There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "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 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Grindleton True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) 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 Grindleton
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton 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 "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Grindleton 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 "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grindleton
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Grindleton May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Grindleton
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Grindleton "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Grindleton
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Grindleton This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Grindleton
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Grindleton Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Grindleton
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Grindleton "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Grindleton
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 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "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) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Grindleton Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Grindleton
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Grindleton Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Grindleton
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Grindleton "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Grindleton
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Grindleton If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Grindleton
