Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bas-Rhin "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 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Bas-Rhin
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Bas-Rhin Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Bas-Rhin
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Bas-Rhin "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Bas-Rhin
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Bas-Rhin In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Bas-Rhin
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Bas-Rhin Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Bas-Rhin
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Bas-Rhin We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Bas-Rhin
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Bas-Rhin Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Bas-Rhin
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Bas-Rhin A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Bas-Rhin
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Bas-Rhin The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Bas-Rhin
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Bas-Rhin "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Bas-Rhin
"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) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Bas-Rhin Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Bas-Rhin
