Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Keitele In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Keitele
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Keitele The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Keitele
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Keitele Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Keitele
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "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) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Keitele Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Keitele
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Keitele Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Keitele
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Keitele "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Keitele
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Keitele In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Keitele
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Think off-center." (George Carlin) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Keitele "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Keitele
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Keitele "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Keitele
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Keitele "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Keitele
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Keitele He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Keitele
