As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Tenby 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 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Tenby
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "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) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Tenby I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Tenby
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Tenby "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Tenby
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Tenby Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Tenby
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Tenby The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Tenby
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "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 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Tenby The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Tenby
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Tenby "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Tenby
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Tenby A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Tenby
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Tenby Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Tenby
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Tenby A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Tenby
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "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) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tenby If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Tenby
