I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Equestrian Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Equestrian
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Equestrian "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Equestrian
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Equestrian "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Equestrian
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Equestrian "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Equestrian
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Equestrian Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Equestrian
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Equestrian Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Equestrian
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 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 "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) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Equestrian It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Equestrian
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Equestrian "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Equestrian
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Equestrian These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Equestrian
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Equestrian I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "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) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Equestrian
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Equestrian I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West 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 The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Equestrian
