Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway U "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley U
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) 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 Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho U The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "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) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) U
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 U If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) U
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) U Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married 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 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) U
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) U The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward U
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin U We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt U
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain U One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud U
"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 most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone U "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms U
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) U To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) U
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) U Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land 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 For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier U
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol U If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf U
