Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Landes "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Landes
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Landes It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Landes
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Landes The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Landes
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Landes "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Landes
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Landes "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Landes
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Landes Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Landes
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Landes "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "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) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Landes
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Landes I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Landes
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Landes Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "... 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) Landes
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Landes Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Landes
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Landes Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Landes
