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 most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Gardens "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine 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 Gardens
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Gardens Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Gardens
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 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) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray 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 Gardens When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Gardens
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gardens I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha 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" "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Gardens
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Gardens Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Gardens
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Gardens "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "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 Gardens
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Gardens I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Gardens
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "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" Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Gardens ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Gardens
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Gardens Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Gardens
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 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,
Gardens "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Gardens
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Gardens There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Gardens
