When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Provinces "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Provinces
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Provinces Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Provinces
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "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) Provinces I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Provinces
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Provinces The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Provinces
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Provinces The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Provinces
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Provinces If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Provinces
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Provinces Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Provinces
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Provinces I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Provinces
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. 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 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Provinces "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Provinces
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Provinces Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Provinces
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Provinces And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Provinces
