A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) NERC Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) NERC
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) NERC "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller NERC
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. NERC "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) NERC
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) NERC The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa NERC
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 NERC When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth NERC
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the 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 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan NERC "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) NERC
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf NERC "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at NERC
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal NERC 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 "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa NERC
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey NERC He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin NERC
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) NERC The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin NERC
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back NERC Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "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) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel NERC
