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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Resources Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Resources
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Resources >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 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Resources
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Resources "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Resources
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Resources The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Resources
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Resources "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Resources
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Resources "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Resources
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan My other wife is beautiful. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Resources All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Resources
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Resources How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Resources
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Resources Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Resources
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Resources "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Resources
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Resources "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Resources
