Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Radom Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Radom
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Radom It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Radom
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Radom It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Radom
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Radom You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Radom
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Radom "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Radom
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Radom It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Radom
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Radom "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Radom
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radom In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Radom
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Radom By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Radom
"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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Radom A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Radom
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Radom The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Radom
