Comments and Quotes

The following comments are chosen to amuse, stimulate and arouse our readers. In keeping with the column's theme, I would like to quote John Bartlett, from his book of Familiar Quotations, "The object

Bruce H. Jones, Editor-in-Chief

Problem solving

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)

The value of free speech

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Ducket!

Definitions area problem

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

The road to success

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie A. Stanley

Never say never

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swamon (1899 - 1983)

Doubting

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

Albert Guerard

So, what's new?

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

Doing what you want to?

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan (1941 -)

Stop me if you have heard this before

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

Timing

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

On the inside looking out

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West (1892 - 1980)

Love and hate

I'm not a vegetarian because 1 love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

Choose wisely

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

Where disappointment lurks

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Bernard Bailey

You are tediously charming

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde (1854- 1900)

The non-art of thinking

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzykski (1879 - 1950)