Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine 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 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Q Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Q
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Q A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Q
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. 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 blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Q Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Q
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Q Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Q
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Q I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Q
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Q A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Q
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Q That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Q
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Q A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Q
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Q The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Q
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Q Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Q
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Q Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Q
