"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Animal Welfare "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Animal Welfare
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Animal Welfare Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Animal Welfare
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "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) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Animal Welfare When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Animal Welfare
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Animal Welfare Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Animal Welfare
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Animal Welfare Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Animal Welfare
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Animal Welfare Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Animal Welfare
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Animal Welfare Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward 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 Animal Welfare
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "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) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Animal Welfare You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Animal Welfare
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Animal Welfare When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Animal Welfare
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Animal Welfare Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Animal Welfare
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Animal Welfare Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Animal Welfare
