"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Kaharlyk 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 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Kaharlyk
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Kaharlyk You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Kaharlyk
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Kaharlyk If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Kaharlyk
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney 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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Kaharlyk The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kaharlyk
"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) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Kaharlyk Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Kaharlyk
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Kaharlyk You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Kaharlyk
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso May you never leave your marriage alive. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Kaharlyk The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows 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 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Kaharlyk
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Kaharlyk The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Kaharlyk
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kaharlyk To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Kaharlyk
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Kaharlyk Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Kaharlyk
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Kaharlyk My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Kaharlyk
