The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Ille-et-Vilaine "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb 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 Ille-et-Vilaine
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Ille-et-Vilaine "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Ille-et-Vilaine
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ille-et-Vilaine Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Ille-et-Vilaine
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Ille-et-Vilaine Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ille-et-Vilaine
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Ille-et-Vilaine "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Ille-et-Vilaine
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 A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Ille-et-Vilaine "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Ille-et-Vilaine
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Ille-et-Vilaine I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Ille-et-Vilaine
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Ille-et-Vilaine 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 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Ille-et-Vilaine
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Ille-et-Vilaine The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Ille-et-Vilaine
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene 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 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ille-et-Vilaine Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Ille-et-Vilaine
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. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Ille-et-Vilaine Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Ille-et-Vilaine
