A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Provinces Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Provinces
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "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-) Provinces "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Provinces
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Provinces The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Provinces
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Provinces "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Provinces
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Provinces It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Provinces
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy 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 Provinces We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Provinces
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 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Provinces The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Provinces
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Provinces No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Provinces
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Provinces "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Provinces
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Provinces "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 Provinces
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Provinces I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Provinces
