A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Classifieds One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Classifieds
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Classifieds Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "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) Classifieds
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Classifieds It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Classifieds
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Classifieds 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 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Classifieds
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Classifieds 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 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Classifieds
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Classifieds I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Classifieds
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Classifieds "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Classifieds
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Classifieds I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Classifieds
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Classifieds Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Classifieds
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Classifieds I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Classifieds
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Classifieds Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Classifieds
