It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Landstuhl Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Landstuhl
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Landstuhl Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Landstuhl
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Landstuhl If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Landstuhl
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Landstuhl The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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 Landstuhl
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Landstuhl "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Landstuhl
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 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,
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Landstuhl "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Landstuhl
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Landstuhl Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Landstuhl
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Landstuhl The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Landstuhl
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Landstuhl Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "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) Landstuhl
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Landstuhl Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Landstuhl
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Landstuhl "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Landstuhl
