Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln X The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) X
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 X If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. X
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY 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 "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 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein X "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw X
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) X Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje X
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley X Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) X
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 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau X To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce X
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan X Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper X
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara X You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson X
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry X Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 X
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous X He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde X
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney X The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. X
