There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Philosophers Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Philosophers
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Philosophers If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Philosophers
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Philosophers I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Philosophers
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) 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 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Philosophers "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Philosophers
"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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Philosophers Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Philosophers
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant 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 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Philosophers Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Philosophers
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Philosophers Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Philosophers
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Philosophers With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Philosophers
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Philosophers No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Philosophers
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Philosophers Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Philosophers
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Philosophers "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Philosophers
