Quotes of the Day via J. Becker:

"Fame is fleeting ... but obscurity just drags on and on."
 (From Frank & Earnest comic)


"24 hours in a day; 24 beers in a case. A coincidence?  ...  I think not."    
 (Paul Newman)      [From Chip Day]


"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility."
 (Albert Schweitzer, German philosopher, musician, theologian and physician)


"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."
 (Groucho Marx)      [From Sandy Lemberg]


"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
 (Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister)


"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power."
 (Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.)


"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
 (Maya Angelou, American writer)


"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat."
 (Alex Levine)      [From Sandy Lemberg]


"Formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."
 (Albert Einstein)


"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
 (Friedrich Nietzsche)      [From the signature of Jennifer Hewerdine]


"A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words."
 (Phillips Brooks, American clergyman and writer)


"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
 (Albert Einstein)


"It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing."
 (Helen Keller)


"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
 (Abraham Lincoln)


"Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry."
 (Mark Twain)      [From the signature of Robin Manker]


"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
 (Helen Keller)


"Comparisons are odious."
 (Oscar Wilde)      [Mentioned by Alan Rogerson ]


"When in doubt, tell the truth."
 (Mark Twain)      [From signature of  Sharon Shingai]


"This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt."
 (Earl Wilson, American journalist and gossip columnist)


"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
 (Robert H. Schuller)      [From the signature of Jenni Rodin]


"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
 (Helen Keller)

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[The following are provided by Andrew Ourada of Redwood Valley High School, Redwood Falls, MN]

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
 (T.S. Eliot)


"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing being wrong."
 (Peter McIntyre)


"Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them."
 (Unknown)


"The more you read the more things you will know.  The more things you learn the more places you will go. (Dr. Suess)


"Stop signs are made for cars and buses and motorcycles.  Stop signs are not for dreams and hopes and adventures."
 (Unknown)


"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
 (Henry Ford)


"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway."
 (Mary Ky Ash)


"When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane takes off into the wind, not with it."
 (Henry Ford)

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