"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Durres Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Durres
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Durres When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Durres
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Durres He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Durres
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Durres "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Durres
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) 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?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Durres May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Durres
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Durres The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Durres
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Durres History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Durres
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Durres If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Durres
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Durres "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Durres
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Durres Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Durres
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Durres There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Durres
