Friday Quote Collection June 29, 2012 | Food for Thought

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Friday Quote Collection June 29th, 2012
FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" Assembled by R. VARGA

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"Income seldom exceeds personal development."
- Jim Rohn

"He had delusions of adequacy."
- Walter Kerr

"I think and think and think. I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
- Hannah More

"Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God."
- James Weldon Johnson

"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."
- Georges Bernanos

"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
- Steve Jobs

"Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it."
- Charles Caleb Colton

"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."
- Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting."
- Robert Frost

"Where does the idea come from that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that."
- Catherine Marshall

"Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due."
- Sydney Smith

"He who thinks little errs much."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
- Matthew 6:24

"The fool's mind wanders; the wise mind wonders."
- Patrick J. Mills

"We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting."
- Samuel Johnson

"People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
- Helen Keller

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."
- Carlos Castaneda

"Madness is rare in individuals but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule."
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - Management."
- Scott Adams

"It is also a victory to know when to retreat."
- Erno Paasilinna

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."
- Albert Einstein