(...because it was a cool-looking table...) Greed: Medium ; Gluttony: Medium ; Wrath: Very Low ; Sloth: Low ; Envy: Medium ; Lust: Very High ; Pride: Medium ; Take theSeven Deadly Sins Quizurn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:892082006-08-27T13:10:00quotes 0608272006-08-27T20:08:38Z2006-08-27T20:08:38ZChumps always make the best husbands . . . All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.-- P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)_The Adventures of Sally_1920Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home.-- Mary Quant (1934 - )A college class was told they had to write a short story in as few words as possible containing the following three things:(1) Religion (2) Sexuality (3) MysteryBelow is the only A+ paper in the class."Good God, I'm pregnant, I wonder who the father is."-- instantwisdom.bravepages.com (3/2006)To be ever beloved, one must be ever agreeable.-- Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)_Letter to Mr. Wortley Montagu_1720I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.-- Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)_Letter to Lady Mar_1725No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.-- John Locke (1632-1704)Throughout my childhood his {my father's} reaction to television was "There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet."-- Kent Farnsworth, son of Philo Farnsworth (1906-1971), inventor of televisionNo one is good; no one is evil; everyone is both, in the same way and in different ways.-- Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), _Intimate Journals_When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.-- Paulo Coelho (1947- )_The Alchemist_ 1993 Part IA wise man's question contains half the answer.-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021 - 1058)One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat "No" again and again.-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)_Ecce Homo_1888Money, you've got lots of friends - Crowding 'round the door.When you're gone, and the spending ends. - They don't come no more.-- Billie Holiday (1915-1959)_God Bless the Child_1941(song)The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.-- Kenneth Blanchard (1939 - )(...) only the language of the heart can ever reach another heart, while mere words, as they slip from your tongue, don't get past your listener's ear.-- St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.-- Bill Watterson (Author of comic strip Calvin & Hobbes)Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.-- Socrates (470 - 399 BC)The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.-- Charles Reade (1880 ? 1933).No man is rich enough to buy back his past.-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.-- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo(NOW-UP-TO-DATE)===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:874722006-08-19T21:56:00quotes 0608202006-08-20T04:58:29Z2006-08-20T04:58:29ZThat's how it is on this bitch of an earth.-- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)_Waiting for Godot_ (1952) Act INothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)If a boy gives a girl a rose a day for twelve days rather than a dozen roses all at once it would surely have a greater impact.-- Francis HamerstromThere is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.-- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.-- Sydney SmithThe fire of adversity will melt you like butter, or temper you like steel. The choice is yours.-- AnonymousIf a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.-- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) The Advancement of Learning 1605(...) the organ of thought receives from (coffee) a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast..-- Charles de Talleyrand (1754 - 1838)You could ask him for coffee some night. It's the non-relationship drink of choice. It's not a date, it's a caffeinated beverage. Okay, sure, it's hot and bitter, like a relationship...~ dialouge; Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Willow Rosenberg)There may be a correlation between humor and sex. The need for more research is clearly indicated.-- Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner)_Star Trek: The Next Generation_ "Data's Day" (Stardate 44390.1)The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.-- James BaldwinWe have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.-- Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991)(Upon receiving his honorary Doctorate at Emerson College, Boston; 1970)Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.-- Balzac (1799 - ? )O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us - To see oursels as others see us!It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion.-- Robert Burns, (1759 - 1796) To a Louse, 1786Heaven and earth are not humane. They regard all things as straw dogs.-- Lao Tzu (604 - 501BC)If I wanted life to be easy, I should have gotten born in a different universe.-- Rebecca West (1892-1983) In Edward P. Morgan's _This I Believe_ 1952From time to time strange sects arise which endeavor to strike out extraordinary paths to eternal happiness. Religious insanity is very common in the United States.-- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859) _Democracy in America_ 1835===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo(NOW-UP-TO-DATE)===/font>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:861732006-08-13T12:32:00quotes 0608132006-08-13T19:31:53Z2006-08-13T19:31:53ZGrown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.-- Rev. Jerry Falwell (1933- ) _On CNN's Crossfire, May 17, 1997_The world holds two classes of men -- intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.-- Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri (973-1057) Syrian poetThere's nothing surer: The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.