Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Walking "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Walking
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Walking "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Walking
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Walking "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Walking
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Walking What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Walking
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Walking Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Walking
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Walking Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Walking
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Walking Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Walking
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Walking Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Walking
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Walking Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Walking
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Walking To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Walking
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 My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Walking Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Walking
