Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Starachowice Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Starachowice
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Starachowice Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Starachowice
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Starachowice "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Starachowice
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Starachowice It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Starachowice
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "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) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Starachowice Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Starachowice
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Starachowice Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "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) Starachowice
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 Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Starachowice Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Starachowice
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Starachowice The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Starachowice
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Starachowice Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Starachowice
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Starachowice "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Starachowice
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Starachowice I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Starachowice
