If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Tow Law "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) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Tow Law
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Tow Law I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Tow Law
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Tow Law Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Tow Law
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Tow Law Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "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) Tow Law
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Tow Law Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Tow Law
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Tow Law Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Tow Law
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Tow Law There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Tow Law
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Tow Law One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Tow Law
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Tow Law In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Tow Law
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Tow Law All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Tow Law
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Tow Law 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 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Tow Law
