"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. El Hierro When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder El Hierro
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe El Hierro "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. El Hierro
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein El Hierro A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope 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 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe El Hierro
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? 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 And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot El Hierro "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus El Hierro
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) El Hierro Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) El Hierro
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter El Hierro I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset El Hierro
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain El Hierro "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming El Hierro
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) El Hierro The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein El Hierro
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) El Hierro My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley ... 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
"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) El Hierro
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman 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 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. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President El Hierro If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan El Hierro
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "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) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) El Hierro "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words El Hierro
