I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Frangokastello Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Frangokastello
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Frangokastello "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Frangokastello
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Frangokastello Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Frangokastello
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War 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 People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Frangokastello "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Frangokastello
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Frangokastello True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Frangokastello
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Frangokastello 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 There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Frangokastello
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Frangokastello He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Frangokastello
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Frangokastello "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Frangokastello
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Frangokastello Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Frangokastello
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard 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 Frangokastello "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Frangokastello
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Frangokastello All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Frangokastello