-- (lyric) _Ain't We Got Fun_ 1921 Gus Kahn and Raymond B. EganLaugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) _Solitude_No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.-- Lonny StarrAs long as you live, keep learning how to live.-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (5 BCAfter a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true.-- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7Having climbed certain peaks you'll descend no more, but spread your wings and fly beyond.-- Richard Bach (1936- ) Reminders For The Advanced Soul_ (2004)'Tis not what a man does which exalts him, but what man would do!-- Robert Browning (1812-1889) Saul.My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.--- The 14th Dalai Lama (Lhamo Dhondrub, 1935 - )Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.-- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.-- Linda EllerbeeAs no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.-- The Compleat Angler (1653) _Epistle to the Reader_I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.-- David Rakoff, _Fraud_, 2001Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.-- Nicholas Bentley (1837 ? 1901)Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.-- Richard Saul WurmanDo not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.--Thomas A' Kempis (1380-1471)If it pleases you to hear the news of the world, you must always suffer disquiet of heart as a result.--Thomas A' Kempis (1380-1471)I present . . . to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.-- (journal entry; character "Charlie Gordon,")in Daniel Keyes' _Flowers For Algernon_ 1959We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you.-- Hunter S. Thompson (1937- 2004) _Kingdom of Fear_Now medical experts are saying that it's not coffee, booze or cigarettes that cause heart attacks, but sustained hostile emotional attitudes. Maybe we have hostile emotional attitudes because you made us give up the freaking coffee, booze and cigarettes...-- Kevin G Barkes, Mental dust bunnies, KGB Reportkgb.com/2002_11_17_kgbreparchive.shtml#85691265===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo(NOW UPDATED)===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:847232006-08-06T13:45:00quotes 0608062006-08-06T20:50:45Z2006-08-06T20:51:57ZWell dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians.-- Unattributed, t-shirt (Kevin G. Barkes)I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.-- Hal 9000, _2001: A Space Odyssey_I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.-- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) (Remarks reportedly made on tape to Dr. Ralph Greenson, her psychiatrist in 1962. Quoted in _Los Angeles Times_ August 5, 2005)You are the only person who will ever know the most private, the most secret thoughts of Marilyn Monroe. I have absolute confidence and trust you will never reveal to a living soul what I say to you.-- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) (Remarks reportedly made on tape to Dr. Ralph Greenson, her psychiatrist in 1962. Quoted in _Los Angeles Times_ August 5, 2005)What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.-- Jane AustenClean up clutter to encourage relaxation and help you to find things easier.-- Ancient Feng Shui wisdom**For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.-- Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde.Procrastination is the thief of time.-- Edward Young, Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 393.Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.-- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.-- Walter BenjaminIf you tell someone they have a short attention span often enough, they might believe you enough to get one, but then they'll forget what channel you're on.-- TV producer, Fox News, 2002Sarve bhavantu sukhinah - Sarve santu niramayah - Sarve bhadrani pashyantu - Maa kaschid dukha bhag bhavet.(May all be happy, may all be without desease, may all have well-being, may none have misery of any sort.)-- upanishad (Antreeksh) _famous prayer quotations_Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee - That wilfully will neither heare nor see?-- Heywood, Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. ix.Wal-Mart is like a tax cut for poor people...-- Tony Woodlief, (tonywoodlief.com/archives/001120.html#001120)Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.-- Bruce BartonIt is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.-- Agesilaus II, From Plutarch, Lives, Agesilaus, 36.I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.-- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) _Just So Stories_ (1902) "The Elephant's Child"Last night at twelve I felt immense, But now I feel like thirty cents. (on a hangover)-- George Ade (1866-1944)_The Sultan of Sulu_ (1902), "Remorse"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.-- Diane ArbusHeaven have mercy on us all- Presbyterians and Pagans alike- for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.-- Herman Melville,_Moby Dick_ ch 17 "The Ramadan"I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.-- Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)_Letter to his brother Theo Van Gogh, Oct.20, 1888A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.-- Eric Hoffer, _The True Believer_===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringoFINALLY UP-TO-DATE FOR JULY 2006===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:828742006-07-30T12:59:00quotes 060730 (that few read)2006-07-30T20:08:21Z2006-07-30T22:57:59ZIt's called "sodomy" because it's too difficult to pronounce "gomorrahry."-- Kevin G. BarkesJust because you wear galoshes in the rain, doesn't mean your feet won't get wet.-- (mother to her university student son, on finding condoms preparing his clothes for laundry.)What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.--Tennessee WilliamsIf we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.-- Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa (1896 -1957)What a strange power there is in clothing.