuel Butler (1835 1902) English novelist, essayist, and critic. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, ed. Henry Festing Jones [1917 ed.] * All truths are not to be told. George Herbert (1593 1633) English religious poet. Jacula Prudentum (Outlandish Proverbs) [1640]. * I reckon theres more things told than are true,And more things true than are told. Rudyard Kipling 155

Sometimes the path youre on is not as important as the direction youre heading. Kevin Smith How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. Jerry Seinfeld Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. Harold Nicolson *** You cant stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. Jay Leno Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it. Harper Lee In a political struggle, never get personal else the dagger digs too deep. Jack Valenti Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up. Edward R. Murrow As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people dont. Carrie Fisher The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills. Richard J. Needham 156

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. Gloria Pitzer Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. Dean Rusk (1909 1994) Speech to the American Bar Association, Atlanta, Georgia [22 October 1964]. *** * Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb * Much would have more. English proverb * A cup of coffee commits one to 40 years of friendship. Turkish proverb * To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. Chinese proverb * A fault denied is twice committed. French proverb ***** Ah, but a mans reach should exceed his grasp. Or whats a heaven for? Robert Browning Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Rabindranath Tagore Dont handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert A. Heinlein The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, 157

which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self. Fulton John Sheen (1895 - 1979) The Cross And The Beatitudes [1937] The Cost of Free Things . . . * What you get free costs too much. Jean Anouilh * What is bought is cheaper than a gift. Miguel de Cervantes * The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing. Alfred de Musset * Free love is too expensive. Bernadette Devlin * Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Albert Einstein * Nothing costs so much as what is given us. Thomas Fuller * Never let your inferiors do you a favor. It will be extremely costly. H. L. Mencken * You pay a great deal too dear for whats given freely. William Shakespeare, in "The Winters Tale" Once you label me, you negate me. Soren Kierkegaard Youll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. Golda Meir It is not titles that make men, but men who make titles. Niccolo Machiavelli I Started a Joke? MOSCOW, DECEMBER 1917 - Bim-Bom the clown started making jokes about the Bolsheviks during his act. Unfortunately, there was a party from 158

the Cheka visiting the circus that night. They pulled out their guns, and shot not only Bim-Bom but also any members of the audience they had seen laughing at his jokes. * The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burs. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Journal [1906], June 4, 1839 * That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Journal [1906], March 11, 1856 * The savage in man is never quite eradicated. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Journal [1906], September 26, 1859 It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855) You create opportunities by performing, not complaining. Muriel Shebert A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do. Anthony Dadovano Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Samuel Johnson There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. Albert Schweitzer ***

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If theres nobody in your way, its because youre not going anywhere. Robert F. Kennedy Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff. May Sarton The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. Lady Nancy Astor There is so little difference between husbands that you might just as well keep the first one. Adele Rogers St. Johns *** * Who lies for you will lie against you. Bosnian proverb * Lovely flowers fade fast. Weeds last the season. Swedish proverb * Dont believe everything you hear nor tell all that you know. Italian proverb * Evil people know one another. Arab proverb * The purse of the patient protracts his care. German proverb Our plans miscarry because we have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 BC - 65 AD) A mistake only proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something. Michael LeBoeuf Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, 160

are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. Frederick Douglass, 1817 - 1895 * Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! * Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. * The great artist is the simplifier. * Ten clever men are not worth one man of talent, nor ten men of talent worth one man of genius. * To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. * An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. all from Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 - 1881) Reading is the best medicine for a sicke man, the best musicke for a sadde man, the best counsel for a desperate man, the best comfort for one afflicted. John Florio, written in 1578 No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you. Sholem Aleichem Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Salvador Dali The only sin is mediocrity. Martha Graham People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the 161

ground. Marcel Proust The quieter you become, the more you can hear. Ram Dass Its where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us where we are. Joyce Oates Keep in mind the better you understand what you want and why you want it, the better your chances will be of acquiring it. Fred Jandt When one finds himself in a hole of his own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. Jon Remmerde * Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. Edward Coke, 1552 - 1634 * Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the [Link], 1304 - 1374 * Beware of monotony; its the mother of all the deadly sins. Edith Wharton, 1862 - 1937 When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thoughts that things are so bad they have to get better. Malcolm S. Forbes The wise person questions himself; the fool others. Henri Arnold Forget the past. No one becomes successful in the past. 162

Richard Bell Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Mary Kay Ash A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. Clifton Fadiman *** Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. H. L. Mencken Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical. Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra If you cant beat them, arrange to have them beaten. George Carlin Necessity is the mother of taking chances. Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910 A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Jean De La Fontaine Conceit is thinking youre great; egotism is knowing it. Bobby Darin Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. Lord Chesterfield *** * Truth gives a short answer; lies go roundabout. German proverb 163

* However early you get up, you cannot hasten the dawn. Spanish proverb * The sword of justice has no scabbard. French proverb * It is better to do a kindness close to home than to go far to burn incense. Chinese proverb * He who knows but little presently outs with it. Italian proverb * The fiddle is judged by its tune. Russian proverb

Power is responsibility: it is service, not privilege. Pope John Paul II (1920 - 2005) An Invitation to Joy [1999] Take your work seriously, but never yourself. Dame Margot Fonteyn Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough! Pierre de Beaumarchais Being Yourself * A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart. Robertson Davies * History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. Alexis de Tocqueville * None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson * Accept no ones definition of your life, but define yourself. Harvey Fierstein * Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost * Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. Michel de Montaigne * Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. Eleanor Roosevelt To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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Bertrand Russell The tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Nora Ephron You learn something every day if you pay attention. Ray Leblond The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. Horace Bushnell True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by. E. S. Bouton The less tenderness a man has in his nature the more he requires of others. Ibn Rahel Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. Austin OMalley, 1760 - 1854 What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Thomas Paine Fear has the largest eyes of all. Boris Pasternak If you organize your life around the things you are passionate about, nothing is a time burden. You end up spending time with people you want to spend time with and doing what you love. Jeffrey Bores The worst a human being can do to himself is to do wrong to others. Henrik Ibsen Mans heart away from nature becomes hard. Standing Bear I believe the second half of ones life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it. Francie Lear *** Dont go through life; grow through life.

