"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Alternative If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Alternative
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Alternative We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Alternative
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 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "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) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Alternative Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Alternative
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Alternative "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Alternative
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Alternative "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Alternative
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Alternative Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Alternative
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Alternative A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Alternative
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Alternative "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) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Alternative
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Alternative Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Alternative
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 Alternative I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Alternative
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton May you never leave your marriage alive. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Alternative "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Alternative
