"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Pomeroy It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Pomeroy
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Pomeroy That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Pomeroy
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Pomeroy Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari 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 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Pomeroy "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Pomeroy
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Pomeroy Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "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 "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Pomeroy
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Pomeroy "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Pomeroy
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Pomeroy "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Pomeroy
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Pomeroy Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Pomeroy
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Pomeroy I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Pomeroy "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Pomeroy
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Pomeroy Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Pomeroy
