Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) D "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov D
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown D Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain D
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. D A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) D
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain D Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky D
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein D If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa D
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky 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 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi D The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) D
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton D Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "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) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux D
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw D Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) D
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) D Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein D
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur D Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long D
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) D Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show D
