Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Freckenfeld The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Freckenfeld
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "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." "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Freckenfeld "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freckenfeld
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Freckenfeld "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Freckenfeld
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Freckenfeld Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Freckenfeld
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Freckenfeld Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Freckenfeld
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Freckenfeld "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Freckenfeld
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Freckenfeld When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Freckenfeld
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Freckenfeld Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Freckenfeld
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Freckenfeld I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Freckenfeld
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Freckenfeld In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Freckenfeld
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 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Freckenfeld Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Freckenfeld
