The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Haute-Corse Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Haute-Corse
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous 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 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Haute-Corse My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Haute-Corse
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Haute-Corse If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Haute-Corse "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 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Haute-Corse
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "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 "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Haute-Corse In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Haute-Corse
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Haute-Corse Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Haute-Corse
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Haute-Corse Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Haute-Corse
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Haute-Corse Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Haute-Corse
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Haute-Corse "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Haute-Corse
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Haute-Corse Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Haute-Corse
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Haute-Corse If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Haute-Corse
