He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Castelldefels Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Castelldefels
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Castelldefels "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Castelldefels
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber 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 "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Castelldefels Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Castelldefels
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Castelldefels You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Castelldefels
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Castelldefels Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Castelldefels
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Castelldefels "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 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 Castelldefels
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Castelldefels What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "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) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Castelldefels
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Castelldefels The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Castelldefels
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Castelldefels "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Castelldefels
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Castelldefels "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Castelldefels
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Castelldefels To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Castelldefels
