Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Equipment Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James 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
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- Lewis Perelman Equipment
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford 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." ( "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Equipment If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Equipment
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Equipment "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Equipment
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Equipment Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Equipment
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Equipment "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 In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Equipment
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Equipment Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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-- Brendan Hills I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Equipment A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Equipment
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Equipment Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Equipment
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Equipment The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Equipment
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Equipment I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Equipment
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Equipment "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) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Equipment
