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- Q - If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure.   Dan Quayle

- R - Draw the curtain, the fraud is over.   Rabelais, last words In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is.   Chuck Reid Laziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired.   Jules Renard Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.   Will Rogers, homespun philosopher What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.   Will Rogers Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.   Theodore Roosevelt Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.   Benjamin Rush Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.   Bertrand Russell Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.   Babe Ruth

- S - It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.   Johann von Schiller Life is but a moment, death also is but another.   Dr Robert Schuller Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.   Albert Schweitzer, doctor Man is a clever aninmal who behaves like an imbecile.   Albert Schweitzer The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.   David Searles Why, they couldn't hit an lephant at this dist...    Gen. John Sedgewick, last words The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.   Seneca We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.   George Bernard Shaw, english playwrite First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.   George Bernard Shaw, english playwrite Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.   George Bernard Shaw, english playwrite They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.    Philip Sidney Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.   B F Skinner , american psychologist He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.   Sydney Smith Pay quickly what thou owest. The needy tradesman is made glad by such considerate haste.   Walter Smith We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.   Roy L. Smith All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom, I have been pouring van-loads of information into the vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.    Logan Pearsall Smith Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.   Sydney Smith By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.   Socrates When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.   Herbert Spencer, (1820-1903) Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance.   Richard Seele We're not into science fiction because it's good literature, we're into it because it's weird. Follow your weird, ladies and gentlemen. Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace your nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, ``woo the muse of the odd.''   Bruce Sterling The best things in life are nearest : Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.   Robert Louis Stevenson I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.   Harriet Beecher Stowe Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.    Preston Sturges, Epitaph I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.   Jonathan Swift

- T - There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.   Alfred Taubman The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.   Elizabeth Taylor, actress I am a part of all that I have seen.   Alfred Lord Tennyson There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.   Mother Teresa If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.   Mother Teresa It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.   William Makepeace Thackeray You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.   Margaret Thatcher, english prime minister Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Itls thin current slides away, but eternity remains.   Henry David Thoreau I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.    Alec Yuill Thornton You simply must stop taking advice from other people.   Melissa Timberman A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.   Martin Tupper, (1810-1889) in Proverbial Philosophy The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.   Mark Twain The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.   Mark Twain It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.    Mark Twain We are all alike, on the inside.    Mark Twain Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.   Mark Twain I can live for two months on a good compliment.    Mark Twain 'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.   Mark Twain, from Home Conditions 1900, referring to a saying from his Grandmother

- U - If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.   Miguel de Unamuno

- V - God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.   Marshall de Villares To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.   Voltaire Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.   Kurt Vonnegut, author If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.   Kurt Vonnegut, author

- W - Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!"?   Bill Watterson, from Calvin & Hobbes Go away. I'm all right.    H.G. Wells, last words A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.   Orson Welles Life is pain, highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something.   Westley, as the man in black, from The Princess Bride Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.   Mae West Too much of a good thing is wonderful.   Mae West, american actress Loves conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.   Mae West, american actress When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.   Mae West, american actress I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the ameteur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.   James MacNeill Whistler An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.    Billy Wilder , american director Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.   John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester First things first, but not necessarily in that order.   Doctor Who, fictional english SF character Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.   Doctor Who, fictional english SF character Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.   Oscar Wilde, english author It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.   Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan." I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.   P.G. Wodehouse Television is chewing gum for the eyes.   Frank Lloyd Wright A man is a fool is he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.   Frank Lloyd Wright, american architect

- Y - It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.    Boris Yeltsin Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.   Yoda, from Star Wars II

- Z - Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.   Zig Ziglar