| Quotes to Ponder... |
| "Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on." --Karen Elizabeth Gordon "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." --John F. Kennedy "Food is the most primitive form of comfort." --Sheila Graham "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning." --John Henry Cardinal Newman "Everybody knows if you are too careful you so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." --Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography,1937 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." --Walter Bagehot "We think in generalities, but we live in detail." --Alfred North Whitehead "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." --H.L. Mencken "Any man whose error take ten years to correct is quite a man." --J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein "What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?" --Irv Kupcinet "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." --Mahatma Gandhi "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." --David Dunham "There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise." --Gore Vidal "I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." --Jerome K. Jerome "The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath." --Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart "Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to ourstrip our yesterday by our today." --Stewart B. Johnson "To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it." --Jim Beggs "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 (1902-1984) "The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next." --Matthew Arnold, 'God and the Bible,' 1875 "Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults." --Socrates "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea' "Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself." --Peter da Silva "I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave." --E. M. Forster, as a small child "And remember, no matter where you go, there you are." --Unknown, Buckaroo Banzai, from the film "Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees." --David Letterman "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." --Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times' "Health is not valued till sickness comes." --Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 "I think wholeness comes from living you life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night." --Margery Cuyler "The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone." --Thomas H. Huxley "Sport is imposing order on what was chaos." --Anthony Starr "Work as if everything depended on you, but pray as if everything depended on God." --Ignatius "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." --H.L. Mencken |