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A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "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) Downings Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Downings
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Downings Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Downings
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Downings "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Downings
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. >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 Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Downings He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Downings
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Downings Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Downings
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous 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 Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Downings "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Downings
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Downings It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Downings
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "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 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Downings I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Downings
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Downings "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Downings
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Downings It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Downings
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Downings Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Downings
