"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Equestrian It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Equestrian
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Equestrian "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Equestrian
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Equestrian Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Equestrian
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 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 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Equestrian Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Equestrian
blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Equestrian I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Equestrian
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Equestrian "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Equestrian
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Equestrian Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Equestrian
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Equestrian Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Equestrian
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Equestrian Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Equestrian
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Equestrian Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Equestrian
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Equestrian Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Equestrian
