Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Telemark "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Telemark
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Telemark "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Telemark
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Telemark "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) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Telemark
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Telemark "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Telemark
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Telemark You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Telemark
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Telemark "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Telemark
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "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) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) 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 Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Telemark Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley 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 Telemark
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Telemark Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Telemark
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Telemark Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Telemark
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Telemark "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Telemark
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Telemark Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Telemark
