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If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Nieuwpoort And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Nieuwpoort
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Nieuwpoort 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 All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Nieuwpoort
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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 Nieuwpoort The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Nieuwpoort
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "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) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Nieuwpoort I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Nieuwpoort
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Nieuwpoort "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Nieuwpoort
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Nieuwpoort Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Nieuwpoort
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Nieuwpoort Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Nieuwpoort
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Nieuwpoort 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 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Nieuwpoort
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Nieuwpoort "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Nieuwpoort
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Nieuwpoort It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Nieuwpoort
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Nieuwpoort "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) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Nieuwpoort
