One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Moena You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Moena
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer 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 Nietzsche Moena Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Moena
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Moena The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Moena
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Moena I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Moena
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Moena To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Moena
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Moena Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Moena
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Moena Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Moena
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Moena Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Moena
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Moena Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Moena
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Moena The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Moena
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Moena Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Moena
