"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer 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.
-- Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Carlisle City The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Carlisle City
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Carlisle City Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Carlisle City
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Carlisle City "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Carlisle City
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Carlisle City Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Carlisle City
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Carlisle City "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) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Carlisle City
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Carlisle City "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Carlisle City
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Carlisle City Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Carlisle City
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Carlisle City What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Carlisle City
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Carlisle City Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Carlisle City
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Carlisle City "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Carlisle City
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Carlisle City It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Carlisle City
