Quotes
Earrings on a pig
Giving money to an ignoramus is like putting earrings on a pig. The ignoramus understands the value of money about as much s the pig knows about earrings and in time the money will make the ignoramus look as ridiculous as the earrings made the pig appear.
Isn't money to be used for necessities and to help others in need? pg
Earth
The storage place for old and forgotten sins.
Earthly success
Earthly success is not the criterion of merit nor the measure of true greatness. Robert E. Lee
Education
Sometimes school interferes with a good education.
Christy Walton
In life, I am everyman’s pupil. Emerson
Youth
Einstein invented the formula of relativity at 26. Newton did his greatest work at 23.
Enemies
If you want enemies, excel your friends if you want friends let your enemies excel you. French Philosopher Rochefoucauld
Enlightenment
True enlightenment to us is like sunlight to soil.
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Equality
Equality should not come at the cost of liberty as in forced busing, affirmative action, quotas and politically correct universities and societies. After all no two nationalities, religions or races are alike or equal. pg
Equality
Equality can be used to attempt to allocate rights, but no 2 men are created equal. pg
Evidence
The best evidence is perjured (planted) because there are no loose-ends. Anatole France
Evil
All that is necessary for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing.
Edmunde Burke
Evil stands before the sun next to good. They are brothers and one in the same. They can never be extinguished singly... If you kill one you kill the other. One is the product of the other. Often in the flesh one is good but in the spirit he is evil. Evil of the spirit is not always easy to identify. Be careful of pointing your finger at evil because you may find that this identifies you as the true culprit that you are. pg
The evil don't count more, they just cast bigger shadows.
There are no evil people. There are only good people who do evil things. pg
Excellence
When you appeal to the highest level of thinking you get the highest level of performance.
Experience
Experience leaves one man broken and another one enlightened. pg
Experience at the Bersagliere in Napoli
An afternoon at Bersagliere with 2 friends was fondly spent watching them enjoy one another. He a 64 year old sturdy, retired colonel. She a 24 year old student looking for knowledge. He was happy to talk and have someone listen. She was happy to listen and have someone talk to her. They were joined by mutual affection of a third friend. The third friend is me. It was beautiful.
Experience Paola
My ticket was for 29A. Someone was already sitting in my seat. 27C was free. The plane was full.
I sat next to Paola. She was a 13 year old girl from Adelfia. She was on her way to a school trip in London. She was timid and wished not to speak in English. I told her how fortunate that she was to have parents who would pay for such a trip. She responded that the Italian government paid for her trip because her mother was a widow and she fatherless. In my pocket I had two silver chains and lockets that I had bought for my mother and sister in Chicago. I gave one of them to Paola and insisted that she open it.
She confided in me that growing up without a father was difficult. Her father had died of a heart attack. His name was Francesco. I told her that the gift was from me and her father. She responded that I didn't know her father. I told her that in a strange way that all fathers know each other. She accepted the gift from me and Frank. Don't ever be afraid to do something nice. If you are you may find that you in essence fear happiness.
Experience leaves one man broke and another enlightened. pg
External-Internal
Only when man's external needs are sufficed does he begin to care for his internal needs.
Eye for an Eye and the world becomes blind.
Faith
If we have faith in nothing we can expect no faith to be placed in us.
If we have faith in little small faith will be put in our hands.
If we are of great faith the world is our apple. Buon appetito
Pat g
Prayer is the key to heaven but faith unlocks the door.
Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to.
Why must we see miracles to believe in God? Is not the nature and wonder that surrounds us enough to attest to His existing love for us? pg
Faith Defenders
Faith defenders are often it's greatest enemies because their theories stimulate others to reflect and often to choose their position to attack the very doctrine.
Wealthy Man's Faith
It was not a coincidence that the poor are strong in faith and that finding a man of worldly wealth who has real faith is like finding a pearl amongst the grains of sand.
Family
Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family that we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, many of us pour ourselves more into work than into our own family. Sent by Kelly L.
Failure
The fear of failure helps us to realize our dreams.
Fate
What power does man have against fate? Less than the weight of a feather against the North wind.
Fear
If you don't think about it, it doesn't exist. Fear is unreasonable if it impedes the way that you choose to live your life. pg
Do the thing that you're afraid of and the death of fear is certain. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Fighting the Dragon
Dear Lord, help me today to fight the dragon. I know that I'll need your help tomorrow as well.
Foe
A foes strength is his allies. Separate him from his allies or weaken their relationship and you've weakened your foe.
Fool
A fool is a man who substitutes words for deeds.
