Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Newspapers Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Newspapers
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Newspapers Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Newspapers
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Newspapers 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? Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Newspapers
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Newspapers "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Newspapers
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Newspapers Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Newspapers
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "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) Newspapers Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Newspapers
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Newspapers By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Newspapers
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Newspapers I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Newspapers
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Newspapers The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Newspapers
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Newspapers The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Newspapers
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Newspapers When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Newspapers
