"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Buckland Brewer One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Buckland Brewer
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Buckland Brewer "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Buckland Brewer
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Buckland Brewer Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Buckland Brewer
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon 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 Buckland Brewer Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Buckland Brewer
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Buckland Brewer Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Buckland Brewer
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Buckland Brewer Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Buckland Brewer
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Buckland Brewer It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Buckland Brewer
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Buckland Brewer Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Buckland Brewer
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 You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Buckland Brewer Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Buckland Brewer
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Buckland Brewer I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Buckland Brewer
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Buckland Brewer "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Buckland Brewer
