"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Schools My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Schools
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Schools The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Schools
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Schools "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Schools
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Schools An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Schools
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Schools 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Schools
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Schools What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Schools
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Schools your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Schools
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Schools The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Schools
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Schools "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Schools
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Schools 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 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 "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) Schools
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Schools The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Schools
