"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) D For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius D
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) D Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 D
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "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' I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) D The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch D
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson D My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton D
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison D There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) D
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder D "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne D
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry D All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) D
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "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) D Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) D
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince D How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle D
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan D "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 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley D
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun D The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show D
