If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. >b>Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. Socrates
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. Socrates
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. Socrates
A good reputation is more valuable than money. Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. Margaret Mitchell (1900 - 1949)
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. Lord Jeffery
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Socrates
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. Buddha
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Timothy ZahnA cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. George Matthew Adams
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. David Sedaris
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