Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Troian "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Troian
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Troian Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Troian
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Troian Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Troian
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Troian We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Troian
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Troian I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Troian
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Troian The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Troian
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "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) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Troian I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Troian
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Troian In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Troian
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Troian Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Troian
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Troian Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Troian
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Troian Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Troian
