"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Weather "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Weather
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Weather Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Weather
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Weather They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Weather
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "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." "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Weather Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Weather
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Weather "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Weather
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "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) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Weather Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Weather
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Weather "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) 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 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Weather
"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." When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "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) Weather All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Weather
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Weather It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Weather
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "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) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Weather "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Weather
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Weather Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Weather
