"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Glenlivet "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Glenlivet
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Glenlivet The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Glenlivet
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Glenlivet Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Glenlivet
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Glenlivet "'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, Through the Looking Glass) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Glenlivet
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 Nietzsche blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Glenlivet The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Glenlivet
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Glenlivet "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Glenlivet
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Glenlivet "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Glenlivet
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "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) Glenlivet I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Glenlivet
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 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Glenlivet Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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 Glenlivet
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Glenlivet Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Glenlivet
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Glenlivet "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Glenlivet
