Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
[From an e-mail forward]";
quote[28]="20th Cent.
A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something which would make you mad if it happened to you.";
quote[29]="20th Cent.
This piece is chock full of omissions.";
quote[30]="20th Cent.
While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy.";
quote[31]="20th Cent.
What comes around goes around.";
quote[32]="20th Cent.
Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.";
quote[33]="20th Cent.
To those you touch in life, you can be either a stepping stone or a stumbling block.";
quote[34]="20th Cent.
Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.";
quote[35]="20th Cent.
Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't understand
[from a bumper sticker]";
quote[36]="20th Cent.
People fear what they do not understand. And they often come to hate what they fear.";
quote[37]="Abrahams, Jim and Zucker, David
1944- ; 1947-
"We have clearance, Clarence."
"Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?"
"Tower's radioed clearance, over!"
"That's Clarence Oveur, over."
"Roger."
"Huh?"
"Roger, over."
"Huh?"
"Huh??"
[from Airplane!]";
quote[38]="Adams, Douglas
1952-2001
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go by.";
quote[39]="Adams, Douglas
1952-2001
These are lifes little learning experiences. You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, You know that thing you just did? Dont do that.
[from A Salmon of Doubt]";
quote[40]="Adams, Douglas
1952-2001
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.";
quote[41]="Adams, Douglas
1952-2001
Space, it says, is big, really BIG. I mean you have no idea how vastly hugely big it is. I mean you may think it's a long walk to the chemist's but that's peanuts to space, listen. . ..
[from The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy]";
quote[42]="Adams, Douglas
1952-2001
Ive come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:- Anything that is in the world when youre born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Anything thats invented between when youre fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Anything invented after youre thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
[from A Salmon of Doubt]";
quote[43]="Allingham, William
1824-1889
Head the ship for England!
Shake out every sail!
Blithe leap the billows, merry sings the gale.
Captain work the reckoning; how many knots a day? -
Round the world and home again,
That's the sailor's way!
[partially quoted in Willy Wonka]";
quote[44]="Allingham, William
1824-1889
Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men.
[from "Faeries" quoted in Willy Wonka]";
quote[45]="Amos, Tori
1963-
You say you don't want it, again and again, but you don't, you don't really mean it. You say you don't want it, this circus we're in, but you dont, you dont really mean it.
[from "Spark"]";
quote[46]="Angelou, Maya
1928-
[My mother] said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and intelligent than college professors.";
quote[47]="ANON
"Since the water is coming in over the sides, if we pull the drain plug, the water will go out the hole."
[Two boys attempted to sail an old hot tub across a canal. From The Darwin Awards p. 249]";
quote[48]="ANON
"The tank was boom and the inspector was not so good after that."
[Description of safety demonstration given by a company inspector of what not to do around an oxygen tank. From The Darwin Awards, p. 131.]";
quote[49]="ANON
"What do you think you're doing?!" "I'm just getting rid of all these duds lying around."
[Darwin Awards, p. 172]";
quote[50]="Anouilh, Jean
1910-1987
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.";
quote[51]="Archimedes
287? - 212? BCE
Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.
[On the action of a lever, in Pappus Synagoge bk. 8, proposition 10, sect. 11]";
quote[52]="Arendt, Hannah
1906-1975
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom";
quote[53]="Aristotle
364-322 BCE
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
[Metaphysica, 3-1078b.]";
quote[54]="Ashford, Jan
1932-
There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. ";
quote[55]="Barnes, Clive
1927-
Television is the first truly democratic culture --- the first culture available to everbody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what the people do want.";
quote[56]="Barton, Clara
1821-1912
I distinctly remember forgetting that.";
quote[57]="Bayly, Thomas Haynes
1797-1839
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.";
quote[58]="Beastie Boys
You make the mistake of judging a man by his race, You go through life with egg on your face.
[from "Eggman"]";
quote[59]="Bechara, Soha
We never appreciate what it means to live in peace until that peace is no more. It must be understood what it is to grow up under occupation, to live at the mercy of checkpoints and curfews, stripped of liberty and identity.
[in Resistance: My Life for Lebanon]";
quote[60]="Bell, Eric Temple
1883-1960
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.";
quote[61]="Berra, Yogi
1925-
Half the lies they tell me aren't true.";
quote[62]="Berra, Yogi
1925-
It ain't over till it's over.";
quote[63]="Berra, Yogi
1925-
Ninety-nine percent of the game is half mental.";
quote[64]="Berra, Yogi
1925-
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.";
quote[65]="Berra, Yogi
1925-
Sometimes you can observe a lot by watching.";
quote[66]="Berra, Yogi
1925-
There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em";
quote[67]="Bevan, Annie
Art is our memory of love. The most an artist can do [. . .] is say, let me show you what I have seen, what I have loved, and perhaps you will see it and love it too.
[Western North Carolina Woman, June 2003]";
quote[68]="Billings, Josh
1818-1885
Live within your means, even if you have to borrow to do so.";
quote[69]="Blake, William
1757-1827
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite.
[from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]";
quote[70]="Blake, William
1757-1827
No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.";
quote[71]="Blake, William
1757-1827
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
[from "Auguries of Innocence"]";
quote[72]="Bohr, Niels
1885-1962
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.";
quote[73]="Boomtown Rats
I don't like Mondays
[from "I Don't Like Mondays"]";
quote[74]="Borge, Victor
1909-2000
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.";
quote[75]="Braiker. Harriet
1948-
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.";
quote[76]="Brannon, Joan L.
He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.";
quote[77]="Brecht, Berthold
1898-1956
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
(Food comes first, then morals.)
[Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera), 1928, act 2, sc. 3]";
quote[78]="Brecht, Berthold
1898-1956
ANDREA: Unglücklich das Land, das keine Helden hat!...
GALILEI: Nein. Unglücklich das Land, das Helden nötig hat.
ANDREA: Unhappy the land that has no heroes!...
GALILEO: No. Unhappy the land that needs heroes.
[from Leben des Galilei (Life of Galileo), 1939, sc. 13]";
quote[79]="Brecht, Berthold
1898-1956
Man merkts, hier ist zu lang kein Krieg gewesen. Wo soll da Moral herkommen, frag ich? Frieden, das ist nur Schlamperei, erst der Krieg schafft Ordnung.
( One observes, they have gone too long without a war here. What is the moral, I ask? Peace is nothing but slovenliness, only war creates order.)
