"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain By County Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin By County
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman By County Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer By County
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden By County Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde By County
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole By County Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha By County
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson By County "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple By County
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa 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 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton By County I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch By County
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th By County 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 Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw By County
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is By County We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers By County
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain By County "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson By County
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. By County Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais By County
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James By County 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 A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France By County
