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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Goff's Oak I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Goff's Oak
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Goff's Oak It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Goff's Oak
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Goff's Oak My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Goff's Oak
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Goff's Oak Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Goff's Oak
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Goff's Oak 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. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Goff's Oak
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Goff's Oak What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Goff's Oak
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Goff's Oak "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Goff's Oak
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha 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 Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Goff's Oak When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Goff's Oak Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Goff's Oak
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Goff's Oak We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Goff's Oak
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Goff's Oak Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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