Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Akershus Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Akershus
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Akershus Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Akershus
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Akershus Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Akershus
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Akershus Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Akershus
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show 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 The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Akershus Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Akershus
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Akershus I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Akershus
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Akershus 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 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Akershus
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Akershus The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Akershus
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Akershus "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) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Akershus
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Akershus In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Akershus
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Akershus "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Akershus
