"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Blues "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Blues
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Blues "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Blues
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Blues Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Blues
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Blues I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Blues
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Blues The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Blues
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Blues "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Blues
"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) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "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) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Blues If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Blues
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Blues You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Blues
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous 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 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Blues blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Blues
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Blues I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blues
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Blues Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings 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 Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Blues
