Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Outdoors Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Outdoors
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Outdoors "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Outdoors
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Outdoors "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Outdoors
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Outdoors If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Outdoors
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves 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 Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Outdoors Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Outdoors
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Outdoors "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Outdoors
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Outdoors "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Outdoors
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Outdoors "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Outdoors
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Outdoors A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Outdoors
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Outdoors "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) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Outdoors
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Outdoors Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 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 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Outdoors
