"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben A The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch A Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill A
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee A ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling A
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana 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 A We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) A Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe A
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer A "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol A
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm A Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger A
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman A Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard A
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac A Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) A
