Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Public Utilities If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Public Utilities
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Public Utilities "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Public Utilities
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Public Utilities The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Public Utilities
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Public Utilities You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Public Utilities
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Public Utilities "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Public Utilities
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Public Utilities The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Public Utilities
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland 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 Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Public Utilities Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Public Utilities
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Public Utilities Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Public Utilities
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Public Utilities "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Public Utilities
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Public Utilities Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Public Utilities
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Public Utilities No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Public Utilities
