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52 Teams of 8 Helped Make Humanity Great!

Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot 1819 - 1880 He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. - Lao Tzu 601 BC - 531 BC Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. - Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900 It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BCBelieve you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919 Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895 An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Emma Lazarus 1849 - 1887 Fortune favors the audacious. - Desiderius Erasmus 1466 - 1536 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD The mind is everything. What you think you become. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885 Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882 What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. - Jane Austen 1775 - 1817 Follow your honest convictions and be strong. - William Thackeray 1811 - 1863 Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662 Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James 1842 - 1910

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. - Robert G. Ingersoll 1857 - 1899 Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862 Independence is happiness. - Susan B. Anthony 1820 - 1906 Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. - Nicolas Chamfort 1741 - 1794 Every great dream begins with a dreamer. - Harriet Tubman 1822 – 1913 He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity. - Ben Jonson 1572 - 1637 Aim for the highest. - Andrew Carnegie 1835 - 1919Never cut what you can untie. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824 I may walk slowly, but I never walk backward. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. - Edward Gibbon 1737 - 1794 Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. - Elizabeth Stanton 1815 - 1902 Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD Honest hearts produce honest actions. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877 An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds. - Daniel D. Palmer 1845 - 1918Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part. - John Bright 1811 - 1889 Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. - Marguerite Gardiner 1789 - 1849 The secret of getting ahead is getting started. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 There is no harm in repeating a good thing. - Plato 428 BC - 348 BC Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? - Sun Tzu 545 BC - 496 BC Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778 Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. - Anton Chekhov 1860 - 1904By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC Simplicity is the glory of expression. - Walt Whitman 1819 - 1892 And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'. - Phoebe Cary 1822 - 1871 Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. - Michelangelo 1475 - 1564 Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD Fortune favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur 1822 - 1895It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. - Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519 Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870 Ignorance is the mother of all evils. - Francois Rabelais 1494 - 1553 Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine 1797 - 1856 Light is the task where many share the toil. - Homer 484 BC - 425 BC In youth we learn; in age we understand. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 1830 - 1916 Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 ADUntil we are all free, we are none of us free. - Emma Lazarus 1849 - 1887 The best protection any woman can have... is courage. - Elizabeth Stanton 1815 - 1902 Honest people don't hide their deeds. - Emily Bronte 1818 - 1848 I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly. - Catherine II 1729 - 1796 Goals help you overcome short-term problems. - Hannah More 1745 - 1833 Reject hatred without hating. - Mary Baker Eddy 1821 - 1910 I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 Instinct is the nose of the mind. - Delphine de Girardin 1804 - 1855The color of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. - Benjamin Banneker 1731 - 1806 Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. - Harriet Jacobs - 1813 - 1897 Character, not circumstances, makes the man. - Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 You have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. - Harriet Tubman 1822 – 1913 If there is no struggle, there is no progress. - Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895 Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. - Alexandre Dumas 1802 - 1870 Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. - Sojourner Truth 1797 - 1883A house divided against itself cannot stand. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 There are times when the greatest change needed is my viewpoint. - Denis Diderot 1713 - 1784 Resolve and thou art free. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882 Freedom is a system based on courage. - Charles Peguy 1873 - 1914 Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. - Petrarch 1304 - 1374 Man is only great when he acts from passion. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Thomas Moore 1779 - 1852 Don't count your years, make your years count. - George Meredith 1828 - 1909A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870 Know yourself to improve yourself. - Auguste Comte 1838 - 1857 It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862 We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. - Elizabeth Stanton 1815 - 1902 I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900 Justice delayed is justice denied. - William E. Gladstone 1809 - 1898Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos. - Auguste Comte 1838 - 1857 We forge the chains we wear in life. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870 A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. - Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900 Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. - Nietzsche 1844 - 1900 The boughs that bear most hang lowest. - David Garrick 1717 - 1779 Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. - Thomas Fuller 1608 - 1661 The bud of victory is always in the truth. - Benjamin Harrison 1833 - 1901 Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. - Herbert Spencer 1820 - 1903Bravery never goes out of fashion. - William Thackeray 1811 - 1863 Don't let schooling interfere with your education. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. - William Cowper 1731 - 1800 The discipline of desire is the background of character. - John Locke 1632 - 1704 None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. - Matthew Henry 1662 - 1714 Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. - Lord Chesterfield 1694 - 1773 The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. - Andrew Carnegie 1835 - 1919 Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 - 1778What we think, we become. