Southwest Georgia - Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Southwest He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Southwest "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Southwest We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Southwest Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Southwest "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light in Georgia." (Anonymous) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Southwest To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Georgia "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Southwest "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. --Georgia Seen on a bumper sticker Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Southwest "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. Georgia-- Albert Einstein What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Southwest Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Southwest No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker A clever man commits no minor blunders. Georgia - Goethe "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Southwest A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Georgia- Lao-Tzu Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers Southwest "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." Georgia (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana Southwest I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand...Georgia -- Peter Oakley Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Southwest Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. Georgia -- Diane Ackerman You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Southwest "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." Georgia (Bert Leston Taylor) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Southwest Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Georgia -- Albert Einstein The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Southwest "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." Georgia (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller Southwest The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Georgia-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Southwest "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" Georgia (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Southwest Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. Georgia - Karl Wallenda "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Southwest I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. Georgia If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Southwest Georgia

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