"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Willenhall your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Willenhall
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Willenhall "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Willenhall
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Willenhall We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël 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 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Willenhall
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Willenhall Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Willenhall
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Willenhall "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Willenhall
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Willenhall "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Willenhall
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Willenhall If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Willenhall
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Willenhall Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Willenhall
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Willenhall Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Willenhall
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart 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 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Willenhall 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 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon 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 Willenhall
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Willenhall "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Willenhall
