Fortune Quote #2282

He that believeth Me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater
works than these shall he do. -- Jesus Christ (John 14:12)

Fortune Quote #2281

People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what
they ought to be. -- Meister Eckhart

Fortune Quote #2280

I've always liked words. I even like some words that aren't in the
dictionary. -- Chuck Barry

Fortune Quote #2279

All the good people are nuts. -- Carrie Fisher

Fortune Quote #2278

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of
God. -- John 1:12

Fortune Quote #2277

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because
the dawn has come. -- Rabindranath Tagore

Fortune Quote #2276

A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is
no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life
getting his living. -- Henry David Thoreau

Fortune Quote #2275

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a
fool forever. -- Chinese proverb

Fortune Quote #2274

In times when the government imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a
just man is also the prison. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Fortune Quote #2273

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy
death. -- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Fortune Quote #2272

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the
nest. -- Swedish proverb

Fortune Quote #2271

Along this tree / From root to crown / Ideas flow up / And vetoes
down. -- A senior executive, quoted by Peter Drucker

Fortune Quote #2270

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the
human race come to an end. -- Joseph Conrad

Fortune Quote #2269

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make
mistakes. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Fortune Quote #2268

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted
me. -- Nathaniel Lee (on being consigned to a mental institution)

Fortune Quote #2267

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to
forget what human frailty is. -- Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854)

Fortune Quote #2266

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely
needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich. -- Mark
Twain (1835-1910)

Fortune Quote #2265

Television is an invention whereby you can be entertained in your living
room by people you wouldn't have in your house. -- David Frost

Fortune Quote #2264

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. --
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. [The Mythical Man-Month]

Fortune Quote #2263

Worry is like a rocking chair -- it gives you something to do but it
doesn't get you anywhere. -- Dorothy Galyean

Fortune Quote #2262

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the
affections. -- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

Fortune Quote #2261

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with
ease. -- Lisa Alther

Fortune Quote #2260

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. --
Niels Bohr

Fortune Quote #2259

CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries
to please him. -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) [The Devil's
Dictionary]

Fortune Quote #2258

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and
a little reasoning to truth. -- Alexis Carrel

Fortune Quote #2257

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks
himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the
wisest is generally the greatest fool. -- Charles Caleb Colton
(1780-1832)

Fortune Quote #2256

When the fox preaches, look to the geese. -- German Proverb

Fortune Quote #2255

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but
that he cannot believe anyone else. -- George Bernard Shaw

Fortune Quote #2254

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident
knowledge that they will help us. -- Epicurus

Fortune Quote #2253

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. -- Paul Tournier

Fortune Quote #2252

There are two perfect men; one dead, and the other unborn. --
Chinese proverb