quotes on success and failure

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." ~Dan Rather



Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog"



The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone. ~Bill DeWitt, 1972



Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. ~William Thomson Baron Kelvin of Largs



Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? ~Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849



If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane. ~Author Unknown



You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. ~Harvey Diamond



Why march to the beat of your own drummer when you can skip? ~Dave May, as posted on iskip.com



The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead



The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ~Leon Edel



My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't. ~Author Unknown



If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. ~Clement Freud, The Observer, 27 December 1964



I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. ~J. Edgar Hoover, attributed



Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test. ~Astrid Alauda



The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. ~Vinton Cerf



It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery



And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. ~Scott Adams



Those who sleep under a quilt, sleep under a blanket of love. ~Author Unknown



A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ~Bill Vaughan



I wish life had an Undo function. ~Author Unknown