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I despise quotations -- tell me what you know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Every path has its puddle.-- English Proverb
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?-- Philip G. Harmerton, 1834-1894, English artist and essayist
A tune is more lasting than the song of the birds, and a word more lasting than the wealth of the world. -- Irish Proverb
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. -- Theophile Gautier
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. -- John Henry Newman
Words must be weighed, not counted. -- Polish Proverb 7,01
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today -- Chinese Proverb
We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -- T.S. Eliot
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. -- Herman Melville
... The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. -- John Muir
To travel hopefully is better than to arrive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. -- Aristotle
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. -- Shakespeare
The ends of the earth stand in awe at the sight of Your wonders. The lands of sunrise and sunset You fill with Your joy. -- Psalm 65
Happy is he who has the power to gather wisdom from a flower. -- Medieval Saying
There is very little success where there is very little laughter. -- Andrew Carnegie
The question is not what you look at but what you see. -- Thoreau
Let your life dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf. -- Tagore
Time flies, suns rise, And shadows fall. Let time go by, Love is forever over all. -- Old English Saying
It's possible, possible, possible. It must be possible. -- Wallace Stevens
Love consists in this: That two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
May your laughter be from God. -- Irish Proverb
A change in the weather is enough to renew the world and ourselves. -- Marcel Proust
Life must be understood backwards. But...it must be lived forwards. -- Kierkegaard
The thing is, not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
This time, like all other times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is the beginning of creation. -- George Bernard Shaw
The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. -- Julian of Norwich
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter and that is everything. -- Anatole France
The best thing one can do is to cultivate one's garden. -- Voltaire
See everything. Overlook a great deal, improve a little. -- Pope John 23rd
We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. -- The Talmud
Great floods have flown from simple sources. -- Shakespeare
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. -- Shopenhauer
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. -- Ben Franklin
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing. -- Lao-Tse
Wonder is the desire for knowledge. -- St. Thomas Aquinas
Nature is the art of God. -- Dante
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. -- Swedish Proverb
The feet find the road easy when the heart walks with them. -- Russian Proverb
And still I am learning. -- Michelangelo Buonarroti
Silence is power. -- Albert Schweitzer
Solitude is full of God. -- Serbian Proverb
When the student is ready, the master will appear. -- Zen Saying
Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind. -- St. Francis of Assisi
We see things not as they are, but as we are. -- H. J. Tomlinson
Invited or not, God is present. -- Inscription over Carl Jung's doorway
The most wasted of all days is that during which one has not laughed. -- Sebastian Chamfort
The first wealth is health. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may with advantage at times forget what we know. -- Publius Syries (or Synes)
Good luck beats early rising. -- Irish Proverb
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock in a thunderstorm. -- Robert Lewis Stevenson
I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill. -- Shakespeare
Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase. -- Domenico Scarlatti
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. -- Ovid
Honor the Lord with what goods you have and with the first fruits of all your returns; then your barns will be filled with wheat, and your vats overflowing with new wine. -- Proverbs 3:9-10
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. -- Goethe
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. -- Emerson
To drift is to be in hell. To be in heaven is to steer. -- George Bernard Shaw
We are on this globe like insects in a garden; those who live on an oak seldom meet those who pass their short lives on an ash. -- Voltaire
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. -- Elbert Hubbard
Lay hold of today's task and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's. -- Seneca
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure. -- Bela Bartok
In the woods we return to reason and faith. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God does not charge time spent fishing against a man's allotted life span. -- American Indian Proverb
When it is dark enough you can see the stars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything has it wonders, even darkness and silence. -- Helen Keller
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
This joy you feel is life. -- Gertrude Stein
God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful. -- Thomas Aquinas
We must do small things for one another with great love. -- Mother Teresa
A prudent question is one half of wisdom. -- Francis Bacon
Time is the most valuable thing a person can spend. -- Diogenes
There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God. -- Jacques Maritain
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk. -- Chinese Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months. -- Japanese Proverb
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. -- K. Adenauer
