The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Lodging Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Lodging
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Lodging Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Lodging
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Lodging Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Lodging
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lodging
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Lodging As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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 Lodging
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Lodging If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 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 Lodging
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Lodging The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Lodging
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Lodging Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Lodging
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Lodging Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Lodging
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Lodging "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Lodging
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Lodging Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Lodging
