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"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Rock and Roll "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) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Rock and Roll
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Rock and Roll Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Rock and Roll
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Rock and Roll "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Rock and Roll
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Rock and Roll "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Rock and Roll
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rock and Roll Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Rock and Roll
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Rock and Roll blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Rock and Roll
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Rock and Roll "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Rock and Roll
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Rock and Roll A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Rock and Roll
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Rock and Roll A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Rock and Roll
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Rock and Roll "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Rock and Roll
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Rock and Roll "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Rock and Roll
