Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Taxis 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 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Taxis
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "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, "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Taxis The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Taxis
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Taxis Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Taxis
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Taxis Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Taxis
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Taxis The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Taxis
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 Taxis "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Taxis
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Taxis I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Taxis
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Taxis We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Taxis
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Taxis "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Taxis
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Taxis Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Taxis
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 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Taxis It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Taxis
