Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Wolsztyn "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Wolsztyn
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Wolsztyn "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Wolsztyn
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Wolsztyn "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Wolsztyn
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Wolsztyn "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Wolsztyn
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Wolsztyn Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Wolsztyn
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Wolsztyn "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Wolsztyn
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Wolsztyn If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Wolsztyn
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Wolsztyn For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) 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 Wolsztyn
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de 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 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wolsztyn "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 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Wolsztyn
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Wolsztyn Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Wolsztyn
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Wolsztyn Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wolsztyn
