"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Z "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Z
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Z Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Z
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Z "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Z
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Z Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Z
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Z You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Z
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "'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) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Z "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Z
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Z If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Z
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Z I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Z
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Z It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Z
"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 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 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Z A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is a rest period between romances. Z
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper 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 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Z All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Z
