"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Callington We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Callington
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Callington "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Callington
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Callington Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Callington
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Callington 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 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Callington
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Callington Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Callington
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Callington Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Callington
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Callington 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Callington
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Callington "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Callington
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Callington The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Callington
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Callington Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Callington
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Callington "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Callington
