Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken History I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan History
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin History You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "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) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson History
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger History Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) History
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël History "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) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis History
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson History Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w 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 History
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder History Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe History
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein 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 worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is History "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan History
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha History Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford History
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein History Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard History
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man History If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford History
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken History And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) History
