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cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "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 test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Property Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Property
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Property "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Property
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Property Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Property
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Property 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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Property
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Property "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Property
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Property If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Property Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Property
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein 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 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Property Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii >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 Property
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Property
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Property The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Property
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "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 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Property Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) 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 Property