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 Those that vow the most are the least sincere. - Richard Sheridan 1751 - 1816 A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. - Robert Bulwer-Lytton 1831 - 1891 Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917 The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. - Nicolas Despreaux 1636 - 1711 Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day. - Franz Liszt 1811 - 1886 By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. - Galileo Galilei 1564 - 1642The wise does at once what the fool does at last. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. - Hippocrates 460 BC - 370 BC A person should be upright, not be kept upright. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't. - Willie Keeler 1872 - 1923 Sunlight is painting. Moonlight is sculpture. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 - 1864 A fool must now and then be right, by chance. - William Cowper 1731 - 1800 The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. - Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809 We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865Be as you wish to seem. - Socrates 470 BC - 399 BC Friendship that can cease is never real. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good. - Martin Luther 1483 - 1546 We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 Our charity begins at home, and mostly ends where it begins. - Horace Smith 1779 - 1893 Patience will achieve more than force. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 When you doubt, abstain. - Ambrose Bierce 1842 - 1914A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC Ability is nothing without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821 All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862 Love’s language is imprecise, fits more like mittens than gloves. Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. - Samuel Butler 1835 - 1902 Philosophy is common sense with big words. - James Madison 1751 - 1836 Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. - Thomas Gray 1716 - 1771Business is the salt of life. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778 A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. - Petrarch 1304 - 1374 A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. - Elbert Hubbard 1856 - 1915 A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824 An overflow of good converts to bad. - William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 A man is what he thinks about all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. - Hannah More 1745 - 1833 Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. - Plato 428 BC - 348 BC True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877 Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. - Horace Greeley 1811 - 1872 The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 Prosperity is full of friends. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC Jesters do often prove prophets. - Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719 A person’s worth is no greater than their ambitions. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 ADI got my start by giving myself a start. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 Men are only as great as they are kind. - Elbert Hubbard 1856 - 1915 Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870 Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us. - Benjamin Rush 1745 - 1813 All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662 Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824 Nobody minds having what is too good for them. - Jane Austen 1775 - 1817Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1831 - 1891 Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. - George Herbert 1593 - 1633 A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. - James A. Garfield 1831 - 1881 He who has never failed somewhere, can not be great. - Herman Melville 1819 - 1891 In recounting our woes, we often soothe them. - Pierre Corneille 1606 - 1684 Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778 The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. - George Bancroft 1800 - 1891Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depends on it. - Cardinal Richelieu 1585 - 1642 Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. - Baruch Spinoza 1632 - 1677 I am a part of all that I have seen. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892 Compassion is the basis of morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860 Life is only understood backwards; but must be lived forwards. - Kierkegaard 1813 - 1855 He who sells what isn't his'n, must buy it back or go to prison. - Daniel Drew 1797 - 1879 Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. - George Washington - 1732 - 1799 Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. - Rosa Luxemburg 1871 - 1919Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. - Alexander Hamilton 1757 - 1804 Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates 470 BC - 399 BC Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. - Thomas Carlyle 1795 - 1881 A chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877 You are one of the forces of nature. - Jules Michelet 1798 - 1874 More than kisses, letters mingle souls. - John Donne 1572 - 1631 Nothing can be done except little by little. - Charles Baudelaire 1821 - 1867 Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed. - James Otis 1725 - 1783Great lives never go out; they go on. - Benjamin Harrison 1833 - 1901 Reason gains all people by compelling none. - Aaron Hill –1685 - 1750 Everything is sweetened by risk. - Alexander Smith 1830 - 1867 Love is the crowning grace of humanity. - Petrarch 1304 - 1374 Have the courage of your desire. - George Gissing 1857 - 1903 Love is the river of life in the world. - Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887 A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885 He threatens many that hath injured one. - Ben Jonson 1572 - 1637Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. - Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860 Creditors have better memories than debtors. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton 1757 - 1804 Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519 To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824 I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. - Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834 Cleverness is not wisdom. