Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wadowice You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana 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 Wadowice
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Wadowice A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Wadowice
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Wadowice If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Wadowice
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Wadowice Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Wadowice
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Wadowice "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Wadowice
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Wadowice "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Wadowice
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "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) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wadowice The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Wadowice
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Wadowice A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wadowice
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Wadowice Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Wadowice
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Wadowice A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Wadowice
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Wadowice Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Wadowice
