"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Artsyz Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Artsyz
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Artsyz Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Artsyz
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Artsyz Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Artsyz
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Artsyz Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison 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 "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Artsyz
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen 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 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Artsyz If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Artsyz
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Artsyz In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Artsyz
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Artsyz The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone 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 was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Artsyz
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 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 Artsyz The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Artsyz
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Artsyz Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Artsyz
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Artsyz They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Artsyz
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen 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, Artsyz Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold >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 Artsyz
