How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Uppsala Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Uppsala
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Uppsala I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Uppsala
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Uppsala Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Uppsala
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Uppsala The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Uppsala
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Uppsala I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Uppsala
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Uppsala LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Uppsala
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 blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Uppsala I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Uppsala
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Uppsala Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Uppsala
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Uppsala Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Uppsala
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio 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 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Uppsala "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Uppsala
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Uppsala This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Uppsala
