The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Localities Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Localities "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Localities
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Localities Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin 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 Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Localities
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Localities Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Localities
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost 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 Localities The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Localities
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Localities Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Localities The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Localities
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Localities A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Localities
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Localities Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Localities
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx 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 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Localities There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Localities 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 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Localities
