All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th 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 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Ahrntal University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ahrntal
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Ahrntal Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ahrntal
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Ahrntal "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Ahrntal
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Ahrntal 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 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Ahrntal
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Ahrntal Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Ahrntal
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Ahrntal A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Ahrntal
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Ahrntal Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Ahrntal
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ahrntal "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Ahrntal
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Ahrntal Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Ahrntal
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Ahrntal If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Ahrntal
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) 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 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Ahrntal "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) 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 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Ahrntal
