BBC Radio 4: The Roman Way - Presenter David Aaronovitch explores different aspects of everyday life, two millennia ago. Read or listen to an interview with him. [RealPlayer]
Guardian: David Aaronovitch - Archives of his weekly columns which appear on Wednesday in the Guardian G2 and on Sunday in the Observer.
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Aaronovitch, David blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Aaronovitch, David
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Aaronovitch, David Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Aaronovitch, David
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aaronovitch, David Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Aaronovitch, David
May you never leave your marriage alive. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Aaronovitch, David It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Aaronovitch, David
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. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Aaronovitch, David Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Aaronovitch, David
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Aaronovitch, David Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Aaronovitch, David
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Aaronovitch, David Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Aaronovitch, David
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Aaronovitch, David Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Aaronovitch, David
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Aaronovitch, David If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Aaronovitch, David
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Aaronovitch, David "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Aaronovitch, David
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 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Aaronovitch, David The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Aaronovitch, David
