I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Abroad Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Abroad
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Abroad "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Abroad
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Abroad "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Abroad
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Abroad "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Abroad
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Abroad I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Abroad
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Abroad Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Abroad
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Abroad One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Abroad
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Abroad Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Abroad
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Abroad My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Abroad
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Abroad When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Abroad
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Abroad If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Abroad
