Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Parikkala "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Parikkala
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Parikkala In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Parikkala
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Parikkala Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Parikkala
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Parikkala "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Parikkala
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen 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 [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Parikkala They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Parikkala
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Parikkala The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Parikkala
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Parikkala The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Parikkala
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Parikkala I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Parikkala
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Parikkala Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Parikkala
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Parikkala It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Parikkala
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Parikkala Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Parikkala
