Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Eynsford "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Eynsford
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Eynsford To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Eynsford
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Eynsford The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Eynsford
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Eynsford 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 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Eynsford
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Eynsford You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Eynsford
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Eynsford Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Eynsford
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Eynsford The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Eynsford
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg 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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Eynsford Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Eynsford
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Eynsford 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Eynsford
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Eynsford You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca 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. Eynsford
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "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 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Eynsford I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Eynsford
