Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain 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" Heinola A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Heinola
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Heinola Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Heinola
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "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) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Heinola "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Heinola
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Heinola Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Heinola
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "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) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Heinola 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 best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Heinola
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "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) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Heinola The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Heinola
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 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "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 Heinola I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Heinola
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb 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
marvelous str The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Heinola Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Heinola
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Heinola True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Heinola
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Heinola My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Heinola
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Heinola They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Heinola
