The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Music Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Music
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Music In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Music
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant 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 Music Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Music
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "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 Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Music "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Music
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) 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, "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Music The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Music
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Music I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Music
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Music "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Music
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Music Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Music
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Music Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Music
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig 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 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) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Music I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Music
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Music 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 told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Music
