You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Crewe My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Crewe
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Crewe Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Crewe
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Crewe "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Crewe
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Crewe Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "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 Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Crewe
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins 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 "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Crewe When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Crewe
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Crewe If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Crewe
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Crewe A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Crewe
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Crewe There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Crewe
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Crewe 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 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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. Crewe
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "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 Crewe The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Crewe
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Crewe Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Crewe