-- Isaac Bashevis SingerYou must prepare yourselves, young people (...) almost ready to go to the retirement home to spend the rest of our days tapping our bedpans rhythmically in time to "easy listening" rock 'n' roll.-- Dave BarryI too have a new plaything, the best I ever had, a woodlot.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson(...) if toes are found in chewing tobacco, it seems to us that somebody has been very careless.-- Pillars vs. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (1918)Two kinds of person are consoling in a dangerous time: those who are completely courageous, and those who are more frightened than you are.-- A.J. Liebling, "Paris Postscript," The New Yorker, Aug. 10, 1940When people say "clean as a whistle", they forget that a whistle is full of spit.-- George CarlinIt is this dazed and floundering opportunism that gets in the way of everything. If our statesmen were visionaries something practical might be done.-- G. K. Chesterton, _What's Wrong With The World_, 1910I look at those words now, and 'cat stranglers' seems excessive to me. (...) and that reference was hurtful (...) to cat owners.-- Garrison Keillor in "Salon" on apologizing for calling Republicans bad namesI was a Republican until they lost their minds.-- Charles BarkleyThe Two Things about Science:1. Artifactual data proves nothing.2. All data is artifactual.The Two Things about Medicine:1. Do no harm.2. To do any good, you must risk doing harm.The Two Things about Public Relations1. Perception is reality.2. Perception is rarely reality.The Two Things about Driving:1. Don't hit anything.2. Don't let anything hit you.--(csun.edu/~dgw61315/thetwothings.html)Part of the problem today is that we have a surplus of simple answers and a shortage of simple problems.-- Syracuse HeraldThe pure and simple truth is rarely pure, and never simple.-- Oscar WildeEven if we are of the same clay, the pot is not the same.-- Mexican sayingThe Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth,and to substitute in their place imps.-- Martin Luther _Tischreden_ (page 358 of volume 4)If you spend all of your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.--"Dilbert", Scott Adams (1957- )===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:818132006-07-23T12:05:00quotes 0607232006-07-23T19:04:24Z2006-07-23T19:04:24ZEating your children is an act of barbarism.-- Soviet government poster in Ukraine, during the 1933 terror-famineWe got to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit.-- George W. Bush, Open Mike NightA good laugh is sunshine in a house.-- William Makepeace ThackerayThe modern Australian is perhaps the most hospitable man on earth. (...) Physically, too, he has evolved into a human being as different from the ordinary Londoner as a mastif from a bulldog.-- Armstrong Sperry, _Pacific Islands_, 1955I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.-- Harry S. TrumanNever, ever, ever, quit.-- Sir Winston ChurchillThere is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.-- Ronald Reagan October 27, 1964Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, and then for ever!-- Robert Burns (1759-1796) 'Ae fond Kiss' (1792)My feelings and hopes are all so sanguine that in this dull world of reality 'tis best to dispel our delusive daydreams as soon as possible.-- Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) _Letter to Mercy Levering_July 23, 1840There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong-- H. L. Mencken (in _The Evening Mail_ 1917)(...) Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things - You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung.-- John Gillespie Magee, Jr.(...) And they (church members) keep telling the Catholic Church that it had better get with the liberal program - ordain women, bless gay unions and so forth - or die. Sure.-- Charlotte Allen, "Liberal Christianity is paying for its sins"_Los Angeles Times_, July 10, 2006The advantage of a bad memory is that, several times over, one enjoys the same good things for the first time.-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) _Human, All Too Human_ (1878)I'm just wandering, I think of things and then they go away forever.-- Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) (battling alzheimers) _The Times_(February 5, 1997)Each time you think you are unveiling the truth, all you get is a teasing glimpse of what turns out to be yet another veil.-- Vilayanur and Diane Ramachandran_Scientific American Mind_ (Feb/Mar 2006), "Illusions"As a rule the scientist learns from the observations of his or her predecessors and shows individual intelligence (if any) by the ability to discriminate between the important and the negligible and by selecting here and there the significant stepping stones that lead across the difficulty to new understanding.-- John Enders, Nobel Prize (for work on growing poliovirus)Politeness is the poison of all good collaboration in science. (...) A good scientist values criticism almost more highly than friendship;(...) stops the nonsense.-- Francis Crick, Nobel Prize (for discovery of structure of DNAIt is a given that life is not perfect and one of the major challenges for every person is to live one's life well given the imperfections they must face.-- Dr. Howard Weiner, (researcher on MS)===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:800952006-07-16T14:52:00quotes 0607162006-07-16T21:51:07Z2006-07-16T21:51:07ZBring me men to match my mountains (...) Bring me men, bring me men, bring me men!-- Samuel Walter Foss, "The Coming American"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.-- Edmund HillaryReason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.-- Nicola Abbagnano (1900 ? 1990)If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs?-- John Clare (1793-1864) Letter to a friendLike the lover, the friend expects no reward for his feelings. (...) Such is the ideal. And without such an ideal, would there be any point to life?-- SIt is better to travel hopefully than to arrive disenchanted.