Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Ilseng blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "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) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Ilseng
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Ilseng 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 "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) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Ilseng
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Ilseng It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Ilseng
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Ilseng Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Ilseng
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Ilseng "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Ilseng
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Ilseng For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Ilseng
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Ilseng 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 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Ilseng
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u 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 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Ilseng The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Ilseng
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Ilseng "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Ilseng
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer 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 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Ilseng Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Ilseng
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Ilseng The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Ilseng
