"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis U When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni U
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. U There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) U
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. 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 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein U I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France U
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) U "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln U
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri U That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau U
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous U It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov U
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger U It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake U
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer U Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay U
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game U Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw U
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton U Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 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 U
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 "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 who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev U blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) U