Frank and explicit : That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your mind and confuse the minds of others. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Ben Franklin
What you cannot say briefly, you do not know. -- Danish Proverb
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. -- Anwar el-Sadat
From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. -- Chief Joseph
Whether women are better than men I cannot say -- But I can say they are certainly no worse. -- Golda Meir
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. -- Muriel Rukeyser
Waste is a tax on the whole people. -- Albert Atwood
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. -- Petrarch
The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness. -- Dante
The secret of success -- get up when you fall down. -- Yiddish Proverb
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Where words fail, music speaks. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Freedom rings where opinions clash. -- Adlai Stevenson
Love turns work into rest. -- St. Teresa of Avila
God did not create hurry. -- Finnish Proverb
Every parting gives us a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection. -- Schopenhauer
Learning without thought is useless, thought without learning is dangerous. -- Confucius
The things that we love tell us what we are. -- St. Thomas Aquinas
Absence is for friendship what the wind is for fire: it extinguishes the small and reinforces the strong. -- adapted from a French Quatrain
All that is incomprehensible does not cease to be. -- Blaise Pascal
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent. -- Antoine de St. Exupery
We may attack systems. We must not attack men. -- Mohandas Gandhi
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. -- William James
Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Dorothy Galyean
When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies... I'm gonna play and dance and sing -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On Death and Dying
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On Death and Dying
Let me not understand you then. Speak it in Welsh. -- Hotspur, from Henry IV, Part I, W. Shakespeare
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. -- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, 1943.
The optimist sees the glass as half-full;
The pessimist sees the glass as half-empty.
The opportunist is the one who drank the water,
Fulfilling the cynic's prediction of him stealing the water.
The idealist is the one who's certain there's more to be found.
While I, the realist, get stuck washing the damn glass. -- Robert J.
Hansen
Westron wynde when wyll thow blow
the smalle rayne down can rayne
Chryst yf my love wer in my armys
and I yn my bed agayne. -- "Western Wind", anonymous, C.1500 C.E.
Yo' ideas need to be thinked befo' they are say'd --Ian Lamb, age 3.5
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. --Karen Horney, Self-Analysis, 1942
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It is not a day when you lounge around doing nothing: it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. -- Margaret Thatcher
There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read. -- G.K. Chesterton
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -- Francis Bacon
At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done. -- Thomas a Kempis
Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting. -- Harry Golden, _So What Else Is New?_, 1964
God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead. -- James Baldwin, _The Book-Lover_, 1888
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts. -- J. B. Priestley, 1967
A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hand will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -- (Arabian Proverb)
You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. -- Monty Python skit
The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started -- Sir Thomas Beecham
I got to try the bagpipes. It was like trying to blow an octopus. -- Sir Thomas Beecham
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance. -- Sir Thomas Beecham
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk. -- Lord Dunsay, Irish poet in news summaries, Jan. 11, 1954.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It is not a day when you lounge around doing nothing: it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. -- Margaret Thatcher
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. -- Mark Twain
Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun -- Noel Coward, Words and Music
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease
No comfortable feel in any member
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,--November! -- George
Cowling, p.32
The Great British Summer: Three fine days and a thunderstorm -- George Cowling, p.31 in The Great British Obsession, The BBC TV Weatherman Francis Wilson (ISBN 0711705232, @1990, Jarrold Publishing, 1990, Norwich)
June: I was in Britain for the whole summer but it rained on both days -- George Cowling, p.29
The spring, the summer,
The chiding autumn, angry winter, change
Their wonted liveries and the mazed world
By their increase, now know not which is which --Shakespeare, A Midsummer's Night's Dream
In his lone course the shepherd oft will pause
And strive to fathom the mysterious laws
By which the clouds, arranged in light or gloom
On Mona settle and slopes assume
Of all her peaks and ridges -- Traditional [Isle of Man]
Somebody has to do something, and it's incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain any more so it eats it. It's rather like getting tenure. -- Daniel C. Dennet, "Consciousness Explained"
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. -- Mitch Ratliffe
As a confirmed melancholiac
I can testify that the best
and maybe the only antidote
for melancholia is action.
However, like most melancholiacs,
I suffer from sloth. -- Edward Abbey
Try a thing you haven't done three times.
Once, to get over the fear of doing it.
Twice, to learn how to do it.
