Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Ustron To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Ustron
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Ustron Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ustron
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Ustron The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Ustron
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Ustron When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Ustron
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Ustron "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Ustron
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Ustron "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Ustron
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Ustron Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Ustron
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Ustron I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Ustron
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Ustron "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Ustron
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Ustron The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Ustron
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Ustron Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Ustron
