Doug Larson
 

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. - Doug Larson

Leroy Robert Paige - July 7, 1906

“Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.”

James Dean quote
 

“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”

haywood, look at the OP...

John D. Rockefeller - July 8, 1839

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

Lee Hazlewood - July 9, 1929

"I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great."

Nikola Tesla - July 10, 1856

“The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.”

Thomas Bowdler - July 11, 1754

“Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.”

Milton Berle - July 12, 1908

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”

Edward J. Flanagan - July 1, 1886

"There's one thing I know, I really know. And that is that there's no such thing in the world as a bad boy, I'm sure of that."

"My past is history, and my future is a mystery" Mike Tyson


"I do not know what weapons will be fought with in World War 3, but I am certain that World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

Emmeline Pankhurst - July 14, 1858

“Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it”

Clement Clarke Moore - July 15, 1779

"He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly."

Mary Baker Eddy - July 16, 1821

“To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living.”

John Astor - July 17, 1763

"A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich."

Chill Theodore Wills - July 18, 1902

"I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this is going to take great will power but try."

Samuel Colt - July 19, 1814

“Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.”

Theda Bara - July 20, 1890

“The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.”

Marshall McLuhan - July 21, 1911

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”

Gregor Mendel - July 22, 1822

“My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.”

Karl Menninger - July 23, 1893

“What's done to children, they will do to society.”

Amelia Earhart - July 24, 1898

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.”

Thomas Eakins - July 25, 1844

“The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.”

George Catlin - July 26, 1796

“Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.”

Charlotte Corday - July 27, 1768

"On ne meurt qu’une fois et c’est pour si longtemps !"

Beatrix Potter - July 28, 1866

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

Benito Mussolini - July 29, 1883

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

Thornstein Velben - July 30, 1857

“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”

Milton Friedman - July 31, 1912

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”

Ramblin' Jack Elliot - August 1, 1931

"I've heard a lot of wonderful stories about myself, enviable — I wish I could've done it."

Myrna Loy - August 2, 1905

“I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.”

Ernie Pyle - August 3, 1900

“If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone."

John Riggins - August 4, 1949

“Come on, Sandy, baby, loosen up. You're too tight.”

Conrad Aiken - August 5, 1889

“Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.”

Alfred Lord Tennyson - August 6, 1809

“Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die.”

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle MacLeod - August 7, 1876

“I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.”

Sylvia Sidney - August 8, 1910

"I'd be the girl of the gangster...then the sister who was bringing up the gangster...then the mother of the gangster...and they always had me ironing somebody`s shirt."

Izaac Walton - August 9, 1593

“No man can lose what he never had.”

Claus Von Bulow - August 10, 1926

Claus von Bülow: Oh, I've been meaning to mention. Our understanding about...my extracurricular activities...

Sunny von Bülow: Mmm?

Claus von Bülow: I've been involved with someone who...falls outside the parameters of our agreement.

Herbert Hoover (31st President of the United States) August 10, 1874

"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."

Robert Ingersoll - August 11, 1833

“Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.”

John Derek - August 12, 1926

“Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.”

Fidel Castro - August 13, 1927

"I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young."
Playboy Magazine interview. January, 1967 Issue.
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Ernest Thayer - August 14, 1863

"But there is no joy in Mudville..."

Mae West - August 17, 1893

“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.”

Merriwether Lewis - August 18, 1774

"On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory."

Bernard Baruch - August 19, 1870

“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”

Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme - August 20, 1778

"Lads! Live with honor, or die with glory! He who is brave, follow me!"

Aubrey Beardsley - August 21, 1872

“In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?”

Ray Bradbury - August 22, 1920

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

Edgar Lee Masters - August 23, 1869

“How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?”

Jose Luis Borges - August 24, 1899

“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”

Allen Pinkerton - August 25, 1819

"Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin."

Lee Deforest - August 26, 1873

“You have debased my child. You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence, a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - August 27, 1770

“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it”

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - August 28, 1749

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

John Locke - August 29, 1632

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”

Maria Montessori - August 30, 1870

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."”

Warren Buffett -- August 30, 1930

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus - August 31, 0012

“A great book is like great evil.”

Lydia Sigourney - September 1, 1791

“In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.”

Christa McAuliffe - September 2, 1948

“I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.”

Ferdinand Porcshe - September 3, 1875

"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself."

Anton Bruckner - September 4, 1824

"They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?"

Jesse James - September 5, 1847

"I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them."

Jane Addams - September 6, 1860

“America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”

Taylor Caldwell - September 7, 1900

“Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.”

Virginia Patterson Hensley - September 8, 1932

“Here's to those who wish us well and those who don't can go to hell."

Joe Thiesmann - September 9, 1949

“It was pow-pow, like two muzzled gunshots. That was my leg breaking.”

Arthur H. Compton - September 10, 1892

"Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence."

William Sidney Porter - Septemver 11, 1862

“If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.”

H. L. Mencken - September 12, 1880

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."

John J. Pershing - September 13, 1860

“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.”

Constance Baker Motley - September 14, 1921

"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

what a great idea for a thread.

really motivational

Robert Benchley - September 15, 1889

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”

Louis XIV - September 16, 1638

“I am the state.”

Hiram King Williams - September 17, 1923

“You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.”

Greta Garbo - September 18, 1905

“Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.”

Frances Farmer - September 19, 1910

“Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam.”

Upton Sinclair - September 20, 1878

“If is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Herbert George Wells - September 21, 1866

"If we don't end war, war will end us.”

John Houseman - September 22, 1902

“Corporate society takes care of everything. All it asks of anyone - all it has ever asked of anyone ever - is not to interfere with management decisions.”

Walter Lippmann - September 23, 1889

“He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”

John Marshall - September 24, 1755

“To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.”

Phil Rizzuto - September 25, 1918

“I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.”

John Chapman - September 26, 1774

"I could not enjoy myself better anywhere-I can lay on my back, look up at the stars and it seems almost as though I can see the angels praising God, for he has made all things for good."

Arthur Penn - September 27, 1922

"Life is like nothing I've ever seen."

Confucius - September 28, 551BC

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - September 29, 1547

“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”

Truman Streckfus Persons - September 30, 1924

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

James Earl Carter - October 1, 1924

“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”

Julius Henry Marx - October 2, 1890

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

Thomas Wolfe - October 3, 1900

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”

Damon Runyon - October 4, 1884

“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.”

Ray Kroc - October 5, 1902

“Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.”

Jenny Lind - October 6, 1820

"My voice is still the same, and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh, mon Dieu, when I think what I might be able to do with it!"

Oliver North - October 7, 1943

“I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.”

Eddie Rickenbacker - October 8, 1890

“Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”

Aimee Semple McPherson - October 9, 1890

“You have no business being sick - every one of you should get well and get up and go to work, huh? Get up and go to work and earn some money and help send the gospel out! Amen!”