Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Wyrzysk I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Wyrzysk
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Wyrzysk It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wyrzysk
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Wyrzysk Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Wyrzysk
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wyrzysk Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Wyrzysk
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Wyrzysk Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Wyrzysk
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Wyrzysk Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Wyrzysk
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Wyrzysk I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Wyrzysk
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Wyrzysk Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Wyrzysk
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "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) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Wyrzysk Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Wyrzysk
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Wyrzysk If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Wyrzysk
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Wyrzysk Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Wyrzysk
