Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Kolomak If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Kolomak
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "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 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 Kolomak People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Kolomak
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Kolomak Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kolomak
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Kolomak "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Kolomak
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Kolomak If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Kolomak
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Kolomak "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Kolomak
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Kolomak In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Kolomak
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Kolomak In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Kolomak
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Kolomak Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Kolomak
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Kolomak "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Kolomak
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Kolomak The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Kolomak
