A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins J The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 J
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) J A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "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) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier J
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) J Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) J
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams J "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) 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 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) J
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe J "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, J
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) J The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson J
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe J "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco J
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford J My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time J
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) J "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr J
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley J "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson J
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor J In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "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) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein J
