Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Hobbies Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Hobbies
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Hobbies "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Hobbies
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Hobbies Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Hobbies
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Hobbies Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Hobbies
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "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 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Hobbies The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Hobbies
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Hobbies [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Hobbies
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Hobbies "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Hobbies
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Hobbies When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hobbies
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Hobbies You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Hobbies
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Hobbies "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Hobbies
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Hobbies You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Hobbies
