Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Public Utilities "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Public Utilities
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday 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 If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Public Utilities If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Public Utilities
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Public Utilities Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge 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 To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Public Utilities
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 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "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) Public Utilities "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Public Utilities
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce 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 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Public Utilities We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Public Utilities
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Public Utilities Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Public Utilities
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Public Utilities Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Public Utilities
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Public Utilities The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Public Utilities
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Public Utilities The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Public Utilities
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Public Utilities your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Public Utilities
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James 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 Public Utilities Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Public Utilities
