"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Hola Prystan When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Hola Prystan
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "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 Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Hola Prystan >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Hola Prystan
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Hola Prystan 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 Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Hola Prystan
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Hola Prystan "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Hola Prystan
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Hola Prystan "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Hola Prystan
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Hola Prystan Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Hola Prystan
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Hola Prystan Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Hola Prystan
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Hola Prystan It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Hola Prystan
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Hola Prystan Man and wife make one fool. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal 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 Hola Prystan
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Hola Prystan "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Hola Prystan
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Hola Prystan One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Hola Prystan
