Welcome to Chris Hoctor's Collection of Quotes

Cornix cornici oculos non effodiet

(A crow doesn't rip out the eyes of another crow)

Saint Paul: Proverb

Deus dat incrementum

(God gives the increase)

finis coronat opus

(The end crowns the work." or "The end justifies the means Motto of St. Mary's Catholic High School in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Coat of arms of Seychelles Coat of arms of the Amin Investment Bank)

lex parsimoniae : entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness": entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity)

Orare est laborare, laborare est orare

(To pray is to work, to work is to pray)

Rescissa Vegetior Assurgit

(Pruned, it blossoms all the more)

Semper vigilo fortis paratus et fidelis

(Always/Remain awake, strong, prepared and faithful)

Stare decisis et non quieta movere

(Maintain what has been decided; not alter that which has been established / Stick with the precedent)

Ut in Omnibus Glorificetur Deus

(That in All Things God May Be Glorified)

Christ Jesus: Proverb

Veritas vos Liberabit

("Facts liberate you" or "The truth will set you free")

Croi follain agus gob fliuch!

(A healthy heart and a wet mouth)

Beagán a rá agus é a rá go maith

(Say little, but say it well)

Bíonn gach duine go lách go dtéann bó ina gharraí.

(Everybody is good natured until a cow goes into his garden)

Confucius: Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Aristotle: Proverb

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Saint Clement: Proverb

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

We are not promoted on our deeds; we are promoted on our potential

Heraclitus: Proverb

You can’t step into the same stream twice.

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

(Ancient Turkish proverb)

“Messenger with bad news should keep one foot in the stirrup.”

(Ancient Turkish proverb)

Voltaire: Proverb

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the rose.

(Chinese Proverb)

King Solomon: Proverb

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

Aristotle: Proverb

Hope is the dream of a waking man

Hope is the dream of the soul awakened

(French Proverb)

Nennius: Proverb

For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from a humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.

Monsignor: Proverb

Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.

Fire, water, and governments know nothing of mercy

(Albanian proverb)

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

(Polish Proverb)

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.

(Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Benjamin Franklin (Thanks, Art))

The Weak Can Never Forgive. Forgiveness Is The Attribute Of The Strong.

Alle kunst ist umsonst wenn ein angel in das zundloch prunst!

(All skill is in vain if an angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket! Old military proverb)

King Solomon: Proverb

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

(Proverbs 3:5-6)

Math may not teach me how to add love or subtract hate, but it gives me every reason to hope that every problem has a solution

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWPg7aWD9EI)

Alice Abrams: Proverb

In life as in dance, grace glides on blistered feet.

Dante Alighieri: Proverb

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Maya Angelou: Proverb

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Chief Petty Officer Roland Benson: Proverb

No job is too hard for those that don't have to do it.

Justice Louis Brandeis: Proverb

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

We do not attain what we long for, we attain what we strive for.

Fear of failure is one of the biggest impediments to success

If I have to choose between being ignorant and being fearful, I'll choose ignorance every time. But I have no intention of being ignorant.

I've long held the following proposition: It is better to regret what you've done than what you have not done.

Michelangelo Buonarroti: Proverb

Ancora imparo

(Still I am learning)

Edmund Burke: Proverb

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Dale Carnegie: Proverb

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

G.K. Chesterson: Proverb

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Arthur C. Clarke: Proverb

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Madame Marie Curie: Proverb

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld: Proverb

Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them.

Charles Dickens: Proverb

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Emily Dickinson: Proverb

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Prime Minister Benjamin Disreali: Proverb

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think

Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Intellectuals solve problems: geniuses prevent them.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Duke Ellington: Proverb

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Proverb

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Proverb

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.

Richard Feynman: Proverb

It's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

WC Fields: Proverb

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Benjamin Franklin: Proverb

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

Neil Gaiman: Proverb

It is unwise to summon what you cannot dismiss.

