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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Photos What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian 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 Photos
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Photos Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Photos
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Photos "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Photos
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Photos "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Photos
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Photos The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Photos
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Photos "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Photos
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Photos Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Photos
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) 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 Photos All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Photos
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package 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 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Photos For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Photos
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Photos When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Photos
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Photos Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Photos
