People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor 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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Health I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage 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 If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Health
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous 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 Health "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Health
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Health "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Health
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Health A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Health
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning 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 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Health Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Health
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Health "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "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) Health
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Health The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Health
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Health "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died 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 Health
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Health Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Health Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Health
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Health Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman 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 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Health
