"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Antwerpen If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Antwerpen
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Antwerpen Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Antwerpen
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Antwerpen Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Antwerpen
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Antwerpen Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Antwerpen
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Antwerpen You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Antwerpen
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Antwerpen The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Antwerpen
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Antwerpen Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Antwerpen
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Antwerpen The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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 The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Antwerpen
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Antwerpen To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Antwerpen
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Antwerpen 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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Antwerpen
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Antwerpen Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Antwerpen
