Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford V He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola V
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') V Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz V
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz V Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 V
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman V It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright V
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) V "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan V
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is a rest period between romances. V "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly V
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver V Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. V
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert V Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford V
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley V Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein V
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) V "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau V
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "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) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) V Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop V
