Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Siggiewi A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Siggiewi
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Siggiewi 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 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Siggiewi
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Siggiewi Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Siggiewi
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Siggiewi My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Siggiewi
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Siggiewi "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Siggiewi
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Siggiewi Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Siggiewi
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Siggiewi Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 Siggiewi
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Siggiewi The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Siggiewi
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Siggiewi Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Siggiewi
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Siggiewi "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Siggiewi
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Siggiewi Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Siggiewi
