Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- 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) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Giltbrook The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Giltbrook
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Giltbrook However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Giltbrook
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Giltbrook Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Giltbrook
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Giltbrook Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Giltbrook
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Giltbrook "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Giltbrook
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 Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Giltbrook "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Giltbrook
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Giltbrook To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Giltbrook
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Giltbrook At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "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 perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Giltbrook
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "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) Giltbrook You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Giltbrook
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Giltbrook "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Giltbrook
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Giltbrook "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Giltbrook
