The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from 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 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 The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Animals blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Animals
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Animals "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Animals
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Animals "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Animals
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Animals To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Animals
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Animals "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Animals
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Animals "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 imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Animals
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Animals 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 Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Animals
"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 It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Animals 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 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Animals
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Animals "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Animals
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Animals "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Animals
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Animals "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Animals
