Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Indre When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Indre
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Indre 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 We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Indre
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Indre "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Indre
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Indre The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Indre
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Indre The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Indre
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Indre Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "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) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Indre
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Indre "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Indre
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Indre If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "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) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Indre
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Indre Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Indre
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "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) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Indre Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Indre
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Indre The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Indre
