If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Equestrian Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Equestrian
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "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) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Equestrian As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Equestrian
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Equestrian "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Equestrian
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Equestrian When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Equestrian
"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) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun 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 Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Equestrian "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Equestrian
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Equestrian I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Equestrian
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Equestrian I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Equestrian
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Equestrian To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Equestrian
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas 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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Equestrian "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Equestrian
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Equestrian Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Equestrian
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Equestrian In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker 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 fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Equestrian
