If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce By County Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) By County
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman By County The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) By County
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene By County Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince By County
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses By County 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 You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley By County
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley By County Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) By County
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson By County "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill By County
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) By County The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) By County
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) By County The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem By County
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) By County Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln By County
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates By County No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche By County
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor By County In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller By County
