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I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Semily I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Semily
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Semily The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Semily
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) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Semily I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Semily
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Semily Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Semily
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France 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 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Semily "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Semily
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa 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 "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Semily I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Semily
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Semily Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Semily
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Semily The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Semily
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Semily Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Semily
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Semily I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Semily
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Semily "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Semily