-- Japanese proverb"As soon as the governor signs the bill, I'm proud to say we'll officially be North Nebraska. Unhappy at the prospect of becoming South Nebraska, Nebraska is reportedly considering a name-change to North Kansas. There is no word on whether Texas, at the bottom of the totem, will change it's name to North Mexico. "Although we kinda are already," said an Austin legislator.-- Denny Spurling (in"Weekly World News)I said:-- Dante, Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto XXXIIIAct with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.-- Confucius (551-479 BC)Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.-- Jenny HolzerEvery man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.-- Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)_The Message To The Planet_ (1989), Part 1He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths.-- Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)_The Sacred And profane Love Machine_ (1974)My friends tell me I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.-- Daniel Gilbert, _Stumbling on Happiness_ (2006)I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.-- Grantland Rice (1880 ? 1954)America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well- wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.-- John Quincy AdamsHow times change!(obq)(Roy Miro) loathed negative thinkers. If too many of them radiated pessimism at the same time, they could distort the fabric of reality, resulting in earthquakes, tornadoes, train wrecks, plane crashes, acid rain, cancer clusters, disruptions in microwave communications, and a dangerous surliness in the general population.-- Dean Koontz (1945- )_Dark Rivers Of The Heart_ (1995), Chapter 9===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:783942006-07-09T14:09:00quotes 0607092006-07-09T21:09:58Z2006-07-09T21:09:58Z(...) the danger (of global warming) is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes, in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.-- Mark Steyn(...) Know life's a dream worth dreaming.-- William Earnest Henley (1849-1903) "Echoes (XXXIII)"As long as you don't stop climbing, the stairs won't end, under your climbing feet they will go on growing upwards.-- Franz Kafka (1883-1924) _Advocates_However far you travel, do not go crying."-- prayer to Clay Mother (Nan chu Kweejo) of the indigenous Towa peopleThe future starts today, not tomorrow.-- Pope John Paul IIOur birth is nothing but our death begun, as tapers waste the moment they take fire.-- Edward YoungYou pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_The Winter's Tale_ (1610-1611), act 1, sc. 1, ln. 18If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.-- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.-- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.-- Mario Puzo (1920-1999)_The Godfather_ (1969), Chapter 1Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.-- R. D. Laing (1927-1989) _The Politics of Experience_ (1967) Ch. 6It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it--which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.-- Peter Lynch (1944- ) _Beating the Street_ (1994)Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."-- John Muir (1838-1914)Nothing of importance today.-- King George III diary entry on July 4, 1776We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty, in a feather-bed.-- Thomas JeffersonWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.-- Tennessee WilliamsThe whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.-- Jerry Falwell===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:764162006-07-02T14:54:00quotes 0607022006-07-02T21:54:40Z2006-07-02T21:54:40ZBig Brother is watching you.-- George Orwell (Eric Blair) (1903-1950)_Nineteen Eighty-Four_ (1949), Chapter 1, Section IA man's homeland is wherever he prospers.-- Aristophanes, Plutus, 388 B.C.Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures.-- Marcus Aurelius, _Meditations_(...)There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom.-- Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)_The Child Who Never Grew_ (1950), Chapter 1Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.-- TallyrandRevolution is but thought carried into action.-- Emma Goldman (1869-1940)(In Alice Rossi's _Feminist Papers_ (1973))Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely.-- Emma Goldman (1869-1940)_Anarchism and Other Essays_ (1917), "Marriage And Love"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking onward together in the same direction.-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)_Wind, Sand, and Stars_ (1939)Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.-- Mel Brooks (1926- )_Playboy_ (October 1979)I really think he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.-- Rep. Charles Rangel, (D-N.Y.) regarding President BushA reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.-- Joseph Hall (1574 ? 1656)For God deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.-- Augustine (354 - 430)The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities.-- John Wesley (1703-1791) Letter, 21 Feb 1756 to Samuel Furley.Even bad men admire those who tell them the truth.-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)_Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 24 (1880)Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.-- Angela Monet===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:743292006-06-25T12:04:00quotes 0606252006-06-25T19:06:52Z2006-06-25T19:06:52ZWhat you wished for is not really what you wanted.-- Leon KassI know not with weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.-- Albert EinsteinI feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.-- Jonas Salk (1914 - 1995)As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much and say nothing.-- La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clerks do.-- Tsar Nicholas I (1796 ? 1855)Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course.