We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Multimedia The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Multimedia
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Multimedia Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Multimedia
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Multimedia Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Multimedia
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Multimedia The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Multimedia
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 "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Multimedia The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Multimedia
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Multimedia Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Multimedia
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Multimedia The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Multimedia
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Multimedia There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Multimedia
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Multimedia "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Multimedia
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Multimedia He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Multimedia
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "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) Multimedia Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Multimedia
