No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "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) 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? Sogn og Fjordane I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Sogn og Fjordane
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Sogn og Fjordane "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard Sogn og Fjordane
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Sogn og Fjordane "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Sogn og Fjordane
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Sogn og Fjordane Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Sogn og Fjordane
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Sogn og Fjordane "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sogn og Fjordane
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Sogn og Fjordane If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sogn og Fjordane
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 If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. 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 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sogn og Fjordane "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Sogn og Fjordane
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Sogn og Fjordane I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest 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 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Sogn og Fjordane
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Sogn og Fjordane "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Sogn og Fjordane
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Sogn og Fjordane You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Sogn og Fjordane
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Sogn og Fjordane "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Sogn og Fjordane
