The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Q Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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? "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Q
"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) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Q Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Q
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Q The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Q
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Q "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Q
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Q Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Q
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Q "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Q
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Q Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Q
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Q Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Q
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Q We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Q
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Q 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? "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Q
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Q Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Q