And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. -- Virgil Thompson, advice given at age 93
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. -- Karl Barth
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better. -- Martin Luther
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives. -- Sue Murphy
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh. -- Psalm 2:4 NKJV
It is pleasing to God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart -- Martin Luther
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. -- Martin Luther
If any cleric or monk speaks jocular words, such as provoke laughter, let him be anathema. -- Ordinance, Second Council of Constance [1418]
But if you really love your friends, they're never gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're always inside your heart. -- Martin the Warrior to Chugg the Squirrel, in Brian Jacques' "The Legend of Luke"
Hair matters. Pay attention to your hair -- because everyone else will. -- Hillary Clinton
All I can say is that writing is very painful, although I rather like having written. -- Leo F. Laporte
There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might. -- Mary Tyler Moore
Utah is the only place in the world where Jews are Gentiles -- Anonymous
Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class. -- R. Kadel
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. -- Thomas Carlyle
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas and/or Scott Adams
I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted. -- Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
Ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. -- Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower
And now, will y'all stand and be recognized? -- Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis to a group of handicapped people in wheelchairs
Oh good. Now he'll be bi-ignorant. -- Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower when told that Texas Governor Bill Clements had been studying Spanish.
If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen..." Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. -- Gene "spaf" Spafford (1992)
Thread drift. -- The Sanity Inspector
To keep marriage brimming with love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash, "Everyone but Thee and Me", 1962
Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel. -- Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc. (1979)
America is a country that doesn't know where it's going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. -- Laurence J. Peter
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London. -- Bette Midler, 1978
The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up. -- George Mikes, "How to Be An Alien"
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it. -- A. A. Milne
The English are mentioned in the Bible : "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth." -- Mark Twain
The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest! -- Michael Flanders
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. -- Woodrow Wilson
Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs are not exactly Mensa members either, but they definitely make better pets than tropical fish. -- Dave Barry
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. -- Dereke Bruce
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. -- Ben Williams
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Unknown
Friends, Romans, Country Boys, lend me your guitars. -- Billy Bob Shakespeare
Silly customer, you cannot hurt a Twinkie! -- Apu
The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way. -- Earle Hitchner
Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain -- which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad -- old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings -- every bit of it. -- Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island
People will get used to almost anything, "Unsettling Effects in the Room at the Top," London Engineering News, 18 May 1967, 446, as quoted in A. Gillespie, Twin Towers, p. 81,
For example, classical music was piped into the bus terminal, and for reasons that no one fully understands, it drove the homeless out. Gillespie, Twin Towers, p. 231 , possible "Tina Rosenberg, "Helping Them Make It Through The Night," New York Times 12 July 1998.
The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure. -- William Least Heat-Moon, PrairyErth, p.77
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents. -- William Least Heat-Moon, PrairyErth, p. 440.
It is not what you are nor what you have been that God sees with his all-merciful eyes, but what you desire to be. -- The Cloud of Unknowing
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague. -- Anonymous
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. -- Anonymous
Quoting one is plagiarism; Quoting many is research -- Anonymous
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again? -- Anonymous
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance -- Anonymous
The original point and click interface was a Smith and Wesson -- Anonymous
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together. -- George W. Bush, Bartlett, TN, Aug.18, 2000
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." George W. Bush, Reuters, May 5, 2000
I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question. -- George W. Bush, Reynoldsburg, OH, October 4, 2000
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. -- Norman Cousins
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. -- Governor George W. Bush, 11/30/1996
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. -- Governor George W. Bush
For NASA, space is still a high priority. -- Governor George W. Bush, 9/5/93
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. -- Governor George W. Bush
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. -- Governor George W. Bush
...[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system. -- Governor George W. Bush
How, after all, do you trace the wind on paper? -- Paul Mariani, Thirty Days
'Using other people to think with'; that is, using them as symbols for points on your map. values in your scheme of things. When you get used to imposing meanings in this way, you silence the stranger's account of who they are; and that can mean both metaphorical and literal death. Death as the undermining of a culture, language, or faith, and at the extreme, the death of tyranny and genocide. -- Rowan Williams, Writing in the Dust, 2002, p.64-65
You can fix it on the drawing board with an eraser or you can fix it on the site with the sledgehammer. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat. -- Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750
A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up a thousand times the memory. -- Anonymous
In the 1900s American cereal Orange Meat was launched as a competitor to Grape Nuts. Ironically, Grape Nuts had no grapes and no nuts, and Orange Meat had no oranges and no meat. -- BBC Food Website Team
No dejes que se termine asi. Diles que dije algo. -- Pancho Villa, (Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.)
