When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Architecture Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Architecture
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Architecture Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Architecture
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Architecture "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) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Architecture
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Architecture I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Architecture
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Architecture "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Architecture
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "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) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Architecture "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Architecture
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Architecture Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Architecture
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Architecture 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. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Architecture
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Architecture Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Architecture
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Architecture I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Architecture
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Architecture The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Architecture
