|
Site of Joe Clark Author of
My book is also available on Amazon.com as a large print large print book. Large Print Book
-
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Aristotle (384-32John BC)
-
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Arthur Ashe (1943 - 1993)
-
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Ernest Benn (1875 - 1954)
-
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exist or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, then applying the wrong remedy.
Yogi Berra (1925 - )
-
Go to other peoples funerals or they won't come to yours.
-
You can observe a lot just by watching.
-
If fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark no one can stop them.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
-
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of public office.
Chuck Blakeman (1954 - )
-
A stream or river headed to the ocean is not about the process but entirely about the destination.
-
The answers remain the same; only the questions change.
-
Basketball rules are not better than football rules; it depends on which game you are playing.
-
Bad plans carried out with commitment sometimes yield surprising results.
Henry Peter Brougham (1778 – 1868)
-
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
George Burns (1896 - 1996)
-
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
-
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
-
You can't help getting older but you don't have to get old.
-
You know you are getting old when you stoop to tie your shoe laces and wonder what else you can do while you are down there.
-
I would go out with women my age but there are no women my age.
-
First you forget names, then you forget faces, next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
-
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
-
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Rhonda Byrne (The Secret) (1951 - )
-
An affirmative thought is a hundred times more powerful than a negative thought.
Dale Carnegie (1888 - 1955)
-
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
-
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
-
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
-
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
-
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
-
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
-
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
-
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single moment.
-
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
-
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
-
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
-
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
-
The price of greatness is responsibility.
-
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
-
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
-
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
-
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
-
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
-
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
-
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
-
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Francisco de Quevedo
-
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
-
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
-
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
-
Many of life’s failures were people who didn’t realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
-
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
-
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
-
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
-
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
-
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
-
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-
If A = success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
-
Not everything that can be counted, counts and not everything that counts can be counted.
-
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable Superior Spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
-
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
-
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
-
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
-
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
-
If you would persuade, you must appeal to the interest, not the intellect.
-
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
-
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-
I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.
-
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
Larry Hardiman
-
The word politics is derived from the word “poly” meaning many and the word “ticks” meaning ‘blood sucking parasites.’
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
-
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Eric Hoffer(1902 - 1983)
-
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
-
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Robert M. Hutchins (1889 – 1977)
-
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Thomas H. Huxley (1825 – 1895)
-
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
-
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
-
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
-
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
-
Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
-
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
-
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
-
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinions without the discomfort of thought.
-
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
-
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Anne Landers
-
When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around you and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.
Clare Booth Luce
-
No good deed goes unpunished.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
-
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
-
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), Way of Lao-tzu
-
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)
-
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
-
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
Rush Limbaugh (1951 - )
-
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
-
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
-
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
-
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
-
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
-
I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Andy McIntyre
-
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!
H. L. Mencken(1880 -1956)
-
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
George Jean Nathan (1882 – 1958)
-
Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.
Michael Pollan (1955 - )
-
Do not mistake all you know for all there is to know!
-
Everything eventually morphs into the way the world is!
Proverbs 16:9 -
-
In his heart a man plans his course but The Lord determines his steps.
Ayan Rand
-
You can ignore reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of ignoring reality.
Ronald Regan (1911-2004)
-
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
-
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a close resemblance to the first.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
-
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.
-
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
-
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
-
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
-
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
-
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
-
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
-
-
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
-
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
-
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
Bgeorge Santayana (1863-1952)
-
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
-
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
Pete Seeger (1919 – )
-
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
-
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
-
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
-
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
-
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-
In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand and without examination.
-
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
-
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
-
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it waste your time and annoys the pig.
John Wesley(1703 -1791)
-
Big government rewards failure and punishes productivity.
Unknown
-
The opposite of progress is Congress.
-
The most dangerous person is the one who has anything figured out.
-
Books are hindrances to persisting ignorance. (Spanish Proverb)
Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
-
With or without religion you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Woman -
-
Whatever you give a woman, she's going to multiply.
-
If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.
-
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.
-
If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
-
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
-
So - if you give her any crap, you can expect a ton of crap.
Love and appreciate the women in your life!
Now it is time to buy the book. It WILL save you money!
"Medicare Primer"
|
