"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Localities "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Localities
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Localities Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Localities Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Localities
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Localities Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Localities
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Localities Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Localities
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." 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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Localities In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Localities
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Localities
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities
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 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Localities "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Localities
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Localities Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Localities
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Localities I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Localities
