Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Namyslow As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Namyslow
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) 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 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Namyslow "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Namyslow
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by 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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Namyslow Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Namyslow
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Namyslow "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Namyslow
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Namyslow What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Namyslow
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Namyslow "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) 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 "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Namyslow
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Namyslow Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Namyslow
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 Namyslow "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Namyslow
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Namyslow Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Namyslow
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Namyslow I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Namyslow
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Namyslow I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Namyslow