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Eric Butterworth Humor is laughing at what you havent got when you ought to have it. Langston Hughes Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. Honore de Balzac Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. Isaac Asimov The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. Garth Henrichs Money doesnt talk, it swears. Bob Dylan Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. Alfred A. Montapert *** * Learn a new language, and get a new soul. Czech proverb * Tell me a fact, and Ill learn. Tell me a truth, and Ill believe. Tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever. Native American proverb * The sweetest grapes hang the highest. German proverb * The same shoe does not fit every foot. Italian proverb * Credit is invisible fortune. Japanese proverb * Good right needs good help. Dutch proverb *****

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Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Patterns * There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. John Steinbeck, 1902 - 1968 * Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? Margot Fonteyn, 1919 - 1991 * Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. Frank Herbert, 1920 - 1986 We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda Knowing how to pray has saved my butt countless times. The secret of prayer is expressing gratitude for our existence. And the Truth is, everything happens for a reason. We exist on this plane for a reason. We are here to learn, and we only learn from our mistakes. . . . So when you pray, ask for wisdom and understanding. Dont bother asking for anything else, because if you have wisdom and understanding you dont need anything else. Tommy Chong (1938 - ) The I Chong: Meditations From The Joint [2006], Chapter 1

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* In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. * The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another mans observation, not overturning it. * Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. * The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. * It is often the easiest move that completes the game. all from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1803 - 1873 You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. John B. Gough The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. Susan Sontag If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isnt something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy. George Adams A good leader is a curious leader. Saj-Nicole A. Joni * A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson * You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be 168

too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson The four stages of man: infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. Art Linkletter In a dark time, the eye begins to see. Theodore Roethke Human resources are like natural resources theyre often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; theyre not just lying around on the surface. Ken Robinson No man should part with his individuality to become another. No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men into one mold. William Ellery Channing Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made. Robert Schuller Never say no to adventures. Ian Fleming In crises, the most daring course is often safest. Henry Kissinger *** I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches. Thomas Jefferson Its nice to be important, but its more important to be nice. Nancy Donahue Youve got to be very careful if you dont know where youre 169

going, because you might not get there. Yogi Berra Obstacles are the things people see when they take their eyes off the goal. Robert Thorpe To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. Hubert H. Humphrey *** * A wise mans thoughts walk within him, but a fools without him. English proverb * Give time time. Italian proverb * Every person has his own idiosyncrasies. Yiddish proverb * Where might is master, justice is servant. German proverb * Working slowly produces fine goods. Chinese proverb * Profit and loss are twin brothers. Estonian proverb If you havent any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. Bob Hope We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime. Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) (In Gustav Janouchs Conversations With Kafka [1953]) * Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they 170

are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1934 - 2002 * Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung, 1875 - 1961 If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst. Thomas Hardy One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller We only think when we are confronted with a problem. John Dewey Gratitude * Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop * Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G. K. Chesterton * The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. Eric Hoffer * For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. Storm Jameson * Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur Ward * We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder 171

Never mistake activity for achievement. John Wooden Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject the actual enemy is the unknown. Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955) The Magic Mountain [1924], Chapter 5 Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC - 65 AD) Moral Essays, On Providence * We dont have to be "successful," only valuable. We dont have to make money, only a difference, and particularly in the lives society counts least and puts last. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924 - 2006) Credo [2004], Faith, Hope, Love * No one need be afraid of fear, only afraid that fear will stop him or her from doing whats right. Courage means being well aware of the worst that can happen, being scared almost to death, and then doing the right thing anyhow. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924 - 2006) Credo [2004], Life In General * Our faith should quell our fears, never our courage. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924 - 2006) Credo [2004], Social Justice And Economic Rights Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. Jefferson Davis Many a man might have known if he had but been aware that he did not know. A sense of ignorance is the doorstep of the palace of wisdom. 172

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume 28 [1882] A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. Thomas Fuller, M.D. (1654 - 1734) Gnomologia [1732] *** There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950) Compromises [1904], The Gayety of Life Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. Malcolm Muggeridge, 1903 - 1990 When you win, nothing hurts. Joe Namath Nothing so needs reforming as other peoples habits. Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 1910) Puddnhead Wilson [1894], ch. 15 epigraph: Puddnhead Wilsons Calendar The impoverished in spirit look up their quotations in dictionaries; the ambitious quote passages they like from works they admire; and the smartasses just invent their own. Daniel P. B. Smith (1946 - ) (In a posting to [Link], Re: Quotes, November 9, 1996) *** * Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather. Czech proverb * God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests. Danish proverb * Continue to do good, and heaven will come down on you. 173

