A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands J While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) J
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb J Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost J
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back J "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo J
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The J The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) J
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous J If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." J
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) J "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac J
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" Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry J My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender J
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton J "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous J
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel J Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( J
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill J If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) J
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn J "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 J
