"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison 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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Smell and Taste "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Smell and Taste
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Smell and Taste Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Smell and Taste
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Smell and Taste blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "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) Smell and Taste
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Smell and Taste 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 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Smell and Taste
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Smell and Taste Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Smell and Taste
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Smell and Taste "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 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 Smell and Taste
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Smell and Taste There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Smell and Taste
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Smell and Taste The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Smell and Taste
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Smell and Taste A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Smell and Taste
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Smell and Taste One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Smell and Taste
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Smell and Taste Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) 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 Smell and Taste
