Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) H cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde H
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l H The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) H
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides H Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign H
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford 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 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) H "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth H
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 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 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham H "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) H
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) 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 H Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara H
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha H "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) H
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) H "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson H
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) H Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken H
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb H If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) H
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado H I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) H
