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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Iceland If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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"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) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Iceland "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Iceland
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Iceland "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Iceland
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. 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 The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Iceland Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Iceland
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Iceland Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Iceland
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Iceland blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 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 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Iceland
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 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Iceland "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Iceland
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Iceland "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Iceland
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) 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 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Iceland Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Iceland
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Iceland You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Iceland
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Iceland Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain 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 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Iceland
