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To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th 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 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Music Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Music
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Music "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) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Music
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Music Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Music
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Music "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) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Music
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Music "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Music
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Music Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Music
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Music Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Music A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Music
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Music The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Music
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Music Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Music
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Music Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Music
