I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. By Locality "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach By Locality
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy 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 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) By Locality It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda By Locality
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa By Locality I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) By Locality
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) By Locality Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) By Locality
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb By Locality It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove By Locality
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) By Locality 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 Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr By Locality
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud By Locality If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel By Locality
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. By Locality Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West By Locality
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) By Locality Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. 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 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) By Locality
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) By Locality 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 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) By Locality
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart By Locality The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries By Locality
