"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Llanes "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Llanes
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards 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 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Llanes Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius 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 Llanes
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Llanes Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Llanes
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Llanes "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Llanes
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz 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 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Llanes Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Llanes
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Llanes Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Llanes
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Llanes You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Llanes
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Llanes A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Llanes
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Llanes "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Llanes
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Llanes "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Llanes
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Llanes Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Llanes
