"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha 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 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Fraternal "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "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) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Fraternal
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fraternal The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Fraternal
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Fraternal "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) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Fraternal
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "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 Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Fraternal However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Fraternal
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Fraternal "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fraternal
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Fraternal My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Fraternal
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Fraternal Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Fraternal
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Fraternal "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Fraternal
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer What's new? Most of my wife. 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 Fraternal "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Fraternal
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Fraternal The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Fraternal
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Fraternal It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Fraternal
