"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Organizations Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Organizations
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Organizations Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Organizations
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Organizations Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Organizations
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Organizations The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Organizations
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Organizations Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Organizations
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "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) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Organizations Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman 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 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Organizations
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Organizations "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Organizations
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Organizations This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Organizations
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Organizations "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Organizations
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Organizations "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Organizations
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Organizations Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde 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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Organizations
