"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. 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 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Raplamaa Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Raplamaa
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) 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 If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Raplamaa I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Raplamaa
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Raplamaa There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Raplamaa
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Raplamaa To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Raplamaa
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa 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 "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Raplamaa Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Raplamaa
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Raplamaa Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Raplamaa
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Raplamaa It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Raplamaa
"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) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Raplamaa The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Raplamaa
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Raplamaa More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Raplamaa
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Raplamaa The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Raplamaa
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Raplamaa "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Raplamaa
