"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Anyway, 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,
ign The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Arts and Entertainment Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Arts and Entertainment
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Arts and Entertainment "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "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 act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Arts and Entertainment "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arts and Entertainment
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen 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 Arts and Entertainment "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Arts and Entertainment
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Arts and Entertainment Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Arts and Entertainment
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Arts and Entertainment 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" NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes 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 To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Arts and Entertainment
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Arts and Entertainment "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Arts and Entertainment
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Arts and Entertainment I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Arts and Entertainment
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "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) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Arts and Entertainment "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Arts and Entertainment
