"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Lillesand "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Lillesand
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) 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 Lillesand The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Lillesand
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Lillesand A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Lillesand
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) 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 "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Lillesand "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Lillesand
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Lillesand A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Lillesand
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Lillesand May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Lillesand
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Lillesand Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Lillesand
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Lillesand A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Lillesand
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Lillesand "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Lillesand
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Lillesand 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" "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Lillesand
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "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 Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Lillesand Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lillesand
