Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward 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 Schierke The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Schierke
"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." Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Schierke History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Schierke
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Schierke If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Schierke
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Schierke The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Schierke
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Schierke Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Schierke
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Schierke "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Schierke
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Schierke Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Schierke
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Schierke If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "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) Schierke
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Schierke Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Schierke
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Schierke You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Schierke
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Schierke It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Schierke