[Mutter Courage (Mother Courage, 1939) sc. 1]";
quote[80]="Bright, Penny
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
[quoted in The Ecologist, March 2004]";
quote[81]="Bronowski, Jacob
1908-1974
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast on nature.
[Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252]";
quote[82]="Bronowski, Jacob
1908-1974
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
[Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3]";
quote[83]="Brothers, Joyce
1928-
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.";
quote[84]="Broun, Heywood
1888-1939
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
[Sitting on the World (1924) The Last Review]";
quote[85]="Brower, Charles
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow";
quote[86]="Bruce, Lenny (Leonard Alfred Schneider)
1925-1966
The liberals can understand everything but people who dont understand them.
[In John Cohen's Essential Lenny Bruce (1970) p. 59]";
quote[87]="Bryan, William Jennings
1860-1925
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved";
quote[88]="Buck, Pearl S.
1892-1973
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to Earth.";
quote[89]="Buller, Arthur
1874-1944
There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
[Punch 19 Dec. 1923, Relativity]";
quote[90]="Burgess, Gelett
1866-1951
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.";
quote[91]="Burke, Billie
1885-1970
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.";
quote[92]="Bush, Kate
1958-
Some moments that I've had, some moments of pleasure. . . Just being alive, it can really hurt. These moments given are a gift from time. Just let us try to give these moments back to those we love, to those who will survive.
[from "Moments of Pleasure"]";
quote[93]="Butler, Samuel
1835-1902
To live is like to love -- all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
[Notebooks (1912) ch. 14]";
quote[94]="Butler, Samuel
1835-1902
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
[Notebooks (1912) ch. 17]
("watered milk" means you have been cheated because the milk has been watered-down.) ";
quote[95]="Butler, Samuel
1835-1902
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
[Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69]";
quote[96]="Butler, Samuel
1835-1902
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
[Notebooks (1912) ch. 1]";
quote[97]="Butler, Samuel
1835-1902
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
[Notebooks (1912) ch. 14]";
quote[98]="Campbell, Judith
When your heart speaks, take good notes.";
quote[99]="Camus, Albert
1913-1960
Quest-ce quun homme révolté ? Un homme qui dit non.
(What is a rebel? A man who says no.)
[from LHomme révolté (The Rebel, 1951) p. 25]";
quote[100]="Camus, Albert
1913-1960
Vous savez ce quest le charme: une manière de sentendre répondre oui sans avoir posé aucune question claire.
(You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.)
[La Chute (The Fall), 1956, p. 62]";
quote[101]="Carlin, George
1937-
Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.";
quote[102]="Carlin, George (attribution) Also at http://www.cpuidle.de/by_topic.htm
1937-
Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you; tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.";
quote[103]="Carter, Jimmy
1924-
I would hope that the nations of the world might say that we had built a lasting peace, built not on weapons of war but on international policies which reflect our own most precious values.
[Inaugural address]";
quote[104]="Carter, Jimmy
1924-
Our Nation can be strong abroad only if it is strong at home. And we know that the best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength.
[Inaugural address, 1976]";
quote[105]="Carter, Jimmy
1924-
We are a strong nation, and we will maintain strength so sufficient that it need not be proven in combat - a quiet strength based not merely on the size of an arsenal, but on the nobility of ideas.
We will be ever vigilant and never vulnerable, and we will fight our wars against poverty, ignorance, and injustice - for those are the enemies against which our forces can be honorably marshaled.
[Inaugural address, 1976]";
quote[106]="Castaneda, Carlos
1925-
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.";
quote[107]="Cayley, Arthur
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
[In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.]";
quote[108]="Chomsky, Noam
1928-
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
[Television interview, 30 Mar. 1978, in Listener 6 Apr. 1978]";
quote[109]="Churchill, Winston
1874-1965
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning";
quote[110]="Churchill, Winston
1874-1965
The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didnt happen.
[Describing the qualifications desirable in a prospective politician]";
quote[111]="Churchill, Winston
1874-1965
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.";
quote[112]="Churchill, Winston
1874-1965
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.";
quote[113]="Churchill, Winston
1874-1965
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.";
quote[114]="Churchill, Winston
1874-1965
What is our aim? Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.";
quote[115]="Cicero
106-43 BCE
No one can give you better advice than yourself.";
quote[116]="Clapton, Eric
1945-
Standin' at the crossroads, tryin' to read the signs,
to tell me which way I should go to find the answer,
and all the time I know: plant your love and let it grow. . .
Time is getting shorter, and there's much for you to do.
Only ask and you will know "what do I really want?" -
the rest is up to you: plant your love and let it grow.
[from "Let It Grow"]";
quote[117]="Clarke, Arthur C.
1917-
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.";
quote[118]="Clinton, Bill
1946-
The divide of race has been Americas constant curse. And each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no different. These forces have nearly destroyed our nation in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. And they torment the lives of millions in fractured nations all around the world.
These obsessions cripple both those who hate and, of course, those who are hated, robbing both of what they might become. We cannot, we will not, succumb to the dark impulses that lurk in the far regions of the soul everywhere. We shall overcome them. And we shall replace them with the generous spirit of a people who feel at home with one another.
Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
[Second inaugural address]";
quote[119]="Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
1772-1834
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink,
Water, water, everywhere
Nor any drop to drink.
[from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"]";
quote[120]="Coolidge, Calvin
1872-1933
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.";
quote[121]="Cosby, Bill
1937-
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everybody";
quote[122]="Crossman, E. Joseph
If you want to test your memory try to remember what you were worrying about a year ago today.";
quote[123]="Crowded House
Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire
Couldn't conquer the blue sky
Everywhere you go, you always take the weather with you. . .
[from "Weather with You"]";
quote[124]="cummings, e. e.
1894-1962
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not. Progress is a comfortable disease.
[1 x 1 (1944) no. 14]";
quote[125]="Da Vinci, Leonardo
1452-1519
Every now and then, even briefly, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.";
quote[126]="Davis, Philip J.
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
['Number', Scientific American, 211, (Sept. 1964), 51 - 59.]";
quote[127]="de Bono, Edward
1933-
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, when looked at through the myth, all evidence supports that myth.";
quote[128]="de Cervantes, Miguel
1547-1616
Love not what you are, but what you may become.";
quote[129]="de Forest, Dr. Lee
1873-1961
You have debased [my] child . . . You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence . . . A stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.
