The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Photography Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Photography
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Photography There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Photography
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Photography "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Photography
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Photography They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Photography
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Photography Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Photography
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 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Photography "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Photography
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "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) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Photography Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Photography
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Photography Marriage is a rest period between romances. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Photography
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Photography It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Photography
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Photography Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Photography
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan 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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Photography "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Photography
