"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry 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 Grevena Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Grevena
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Grevena The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grevena
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Grevena America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Grevena
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Grevena If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Grevena
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Grevena If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Grevena
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi 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 Grevena 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? Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Grevena
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Grevena "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Grevena
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Grevena No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Grevena
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) 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 The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Grevena I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Grevena
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Grevena Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) 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 Grevena
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Grevena "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Grevena
