"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Hautes-Pyrenees blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Hautes-Pyrenees
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Hautes-Pyrenees It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. 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 Hautes-Pyrenees
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Hautes-Pyrenees "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Hautes-Pyrenees
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Hautes-Pyrenees The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Hautes-Pyrenees
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Hautes-Pyrenees All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Hautes-Pyrenees
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Hautes-Pyrenees "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "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) Hautes-Pyrenees
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Hautes-Pyrenees When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Hautes-Pyrenees
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Hautes-Pyrenees Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Hautes-Pyrenees
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 Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Hautes-Pyrenees It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason May you never leave your marriage alive. Hautes-Pyrenees
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Hautes-Pyrenees Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Hautes-Pyrenees
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Hautes-Pyrenees No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Hautes-Pyrenees
