"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius." ,George Bernard Shaw

"Praise the ripe field not the green corn." ,Irish Proverb

"How far we travel in life matters far less, than the people we meet on the way."

"An artist is his own fault."

"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride." ,Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." ,Albert Einstein

"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress." ,Thomas A. Edison

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." ,Indira Gandhi

"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn." ,David Rusell

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

"If you think sunshine is happiness, than you've never walked in the rain."

"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour."

"I only wish they'd take me as I am", Vincent Van Gogh

"The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers." ,Walter Percy Chrysler

“It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river” , Abraham Lincolin

''Romantic Ireland's dead and gone...its with O'Leary in the grave'', 'September 1913 'by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.", Oscar Wilde

"Mental Floss prevents Moral Decay"

"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up.", Jesse Jackson

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.", Robert Louis Stevenson

"Even too much sunshine can be devasting, While only with rain can growth occur. Accept both as part of the growing process In the garden of life." ,Donald S. Neviaser, from The Inner View

"People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic." ,John Ruskin

"Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far." ,Theodore Roosevelt

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. Its an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. Its a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary . Impossible is nothing." ,Adidas advertisement

"They build too low who build beneath the skies" ,An inscription on a building in Washington, D.C

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." ,Louisa May Alcott

"The price of greatness is responsibility." ,Winston Churchill

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." ,Dolly Parton

"If you're going through hell, keep going." ,Walt Disney

"Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel." ,Horace Walpole

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." ,Martin Luther King Jr.

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

"When you hire people who a smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are." ,R.H. Grant

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." ,Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach." ,Tony Robbins

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." ,Dwight D. Eisenhower

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." ,Bertie C. Forbes

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." ,Albert Einstein

"The reason our ego doesn't like kindness is because it puts it out of business."

"Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price."

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother." ,Kahlil Gibran

"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it." ,Laurence Sterne

"To generalize is to be an idiot." ,William Blake

"Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well dance."

"I am an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat." ,Harold Wilson

"If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks." ,Steve Pavlina

"I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack."

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." ,George Orwell

"Never try to teach a pig how to sing... It wastes your time and annoys the pig!"

"A man is basically as faithful as his options." ,Chris Rock

"It takes a player to shoot a shot.. but it takes a team to win a game " ,Penny Anae

To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
To the plumber, any liquid in the glass is potential income.
(With thanks to John Pettitt and Ed O'Connell)

"Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean." , Baseball player Pedro Guerrero on reporters

"Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it."

"Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings."

"It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow." ,Harvey Mackay

"Friends are relatives you make for yourself." ,Eustache Deschamps

"You don't have to change roads for 'perfection city'; you just have to walk the extra mile."

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

“When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work” ,George Bernard Shaw

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ,George Bernard Shaw

"I can live for two months on a good compliment." ,Mark Twain

"Life is what happens to you when your busy making other plans." ,John Lennon

"Economists are still trying to figure out why the girls with the least principle draw the most interest."

"Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones.", Mike Barfield.

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."