-- Jacque CousteauThere's nothing "gay" about gender-disorientation pathology.-- Mark M. Alexander, Jun 2, 2006It would encourage clear thinking on these matters if persons were not characterised as heterosexual or homosexual, but as individuals who have had certain amounts of heterosexual experience or homosexual experience.-- Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male Kinsey et al 1948 p617The law against sodomy goes back fourteen hundred years to the Emperor Justinian, who felt there should be such a law because, as everyone knew, sodomy caused earthquakes.-- Gore Vidal, _Matters of Fact and Fiction_, 1977(chapter epigraph in Simon Winchester, _A Crack in the Edge of the World_, 2005)He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.-- Anthony Powell (1905-2000) _The Acceptance World_ (1955)It's difficult to have a simple conversation-- Ann Coulter, _Godless: The Church of Liberalism_There are only two things that have no end, human stupidity and the universe, and I'm not sure about the universe.-- Albert EinsteinReflect upon the extraordinary advance which machines have made during the last few hundred years, and note how slowly the animal and vegetable kingdoms are advancing-- Samuel Butler, _Erewhon_ (1872)Only nature can be truely random and beautiful.-- Scorpittarius===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:717562006-06-18T15:24:00quotes 0606182006-06-18T22:25:15Z2006-06-18T22:25:15Z(Rap star Ice Cube) wants the head of Oprah Winfrey (...) "Black America has to deal with serious problems by itself, problems that are certainly not the fault of rappers, but problems that rappers are certainly not helping. If trying to solve those problems means stepping on the self esteem of a couple of vulgar gangsta millionaires, so be it." (-- Oprah)-- Robert Lashley, (www.theliterarythug.blogspot)People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.-- (Anonymous?)When women go wrong, men go right after them.-- Mae West (1892-1980)The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.-- William McFee(1881? 1966)History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.-- Edmond (1822-1896) and Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870)The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - ?)There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.-- C.S. Lewis (letter: 17 June 1963)Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.-- Robert Lee FrostLet us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?".-- Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911 - 2004)It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.-- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)Peterson's Admonition: When you think you're going down for the third time--just remember you may have counted wrong.Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.-- William James quotes (1842-1910)Travelling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.-- Fanny Burney (1752 - ?) regarding LondonSome women are not beautiful--they only look as though they were.-- Karl Kraus (1874-1936)The war (WWI) was put up to our generation. I don't know what for; the sins of our fathers, probably. Certainly not to make the world safe for Democracy, or any rhetoric of that sort.-- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947) _One of Ours_ (1923)I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.-- Fred Allen (John Florence Sullivan) (1894 - 1956)===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:701382006-06-12T00:21:00quotes 0606112006-06-12T07:22:35Z2006-06-12T07:22:35ZI like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."-- Patrick Henry (1736 ? 1799)What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.-- Mary Pickford (1892- 1966)The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.-- Wilford Woodruff (1807 - 1898)Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.-- William Gilmore Simms (1806 ? 1870)Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.-- Aesop (620BC ? ), Juno And The Peacock.The best test of a man is not how well he does the things he likes, but how well he does the things he doesn't like.-- Richard Nixon Bibliography -97 (page 328)A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.-- Len Wein (1948 - )Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.-- Edmund Burke (1766 - ?)To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism - to steal from many is research.--Steven WrightLoving someone is not about keeping things from them, or protecting them or controlling what they feel, it's about letting them be free.-- A. W. CassLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech.-- ShakespearePeople are under a lot of pressure today. We live in the age of information overload. Whether reading on the Web or in a newspaper, the average reader doesn't have the time for content that doesn't get to the point.-- Gerry McGovern and Rob Norton, _Content Critical_Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.-- Tony Blair (1953 ? )He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.-- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:678462006-06-04T18:34:00quotes 0606042006-06-05T01:35:33Z2006-06-05T01:35:33ZI have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.-- Peter the Great (1672-1725) Czar of RussiaThe shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.-- Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747)It is a good deal better to be seventy-nine years young than it is to be fifty years old.-- George Albert Smith (1870 - 1951)Goals are dreams with deadlines.-- Diana Scharf HuntA group of students were asked to list what they thought were the present "Seven Wonders of the World."1. Egypt's Great Pyramids2. Taj Mahal3. Grand Canyon4. Panama Canal5. Empire State Building6. St. Peter's Basilica -7. China's Great Wall(...) the teacher noted that one student had not finished her paper yet. (...) "I think the 'Seven Wonders of the World' are:1. To See2. To Hear3. To Touch4. To Taste5. To Feel6. To Laugh7. And to Love."A gentle reminder -- that the most precious things in life cannot be built by hand or bought by man.