"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str 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 "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regions Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Regions
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Regions Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Regions
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Regions I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Regions
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Think off-center." (George Carlin) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Regions As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Regions
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Regions Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "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 Regions
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Regions "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Regions
"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) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Regions Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Regions
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Regions I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Regions
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Regions For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Regions
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Regions I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Regions
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Regions I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Regions