Forgiveness
I'd rather beg for forgiveness than ask permission. Frank Caruso
Fortune
Misfortune nobly borne is good fortune.
Marcus Aurelius
Robert E. Lee (the greatest American)
Behind every great fortune is a great crime. Balzac
Franklin Ben
I will speak bad of no one and speak only of the good qualities of those I know.
Frankness
Frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Robert E Lee
Freedom
With every step the government takes to protect our freedom they are systematically stripping it?
Pg
Freedom must be achieved. We must work to sever the chains that our families, friends and society bind us with by convincing us that life is about things, that life has a particular behavior...life is Spirit, our spirit. Once we separate our spirit from things, we begin to really live. Unfortunately, most often death is the real beginning of life. Pg
He who gives up freedom for safety deserve neither. Ben Franklin
Freedom with wisdom is different than freedom with innocence. True freedom for an adult is freedom with wisdom. We use the wisdom to break the chains of all of the lies and unimportant messages and misconceptions that we are taught growing up in society through the government that preaches freedom but really means capitalism. pg
Freedom in modern sense is the right to earn and spend. But the pursuit of this right enslaves us. Our leaders become tyrants and our pride shame. For we are not searching truth and freedom but comfort and luxury. This brings us to be false because to acquire them we enslave ourselves to the comfort claiming that this is our escape from tyranny. pg
Freedom is doing what you want to do. It glitters and rises mental pictures and films. But the desire chains us to the reality that pursuit of it can never lead to it's realization. pg
Freedom can only be achieved when you stop pursuing it. We carry it around on our chest as a marketable item. But in many ways it's like the slave who sings praise of his master. pg
Freedom and liberty are marketing words. None of us are free and every day we're more enslaved to our TV's and dishwashers. Luxury enters our home as a guest and we become its slave. The media programs our opinions. pg
Communism is supposed to free us from capitalism, and capitalism from communism. pg
French Revolution
The French Revolution was the day that equality of the classes got it's turn to guillotine liberty. pg Durant
Madame D'Farge knit a stitch for every head that fell under the guillotine.
Freshness Dates
A lady wakes her kids up at 11:45 to eat when she discovers freshness date on Twinkies expires in 15 minutes.
Friend
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
A friend is someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyway. pg
God protect me from my friends, I'll take care of my enemies. Voltaire
Friends are like wings. Without them you can't fly . pg
Friends
Friends are like wings. Without them you can't fly. pg
It's the Sunday after 9-11, I'm stranded in Frankfurt , Germany . Here I have made two new Israeli friends. I am American and they are Israeli and strangely enough, it is the politicians and not the Arabs who are the brunt of their anger for this catastrophe. Eton & Tomer - Tel Aviv
Friendship
Sometimes to be a friend to someone means becoming an enemy of society.
Pg
Love is blind but true friendship is clairvoyant. pg
Friendship is more important to the happy than the unhappy. Happiness is multiplied by sharing it's presence which eliminates the necessity of the system of justice for among friends it's not a necessity. pg
Friendship is one soul in 2 bodies.
Friendship is commonly used to represent worldly alliances. Friendship is much more than this. It transcends time, distance and death. It is of the soul. pg
Friendship grows like rivers that never cease to fill the oceans yet it is never full.
Future
With the mind games we play today we create our future. Pg
Genetic Code
The genetic code is written in three-letter words, each spelling out on of twenty amino acids, which make a protein. This is the same in every creature; in bats, trees or humans. The American Indians are right. All life is really one. Pg
Genomes
Genomes are written in three-letter words using only four letters: ACGT. English books are written with words of variable length using 26-letters. Now chomp on that for a while. pg
Gift
Every gift that we ignore is used against us. Pg
Girlfriends
Girlfriends come and go, wives are forever.
Goals
It’s impossible to win a race if you don't know where the finish line is. Pg
God
I humbly call myself a follower of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the son of God. I also am a son of God and so are you. I believe that God is all things and everything is in Him. pg
God either does not care, has no power to change or does not know about and of the suffering of man. Voltaire pg
Good Bad
There is no good or bad by nature. Thinking makes it this way. Shakespeare
Good Deeds
No good deed goes unpunished. IB
Good Guys
Good guys find each other. One morning leaving the Water Tower I hooked Brian Davis with Derrick Holmes. Brian's son wanted to go to Iowa state. Derrick had graduated from there. Brian said how funny it was to talk and find the connection. He commented that good guys seem to find each other.
Good Living
Life is nature's gift, good living is Wisdom's.
