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 Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Tyrol Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Tyrol
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Tyrol Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Tyrol
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Tyrol Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Tyrol
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Tyrol The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Tyrol
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Tyrol "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Tyrol
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Tyrol To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Tyrol
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 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 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Tyrol First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 Tyrol
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tyrol You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Tyrol
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Tyrol There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Tyrol
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Tyrol There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Tyrol
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Tyrol "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Tyrol
