Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Bihac "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Bihac
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Bihac He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Bihac
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bihac The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Bihac
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Bihac Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Bihac
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Bihac "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Bihac
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Bihac I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Bihac
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Bihac Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) 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 Bihac
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Bihac "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Bihac
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Bihac A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Bihac
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Bihac He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "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) Bihac
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Bihac Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Bihac
