"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) R It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor R
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith R It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford R
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century R There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee 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 R
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson R The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig R
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) R If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman R
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr R This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles R
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words R Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri 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 R
"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) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel R In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i R
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson R The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "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) 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 R
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) R "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein R
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw R Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou R
