Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Agriculture "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Agriculture
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Agriculture "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Agriculture
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Agriculture Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Agriculture
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Agriculture I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Agriculture
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Agriculture "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Agriculture
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) 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 Agriculture I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Agriculture
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Agriculture A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Agriculture
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Agriculture You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Agriculture
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Agriculture Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Agriculture
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Agriculture There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Agriculture
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Agriculture None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Agriculture