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BCWhen love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin 1819 - 1900 Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. - John Donne 1572 - 1631 Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. - Michelangelo 1475 - 1564 Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719 We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. - Arthur Helps 1813 - 1875 Leap, and the net will appear. - John Burroughs 1837 - 1921 He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others. - Samuel Foote 1720 - 1777 Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. - Xenophon 431 BC - 354 BCTo begin, begin. - William Wordsworth 1770 - 1850 Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order. - Arthur Helps 1813 - 1875 Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller 1810 - 1850 Love the giver more than the gift. - Brigham Young 1801 - 1877 Learn what is true in order to do what is right. - Thomas Huxley 1825 - 1895 Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 A contented mind is the greatest blessing you can enjoy in this world. - Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719 Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. - Charles deSecondat 1689 - 1755The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. - Luc de Clapier 1715 - 1747 True change takes place in the imagination. - Thomas Moore 1779 - 1852 Persuasion is often more effectual than force. - Aesop 621 BC - 564 BC Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. - Arthur Rimbaud 1854 - 1891 Speak softly, carry a big stick and you'll go far. - Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919 Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. - Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 - 1896 Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with. - John Wanamaker 1838 - 1922 From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. - Publilius Syrus 85 BC - 45 BCVariety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. - William Cowper 1731 - 1800 Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862 Fortune befriends the bold. - Emily Dickinson 1830 -1886 Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC I like the noise of democracy. - James Buchanan 1791 - 1868 However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. - Nicolas Despreaux 1636 - 1711 Better late than never. - Matthew Henry 1662 - 1714The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. - Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - 1527 The greater the effort, the greater the glory. - Pierre Corneille 1606 - 1684 One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. - Virgil 70 BC - 19 BC Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. - Arthur Rimbaud 1854 - 1891 Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. - William E. Gladstone 1809 - 1898 There is nothing permanent except change. - Heraclitus 545 BC - 485 BC Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates 470 BC - 399 BCGoodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. - Marshall Field 1834 - 1906 Conviction is the conscience of the mind. - Nicolas Chamfort 1741 - 1794 A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. - Arthur Helps 1813 - 1875 Be that self which one truly is. - Kierkegaard 1813 - 1855 Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. - Josh Billings 1818 – 1885 Force has no place where there is need of skill. - Herodotus 484 BC - 424 BC Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim. - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. - Davy Crockett 1786 - 1836 Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778 Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. - Epictetus 55 AD - 135 AD A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892 Big results require big ambitions. - Heraclitus 545 BC - 485 BC It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. - Jose Marti 1853 - 1895 Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. - Fredrich Nietzsche 1844 - 1900 In life, as in chess, forethought wins. - Charles Buxton 1823 - 1871Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. - Horace 65 BC - 8 BC Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing. - Alexander Hamilton 1757 - 1804 Education is the cheap defense of nations. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885 My object in life is not simply to make money for myself. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. - Plautus 255 BC - 185 BC A good conscience is a continual Christmas. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. - Oliver Cromwell 1599 - 1658 There is nothing like a dream to create a future. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885 Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. - Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC Necessity never made a good bargain. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. - John Ray 1627 - 1705 All money is a matter of belief. - Adam Smith 1723 - 1790 To advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. - Thomas Hood 1799 - 1845 Familiarity is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. - Ouida 1839 - 1908The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. - James Madison 1751 - 1836 Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness. - William C. Bryant 1794 - 1878 Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. - William James 1842 - 1910 To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. - Amos Bronson Alcott 1799 - 1888 Perseverance is my motto. - Sarah Breedlove 1867 - 1919 Be not simply good - be good for something. - - Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862 He who stops being better stops being good. - Oliver Cromwell 1599 - 1658 Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. - Denis Diderot 1713 - 1784Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. - Gustave Flaubert 1821 - 1880 Advertising is the very essence of democracy. - Anton Chekhov 1860 - 1904 Travel teaches toleration. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881 The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere 1622 - 1673 Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC I think; therefore I am. - Rene Descartes 1596 - 1650 After all is said and done, more is said than done. - Aesop 621 BC - 564 BC Where there are friends there is wealth. - Titus Maccius Plautus 254 BC - 185 BCYou must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. - Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845 The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product. - Henry Ellis 1721 - 1806 Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one. - Henry George Bohn 1796 - 1884 Friendship is Love without his wings! - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824 Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC In politics stupidity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821 It is the mind that makes the body. - Sojourner Truth 1797 - 1883Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. - Lord Byron 1788 - 1824 Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - Isaac Newton 1643 - 1727 Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. - Nietzsche 1844 - 1900 Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. - Julius Caesar 100 B - 44 BC Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. - Christopher Marlowe 1564 - 1593 A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark. - Dante Alighieri 1265 - 1321Be always sure you are right - then go ahead. - Davy Crockett 1786 - 1836 Know or listen to those who know. