Quotations - Famous Quotes from Ancient to the Present

[Kevin Mader]

I found it and another.

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5BC - 65AD)

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5BC - 65AD)

 

[John Finn]

In a similar vein...

Kevin,

In a similar vein:

"People seldom hit what they don't aim at". - Thoreau

"What is the use of running if we are not on the right road"? - German Proverb

"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators". Edward Gibbon

"Our great business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand". -Thomas Carlyle

"There is more to life than increasing its speed". - Mahatma Gandhi

 

[Kevin Mader]

John,

Good ones!! It reminded me of this one:

" 'Do something! Do it now!' Do what?" - W. Edwards Deming

The Ghandi quote is terrific!! Oh, by the way: Go Sox!!

Jim,

And so lives on the 'Caretaker's Syndrom'... to the point that things go "... down the tubes!" WED

Regards gentlemen,

Kev

 

[John Finn]

Kevin,

Gandhi had his priorities in order.

There are quotes that apply to the Sox also. For example,

"But all excellent things are as difficult as they are rare". - Spinoza

Or perhaps more exactly,

"For us, there is only the trying". - T.S. Eliot

 

[Kevin Mader]

OUCH!! Mr. Eliot. That hurts!!!

Quote from one of the Fenway Faithful in regards Mr. Eliot -

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

 

[Kevin Mader]

Jim,

Interesting point.

Kev

 

[energy]

modified

Kevin Mader said:

I read something last night that knocked my socks off. I can’t quote verbatim but here is something close:

- A captain of a ship without an aim needn’t worry which way the wind is blowing.

Seneca, 4 BC to 65 AD

I browsed the net and found these:

- We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole

- Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence

- The gladiator is making his plan in the arena (i.e. too late)

- Ignorance is the cause of fear

- To err is human

It put a smile on my face.

Don't forget the old standby addition to err is human, but to blame it on someone else is more human

 

[John Finn]

..to blame someone else is more human

Or, to quote Nietsche,

"I have done that" says my Memory. "I could not have done that", says my Pride, and remains inexorable. Finally, my Memory yields.

 

[Bubba]

More from the world of sports

"People will know you're serious when you produce." -Muhammed Ali

"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." -Mike Ditka

"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work your way around it." -Michael Jordan

"Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you." -Satchel Paige

 

[Randy Stewart]

Now for something completely different

"I want to share something with you - the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, 'Cover for me.' Number two, 'Oh, good idea, boss.' Number three, 'It was like that when I got here.'" Homer (Simpson)