Posts from ‘August, 2008’

Action makes more fortune than caution.~Charlotte Whitton
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.~Publilius Syrus
Remember my strong advice, just remember to always think twice.~ Michael Jackson
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.~Woodrow Wilson
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.~Euripides
Hasten slowly.~Caesar Augustus
Caution, not exuberance, should be [...]

Caesar’s armies marched on vegetarian foods.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Every science begins as philosophy [...]

You’re only as good as your last haircut.
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am [...]

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
We have all a better guide [...]

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.
The one thing that unites all human beings, [...]

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
All slang is a metaphor, and all [...]

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don’t understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing [...]

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~Christopher Morley
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.~Albert Einstein
It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the [...]