There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Luson To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Luson
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Luson Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Luson
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Luson "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Luson
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Luson "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Luson
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp 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 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Luson Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Luson
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Luson The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Luson
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Luson In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Luson
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "... 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) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Luson "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Luson
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a 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 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Luson "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Luson
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Luson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Luson
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Luson Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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 "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Luson