-- www.cumuli.com/ezines/rec.html?ez=instwiKind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.-- Mother TheresaOne word frees us of all the weight and pain in life: that word is love.-- Sophocles (495 BC - ? )Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you...- T. G. BarronAll we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.-- William Harvey (1578 ? 1657)Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.-- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)Hypocrisy is homage paid by vice to virtue.-- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, (1613-1680) Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales.What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.-- Anonymous"To Friar John Cor, by order of the King, to make aqua vitae VIII bolls of malt."-- Exchequer Rolls 1494-95, vol x, p. 487.(1)( Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of Scotch whisky June 1, 1494.)There is no use waiting for your ship to come in unless you've sent one out.-- seen on a t-shirtThe most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.-- Humphrey Davy (1778-1829)Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.-- E. Joseph CrossmanThere are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.-- Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium (47AD)Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer.-- Plutarch (A.D. 46?-119?) Greek philosopher and biographer===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:662042006-05-28T15:37:00quotes 0605282006-05-28T22:39:26Z2006-05-28T22:39:26ZCivility costs nothing, and buys everything.-- Lady M. W. MontagueWealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.-- Euripides (484 - 406 BC)It's no good running a pig farm badly for thirty years while saying, "Really I was meant to be a ballet dancer." By that time, pigs will be your style.-- Quentin Crisp (1908-1998)(...) Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.-- Ralph Waldo EmersonNo change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)When Time who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too,The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) , Song. _Juvenile Poems_Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad.-- Emmett Smith (1866 ? 1922)True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)(...) Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.-- Ibn Khaldun ( 1332 ? 1406)Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.-- Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.-- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)_Pillars of Society_We see nothing, except what is so unimportant to see. Nothing, and yet we tremble. Why?-- Henri Michaux (1899-1924)_I Am Writing T You From A Far-off Country_The perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike: all will then be clear.-- Seng-ts'an ( ? - 606AD)"Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us -- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along."-- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)Love is what's left of a relationship after all of the selfishness has been removed.-- (???)Am I to sink ever lower into falsehood, stagnant putrescence, loathsome accursed death; or, with whatever paroxysm, to cast the falsehoods out of me, and be cured and live?-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) _Heroes and Hero Worship_Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values -- carefully thought about, selected, and internalized values.-- Steven Covey _The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People_The fastest-growing destinations for new immigrant arrivals, according to demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institution, are North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Iowa and Nebraska.-- Carolyn Lochhead, article, San Francisco Chronicle, May 12, 2006The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.-- Richard Dawkins (1941-) _The Blind Watchmaker_ (1986) ch. 11The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.-- Richard DawkinsReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger) (4 BCE-65CE)===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read/search* monthly music, art, madness-related quotes athttp://www.geocities.com/ircgringo===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:643782006-05-21T15:07:00quotes 0605212006-05-21T22:28:09Z2006-05-21T22:28:09ZHearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.-- dialouge, The Wizard, Baum's Wizard of OzAs empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers.-- Plato (427 ? 348 BC)You can stay young as long as you learn.-- Emily Dickinson (1830 - )One thing is certain, Son; Either be up and doing -- Or soon you'll be down and done.-- Douglas Malloch, "Up And Doing"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances.-- First Lady Martha Washington (1731 - 1802)Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.-- Kathleen Norris (1880 - 1966)Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.-- Eudora Welty (1909 - 2001)And the sea shall grant all men new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.-- Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506)I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.-- Nancy Astor (1879 ? 1964)--- (obq) "Go Hillary 2008!"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.-- Thomas PaineIt is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.-- Pierre De Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)Its complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.-- Louis Simpson (1923 - ) "On the Lawn at the Villa"The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.-- Napoleon (1769 -We have no right to make people happy against their will.-- James Boswell (1740-1795) James Pope-Hennesy _Sins of the Fathers_You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be led.-- Tiorio"When we two parted, In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years."