"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) P "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) P
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "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) P Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason P
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "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 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) P The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown P
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom P The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky P
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. P A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford P
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. P The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) P
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie P A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein P
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder P If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married P
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder P I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) P
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi P "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage P
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) P Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor P
