Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis 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 Rohatyn Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) 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 Rohatyn
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Rohatyn The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Rohatyn
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Rohatyn Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Rohatyn
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Rohatyn If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Rohatyn
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Rohatyn People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Rohatyn
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Rohatyn "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Rohatyn
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Rohatyn "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Rohatyn
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Rohatyn "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Rohatyn
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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Rohatyn "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Rohatyn
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Rohatyn Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Rohatyn
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Rohatyn The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Rohatyn
