For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Chats and Forums Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Chats and Forums Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
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-- Di Peatlins Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. 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
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"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Chats and Forums A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Chats and Forums
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Chats and Forums Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Chats and Forums
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chats and Forums The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Chats and Forums Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Chats and Forums
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Chats and Forums We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Chats and Forums
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Chats and Forums America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Chats and Forums "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Chats and Forums
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "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) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Chats and Forums I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Chats and Forums
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Chats and Forums "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
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