"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Dementia I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Dementia
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Dementia When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Dementia
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Dementia Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "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) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Dementia
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Dementia The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Dementia
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël 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 "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Dementia Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Dementia
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Dementia "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Dementia
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Dementia "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Dementia
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 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Dementia While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Dementia
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Dementia If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Dementia
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Dementia Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Dementia
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Dementia I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Dementia
