With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I
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 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I 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 Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "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) I "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr I
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "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) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I 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 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I
