Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Thornton Hough "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Thornton Hough
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Thornton Hough The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Thornton Hough
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Thornton Hough "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Thornton Hough
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thornton Hough "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Thornton Hough
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Thornton Hough When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Thornton Hough
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 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Thornton Hough People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Thornton Hough
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Thornton Hough A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Thornton Hough
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 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Thornton Hough I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Thornton Hough
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Thornton Hough If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Thornton Hough
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 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Thornton Hough In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Thornton Hough
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Thornton Hough "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) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Thornton Hough