Barry Goldwater: Proverb

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Lewis Henry: Proverb

If a plan is surprising enough, it need not be complicated.

Patrick Henry: Proverb

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Some see an overcast sky, I see a watercolor.

Blood ennobled by birth and caste is lost in the light of that ennobled by service and sacrifice.

Safety is awareness. When we are aware, we avoid problems. If we wait until they present themselves, we probably don’t have time.

The desire to belong is cause to celebrate each other’s differences, and flaws!

Some dream for a brighter future, some bear hope; Those with true hope shape that future in their vision, and awake to it.

The want for change, for the sake of change, unfortunately brings change; most undesirable change.

Even the lamb has horns.

Politics: A crowbar for bending wills

History may never record the good deeds of people who put their compassion to work, but evil will suffer it

A sport is a game, a competition among players, not a business for competition among the greedy

Music should be good first, rather than popular

Some things are worth dying for

People are good, or want to be good, but not all people are good

So the fabric gains its strength not by the many fragile strings, but rather that they weave together as a team

Rights go both ways, but common sense only goes one.

Fragilis vita quae in Terra est - Æternum cor Dei est. (Fragile is our life on Earth - Eternal is the heart of God)

One who organizes and directs can make things happen, and take the credit; one who inspires yields great accomplishments, and can take pride in sharing the credit.

We can’t be good at everything, but should strive to be great at something. Whatever that may be; teach it to others.

A good team is like a chain, but a chain is only strong as its weakest link. The best team is like a rope, where even the weakest fiber is doing its part to pull the others along.

A successful surprise attack must be by design, new and imaginative; else by luck, an old lesson the enemy forgot. The latter is unlikely.

A positive attitude gives you the clarity to see great opportunities.

Before delivering an opinion; develop it.

Having an issue with the wrong thing has been an obstacle to many opportunities our world has missed.

New years are like human babies, born with no knowledge from the past, few instincts, and complete dependency... The success of any year depends on our parenting of it.

Nurture your children, with great faith in them; the measure of your faith will be their springboard.

We should dream for our children. Success will never exceed potential, and I really believe a child’s potential is dependent on the amount of faith we have in them.

Patrick Hoctor: Proverb

What if all your eggs are already in one basket?

William James: Proverb

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem. Even this evil is productive of good.

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure. 1823

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Samuel Johnson: Proverb

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

James Earl Jones: Proverb

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

Michael Jordan: Proverb

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying.

Dr. Martin Luther King: Proverb

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

James Klass: Proverb

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

J. Krishnamurti: Proverb

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Proverb

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

James Russell Lowell: Proverb

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell: Proverb

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Madison: Proverb

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Og Mandino: Proverb

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Groucho Marx: Proverb

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Karl Marx: Proverb

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Christopher Milne: Proverb

A boy learns better what he teaches himself.

(The Enchanted Places)

Bill Murray: Proverb

It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.

President Richard Nixson: Proverb

The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.

P. J. O'Rourke: Proverb

Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

H. A. Overstreet: Proverb

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

Thomas Paine: Proverb

Time makes more converts than reason.

Thomas Paine: Proverb

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

General George S. Patton: Proverb

Taking calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Captain Jean Luc Picard: Proverb

hope, and the odds, make poor bedfellows

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Leon Redbone: Proverb

To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.

President Theodore Roosevelt: Proverb

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

President Theodore Roosevelt: Proverb

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Proverb

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.

Glenn Rosenholm: Proverb

Steer a course halfway between your wildest hopes and darkest fears. Plan accordingly.

Helen Rowland: Proverb

A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

J K Rowling: Proverb

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Bertrand Russell: Proverb

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

William Shakespeare: Proverb

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

George Bernard Shaw: Proverb

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Herbert Spencer: Proverb

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Henry David Thoreau: Proverb

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

President Harry S Truman: Proverb

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

Henry Van Dyke: Proverb

“If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.”

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.