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 Do every act of your life as if it were your last. - Marcus Aurelius 121 AD - 180 AD The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. - Percy Shelley 1792 - 1822 The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. - Buddha 567 BC - 484 BC Failure is impossible. - Susan B. Anthony 1820 - 1906 The surest test of discipline is its absence. - Clara Barton 1821 - 1912 A majority is always better than the best repartee. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. - Percy Shelley 1792 - 1822 I invent nothing, I rediscover. - Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917 Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. - Charles Buxton 1823 - 1871 No one knows what he can do until he tries. - Publilius Syrus 85 BC - 45 BC Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. - Izaak Walton 1593 - 1683 Through science we prove, but through intuition we discover. - Henri Poincare 1854 - 1912 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744 There is no sin but ignorance. - Christopher Marlowe 1564 - 1593Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu 545 BC - 496 BC A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 A word to the wise is enough. - Plautus 255 BC - 185 BC He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. - James Huneker 1857 - 1921 A precedent embalms a principle. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881 Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744 How much better it is to be envied than to be pitied. - Herodotus 484 BC - 424 BC One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845If I were two-faced, why would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. - Emile Zola 1840 - 1902 Never find fault with the absent. - Alexander Pope 1688 - 1744 In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Desiderius Erasmus 1466 - 1536 What is right and what is practicable are two different things. - James Buchanan 1791 - 1868 Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662 Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. - Hosea Ballou 1771 - 1852 They can because they think they can. - Virgil 70 BC - 19 BCTo the victors belong the spoils. - Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845 The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. - Camillo di Cavour 1810 - 1861 To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 A forest bird never wants a cage. - Henrik Ibsen 1828 - 1906 Friendships are discovered rather than made. - Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 - 1896 Be curious, not judgmental. - Walt Whitman 1819 - 1892 There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings 1818 – 1885 Consequences are unpitying. - George Eliot 1819 - 1880Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. - Dante Alighieri 1265 - 1321 Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881 Quality is not an act, it is a habit. - Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC One must work and dare if one really wants to live. - Vincent Van Gogh 1853 - 1890 Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. - William James 1842 - 1910 I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing. - Izaak Walton 1593 - 1683 In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. - Henri Frederic Amiel 1821 - 1881The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most. - Emile Zola 1840 - 1902 I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881 Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. - Charles deSecondat 1689 - 1755 A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard 1856 - 1915 Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. - Horace Mann 1796 - 1859 Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. - Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 1826 Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. - John Lubbock 1834 - 1913Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 The game is never lost till won. - George Crabbe 1754 - 1832 Friendship is essentially a partnership. - Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. - William James 1842 - 1910 Live your life and forget your age. - Jean Paul 1763 - 1825 Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. - Martin Luther 1483 - 1546 He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. - Fredrich Nietzsche 1844 - 1900 As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. - Emile Zola 1840 - 1902 Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. - Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887 Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 Truth springs from argument amongst friends. - David Hume 1711 - 1776 He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - John Fletcher 1579 - 1625 Ambition is not a vice of little people. - Michel de Montaigne 1533 - 1592 Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 1826 You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. - Heinrich Heine 1797 - 1856Nothing great has ever been accomplished without passion. - Georg Hegel 1770 - 1831 Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. - Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662 I could never hate anyone I really know. - Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834 Prevention is better than cure. - Desiderius Erasmus 1466 - 1536 All things are difficult before they are easy. - Thomas Fuller 1608 - 1661 A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. - David Hume 1711 - 1776 Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. - William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. - George Washington - 1732 - 1799A penny saved is a penny earned. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. - Christopher Marlowe 1564 - 1593 If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. - George Crabbe 1754 - 1832 The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. - Richard Sheridan 1751 - 1816 Self-confidence is the first step to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784 Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. - Horace Mann 1796 - 1859 Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. - Izaak Walton 1593 - 1683 A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. - Homer 484 BC - 425 BC I would rather make my name than inherit it. - William Thackeray 1811 - 1863 There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. - Michelangelo 1475 - 1564 Every dog is a lion at home. - Henry George Bohn 1796 - 1884 Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! - Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy. - Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 - 1375 Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. - Lao Tzu 601 BC - 531 BC The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. - Daniel D. Palmer 1845 - 1918 Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 - 1892 Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. - Lord Chesterfield 1694 - 1773 To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. - William Samuel Johnson 1727 - 1819 If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. - Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821 If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? - Percy Shelley 1792 - 1822