You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana H Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker 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.
-- Winston Churchill H
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "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) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) H Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) H
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) H Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth H
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST H "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain H
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh H You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James H
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott H Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson H
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) H "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson H
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder H "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) H
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) H If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost H
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) H Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "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) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks H
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) H Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski H
