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"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Photography "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Photography
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Photography I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Photography
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Photography Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Photography
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Photography Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Photography
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Photography "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Photography
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Photography "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Photography
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Photography I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Photography
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Photography "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) 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 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Photography
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson 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 Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Photography The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Photography
May you never leave your marriage alive. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Photography Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Photography
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Photography Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Photography
