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"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Photography "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 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Photography
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Photography Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Photography
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 Photography Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Photography
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Photography The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Photography
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Photography Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Photography
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Photography I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Photography
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Photography "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Photography
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Photography "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Photography
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Photography A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Photography
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Photography No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan 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 Photography
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Photography I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Photography
