"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Colleges and Universities The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Colleges and Universities
"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 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Colleges and Universities Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Colleges and Universities
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Colleges and Universities "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Colleges and Universities
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Colleges and Universities "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Colleges and Universities
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Colleges and Universities I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Colleges and Universities
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Colleges and Universities 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 Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Colleges and Universities
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Colleges and Universities Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Colleges and Universities
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "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) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Colleges and Universities Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Colleges and Universities
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Colleges and Universities The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Colleges and Universities
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Colleges and Universities "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Colleges and Universities
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Colleges and Universities A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Colleges and Universities
