Monday, March 17, 2008

Catchy Phrases

  • Let it be a safe place to fail.
  • Do the ordinary and do it extraordinarily well.
  • You never get a second chance of first impression.
  • Sunrise does not last all morning.
  • Tony Hoare: Simplicity is the inevitable price we pay for reliability.
  • Anton Chekhov: Anybody can face crisis. It’s the day to day things that wear you out.
  • Garrison Keillor; Writer’s Almanac: Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
  • Garrison Keillor; Lake Wolbegond: When all the men are good looking, all the women are strong, and all the children are above average.
  • Even a blind squirrel will find a cone once in a while.
  • George Bernard Shaw: Youth, a wonderful thing, but wasted on the young.
  • Jimmy Carter: America did not invent human rights. Human rights invented America.
  • Soren Kierkegard: Life is understood looking backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
  • Man proposes; God disposes.
  • As you sow, so you reap.
  • Better ask twice than lose your way once.
  • Where there is no trust, there is no love.
  • Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
  • Grasp all, lose all.
  • Welcome is the best dish.
  • Example is better than precept.
  • Waste not, want not.
  • The Sound of Music (Broadway)-16 going on 17: A bell is no bell till you ring it. A song is no song, till you sing it. Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay. Love isn’t love till you give it away.
  • Everyone is somebody; no one is anybody. 人人是要人,無人高人一等。

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