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 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Augher A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Augher
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Augher Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Augher
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Augher "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Augher
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Augher In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Augher
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Augher The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Augher
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Augher If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Augher
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Augher "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Augher
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Augher If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Augher
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Augher We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Augher
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Augher If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Augher
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Augher In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Augher