[Dr. de Forest, the inventor of the audion tube, was speaking to the National Association of Broadcasters.]";
quote[130]="de Gaulle, Charles
1890-1970
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.";
quote[131]="Deland, Margaretta W.
A pint can't hold a quart---if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.";
quote[132]="DeMille, Agnes
1905-1993
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.";
quote[133]="Dickens, Charles
1812-1870
A loving heart is the truest wisdom";
quote[134]="Dickinson, John
1732-1808
United we stand, divided we fall.
[from "The Liberty Song" but also attributed to "The Flag of Our Union" by George Pope Morris (1802-1864]";
quote[135]="Dillard, Anne
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.";
quote[136]="Diogenes Laertius
3rd century
Every pleasure is therefore good on account of its nature, but it does not follow that every pleasure is worthy of being chosen; just as every pain is an evil, yet not every pain must be avoided.";
quote[137]="Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
[Attributed to Disraeli in Mark Twain's Autobiography]";
quote[138]="Donne, John
1571?-1631
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of the main. . . Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.";
quote[139]="Doors, The
This is the end, beautiful friend.
This is the end, my only friend the end;
of our elaborate plans the end;
of everything that stands the end;
no safety or surprise the end;
I'll never look into your eyes
again.
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free. . .
[from "The End"]";
quote[140]="Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
1859-1930
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
[from Sherlock Holmes' The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet]";
quote[141]="Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
1859-1930
Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
[from Sherlock Holmes' The Boscombe Valley Mystery]";
quote[142]="Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
1859-1930
You see, but you do not observe.
[from Sherlock Holmes' A Scandal in Bohemia]";
quote[143]="Drucker, Peter
1909-
When a subject becomes totally obsolete, we make it a required course.";
quote[144]="Drucker, Peter
1909-
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.";
quote[145]="Du Bay, William
The most human thing we have to do in life is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelings and live with the consequences. This is the first requirement of love.";
quote[146]="DuBois, W. E. B.
1868-1963
One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.
[Last message (written 26 June, 1957) read at his funeral, 1963, in Journal of Negro History Apr. 1964]";
quote[147]="Edison, Thomas Alva
1847-1931
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Said c.1903, in Harpers Monthly Magazine September 1932";
quote[148]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.";
quote[149]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.";
quote[150]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.";
quote[151]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.";
quote[152]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.";
quote[153]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
Gott würfelt nicht.
(God does not play dice.)";
quote[154]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?";
quote[155]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.";
quote[156]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht.
(God is subtle, but he is not malicious.)";
quote[157]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.";
quote[158]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles but no personality";
quote[159]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.";
quote[160]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
[Caution: this has been attributed to Einstein, but cannot be found among his writings]
I don't know how World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.";
quote[161]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
[In Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman Albert Einstein, the Human Side (1979) p. 38]";
quote[162]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
The release of atomic energy has changed everything except our way of thinking and thus we are being driven unarmed towards a catastrophe.";
quote[163]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
[In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1977.]";
quote[164]="Einstein, Albert
1879-1955
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.";
quote[165]="Eliot, T. S.
1888-1965
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]";
quote[166]="Eliot, T.S.
1888-1965
Teach us to care and not to care.
Teach us to sit still.
[Ash Wednesday?]";
quote[167]="Eliot, T.S.
1888-1965
It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.";
quote[168]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.";
quote[169]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
Language is fossil poetry.
[Essays "The Poet"]";
quote[170]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
The Conduct of Life (1860) Worship";
quote[171]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
The only reward of virtue is virtue. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
[Essays "Friendship"]";
quote[172]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Essays (1841) Heroism";
quote[173]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
[Essays "Circles"]";
quote[174]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
There is properly no history; only biography.
[Essays "History"]";
quote[175]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
[Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, May 1849, Volume 2]";
quote[176]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do.
[Essays "Self-Reliance"]";
quote[177]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
To be great is to be misunderstood.
[Essays "Self-Reliance"]";
quote[178]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.";
quote[179]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
[Essays (1841) "Prudence"]";
quote[180]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
[Essays (1841) "Circles"]";
quote[181]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
The years teach much which the days never know.
[Essays Second Series (1844) "Experience"]";
quote[182]="Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
[Fortune of the Republic (1878) p. 3]";
quote[183]="Epimenides
c. 600 BCE
All Cretans are liars.
(Epimenides was himself a Cretan, i.e., someone from the island of Crete.)";
quote[184]="Ertz, Susan
1894-1985
Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who dont know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. [Anger in the Sky (1943) p. 137";
quote[185]="Farquhar, George
1678-1707
Those who know the least obey the best.";
quote[186]="Floyd, Doug
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.";
quote[187]="Fontaine, Jean de La
1621-1695
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.";
quote[188]="Franklin, Ben
1706-1790
If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.";
quote[189]="Franklin, Ben
1706-1790
Remember that time is money.";
quote[190]="Franklin, Ben
1706-1790
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.";
quote[191]="Franklin, Ben
1706-1790
There never was a good war or a bad peace.";
quote[192]="Franklin, Ben
1706-1790
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.";
quote[193]="Freud, Anna
1895-1983
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.";
quote[194]="Fried, SuEllen
1928-
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to try.";
quote[195]="from the movie Braveheart
Every man dies, but not every man truly lives.";
quote[196]="Fuldheim, Dorothy
1893-1989
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them, because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
[Dorothy was a reporter/anchor/interviewer]";
quote[197]="Fuller, Margaret
1810-1850
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.";
quote[198]="Fuller, Margaret
1810-1850
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.";
quote[199]="Gabriel, Peter
1950-
When things get too big
I don't trust them at all;
You want some control,
You got to keep it small -
D.I.Y!
