History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Koneprusy Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Koneprusy
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Koneprusy The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Koneprusy
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 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 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Koneprusy He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Koneprusy
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant 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 "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 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Koneprusy More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Koneprusy
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "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 blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Koneprusy "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Koneprusy
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Koneprusy "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Koneprusy
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Koneprusy The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Koneprusy
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Koneprusy All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Koneprusy
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Koneprusy Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Koneprusy
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Koneprusy Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Koneprusy
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Koneprusy "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Koneprusy
