"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) 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 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Skole I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Skole
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Skole "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Skole
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins 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 is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Skole Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Skole
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Skole Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Skole
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Skole The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Skole
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Skole A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Skole
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Skole "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Skole
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Skole Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Skole
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous 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 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Skole Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Skole
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Skole "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Skole
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "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) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Skole Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Skole