[from "D.I.Y."]";
quote[200]="Gandhi, Indira
1917-1984
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.";
quote[201]="Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
1869-1948
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states. [Non-Violence in Peace and War (1949) vol. 2, ch. 5]";
quote[202]="Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
1869-1948
There is more to life than increasing its speed.";
quote[203]="Gide, Andre
1869-1951
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.";
quote[204]="Glasgow, Ellen
1874-1945
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.";
quote[205]="Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
1749-1832
Tell me what you are busy about and I will tell you what you are.";
quote[206]="Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
1749-1832
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.";
quote[207]="Goldwyn, Samuel
1882-1974
Don't talk to me while I'm interrupting. ";
quote[208]="Goldwyn, Samuel
1882-1974
A verbal contract isnt worth the paper it's written on.";
quote[209]="Goldwyn, Samuel
1882-1974
I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong.";
quote[210]="Goldwyn, Samuel
1882-1974
I read part of it all the way through.";
quote[211]="Goldwyn, Samuel
1882-1974
Include me out.";
quote[212]="Gordon, George (Lord Byron)
1788-1824
Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot are fools, and those who dare not are slaves.";
quote[213]="Green, Hannah
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.";
quote[214]="Grellett, Stephen (Etienne de)
1773-1855
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.";
quote[215]="Grenier, R.H.
All generalizations are bad.";
quote[216]="Hamerton, Philip G.
1834-1894
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?";
quote[217]="Hamilton, Alexander
1755-1804
No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.";
quote[218]="Hardy, Godfrey H.
1877-1947
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics.
[A Mathematician's Apology, London, Cambridge University Press, 1941.]";
quote[219]="Harris, Syndey J.
If education doesn't prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives, then it is a failure, no matter what else it may seem to accomplish.";
quote[220]="Hasidic Saying
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. ";
quote[221]="Heinlein, Robert
1907-1988
TANSTAAFL!
[from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress]";
quote[222]="Heisenberg, Werner
1901-1976
Ein Fachmann ist ein Mann, der einige der gröbsten Fehler kennt, die man in dem betreffenden Fach machen kann und der sie deshalb zu vermeiden versteht.
(An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them.)
[in 'Der Teil und das Ganze' (1969) ch. 17 (translated by A. J. Pomerans as Physics and Beyond, 1971)]";
quote[223]="Heller, Joseph
1923-1999
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
[from Catch-22]";
quote[224]="Heller, Joseph
1923-1999
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
[from Catch-22]";
quote[225]="Heller, Joseph
1923-1999
Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.
[from Catch-22]";
quote[226]="Heller, Joseph
1923-1999
There was only one catch and that was catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety, in the presence of dangers that are real and immediate, is a process of a rational mind.
[from Catch-22]";
quote[227]="Hertzel, Theodore
The past we inherit but the future, the future we create.";
quote[228]="Heywood, John
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.";
quote[229]="Hills, Brendan
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.";
quote[230]="Hoffer, Eric
The remarkable thing is that we really do love our neighbors as ourselves; we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.";
quote[231]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
(While were talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future.)";
quote[232]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Quid sit futurum cras fuge quaerere et Quem Fors dierum cumque dabit lucro Appone.
(Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.)";
quote[233]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Cras ingens iterabimus aequor.
(Tomorrow we shall sail again on the vast ocean.)";
quote[234]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Hoc erat in votis: modus agri non ita magnus, Hortus ubi et tecto vicinus iugis aquae fons Et paulum silvae super his foret.
(This was among my prayers: a piece of land not so very large, where a garden should be and a spring of ever-flowing water near the house, and a bit of woodland as well as these.)";
quote[235]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora. Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises Cum ridere voles Epicuri de grege porcum.
(Believe each day that has dawned is your last. Some hour to which you have not been looking forward will prove lovely. As for me, if you want a good laugh, you will come and find me fat and sleek, in excellent condition, one of Epicuruss herd of pigs.)";
quote[236]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Aequam memento rebus in arduis Servare mentem.
(When the going gets rough, remember to keep calm.)";
quote[237]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude.
(To have begun is half the job: be bold and be sensible.)";
quote[238]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
(And once sent out a word takes wing beyond recall.)";
quote[239]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret.
(You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet shell be constantly running back.)";
quote[240]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
(Lovely and honourable it is to die for ones country.)";
quote[241]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.
(Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: its good to be silly at the right moment.)";
quote[242]="Horace
65-8 BCE
Nil desperandum.
(Never despair.)
[quoted in Willy Wonka]";
quote[243]="Horace, William and Brindley, Joseph
If there is censorship of the press, abuses of power will be concealed; and if there is no censorship, truth will be sacrificed to sensation. But there must either be censorship or not. Therefore either abuses of power will be concealed, or truth will be sacrificed to sensation.
[An example from Introduction to Logic, 1916]";
quote[244]="Horton, Scott
As long as you think you're green, you'll grow. As soon as you think you're ripe, you'll rot.";
quote[245]="Hossler, Ann E.
My world is made meaningful not by what I can evaluate and define, but by what I can appreciate and adore. I find there is a profound difference in what I find interesting and what I find important.
[Sacred Journey, June 2004]";
quote[246]="Hubbard, Elbert
1856-1915
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.";
quote[247]="Hubbard, F. McKinney
1868-1930
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.";
quote[248]="Huxley, T.H.
1825-1895
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.";
quote[249]="Huynh, Jon
UM Class of 2003
If you're not living, then you're dying! I choose to live.";
quote[250]="Ingersoll, R.G.
1833-1899
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments --- there are consequences.";
quote[251]="James, William
1842-1910
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.";
quote[252]="James, William
1842-1910
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. ";
quote[253]="Jefferson Airplane or Crosby Stills & Nash
If you smile at me, you know I will understand because that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language.
[from "Wooden Ships"]";
quote[254]="Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826
In matters of religion I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies.
[Second inaugural address]";
quote[255]="Jethro Tull
I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.
[from "Thick as a Brick"]";
quote[256]="Jethro Tull
Life's a long song. . . but the tune ends too soon for us all.
[from "Life's a Long Song"]";
quote[257]="Johnson, Dr. Samuel
1709-1784
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.";
quote[258]="Jong, Erica
1942-
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.";
quote[259]="Jordan, David Starr
1851-1931
Be a life long or short, it's completeness depends on what it was lived for.";
quote[260]="Joubert. Joseph
1754-1854
You will find poetry nowhere
unless you bring some with you.";
quote[261]="Jung, Carl
1842-1924
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.";
quote[262]="Keats, John
1795-1821
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.";
quote[263]="Keats, John
1795-1821
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
[quoted in Willy Wonka]";
quote[264]="Keen, Renee
UM class of 2005
Life is an ultimatum: Live or die!";
quote[265]="Keillor, Garrison
1942-
Just remember - when the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
[heard on A Prairie Home Companion]";
quote[266]="Keller, Helen
1880-1968
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.";
quote[267]="Kennedy, John F.
