"Learning from a teacher who has stopped learning is like drinking from a stagnant pond." Indonesian proverb
"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it." Dorothy Parker
"There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever." Alfred Hitchcock
In honor of the 100th birthday of Dr. Seuss on Mar. 2, 2004:
"If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up."
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
"Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way."
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent."
"If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good."
"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." William Butler Yeats
"There's so much I don't know about running a house. For example, on these frozen dinners, when they say preheat the oven, do they mean the whole oven or just the space inside it?" Earl Sinclair (Stuart Pankin) on Dinosaurs
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." Jane Austen
"There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever." Alfred Hitchcock
"I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it." Dorothy Parker
"Learning from a teacher who has stopped learning is like drinking from a stagnant pond." Indonesian proverb
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." Ernest Hemingway
"We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable." Chiang Kai-Shek
"There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for." Fred Hoyle
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." Anne Frank
"Let men tremble to win the hand of a woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart." Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato
"Remember that hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Stephen King, "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption"
"Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself." Paul "Bear" Bryant
"On the day I was born the rain fell down, There was trouble brewing in my home town, It was the seventh day, I was the seventh son, And it scared the hell out of everyone." AC/DC, "Bad Boy Boogie"
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." Peter Ustinov
"As long as there is space, I'm going to stare off into it." Garfield
"The man who has no imagination has no wings." Muhammad Ali
"For on this abundant continent, all things have been emboldened except the mind, and thus we have remained no more intellectually enriched than the far less privileged body of mankind. We have learned how to process, but not how to nurture; how to acquire, but not how to cast aside; how to calculate, but not how to think." Thomas Cook, Elena
"I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed." Mark Twain
"Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place." Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) in City Slickers
"I understand about indecision, but I don't care if I get behind. People living in competition, all I want is to have my peace of mind." Boston, "Peace Of Mind"
"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it." Orson Scott Card
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." J. Robert Oppenheimer
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." Susan B. Anthony
"War is the unfolding of miscalculations." Barbra Tuchman
"Music is universal. And I think it feeds us in a way that we desperately need...I believe that music is a real positive, life-changing thing that is as necessary to...the quality of life as things like food and shelter. We need those intangibles like love and a good relationship, but we also need things to help us along the way, and I think music is a really powerful part of that." Emmylou Harris
"Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway." John Wayne
"You can't turn a thing upside-down if there's no theory about it being right-side-up." G. K. Chesterton
"Man is born to live, not to prepare for life." Boris Pasternak
"Once bitten by a snake you feel suspicious even when you see a rope." The Dalai Lama
"The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human." Pablo Casals
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you." Seen on a t-shirt
"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity." Hippocrates
"Lying is a skill like any other and if you want to maintain a level of excellence you have to practice constantly." Garak (Andrew Robinson) on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"I don't know, but I've been told, if the horse don't pull you got to carry the load." Grateful Dead, "New Speedway Boogie"
"Men trust their ears less than their eyes." Herodotus
"Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry
"In a case of dissension, never dare to judge, till you've heard the other side." Euripides
"You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat." Christy Mathewson
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in a square hole, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, and are the ones who'll do it." Apple Computer TV ad, 1997
"A fool's mouth is his destruction." Proverbs 18:7
"The key is not to stop thinking, but to have a meaningful thought process." Heard in conversation by Andy in Lakewood, OH
"Honor Hath Three Things To It. There Aproach to Kings and Principle Persons. The Vantage Ground to do Good. And the Raising of a Man's Own Fortune!" Francis Bacon
"In every revolution there is one man with a vision." Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in Star Trek
"It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any." Mae West
"Poker is life. Human interaction. The interaction of desires. All of life, except love, can be found in the game. And not all of life can or should be about love. Poker is what life can be apart from love: rewarding of honesty and courage; punishing of childishness and egotism; creating of an understanding of the nature of randomness; developing of qualities that lead to love, of self and others, of friend and foe." Rick Bennet, King of a Small World
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." Satchel Paige
"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure." Ecclesiasticus 6:14
"Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death." Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) in Planet of the Apes (the original)
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." Warren Buffett
"Evil communications corrupt good manners." Corinthians 15:33
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." Oscar Wilde