The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Jura Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Jura
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Jura Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Jura
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Jura There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Jura
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Jura The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Jura
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Jura We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Jura
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Jura I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Jura
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Jura 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 You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Jura
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Jura Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Jura
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard 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 A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Jura I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Jura
"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 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Jura A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Jura
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Jura No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Jura
