Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Music If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward 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 Music
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Music Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Music
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Music
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Music A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Music
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Music A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Music
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Music I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Music
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Music Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Music Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Music
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Music Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Music
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Music Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Music
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Music Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster 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 Music
