Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Leven "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Leven
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Leven If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Leven
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Leven Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Leven
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Leven "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Leven
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Leven Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Leven
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Leven Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Leven
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Leven LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Leven
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Leven "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Leven
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Leven 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 "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Leven
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Leven "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Leven
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Leven Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Leven
