"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Watergrasshill My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Watergrasshill
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Watergrasshill "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Watergrasshill
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Watergrasshill The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Watergrasshill
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Watergrasshill It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Watergrasshill
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Watergrasshill Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Watergrasshill
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Watergrasshill Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Watergrasshill
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Watergrasshill "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Watergrasshill
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Watergrasshill My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Watergrasshill
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Watergrasshill Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Watergrasshill
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Watergrasshill A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Watergrasshill
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Watergrasshill "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Watergrasshill
