Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Food and Related Products The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
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- Gail Godwin Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
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-- John Von Neuman Food and Related Products
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Food and Related Products Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday Food and Related Products
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Sigmund Freud When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Food and Related Products Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Food and Related Products
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Food and Related Products "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Food and Related Products
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Food and Related Products We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Food and Related Products
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Food and Related Products I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Food and Related Products
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Food and Related Products However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Food and Related Products
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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-- John Donne A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Food and Related Products A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Food and Related Products
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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-- William M. Holden Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
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If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Food and Related Products All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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