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We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Personal Pages Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student 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 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Personal Pages
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Personal Pages "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 A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Personal Pages
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Personal Pages I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Personal Pages
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Personal Pages Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Personal Pages
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Personal Pages Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Personal Pages Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Personal Pages
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "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) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Personal Pages A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Personal Pages
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Personal Pages A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Personal Pages
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Personal Pages Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Personal Pages
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Personal Pages 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) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Personal Pages
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Personal Pages When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Personal Pages
