I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Real Estate "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Real Estate
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Real Estate If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Real Estate
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Real Estate There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Real Estate
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Real Estate Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Real Estate
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Real Estate Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Real Estate
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Real Estate The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Real Estate
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten 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 Real Estate "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Real Estate
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Real Estate When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Real Estate
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Real Estate "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Real Estate
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Real Estate All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Real Estate
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Real Estate Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Real Estate
