"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning By Locality The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe By Locality
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca By Locality The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) By Locality
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein By Locality "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker By Locality
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde By Locality It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson By Locality
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson 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 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, Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one By Locality The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom By Locality
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) By Locality Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun My other wife is beautiful. By Locality
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis By Locality Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese By Locality
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers By Locality If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Locality
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning By Locality Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) By Locality
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 By Locality "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln By Locality
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West By Locality What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J By Locality
