It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Pilsen Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Pilsen
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Pilsen Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Pilsen
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Pilsen Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Pilsen
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Pilsen Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Pilsen
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Pilsen The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Pilsen
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Pilsen "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Pilsen
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 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. I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Pilsen It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Pilsen
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Pilsen "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Pilsen
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Pilsen Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Pilsen
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene 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 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Pilsen There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Pilsen
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Pilsen Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Pilsen
