February '01 Epigrams of the Day

It is a fine thing to be yourself.

Aim high and believe yourself capable of great things.

You should always have someone to help you keep a secret.

It is a fine thing to be yourself.

Poise, Patience, Love - these are the touchstones that surmount obstacles.

Everything is waiting and watching you to see what signal you hoist from within - you attract that which you desire to attract.

It does not require much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Cooperate and assist - not criticize and find fault.

Celebrity is the opiate of the Proletariat.

Beaten paths are for the Lilliputs. Climb the fence and cut across if you expect to "arrive."

The habit of fear, hate and cold feet is upon us all.

Progress oftens springs from doubt.

It takes energy to think. It is so much easier to jump to conclusions or accept some one else's view, than to climb, see and decide for yourself.

Love goes to those who are deserving - not to those who set snares for it and who lie in wait. The life of strife and contest never wins.

Specialization: The ability to focus all your energies on one thing.

We grow by doing, not by thinking of our thoughts and feeling of our feelings.

Aim high and believe yourself capable of great things.

Orators, people asleep, women in the toilet-room of a Pullman car, know nothing of the flight of time.

If you have never made a fool of yourself, you are not in my class.

It isn't time that makes you grow old - it's having the thing called life turn turtle at an inopportune time.

If a man write a better book or preach a better sermon than his neighbors, the world will bring rat-traps to his door, tho he live in a forest.

How beautiful that most of our troubles never happen!

Who's making all that dam noise.

If you have never made a fool of yourself, you are not in my class.

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