Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky T "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell T
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume T Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) T
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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 T The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis T
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson T If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa T
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 T He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess T
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) 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 T blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford T
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot T "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells T
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 T Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll T
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous T I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) T
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb T Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock T
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro T The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) T
