"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) C Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) C
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 C "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) C
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous C Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) C
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain C Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon C
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back C The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? C
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) C Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields C
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') C He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show C
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran C "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp C
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai C The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost C
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous C I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo C
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain C I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t C
