"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner By Locality "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead By Locality
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "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) By Locality You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James By Locality
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) 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 Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki By Locality We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt By Locality
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin By Locality 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 "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. By Locality A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes 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 By Locality
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson By Locality If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain By Locality "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) By Locality
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell By Locality You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) By Locality
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi By Locality "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) By Locality
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V By Locality "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) By Locality
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton By Locality Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender By Locality
