"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel 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 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Talsarnau The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Talsarnau
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Talsarnau "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Talsarnau
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Talsarnau I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Talsarnau
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Talsarnau Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Talsarnau
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Talsarnau Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Talsarnau
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Talsarnau When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Talsarnau
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "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) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Talsarnau I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Talsarnau
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Talsarnau Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Talsarnau
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Talsarnau The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Talsarnau
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Talsarnau We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Talsarnau
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Talsarnau What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Talsarnau
