"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dance Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Dance
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Dance When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dance
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Dance I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Dance
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Dance You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Dance
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Dance The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Dance
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived 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 I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Dance Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Dance
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Dance Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Dance
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Dance Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Dance
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Dance "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Dance
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 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Dance A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Dance
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Dance We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Dance
