In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Z "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Z
"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) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Z "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Z
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Z Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Z
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Z "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Z
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Z Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Z
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert 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 We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Z Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Z
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Z Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Z
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Z "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Z
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Z 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 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 To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Z
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Z The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Z
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Z Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Z
