Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Jura The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Jura
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Jura One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Jura
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Jura Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Jura
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl 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 To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Jura Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Jura
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Jura Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Jura
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Jura The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Jura
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Jura It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Jura
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 For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "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) Jura I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Jura
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Jura 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 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Jura
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Jura The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Jura
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Jura "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Jura
