Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure F It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous F
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) F It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson F
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) F I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous F
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell F The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson F
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings F Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic F
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. F You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw F
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire F Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb F
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) 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 F "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb F
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason 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 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald F The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard F
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller F Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone F
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb F The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland F
