In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Forums "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Forums
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Forums "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Forums
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 I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Forums Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Forums
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Forums "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "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 Forums
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Forums The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Forums
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "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) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Forums I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Forums
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 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Forums While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Forums
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Forums Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Forums
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa 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 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 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Forums "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "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) Forums
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Forums "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Forums
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Forums Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Forums
