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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford News and Media Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) News and Media
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) News and Media Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. News and Media
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen News and Media "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) News and Media
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- 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 Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr News and Media Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance News and Media
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill News and Media Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt News and Media
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland News and Media "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "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 News and Media
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells News and Media Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i News and Media
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? News and Media If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 News and Media
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland News and Media "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "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" News and Media
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. News and Media Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac News and Media
