"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Cottingham Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Cottingham
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Cottingham "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Cottingham
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Cottingham I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Cottingham
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Cottingham blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Cottingham
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Cottingham There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Cottingham
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Cottingham Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Cottingham
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Cottingham We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Cottingham
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cottingham If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Cottingham I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Cottingham
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Cottingham Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Cottingham
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Cottingham "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Cottingham
