I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Gard Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gard
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Gard I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gard
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Gard One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Gard
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Gard "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Gard
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Gard When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Gard
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Gard Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Gard
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Gard The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Gard
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Gard When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Gard
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Gard Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Gard
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gard "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Gard
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 A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Gard Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Gard
