"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) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Localities The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Localities
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 Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Localities Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Localities
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Localities Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Localities
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson 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 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Localities Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Localities
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Localities Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Marriage is a rest period between romances. Localities
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Localities "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Localities
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Localities The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Localities Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Localities
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 Localities Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Localities
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Localities All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Localities
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Localities We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Localities