-- George Gordon Noel Byron, (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)You should have education enough so that you won't have to look up to people; and then more education so that you will be wise enough not to look down on people.-- M. L. BorenWhen we have done our best, we should wait the results in peace.-- John Lubbock (1834-1913).The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.-- John Jay (1745 ? 1829)"I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-pound perch in my lake."-- George W. Bush in an interview with Bild am Sonntag when asked about the high point of his Presidency.--- (obq) The largest perch ever caught in the US according to a casual perusal of the records is slightly over 4 pounds.Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the lord makes so many of them.-- Abraham LincolnThe world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.-- Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives still located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:616942006-05-14T14:52:00quotes 0605142006-05-14T21:53:46Z2006-05-21T22:31:29ZCensorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.-- Mark Twain ( Samuel Langhorne Clemens ) (1835-1910)We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.-- Jean de La Bruyere (1645 - 1696)The Internet is totally out of control, impossible to map accurately, and being used far beyond its original intentions. So far, so good.-- Dr. Dobb's Journal May 1993Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.-- Ann LandersPeople buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.-- John C. Maxwell (1845-?)Samantha: Money is power. Sex is power. Therefore, getting money for sex is simply an exchange of power.Miranda: Don't listen to the dimestore Camille Paglia.-- dialogue: _Sex in the City_Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.-- John Keats _Ode on a Grecian Urn_ (1820)Do it. It is easier to ask forgiveness than to gain permission.-- Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) (invented COBOL)Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.-- David Brinkley (1920-2003)Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.-- Evelyn Waugh, diary, March 26, 1962You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.-- Lewis B. Smedes (?-2002)Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.-- Confucius (551 BC - ?)Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.-- John F. KennedyDo whatever your enemies don't want you to do.-- Gary NovakWhen I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning.-- Reichsmarschall Hermann G( Robert Browning (1812-1889) not the shotgun )A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.-- Schiller, _The Death of Wallenstein_, 1799"What are you doing with the fly-swatter?" she asked."Hunting Flies," he responded."Oh!, Killed any?" she asked."Yep, 3 males, 2 Females," he replied.Intrigued, she asked. "How can you tell?"He said, "3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone."===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives still located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:597332006-05-08T21:11:00quotes 0605082006-05-09T04:10:52Z2006-05-21T22:40:27ZWhen I grow up I want to be a little boy.-- Joseph Heller (1923-1999) _Something Happened_I praise loudly, I blame softly.-- Catherine the Great (1729-1796) Letter, 23 Aug 1794Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have laboured hard for.-- Socrates (470 - 399 BC)Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.-- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1990)Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.-- Laurence J. PeterSome men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning.-- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)A joke is a very serious thing.-- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillDo you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?--Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)_Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis_ (1916-1917)The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.-- Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961).(...) for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion.-- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)(being come to some angry words with my wife about neglecting the keeping of the house clean, I calling her beggar, and she me pricklouse, which vexed me)-- The Diary of Samuel Pepys Saturday 2 May 1663The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.-- Paul ValHabit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.-- Horace Mann (1796-1859)I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.-- Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852)Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.-- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.-- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)Vain hope to make men happy by politics!-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in.-- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives still located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:587732006-04-30T14:42:00quotes 0604302006-04-30T21:41:26Z2006-05-21T22:49:02ZThe worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.-- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)Knowledge is the antidote to fear.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - ? )Don't marry someone you can live with, marry the one you can't live without-- Dr. James Dobson (attrib)Even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.-- L.J.J. Wittgenstein, (1889-1951) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 6.52 (1921),Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) (attrib)When you have robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power. He is free again.-- Alexander SolzhenitsynNo, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.-- George H.W. BushThe truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.