"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Rethymnon "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Rethymnon
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Rethymnon "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Rethymnon
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Rethymnon Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Rethymnon
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Rethymnon The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Rethymnon
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Rethymnon "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Rethymnon
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Rethymnon I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Rethymnon
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Rethymnon I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Rethymnon
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "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 Rethymnon My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Rethymnon
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Rethymnon "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Rethymnon
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Rethymnon The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Rethymnon
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "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) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Rethymnon Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rethymnon
