I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "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) Garswood Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Garswood
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Garswood The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Garswood
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Garswood I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Garswood
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Garswood "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) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Garswood
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge 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 History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Garswood I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Garswood
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Garswood "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Garswood
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Garswood The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Garswood
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Garswood They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Garswood
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Garswood Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "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) Garswood
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "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) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Garswood "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Garswood
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Garswood The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Garswood
