What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Douglas Home, Sir Alec Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Douglas Home, Sir Alec
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 Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Douglas Home, Sir Alec "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Douglas Home, Sir Alec
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Douglas Home, Sir Alec People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Douglas Home, Sir Alec
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Douglas Home, Sir Alec Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Douglas Home, Sir Alec
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Douglas Home, Sir Alec "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Douglas Home, Sir Alec
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Douglas Home, Sir Alec We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Douglas Home, Sir Alec
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Douglas Home, Sir Alec The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Douglas Home, Sir Alec
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 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Douglas Home, Sir Alec I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Douglas Home, Sir Alec
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford 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 "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Douglas Home, Sir Alec A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Douglas Home, Sir Alec
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Douglas Home, Sir Alec He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Douglas Home, Sir Alec
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Douglas Home, Sir Alec Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Douglas Home, Sir Alec
