Success and Failure

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Don't think, just do.

Reiko Horton, in Success and Failure

I want what I want when I want it!

Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and whatever you hit, call it the target.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep going forward.

Charlotte Brontë, in Success and Failure

Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, in Success and Failure

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

Charles Brower, in Success and Failure

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Leo Burnett, in Success and Failure

If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no sense in being a damned fool about it.

W. C. Fields, in Success and Failure

If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Success and Failure

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Doug Hofstadter, in Success and Failure

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

James P. Hogan, in Success and Failure

Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure