Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Villanueva de Trabuco Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Villanueva de Trabuco
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Villanueva de Trabuco "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Villanueva de Trabuco
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) 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. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Villanueva de Trabuco How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Villanueva de Trabuco
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Villanueva de Trabuco Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Villanueva de Trabuco
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Villanueva de Trabuco "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Villanueva de Trabuco
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Villanueva de Trabuco "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Villanueva de Trabuco
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Villanueva de Trabuco the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Villanueva de Trabuco
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Villanueva de Trabuco One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Villanueva de Trabuco
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Villanueva de Trabuco Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Villanueva de Trabuco
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Villanueva de Trabuco "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Villanueva de Trabuco
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Villanueva de Trabuco Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Villanueva de Trabuco
