Janice's Favorite Quotes

The first rule of holes: When you're in one, stop digging.
Molly Ivins

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations that require the use of his superior skill.
Aviation proverb

If you think you have it tought, red history books.
Bill Maher

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll get to enjoy it a second time.
H. Jackson Brown Jr

It is the weak who are cruel, and gentleness is to be expected only from the strong
Leo Rosten

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good
Malcolm Gladwell

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly
Edward Albee

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting
Fran Lebowitz

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired
Sandra Bullock

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion....I my self prefer tolaugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward
Kurt Vonnegut

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be
Clementine Paddleford

It is an act of love to say, "I believe in you as my child, and you don't need my help
Peter Buffett

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow
Woodrow Wilson

Common sense is not so common
Voltaire

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Storms come, and they are so personal, they seem to know your address and have the key to your house
Jesse Jackson

In real life, I assure you, there is no such things as algebra
Fran Lebowitz

Everybody needs his memories, They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow

When you're out of will power, you can call on stubbornness.
Henri Matisse

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking
R. Buckminster Fuller

I never learned anything while I was talking
Larry King

To understand a new idea, break an old habit
Jean Toomer

Education and success

Education's putpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one
Malcolm Forbes

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose
Bill Gates

I have never been hurt by what I have not said
Calvin Coolidge