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It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Dance Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Dance
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Dance Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Dance
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Dance Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dance
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Dance God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Dance
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Dance Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Dance
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Dance In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Dance
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Dance We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Dance
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Dance To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Dance
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Dance Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Dance
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Dance Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Dance
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Dance There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Dance