Hawaiian proverb * Before healing others, heal yourself. Gambian proverb * Silence is sometimes the answer. Estonian proverb * Long is not forever. German proverb The plans differ; the planners are all alike . . . Frdric Bastiat Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what youve got to say, and say it hot. D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885 1930) Studies In Classic American Literature, ch. II [1923] Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be. Morris Adler People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because theyre not on your road doesnt mean theyve gotten lost. H. Jackson Browne A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time. Carolyn Wells Instead of trying to minimize distractions, its better to set worthwhile goals. Then distractions minimize themselves. Joel Bryant * Mission Statement: A long awkward sentence that demonstrates managements inability to think clearly. 174

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take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Peter Drucker * We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. W. R. Inge The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. Saul Alinsky A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. Thomas Mann The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes *** The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. Margaret Carty There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who cant. Anonymous Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. Carl Jung Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. Mark Van Doren 176

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. Theres no better rule. Charles Dickens Theres nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. Scott Adams *** * Goodness shouts. Evil whispers. Balinese proverb * A word and a stone once thrown away cannot be returned. Mexican proverb * What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. Swedish proverb * In prosperity, caution; in adversity, patience. Dutch proverb * When fortune calls, offer her a chair. Yiddish proverb * Industry need not wish. American proverb Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning, look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it. Charles Sheldon I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they dont want to do and like it. Harry S. Truman The great mischief of most men is that they procrastinate. It is not that they resolve to be damned, but that they resolve to be saved tomorrow. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, 177

Volume 10 [1864] And fate sets up the chessboard, While death rolls out the dice... Cream, Anyone For Tennis I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own selfinterest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Adam Smith No piper ever suited all ears. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892) John Ploughmans Talk [1880] Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way. Louis LAmour (1908 - 1988) The Lonely Men [1969] * The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. Saint Jerome (c. 342 - 420) Letter 54 * When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. Saint Jerome (c. 342 - 420) Letter 58 * Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?" Saint Jerome (c. 342 - 420) Letter 48 * Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When 178

once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? Saint Jerome (c. 342 - 420) Letter 107 * The friendship that can cease has never been real. Saint Jerome (c. 342 - 420) Letter 3 Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances we know to be desperate. G. K. Chesterton The liars punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. George Bernard Shaw The best portion of a good persons life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until its finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. Abigail Van Buren The blow you cant see coming is the blow that knocks you out. Joyce Carol Oates It isnt where you came from, its where youre going that counts. Ella Fitzgerald The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ethel Barrymore There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity. Tom Peters ***

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Its easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. Thomas Fuller As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings Words are loaded pistols. Jean-Paul Sartre There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. James Thurber The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. Ed Murrow Misfits arent misfits among other misfits. Barry Manilow Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if youre only looking for a lucky break. Monta Crane *** * Difficulties make you a jewel. Japanese proverb * The gods sell all things to hard labor. Greek proverb * A day is lost if one has not laughed. French proverb * To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting. Polish proverb * Give good and get good. Estonian proverb

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* The salt of patience seasons everything. Italian proverb There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, theyre necessary to reach the places weve chosen to [Link] Bach (1936 - ) The Bridge Across Forever [1984], Chapter 11 Progress is not created by contented people. Frank Tyger In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson * Consult, v. To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon. * History, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. * Old Age, n. That time in life when we condemn the vices we no longer have the enterprise to commit. * Rational, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. * Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments. all from Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary, 1881 - 1906 Avoid problems, and youll never be the one who overcame them. Richard Bach Dont bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals. 181

David Ogilvy The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. John Ciardi * If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude. Dont complain. Maya Angelou * A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs * It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. William James * The last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way. Viktor Frankl The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. Bernard Baruch Its pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. Elbert Hubbard If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself. Blaise Pascal Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. Henry Ward Beecher 182

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Norman Cousins We must not allow other peoples limited perceptions to define us. Virginia Satir *** The richer your friends, the more they will cost you. Elisabeth Marbury Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. E. B. White, 1899 - 1985 Sex and politics are a lot alike. You dont have to be good at them to enjoy them. Barry Goldwater I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Fred Allen [John Florence Sullivan] (1894 1956) *** To make an omelet, you have to break an egg. French proverb Swift gratitude is the sweetest. Greek proverb Love kills with golden arrows. Spanish proverb God is always where we dont look for him. Russian proverb Every age wants its playthings. French proverb
My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada. -David Steinberg I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have no holidays. -Henny Youngman

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Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So, for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one. -Mel Brooks The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White House, unless, of course, the man is Jewish. -Jules Farber Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be a goy even if you are Jewish. -Lenny Bruce The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. -Calvin Trillin Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! -Golda Meir Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother. -Peter Malkin My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. -Benjamin Disraeli It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. -Sam Levenson Don't be humble; you are not that great. -Golda Meir I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks. -Joe E. Lewis A spoken contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. -Sam Goldwyn I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -Woody Allen Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -Groucho Marx A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it. -Oscar Levant Too bad that all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair. -George Burns Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. -Mort Sahl A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. -Milton Berle

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I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs. -Sam Goldwyn Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done. -Ernie Kovacs When I bore people at a party, they think it is their fault. -Henry Kissinger

Look for joy in your life; its not always easy to find. Charles Kuralt Some things have to be believed to be seen. Ralph Hodgson The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through. Harry A. Overstreet Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. T. H. Huxley A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. Antoine de Saint-Exupery * When youre always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness. Dale Archer * Sustained success comes only when you take whats unique about you and figure out how to make it useful. Marcus Buckingham * None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe Any attempt to replace the personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962) Reflections [1974], #32 They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds. Horace Mann, 1796 - 1859 Stupidity does not give way to science, technology, modernity, progress; on the contrary, it progresses right along with progress. Milan Kundera The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face. G. C. Lichtenberg How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. John Bunyan Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Hermann Hesse You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. Phyllis Theroux 186

