I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Savonranta Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "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) Savonranta
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Savonranta "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Savonranta
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Savonranta God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Savonranta
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Savonranta I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Savonranta
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Savonranta "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Savonranta
"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 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Savonranta "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Savonranta
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Savonranta It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Savonranta
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Savonranta Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Savonranta
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Savonranta Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Savonranta
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Savonranta There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Savonranta
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Savonranta May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Savonranta
