A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Antequera Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 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 Antequera
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Antequera I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Antequera
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "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) Antequera Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Antequera
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Antequera Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "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) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Antequera
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Antequera They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "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 Antequera
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Antequera "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Antequera
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Antequera May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Antequera
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Antequera Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Antequera
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Antequera "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Antequera
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Antequera A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Antequera
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Antequera Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Antequera
