UBClub/Bookmarks/Quotes.txt G01 A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. A stumble may prevent a fall. A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. A teacher is someone who talks in our sleep! G02 A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. A goal without a plan is just a wish. A closed mind is a good thing to lose. A college jock is someone who minds his build instead of vice versa! G03 A merry heart doeth good like medicine. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. G04 A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. G05 Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. G06 Be great in act, as you have been in thought. Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me. G07 Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Determine to live life with flair and laughter. G08 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. Eighty percent of success is showing up. G09 Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. Existence is Identity. Consciousness is Identification. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. G10 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace. Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. G11 Good is not good where better is expected. He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. He listens well who takes notes. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. G12 Him to whom you pray is closer to you than the neck of your camel. His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best. Houston, Tranquility Base here. The eagle has landed. How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. G13 How come stealing from one book is plagiarism, but stealing from many is research? How come we choose from just two people for President, and fifty for Miss America? How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! G14 How use doth breed a habit in a man. Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. G15 I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. G16 I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. G17 I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith. I intend to live forever. So far, so good. G18 I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. I am at two with nature. I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. G19 I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to. If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer? If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. G20 If at first you do succeed try not to look too surprised. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. In a false quarrel there is no true valour. In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated! G21 In war, truth is the first casualty. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through. It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. G22 It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. It takes one to know one — and vice versa! G23 It's really too bad a lot of crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. G24 Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?' Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' G25 Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. My toughest fight was with my first wife. [Muhammad Ali] G26 My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women. Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Noise proves nothing. O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. G27 O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing. Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. G28 Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by. People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. G29 Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. So far the only successful substitute for brains is silence. Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. G30 Success comes before work only in the dictionary. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. G31 The optomist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. The function of consciousness is not to create reality, but to apprehend it. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. G32 There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex. There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart. There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker. G33 They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. To respond is positive, to react is negative. G34 We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? What a splendid head, yet no brain. G35 What—Me worry? When ideas fail, words come in very handy. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. G36 Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream. You can't have everything. Where would you put it? You live and learn. At any rate, you live. You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. ---------- H01 A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite; At peace am I. Have we not all One Maker? Has not one God created us? He to whom you pray is nearer to you than the neck of your camel. H02 Increasing happiness is always the experience of all who are certain about God. Love is the desire to do good to others. O Lord! As you have made my body good, So make good my disposition. The argumentative defense of any proposition is inversely proportional to the truth contained. H03 The lamps are different, But the light is the same: It comes from beyond. Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. Trust God But Tie Your Camel. What a mistake to dream of God far off... when the spirit of the Universal Father lives within your own mind!