My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Round Table Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Round Table
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Round Table 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 dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Round Table
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Round Table Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Round Table
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Round Table This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain 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 Round Table
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance 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 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Round Table Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Round Table
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 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "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) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Round Table "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "'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) Round Table
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Round Table Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Round Table
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 People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Round Table Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Round Table
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Round Table Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Round Table
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Round Table The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Round Table
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "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, Alice in Wonderland Round Table "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Round Table
