Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Moreton "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Moreton
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Moreton "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) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Moreton
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Moreton 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 Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Moreton
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Moreton "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Moreton
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Moreton "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Moreton
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Moreton Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Moreton
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Moreton "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Moreton
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Moreton I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Moreton
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Moreton "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Moreton
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Moreton We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Moreton
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Moreton I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Moreton
