'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings 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 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Grosmont "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Grosmont
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Grosmont I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "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) Grosmont
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn 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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Grosmont "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Grosmont
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein 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 If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Grosmont The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Grosmont
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Grosmont Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Grosmont
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd 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 Grosmont The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Grosmont
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan 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 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Grosmont Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Grosmont
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Grosmont Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Grosmont
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Grosmont If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Grosmont
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Grosmont "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Grosmont
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 Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Grosmont Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Grosmont
