As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Pretzschendorf "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Pretzschendorf
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Pretzschendorf Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Pretzschendorf
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Pretzschendorf Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW 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 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Pretzschendorf
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Pretzschendorf I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Pretzschendorf
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller 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 "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Pretzschendorf Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Pretzschendorf
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Pretzschendorf You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Pretzschendorf
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Pretzschendorf Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Pretzschendorf
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "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) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Pretzschendorf What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright 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 This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Pretzschendorf
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Pretzschendorf "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Pretzschendorf
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Pretzschendorf There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Pretzschendorf
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Pretzschendorf "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Pretzschendorf
