"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Radio Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Radio
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Radio "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Radio
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Radio Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Radio
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Radio "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Radio
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Radio I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Radio
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 "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Radio A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Radio
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Radio Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Radio
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Radio He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Radio
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Radio The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Radio
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Radio Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Radio
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Radio "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "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) Radio