1917-1963
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie --- deliberate, contrived and dishonest --- but the myth --- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.";
quote[268]="Kennedy, John F.
1917-1963
To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.
[Inaugural address]";
quote[269]="Kennedy, John F.
1917-1963
To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom - and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
[Inaugural address]";
quote[270]="Kettering, C.F.
1906-1984
We should all be concerned about the future because we will all have to spend the rest of our lives there.";
quote[271]="Kimbrough, Emily
1899-1989
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.";
quote[272]="Kipling, Rudyard
1865-1936
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.
["The Finest Story in the World", Many Inventions, 1893]";
quote[273]="Lander, Jon
UM class of 2006
How can communism look so good on paper, and be so bad?";
quote[274]="Lao Tzu
c. 600 BCE
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. [from the Tao Te Ching";
quote[275]="Lasorda, Tommy
1927-
Don't complain about your problems. 80% of the people who hear them don't care; and the other 20% are happy you're having the trouble.";
quote[276]="L'Engle, Madeleine
1918-
It is the ability to choose that makes us human.";
quote[277]="Lenin
1870-1924
It is true that freedom is precious---so precious it must be rationed.";
quote[278]="Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
1742-1799
All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
[In J P Stern Lichtenberg, 1959.]";
quote[279]="Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
[First inaugural speech, on the eve of Civil War.]";
quote[280]="Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
[Second inaugural speech, given a month before his assassination.]";
quote[281]="Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865
If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.";
quote[282]="Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why He makes so many of them.";
quote[283]="Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.";
quote[284]="Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
1906-2001
What really matters is what you do with what you have.";
quote[285]="Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
1906-2001
Too many people; too many demands; too much to do; competent, busy harrying people - it just isn't living at all.";
quote[286]="Lippman, Walter
1889-1974
Where we all think alike, no one thinks very much.";
quote[287]="Locke, John
1632-1704
New opinions are usually suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.";
quote[288]="Lombardi, Vince
1913-1970
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.";
quote[289]="Longfellow, H.W.
1807-1882
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have done.";
quote[290]="Lowell, J.R.
1819-1891
The question of common sense is always "What is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.";
quote[291]="Lynd, Robert
1879-1949
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.";
quote[292]="Lyons, Kay
Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.";
quote[293]="Mahfouz, Naguib
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.";
quote[294]="Malraux, Andre
1901-1976
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
[Anti-censorship address, 12 November 1966]";
quote[295]="Mandela, Nelson
1918-
The greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.";
quote[296]="Marley, Bob
1945-1981
If you get down and quarrel every day, you're singing prayers to the devil I say.";
quote[297]="Marx, Groucho
1895-1977
Excuse me for not answering your letter sooner, but I've been so busy not answering letters that I couldn't get around to not answering yours in time.";
quote[298]="Masefield, John
1878-1967
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.
[from "Sea Fever" quoted in Willy Wonka]";
quote[299]="McVoy, Josh
UM class of 2005
Those who voice their opinions have many enemies, but those who do not have no friends.";
quote[300]="Melville, Herman
1819-1891
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us to with our fellow men.";
quote[301]="Mencken, H. L.
1880-1956
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.";
quote[302]="Menninger, Dr. William
1893-1990
Signs of Emotional Security
1. Ability to deal constructively with reality.
2. Capacity to adapt to change.
3. Few symptoms of tension and anxiety.
4. Ability to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving.
5. Capacity to consistently relate to others with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness.
6. Ability to direct hostile energy into constructive outlets.
7. Capacity to love.
";
quote[303]="Metallica
Trust I seek and I find in you
Everyday for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they say
Never cared for games they play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know...
[from "Nothing Else Matters"]";
quote[304]="Midnight Oil
The candy store paupers lie to the share holders
They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers
The balance sheet is breaking up the sky
So I'm caught at the junction still waiting for medicine
The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine
Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night
And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue
If the sugar refining company won't save me
Who's gonna save me?
But if I work all day at the blue sky mine
(There'll be food on the table tonight)
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
(There'll be pay in your pocket tonight)
[from "Blue Sky Mine" which is about an asbestos mine which ran from 1947 to 1966 in Australia]";
quote[305]="Morissette, Alanis
1974-
You grieve you learn
You choke you learn
You laugh you learn
You choose you learn
You pray you learn
You ask you learn
You live you learn
[from the song "You Learn"]";
quote[306]="Mr. Mont
1965-
Never disassemble in a hurry. . . especially if there's a chance you'll have to re-assemble later.";
quote[307]="Mr. Vreeland and Mr. Mont
1969- ; 1965-
"Question Authority!"
"Oh, yeah? If you could question authority, Mr. Vreeland, what would you ask it?"
"Can I be in charge?"";
quote[308]="Muhammad, The Prophet
570?-632
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.";
quote[309]="Navon, Yitzhak
1921-
It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm not paid to think aloud.";
quote[310]="N'Dour, Youssou
People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions, and traditions is a great treasure, affording us the precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others. ";
quote[311]="Newton, Isaac
1642-1727
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.";
quote[312]="Newton, Isaac
1642-1727
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
[from a letter to Robert Hooke, 1676]";
quote[313]="Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900
The sage as astronomer --- As long as you still experience the stars as something 'above you' you lack the eye of knowledge.
from Beyond Good and Evil";
quote[314]="Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900
If one has character one also has one's typical experience, which recurs repeatedly.
from Beyond Good and Evil";
quote[315]="Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900
One has to repay good and ill --- but why precisely to the person who has done us good or ill?
from Beyond Good and Evil";
quote[316]="Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
from Beyond Good and Evil";
quote[317]="Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900
In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.
from Beyond Good and Evil";
quote[318]="Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900
Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light --- what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.
from Beyond Good and Evil";
quote[319]="Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900
A man's maturity --- consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.
from Beyond Good and Evil";
quote[320]="Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900
When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
from Beyond Good and Evil";
quote[321]="Nin, Anais
1914-1977
We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.";
quote[322]="Nin, Anais
1914-1977
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.";
quote[323]="Nin, Anais
1914-1977
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.";
quote[324]="Oles, Carol
1939-
Grow now.
Sing. Fly.
Do what you're here for.
