Random/Yougiku

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. Bob Wells
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. Chester Bowles
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. H. L. Mencken
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. John Tudor
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Have I inadvertently said some evil thing? Phocion (402 BC - 318 BC)
No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue. Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. Spanish Proverb
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. Will Rogers
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. Will Rogers
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. William Shakespeare
Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life. Charles Rosin
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery
I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.
You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. Shakti Gawain
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. William Blake
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. Agathon
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice. Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
I could prove God statistically. George Gallup (1901 - 1984)
The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside. Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke. Hugh Elliott
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. Indian Proverb
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. Jewish Proverb
God must become an activity in our consciousness. Joel S. Goldsmith
We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
A goal without a plan is just a wish. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC)
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
You try to give away what you want yourself. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. P. D. James
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Genius is of no country. Charles Churchill
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. Lydia M. Child
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell (1937 - )
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. Paul Fussell
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. Robert G. Allen
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
An optimist is the human personification of spring. Susan J. Bissonette
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
You create your opportunities by asking for them. Patty Hansen
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Sir Francis Bacon
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us. W. H. Thompson
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We have some salt of our youth in us. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. Coco Chanel
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. Dave Barry (1947 - )
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes Laertius
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
If youth only knew: if age only could. Henri Estienne (1470 - 1520)
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Praise youth and it will prosper. Irish Proverb
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be. Lawana Blackwell
In youth we learn; in age we understand. Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)