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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 The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Potterspury blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Potterspury
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Potterspury I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Potterspury
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Potterspury To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Potterspury
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Potterspury "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Potterspury
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Potterspury Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Potterspury
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Potterspury "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Potterspury
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Potterspury "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Potterspury
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Potterspury Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Potterspury
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen My other wife is beautiful. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Potterspury Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Potterspury
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Potterspury If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) 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) Potterspury
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Potterspury "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Potterspury
