"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Language "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Language
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Language Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Language
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Language .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Language
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams 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 Language This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Language
Marriage is a rest period between romances. "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Language "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Language
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Language "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Language
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Language The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Language
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper 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" Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Language "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) 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" In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Language
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Language He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Language
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Language Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Language
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Language Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Language
