Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Photography A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Photography
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White 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 We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr 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 Photography A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Photography
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Photography Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Photography
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "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 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Photography A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Photography
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Photography Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "'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) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Photography The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Photography
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Photography The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Photography
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Photography Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Photography
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Photography If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Photography
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Photography 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Photography
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Photography Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
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