"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Paris Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Paris
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel 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.
-- Crowf For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Paris Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Paris
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Paris If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves 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 I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Paris
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Paris Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen 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." ( If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Paris
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Paris It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Paris
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Paris Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Paris
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Paris The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Paris
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Paris Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Paris
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Paris "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Paris
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) 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 Paris What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Paris
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Paris The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Paris
