Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Filzmoos "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Filzmoos
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 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Filzmoos "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 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 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Filzmoos
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Filzmoos Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Filzmoos
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Filzmoos 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 "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Filzmoos
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Filzmoos "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Filzmoos
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Filzmoos "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Filzmoos
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Filzmoos The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Filzmoos
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Filzmoos There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Filzmoos
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Filzmoos You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Filzmoos
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Filzmoos "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Filzmoos
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Filzmoos People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Filzmoos
