' In research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. As the power of endurance weakens with age, the urgency of the pursuit grows more intense. And research is always incomplete.'

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

--Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author

'To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more, there could be things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge. It is to take a wider view. It is to permit yourself an extraordinary freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you may be right.'

--Barry Holstun Lopez

'Of Wolves And Men'

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

"the Voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. - Voltaire

The only place that you will find success before work is in the dictionary. -May B. Smith

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -Aldous Huxley,
novelist (1894-1963)

"Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful." ~Duc de la Rochefoucals (1613-1680)

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself." - LM Bujold, _A Civil Campaign_

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -- Cathering Aird

"The first casualty of war is not truth, but perspective. Once that's gone, truth, like compassion, reason, and all the other virtues, wander around like lost orphans." Ente Grillenhaft

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than live up to them." --Alfred Adler

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to take root in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. -Pietro Aretino

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. -Clarence Day, writer, (1874-1935)

"At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction." -Aldous Huxley

"Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein

"We get the friends we deserve," the old man said. She looked toward the firepit, where hers were drinking, singing, and harrassing the fiddle player, and thought, "Maybe it's time to go home." --Emma Bull

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Ghandi

"Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads and the strength that lifts people on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty, and makes pleasure of duty."

--Bishop Doane

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. --Thomas J. Watson

"Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—this is not easy." - Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"They know there's no such thing as magic, but they also know that the magic in the stories is just standing in for the magic people carry inside themselves." (from Memory and Dream) Charles De Lint

You're just redefining yourself. We all do it from time to time...we have to or we stagnate." (from Little Country?) --Charles De Lint

"the Voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. -Frank Tyger

"You can keep me from being happy, but you're not gonna stop me from having fun!" -Ani DiFranco

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, Another and altogether different reality lies

concealed --Nietzsche

"I used to think it was a terrible thing that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'What if life *were* fair, and all of the terrible things that happen to us came because we really deserved them?' Now I take great comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe." --Marcus Cole, B5

"An adventure is just an inconvenience properly considered" --G.K. Chesterton

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -Bertrand
Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)

"So much of life in the SCA is centered around interactions between teachers and students. We all have so much to learn from each other, and none of us has all the answers. Though we all walk different paths on our quests, they all point to the same place. That place is made up of the very best qualities and talents within each of us. Learning to find that and forgive our imperfections is what brings us all closer to our Dream." –Scott Vaughn—Master Efenwealt Wystle

"The three principal endeavours of a Bard: one is to learn and collect sciences; the second is to teach; and the third is to make peace, and to put an end to all injury; for to do contrary to these things is not usual or becoming to a Bard." - Triads of Bardism and Usages, number 24

Fifty knights have taken it upon themselves to fight against one hundred on an agreed-upon day. On that day the fifty defeat the hundred. Would you prefer to be rated the best of the hundred or the worst of the fifty? --Charny, c. 1350

"If filking is an art? Is bottle throwing a science? and if you throw a science at an art, -- is that then a service?"--A Loon (when someone suggested that we "throw a bottle" at the author of some "interesting" filk)

Once the game is over the king and the pawn go back into the same box. - Italian Proverb

"You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it." --French Proverb

"Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day." ~~Sanskrit Proverb~~

'Isn't sanity just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean, all you get is that one trick, rational thinking, but when

you're good and crazy, well, the sky's the limit!' - The Tick

'Gentlemen, you can't fight in here!! This is a war room!' -Dr. Strangelove

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. --from The Shawshank Redemption

"Every Story has an end, but in life, every ending has a new beginning." --Uptown Girls

'My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.' Erma Bombeck

"You might as well recognize the wild woman goddess within before she bites you on the butt in an attempt to get your attention." --Brockway

'...If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes, you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes, you'll become a poet.'--Serge Bouchard

"The forces of anarchy and chaos are having trouble getting organized..." A. Gilliland

"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure." -- George Sand (1804-76), French writer, Pen name of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant

Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full. --Henry A. Kissinger

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious..." --Brendan Gill

Mullah Nasrudin was throwing handfuls of crumbs around his house.

"What are you doing?" someone asked him.

"Keeping the tigers away."

"But there are no tigers in these parts."

"That's right. Effective, isn't it?"

"Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein

Poetry implies either a happy gift of nature or a strain of madness. -- Aristotle, Poetics Chap. 17

"Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried." - Mae West

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. -Walter Benjamin, critic and philosopher (1892-1940)

"Upon an ever-expansive horizon, life reveals her mystery: to live is a gift, to feel is a blessing, and to take part in her beauty is a miracle renewed each day." --Francisco

Cry 'havoc,' and let loose the Chihuahuas of inconvenience

'Therapy is expensive, bubble wrap is cheap. The choice is yours!'

You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt....

'Your problem is obvious. Your family tree is a wreath'

Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac?

He lay awake all night wondering if there really is a Dog.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

You're only young once, but you can be immature FOREVER!

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the Ark -- professionals built the Titanic."

Never knock anything down that is going to get back up on it's own.

"I'm always angriest when I think I'm in the wrong."

Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you have it made.

"What?? Those aren't horns, that's my Halo Infrastructure!"

"Don't play dumb with me."

"No, honestly, I am dumb. Most of the time I'm playing smart."

"Passion is my sword, Goodness is my armour, Humour is my shield." - Unknown epitaph

I filled out an application that said 'In Case Of Emergency Notify:' I wrote 'Doctor'... What's my mother going to do?

Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.

Fire good. Fire in hair, bad.

"Don't take life to seriously, no one gets out alive."

If you can't laugh at yourself, You have no right to laugh at anyone else.

Stupidity got us into this mess... So why can't it get us out?

I always wanted to be a procrastinator, never got around to it

Indecision! It's the key to flexibility.

I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.

"You are a Total Idiot !"

"You flatter me, sir! You know perfectly well I'm still a halfwit!"

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you

I get enough exercise just pushing my luck.

No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.

I don’t like the color puce. That’s my opinion. If 2000 people don’t like the color puce that’s an opinion with legs.

It is only those who never do anything, who never make mistakes.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

When life gives you lemons, make grape juice. Then sit back and let the world wonder how you did it.

Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Love is friendship set on fire

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Lead me not into temptation...I can find it myself" -- various bumper stickers..

"The world is ugly as sin and just as delightful!"—unknown

And on the eighth day God said, "O.K. Murphy. You take over."

Is that cute as in fluffy bunny cute, or cute as in "AAGH! Gimme back my eye, you little brat!" cute?