"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Ionian Islands Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Ionian Islands
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Ionian Islands English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Ionian Islands
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Ionian Islands "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Ionian Islands
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Ionian Islands Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Ionian Islands
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain 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 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Ionian Islands Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Ionian Islands
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Ionian Islands Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Ionian Islands
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Ionian Islands Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Ionian Islands
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Ionian Islands "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Ionian Islands
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Ionian Islands In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Ionian Islands
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Ionian Islands If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Ionian Islands
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Ionian Islands 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 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Ionian Islands
