Friday, August 22, 2008

Great Quotes!

HUMOR

"Humor is tragedy plus time." -- Mark Twain

"A Person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road." -- Henry Ward Beecher

"Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." -- Charles M. Schulz

IDEAS

"Good ideas are common-what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about." -- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act." -- Andre Malraux

"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living." -- Anais Nin

"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

IGNORANCE

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn." -- Benjamin Franklin

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." -- Elbert Hubbard

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star." -- Confucius

"When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds." -- Will Rodgers

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