"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Paimio It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Paimio
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Paimio 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 In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "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) Paimio
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Paimio If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Paimio
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Paimio The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Paimio
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Paimio I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Paimio
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Paimio It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Paimio
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine 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 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Paimio "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Paimio
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Paimio I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Paimio
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Paimio Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Paimio
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Paimio One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Paimio
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Paimio Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Paimio
