The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Music The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Music You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Music
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Music The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Music
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Music The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Music
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Music "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "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) Music
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Music [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Music
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Music Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Music The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Music
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Music Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "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) Music
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Music Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Music
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Music Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Music
