"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Dance "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Dance
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dance If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Dance
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Dance Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Dance
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dance "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Dance
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Dance My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Dance
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Dance History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Dance
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Dance Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Dance
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Dance If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Dance
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Dance Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Dance
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Dance Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Dance
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dance Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Dance