-- Terry Pratchett, _Hogfather_,Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.-- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)Be polite to all, but intimate with few.-- Thomas JeffersonAs long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG.-- Donald TrumpThe central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.-- Daniel Patrick MoynihanThis world, where much is to be done and little to be known.-- Samuel Johnson, Against Inquisitive and Perplexing Thoughts (1785)It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.-- The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) James Boswell (1769) p. 174Daybreak is a never-ending glory...getting out of bed is a never-ending nuisance.-- G. K. ChestertonIt is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.-- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives still located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:570492006-04-23T19:02:00quotes 0604232006-04-24T02:02:01Z2006-05-21T22:45:46ZThere are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.-- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC )Our life is what our thoughts make it.-- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.)Your deeds are your religion.-- HadithLet us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.-- Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - )In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.-- Henry Havelock Ellis (1859There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.-- Winifred Newman (1901 - 1976)Love of the hater is the most difficult of all. But by the grace of God even this most difficult thing becomes easy to accomplish if we want to do it.-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 ? 1939)All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.-- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)_Critique of Pure Reason_ (1781)Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.-- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life; nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802-1883)Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.-- Winston Churchill (1874 -Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.-- Richard Hughes (1900 ? 1976)If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?-- Milton Berle (1908 - 2002)But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.-- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.-- Leo F. BuscagliaIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.-- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)There's no hate lost between us.-- Thomas Middleton (1580 ? 1627)Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.-- Antoine de Rivarol (1753 - 1801)It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.-- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)===* some views expressed not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this message* for enjoyment only - history not exact science - dates/quotes not guaranteed for accuracy* archives still located athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/qapaad- no need to join to read===urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:uoggb:548252006-04-16T02:18:00quotes 0604152006-04-16T09:19:48Z2006-05-21T22:44:46ZBloom where you are planted.-- Nancy Reader CampionThe greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.-- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 ? 1519)The best portion of a good man's life -- His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.-- Wordsworth (1770-1850)The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.-- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)They (dogs) inspire us to cultivate our childlike qualities and to realize we never have to outgrow the wonder of life.-- Mari Gayatri Stein, _Unleashing Your Inner Dog_The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.-- Arnold Joseph Toynbee, (1889 - 1975)(obq)Life must be lived as play.-- Plato (428BC - 347BC)America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.-- Jimmy Carter, from his Farewell Address 1981.Here we have two useless habits to counteract: the first is judging others, and the second is assuming others are judging us.-- Thubten Chodron, _Working With Anger_1. My life is not futile. 2. My failures are not fatal. 3. My death is not final.-- Max Lucado _Six Hours One Friday_The most honest man alive is the man who is willing to publicly admit he is an atheist.-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.,(1922 -) _Mother Night_Jesus Christ wasn't even his name. Actually, it was Jmmanuel. And he NEVER once claimed to be the Son of God. (...) And he didn't die on the cross. In fact, he lived to be about 90 years old.-- The Talmud of Jmmanuel (1963)Grace and love like mighty rivers, Flowed incessant from above,Heaven's peace and perfect justice, Kissed a guilty world in love.-- William Rees (1802-1883)One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.-- Loren Eiseley (1907 - 1977)Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.-- Thomas Jefferson, (1743 - 1826)Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.-- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) _Crossways_ (1889)To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935)(suicide note: "When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. I have preferred chloroform to cancer."If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.-- Miguel de Unamuno (1864 - 1936)Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.-- Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 ? 1970)Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.-- Epictetus (55 ? 135AD), Discourses.Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal.-- Richard M. Nixon (interview with David Frost, May 19, 1977)I am unable to understand how a man of honor can take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.-- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)Be not angry that you cannot make others