Good Man
If you walk into a pitch black room with a tiny candle, isn't it amazing the light that it casts. The same is a good man amongst the masses. pg
Goodness
Goodness is not measured by what we don't do or by the things that we forbid ourselves, but by the amount of pleasure that we take in loving others.
Government
Might makes right. All government makes laws, democratic, aristocratic, or autocratic, with a view to their own interest. The laws theu make are set to preserve the power of the leaders and they serve their interests to their subjects and call it justice and call criminal and unjust anyone who trasgresses them which is really injustice on a large scale.
All systems are the same. A wise and kind king is better than a corrupt president. Plato
Democracy, aristocratic or a autocratic government are all utilized to protect the interests of it's sponsors. The sponsors create the laws which they deem just. They then punish the unjust who do not uphold their laws. In the name of justice they systematically curb freedom and rob property of others often as the people watch and applaud. The US was founded as a way to avoid paying taxes to England. Today when an American refuses to pay taxes he's put into jail. pg and Thrasymachus
There is no perfect form of government. Democracy becomes a trademark for capitalism, social suppression and forced group thinking. When the king, president, dictator or chief lives several times better than the average man he is meant to lead, when he is surrounded by hundreds of slaves or servants or aids or advisors at his beckoning call who have become his instruments, when a man can mobilize and risk the lives of thousands from a castle or a white house or a mosque, then you have tyranny, no matter what the government is called. pg
Grandmothers
My Romanian grandmother badgered me for seemingly years... 'What do you want to be when you grow up Brian? What do you want to be?'
One day almost exasperated I answered. ' Grandmother, I said, I want to be a decent human being!'
She looked at me tenderly and said, 'but Brian, you must go to school. You'll become a doctor or a lawyer. You will have a nice office and work from nine to five... after that you will have all the time you want to be a decent human being'.
Brian Triber
Grant-Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the outgoing president and very conciliatory to the southern states. Instead Republicans wanted harshness and payment for the 360,000 lost northern lives. In fact Grant ran the southern states as military districts with no voting rites. Ulysses S Grant, a democrat defeated Johnson who was almost impeached for not being in line with his own party or anyone else. There was such bitterness between the 2 that Johnson did not attend the inauguration of Grant. Grant went on to lead the most corrupt federal government ever known. It had been to Grant that Lee had surrendered to, never forgetting his kindness in allowing the southerners to keep their horses and walk away in dignity. Lee was a great conciliator after the war and more than any one man brought the north and south closer after the it's end.
Great Ends
Great ends are unattainable until the means which produce them have been summoned into existence.
Greatest Harm
Great harm is done by the individual who isn't interested in his fellow man. This individual has the greatest difficulty and provides greatest damage to others. Alfred Adler Viennese psych.
Greece
After Alexander's death and Aristotle's exile the glory of Greece faded into the Roman Sun. [323 BC.] Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.
Gun Control at Airport
They check for guns to protect the airline attendants. pg
Hanging
People with ropes around their necks don't always hang. pg
There are two kinds of people in the world people, the ones with ropes around their necks and those who cut the ropes. pg
Happiness
Our happiness can only. Be discovered by our spirit. How can our spirit find it if we continue to put fences around it by rules and things?
Seek wisdom and all else will either follow or become irrelavant. Pg
If a man cannot think out of the box he is condemned to live inside of it. Pg
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. Abe Lincoln
Happiness is holding the flame that does not burn, but instead purifies.
Happiness is the real lost paradise.
Happiness is the mastery of one's self -
Diobenes of Sinope 400-325 BC
Happiness is life is captured by living simply and devoting one's self to virtue and reason - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 4BC-65AD
By following our inner soul to the path of selflessness, by giving importance to doing what is morally right and indifference to all else, by being satisfied with one's life we will find happiness - Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 4BC-65AD
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts -Marcus Aurelius 121-180
Hate
WITH YOUR HATE I LEARNED TO LOVE. I never knew love so tense until I experienced your hate so immense. In time I learned that you didn't hate me but everything about you. Thank you
Hatred
Hatred is never ended by more hatred. Hatred can only be defeated by love. Buddha
Heart
The heart has it's reasons that the head can never understand. Pascal
I dragged my heart to school to learn to read. I sat patiently and taught it to write. In the end my heart remains illiterate. The only word that it really ever understood was love. Toto'
Heaven
Heaven is forgiveness. Hell is bondage or self condemnation. Forgiving another is forgiving one's self. Not forgiving one's self leads to self condemnation and hell. pg
Health
I was walking with my friend Kevin. He told me about going to the county hospital 15 years ago. There a doctor gave him 5 years to live. I asked him what he did about it.
