"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Localities If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Localities
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Localities Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Localities
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Localities Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Localities
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Localities The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Localities
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Localities Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Localities
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Localities He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Localities
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Localities Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Localities
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Localities Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Localities
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Localities This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Localities
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Localities 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 "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Localities
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Localities Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Localities
