Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 South West "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) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson South West
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) South West If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius South West
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton South West Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes South West
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) South West 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 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey South West
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford 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 South West Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood South West
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) South West Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge South West
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige South West Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) South West
"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) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) South West What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast South West
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w South West Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa South West
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James South West He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso South West
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt South West Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe South West
