"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Scorze Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Scorze
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Scorze The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Scorze
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Scorze "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Scorze
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Scorze A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Scorze
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Scorze Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Scorze
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Scorze The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Scorze
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Scorze At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Scorze
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Scorze Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Scorze
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Scorze Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Scorze
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "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) Scorze 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 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Scorze
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Scorze "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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Scorze