I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Education Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Education
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "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) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Education "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Education
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 I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Education 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 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Education
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Education A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Education
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) 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 Nietzsche Education I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Education
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Education Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Education
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Education "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Education
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly 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 Education A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Education
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Education I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Education
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 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Education When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm 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 Education
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Education "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) 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. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Education
