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I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Noordwijk Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Noordwijk
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Noordwijk "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Noordwijk
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Noordwijk Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Noordwijk
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Noordwijk "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Noordwijk
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Noordwijk "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Noordwijk
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 To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Noordwijk "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Noordwijk
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Noordwijk Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Noordwijk
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Noordwijk Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Noordwijk
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 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Noordwijk Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Noordwijk
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Noordwijk Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Noordwijk
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is a rest period between romances. Noordwijk Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Noordwijk
