This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Centre "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Centre
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Centre "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Centre
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Centre "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Centre
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Centre I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Centre
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Centre You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Centre
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "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 Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Centre 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" Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Centre
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Centre "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Centre
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "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) Centre Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Centre
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Centre Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Centre
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Centre All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Centre
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Centre The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Centre
