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Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Earl Shilton A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Earl Shilton
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Earl Shilton "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Earl Shilton
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Earl Shilton Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Earl Shilton
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Earl Shilton There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Earl Shilton
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Earl Shilton Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Earl Shilton
"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) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Earl Shilton Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Earl Shilton
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Earl Shilton "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Earl Shilton
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) 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 I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Earl Shilton Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Earl Shilton
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Earl Shilton The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Earl Shilton
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France 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 Earl Shilton All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Earl Shilton
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "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) Earl Shilton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Earl Shilton