The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Lake District Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Lake District
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Lake District Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Lake District
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) 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 Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Lake District They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "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) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Lake District
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Lake District Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Lake District
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Lake District The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Lake District
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Lake District To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Lake District
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Lake District Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Lake District
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "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) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Lake District In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Lake District
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Lake District "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Lake District
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Lake District Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Lake District
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Lake District There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Lake District
