People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Pitt, William the Younger "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Pitt, William the Younger
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Pitt, William the Younger A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Pitt, William the Younger
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Pitt, William the Younger Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Pitt, William the Younger
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Pitt, William the Younger "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Pitt, William the Younger
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Pitt, William the Younger If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Pitt, William the Younger
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Pitt, William the Younger You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Pitt, William the Younger
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pitt, William the Younger "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Pitt, William the Younger
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Pitt, William the Younger Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Pitt, William the Younger
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Pitt, William the Younger There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Pitt, William the Younger
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pitt, William the Younger In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Pitt, William the Younger
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pitt, William the Younger The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Pitt, William the Younger
