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"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure." »George Melton
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"If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved." »George Bernard Shaw
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"If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time." »J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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"Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining." »Walter Lippmann
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"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation." »George Bernard Shaw
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"To measure the man, measure his heart." »Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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"Elaine Dickinson There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane" »Airplane
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"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School board" »Mark Twain
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men." »Zora Neale Hurston
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," the Conclusion
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"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." »Thomas Huxley
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"I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, 'Tadpoles Tadpoles is a winner' We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"There is measure in all things." »Horace
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"Come not within the measure of my wrath." »William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4
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"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives." »Robert South
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"Man is the measure of all things." »Protagoras
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"The measure of a man is what he does with power." »Pittacus
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"measure your life in love." »Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent
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"measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." »Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Intense love does not measure, it just gives." »Mother Teresa
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"You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them." »Orison Swett Marden
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune." »Plutarch
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"The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power." »Ninon de Lenclos
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"I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential." »Shirley Chisholm
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"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"If your only measure of value is color, then you shall never appreciate the transparence of diamonds." »Ameer Sadet Mahdy
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"You can often measure a person by the size of his dream." »Dr. Robert Schuller
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"Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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