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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Crakehall I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Crakehall
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "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 have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Crakehall In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Crakehall
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Crakehall Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Crakehall
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Crakehall "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Crakehall
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Crakehall Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Crakehall
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Crakehall The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Crakehall
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Crakehall "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Crakehall
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Crakehall "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Crakehall
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Crakehall Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Crakehall
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Crakehall "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Crakehall
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Crakehall Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Crakehall
