"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) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "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) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Lohja Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Lohja
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Lohja Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Lohja
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Lohja Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Lohja
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 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 Lohja Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Lohja
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Lohja There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Lohja
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Lohja "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Lohja
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Lohja Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Lohja
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "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) Lohja A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Lohja
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Lohja And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Lohja
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Lohja Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Lohja
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Lohja And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Lohja
