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"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Directories Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Directories
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Directories There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Directories
"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) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Directories Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Directories
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Directories It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Directories
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Directories If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Directories
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Directories May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Directories
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Directories He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Directories
"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 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Directories When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Directories
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett 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 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Directories "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Directories
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Directories "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) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Directories
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Directories 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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Directories