He responded,'I changed hospitals'.
Pat g Calhoun
When you shit a 20 inch turd you know that something's workin right. Kev
The first thing I'd do to become healthy is to eliminate all of the chemical additives that the FDA claim to be safe - Dr. J
The FDA says that Cloned animal products are safe for human consumption by testing them out on rats... Problem is, we're not rats - Dr. J
Hell
Hell is a fictional creation of weak individuals who are not able to vindicate their nemisis in this world. They therefor depend on the 'Almighty' to finish what they were unable to in this on their own.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Hide
We all hide under the same moon. This means that none of us are hidden. pg
Men hide behind the impregnable columns of their newspapers.
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen was a female doctor, botanist and biologist of the middle ages.
History
What is history other than a fable that we all agree upon? Napoleon
History is a bunch of dirty tricks that we play upon the dead. Caesar
History is ceremonies, facts and monuments heaped up to prove lies. Napoleon
History is transformed to be used for our future plans. Voltaire
The movement of history is the ever greater restriction of violence. You have an explosion of violence to exterminate violence or to prohibit it, which in itself is paradoxical.
Hitler on Italy
The Italians never lose a war, they always end up on the winning side.
Home
Blocks are labored for and suffered for, but a piece of the earth transformed into 4 walls and a guarded abode should not be so sought after more than peace of mind. pg
A home should breathe. The best doorway is the absence of a door and the best window is an open space. Homes are built not for the living, but for the living dead who enslave their souls and spirits to comfort and put alarms and dead bolts in to safe keep their imminent suffering.
Honest Reagan
Honest Reagan asked 700 thousand for his business in California. Irv agreed. At the closing a price of 600,000 was on the paper. When Irv asked why, Honest Reagan replied. "It's the insurance that the employees get to keep their jobs. Honest Reagan had refused a better bid by a larger company because he had faith in Irv's character.
Honesty
Honesty is the best policy if all else fails.
Honor
If the governments have their way, they'll turn everyone of us and our children into snitchers and robotic sissies.
Pg
A true man has his honor which he wears like a suit of armor. It protects his manhood. And though his body may be destroyed his suit of armor will protect the thing that is more important than life itself, his soul. And the richest man in the world with all of his wealth and power and influence cannot buy the last breath from a just man, a man of honor. Therefore the man of honor dies far richer and content. Murdering a man's body is a crime. Life is believed to be the most precious thing and our body is the holder of life. But what about someone who kills a mans soul. Isn't this a greater crime? Shouldn't most of the captains of industry be serving life sentences? Pg
Today the plight of a man of honor is similar to that of a dinosaur. He must become extinct. He must die because he reminds us of our past. He brings us to face with our lost honor and must therefore be terminated so that we can bury our shame along with him and our past. pg
Hope
History teaches us to hope.
Robert E. Lee
It is history which teaches us to hope. Robert E. Lee. (No matter how black, things always changed and never remained black).
Hope is the last to die.
There is no poorer man than one who can not afford to hope. pg
Human Behavior
Human behavior flows from 3 rivers; desire, emotion and knowledge.
Human Relations
Six most important words in English language.
I was wrong - please forgive me.
Five...
You did a good job.
Four... What is your opinion?
Three... Can I help?
Two... Thank you.
One... You
Least important word... I
Dr. Albert Sion MD
Humility
It takes a lot of drops to make a sea.
I was out on the faraglione yelling at the sun. I was laying there after climbing the 15 feet to the ledge. I was laying and yelling. I yelled, Sole!!! Sole!!! Smette di nascondere!!!
Sun!!! Stop hiding. Then I realized that with all his brilliance, warmth, brightness and power that he was not hiding. He couldn't penetrate the clouds. Humility will guide us.
Pat g
The reasons that the mountains pay homage to the seas and rivers is that the seas and rivers put themselves at the feet of the mountains. If you wish to lead men put yourself below man.
Hunger
Hunger of flesh softens our brains. Women are perilous.
Humility
The Lord raises up those who bow down. Psalm 146
Hypocrites
Reasoning and eventually changing one's mind is as natural as the snake shedding his skin. Those who cannot rationalize, call this shameless. Those who do not rationalize call the others hypocrites.
The prostitution of the word friendship is a great hypocrisy. Friendship is commonly used to represent worldly alliances. Friendship is much more than this. It transcends time, distance and death. It is of the soul.
