I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) J 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 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) J
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th J To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) J
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer J "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) J
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board J Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce J
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity J 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. J
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. J To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West J
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill J He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) J
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 It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) J "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke J
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 J Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein J
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton J To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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.
-- Crow "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) J
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi J Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius J
