Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain 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 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ostroh I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Ostroh
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Ostroh I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Ostroh
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 Ostroh 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 I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ostroh
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Ostroh If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein 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 "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Ostroh
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Ostroh "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Ostroh
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ostroh To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "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) Ostroh
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Ostroh "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Ostroh
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou 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 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Ostroh Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Ostroh
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Ostroh Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Ostroh
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Ostroh Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Ostroh
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Ostroh Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Ostroh
