What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Hamina Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Hamina
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hamina We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Hamina
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Hamina If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Hamina
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "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 Hamina If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Hamina
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Hamina We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Hamina
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Hamina Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Hamina
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Hamina "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Hamina
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller 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 Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hamina "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Hamina
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Hamina "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly 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" Hamina
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Hamina Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Hamina
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Hamina Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Hamina