[from "The Magician Suspends the Children"]";
quote[325]="OMD
Our one source of energy
Electricity
All we need to live today
A gift for man to throw away
The chance to change has nearly gone
The alternative is only one
The final source of energy
Solar electricity
[From the song "Electricity"e;]";
quote[326]="O'Reilly, John Boyle
1844-1890
You may grind their souls in the self-same mill,
You may bind them, heart and brow;
But the poet will follow the rainbow still,
And his brother will follow the plow.";
quote[327]="O'Shaughnessy, Arthur
1844-1881
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by the lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
[partially quoted in Willy Wonka]";
quote[328]="Owen, Robert
1771-1858
All the world is queer save me and thee, and even thou are a little queer.
[On separating from his business partner]";
quote[329]="Oxenstierna, Axel
1583-1654
Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.";
quote[330]="Parker, Dorothy
1893-1967
People are more fun than anybody.";
quote[331]="Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662
Nous aimons a etre trompes.
(We like to be deceived.)";
quote[332]="Peck, M. Scott
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
[from The Road Less Travelled]";
quote[333]="Penn, William
1644-1718
True silence is the rest of the mind. It is to the spirit what sleep is to the body - nourishment and refreshment.";
quote[334]="Phelps, Edward
1822-1900
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.";
quote[335]="Pink Floyd
We don't need no education; no dark sarcasm in the classroom.
[from "Another Brick in the Wall, pt II"]";
quote[336]="Pliny the Elder
c. 23-79
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.";
quote[337]="Poincare, Henri
1854-1912
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
[Science and Hypothesis]";
quote[338]="Police, The
Fifty million years ago
You walked upon the planet so,
Lord of all that you could see
Just a little bit like me.
Walking in your footsteps.
Hey Mr. Dinosaur. . .
[from "Walking in Your Footsteps"]";
quote[339]="Police, The
Seems that when some innocent dies
All we can offer them is a page in some magazine
Too many cameras and not enough food.
This is what we've seen.
[from "Driven to Tears"]";
quote[340]="Police, The
There's a king on his throne with his eyes torn out.
There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt.
There's rich man sleeping on a golden bed.
There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread.
[from "King of Pain"]";
quote[341]="Police, The
But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land
For murder is the sport of the elected
And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand.
[from "Murder by Numbers"]";
quote[342]="Police, The
The general scratches his belly and thinks
His pay is good but his company stinks. . .
Bombs away
But we're OK
[from "Bombs Away'"]";
quote[343]="Proust, Marcel
1871-1922
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay the most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.";
quote[344]="Proverb - Bantu
Work is good, provided you do not forget to live.";
quote[345]="Proverb - Chinese
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.";
quote[346]="Proverb - Chinese
A load of books does not equal one good teacher.";
quote[347]="Proverb - Chinese
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.";
quote[348]="Proverb - Danish
No one can be caught in places he doesn't visit.";
quote[349]="Proverb - English
A fool may ask in an hour more questions than a wise man can answer in seven years.";
quote[350]="Proverb - English
A small leak will sink a great ship.";
quote[351]="Proverb - Greek
(Gnwqi seauton)
(Know thyself)
[Inscription at the Oracle at Delphi]";
quote[352]="Proverb - Greek
A great city, a great solitude.";
quote[353]="Proverb - Irish
A friend's eye is a good mirror.";
quote[354]="Proverb - Latin
Dulce bellum inexpertis.
(War is pleasant to those who have not tried it.)";
quote[355]="Proverb - Latin
All is not gold that glitters.";
quote[356]="Proverb - Latin
Caveat emptor.
(Let the buyer beware.)";
quote[357]="Proverb - Scottish (16th cent.)
Want of wit is worse than want of wealth.";
quote[358]="Proverb, African
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.";
quote[359]="Proverb, Turkish
No road is long with good company.";
quote[360]="Proverb-Ethiopian
When spider webs unite, they can tie up lions.";
quote[361]="Proverb-Latin
Errare humanum est.
(To err is human)";
quote[362]="Raleigh, Sir Walter
1861-1922
In an examination, those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.";
quote[363]="Reynolds, Sir Joshua
1723-1792
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.";
quote[364]="Rich, Adrienne
1929-
Lying is done with words and also with silence.";
quote[365]="Robert Lynd
1879-1949
There are some people who want to throw their arms around you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.";
quote[366]="Robinson, Sylvia
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong.
Sometimes it's letting go. ";
quote[367]="Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc de La
1613-1680
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.";
quote[368]="Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc de La
1613-1680
Few things are impossible in themselves; it is not so much the means we lack as the perseverance to make them succeed.";
quote[369]="Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc de La
1613-1680
Readiness to believe the worst without adequate examination comes from pride and laziness: we want to find culprits but cannot be bothered to investigate the crimes.";
quote[370]="Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc de La
1613-1680
We can never be certain of our courage till we have faced danger.";
quote[371]="Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc de La
1613-1680
Absence lessens moderate passions and intensifies great ones, as the wind blows out a candle but fans up a fire.";
quote[372]="Rochefoucauld, Francois, Duc de La
1613-1680
How can we expect someone else to keep our secret if we have not been able to keep it ourselves?";
quote[373]="Rogers, Will
1911-1993
I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it.";
quote[374]="Roma, Ryan
O mor henion I dhu.
(From darkness I understand the night.)
[from The Lord of the Rings soundtrack]";
quote[375]="Roosevelt, Eleanor
1884-1962
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it's expressed in the choices one makes.";
quote[376]="Roosevelt, Eleanor
1884-1962
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.";
quote[377]="Roosevelt, Eleanor
1884-1962
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.";
quote[378]="Roosevelt, Franklin
1882-1945
And so today, in this year of war, 1945, we have learned lessons - at a fearful cost - and we shall profit by them.
We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.
We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
[Fourth inaugural address]";
quote[379]="Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
in Unpopular Essays (1950) An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish";
quote[380]="Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earths surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1986) title essay (1932)";
quote[381]="Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.";
quote[382]="Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
The Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9";
quote[383]="Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19";
quote[384]="Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that ones work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.
The Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5";
quote[385]="Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970
All science is dominated by the idea of approximation.";
quote[386]="Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.";
quote[387]="Rutherford, Ernest
1871-1937
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
[In J. B. Birks Rutherford at Manchester (1962) p. 108]";
quote[388]="Safransky, Sy
I'm less likely to judge another person when I remember I'm always working with insufficient information. Just as every tree has roots that are out of sight, underground, so does every person have roots the eye can't see.
