"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Sotkamo Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Sotkamo
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Sotkamo Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Sotkamo
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Sotkamo 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 The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Sotkamo
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Sotkamo "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Sotkamo
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Sotkamo Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Sotkamo
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Sotkamo Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Sotkamo
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Sotkamo Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Sotkamo
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 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 Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Sotkamo Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Sotkamo
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Sotkamo Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Sotkamo
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Sotkamo "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Sotkamo
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Sotkamo Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Sotkamo
