Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Architecture My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Architecture
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Architecture All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Architecture
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Architecture
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Architecture A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Architecture
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Architecture Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Architecture
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Architecture Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Architecture
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Architecture "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Architecture
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Architecture A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Architecture
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Architecture The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Architecture
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Architecture "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Architecture
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Architecture How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Architecture
