"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama 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 Moordrecht "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) 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 only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Moordrecht
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Moordrecht "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Moordrecht
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Moordrecht "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Moordrecht
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Moordrecht 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 "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Moordrecht
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Moordrecht 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 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Moordrecht
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Moordrecht There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Moordrecht
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea 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 We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Moordrecht The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Moordrecht
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 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 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Moordrecht Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Moordrecht
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Moordrecht "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Moordrecht
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Moordrecht If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Moordrecht
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Moordrecht Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Moordrecht
