I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) W The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi W
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren W 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 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) W
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) W I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. W
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) W Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) W
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi W "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. W
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol W Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) W
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley W "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, W
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) W "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes W
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden W Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) W
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon W We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce W
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown W I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 W
