and. . . some failed quotes

Be grateful for luck.
Pay the thunder no mind.
Listen to the birds.
And, don't hate anybody.
Eubie Blake

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Theroux
Night Lights
To teach is to learn twice
Joseph Joubert

The greatest risk is not taking one.

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

We are not punished for our sins, but by them
Elbert Hubbard

You could not discover the frontiers of the soul even if you traveled every road to do so; such is the depth of its meaning.
Heraclitus

The last word has not yet been said.
Bertolt Brecht

Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Fate is moving you toward your destiny.
Anonymous
Time takes care of what reason cannot.
Seneca
"If it be so, so be it!"
Having said thus, why the hurry.
Shinkei
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
Dalai Lama

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough
to believe that the best is yet to come.
Peter Ustinov
There are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics.
Mark Twain
Social work is a band-aid on the festering wounds of society.
Alexander Chase

I do not know what we are here for upon this wonderful and beautiful earth, this incalculably interesting earth, unless it is to crowd into a few short years every possible fine experience and adventure; unless it is to seize upon every fresh impression, develop every latent capacity; unless it is to grow as much as ever we have it in our power to grow.  
David Grayson
Learn as if you would live forever, Live as if you would die tomorrow.
Mahatma Gandhi
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

AND. . . SOME FAILED QUOTES, WRONG CALLS, BAD INSIGHTS
AND FLOPPED 20TH-CENTURY FUTUROLOGY
(FROM NEWSWEEK JANUARY 27, 1997. CLOUDY DAYS IN TOMORROWLAND)

I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. . . Ever since, I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions.
Wilbur Wright
U.S. aviation pioneer, 1908

I must confess that my imagination. . . refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. Wells
British novelist, 1901

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
French military strategist and future World War I commander, 1911


The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty ­ a fad.
A president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Horace Rackham (Henry Ford's lawyer) not to invest in the Ford Motor.


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