The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Fortrose and Rosemarkie "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Fortrose and Rosemarkie
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 "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Fortrose and Rosemarkie It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Fortrose and Rosemarkie
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Fortrose and Rosemarkie The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Fortrose and Rosemarkie
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.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Fortrose and Rosemarkie I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Fortrose and Rosemarkie
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Fortrose and Rosemarkie 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
tha Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius 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 Fortrose and Rosemarkie
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Fortrose and Rosemarkie "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Fortrose and Rosemarkie
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Fortrose and Rosemarkie "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Fortrose and Rosemarkie
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Fortrose and Rosemarkie Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Fortrose and Rosemarkie
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Fortrose and Rosemarkie "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Fortrose and Rosemarkie
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Fortrose and Rosemarkie To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Fortrose and Rosemarkie
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 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Fortrose and Rosemarkie Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Fortrose and Rosemarkie
