Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Cantal Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "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 Cantal
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Cantal "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Cantal
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Cantal "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Cantal
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Cantal If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Cantal
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Cantal "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Cantal
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Cantal I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Cantal
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Cantal "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Cantal
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Cantal "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 Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cantal
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi 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 Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Cantal "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Cantal
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Cantal blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Cantal
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Cantal NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Cantal
