"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Turin Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "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) Turin
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Turin We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Turin
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Turin "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Turin
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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 Turin I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Turin
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Turin "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Turin
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Turin Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Turin
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. 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 We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Turin Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Turin
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 Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen 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 Turin "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Turin
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Turin If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Turin
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Turin History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Turin
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Turin Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Turin
