When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Dependent Areas Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Dependent Areas
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Dependent Areas There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Dependent Areas
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu 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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Dependent Areas He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dependent Areas
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Dependent Areas A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Dependent Areas
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Dependent Areas A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber My other wife is beautiful. Dependent Areas
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Dependent Areas "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Dependent Areas
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Dependent Areas "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Dependent Areas
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Dependent Areas "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Dependent Areas
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Dependent Areas For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Dependent Areas
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Dependent Areas An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Dependent Areas
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Dependent Areas This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Dependent Areas
