"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Localities Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Localities
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Localities No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Localities
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Localities If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Localities
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Localities Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Localities
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Localities A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Localities
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Localities All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Localities
"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) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Localities My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Localities
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Localities Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Localities
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Localities The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Localities
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Localities If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Localities
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Localities Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Localities
