"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Artists and Galleries Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Artists and Galleries
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Artists and Galleries You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Artists and Galleries
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Artists and Galleries A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Artists and Galleries
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Artists and Galleries Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Artists and Galleries
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Artists and Galleries The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Artists and Galleries
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Artists and Galleries "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Artists and Galleries The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Artists and Galleries
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Artists and Galleries "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Artists and Galleries
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Artists and Galleries Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Artists and Galleries
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Artists and Galleries Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch 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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Artists and Galleries
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Artists and Galleries A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Artists and Galleries
