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Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor 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 Greenfield When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Greenfield
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Greenfield "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Greenfield
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Greenfield If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Greenfield
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Greenfield If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Greenfield
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Greenfield "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Greenfield
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Greenfield Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) 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 Greenfield
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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? Greenfield The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Greenfield
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Greenfield If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Greenfield
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage 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 There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Greenfield "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Greenfield
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Greenfield "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) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Greenfield
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Greenfield The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Greenfield
