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"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Casentino Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Casentino
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Casentino The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Casentino
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates 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 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Casentino Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Casentino
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Casentino The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Casentino
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Casentino Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Casentino
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Casentino Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Casentino
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Casentino Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Casentino
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Casentino "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Casentino
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Casentino Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Casentino
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Casentino Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Casentino
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Casentino "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Casentino
