A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
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life Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Personal Pages 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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Personal Pages
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Personal Pages Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Personal Pages
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Personal Pages The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Personal Pages
"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) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Personal Pages A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Personal Pages
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 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Personal Pages 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 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Personal Pages
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Personal Pages He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Personal Pages
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha 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 Personal Pages Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "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
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Personal Pages There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Personal Pages
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Personal Pages Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Personal Pages "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) 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 "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Personal Pages
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Personal Pages There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Personal Pages
