"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Provinces The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Provinces
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Provinces Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Provinces
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi 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 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Provinces I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Provinces
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Provinces Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 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 Provinces
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Provinces In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland 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 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Provinces
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Provinces The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Provinces
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Provinces The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Provinces
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Provinces There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Provinces
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Provinces In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Provinces
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Provinces Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Provinces
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Provinces "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Provinces
