"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Fordcombe Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Fordcombe
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Fordcombe "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Fordcombe
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Fordcombe This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Fordcombe
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Fordcombe Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Fordcombe
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Fordcombe There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Fordcombe
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Fordcombe Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Fordcombe
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Fordcombe "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Fordcombe
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Fordcombe The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Fordcombe
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Fordcombe With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Fordcombe
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Fordcombe When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Fordcombe
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Fordcombe "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Fordcombe
