"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln X "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken X
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles X "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) X
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau X The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein X
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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) X Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) X
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. X I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. X
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce X Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig X
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato 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 X Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe X
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara X Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli X
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne X We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
X
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) X If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") X
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller X Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I X
