Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Finistere Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Finistere
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "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) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Finistere "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Finistere
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "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) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Finistere He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Finistere
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Finistere "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Finistere
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Finistere The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "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 Finistere
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Finistere Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Finistere
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Finistere 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 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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Finistere
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Finistere I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Finistere
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Finistere "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) What's new? Most of my wife. A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Finistere
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Finistere Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Finistere
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Finistere "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) May you never leave your marriage alive. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Finistere
