Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic O It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw O
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller O "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde O
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 O To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger O
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) O Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson O
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers O Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) O
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous O Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa O
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic O Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. O
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf O When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson O
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) O "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, Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) O
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung O All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez O
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through O "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles O
