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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Tollerton "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Tollerton
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live 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 Tollerton Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Tollerton
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) 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" "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Tollerton I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Tollerton
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Tollerton I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre 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 Tollerton
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Tollerton Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Tollerton
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Tollerton In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Tollerton
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Tollerton To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Tollerton
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Tollerton It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Tollerton
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Tollerton If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Tollerton
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Tollerton The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Tollerton
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Tollerton In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Tollerton
