Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Gilling East I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "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) Gilling East
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) 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 The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Gilling East "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Gilling East
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Gilling East "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gilling East
"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' "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 Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Gilling East Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Gilling East
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Gilling East "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Gilling East
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Gilling East 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. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Gilling East
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Gilling East "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Gilling East
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt 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 Gilling East What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen 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 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Gilling East
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Gilling East However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan 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 A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Gilling East
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Gilling East The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Gilling East
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Gilling East "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Gilling East
