"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Bernkastel-Kues I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Bernkastel-Kues
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Bernkastel-Kues "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Bernkastel-Kues
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Bernkastel-Kues Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Bernkastel-Kues
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Bernkastel-Kues Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Bernkastel-Kues
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Bernkastel-Kues Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bernkastel-Kues
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Bernkastel-Kues Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Bernkastel-Kues
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Bernkastel-Kues In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Bernkastel-Kues
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Bernkastel-Kues Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Bernkastel-Kues
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Bernkastel-Kues Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bernkastel-Kues
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Bernkastel-Kues Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Bernkastel-Kues
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Bernkastel-Kues "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Bernkastel-Kues
