Post #270

Less is more - more or less.
—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Post #269

What's money?  A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
—Bob Dylan

Post #268

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
—Edmund Burke

Post #267

Many things are wanting to poverty, all things to avarice.
—Publilius Syrus

Post #266

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
—W.R. Alger

Post #265

Concetrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand.  The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
—Alexander Graham Bell

Post #264

Criticism has few terrors for the man with a great purpose.
—Benjamin Disraeli

Post #263

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
—Chinese Proverb

Post #262

The honest man must endure hatred and envy.  It adds to a man's worth when hatred pursues him.
—Gottfried von Strassburg

Post #261

The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Post #260

Insolence is the precursor of destruction.
—Greek Proverb

Post #259

What is the good of Fear? The whole solar system were it to fall together about our ears could kill us only once.
—Thomas Carlyle

Post #258

Sometimes valour returns even to the hearts of the conquered.
—Virgil

Post #257

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
—Cato the Censor

Post #256

The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
—Herodotus

Post #255

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
—Pericles

Post #254

Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.
—Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

Post #253

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
—William James

Post #252

Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I of England

Post #251

To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay right or justice. 
—The Magna Charta

Post #250

Quam miserum est id quod pauci habent amittere! - How wretched a thing it is to lose that which few people posses!
—Publilius Syrus

Post #249

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Post #248

Only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.
—Bertrand Russell

Post #247

Nothing recedes like success.
—Walter Winchell

Post #246

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
—James Russell Lowell

Post #245

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

Post #244

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
—Muhammad Ali

Post #243

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
—William S. Burroughs

Post #242

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
—Søren Kierkegaard