I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Lieto "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Lieto
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Lieto "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Lieto
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Lieto Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Lieto
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Lieto God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Lieto
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Lieto I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Lieto
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Lieto Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Lieto
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Lieto Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Lieto
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Lieto How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Lieto
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Lieto "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Lieto
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Lieto Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Lieto
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Lieto "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lieto
