Silver Bullets and Gold Hooks

1. "The urge to comprehend must precede the urge to reform." -- Aldo Leopold
2. "Never tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." -- George S. Patton
3. "You never get a second chance to make a first impression." -- Will Rogers
4. "The woods would be silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." --John James Audubon
5. "The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary." --Vince Lombardi
6. "Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but no one can count the apples in a seed." -- Anonymous
7. "People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument." --Will Rogers
8. "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." -- Christopher Morley
9. "The outstanding scientific discovery of the 20th century is not television or radio, but the complexity of the land organism." -- Aldo Leopold
10. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
11. "I use not only all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow." -- Woodrow Wilson
12. "Nature is an open book for those who care to read. Each grass-covered hillside is a page on which is written the history of the past, conditions of the present and the predictions for the future." -- J. E. Weaver
13. "The history of every nation is eventually written by the way in which it cares for its soil."-- Franklin Roosevelt
14. "Life is like a 10-speed bike, most of us have gears we never use." -- Anonymous
15. "The whistle isn't what pulls the train." -- Anonymous
16. "Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open." -- T. Dewar
17. "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." -- Thomas Edison
18. "Genius is 3 percent inspiration and 97% perspiration." -- Thomas Edison
19. "The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions." -- E. Glasgow
20. "Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful' and sitting in the shade." --Rudyard Kipling
21. "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
22. "The right angle from which to approach any problem is the try angle." -- Anonymous
23. "People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it." -- Anonymous
24. "Every job is the self-portrait of the person who did it." -- Anonymous
25. "Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you've fed him for life." -- Chinese proverb
26. "Some minds are like concrete - thoroughly mixed and permanently set." -- Anonymous
27. "Where you stand on an issue usually depends upon where you sit." -- Anonymous
28. "Personality consists of acting natural and impressing people at the same time." -- Anonymous
29. "The dog in the kennel barks at his fleas, but the dog that is hunting does not feel them."-- Anonymous
30. "If you must cry over spilt milk, condense it." -- Anonymous
31. "If you aim at nothing, you're sure to hit it." -- Anonymous
32. "The largest room in the world is the room for improvement." -- Anonymous
33. "Play every play as if it was going to be the gamebreaker." -- Vince Lombardi
34. "Mediocrity is a sin; don't just do your bit, do your best." -- Admiral "Bull" Halsey
35. "A brook would lose its song if it had no rocks." -- Anonymous
36. "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Anonymous
37. "Success comes in can's; failure in can'ts." -- Anonymous
38. "The sign on the door of opportunity says 'Push!" -- Anonymous
39. "Even a mosquito doesn't get a slap on the back until he goes to work." -- Anonymous
40. "The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm." -- Anonymous
41. "Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." -- Josh Billings
42. "You can tell when you're on the right road - it's uphill." -- Anonymous
43. "Experience is a strict teacher; she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards." -- Anonymous
44. "Why is it that we never think about rationing until we see the bottom of the barrel?" -- Abraham Lincoln
45. "Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life." -- Anonymous
46. "There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." -- G. K. Chesterton
47. "Every person that I meet is in some way my superior, and if I will listen to him I can learn from him." -- Benjamin Franklin
48. "Only dead fish swim with the stream." -- Anonymous
49. "Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgement." -- Anonymous
50. "Whether you think you can or you can't, you are right." -- Henry Ford
51. "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." -- Mark Twain
52. "Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen." -- John Muir
53. "We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us." -- Aldo Leopold
54. "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." -- Mark Twain
55. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." -- Benjamin Franklin
56. "A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each axe stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land." -- Aldo Leopold
57. "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." -- John Muir
58. "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain
59. "Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is." -- Benjamin Franklin
60. "When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain." -- Mark Twain
61. "Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended." -- Benjamin Franklin
62. "Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater." -- Mark Twain
63. "The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life." -- Theodore Roosevelt
64. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -- Mark Twain
65. "Books on nature seldom mention wind; they are written behind stoves." -- Aldo Leopold
66. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." -- Mark Twain
67. "To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble." -- Mark Twain
68. "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." -- Albert Einstein
69. "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." -- Mark Twain
70. "We are all alike, on the inside." -- Mark Twain
71. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." -- Benjamin Franklin
72. "The sportsman who shot the last passenger pigeon thought only of his prowess." -- Aldo Leopold
73. "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get." -- Mark Twain
74. "Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?" -- John Muir
75. "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." -- Benjamin Franklin
76. "There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." -- Mark Twain
77. "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing." -- Benjamin Franklin
78. "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." -- Benjamin Franklin
79. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." -- Mark Twain
80. "Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices." -- Benjamin Franklin
81. "I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." -- John Muir
82. "Well done is better than well said." -- Benjamin Franklin
83. "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." -- Mark Twain
84. "Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf." -- Aldo Leopold
85. "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." -- Benjamin Franklin
86. "The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem, it will avail us little to solve all others." -- Theodore Roosevelt
87. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -- Mark Twain
88. "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." -- John Muir
89. "Wish not so much to live long as to live well." -- Benjamin Franklin
90. "Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish." -- Mark Twain
91. "The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value." -- Theodore Roosevelt
92. "The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it." -- Mark Twain
93. "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." -- Henry David Thoreau
94. "Some men fish all their life and never understand why." -- Mark Twain.