When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Belchatow "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Belchatow
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Belchatow There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Belchatow
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Belchatow "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Belchatow
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Belchatow "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Belchatow
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Belchatow There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Belchatow
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Belchatow "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Belchatow
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra 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." ( Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George 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 Belchatow "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Belchatow
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Belchatow Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Belchatow
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Belchatow These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Belchatow
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Belchatow "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Belchatow
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "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 They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Belchatow It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Belchatow
