"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine History I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. History
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw History Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill History
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) History "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle History
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) History Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer History
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died History I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev History
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway History blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln History
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great History Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman History
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) History Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker History
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) History Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) History
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 History Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. History
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian History "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) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla History
