Favorite little sayings - II

Here are some more of them:

A fanatic is simply a person who does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew all the facts. - F.P.Dunne

To believe is to learn to think like God. - Andre Frossard, French theologian

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself. - Plato

If businessmen took their jobs for granted in the same way that many of them neglect their wives and children, they'd be looking around for another position. - George Penn

Liberty is a luxury of the self-disciplined. - Montesquieu

People who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. - Lloyd Jones

Anyone who believes that business runs on fact rather than fiction has never read old five-year projections. - Malcolm Forbes

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. - Harry Truman

God should not be judged on the basis of this world - it is just one of his rough sketches. - Vincent Van Gogh

An elephant is a mouse designed to government specifications.

Everyone is always in favor of general economy and particular expenses. - Anthony Eden

Central government is the most efficient agency for the collecting of money, and the most inefficient for spending it. - E.G.Schumacher, British economist

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. - St. Ambrose

Unless you know where you are going, any road will get you there. - Theodore Levitt

No wind favors him who has no destined port. - Michel de Montaigne

He who is not liberal with what he has deceives himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more. - William S. Plumer

Rocks have been shaken from their solid base, but what shall move a firm and dauntless mind? - Joanna Baillie

Beware of what you set your heart on, for it shall surely be yours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we hate our enemies, we give them power over us. - Dale Carnegie

The first condition of happiness is a clear conscience. - David O. McKay

It is just as hard to break a good habit as a bad one, so get good habits and keep them. - William McKinley

There can be no happiness if the things we believe are different from the things we do. - Freda Stark

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison. - Francis Bacon

The greatest thing in the world is to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it. - E.W.Howe

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. - Elbert Hubbard

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana

There is something in humility that strangely exalts the heart. - St. Augustine

To know is science; merely to believe one knows is ignorance. - Hippocrates

An intellectual is a person educated beyond his intelligence. - Fulton Sheen

Innovation consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

More of us might live up to our ideals if we knew what they were. - Arnold Glascow

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. - Walter Savage Landor

Every invention goes through three stages: doubt of its existence, denial of its importance, credit to someone else. - Alexander von Humboldt

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. - Goethe

Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment. - 'Kingfish' on Amos n' Andy

Never carry your shotgun or your knowledge half-cocked. - Austin O'Malley

People are born to kindness as a wind is born to movement. - Neil Miller

Since we cannot know all there is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. - Blaise Pascal

Diligence is the mother of good luck. - Benjamin Franklin

Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. - Humphrey Davy

Some folks believe liberty is doing as they please, but with controls on others. - Arnold Glascow

Love your enemies; not only does the Good Book say so, but it will make them madder than anything else you could do. - Mark Twain

There are no chances so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage; and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Leadership is the ability to get people to do what they don't want to do - and like it. - Harry Truman

A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which he attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work - a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts - which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic. - William Mathews

There is a difference between the casualness of mastery and the carelessness of ignorance. - Charles B. Rogers

Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single. - Jimmy Townsend

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. - Mark Twain

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. - Henry Ward Beecher

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. - David O. McKay

To live is good. To live vividly is better. To live vividly together is best of all. - Max Eastman

When there are no other values, money counts for everything. - Digby Baltzell

Management: When in charge, ponder. When in trouble, delegate. When in doubt, mumble.

Mathematicians are a species of Frenchmen: if you say something to them, they translate it into their language and presto! it is something entirely different.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct interrupted occasionally by talk. - George Abe

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Concentrated preparation for musical performances should be tempered with physical conditioning. - Eugene Fodor, concert violinist

Our life would stagnate if it were not for the enexplored forests and meadows which surround it. We need the tonic of wilderness. We can never have enough of nature. - Henry David Thoreau

We are faced with great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - John Gardner

If you're going to have strong opinions, you can't be intimidated by facts that don't fit. - Malcomb Forbes

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but he has no right to base it on the wrong facts. - Bernard Baruch

Philosophers learn less and less about more and more until they finally know nothing about everything. Scientists, on the other hand, learn more and more about less and less, until they finally know everything about nothing.

Let us not fall into the trap of doing that which is important at the expense of that which is most important. - Thomas S. Monson

Procrastination is just another form of fear.

The person who thinks he has no faults has at least one.

I shall tell you a great truth, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment: it takes place every day. - Albert Camus

No man can guess in cold blood what he may do in a passion. - H.G. Bohn

Professionalism means consistency of quality. - Frank Tyger

A man progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. - George Bernard Shaw

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

You can't pray with your fists clenched. - Geoffrey Bocca

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. - Austin O'Malley

The first mistake in public business is the going into it. - Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge in depth and in breadth are virtual prerequsites for significan invention. Unless the mind is thoroughly charged beforehand, the proverbial spark of genius, if it should manifest itself, probably will find nothing to ignite. - Paul J. Flory