Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln 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 I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Nature Reserves This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Nature Reserves
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Nature Reserves Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Nature Reserves
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Nature Reserves "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) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Nature Reserves
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Nature Reserves People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Nature Reserves
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "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 Nature Reserves Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Nature Reserves
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Nature Reserves Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Nature Reserves
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Nature Reserves There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Nature Reserves
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Nature Reserves "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Nature Reserves
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 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "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) Nature Reserves The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Nature Reserves
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Nature Reserves "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nature Reserves
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Nature Reserves "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Nature Reserves
