Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Roskilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Roskilde
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Roskilde "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Roskilde
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Roskilde Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Roskilde
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Roskilde 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 My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Roskilde
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 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine 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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Roskilde Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Roskilde
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Roskilde 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 "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Roskilde
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) 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 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Roskilde "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Roskilde
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Roskilde There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Roskilde
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Roskilde Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Roskilde
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Roskilde "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Roskilde
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison 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 "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Roskilde Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous What's new? Most of my wife. Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Roskilde
