Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Politics Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Politics
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous 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 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Politics The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Politics
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Politics "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Politics
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Politics Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Politics
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 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Politics then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Politics
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 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 Politics "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Politics
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Politics A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Politics
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Politics Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Politics
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Politics Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Politics Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Politics
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Politics "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Politics