Success is often just an idea away. Frank Tyger Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. George Santayana *** You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. Dave Barry People change and forget to tell each other. Lillian Hellman Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. Vladimir Nabokov Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldnt be done. Amelia Earhart *** When friends meet, hearts warm. Scottish proverb The bad workman never finds a good tool. French proverb Too much prosperity makes most men fools. Italian proverb Good and bad make up a city. Portuguese proverb No one loves life like the old. Spanish proverb 187

One can choose the clover yet end up in weeds. Swedish proverb ***** He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still. C. C. Colton (1780 1832) Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words, CCCCLVII [1821 ed.] * A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. * Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. * Save when you can and not when you have to. * Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed. all from John D. Rockefeller, 1839 - 1937 Great love and great achievements involve great risk. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama I will forget the happenings of the day that is gone, where they were good or bad, and greet the new sun with confidence that this will be the best day of my life. Og Mandino * Life is a horizontal fall. Jean Cocteau * That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet. Emil Dickinson * Life is made up of marble and mud. Nathaniel Hawthorne 188

When you are through changing, you are through. Bruce Barton To comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. Finley Peter Dunne (on the aim of newspapers) People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. Marcel Proust After a time you sort of give up trying to escape who you are. Stephen Frears, film director * Maturity is when you dont lose your cool on having to suffer a fool. Dr. Nandini Bahri * A small part of maturity is learning the difference between wants and needs. A large part of maturity is acting on that knowledge. Bill Emmons * Maturity is when you handle the tasks of life without being ordered to, and without whining. Dee Dee Longenecker By changing nothing, nothing changes. Celestine Chua Its much harder to ask the right question that it is to find the right answer to the wrong question. E. E. Morison The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. Alfred Adler I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad. Terence 189

Everyone has a gift. You let it take you as far as it can. Lynette Woodard Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. Thomas Carlyle Too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being. Agatha Christie Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault That we are alive today is proof positive that God has something for us to do today. Anna R. B. Lindsay You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. Harriet Martineau *** There are some people that, if they dont know, you cant tell them. Louis Armstrong Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Robert A. Heinlein Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the 190

commonplace. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *** To blame is easy; to do it better is difficult. German proverb The greatest cunning is to have none at all. French proverb All are not saints who go to church. Italian proverb The person afraid of bad luck will never know good. Russian proverb Think of many things do one. Portuguese proverb We are the authors of our own disasters. Latin proverb Dont give your advice before you are called upon. Desiderius Erasmus It is not every question that deserves an answer. Publilius Syrus (85 43 B.C.) Maxims Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. Christopher Isherwood, 1904 - 1986 This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself. James H. Aughey (1828 1911) Spiritual Gems of The Ages [1886]

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Live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. Henry David Thoreau Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living. Oliver Goldsmith (1728 1774) The Citizen of the World, Letter LXXIII [1762] * The hearts memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past. Gabriel Garcia Marquez * A mans memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. George Santayana People are hoping for the best, but theres an expectation that there will be some glitches. Pat Epple * The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 1680) * We are all strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others. Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 1680) One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. Theres always more than you can cope with. Marshall McLuhan * We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999) * One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. 192

Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999) Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. Alexander Hamilton We talk on principle, but we act on interest. Walter Savage Landor There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble. Jack Kemp Often you get the best insights by considering extremes by thinking of the opposite of that with which you are directly concerned. C. Wright Mills (1916 1962) American sociologist. The Sociological Imagination, p. 213 [1959] * Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. Mark Twain, chapter epigraph from Puddnhead Wilsons New Calendar, Following the Equator (1897) * Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost. Alfred Capus, c. late 19th cent. I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning. Grantland Rice A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela Life is a rainbow which also includes black. Yevgeny Yevtushenko ***

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A word to the wise aint necessary its the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it. Henry Miller Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. Jawaharlal Nehru We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice. Isaac Bashevis Singer Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller *** Advice after mischief is like medicine after death. Danish proverb Going beyond is as bad as falling short. Chinese proverb You will meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. French proverb An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend. Senegalese proverb It is easier to believe than to go and ask. Serbian proverb Ones utmost moves the heavens. Korean proverb

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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 1881) Henrietta Temple, bk. 2, ch. 4 [1837] To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. William Hazlitt (1778 1830) Table Talk [1821 1822], On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking It is a great education to try and put yourself into the circumstances of others before passing judgment on them. Oswald Chambers (1874 - 1917) Shade Of His Hand [1924] Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 1940) The Great Gatsby [1925] Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein, 1879 1955 The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. Benjamin Jowett * Limits are always influences that come from outside, from people who dont believe in themselves and their abilities. Madonna * Perhaps I am stronger than I think. Thomas Merton Dont let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Richard Louis Evans Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. 195

George Washington Carver When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare Baruch Spinoza * The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. Norman Cousins * Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. Mignon McLaughlin It is easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W. Sockman *** Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987) The nicest thing about egotists is that they dont talk about other people. Lucille S. Harper 196

