If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Territoire-de-Belfort The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Territoire-de-Belfort
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Territoire-de-Belfort There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Territoire-de-Belfort
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Territoire-de-Belfort A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Territoire-de-Belfort
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Territoire-de-Belfort If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Territoire-de-Belfort
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 "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Territoire-de-Belfort "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Territoire-de-Belfort
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Territoire-de-Belfort Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman 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
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Territoire-de-Belfort
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Territoire-de-Belfort 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 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Territoire-de-Belfort
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Territoire-de-Belfort He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Territoire-de-Belfort
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Territoire-de-Belfort It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Territoire-de-Belfort
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Territoire-de-Belfort Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Territoire-de-Belfort
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) 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 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Territoire-de-Belfort Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Territoire-de-Belfort
