Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Foreign The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Foreign
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "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) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Foreign It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais 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 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Foreign
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Foreign Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Foreign
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Foreign If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Foreign
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Foreign He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Foreign
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Foreign People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Foreign
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Foreign Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Foreign
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Foreign Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Foreign
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Foreign "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Foreign
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Foreign 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 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Foreign
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Foreign I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Foreign
