"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain R "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. R
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain R "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx R
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) R "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) R
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos R Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) R
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol R Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone R
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying R Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) R
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous R Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) R We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton R
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours R I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy R
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "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) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) R He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller R
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder R That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii R
