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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Hilversum Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Hilversum
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Hilversum Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Hilversum
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Hilversum Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Hilversum
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Hilversum This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Hilversum
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Hilversum Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Hilversum
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Hilversum Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Hilversum
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Hilversum Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Hilversum
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Hilversum "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hilversum
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 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Hilversum "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Hilversum
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Hilversum 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 I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Hilversum
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Hilversum Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Hilversum
