"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler G "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison G
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi G As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb G
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld G Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
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"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u G Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow G
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday G Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers G
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) G Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan G
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln G May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 G
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) G Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye G
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 G Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) G
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) 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 Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe G Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans G
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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois G Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes G
