Thursday 2 July 2009

Good Sayings_41

801. Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invented... Henry Kisinger
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802. If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.. James A Garfield
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803. Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has... Alphonse Karr
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804. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence... Washington
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805. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius...Gibbon
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806. Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause...Voltaire
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807. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour... Robert Frost
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808. If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars... Fernan Caballero
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809. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen... Oliver Wendell Holmes
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810. A man always has two reasons for what he does a good one, and the real one... Attributed to I Pierpont
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811. Even a mistake may turn out to be the only thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement... Henry Ford
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812. Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life... Simone Weil
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813. You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club... Jack London
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814. Inventing is a combination of brains and materials The more brains you use, the less materials you need...Charles J Kettering
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815. Make no judgements where you have no compassion... Anne McCaffrey
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816. The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed... Nicolas Chamfort
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817. There must be more to life than having everything... Maurice Sendak
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818. The essence of pleasure is spontaneity... Germaine Greer
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819. Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article... PD Armour
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820. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well...
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