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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 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 If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Elblag Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Elblag
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 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 Elblag You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Elblag
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Elblag Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Elblag
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Elblag We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Elblag
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Elblag When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Elblag
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Elblag Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "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 artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Elblag
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Elblag Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Elblag
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Elblag Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "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) "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) Elblag
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Elblag "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Elblag
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Elblag And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning 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.
-- Crowf The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Elblag
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Elblag Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Elblag
