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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Willington "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Willington
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Willington We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Willington
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Willington The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Willington
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Willington Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Willington
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Willington Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Willington
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "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) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Willington "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Willington
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Willington Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Willington
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Willington blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Willington
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Willington Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Willington
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Willington Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Willington
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous 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 Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Willington Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Willington
