Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen 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 Cushendun Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Cushendun
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Cushendun A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) 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 Cushendun
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Cushendun I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Cushendun
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Cushendun We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Cushendun
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Cushendun "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Cushendun
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Cushendun "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Cushendun
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Cushendun Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Cushendun
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Cushendun "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Cushendun
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Cushendun I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Cushendun
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Cushendun An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Cushendun
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Cushendun "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Cushendun
