Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Geographical Areas "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Geographical Areas
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Geographical Areas "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Geographical Areas
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Geographical Areas All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Geographical Areas
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Geographical Areas Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Geographical Areas
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Geographical Areas The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "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) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Geographical Areas "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Geographical Areas
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Geographical Areas I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Geographical Areas
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Geographical Areas If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Geographical Areas
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Geographical Areas 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 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Geographical Areas
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Geographical Areas Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Geographical Areas
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Geographical Areas Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Geographical Areas
