Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Greece If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Greece
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 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 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? Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Greece "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Greece
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine 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 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Greece May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Greece
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Greece "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Greece
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley 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 The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Greece The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Greece
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Greece "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Greece
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Greece "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Greece
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Greece If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Greece
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Greece Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) 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 "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Greece
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Greece Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Greece
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Greece If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Greece
