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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Chania We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Chania
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Chania Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Chania
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Chania Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Chania
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Chania A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Chania
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) 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 Chania Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Chania
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Chania I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Chania
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall May you never leave your marriage alive. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Chania The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Chania
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "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) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Chania The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Chania
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Chania "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Chania
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) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chania Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chania
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Chania The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Chania
