"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Provinces "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Provinces
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Provinces First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Provinces
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Provinces "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Provinces
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Provinces "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Provinces
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Provinces "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Provinces
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Provinces Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Provinces
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "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) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Provinces The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Provinces
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Provinces Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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 Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Provinces
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Provinces If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Provinces
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous 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 Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Provinces In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Provinces
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Provinces Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Provinces
