Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Brindisi You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Brindisi
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Brindisi The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Brindisi
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Brindisi Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Brindisi
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Brindisi The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Brindisi
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Brindisi Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Brindisi
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Brindisi The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Brindisi
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "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) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Brindisi 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 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Brindisi
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Brindisi "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Brindisi
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Brindisi The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brindisi
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Brindisi "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Brindisi
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "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 One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Brindisi A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Brindisi
