Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Parks Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Parks
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 Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Parks Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Parks "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Parks
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Parks "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Parks
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) 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 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Parks Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Parks
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Parks Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) 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 Parks
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Parks 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 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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Parks
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Parks "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Parks
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Parks When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Parks
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Parks There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Parks
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Parks If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Parks
