It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Strathpeffer Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Strathpeffer
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Strathpeffer To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Strathpeffer
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Strathpeffer "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Strathpeffer
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Strathpeffer Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Strathpeffer
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Strathpeffer I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Strathpeffer
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Strathpeffer Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Strathpeffer
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Strathpeffer Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Strathpeffer
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Strathpeffer "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Strathpeffer
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Strathpeffer Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Strathpeffer
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Strathpeffer Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "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) Strathpeffer
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Strathpeffer When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Strathpeffer
