Alan Alda

Begin challenging your own assumptions.  Your assumptions are your windows on the world.  Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Rumi

Beyond right and wrong, there is a field. I will meet you there.

Ogden Nash

Candy is dandy,But liquor is quicker.

Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Helen Keller

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

E.B. White

Be obscure clearly.

Douglas Adams Thursday Insults

Are you wearing my underwear? 'Cause I'm wearing yours, and they're not doing the trick.

Ellen Perry Berkeley

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

Twyla Tharp

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Maya Angelou

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Heywood Brown

Appeasers believe that if you keep throwing steak at the tiger,  the tiger will become a vegetarian.

Kurt Vonnegut

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Paul Corey

Any conditioned cat-hater can be won over by any cat who chooses to make the effort.

H.L. Menken

An idealist is one who on noticing that roses smell better than cabbage concludes that it will also make better soup. 

Thursday Insults

Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. - author unknown

Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

buddha

Ambition and anger will disappear when you stop concerning yourself with the fruit of your actions.

Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.  That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Eric Hoffer

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Erich Heller

Be careful how you interpret the world:  It is like that.

Plato

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Aristotle

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Quentin Crisp

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

Dennis Miller

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty‑five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error.
-Dennis Miller

John A. Shedd

A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for.
-John A. Shedd

Herm Albright

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-Herm Albright

Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Oscar Wilde

Wendy Kaminer

A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.  A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.
Wendy Kaminer

Author Unknown*

A penny saved is ridiculous.

*If you have some information on the author of the quote please let me know.

George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw

Thursday Insults

A photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on.
Attributed to a 'bad employee review'

Colette

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
-Colette

Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
-Lao Tzu

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A foolish consistency  is the hobgoblin of small minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson