"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Cardiff "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Cardiff
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Cardiff 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 Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Cardiff
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Cardiff A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Cardiff
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Cardiff When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Cardiff
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cardiff Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 Cardiff
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Cardiff "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 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Cardiff
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Cardiff 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 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Cardiff
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "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) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Cardiff I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Cardiff
"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 "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Cardiff The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Cardiff
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Cardiff "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Cardiff
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) 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 Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Cardiff "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Cardiff
