"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Rock Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Rock
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Rock "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rock
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Rock Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Rock
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Rock The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Rock
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Rock Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Rock
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "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) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Rock If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Rock
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Rock Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Rock
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Rock Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Rock
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Rock Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Rock
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Rock "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Rock
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Rock 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 For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Rock
