The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide N Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein 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 N
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton N I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides 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 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith N
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous N "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart 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 N
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t N He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life N
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) 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 N The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries N Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese N
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 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 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 If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom N If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery N
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 N If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries N
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 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson N "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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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 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) N Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil N
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein N "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous N
