"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Great and Little Shelford It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Great and Little Shelford
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Great and Little Shelford No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Great and Little Shelford
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Great and Little Shelford Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Great and Little Shelford
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Great and Little Shelford I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Great and Little Shelford
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Great and Little Shelford 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 He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Great and Little Shelford
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Great and Little Shelford "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Great and Little Shelford
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Great and Little Shelford Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Great and Little Shelford
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Great and Little Shelford We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Great and Little Shelford
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Great and Little Shelford I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "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) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Great and Little Shelford
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Great and Little Shelford Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Great and Little Shelford
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 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Great and Little Shelford "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Great and Little Shelford
