MEMORABLE QUOTES
updated Monday, April 16, 2001
You have not because you ask not.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Failure teaches success.
Well begun is half done.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
A man cannot be in two places at once.
Time is money.
The early bird catches the worm.
The day is short and the work is much.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
To fall between two stools.
Everything has a beginning.
Make the most of yourself for that is all there is to you.
After a storm comes a calm weather.
Better late than never.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
To wish to do well is a part of becoming well.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Lacking breeds laziness, praise breeds pith.
One misfortune comes on the neck of another.
Everything is as it is taken.
Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but…are not.
Bertland Russel
Money and life cannot be equally valued. One can live without money. As long as one lives, one can experience countless things more valuable than money. We wonder if our society today has been so distorted by mammonism that people have become unable to see such a simple and fundamental truth.
The Daily Yomuri, Editorial, Sunday, August 20, 2000
updated Monday, April 16, 2001
You have not because you ask not.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Failure teaches success.
Well begun is half done.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
A man cannot be in two places at once.
Time is money.
The early bird catches the worm.
The day is short and the work is much.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
To fall between two stools.
Everything has a beginning.
Make the most of yourself for that is all there is to you.
After a storm comes a calm weather.
Better late than never.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
To wish to do well is a part of becoming well.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Lacking breeds laziness, praise breeds pith.
One misfortune comes on the neck of another.
Everything is as it is taken.
Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but…are not.
Bertland Russel
Money and life cannot be equally valued. One can live without money. As long as one lives, one can experience countless things more valuable than money. We wonder if our society today has been so distorted by mammonism that people have become unable to see such a simple and fundamental truth.
The Daily Yomuri, Editorial, Sunday, August 20, 2000