Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Localities "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Localities
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Localities
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
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of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Localities
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw 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 Unhappy "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Localities I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Localities
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Localities I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Localities
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Localities Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Localities
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Localities "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Localities
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Localities Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Localities
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Localities All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Localities
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Localities You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Localities
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Localities The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Localities