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. Gloria Pitzer You dont get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward. Benjamin Franklin *** A wet man does not fear rain. Russian proverb If you believe everything you read, better not read. Japanese proverb A friend is one soul in two bodies. Turkish proverb What you dislike for yourself do not like for me. Spanish proverb You dont satisfy your hunger by watching others work. Armenian proverb There is no virtue in a promise unless it be kept. Danish proverb ***** Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. Booth Tarkington Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or 197

convictions. Dag Hammarskjold Be Careful What You Ask for . . . * Be careful what you set your heart upon for it will surely be yours. James Baldwin * The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us. Geoffrey Chaucer * For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. Storm Jameson * More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. St. Teresa of Avila * When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. Dorothy Height The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable. David Halberstam We must become the change we want to see. Mahatma Gandhi The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who dont do anything about it. Albert Einstein 198

We swallow greedily a lie that flatters, but sip little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot Good can imagine Evil, but Evil cannot imagine Good. W. H. Auden * Be thankful not only that you are an individual but also that others are different. The world needs all kinds, but it also needs to use and respect that individuality. Donald A. Laird * Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. Norman Vincent Peale * Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this. Eleanor Roosevelt The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Hannah Arendt Invention is the mother of necessity. Thorstein Veblen Theres only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving . . . your own self. Aldous Huxley If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his

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vengeance need not be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469 - 1527 Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. Carl Jung Life is an incurable disease. Abraham Cowley You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. James Bilker Everyone is a fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. Elbert Hubbard *** The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. Don Marquis Never pray for justice. You just might get some. Margaret Atwood Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers No mans life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. Mark Twain Beware of monotony; its the mother of all the deadly sins. Edith Wharton A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the 200

bricks that others throw at him. Sidney Greenberg *** A smiling face is half the meal. Latvian proverb Who loves well, forgets slowly. French proverb Fortune and misfortune dwell in the same courtyard. Russian proverb He who bears the burden on his shoulders knows its weight. Indian proverb A discreet man will always be ignorant of more than he knows. Spanish proverb A man cannot leave his wisdom or his experience to his heirs. Italian proverb ***** A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him. John C. Maxwell You cant have rosy thoughts about the future when your mind is full of blues about the past. E. C. McKenzie Second chances come along all the time; its up to us to recognize them. Katherine Russell Rich Most people want security in this world, not liberty. Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956), Minority Report [1956] John Dryden: 201

* Dead men tell no tales. * Beware the fury of a patient man. * None but the brave deserves the fair. * We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. * Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. * A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils. * Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below. * Even victors are by victory undone. * Pains of love be sweeter far Than all others pleasures are. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) For myself alone I doubt; All is well, I know, without; I alone the beauty mar, I alone the music jar. Yet with hands by evil stained, And an ear by discord pained, I am groping for the keys Of the heavenly harmonies. John Greenleaf Whittier Enthusiasm * When a man is willing and eager, God joins in. Aeschylus * I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. Sir Edward Appleton, 1947 Nobel laureate in physics * Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self? Samuel Taylor Coleridge * Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of some enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson 202

* Its faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. * Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. Gordon Parks * There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. Edgar Allan Poe * We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Samuel Ullman To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being. Joseph Conrad To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Walter Pater He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. Beilby Porteus There is no friend like an old friend Who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, No homage like his praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. Ralph Marston The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands. Alexander Penny Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that wont tolerate wavemaking. Laurence J. Peter 203

We are discovering our capacity for endless awakening in a universe of endless surprises. Marilyn Ferguson *** The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001) Mostly Harmless [1992] You blows who you is. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. P. D. James Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. Dr. Samuel Johnson *** Who begins too much accomplishes little. German proverb He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. Italian proverb

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You cant take more out of a bag than whats in it. Irish proverb Love kills with golden arrows. Spanish proverb We must learn from life how to suffer it. French proverb Better wisdom than riches. Swedish proverb ***** Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. William Arthur Ward The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. William Osler I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. Pietro Aretino (1492 1556) Italian poet, prose writer, and dramatist. Attributed in Pascal Covici (ed.) The Works of Aretino [1926]. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesnt go away. Philip K. Dick, How to Build a Universe That Doesnt Fall Apart Two Days Later, 1978, US science fiction author (1928 - 1982). Dont be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht You only have power over people so long as you dont take 205

everything away from them. But when youve robbed a man of everything, hes no longer in your power hes free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) The First Circle [1964], Chapter 17. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it, until it has passed over us and taken with it a part of ourselves. John Burroughs (1837 1921) American naturalist and writer. Literary Values and Other Papers [1902], The Spell of the Past. The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake * We justly consider women, as a rule, to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them. Sbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741 1794) Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou Notable Thoughts About Women, p. 313 [1882]. * The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool! Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936) Plain Tales from the Hills [1888], Three and - An Extra Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. Arthur Helps

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If you want to build a ship, dont drum up people together to collect wood and dont assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand Not failure, but low aim, is crime. James Russell Lowell A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. Thomas Mann It is not hard work which is dreary; it is superficial work. Edith Hamilton *** A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Russell Baker Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? George Carlin If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years thered be a shortage of sand. 207

Milton Friedman Im always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. Diane Sawyer What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we dont like about ourselves. William Wharton *** Some are wise and some are otherwise. English proverb Bad is called good when worse happens. Norwegian proverb By pride one causes virtue to decline. Tibetan proverb The tongue of experience has the most truth. Arabian proverb There are a thousand roads to every wrong. Polish proverb Too much politeness conceals deceit. Chinese proverb Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. Polybius Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. Gilbert Keith Chesterton * Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to 208

make happiness impossible. Augustine of Hippo, 354 - 430 * The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so. Louis Pasteur, 1822 - 1895 * If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790 There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world. Marguerite Guardiner All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties. Charles W. Eliot [T]he great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you dont want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do. Margaret Anderson The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. Honore de Balzac * Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved. Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622) (In Jean-Pierre Camus The Spirit of Saint Francis de Sales [1952]) 209

