blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne 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 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Cottenham "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Cottenham
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Cottenham the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Cottenham
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Cottenham "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Cottenham
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung 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 Cottenham There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Cottenham
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Cottenham "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Cottenham
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Cottenham "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Cottenham
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Cottenham No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Cottenham
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Cottenham You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cottenham
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cottenham The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o 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 Cottenham
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Cottenham If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Cottenham
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Cottenham There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Cottenham
