"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams X "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison X
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher .. 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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) X I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi X
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie X "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 X
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) 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 X Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley X
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p X I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein X
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane X I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 X
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs X "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler X
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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a rest period between romances. A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
X All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan X
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain X "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry X
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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 hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) X Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh X
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley X Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara X
