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"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "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) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Skellig Islands The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Skellig Islands
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Skellig Islands The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
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"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Skellig Islands I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Skellig Islands
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "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) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Skellig Islands Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Skellig Islands
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Skellig Islands If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Skellig Islands
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Skellig Islands If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Skellig Islands
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Skellig Islands If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Skellig Islands
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Skellig Islands And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Skellig Islands
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Skellig Islands Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Skellig Islands
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Skellig Islands They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Skellig Islands
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Skellig Islands Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Skellig Islands
