That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Man and wife make one fool. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Balta Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Balta
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Balta The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Balta
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Balta What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Balta
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Balta Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Balta
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Balta Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Balta
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Balta I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Balta
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Balta Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Balta
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) Balta This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Balta
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth 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 By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Balta I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Balta
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Balta Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Balta
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Balta I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Balta
