"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Weather "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Weather
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Weather In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Weather
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Weather To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Weather
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Weather The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Weather
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Weather "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Weather
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Weather "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Weather
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Weather The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Weather
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Weather Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Weather
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Weather The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Weather
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Weather Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Weather
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Weather I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Weather
