The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Cemaes Bay To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Cemaes Bay
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cemaes Bay "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Cemaes Bay
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Cemaes Bay Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Cemaes Bay
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Cemaes Bay The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Cemaes Bay
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Cemaes Bay It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Cemaes Bay
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Cemaes Bay Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Cemaes Bay
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Cemaes Bay Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Cemaes Bay
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cemaes Bay Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Cemaes Bay
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Cemaes Bay 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 It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Cemaes Bay
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Cemaes Bay Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Cemaes Bay
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Cemaes Bay When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Cemaes Bay
