"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Palencia A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Palencia
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Palencia There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Palencia
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Palencia You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Palencia
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Palencia "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Palencia
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Palencia "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Palencia
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Palencia Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Palencia
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Palencia In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Palencia
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Palencia I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Palencia
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Palencia People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Palencia
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. 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 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Palencia He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Palencia
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Palencia "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Palencia
