Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Music It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Music
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is 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 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Music In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Music
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Music The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Music
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Music Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Music
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Music Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Music
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Music Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Music
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Music It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Music
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Music I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Music
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings 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 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Music "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Music
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Music The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn 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 What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Music
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine 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 blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Music Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Music
