The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Blauenthal "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Blauenthal
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Blauenthal "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Blauenthal
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Blauenthal If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Blauenthal
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents 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 Blauenthal "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Blauenthal
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Blauenthal "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Blauenthal
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Blauenthal Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Blauenthal
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Blauenthal 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Blauenthal
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Blauenthal Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Blauenthal
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Blauenthal "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Blauenthal
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Blauenthal "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Blauenthal
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "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 Blauenthal People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Blauenthal