* The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to gentleness. Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622) (In Martin H. Mansers The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations [2001], Mind) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B. F. Skinner Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. John Wooden The way to get started is to stop talking and begin doing. Walt Disney The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Samuel Johnson Government is not reason; it is not eloquent -- it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. George Washington I share no mans opinions; I have my own. Ivan Turgenev The problem when solved will be simple. Charles F. Kettering *** Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which 210

probably never happened and those which do not matter. This is what makes the trade of historian so attractive. William Ralph Inge There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. W. Somerset Maugham Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore looking like an idiot. Steven Wright A person may sometimes have a clear conscience simply because his head is empty. Ralph Washington Sockman (1889 1970) American pastor of the United Methodist Christ Church in New York City, and radio personality [1928 1962]. How to Believe [1953]. He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Horace Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. Andre Gide *** Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. Italian proverb

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Good advice is often annoying; bad advice never is. French proverb Even the best writer has to erase. Spanish proverb When fortune calls, offer her a chair. Yiddish proverb The more you ask how much longer it will take, the longer the journey seems. Maori proverb If you dont have a plan for yourself, youll be part of someone elses. American proverb ***** Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the world will be clean. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe * While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. Henry C. Link * Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce Few people see genius in someone who has offended them. Robertson Davies * The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. 212

Charles Buxton * Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a mans growth without destroying his roots. Frank A. Clark * It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli * People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism. Agnes Repplier The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. Jacob Bronowski You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. Ray Bradbury You cant help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. Norman Schwarzkopf If we have a why to live, we can endure almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves. Simone Weil * Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. Robert H. Schuller * Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. Its your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence. Strive for doing your best. Sir Laurence Olivier * People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which 213

they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it. Edith Schaeffer (1772 - 1801) German poet Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. John Buchan One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. William Lyon Phelps Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. St. Francis De Sales *** When you have to make a choice and dont make it, that is in itself a choice. William James As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree. Albert Camus (1913 1960) The Stranger, 2.1 [1942], tr. Stuart Gilbert [1946] To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, youre overdoing it. Josh Jenkins Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. G. K. Chesterton Some age, others mature. Sean Connery *** Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. 214

Chinese proverb Money grows on the tree of persistence. Japanese proverb There is often wisdom under a shabby coat. Latin proverb You cant have peace longer than your neighbor pleases. Dutch proverb Beware the person with nothing to lose. Italian proverb Time builds castles, and time destroys them. Serbian proverb ***** I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke Alas for those who never sing, But die with all their music in them! Oliver Wendell Holmes * Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Dr. Samuel Johnson * A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert * In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough. Pierre de Marivaux To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of 215

canonization. Harriet Beecher Stowe Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. Viktor Frankl * Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. * The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. * Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. * Information is not knowledge. all from Albert Einstein All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. Henry Miller There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. Christopher Morley The trust of the innocent is the liars most useful tool. Stephen King * Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. Thomas W. Higginson * The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Arthur Koestler * It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville * All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. John Stuart Mill 216

Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something. William Goldman, The Princess Bride One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. Michael Cibenko If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim Slight not whats near through aiming at whats far. Euripides * There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Josh Billings * Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. Niels Bohr Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. Confucius Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. Jules Verne *** 217

Its what we learn after we think we know it all that counts. Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard The best mind-altering drug is truth. Lily Tomlin Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and its all over much too soon. Woody Allen (1935 - ) If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. Charles F. Kettering A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. Its jolted by every pebble on the road. Henry Ward Beecher Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams *** Tell me and I may forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will understand. Chinese proverb To the bad driver, the mules are always to blame. Greek proverb

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God shuts one door in order to open a hundred doors. Yugoslav proverb Words often do worse than blows. German proverb The one who saves something has something. Swedish proverb A mans value is that which he sets upon himself. French proverb A day of worrying is more exhausting than a week of work. John Lubbock The road to success is always under construction. Arnold Palmer * It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. Pierre Beaumarchais * The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert * The difficult part in an argument is not to defend ones opinion but rather to know it. Andre Maurois * No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. Karl Popper * Shouting has never made me understand anything. Susan Sontag The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being. D. H. Lawrence

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We must not allow other peoples limited perceptions to define us. Virginia Satir We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self. Cyril Connolly * Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein * He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates When it is darkest, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson * When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me. Erma Bombeck * Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein There are two kinds of fool. One says, This is old, and therefore good. And one says, This is new, and therefore better. John Brunner A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. John le Carre To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. William Blake 220

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I dont believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cant find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Ellery Channing Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. Nicholas Murray Butler *** You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. Jessica Mitford * Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. * Never let your inferiors do you a favor. It will be extremely costly. H. L. Mencken, 1880 1956 Any idiot can face a crisis - its day to day living that wears you out. 221

Anton Chekhov The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. Wendell Johnson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery *** All the treasures of the world cant bring back one lost moment. French proverb The gods sell all things to hard labor. Greek proverb They are most cheated who cheat themselves. Danish proverb People show their character by what they laugh at. German proverb It is better to prevent than to cure. Peruvian proverb If you are afraid of something, you give it power over you. Moroccan proverb Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good, and swell as little as possible on the evil and false. Robert Cecil 222

