 | Some things have to be believed to be seen. ~Ralph Hodgson |
| There are no foolish questions, and no man has become a fool until he stops asking
questions. ~Charles P. Steinmetz |
| Seek simplicity, and distrust it. ~Alfred North Whitehead |
| Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at
night. ~Edger Allan Poe |
| It is better to wear out than to rust out. ~Bishop Richard Cumberland |
| There are two kinds of failures: the man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who
will do nothing else. ~Perle Thompson |
| Statistics are no substitute for judgement. ~Henry Clay |
| He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a
slave. ~William Drummond |
| Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. ~Albert Einstein |
| We have met the enemy, and they is us. ~Pogo (Walt Kelly) |
| If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. ~Jimmy Buffet |
| A little patience goes a long way. Too much patience goes
nowhere. |
| It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations if
you live near him. ~Tolkien |
| A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way
that you'll look forward to the trip. |
| I've got to start acting more sensible-- Tomorrow! ~Snoopy
(Charles Schultz) |
| He who laughs, lasts. |
| Murphy's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain
doesn't work. ~ |
| If you chose to dance with a bear, don't stop when you get tired.
~Old Russian Proverb |
| Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's
very funny-- Did you ever try buying them without money? ~Ogden Nash |
| In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the
last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior
lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. ~Ambrose Bierce |
| If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize
yourself as part of the problem. ~Ducharm's Axiom |
| The typewriter machine, when played with expression, is no more
annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. ~Oscar Wilde |
| If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
~John Galsworthy |
| Sometimes I think we're all alone. Sometimes I think we're
not. In either case, the thought is quite staggering. ~R. Buckminster Fuller |
| Where humor is concerned there are no standards; no one can say
what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. ~John Kenneth
Galbraith |
| Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools
won't. Dead men can't. ~John H. Patterson |
| The justification of private profit is private risk.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Why is it that we rejoice at a birth an grieve at a funeral?
It is because we are not the person involved. ~Mark Twain |
| Now and then an innocent person is sent to the legislature. |
| Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what
parents were created for. ~Ogden Nash |
| Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and
in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
~Leonardo de Vinci |
| I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. ~Joe Walsh |
| Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it
from religious convictions. ~Pascal |
| Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of
weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions. ~Stanley Schmidt |
| The real world is not user-friendly. ~Kelvin Throop |
| Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward.
~Kierkgaard |
| Better is the enemy of good enough. |
| Originality is just a fresh pair of eyes. ~W. Wilson |
| In the long run, the pessimist may be right, but the optimist has
a better time on the trip. ~Daniel L. Reardon |
| The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to
others. ~Doug Larson |
| School is a building that has four walls, with tomorrow inside.
~Lon Watters |
| I believe that genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by
the scruff of the neck. ~Christopher Quill |
| We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from
our children. ~David Brower |
| Greater than the tread of mighty armies is the idea whose time has
come. ~Victor Hugo |
| Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win
by fearing to attempt. ~William Shakespeare |
| Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from
giving words in evidence of the fact. ~George Elliot |
| Yes, quaint and curious war is, You shoot a fellow down,
You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half a crown. ~Thomas
Handy |
| What does it avail a man to gain a fortune and lose his soul?
~The Bible |
| Order and creativity are complimentary. ~Lewis Mumford |
| One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine
can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard |
| There is no one cause more mysterious than another, if we look
into it. ~Leigh Hunt |
| "I must do something" will always solve more problems
than "something must be done". |
| Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject
to diminishing returns. ~J.M. Clarke |
| When you lose your power to laugh, you lose your power to think
straight. ~Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee |
| Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're a lot easier
to deal with than dumb mistakes. |
| Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The keenest sorrow is to realize ourselves as the soul cause of
all our adversities. ~Sophacles |
| To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be
right in doing it. ~G.K. Chesterton |
| Some tortures are physical, And some are mental, But the one
that's both is dental. ~Ogden Nash |
| It's easier to listen than to think. ~Andy Rooney, on
television |
| On one side, you have book burners, congressional wives and Pat
Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul mouthed rap groups and
Dennis Hopper. All your choices should be so easy. ~Sandra Bernhard |
| Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of
changing himself. ~Leo Tolstoy |
| Humankind cannot stand very much reality. ~T.S. Elliot |
| What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
~Ursula Leguin |
| Happiness is the result of discovering that you do not have to
have what you want. ~James Fleibleman |
| I've never met a human being who would want to read 17,000 pages
of documentation, and if there was, I'd kill him to get him out of the gene pool.
~Joseph Costello, Pres. of Cadence |
| Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indain Proverb |
| There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old
things that we don't know. ~Bierce |
| It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they
think what they think. ~Eugene Ionesco |
| When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most
insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that
they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until
death do they part. ~George Bernard Shaw |
| Win if you can, lose if you must, but ALWAYS cheat! ~Jesse
Ventura's motto during his days in professional wrestling |
| You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if
you had lost something. ~George Bernard Shaw |
| Thou cans't not touch the freedom of my mind. ~John Milton |
| People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no
guarantee against misfortune. ~William McFee |
| Who stops up his ear at the cry of the poor shall cry himself and
not be heard. ~Hebrew Proverb |
| 90 percent of this game is half mental. ~Yogi Berra
(Thanks, Don!) |