[The Sun, May 2004]";
quote[389]="Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
1900-1944
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.";
quote[390]="Sales, St. Francis de
1567-1622
Whatever you do, do it passionately well.";
quote[391]="Samuel, Lord
1870-1963
Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.";
quote[392]="Santayana, George
1863-1952
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
[from "Soliloquies in England", 1924
This has also been attributed to Plato, but no one seems able to find it in Plato's works]";
quote[393]="Schuller, Robert
What would you do if you knew that you would not fail?";
quote[394]="Seneca
5?-65?
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is aiming for, no wind is in the right direction.";
quote[395]="Shakespeare, William
1564-1616
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
[from The Merchant of Venice paraphrased inWilly Wonka]";
quote[396]="Shakespeare, William
1564-1616
. . . for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. . . [from Hamlet]";
quote[397]="Shakespeare, William
1564-1616
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them.
[Othello]";
quote[398]="Shakespeare, William
1564-1616
The course of true love never did run smooth
[Lysander from A Midsummer Night's Dream]";
quote[399]="Shakespeare, William
1564-1616
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow. . .
[from Romeo and Juliet paraphrased in Willy Wonka]";
quote[400]="Shakespeare, William
1564-1616
In Springtime the only pretty ringtime
The birds they sing hey ding a ding ding
Sweet lovers love the Spring
[from As You Like It quoted in Willy Wonka]";
quote[401]="Shakespeare, William
1564-1616
Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
[from Merchant of Venice paraphrased in Willy Wonka]";
quote[402]="Shaw, G.B.
1856-1950
Those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.";
quote[403]="Shaw, G.B.
1856-1950
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on Earth.";
quote[404]="Shaw, G.B.
1856-1950
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.";
quote[405]="Shaw, G.B.
1856-1950
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our income, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
[Man and Superman]";
quote[406]="Shaw, G.B.
1856-1950
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.";
quote[407]="Shaw, G.B.
1856-1950
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.";
quote[408]="Shaw, G.B.
1856-1950
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.";
quote[409]="Shaw, J.B.
1856-1951
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
[In N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.]";
quote[410]="Smeltzer, Ruth
Following precedent is an easy substitute for thinking.";
quote[411]="Smiles, Samuel
1812-1904
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ";
quote[412]="Smith, Antonio
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and discover that they were the big things.";
quote[413]="Smith, Sam
The best politics are a pretty poor substitute for life and [. . .] the worst politics compound their felony by forcing us to leave the front stoop to do something about them. Our quarrel with the abuse of power should be not only that it is cruel and stupid but that it takes so much time away from other things --- like loving and being loved, and music, and a good meal and the sunset of a gentle day.
[The Progressive Review, May 2004]";
quote[414]="Smith, Sydney
1771-1845
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.";
quote[415]="Sophocles
495?-406 BCE
Wonders are many, and none more wonderful than man.";
quote[416]="Spencer, Herbert
1820-1903
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.";
quote[417]="Spencer, Herbert
1820-1903
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature--a type nowhere at present existing.";
quote[418]="Spirit
Look beneath your little moment:
See those things you didn't quite consume.
The world's a can for your fresh garbage.
[from "Fresh Garbage"]";
quote[419]="St. Augustine
354-430
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.";
quote[420]="Steinem, Gloria
1934-
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.";
quote[421]="Sting (Gordon Sumner)
1951-
One day in a nuclear age, they may understand our rage: they build machines that they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole. Power was to become cheap and clean, grimy faces were never seen, but deadly for 10,000 years is Carbon 14.
[from "We Work the Black Seam Together"]";
quote[422]="Sting (Gordon Sumner)
1951-
How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?
There is no monopoly on common sense
On either side of the political fence
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
[from "Russians"]";
quote[423]="Stoppard, Tom
1937-
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.";
quote[424]="Stoppard, Tom
1937-
Audiences know what to expect, and that is all they are prepared to believe.
[From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead]";
quote[425]="Stoppard, Tom
1937-
You live all your life with truth until it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
[from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead]";
quote[426]="Strunsky, Simeon
1879-1948
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
[No Mean City, 1944, Chapter 38]";
quote[427]="Swaim, Alice Mackenzie
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.";
quote[428]="Sweet
Love is like oxygen: you get too much you get too high; not enough and you're gonna die. . .
[from "Love Is Like Oxygen"]";
quote[429]="Swift, Jonathan
1667-1745
May you live all the days of your life.";
quote[430]="Tacitus
55?-117?
Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.
(Everything unknown is taken as miraculous.)";
quote[431]="Talbert, Robert
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.";
quote[432]="Talking Heads
You start a conversation you can't even finish.
Your lips are moving, but you're not saying anything.
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again??
[from "Psychokiller"]";
quote[433]="Teresa of Avila, St.
1512-1582
. . . the important thing is not to think much, but to love much; do, then, whatever most rouses you to love. ";
quote[434]="The Bible
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all. [Ecclesiastes 9:11]";
quote[435]="The Bible
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
[Proverbs 26:12]";
quote[436]="The Bible
. . . swifter than eagles. . . stronger than lions.
[2 Samuel 1:23]
[quoted in Willy Wonka]";
quote[437]="They Might Be Giants
I don't want the world; I just want your half.
[from "Ana Ng"]";
quote[438]="This quote has been attributed to many people.
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.";
quote[439]="Thompson, Francis
1859-1907
Thou canst not stir a flower Without troubling of a star.";
quote[440]="Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862
Beware of all enterprises which require new clothes";
quote[441]="Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.";
quote[442]="Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862
Our life is frittered away by detail. . . Simplicity, simplicity.
Walden (1854) Where I lived, and what I lived for in Writings (1906 ed.) vol. 2, p. 101.";
quote[443]="Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.";
quote[444]="Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away";
quote[445]="Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.";
quote[446]="Tierney, John
This is the remarkable paradox of mathematics: no matter how determinedly its practitioners ignore the world, they consistently produce the best tools for understanding it.";
quote[447]="Truman, Harry S.