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert It aint the roads we take; its whats inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do. O. Henry Dr. Samuel Johnson: * He who praises everybody, praises nobody. * Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. * A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. * Nothing . . . will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. * It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. * No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius. * Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. Theres a fine line between eccentric and genius. If youre a little ahead of your time, youre an eccentric, and if youre too late, youre a failure; but if you hit it right on the head, youre a genius. Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Unless you know where youre going, any road will take you there. Vincent Ferrai Heart or Head for Guidance? 223

* It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. Fyodor Dostoyevsky * We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein * The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. Mignon McLaughlin * There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. Theodore Roosevelt * If any part of your uncertainty is a conflict between your heart and your mind, follow your mind. Ayn Rand * To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt * I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head. Katharine Whitehorn Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but as the spiders web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. Tyron Edwards When a person is down, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. Edward Lytton People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. 224

George Bernard Shaw Old age isnt so bad when you consider the alternative. Maurice Chevalier Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. Marc Halprin We are so vain we even care for the opinion of those we dont care for. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but theyre really not. Theyre companions the hero and the sidekick. Laurence Shames *** Opportunities are never lost. The other person takes those you miss. Wesley Forcier Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. Sydney J. Harris The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. Herb Caen Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Adlai Stevenson Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on. Budd Schulberg Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. Han Suyin 225

*** It is a bad game where nobody wins. Italian proverb Great and good are seldom the same man. English proverb Idleness is the mother of all evil. Greek proverb Sometimes the servant is nobler than the master. Yiddish proverb When one has not what one likes, one must like what one has. French proverb Human nature is the same all the world over. American proverb We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. Arthur Schopenhauer Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. Upton Sinclair I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came. James A. Garfield What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others. William Golding Self-Deception: * Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our 226

enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends. Leonardo da Vinci * A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. Fyodor Dostoevsky * Where we have strong emotions, were liable to fool ourselves. Carl Sagan * Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is, in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. Jonathan Swift * We do not deal much in fact when we are contemplating ourselves. Mark Twain Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Dr. Samuel Johnson Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall The truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens 227

can change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James You cant dig a new hole by digging the same hole deeper and wider. Edward de Bono People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. Neil Postman If youre strong enough, there are no precedents. F. Scott Fitzgerald Laughter is the language of the soul. Pablo Neruda *** The trouble with life isnt that there is no answer, its that there are so many answers. Ruth Benedict When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. Rita Rudner A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Frank Capra If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. Charles Kettering I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do. 228

Arthur Warwick Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. John Perry Barlow *** He that knows not and knows that he knows not is a child; teach him. He that knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool; shun him. He that knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him. He that knows and knows that he knows is a teacher; follow him. Persian proverb Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease. Yiddish proverb The first mistake is a lesson and a teacher for those that follow. Greek proverb Luck and ill luck are neighbors. Norwegian proverb Better to be idle than ill-occupied. English proverb When the game is most thriving it is time to leave off. Danish proverb ***** Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you cant build on it; its only for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll 229

stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. Albert Schweitzer All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard * Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James * If you dont design your own life plan, chances are youll fall into someone elses plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn * I dont believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. Ken Venturi How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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* Innovation starts with an idea. Ideas are somewhat like babies. They are born small, immature and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. Peter F. Drucker * I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. Albert Einstein * In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesnt necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it. Seth Godin * You cant crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. Ursula K. Le Guin These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact. William James My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. William Makepeace Thackeray 231

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. -Albert Schweitzer You must dream big dreams to be something special. John Mackovic A single idea, if it is right, saves the labor of an infinity of experiences. Jacques Maritain Were all only fragile threads, but what a tapestry we make. Jerry Ellis What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. Louis L. Mann *** Even if you fall on your face, youre still moving forward. Victor Kiam I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. G. K. Chesterton Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it 232

goes on. Robert Frost I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. Everett Dirksen *** Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit. English proverb The best cause requires a good pleader. Italian proverb Gods mill goes slowly, but it grinds well. German proverb He knows enough who knows how to live and keep his own counsel. French proverb Not every opinion is truth. Czech proverb Sorrow follows in gaietys footsteps. Russian proverb A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. Patricia Neal Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. William Hazlitt 233

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber. Elbert Hubbard In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. Robert Heinlein The supreme sin is not to be able to forgive yourself. Waldo Frank If you dont say anything, you wont be asked to repeat yourself. Calvin Coolidge Samuel Butler, 1835 1892: * It is tact that is golden, not silence. * Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. * The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. * All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. * The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. * Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives. Paulo Coelho A man there was, tho some did count him mad The more he cast away, the more he had. John Bunyan There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. Lao-Tzu The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter. William Somerset Maugham Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only 235

you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you. Friedrich Nietzsche *** How people play the game shows something of their character; how they lose shows all of it. Graham Greene The larger and more complex a machine, the more unforgiving it is when something goes wrong. Arnold Grant Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. Artemus Ward The secret of success is knowing whom to blame for your failure. E. L. Kersten I couldnt wait for success so I went ahead without it. Jonathan Winters *** The palest ink is better than the best memory. Chinese proverb

