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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone 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 Music Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Music
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "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 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Music What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Music
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Music Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Music
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 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Music The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire 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 Music
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Music "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Music
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Music Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Music
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Music Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Music
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Music Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Music
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Music "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Music
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 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Music Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Music
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Music We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Music
