"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Alora You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Alora Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Alora
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Alora I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Alora
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Alora "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Alora
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Alora If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Alora
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Alora To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Alora
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Alora Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Alora
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alora If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Alora
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Alora It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Alora
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Alora Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Alora
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Alora The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Alora