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Everyone takes his pleasure where he finds it. French proverb He who bears the burden on his shoulder knows its weight. Indian proverb Poverty is a pain but not a disgrace. Scottish proverb He that is proud of his fine clothes gets his reputation from his tailor. English proverb Who seeks a quarrel will find it near at hand. Italian proverb The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. J. M. Power Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs. H. Stein The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You cant hope for a fairer match. Todd Ruthman There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power. Honore de Balzac Suffering . . . Good or Bad for You? * Wisdom comes alone through suffering. Aeschylus * Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. Alexis Carrel * Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, and stumble from defeat to defeat. 237

Anais Nin * Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran * We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. Eric Hoffer Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them. George Savile Never assume the obvious is true. William Safire Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams Those who will not reason, are bigots; those who cannot, are fools; and those who dare not, are slaves. Lord Byron Seek the company of those who seek the truth, and run away from those who have found it. Vaclav Havel Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. John W. Gardner Graham Greene: * Failure too is a form of death. * Never presume yours is a better morality. * Beauty is like success: we cant love it for long. * Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. 238

* Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. * Sentimentality thats what we call the sentiment we dont share. * A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville Always take a job that is too big for you. Harry Emerson Fosdick It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. Alvin Toffler * People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. Andrew Carnegie * Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. Carl Jung *** A habit is something you can do without thinking which is why most of us have so many of them. Frank A. Clark Be cautious. Opportunity does the knocking for temptation, too. Al Batt People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. Anatole France

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*** Make friends when you dont need them. Jamaican proverb The bad workman never finds a good tool. French proverb When there is room in the heart, there is room in the house. Danish proverb The road to ruin is paved with good intentions. German proverb A good heart breaks bad fortune. Spanish proverb If I try to be like him, who will be like me? Yiddish proverb ***** Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. James Allen Live so enthusiastically you cannot fail. Dorothea Brande Making a mistake and not admitting it is just hurting yourself twice. David Friedman A fellow doesnt long on what he has done. He's got to keep on delivering as he goes along. Carl Hubbell There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Louis Amour 240

There is more grace and dignity to be found in learning to be impressed than in straining to be impressive. Dale Dauten Giving, whether it be of time, labor, affection, advice, gifts, or whatever, is one of lifes greatest pleasures. Rebecca Russell Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. Andrew V. Mason Dont tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. Logan Pearsall Smith Honesty isnt a policy at all; its a state of mind or it isnt honesty. Eugene LHote A man cant be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals. James Thurber We probably wouldnt worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. Olin Miller The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it. Joseph Joubert A good architect can improve the looks of an old house merely by 241

discussing the cost of a new one. Clyde Burns Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry or grieved. Marcus Aurelius Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin-skinned people. Richard Armour Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour. Joseph Hall Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. Booth Tarkington If something goes wrong, it is more important to talk about who is going to fix it, than who is to blame. Francis Gable An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. Kahlil Gibran *** My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker Cats are smarter than dogs. When was the last time you saw a team of cats pull a heavy sled in the snow? Anonymous 242

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more. William Boetcker Nothing in fine print is ever good news. Andy Rooney I am not young enough to know everything. J. M. Barrie There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. Niels Bohr *** A man who cannot tolerate small ills can never accomplish great things. Chinese proverb Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run. English proverb An ill-tempered question deserves an ill-tempered answer. Scottish proverb A good reputation sits still; a bad one runs around. Russian proverb In the young, silence is better than speech. Greek proverb Know a horse by riding him; a person by associating with him. Japanese proverb ***** Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. Ralph Waldo Emerson 243

I was never less alone than when by myself. Edward Gibbon Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Francis Bacon If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. Emily Dickinson It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. Margaret Fuller Conquering Fear: * He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. Aristotle * No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke * The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Joseph Campbell * The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela * You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt * To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back, shivering and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. 244

Sydney Smith People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them. C. Gene Wilkes Persistent people begin their successes where others end in failure. Edward Eggleston There is a big difference between what we have the right to do and what is right. Potter Stewart A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. Samuel Johnson Abigail Adams: * Great necessities call out great virtues. * Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance. * We have too many high sounding words, and too few corresponding actions that correspond with them. * Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. * Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. Orison Swett Marden Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao-Tzu If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Jung *** The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense. Thomas Edison The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. Oliver Wendell Holmes A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget. Samuel Butler

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To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. John Quincy Adams *** Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. Greek proverb A discreet man will always be ignorant of more than he knows. Spanish proverb Love can turn the cottage into a golden palace. German proverb Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself. Scottish proverb To make an omelet, you have to break an egg. French proverb The young should be taught; the old should be honored. Swedish proverb ***** The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. Germaine De Stael Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. Andre Gide A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. Thomas Hardy By words the mind is winged. 247

Aristophanes Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. Polybius Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. Albert Camus Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln Determination * Desire is the key to motivation, but its the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal . . . that will enable you to attain the success you [Link] Andretti * A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. Christian Nestell Bovee * Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie * An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Thomas Fuller * Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to go to bed with satisfaction. George Horace Lorimer * Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. Tony Robbins 248

* Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. Karl von Clausewitz * Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. Denis Waitley There are books in which the footnotes or comments scrawled by some readers hand in the margin are more interesting than the text. The world is one of these books. George Santayana Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. Victor Hugo Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. Francois de La Rochefoucauld There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world. Marguerite Guardiner [T]he great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you dont want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do. Margaret Anderson We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. Seneca

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*** Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. E. B. White When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. John Ruskin It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. William Gibbs McAdoo When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. John Ruskin Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. Minna Antrim *** Ask the experienced rather than the learned. Arabic proverb Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him. Scottish proverb The best armor is to keep out of range. Italian proverb The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. Portuguese proverb Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie. English proverb Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping. Latin proverb 250

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