"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Pre-school When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Pre-school
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Pre-school Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Pre-school
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Pre-school It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Pre-school
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Pre-school "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Pre-school
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Pre-school I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant 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 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Pre-school
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Pre-school Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine 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 Pre-school
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Pre-school "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Pre-school
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Pre-school "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Pre-school
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Pre-school Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Pre-school
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Pre-school "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell 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 Pre-school
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Pre-school "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Pre-school
