I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. 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 "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Var Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Var
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Var "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Var
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Var There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Var
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Var When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Var
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Var "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "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 Var
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Var "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Var
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Var Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Var
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Var "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Var
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "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) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Var Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Var
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Var There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Var
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Var Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Var
