"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Chop Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Chop
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Chop There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Chop
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Chop Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Chop
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Chop "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Chop
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Chop Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Chop
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Chop "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Chop
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Chop When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Chop
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Chop Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Chop
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Chop "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "... 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) Chop
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Chop blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Chop
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 a The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Chop Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Chop
