Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) H "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John H
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) H Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) H
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, H Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte H
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. H I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen H
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec H "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from H
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) H Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) H
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw H Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) H
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun 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, The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein H Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous H
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford H "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) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) H
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 H It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin H
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) H "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) H