I would pick my topic on Monday and spend the day researching it... On Tuesday I'd type two for two and a half pages, all my arthritis would allow me. I'd type the rest, another three pages, on Wednesday, 1700 words total - 13 minutes 30 second air time. Then I'd beat the hell out of it, getting rid of all the adverbs, all the adjectives, all the hackneyed words. Do you know what Mark Twain said about the perfect word? The difference between a perfect word and a near-perfect word is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." -- Alistair Cooke, New York Times, 3/31/2004.
A degree in English language is not a prerequisite for caring about where a bracket is preferred to a dash, or a comma needs to be replaced by a semicolon." -- p. 32, Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, 2003
Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma (also known as the serial comma) and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don't know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: "The flag is red, white, and blue." So what do you think of it? (It's the comma after "white".) Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between? -- p. 84, Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, 2003
It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, "I should have used fewer semicolons" -- and although I have spent months fruitlessly trying to track down the chap responsible, I believe it none the less. If it turns out that no one actually did say this on their deathbed, I shall certainly save it up for my own. -- p. 127, Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, 2003.
Where else can you pick up a telephone, avoid an enormously lengthy phone tree, talk to a live person with a beating heart, ask a question, and get an answer, all in less than five minutes? I'm not taken to nostalgia, but this is the equivalent of a home-baked meal. -- Mike Kilen, "Our Librarians, Our Heroes," Des Moines (Iowa) Register, October 23, 2005.
I know I'm a person who squeezes juice out of a buffalo on a nickel... -- Doris Baker, on finding funding for the Orcutt Museum, Chanute Tribune, Tuesday, June 20, 2006.
The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has survived for centuries without smilies. Only the new crop of modern computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not clearly labeled as such. :)
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time. -- T. S. Eliot
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. -- Charles Kuralt
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
-- Marshall McCluhan
You know you are a NASCAR FAN if ... you can't balance your checkbook, but CAN explain the point system. -- The NASCAR Joke Page
Our national flower is the concrete clover-leaf. -- Lewis Mumford
Racecar spelled backwards is racecar. -- Chuck Scampoli
Let's see the world from the left hand side of the road! -- from a Mini advertisement on the BBC World News
Whenever God closes one door he always opens another, even though sometimes it's hell in the hallway!-- Anonymous Email
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed. -- Thomas Fuller
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. -- Amelia Earhart
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. -- Tom Stoppard
Failing to plan is like planning to fail! -- Alan Lakein
I am putting real plumbs into an imaginary cake. -- Mary McCarthy
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. -- Mary McCarthy
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. -- Mary McCarthy
In violence, we forget who we are. -- Mary McCarthy
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. -- Mary McCarthy
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. -- Mary McCarthy
You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. -- Mary McCarthy
To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate. -- Mary McCarthy
Common sense is not so common. -- Voltaire
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Goethe
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past and the present are certain to miss the future. -- John F. Kennedy
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. -- Vince Lombardi
It's about management and change first; measurement and technology are second. -- Howard Rohm
To every cow its calf, and to every book its copy. -- High King Diarmid, who denied the right of Columba to copy a psalter of Finnian's in 561 A.D. -- Shirley Toulson, Celtic Journeys
Money Talks. Chocolate Sings. -- David Batista
Put "Eat Chocolate!" at the top of your list of things to do
today.
That way, at least you'll get one thing done.
-- David Batista
I eat for my country. -- Philip Lader, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure.
In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. -- Julia Child, BBC<
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Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian
Wine and tarragon make it French
Sour cream makes it Russian
Lemon and cinnamon make it Greek.
Soy sauce makes it Chinese.
Garlic makes it good. -- Alice May Brock
The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana. -- Keven G. Barkes
"Croissant": However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you can come to saying "kwass-ohn," the sooner you can expect to be presented with one. -- Bill Bryson, "Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words", p. 49 (2002).
