We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Property While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Property
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Property There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Property
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Property "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Property
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Property "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Property
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Property The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Property
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Property The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Property
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Property Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Property
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Property Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Property
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Property Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Property
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Property The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Property
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Property It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Property
