If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
By: Isaac Asimov


Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
By: Sir William Arthur

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It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.
By: Thomas Arnold



The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
By: Æschylus


Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
By: Æschylus


There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
By: Æschylus

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Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
By: Eric Bentley


Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
By: Jack Benny


The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
By: Warren G. Bennis
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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
By: Bible


You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
By: William Adams


Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.
By: William Adams

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


I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
By: Scott Adams
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
By: Henry Brooks Adams

Age will not be defied.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
By: Thomas B. Aldrich

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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
By: Amos Bronson Alcott


The surest sign of age is loneliness.
By: Amos Bronson Alcott


Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.
By: Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

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The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
By: Sri da Avabhas


Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. "You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight.
By: Sri da Avabhas


Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
By: Marcus Aelius Aurelius


The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
By: Saint Augustine

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A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.
By: Norman R. Augustine


The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
By: Wystan Hugh Auden


The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
By: Wystan Hugh Auden

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Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
By: Louis Auchincloss


Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
By: Paul Aubuchon


No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
By: Athenæus


Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
By: Saint Francis of Assisi
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Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
By: Margot Asquith


Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
By: Isaac Asimov