The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Frigiliana You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Frigiliana
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Frigiliana Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Frigiliana
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Frigiliana "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Frigiliana
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Frigiliana Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Frigiliana
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 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Frigiliana Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Frigiliana
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) 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 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Frigiliana Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Frigiliana
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein 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 I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Frigiliana I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Frigiliana
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "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) Frigiliana Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Frigiliana
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Frigiliana History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Frigiliana
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Frigiliana Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Frigiliana
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Frigiliana Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Frigiliana
