A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "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) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Property "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Property
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Property A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Property
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Property "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Property
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr 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 Property A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Property
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Property When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Property
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Property A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Property
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Property "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Property
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Property Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Property
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Property "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Property
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Property Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Property
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Property Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Property
