The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Ogbourne "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Ogbourne
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 I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "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) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Ogbourne You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Ogbourne
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Ogbourne Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Ogbourne
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Ogbourne If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Ogbourne
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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 My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Ogbourne The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Ogbourne
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Ogbourne If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Ogbourne
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ogbourne Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Ogbourne
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Ogbourne The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Ogbourne
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Ogbourne Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Ogbourne
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Ogbourne Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Ogbourne
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Ogbourne Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Ogbourne