I'm a man. Men cook outside. Women make the three-bean salad. That's the way it is and always has been. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't firmly understood, you'd never get grown m en to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing wienies and things on the front... -- William Geist, New York Times Magazine, cited in the BBC Food Newsletter, 27 May 2004
I hear heaven has a great breakfast bar and that hell is all high fiber an d skim milk. -- Bobby Winters, 2005
What the British call chicory the North Americans call endive, and just to return the favour and compound the confusion, what the North Americans call chicory we call endive. Don't even start with biscuits! -- BBC Food Newsletter , February 2, 2006
Rarebit, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humourless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-the-hole is really not a toad, and that "riz-de-veau a la financiere" is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker. -- Ambrose Bierce, American writer (1842-1914) The Devil's Dictionary (1906 ) via BBC Food, February 23, 2006
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. -- Judith Viorst, via BBC Food, August 21, 2006
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how t o laugh, either. -- Golda Meir
If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun. -- Hobbes (Calvin's Tiger , not Thomas)
There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo. -- Bill Bryson, "Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words," p. 116 (2002).
If it is a good book, it is out of stock. If it's an excellent book,
it is out of print.
--Reveyrand's Library Laws
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. -- Katherine Paterson
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not, for more than sixty years, had enough to eat and escaped being eaten? -- Logan Pearsall Smith, on BBC Food Oct 9 2008
I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.
I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger.
I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen.
Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being.
Never this broken. -- Suheir Hammad, written one week after September 11, 20
01.
You know you're getting old... when things you grew up with start popping
up on "Antiques Roadshow" ! -- Gladys, the Born Loser 5/4/2002
A woman with a mind is fit for all tasks.--Christine de Pizan (c.1363- 1431)
Oriadur yw meddwl dyn, a rhaid ei ddirwyn bob dydd.*
* Man's mind is a watch that needs winding daily.-- Seren
The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver. -- Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, 1928
The English men understand almost better than any other people the art of properly roasting a joint. -- Per Kalm, BBC Food Newsletter, 11/06/2008.
Maps are a way of organizing wonder. -- Peter Steinhart, "Names on a Map" (1986)
To me the noise of the flag is [sic] the voices of everyone who's died for this country. -- Ray Saelens, whose next door neighbor reported him to police because the flag he erected after 9-11 was "too noisy" -- Chanute (KS) Tribune, Tuesday, February 11, 2003, p. 4
I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it. -- George W. Bush, 2008
A word... is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in whch it is used. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information. -- Barack Obama, American Library Association, June 27, 2005
Perhaps the most striking thing about Canada is that it is not part of the United States. -- J. Bartlet Brebner
Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture. -- John R. Columbo, "Oh Canada", 1965
Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian -- Richard Staines
Christ be with me, Christ before me,
Christ be after me, Christ within me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me. -- Breastplate of Saint Patrick
Tend the garden of your mind. You can take total responsibility for what thoughts and emotions grow there." Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight, A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
In ten years, if it isn't digital, it will be invisible.-- OLE Project
A leader which no one is following is simply taking a walk... or is lot -- Dani Loving Cartwright
Each day we have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. -- paulocoelho
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. -- Salvador Dali
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers. -- Logan P. Smith
The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
The answers aren't important really... What's important is -- knowing all the questions. -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. -- James Thurber
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. -- African proverb
In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information -- Anthony J. D'Angelo
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. -- Morrie Schwartz
Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximi ty nor speech. -- Auberon Waugh
Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down.
-- David Ansel
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. -- Albert Einstein
The computer of today is remarkably human, except that it hasn't learned yet how to stop for coffee breaks. -- Anonymous
All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.
-- Kenneth Boulding
Search engines, with their half-baked algorithms, are closer to slot machines than to library catalogues.
--David Rothenberg, "How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students' Research Pape
rs", Chronicle of Higher Education, August 15, 1997
If you have a good search question, Google is great for answering it. If you don't have a good question, you will get 17 million responses and you will w ish you hadn't asked. -- Paul Duguid, UC Berkeley
I0f t2s t3d c7s, t2n w3e w2l w0e b0e?
(If this trend continues, then where will we be?)
-- Edward Wardill
Z39.50 is like pointing a howitzer at a fly. -- Roy Tennant, Wired Wet , v.6, no. 4
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