Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde My other wife is beautiful. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Parks If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parks
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Parks We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Parks
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "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) Parks "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Parks
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Parks "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Parks
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Parks One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Parks
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Parks Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Parks
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Parks University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Parks
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Parks I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Parks
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Parks In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Parks
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous 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
remains fa One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Parks Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Parks
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "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) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Parks I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Parks
