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"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Kalajoki "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Kalajoki
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Kalajoki I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Kalajoki
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Kalajoki I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Kalajoki
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Kalajoki Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "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) Kalajoki
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Kalajoki "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Kalajoki
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "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) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Kalajoki "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Kalajoki
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Kalajoki "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Kalajoki
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Kalajoki "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Kalajoki
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Kalajoki Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Kalajoki
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige My other wife is beautiful. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kalajoki Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Kalajoki
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Kalajoki "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Kalajoki
