Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Home and Garden I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen 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. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Home and Garden
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Home and Garden Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Home and Garden
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville May you never leave your marriage alive. "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Home and Garden Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Home and Garden
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Home and Garden Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Home and Garden
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- 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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Home and Garden "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Home and Garden
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Home and Garden Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Home and Garden
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. 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 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Home and Garden Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Home and Garden
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Home and Garden All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Home and Garden
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Home and Garden In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Home and Garden
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Home and Garden "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Home and Garden
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Home and Garden Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Home and Garden
