"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Litherland "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Litherland
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Litherland It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Litherland
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Litherland A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Litherland
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Litherland "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Litherland
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Litherland blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Litherland
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Litherland Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Litherland
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Litherland There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "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 Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Litherland
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Litherland My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Litherland
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Litherland Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Litherland
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Litherland Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs 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 Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Litherland
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Litherland "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Litherland
