You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Chilcote Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 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 Chilcote
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Chilcote People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Chilcote
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Chilcote Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Chilcote
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "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." "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Chilcote I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chilcote
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Chilcote .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chilcote
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Chilcote There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Chilcote
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Chilcote 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 The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Chilcote
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Chilcote Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chilcote
"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) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Chilcote There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Chilcote
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Chilcote He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the 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 Chilcote
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Chilcote "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) 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 Chilcote
