"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Lech "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Lech
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "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 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Lech I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Lech
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Lech Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Lech
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Lech I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Lech
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Lech A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Lech
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Lech "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Lech
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Lech My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "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) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Lech
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Lech Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Lech
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Lech "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Lech
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Lech The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Lech
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Lech Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Lech
