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"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. History If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. History
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill History "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor History
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) History "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons History
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 History Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) History
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) 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 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 History "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 History
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) History The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner History
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion History Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire History
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) History "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West History
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie History True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 History
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West History "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon History
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin History There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle History
