"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Arzbach Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Arzbach
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. 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 Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Arzbach "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Arzbach
"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 "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) 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 Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Arzbach The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arzbach
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Arzbach Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Arzbach
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Arzbach Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Arzbach
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Arzbach "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Arzbach
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arzbach Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arzbach
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Arzbach "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Arzbach
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "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) 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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arzbach blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arzbach
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "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 Arzbach If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Arzbach
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda 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 Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Arzbach Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "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." We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Arzbach
