Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Fencing "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Fencing
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Fencing Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Fencing
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "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) Fencing One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov 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 Fencing
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Fencing "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fencing
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Fencing A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Fencing
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda 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 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Fencing Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Fencing
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Fencing Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Fencing
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Fencing "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Fencing
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Fencing If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Fencing
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Fencing In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Fencing
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fencing A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Fencing