1884-1972
The atom bomb was no "great decision" . . . It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.";
quote[448]="Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
1835-1910
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.";
quote[449]="Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
1835-1910
The report of my death was an exaggeration";
quote[450]="Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
1835-1910
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Following the Equator (1897) ch. 7";
quote[451]="Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
1835-1910
Love: the irrestistable desire to be irresistably desired.";
quote[452]="Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
1835-1910
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. ... There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.";
quote[453]="Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
1835-1910
Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support than illumination";
quote[454]="Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
1835-1910
Clothes make the man. Naked people have very little influence in society.";
quote[455]="Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
1835-1910
The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up.";
quote[456]="U2
The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace
It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out
It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day
[from "Beautiful Day"]";
quote[457]="U2
Some days are dry, some days are leaky
Some days come clean, others are sneaky
Some days take less, but most days take more
Some days slip through your fingers and onto the floor . . .
Some days you're quick, but most days you're speedy
Some days you use more force than is necessary
Some days just drop in on us
Some days are better than others ...
Some days are slippy, others are sloppy
Some days you can't stand the sight of a puppy
Your skin is white but you think you're a brother
Some days are better than others ...
Some days you hear a voice taking you to another place
Some days are better than others
[from "Some Days Are Better Than Others"]";
quote[458]="U2
A man builds a city
With banks and cathedrals
A man melts the sand so he can
See the world outside
A man makes a car
And builds a road to run them on
A man dreams of leaving
But he always stays behind
[from "Lemon"]";
quote[459]="Ueland, Brenda
1891-1986
I learned. . . that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness";
quote[460]="Virgil
70-19 BCE
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
(Perhaps even these things it will someday give us pleasure to recall.)";
quote[461]="Virgil
70-19 BCE
Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus.
(But meanwhile it is flying, time is flying that cannot be recalled.";
quote[462]="Virgil
70-19 BCE
Possunt, quia posse videntur.
(They are able because they seem to be able.)";
quote[463]="Virgil
70-19 BCE
Non omnia pussumus omines.
(We cannot do all things.)";
quote[464]="Voltaire, Jean Francois Marie Arouet de
1694-1778
A witty saying proves nothing.";
quote[465]="Wachowski, Larry and Andy
Free your mind.
[from The Matrix]";
quote[466]="Wachowski, Larry and Andy
There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.
[from the movie The Matrix]";
quote[467]="Ward, Artemus (pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne)
1834-1867
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.";
quote[468]="Warner, Charles
1829-1900
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.";
quote[469]="Warner, Christi Mary
1961-
A friend is one who knows all about you and still likes you anyway.";
quote[470]="Washington, Booker T.
1856-1915
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.";
quote[471]="Wayne, John
1907-1979
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.";
quote[472]="Weil, Simone
1909-1943
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.";
quote[473]="Welles, Orson
1915-1985
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.";
quote[474]="Weyl, Hermann
1885-1955
My work has always tried to unite the true with the beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
[In an obituary by Freeman J. Dyson in Nature, March 10, 1956.]";
quote[475]="Wibowo, Rio
UM class of 2001
Be not afraid of death.
Be afraid of life.";
quote[476]="Wilde, Oscar
1854-1900
All art is quite useless.";
quote[477]="Wilde, Oscar
1854-1900
I can resist everything except temptation.";
quote[478]="Wilde, Oscar
1854-1900
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.";
quote[479]="Wilde, Oscar
1854-1900
There is no sin except stupidity.";
quote[480]="Wilde, Oscar
1854-1900
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.";
quote[481]="Wilde, Oscar
1854-1900
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I will tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength and courage to yield to.";
quote[482]="Wilde, Oscar
1854-1900
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.";
quote[483]="Wilde, Oscar
1854-1900
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.";
quote[484]="Wilde, Oscar
1854-1900
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.";
quote[485]="Wilde, Oscar
1854-1900
The suspense is terrible; I hope it will last.
[On the Importance of Being Ernest quoted in Willy Wonka]";
quote[486]="Wilson, Woodrow
1856-1924
There is such a thing as a man who is too proud to fight.";
quote[487]="Winters, Shelley
1922-2006
It was so cold the other day, I almost got married.";
quote[488]="Wordsworth, William
1770-1850
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!";
quote[489]="Wyeth, Andrew
1917-
I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.";
quote[490]="Yeats, W. B.
1865-1939
Land of Hearts Desire,
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, Time an endless song.
[ The Land of Hearts Desire (1894) p. 36]";
quote[491]="Yeats, W. B.
1865-1939
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.";
quote[492]="Yiddish Folk Tale
An old man sat outside the walls of a great city.
When travelers approached, they would ask the old man, "What kind of people live in this city?"
And the old man would answer, "What kind of people live in the place where you came from?"
If the travelers answered, "Only bad people live in the place where we came from," the old man would reply, "Continue on; you will find only bad people here."
But if the travelers answered, "Good people live in the place where we came from," then the old man would say, "Enter, for here, too, you will find only good people."";
quote[493]="Yutang, Lin
1895-1976
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.";
quote[494]="Yutang, Lin
1895-1976
Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.";
quote[495]="Zappa, Frank
1940-1993
Do you know who you are?
You are what you is.
You is what you am.
(A cow don't make ham!)
You ain't what you're not.
So see what you got.
You are what you is.
And that's all it is!
[from "You Are What You Is"]";
quote[496]="Zen Buddhist Koan
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?";
quote[497]="Zhuang Zi
c. 275 BCE
Nevertheless, life arises from death, and vice versa. Possibility arises from impossibility, and vice versa. Affirmation is based upon denial, and vice versa. Which being the case, the true sage rejects all distinctions and takes his refuge in Heaven (Nature). For one may base it on this, yet this is also that and that is also this. This also has its 'right' and 'wrong', and that also has its 'right' and 'wrong.' Does then the distinction between this and that really exist or not? When this (subjective) and that (objective) are both without their correlates, that is the very 'Axis of Tao.' And when that Axis passes through the center at which all Infinities converge, affirmations and denials alike blend into the infinite One.
. . .Only the truly intelligent understand this principle of the levelling of all things into One. They discard the distinctions and take refuge in the common and ordinary things. The common and ordinary things serve certain functions and therefore retain the wholeness of nature. From this wholeness, one comprehends, and from comprehension, on to the Tao. There it stops. To stop without knowing how it stops --this is Tao.
[Translated by Lin Yutang]";
quote[498]="Zhuang Zi
c. 275 BCE
Unawareness of one's feet is the mark of shoes that fit.
Unawareness of one's waist is the mark of a belt that fits.
Unawareness of right and wrong is the mark of a mind at ease.";
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The brighter the picture, the darker the negative.
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