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 "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Novigrad I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Novigrad
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous 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) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "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) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Novigrad "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Novigrad
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Novigrad Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Novigrad
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Novigrad Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Novigrad
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky 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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Novigrad That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Novigrad
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Novigrad Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Novigrad
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Novigrad ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Novigrad
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Novigrad "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Novigrad
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Novigrad "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 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.
-- Anonymous The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Novigrad
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novigrad What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Novigrad
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Novigrad "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Novigrad
