Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Rock Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "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) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Rock
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Rock "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Rock
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Rock A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Rock
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Rock "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Rock
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Rock Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Rock
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Rock We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Rock
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Rock Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Rock
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Rock Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig 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 Rock
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Rock "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Rock
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad 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 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Rock "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Rock
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Rock My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Rock
