You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Reddish Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Reddish
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Reddish It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Reddish
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Reddish Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Reddish
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Reddish Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Reddish
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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? Reddish Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. 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 Reddish
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 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 "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Reddish Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Reddish
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 Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Reddish It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Reddish
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Reddish You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Reddish
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Reddish I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Reddish
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Reddish People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Reddish
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Reddish "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Reddish
