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 We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Stokkseyri 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 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) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Stokkseyri
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Stokkseyri "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Stokkseyri
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Stokkseyri "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Stokkseyri
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Stokkseyri "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Stokkseyri
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Stokkseyri God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Stokkseyri
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Stokkseyri Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Stokkseyri
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Stokkseyri The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Stokkseyri
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Stokkseyri "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "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) Stokkseyri
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Stokkseyri When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Stokkseyri
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Stokkseyri Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Stokkseyri
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Stokkseyri Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Stokkseyri
