The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Padua Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Padua
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Padua "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Padua
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Padua Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Padua
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Padua Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Padua
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Padua Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Padua
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 It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Padua History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Padua
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Padua The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Padua
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Padua I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Padua
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Padua "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Padua
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Padua The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Padua
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Padua We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Padua
