Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Tuusula Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Tuusula
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Tuusula Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Tuusula
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- 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) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Tuusula The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Tuusula
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Tuusula "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Tuusula
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "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) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Tuusula A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Tuusula
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 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Tuusula "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Tuusula
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Tuusula A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Tuusula
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Tuusula The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tuusula
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Tuusula May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Tuusula
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous 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 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Tuusula The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Tuusula
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "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 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Tuusula It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Tuusula
