"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Dance Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings 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 Dance
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "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." I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Dance Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dance
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Dance "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Dance
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Dance Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. 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 Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Dance
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Dance "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Dance
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Dance "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Dance
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 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dance "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Dance
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "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 Dance "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Dance
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Dance The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Dance
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Dance Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Dance
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Dance The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dance
