Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 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 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Agriculture "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Agriculture
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Agriculture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Agriculture
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Agriculture Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Agriculture
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 We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Agriculture "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Agriculture
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" Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Agriculture "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) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Agriculture
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Agriculture Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Agriculture
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Agriculture The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Agriculture
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Agriculture "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Agriculture
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Agriculture "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Agriculture
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Agriculture Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Agriculture
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Agriculture "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Agriculture
