"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown By Region Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent By Region
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt 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 Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld By Region Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) By Region
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. By Region You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler By Region
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner By Region Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein By Region
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "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 A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire By Region Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) By Region
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov By Region Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) By Region
"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) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) By Region "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) By Region
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek By Region My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio By Region
"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' There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky By Region The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words By Region
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten By Region Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) By Region
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) By Region Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w By Region
