The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Localities "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Localities
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Localities A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Localities The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Localities
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson 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 Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Localities "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Localities
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Localities Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston 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 Localities
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Localities "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Localities
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Localities Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Localities
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Localities An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Localities
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Localities As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Localities
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Localities .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Localities
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Localities
