UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Provinces "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Provinces
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 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Provinces The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Provinces
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Provinces It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Provinces
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Provinces "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Provinces
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Provinces The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Provinces
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Provinces The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Provinces
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Provinces Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Provinces
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Provinces Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Provinces
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 Provinces Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Provinces
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Provinces The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Provinces
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Provinces "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "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) Provinces
