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 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Technical Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Technical
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Technical It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Technical
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Technical It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Technical
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Technical Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Technical
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Technical I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Technical
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Technical "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Technical
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Technical This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Technical
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald 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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Technical "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 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Technical
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Technical The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Technical
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Technical Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Technical
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Technical Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Technical
