"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Ethnic "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Ethnic
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Ethnic "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Ethnic
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Ethnic English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Ethnic
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Ethnic Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Ethnic
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Ethnic Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Ethnic
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Ethnic The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Ethnic
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 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Ethnic "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) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Ethnic
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Ethnic It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Ethnic
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ethnic If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Ethnic
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ethnic "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Ethnic
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Ethnic "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Ethnic
