Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Complementary and Alternative 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 I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Complementary and Alternative
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Complementary and Alternative Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Complementary and Alternative
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Complementary and Alternative Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Complementary and Alternative
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Complementary and Alternative "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Complementary and Alternative
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Complementary and Alternative The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Complementary and Alternative
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Complementary and Alternative Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Complementary and Alternative
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Complementary and Alternative I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Complementary and Alternative
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Complementary and Alternative "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Complementary and Alternative
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Complementary and Alternative If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Complementary and Alternative
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "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 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Complementary and Alternative Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Complementary and Alternative
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Complementary and Alternative Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Complementary and Alternative
