Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Artists and Galleries The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Artists and Galleries
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Artists and Galleries A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Artists and Galleries
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Artists and Galleries I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Artists and Galleries
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Artists and Galleries The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown 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 "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Artists and Galleries
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Artists and Galleries "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Artists and Galleries
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Artists and Galleries "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) 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
to "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Artists and Galleries
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Artists and Galleries My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Artists and Galleries
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Artists and Galleries "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Artists and Galleries
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Artists and Galleries Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Artists and Galleries
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Artists and Galleries Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Artists and Galleries
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Artists and Galleries Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Artists and Galleries
