"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) 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 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Zeal Monachorum When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Zeal Monachorum
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Zeal Monachorum Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Zeal Monachorum
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Zeal Monachorum "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Zeal Monachorum
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Zeal Monachorum The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Zeal Monachorum
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Zeal Monachorum "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Zeal Monachorum
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Zeal Monachorum Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Zeal Monachorum
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Zeal Monachorum "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Zeal Monachorum
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Zeal Monachorum "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Zeal Monachorum
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Zeal Monachorum "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Zeal Monachorum
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 A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Zeal Monachorum "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Zeal Monachorum
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Zeal Monachorum Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Zeal Monachorum
