The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Haute-Loire I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Haute-Loire
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "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) Haute-Loire It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Haute-Loire
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Haute-Loire Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Haute-Loire
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Haute-Loire Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Haute-Loire
"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 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Haute-Loire I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Haute-Loire
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Haute-Loire No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Haute-Loire
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Haute-Loire "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Haute-Loire
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Haute-Loire Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Haute-Loire
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Haute-Loire "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Haute-Loire
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Haute-Loire All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Haute-Loire
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito 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 "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Haute-Loire "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Haute-Loire
