"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol 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 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Localities I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Localities
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Localities If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Localities
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Localities Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Localities
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Localities For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Localities We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Localities
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "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) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Localities Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Localities
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Localities
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Localities We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Localities
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Localities Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Localities
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Localities Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Localities
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Localities If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Localities
