"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Haversham The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Haversham
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) 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, Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Haversham In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Haversham
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Haversham "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Haversham
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Haversham 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 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Haversham
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Haversham Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Haversham
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Haversham I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Haversham
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Haversham Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Haversham
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "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) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Haversham Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Haversham
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Haversham He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Haversham
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Haversham Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Haversham
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Haversham The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Haversham
