Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison 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 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Ibstock As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Ibstock
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Ibstock In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Ibstock
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Ibstock Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Ibstock
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Ibstock You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Ibstock
"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) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Ibstock The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Ibstock
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "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) 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 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Ibstock "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 "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Ibstock
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Ibstock "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) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Ibstock
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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Ibstock "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Ibstock
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 The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Ibstock We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Ibstock This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Ibstock
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Ibstock Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Ibstock
