"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Fastiv All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Fastiv
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Fastiv Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Fastiv
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Fastiv If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Fastiv
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung 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 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Fastiv "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Fastiv
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Fastiv "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Fastiv
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Fastiv Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Fastiv
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Fastiv English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Fastiv
My other wife is beautiful. "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Fastiv A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Fastiv
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Fastiv Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Fastiv
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Fastiv "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Fastiv
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Fastiv When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Fastiv
