If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Upton Upon Severn The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Upton Upon Severn
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T 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 You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Upton Upon Severn The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Upton Upon Severn
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Upton Upon Severn The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Upton Upon Severn
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Upton Upon Severn Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Upton Upon Severn
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Upton Upon Severn Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Upton Upon Severn
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Upton Upon Severn "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Upton Upon Severn
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Upton Upon Severn Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Upton Upon Severn
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Upton Upon Severn "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Upton Upon Severn
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Upton Upon Severn We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Upton Upon Severn
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Upton Upon Severn The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Upton Upon Severn
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Upton Upon Severn "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Upton Upon Severn
