Matt's Maxims and Notable Quotes

Over the years, I've heard many wise words from various sources, such as my teachers and my parents.  These ideas and quotes have made me who I am today.  Allow me, if you would, to share a few of these quotes with you.  

"It is a wise man who knows that there is much he does not know." "I know!" -- NewsRadio (a former NBC TV show)

"Use your head for something besides a hat rack" - My father

"In the immortal words of Mick Jagger, 'you can't always get what you want" -- Mr. Daley (my high school English teacher)

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why.  I dream of things that never were, and ask, "why not"? -- Former US Senator Robert F. Kennedy

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death" -- Patrick Henry

"I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country" -- Nathan Hale

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat" -- President Ronald Reagan

"Only if you've been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain" -- President Richard Nixon

"You have to lose to know how to win" -- Steven Tyler of Aerosmith

"Winning isn't a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing" -- Vince Lombardi (legendary NFL head coach)

"Hate cannot drive out hate.  Only love can do that" -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

(More to come)