Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Amstelveen "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Amstelveen
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Amstelveen Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Amstelveen
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman 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 My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Amstelveen "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning 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 Amstelveen
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Amstelveen "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Amstelveen
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Amstelveen The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "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 Amstelveen
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Amstelveen One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Amstelveen
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Amstelveen Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Amstelveen
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "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 I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Amstelveen Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Amstelveen
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Amstelveen The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Amstelveen
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Amstelveen "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Amstelveen
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Amstelveen "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Amstelveen
