We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth F The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin F
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol F In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr F
"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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire F "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) F
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats F Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) F
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln F "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson F
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells F "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed F
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright F Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford F
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words F Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry F
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley F "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha F
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert F The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) F
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) F "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius F
